Cassidy Hutchinson's January 6 Bombshells | Eric Adams

get into it. The January six Committee dropped bombshells today. Rudy Giuliani is lucky to be alive. And our guest tonight is the Mayor of New York City, Eric Adams, and he's gonna be joining us on the show. And I'm gonna ask him if he'll finally let me drive a subway car. Yeah, so let's do these people. Let's come straight into today's headlines. All right. You know, there are a lot of depressing things going on in America right now, so we decided let's start off today's show

with some good news. And I'm talking about what happened to Rudy Giuliani, former New York City mayor and America's most illegal lawyer. You see, he was in a supermarket on Staten Island Sunday campaigning for his son, Andrew Giuliani, who's trying to make history as New York's first caveman governor. And thankfully, Rudy is now doing okay after just barely surviving a heinous drive by on his upper back on Staten Island. Grocery store workers facing assault it's accused of

slapping former New York City mayor Rooted Giuliani. This surveillance video shows the encounter inside a shop right store. The worker appears to hit Julianni on the back, prompting a reaction from the former mayor. In mp has said that this man was a thirty nine year olds back to approach. Giuliani slapped him in the back and said, what's up, scumbag. Giuliani refused medical attention at the scene, and the thirty nine year old was taken into custody, with the MPD

recommending charges of second degree assault. Don't you enough? Don't you get en off? This is second degree assault. That's how tough New York's laws are. Third degree is if you lightly blow on someone's ear, and first degree is if you book them on the nose. I've been hit. I've been hit, pleaseplease, don't get me wrong. Don't get me wrong. I don't think it is right for anyone to be putting their hands on politicians or anyone for that matter, without their consent. Right, I'm not saying that.

But no, in hell is that second degree assault? But By tells that's not second If that's assault, then what I guess? Will Smith murdered Chris Rock That's what happened there. And now I'm in the gray and the gray, and and I love how I love how they say Rudy declined medical attention? Medical attention for what? For what? That's the kind of injury where the only thing you could do is kiss it and make it feel better. That's it.

Is it better, Rudy? Is it better? In fact, if anyone needs medical attention here, it's the guy who touched Rudy Giuliani. Yeah, dude's hand probably looks like dumbledores after he bare handed the Hall Crocks. And yes, I will admit, I will admit this guy did sound aggressive. But you've got to understand what's up, scumbag. It's just how people say hello on Staten Island. You know, that's a normal conversation.

What's up, scumbag? Nothing much for your mother, all right, well, not to see your grandma, but to me, To me, the best part of this story is that the more Rudy told it, the more the slap seemed to hurt. He hit me hard enough to knock me forward about like you know, elderly people die mostly from falls. This guy could kill me. I got hit on the bag as if a boulder hit me. Uh, you knocked me forward Steppard two. All of a sudden, I feel a

shot on my back, like somebody shot me. You know that that was That was the woman who was rubbing my back. The guy hit me so hard that she herself almost fell from the reverberation of yeah, that's right. He slapped her so hard my eyeballs fell out and I have to pick them up and put them back. And you all saw that he slapped me so hard I shipped out the side of my face two years ago. Yeah, that's how hard it was. He saw it. Everybody. I

felt that. I felt that, you know, I thought that Rudy was lying about the election being stolen because he was a Trump sicker fanse It turns out he just lives in another world. This is just his brain. And I will say, in his defense, in his defense, he was already in a weakened states. You know, you have to acknowledge that he was out during the day in a store that sells garlic. I mean, you know, it was hard for him. It was hard. Let's move on from an attack that Rudy will always remember to one

that he always conveniently seems to forget. January six, the day Trump supporters tried to play capture the Flag with Mike Pence's head. Yesterday, the January six Committee announced that they would be holding a surprise hearing with a surprise witness. And you know, whatever Congress says something like, oh this is a must watch, You're like, that's what they said about Morbius. But let me tell you people, so he's hearing was insane. I'm talking like proper insane. So let's

catch up on all the latest January six updates. So it turns out the surprise witness today was Cassidy Hutchinson, a top aide to Donald Trump's chief of staff, which means she was often in the room where it happened, the room where it happens that it was overthrowing democracy. Now, Hutchinson had a lot of firsthand knowledge of what Trump was doing, from the moment that he lost the election

all the way through January six. And one of the stories she told was how Trump lost his ship when he found out his Attorney general wasn't going along with his lies about the election. I remember hearing noise coming from down the hallway. I left the office and went down to the dining room, and I noticed that the door has cropped open in the valley. Was inside the dining room changing the tablecloth off of the dining room

