Bloomberg Audio Studios, podcasts, radio news joining us. Now he is the mayor of New York City. We have a two hour conversation to squeeze into a polite twenty minutes, and there are many many tapists to talk of. I want to talk of the immediate news. My father came home to College Point Long Island. In the distance was LaGuardia. What a celebration for New York the rebuilding of LaGuardia. Halfway there is Bayside High School where you used to darken the door, and let's not mince words, it was
a challenge Mayor Adams a few years ago. I want you to speak right now to the teachers of Bayside High School who went with the other guy yesterday in their union endorsement.
Well, when you look at what we were able to accomplish here in the city, we've outpaced of the state and reading and math got so much more to do. But also we're developing the illness of our children, teaching
them meditation, breathing exercises, healthier food to eat. So our children are not only academically smart, but we want them to be emotionally intelligent and at the same time of what we have done in our educational system for one hundred and thirty thousand children in pre K three K of the universal after school program, and paid our teachers a dawn good union contract to make sure that they're having a wage that they deserve.
My youngest child, afterthought, went to a school with eleven languages in first grade. You have Acman and Lobe Wall Street support. They talk charter schools. Can you reaffirm here a better education system away from union dynamics and the silliness of it all.
It's so important when you think about when a parent drops their child off to school, they're not asking if it's a charter school, if it's a baroqua, if it's a body school. They want a quality education in the safe environment.
And that is what we've produced.
And you know, union heads don't always speak on behalf of the rank and file teachers population of I know those teachers appreciate what I have done as the mayor and what this administration has done, and many of those teachers will be.
Voting for me, mister mayor.
What statement were the Democratic voters making when they selected mister Mandane in the primary? Maybe here in New York city certainly, but maybe even n Ashley.
Let's let's examine this, and I think that's something that has been not really understood. Nine percent of voters voted, nine percent, ninety one percent they have yet to speak. Two point five million Democrats, a million independents, of several hundred thousand Republicans. This is the moment when we're going to see what New Yorkers want. Do you want someone who just funck defunded, just banned police departments. Do you want someone that's telling high end commerders to leave our
city without understandity economics that they bring. Do you want to stop our progress and one of the healthiest economies we've ever had In public safety? He wants to empty reikis Island, seventy four hundred of the most dangerous people in our city. He wants to empty Rykers Island and have they'll come back to the communities that they offended. And so New Yorkers are going to be able to hear clear messages of what the future looks like and what that future looks like under him.
Current polling Slingshot strategies have mister Mondani at first at thirty five percent of the vote. Governor Cuomo second at twenty five percent, mister slioof fourteen percent and you at eleven percent.
What does that poll tell.
You and what do you need to do to change those.
It tells me. Don't listen to polls.
Twenty twenty one, they had me thirteen percent behind Andrew Yang, thirteen percent behind Andrew Yang, and we're not calling him, but you will.
Not find Governor Cuomo. What do you need to have you spoken to Governor Cuomo yet in.
This communicated with him several times.
Andrew has a history of doing things when it comes down to African American candidates. He did it to Carl McCall when he ran for governor. He did it to David bat Patterson when he who spoke recently exactly he did it. He did it to Charlie King when Charlie King ran for a g He did it to Keith Wright.
He has a history, and I think the different reporting or no.
Sabotage in that racing trying to compel them to get out of the race. He underestimated Eric Adams, a former cop that knows what a bully looks like. And I am going to complete this race. My campaign has just started. I have not been campaigning and not have an opportunity to speak to voters.
You're going to complete this. Let's be clear for us, particularly for our national audience. Eric Adams with us here at this interesting time for the city and a cost for the nation is well. Thank you for joining Bloomberg surveillance on television in radio, Mayor Adams. But the critical distinction here is timeline to the election. When does the Adams Croomo tension need to get fixed to come to an efficacious outcome for the people against mister mucdonie.
Think about this for a moment.
Andrew knew that Madonnie was going to be on the ballot on a Berkans family party line.
He knew that.
He knew I was going to be as a Democrat on my own line. He knew that, so why would he also do an independent line. He created this scenario because he thought by doing so, he can force me.
Andrew Cromo created mister Mumcdoni's campaign.
He created this scenario that created an opportunity to divide the vote instead of being unified around Madonnie. This was his creation and it's typical of how he created these scenarios.
We're not going to succumb to that. He had his chance.
Twenty five million dollars he spent, he got his message out, he didn't campaign, he didn't go out and interact with voters.
He created it.
