00:00I'm going to do a few off-topics.
00:04Juliet?
00:05Yeah, Mr. Mayor?
00:06Yes, how are you, Juliet?
00:07All right, how are you doing?
00:08So President Trump yesterday said he's going to have federal takeover of D.C.
00:15and said he was going to look at New York City.
00:18What does that mean to you?
00:20Did you have any conversation with the Trump administration about this?
00:23Well, the NYPD, particularly the Deputy Mayor of Public Safety, Cass Dautry, is in continuous communications around public safety,
00:37particularly around coordination with our federal partners.
00:41And, I mean, the numbers speaks for themselves.
00:47Those, you know, record number of decreasing homicides in the shootings in the first six months, in the seventh month,
00:54lowest number of shootings victims and shootings in the city, all the major crime categories are decreasing in the subway system.
01:02We are realizing crime is at the lowest this year, outside of two years of the pandemic.
01:08And so what happens is that sometimes when you come off a shooting that happened at 345 Park Avenue where we lost Officer Islam and three other New Yorkers,
01:22when you have those high-profile shootings, it sends a signal sometimes across the country that we're dealing with a crime issue in New York.
01:32And we're not.
01:33You know, those headlines give the wrong impression.
01:35New York is moving in the right direction in public safety.
01:39And if the federal government wants to assist us in really navigating some of the laws around easily accessibility to automatic weapons,
01:51I mean, you know, this person who shot up 345 Park Avenue, he drove across the country with an automatic weapon.
01:58And he had a history of dealing with, you know, mental health issues.
02:04So there is some assistance we can get from the federal government.
02:07We should deal with stopping the access of these guns.
02:12There are more grants that I think our federal partners can get.
02:15And so I'm not part of the group that says we don't want to work in coordination with the federal government.
02:23But we don't need anyone to come in and take over our law enforcement apparatus.
02:27We have the finest police department on the globe.
02:28So people come here to be trained.
02:31And people speak with us to get assistance.
02:34And so if the White House wants to help us in what we're doing to continue our success,
02:40and if we can help other cities, municipalities, they may want to ask us to come in and help other cities.
02:45We're willing to go into other cities and help them as well.
02:48But we don't need anyone to come in and take over.
02:52We got this under control.
02:54Morgan?
02:55Hi, Mr. Mayor.
02:56How are you?
02:56Yes, how are you?
02:57Good.
02:58So I just wanted to get your take.
02:59There's a new Santa College poll out that has you behind Andrew Cuomo and even Curtis Lewa.
03:06I know polls are polls, but I wanted to get your take on the poll.
03:11It even has your favorability, unfavorability lower than Cuomo's, or favorability lower than Cuomo's.
03:18So I just wanted to get your take on the poll.
03:20Is there anything that you're going to be doing in terms of your strategy, how you're going to be messaging to people?
03:24Okay, first, if I don't recall, that's a statewide poll.
03:31Statewide.
03:32I'm not running for governor.
03:34I'm running for mayor.
03:35And I don't quite understand what's the purpose of doing a statewide poll on the mayor's race.
03:40You know, I've said this over and over again, you look at the candidates that are running, they have spent millions of dollars telling their story.
03:50Millions.
03:51You know, I think Andrew spent about 30-something million.
03:53Same with Zohan.
03:58He has spent a substantial amount of money as well.
04:01When you have millions of dollars spent to tell your story, you know, that's what you're going to get.
04:07Now is our opportunity.
04:08I could tell my story now.
04:10The money that I raised, I could use to tell my story.
04:14You do your TV ads.
04:15You do your flyering.
04:17You put your information out.
04:18So now it's campaign season.
04:20And so a poll that judges the state, even if they indicated that my unfavorabilities have gone down, people are starting more and more to see what we are doing.
04:33And so we have to, you know, you just got to stay focused in these races.
04:36If not, you'll be distracted by polls and comments and all of that.
04:41Remember, at this time, during the primary, at this time, Zohan was at 1%.
04:48At this time, he was at 1% from the time that it was out from the election.
04:56And from 1%, he won the primary because he was able to get his message out.
05:02And Andrew had a poll that showed him the day before the election.
05:06He was up 10%, 10 percentage points.
05:09He lost by 13 or 14.
05:11So if there is no better case to talk about how these things shifts and changes, I think that's a perfect example.
05:19You have a person who's at 1%, won the primary.
05:23A person who was at 36%, lost by 13 points.
05:27I mean, is there any better example of why you just have to stay focused?
05:33What he did, he being the primary winner, he stayed focused.
05:37He heard me say, stay focused, no distraction, and grind.
05:40And I guess he did it also.
05:41You know, you got to stay focused in this stuff.
05:44Do you feel like you haven't really ramped up your campaigning yet or your message?