team a bowl. He motioned for me to come in and then pointed towards the front of the room, near the fireplace, mantel and the TV, where I first noticed there was catch up dripping down the wall, and there's a shattered porcelain plate on the floor. The valet had articulated that the President was extremely angry at the Attorney general's ap interview and had thrown his lunch against the wall. And Miss Hutchinson, was this the only instance that you

are aware of where the president through dishes. It's not. And are there other instances in the dining room that you would call where he expressed his anger? There were. There were several times throughout my tenure with the Chief of Sack that I was aware of him either throwing dishes or flipping the tablecloth um to let all the

contents at the table go onto the floor. Yeah, I know, I too, are shocked to hear that Trump threw any of his food away, because I mean, let's be honest, this guy has taken more selfies with food than he has with some of his kids. Right, probably the reason Eric dresses up as a hot dog just to get a hug. Do you love me now, Dad? Do you love me? You're the sun I always wanted, Oscar Meyer always wanted. And you heard what she said. This wasn't

a one time thing. Trump was constantly throwing food tantrums. But what's interesting is she didn't say flipping the table. She said flipping the table cloth. So either Trump was an amateur magician. Oh, he wasn't strong enough to flip a table, so he just did the table cloth, he said. He was like, ah, And you know, if this happened regularly, it must have sucked for all the people who work in the White House, you know, all the staff who have to clean up after him, the people who made

the food and the dishes. Can you imagine how traumatizing this must have been for the dishes? Everybody wilcome to the White House be our guest. O. Yeah, you just kid, miss spots chick. Don't look now your mother, n pieces kiss mother. Oh my god, this man is worth them tip bees. We should look back at didn't quite to have sex with the facta dust all straight to DVD. Now.

It turns out it turns out that wasn't the only Trump tantrum that Hutchinson testified about, because she also said that on January six, as the Trump mob was marching towards the capital, Trump wanted to lead them to the capital himself, right, But when Secret Service Agent Bobby Angle refused the President's request for safety, this happened. The President says something to the effect of I'm the fving President. Take me up to the capital now, to which Bobby responded, sir,

we have to go back to the west wing. The President reached up towards the front of the vehicle to grab at the steering wheel. Mr Angle grabbed his arm said, sir, you need to take your hand off the steering wheel. We're going back to the West Wing. We're not going to the Capital. Mr Trump then used his free hand to lunge towards Bobby Angle and Mr. When Mr Ronado had recounted this story to me, he had motioned towards

his classicals. God damn, that is insane. Trump fighting to take control of the President's car like he's a bad guy in an action movie, only he's the president and this is real. I mean, you gotta admit though, fighting your own secret serviceation is kind of genius on Trump's pot, right, because he's hitting the one person who can't hit back. Yeah, I mean, they can punch back, but then they've got to jump in front of their own punch, you know,

just like take Latin. Oh did you feel that one, Rudy, because you know, you know, this whole thing shows you how lazy Trump is. The Capital it's like two miles away. Everyone else walked there, but Trump was like, okay, I could walk there. I could walk or I could try steal a car from the Secret Service, which you are, is it? And not to victim blame but but this is on the Secret Service, right. You had four years to Trump proof that vehicle. You knew who you were

dealing with. This should have been a toy steering wheel in the passenger seat the whole time. Just let him think he's driving and go back, go back to the west wing. Anyways, and you know, beyond Trump, this story just proves once and for all that's sitting in the back seat is always a position of weakness. It doesn't matter what the real power dynamics are. No one in the back seat gets their way because I mean, he's lunging at them like I'm the president, and they're like,

you're in the back seat, bit shut up. He's like, law, well, I'm gonna put my window down. So there were many funny and disturbing moments in today's testimony, but the most damning part of today was when Hutchinson revealed that when President Trump was told that some of the mob had weapons, he instructed security to take down metal detectives and let

the mob in. I was in the vicinity of a conversation where I overheard the President say something to the effect of, you know, I don't even care that they have weapons. They're not here to hurt me. Take the effing bags away. Let my people in. They can march the capital from here. Let the people in take the acting bags away. Yeah. Apparently Trump wanted the metal detectives removed so that his supporters with guns could march to the capitol. Yeah, so I guess he didn't necessarily want

to hang my pens. He wanted to also give him the option of the firing squad. So he's pro choice. This is good to know. It's good to know. All right, that's it for the headlines. But before we go take a break, let's check in on the stuff market without finance expert Michael cost to everybody pocket it is a crazy, crazy time in the markets. Man, what's going on in the market today? Well, I am crushing the market. I mean I just keep keep crushing. So what you're saying,

