Eric Adams Reacts To Trump Saying He Was 'Going To Look At New York City' After DC Takeover

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New York City Mayor Eric Adams was asked about President Donald Trump's federal takeover of Washington D.C. and the President's comments about similar actions in other cities.

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00:00How are you, Junior?

00:00All right, how you doing?

00:02So, President Trump yesterday, you know, said he's going to have federal takeover of D.C.

00:08and said he was going to look at New York City.

00:11What does that mean to you?

00:13Did you have any conversation with the Trump administration about this?

00:18The NYPD, particularly the Deputy Mayor of Public Safety, Cass Dautry, is in, thanks a lot to you,

00:25is in continuous communications around public safety, particularly around coordination with our federal partners.

00:35And, I mean, the numbers speaks for themselves.

00:42You know, record number of decreasing homicides in the shootings in the first six months, in the seventh month,

00:48lowest number of shootings victims and shootings in the city,

00:52all the major crime categories are decreasing.

00:54In the subway system, we are realizing crime is at the lowest this year, outside of two years of the pandemic.

01:02And so what happens is that sometimes when you come off a shooting that happened at 345 Park Avenue,

01:10where we lost Officer Islam and three other New Yorkers,

01:15when you have those high-profile shootings,

01:18it sends a signal sometimes across the country that we're dealing with a crime issue in New York.

01:25And we're not.

01:26You know, those headlines give the wrong impression.

01:29New York is moving in the right direction in public safety.

01:32And if the federal government wants to assist us in really navigating some of the laws around easily accessibility to automatic weapons,

01:44I mean, you know, this person who shot up 345 Park Avenue, he drove across the country with an automatic weapon.

01:51And he had a history of dealing with, you know, mental health issues.

01:57So there is some assistance we can get from the federal government.

02:01We should deal with stopping the access of these guns.

02:05There are more grants that I think our federal partners can get.

02:09And so I'm not part of the group that says we don't want to work in coordination with the federal government.

02:16But we don't need anyone to come in and take over our law enforcement apparatus.

02:20We have to find this police department on the globe.

02:22So everyone, people come here to be trained and people speak with us to get assistance.

02:27And so if the White House wants to help us in what we're doing to continue our success,

02:34and if we can help other cities, municipalities, they may want to ask us to come in and help other cities.

02:39We're willing to go into other cities and help them as well.

02:42But we don't need anyone to come in and take over.

02:45We got this under control.

02:48Hi, Mr. Mayor, how are you?

Eric Adams Reacts To Trump Saying He Was 'Going To Look At New York City' After DC Takeover

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