Now it's time for me to have an opportunity and we will win and beat him.
Has Governor Cuomo asked you not to run, or if you asked Governor Cuomo not to run?
Both when he spoke, we both interacted and I said you should step aside.
For the good of this city.
We both agreed the city were move in the wrong direction under the primary winner, and I think he should do the right thing.
If he doesn't do the right thing. From your perspective, would you run as a Republican?
No, it's Curtis Lee or is a Republican primary winner. He's the winner of that party. It's too late to switch that right now. I'm going to give votes from all New Yorkers because when New Yorkers won safe Street, they're not asking if they're a Democrat or Republican.
They want their street safe.
The constant theme mayor of our interviews and surveillance has been committed to talking about this debate with his national ramifications, and you mentioned it earlier. The New York Police Department is a general rule. I'm speaking as an amateur. We're three thousand down on the body count of the New York Police Department. What are you going to do day one on a second term mayor to get the NYPD back to a forward motion.
Well, that urgency can't happen on the reelection is happening. Now. We're in the place to.
Bring on four thousand more offices by way they're starting now. We have a class that's in now. By the end of the year, we're going to be substantially higher. And part of the problem is a lot of the large classes. We saw a lttrition, We saw a lot of officers retiring. That is why I was imperative as the mayor that I settled a good contract with our union members.
Eric Adams with us here the Mayor of New York City. We welcome all your nationwide. How you listen on your commute Good Morning ninety FM and Washington ninety two nine FM in Boston, of course, Bloomberg eleven three to zero. Here in New York on YouTube, our new digital platform. Mayor Adams watches every day. I subscribe to Bloomberg podcast.
Paul, mister Mary, let's talk about immigration right off the tip of Manhattan. We've got the Statue of Liberty that means a lot to a lot of New Yorkers. How do you think about immigration in this city and maybe how does that different from what President Trump thinks about Well.
And you're right, that statue represents a lot, and particularly when you look at the fact that my nineteen year uncle died to protect the right of being an American and Vietnam War. But think about this for moment coming here. You should not be inflicting violence on undocumented New Yorkers or documented New Yorkers. We manage a humanitarian crisis with two hundred and thirty seven thousand microcin or silence seekert now once slept on our streets. Every one of those
children were educated in our school system. And I'm going to coordinate with federal authorities to go after the dangerous at the Veniceth Whalley gang members we took down that was selling drugs, forcing women into prostitution who were undocumented. The Lord does not allow us to collaborate for civil enforcement. We won't do that, but we will collaborate to go after dangerous people.
I should mention again Good Morning on Bloomberg Television with Katie Greifeld and Snoli Bassic as well Mary Adams. Here's the headline. I talked to Laura Namais and this is just so important within her expertise of this city. The La Times heavily armed immigration agents descend on LA's MacArthur Park. If I'm having a beverage at the Sunset Tower Hotel, I look across the opulence of LA to a really
tough part of town. And the other day we saw military enforcement wrapped around these deportations and ice marching across MacArthur Park in Los Angeles. The critics to you will say you're in trump back pocket. How are you going to push against the president and his administration if we have those tensions in New York.
You know, one of the best saying is if you tell a lie long enough, you think it's true.
But we need to deal with the facts here.
We took this administration to court on things we thought were wrong, more than any mayor in the country, more than any mayor in the country.
But when I.
Needed the president to lift the stopbroke order on a multi billion dollar wind farm project in Sunset Park. Fifteen hundred union jobs, five hundred thousand homes would have benefited from it. I flew to Washington, had a healthy conversation with him. He lifted the stopbroke order. Same relationship I had with President Biden. Ten trips to Washington, two meets with the President to deal with law enforcement officer. I nicknamed myself the Biden of Brooklyn. I work with presidents.
I don't war with presidents. I have to deliver for the city of New York, and it will be irresponsible for any mayor not to do that.
The granularity of the election in this it's like Lindsey in the nineteen eighties or something.
I got it.
I can't keep tracking. Is Adam's an independent, a Democrat or Republican?
What is wait, we don't know this one.
He's an independent of Mayory Adams. My team is listening to this interview, and there has to be a clarification of your relationship with the President of the United States. When will we see that?
I think you're seeing it now.
You're seeing a mayor that's defending and fighting for his city in a responsible way.
New York City is the largest city.