I keep making so much money. I have a hot tip for you, and a hot tip for you how you can crush it in the market as well. Else. So um, first, though, Rudy Giuliani, you know I feel bad for him. I do because look, if you haven't been touched in a long time, just the littlest contact, it feels like your whole world has moved, you know. And look, I've had some epic dry spells in my life. I mean I remember there were years where do you

want we get to the charts real quick? Okay, so look, let's get let's get let's get to the mortgage, right. I think I'm sorry I kind of trailed off there. Look, the interest in mortgage is going way up. Okay, And if you're looking to buy a house right now, this is really scaring you. And people are asking why why did they start so low and they're going high? Now, Well, I'm an expert. Let me break it down for you. That's why you invite me here. Yeah, definitely right. So

look in January, interest on mortgage it was low. It's gold right, we have he's an old depression. We don't have any money left from the holidays. I mean I even tried to call my realtor, but the mittens I was wearing were so big I couldn't even you know, get her phone number. Right. So, look, now the sun comes out, right, seasons change. Hey, I'm kind of interested in having a backyard. I'm kind of interested in having a pool. I'm kind of interested in having an open

concept outdoor kitchen. Right now, I can flip burgers while I'm talking to my friends as they're swimming in the pool. That's why, Trevor, right now, end of June, interest is at its highest, Uh, Mike Michael, I know, I don't think that that's correct. Look, here's the long and short of it. Okay, these are the three numbers you want to pay attention to. This right here is the thirty year fixed rate mortgage. Thirty years. Who's planning that far ahead?

Thirty years? I don't even know if I have cleaned underwear to wear tomorrow. Okay, I certainly didn't have it today, and I now I'm supposed to plan thirty years from now. It's a long time. Fifteen years, you know, it's not much better. This is the one you want, Trevor. Okay. This is the adjustable rate mortgage. This is one you want. But it's competitive and it's tough, and here's how you get it. Okay. You have to pool your money with five one year olds. Okay. Now, who even knows one

one year old? Right? And even if you secure a meeting, how do you communicate with that one year old? So that's a tough one to get but you can do it. Hot tip. I promised you a hot tip. Okay, Look, if you're closing on a house anytime soon and you are unhappy with your mortgage rate, every piece of paper you sign, all you gotta do is just dated back here. The bank has to honor it. That's your hot tip. It's funning the wonder about your Actually, she's Michael cost

and everybody all right, don't go away. So when we come back, when we're talking to New York City, Eric Adams, you don't want to miss it. Welcome back to the Day Show. My guest to Mike is the mayor of New York City. He's joining me to discuss his first six months in office and how he's tackling some of the city's most pressing issues. Please welcome Mayor Eric Adams. You don't realize it, but you just assaulted me with that noise. I'll try and be a little more gentle

next time. I'll be a little more gentle. Welcome to the show. Thank you, because you know you doing that. You could be inside for twenty four hours, you know, let's talk about that before we move on. Like I heard what you said about Juliana. You said that he should actually be investigated for reporting a false crime because if it wasn't for that video footage, that person who tapped him on the back, which again I don't condone, but that wasn't assault. No, it was not. And and

you know we we we are joking about it. But think about this for a moment. There was a woman called We called the Karen uh brother told her to put a dog on her lease. Yes, yes, yes, she said to the d A. Listen, that's the false she forced to reported the crime. She needs to be arrested. He falcibly reported a crime and the district attorney should take that seriously. That person that he falsely reported spent twenty four hours in jail. That's not acceptable. It's not acceptable.

And so I'm going to call the d A. We must be consistent all of that. Theatrics that he did, that's not acceptable. If that tape wasn't there, imagining what would have happened to that man, Yeah, can't happen, can't happy, Right, he's the man you can make those polls. And you know what's interesting. What's interesting is that when you sort the testimony in Washington, he has some other things he has to deal with as well. We definitely saw that. But let's let's talk about you man. We don't give

it all to him. Um you you you have now been in office for was it six months now officially? To believe you know, when you're the mayor of the New York is like a dog day every day. It is one of the hardest jobs in the world. It's also one of the most thankless jobs in the world. You've had your ups, you've had your downs. Let's talk about some of the things people have commended you on. Many New Yorkers have really been impressed by your the

attitude you've taken to education. You know, you've come and you've revamped the system. You you're you're creating a world where you know, your your your staff is really focusing on getting New York City's education up to where it needs to be. Two parts of the question, number one, what do you still think needs to be achieved in

terms of education New York? And number two, how do you how do you remove or fights against all of the segregation that happens in New York City schools because you have a city where everyone mixes, and yet in the schools it seems like the city is still in Jim Crow. You know a couple of things. Number one, uh, I learned a lot when I was in South Africa. I drove from Cape Town to put Elizabeth to joe Burg and I smoked to a lot of people there.

When people talk about segregation, they don't look at the hidden segregation we have in America. Our school system is dysfunctional, and we have acknowledged that dysfunctionality because black and brown and poorer students are the impact of that. Sixty percent of black and brown children never reached proficiency in our New York City school system and we've normalized that. And So what I did. I looked at my journey. I was dyslexic. I'm dyslexic. From K through twelve. I used

to walk in the school building. They used to put dumb suited on a chair. I was bullied. And then not until I got into high school did I discovered I was dyslexic. There was nothing wrong with met the prisoners that I am Riker's Alley dyslexic. So what am I doing as mayor? I'm taking my journey and now helping other children we have dyslexia. Screening for every child now, and I'm going to riks and screen the prisoners with

dyslexia so they could get the services they leave. You've also you've also been commended on your views on gentrification. You know, one thing that makes New York one of the greatest cities in the world is how many people are in it. It's a melting pot. Unfortunately, looks like you know, certain colors are melting out of that part

right now and being priced out of their neighborhoods. On Juneteenth, you you gave a really impassioned speech where you said, in some ways gentrification feels to you like a legacy of slavery. How how do you fight gentrification? How do you create a world where people can move, can sell their places, but the city doesn't doesn't create an environment where poor and brown and black people are kicked out

of their neighborhoods. And I love that. I love that question because people really miss when you start engaging in gentrification, people start to close up and start to get angry. Now we divide their lines. You know, when you go back when I was a sergeant in the police department, a black woman moved into a place called Garrison beach

and they tore up her house. They destroyed house. I went out there with a group of one hundred blacks in law enforcement, black police officers, and said, we're gonna sleep in this house, and we dare you to come and try to throw us out. Why do I say that, because gentrification is not an ethnicity. It's a mindset. When you move into a community and all of a sudden, you let your dog crap on somebody's yard and won't pick it up, and you ignore the people, You won't

go into the stories that are there already. You want to arrest someone for playing dominoes, or hey, somebody double parks in front of this block and we hear loud noises. Come Now, that's a church, and that church was there before you got there. So instead of treating community, says though you they're not there. You did disco discovered Brooklyn, you did discover Harlem. Come be a part of the communities. They bring your flair, bring your character. That's how mostly

uguru on on a on the ground. Though, how do you make that happen? Because it's a complicated issue in that there are many homeowners in Harlem, in Brooklyn, etcetera. Where I feel like they're trapped in a in a in a loop that where they're they're destined to fail.

Their people own their homes, the homes aren't given the valuations that they deserve because their black families living in a quote unquote black neighborhood, or because you know it's Latino families living in a quote unquote Latino neighborhood, and they don't get the valuations, they don't get the services. People say, your home isn't worth much. Somebody comes in with a lot of money, they buy the place for

pennies on the dollar. The more people do that, the more the values go up, the more the services go up. And now they've made a windfall on that. So how do you how do you actually affect that on the ground beyond are saying to the people don't move here, and and and and you know eras who's here. How how do you help people with actual policy? Well, number one, we have to get back in the business of home ownership, and we've moved away from that. We used to have

something called Mitchell alarmas. We used to have I brought my first home and befistivs and some people like they think I live in Jersey, but I live in Brooklyn. You know. I brought my first home in Bestid and it was through a program, a federal program. It was they had a program called Officer and Teacher next to a program because they felt as though if you brought professionals into communities, you will help that entire block. I started a block patrol my first coop. I bought it

in on Prospect Heights. No I wanted to live there. When I got there, I started a patrol of the block. We started programs with the people there. So black and brown communities they want the same things, no matter the Latino community, they want the same things whatever community. What we have done in this city and in this country, we wait into communities are gentrified before we bring the services into the community. And I say no to that.