In America, and if you're going to be the mayor of that city and you are unwilling to communicate with the President of the United States, if it's Biden or Donald Trump, if it's a Democrat or Republican, that's irresponsible. Governor Hku went to Washington several times. Mayors across the country are going to Washington. And so for anyone that states that the mayor of the largest city in the country should not be communicating with the White House, that's irresponsible.
You're not delivering for your city. I must deliver for New York. That is my primary goal and that's who I respond.
To, mister Merrick.
In terms of delivering for New York City, cost of living has always been a key issue.
What is the plan?
Is there a solution here? Because every day people keep coming into this island of Manhattan, how do we house them all?
Twenty one when I ran for office, the top issue was public safety and housing. Follow that the reason you're seeing other conversations come on the floor and this election is because we solved the public safety problem.
You see was Commissioner Tish. We have the lowest numbers of.
I will state, let me interrupt, I will state where I live. Folks, I can state it's not as bad as it was eighteen months ago. I still don't like it. Mayor Adam, I'm gonna cut you some slack here. It's better than it was.
Four point six million people take our subway system every day. We have an average of five feloniesy to day we had a four point six million. These police officers are doing an amazing job of keeping us safe. But the issue of affordability, I know it so well. I grew up in poverty. The primary winner grew up in luxury. Yet that same luxury he grew up in. He stating
that we should not have a financial ecosystem. I want the person that drives a limousine to have prosperity in the city, and the person assists in the back of the limousine.
That's the city I want to live in.
The Zeitgeistchier and again learns briefing me on this is you came into office and there was a scandal. That scandal that I don't even know. It's old news for me. It's water well under the bridge. But there's a zeitgeist now that you need to get a new team as the next mayor, maybe involving some of those people in limousines. You team up acmin Lobe and the others within the financial business. If the other guys elected Mandami, every w jinare they moving to Coral Gables or to Miami?
Oh? Both?
This is Sirian manor this is serious tough. You've got a mandate for five How many millions of people are under your watch?
Eight point five million New York is three hundred and twenty thousand employees.
I want you to talk to the one hundred thousand fancy people in those limousines right now. How are you going to get them not to move to Florida.
Well, first of all, we're going to win this race, and in my reelection, we're going to continue what we have done in New York. As we talk about this business channel here, we have more jobs in the city in the city's history, more small businesses in the city's history. Bond Raid has raised our bond as they saw us navigate out of COVID migrans.
And asylum seekers crimes.
When you take twenty two thousand illegal guns off this trees, one hundred thousand illegal vehicles that will used in current criminal behavior.
You have stabilized the city.
The economic stimulus package of the city is public safety.
Mister Marrier, given where the polls have you now, whether you.
Believe the polls or not, what is your path to victory?
Do you believe voters? New voters?
Ninety one percent of the voters did not participate in this election. We have a substantial number. We're going to register a million new voters over the next few months. And everyone is talking about the excitement that is felt over the primary winner. What they're missing is the excitement that I am seeing every day of those who say this can't happen.
How do you run against mister monamik?
You sorry?
How would you run against them? How will you run against them?
You have to do it in layers. You have to look at the various communities. And when I say communities, I'm not talking about a geographical location.
I'm talking about issues. I met with.
Two one hundred and fifty bodega and supermarket owners yesterday. A government run supermarket would devastate their business. I met with two hundred and fifty of the seven hundred thousand small property owners can you imagine telling a small property owner that you can never raise the rent so that your rent rolls no longer equal the repairs of the building. Those small property owners are going to lose their property.
All of these different communities are now waking up and realizing what his policies would do to them individually.
I'm gonna make this the final question and come full circle to where we are before, and we'll again it. Well, thank you so much on Bloomberg Television worldwide for being with us. The distinction of this campaign is the kid you were and it was a train wreck. When did your life turn around?
Well?
How old were you when your childhood became you as a police officer?
What was the age?
Where about twenty about nineteen years old?
That nineteen year old bratt whoever they are today? Okay, they are voting for the tradition of Mario Cuomo. How do you get them to shift from Mario Cuomo's son over to Eric Adams? How do you get that conservative black public safety electorate to turn and.
Vote for you?
Well, they voted for me in twenty twenty one. And remember this as we reflect on this election of you know, my first job at twelve years old as a paperboy, then becoming a dishwasher, then working in the fireroom of Blue Cross Blue Shield. Working in the fireroom, Pete Magri Mitchell, that long legacy of blue collar work is helping me understand the needs of the working class people in the city.
Mary Adams, thank you so much for joining Bloomber.
Thank you great to be I appreciate.
He is Eric Adams of New York City.
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