You know, because you are the person that drives the limousine. You want the same thing as the person assist in the back of the limousine, and you deserve the same thing. And that's what we have to do. I'm gonna chat you a little bit more after the break. We're gonna be chatting about police. We're gonna be chatting about rents in the city, and we'll be chatting about why some people think you're the quirkiest, most interesting man in America.

Don't go away, We'll be right back with more from may Welcome back to the Day Show, where we are joined by New York City Mayor Eric Adams. Um Mayor Adams, Let's jump into two of some of those pressing issues in the city. Number one police, which touches on crime, but you know it's almost two separate issues at the same time. One of the things you ran on coming into officers, I'm going to bring down crime in New York City. Since you've come into office, crime has skyrocketed.

You know, it's only been five six months, but I'm sure many people would love to know from your perspective, how long do you think that promise will take to achieve and and how do you actually bring crime down? Because every mayor has a different solution for actually achieving that. Well, it's it's a unique moment. You know, people that know my history, I was arrested at fifteen, I was beat

badly by police officers. They assaulted my brother and nine and one or third priescent I returned back to that policint when I became the mayor afford against stopped the abusive, stopping frist. I've testified in federal court and the judge mentioned my testimony when she ruled against the police department. I can't go backwards. We can't go back to the days when every black and brown child that walked the streets was treated unfairly. And so we have to have

that balance. I like to say intervention and prevention. Intervention is right now. We took three thousand guns of street shoot is dropped by, homicide, dropped by We're moving in the right way. But I'm not going to allow us to be abusive in the process prevention. Let's do the long term things. Let's leaning to force to care children so they have the opportunities and not age out without

the support. Let's see the dyslexia screaming. Let's go into how we educate our children, because if you don't educate, you will inconcentrate. And we're feeding the criminal justice system and no one cares. Archbishop Desmond to To from South Africa said, we spend a lifetime pulling people out of the river. No one goes upstream and prevent them from falling in in the first place, we're pushing people into the river, and when you look downstream, you know you're

pulling out. You're pulling out the Eric Adams that are dyslexic. You're pulling out to force to children. Black and brown children are falling in the river every day, and you have a mayor that has been in that river, and now I'm going upstream and prevent them from falling into river. You also have to battance s thats with how people feel in the six One of the hardest things about being mayor, I can only assume is that you you're dealing with the reality and you're dealing with the feeling.

You know. I remember one of the first things that shocking when I moved to New York was how much the local news terrifies you every night, to be like, watch out, someone's punching people in the streets. And it makes it seem like everything's happening everywhere. And yes, there are real crimes being committed, but it's not as panicked as people make it, and I'm loving it. Three last week, we had about three point five million people that wrote

through train in a day. We have about six crimes on the subway per day, about six per day those three point five. So I have to deal with what you felt and then moved to what you are feeling and not take some time before what you're what you felt and what you're feeling. What does that look like? When we started out our homeless encampment on the subway system my first month in office, I went and visited people that lived in camps and ten on the street

so human ways drug power. From there, I said, people can't live like this, and so we did a program in our subway system. The first week, twenty two people took us up on an offer to go into our shelter system. Right now, seventeen hundred are no longer living on the subway system and they're getting the services they deserve. But how do you how do you how do you deal with a situation where you know it's sensitive and what I what I don't like. Sometimes in America's people

make it seem like these issues are easy. There's there's no denying that in New York the homeless issue cannot be separated from mental health issues without it. If you so, how do you find a humane way to deal with people who quote unquote maybe want to live on the streets, but clearly cannot survive on the streets. And then you're the mayor who's taking the people off the streets and saying I think this is better for them, and they're saying, no,

this is, this isn't. How do you find that balance, right? And so when I went into those tents and those cardboard boxes late at night during the winter month, and I spoke to your homeless and I realized that, hey, this person is bipolar. There are people living on the street that can't make the decisions for themselves. And so everyone is advocating and said they should have the decency to live on the street. There's nothing decent about that.

And I'm a Christian. If Matthew, Mark, Luke and John was around right now, they'd be with me in the streets helping homeless people and not being removed or distanced from that. My programs are on the ground. I'm not afraid to be on the ground. I'm not afraid to make the mistake. Man, I'm perfectly imperfect. You know, you know I'm doing my job of turning around is city that has denied people for so long. I know that denial.

I lived there. I watched Mimi work three jobs to take care of six children, and then they gave a food that cause that I have heart disease, diabetes. I was, I was diabetic. I woke up one morning I couldn't see. The doctor said, every gonna be blind in the year. You're gonna lose some fingers and toes. I went to see doctors that told me it's your food. It's not your DNA, it's your dinner. When I changed my diet, within three weeks, my sight came back, My nerve damage

went away. My boy, I little thirty five pounds, thirty five pound. You look at you, look at what you're so, what you're saying, you find the same correct as you're trying to find the balance in a world where it's really difficult. Like, so, do you have do you have teams that are specifically tasked with helping homeless people who

are struggling? Unbelievable combination. My team that I put together is extremely impressive, and we are on the ground talking to people and bringing them to a place where they ought to be. I can't meet people where I am. I have to go where they are and take them where they ought to be and You're gonna look over this journey and people see the unorthodox way that I move. I don't fit the model. You know, this boy head cat with an irene. You know, you know you're want

to hang out a zero bond or as some other club. Listen, I'm New York and New York has this energy and spirit to it. This is your unique place. It's not on Empire State Building, it's not the Statue of Liberty. We all who we are because as Apples soft daring owners said, we're made about the best stuff on earth where New Yorker is. Let me ask you this noting about New York. This city has always has always been an interesting place where the police unions and the mayors

have often had a fraught relationship. You're a really unique mayor, and that you were police. You come from police, and yet you've experienced police, and you've tried to change police, and and yet at the same time you go you have to encourage the police. So obviously you have critics and fans that inhabit both spaces. But I'd love to know this because I know a lot of New Yorkers have this as a question. When crime is down in the city, mayors will say, well, that means the police

are doing their job. We need to give them more money, more funding to the police force, which oftentimes means less funding for the schools, the other services, etcetera, etcetera. But then when crime is up in the city, mayors will say, oh, that means we need to give the police more money because they need more help bring the crime down. So what I'd like to understand is why is it that in that job, whether things are going well or not going well, the money always increases. It doesn't seem like

it matches what's happening in the city. And how do you address that as mayor whilst also acknowledging these are people, these are the people in the city trying to keep everybody safe, etcetera. From a mayor's perspective, understandard, how do you how do you how do you find that good question? Well, first of all, the prerequisitive prosperities, public safety and justice, they go together. Historically people will say you could only have justice, you can only have public safety, and I

say no to that. It's not a trade off. We could have both. We could be safe and we could have justice. Justice That accountability is going to be in place. But let's not kid ourselves. We have been producing an inferior product all across the city. You we spent thirty eight billion dollars a year on education. Black and brown children never reach education. They've been playing us, we beginting played for so long. So the problem is not that people dislike me. They said they know just like me.

People have who have been eating off of us, all of those people who make contracts from pulling people downstream. You know, much money is made when the child is dyslexic and is not educated and he's inconseerrated. You have counselors, you have therapists. You know, you have people who feed them prescription and drugs. People have been playing us, brother for a long time, and now I come along and say, listen to the game. The gig is up. You know

that's interesting. So you have you found that you're getting a lot of resistance from people. Have you found that you've been getting a lot of resistance from people who feel like you're shaking things up a little too much?

Because that's something any New Yorker knows, you know, especially if you're born here, but when you live here after a while, you realize everything feels like somebody's running something, whether it's the mt A or you know, when you're driving across the bridge, you can feel power, dynamic shift, et cetera. How do you then find that balance without being sabotaged them? Well, you you you have to be

first of all, you have to ignore the noise. We have eight point eight million New Yorkers and thirty three different opinions. There's only one man that's gonna make the decisions right now. I'm the mayor, and I'm going to make the decisions for the next four years to move this city in the right direction. So there's so much noise out there. And when you go after that institutional dollars that have been feeding and eating up this system.

While you think I'm an attack all the time, why do you think they make right all these stories about Eric Adams, Because Eric Adams is going at the heart. Eric has taking the city upstream and we're not spending all that money downstream, and that is you are going. I'm I'm going after the foundation of people who have been eating off of the dysfunctionality of our communities for years. So just in case I missed it, though, I don't

think I did. But how do you then grade whether the police are doing well or not in your city combination? Because it's not If you can't would never be able to deal with this crime. Part problem with just police, You can't. We can't police our way out of this when you have forced to care children and age out of one and you know every year six or seven hundred of them are only five percent graduate from high school. Only two percent graduate graduate from high school, five percent

from college. They're more likely to be homeless, mental health, unemployed, victims of crying participate in crime. So what I'm saying, no, let's let's let them get support until they had twenty six graduate from high school. Let's open up our trade schools like I did after Brooklyn Steam Center and give these children certifications. Let them going to some of these jobs. Google is here, Facebook is here. Why not have these children fed right into employment, be part of the growth

of this city. So if you employ, then you won't have to worry about the criminality that you're seeing. By the time a child picks up a gun, we already failed. We failed already, So then, but then, why do you care so much about some of the smaller things, you know, like like, for instance, why does the city needs to spend so much money on police monitoring? Who jumps a

fan who doesn't like? What what is the percentage of money that cities like unfair jump like that, like that jail for like, come on, people are gonna pay and the people who don't pay, like, what is that percentage? That's that's a great question. Here's what we can't do. We cannot send the message that any and everything goes in our city because it starts with okay, so someone jumps the fair and when their systems we have a

reduced fair metro card program. What if you can't pay enough, We're gonna give you the metro card and there's ways to get on the system if you can't pay. So you can't walk into Dwayne read and say, you know what, I'm gonna take what about want off the shelf and I'm going to walk out because now Dwayne Reid is gonna close down and that that low wage employee who's going to school at night to try to make a living is gonna lose his job because you decided you

don't want to pay. So we can't have a city where you can do whatever you want. No, we're gonna be a city. We're not going to criminalize poor, but we're not going to allow someone to state that the economic status is going to allow them to disrespect what it is to live in the city like New York. I know what it is that people are. Brother. We used to go to school every day with a garbage bag full of clothing because mommy said, we're gonna be thrown now and we want to have clean clothing so

you won't be embarrassed when you go to school. But Mommy made sure we're gonna always uplift ourselves, fight hard, and we're gonna be respectful in the process. I'm not going to allow people to believe because of where they are is who they are, we're so much better. So let's talk about one of the parts of the city that everyone agrees needs to become better, and that is affordability. Yes, as you said, New York City is not made by the Empire state building. It's not made by the Statue

of Liberty. It's made by the people. The people feel like they can't remain in New York because they can't afford to live here, and you're seeing the spread. It's going out to Brooklyn and spreading into Harlem. Many parts, I mean, the main part of the island is almost unaffordable for most people, for people who don't live in rent control departments, where there where there's no recourse. I've heard people's rents jump by. It can just do whatever

and you're out. Your life has changed. It becomes unaffordable. Half the places in Midtown of owned by people who don't even live in the city, never mind the country. What do you do, as mayor to to prevent that from happening? How do you make it so that the people actually want to live in the city. Because I've seen you say, by the way, people need to come back to the office. I've seen you say we need

to get back in office. People need to get you know, the New York City back to life and understand why. But I can also see why people say, well, Mayor Adams, why should I come back to the city when I can go and live, you know, forty minutes away, fifty minutes away in Connecticut on a train and not have to pay these rents anymore? How do you prevent these people from turning this into a ghost town? It's a good question. First of all, charity begins at home. I

have a small three uh three family house. My tenants when they moved in, uh several years ago, fifteen sixteen years ago, I had them sign at least that is long as you live in my apartments, you'll never have your rent increased at all. And they've been there and they've never had a rent increase, never, never, never, from the time that they moved in. They the audience is saying, what do you live so I can move in? You know, but because there's so much for human needs, there's just

not a lot for human greeds. Gandhi said that, but how do you what do you do? So what I must do as the mayor is now create affordable housing. What we're doing, and which is very interesting, you have some of the people who are advocating for affordable housing and I say, okay, great, we're gonna build it on your block. Wha, well not on my block. You know,

you want to up zone on my block. See, we have to stop the hypocrisy of people, those who are advocating for something, but when it's time to produce it in their space inconvenience them. Now they have a whole another conversation. We want to build safe haveing beds. Show me the community that's gonna allow me to build a safe have in that havens to get wrap around services. So we must get in the business of affordable housing. But once we build it, we have to put people

in the units. We've had almost two units that were empty because we didn't have a system in place. That is the dysfunctionality, and we were just counting how many units we have, but how many people that you put in those units? We're moving in another direction. Then we do a night youer, we got Niger land Trust. Every everybody tried to do what we're doing. Our Nighter land trusts almost four d tho people that were living in substandard conditions. Now we have a land trust where they

going to be able to pick the contractors. They're gonna have a voice in picking the contractors. They're gonna have a voice in voting on the land trust. We're gonna change the game of Niger, which you know what Nighter residents have been going through for years and now we're

moving in another direction. So the affordability is cruc Shoot, do you think you can find the balance because as a mayor, you're always responding to business some of the richest people in the it you know you you're you're responding to the people who are annoyed by poor people. As you said, the nimbies, not in my backyard. They want to change, but not in their backyard. And you're responding to the majority of the eight million people. What do you think you're gonna be able to do in

the in the short term. I understand the ideas behind it, but what's a concrete thing you can say in New York as we go, like, Hey, this is what I'm actually going to do for you in the short term. And we're doing that right now. First of all, the effluent New Yorkers, do you know fifty two percent about taxes are paid by two percent of New Yorkers. I can believe that if we lose those two percent, we

lose our teachers, our firefighters, our cops. So for me not to engage those high income earners, that's that's a foolish as a mayor, and I'm not going to do that. I want them to pay their taxes, I want them to volunteer. I want them to contribute to my museums, to my nonprofits. They need to be a part of that. And so when you look at what we're doing right right away child care vouchers UM for the families in the city. You know, people were paying fifty dollars a week.

We were able to get them down to ten dollars a week. We're hope with so many new seats of in childcare, what we're doing with dyslexia screening, what we're doing with college fund filed children. When you when you start out of college fund for a child, there four times more likely to go to college by having that

of childcare child this college fund UM. When you when you look at what we're doing, what's called the crisis management team and how they deal on crisis on the ground, uh for pre prevention of what we're doing with earn Income tax credit. Brother we send back billions of dollars because people don't know how to fill out the films to get the resources that they deserve. So we're making it that easier in streamlining of the Earned income Tax Credit.

So we're doing things that are going to put money back in the pack pockets of New Yorker is. Then we're going to empower them on how our readiness how to be part of this city as it builds up, cities that are built up, and futures of people going down. It's unacceptable in this administration. And you're going to see visible results in this city. So before I let you go, I'm just to know real quick, what would you grade yourself as as a mayor? Right now? What great would

you give yourself? And and I know it's a tough one, you know. I told you when we spoke, girl, that there's no tough questions for me because I'm I'm gonna be me. You are you? Definitely I'll say that about you. What would you grade yourself as as a mayor? I I'm incomplete. I'm I'm incomple, that's amcste I'm incomplete, all right. I'm I'm incomplete as a mayor. I'm incomplete as a man, I'm incomplete as a father. I'm incomplete complete in my

personal life. I get up every morning, I meditate, exercise, I pray, I say the pleasure of allegiance, and I give myself every day every day, every day. I mean, the last one has a been weird, you have to admit, but it's not. It's not when you mean surely the flag knows by now that you I mean, yeah, well you know we you know this country is this this this country has a lot of issues. But I've been all over the globe and this is the only country

with dream is attached to our name. It's not a German dream, of French dream or the French dream is, but it's a very different kind of dream. Let's let's talk about you as a human being for a moment. Something that has really intrigued people about you is who you are as you say, you know, the earring wearing, you know, vegetarian but fish eating um, late night going out. I mean, we've seen pictures of you with rappers, with models, you know, partying, having a good time, still getting out.

You don't seem afraid to be who you are and do what you're doing and not have that negatively impact the idea of your job as a mayor. Are you worried at all about image or do you think it's all just going to be about what you actually do on the ground. Listen, listen. I'm a I'm a real believer that I believe in quantum physics. I believe you create your reality. I put in the universe almost thirty years ago that in two I was going to be mayor, and every place I traveled to I told people I'm

going to be mayor. People look back over the records and me speaking back when I was a captain, when I was a state senator, when I was a borough president. They hurt me, said, I mnna be mayoro. People don't reach their reality because they don't believe in the power of what they say. And so the universe knows I'm contributing to the university. Universe is going to make sure that I'm all right. I'm going to be all right.

How people judge me, that's up to them. I like Eric, and I had an amazing, amazing mother that told me. When I and I went on the stage to speak as a child and I was nervous, Mommy leaned over and whispered, in my ear baby, you got this. And she transitioned last year. But every time I'm out here, I still hear Mommy whisper in my ear baby, you got this. And I'm saying to New York, is we got this, New York, don't you worry about it? Episode much for joining me. I appreciate the time I know

you're a busy man. I want to have you back. We'll talk about this every few years. We're gonna take a quick right while we're right back. After that, we'll talk up for tonight. But before we go, if you or someone you know needs help accessing abortion care, go to abortion finder dot org or call the National Abortion Hotline at the number below. You still have options until next time. Stay safe out there, and remember live every

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