05:47Do you feel like you're just getting started or like you're still in kind of, you know, messaging mode?
05:52Or what do you feel like is kind of next for you?
05:54Do you feel like this is just the beginning?
05:56In the next month or so, we're going to see a lot more from you, a lot more campaigning.
05:59What do you think?
06:00Well, I think you see a lot from me now.
06:03I'm in the streets.
06:05I'm speaking with people.
06:06And I enjoy doing this.
06:08You know, to me, this is not campaigning.
06:11This is not campaigning.
06:12Probably to a lot of people, it's work and it's campaigning.
06:16It is not.
06:17I love being around people.
06:20And I'm going to love being around people, ordinary, everyday, working class people.
06:26I get energy from everyday people.
06:28And so, you know, to others, it's like, you know, oh, I got to get up and I got to go talk to these people.
06:34No, I'm like waking up and saying, man, I'm getting ready to go hang out in the Bronx at a clubhouse.
06:38I'm excited about this.
06:41So this is not work for me.
06:43Someone once said, when you're doing what you love, you're never having a job.
06:48I'm going to, what I'm doing right now, no matter what I do, I'm going to do it.
06:53I've been doing this for 40 years, you know.
06:56So I just enjoy doing this.
07:00And I'm going to continue to do it no matter what capacity I am in in the city.
07:06NJ.
07:07Yes, Mayor, good morning.
07:09Two topics, if you don't mind.
07:10Yes.
07:11One is a real success story here in the city.
07:13And that is the increase in English and math test scores in public schools.
07:17Yes.
07:18What do you attribute that to?
07:19What is working?
07:20Well, it's a combination.
07:22Hats off to the chancellor.
07:25I spoke with her, must have been about six months ago.
07:31And I told her that we need to identify children who are struggling.
07:37And I need her to come up with a plan on that.
07:39And she did.
07:40We would check in periodically.
07:43You know, every few weeks, she would give me an overview.
07:46And what they did, they went after those struggling students.
07:49And they zeroed in on them.
07:50They had plans on giving them the support that they need.
07:54And it's a real positive story on her part, how, as a former teacher and principal, she understood how to turn around a school.
08:04If you know how to turn around a school, then you could turn around a school system.
08:08And I was impressed each, probably every two weeks, she'd come back and say, here's what we're doing.
08:13Here's how we're identifying those children who are struggling.
08:16They were doing quizzes and tests during the time.
08:19Remember, we changed the reading curriculum to a phonic-based reading system.
08:25And it made a huge input.
08:28And now, we're not what we want to be.
08:30You know, I want to be clear on that.
08:31When you look across the country, it is embarrassing when you see what children, what grade levels they're reading at, particularly black and brown children, across the country.
08:41This is a real call for action for our country.
08:45But we are moving in the right direction.
08:47And hats off to her, a Bronx girl that understands how to take care of children in the city.
08:53And second topic, yes, sir.
08:55Can you just elaborate on your answer a moment ago?
08:57You know, the poll shows you in fourth place behind Curtis Slewa.
09:01I'm wondering, you know, what do you need to do to win?
09:05And what are you going to do next month?
09:07And Paul, I'm going to ask you to drop that.
09:09Okay, first of all, I already won.
09:12I'm a mayor that grew up.
09:15You know, I don't think people really understand.
09:20You know, and that's, I think, you know, that's one of the challenges that people have in life.
09:26They judge themselves by what people think of them.
09:29I already won.
09:31I'm the mayor of the most important city on the globe.
09:34Growing up in South, South Jamaica, Queens.
09:38You know, and I say it over and over again, and one day people are going to hear it.
09:44You know, growing up in South Jamaica, Queens, dyslexic, arrested, rejected.
09:50Now I'm elected to be the mayor.
09:52I mean, you know, so, I mean, God is good.
09:56And so if I wake up every day and say, oh, my God, I'm a failure because somebody think of me this way.
10:03Someone gave me the finger.
10:04Someone yelled at me.
10:06Someone, I mean, no, I have already won.
10:09They are trying, they are trying, they are trying to get what I have.
10:16Let's understand that.
10:18Let's understand it.
10:19There were, what were they?
10:20There were 13 people, 13 people running to be mayor.
10:2513 people wanting to have what I have right now.
10:2813 people.
10:30Either I'm going to get it or someone else.
10:33But those other 12 will never get what I am.
10:38You know, I'm the mayor right now.
10:40And so, and so, I'm going to do what I have to do to be reelected because of what we have done while we're in office.
10:49All these broken promises.
10:51You know, we have, what, five people that are still in the race.
10:55Three of them don't have any record at all.
10:58No record.
11:00One of them, he's running from his record.
11:02I'm the only one that has a record.
11:05I'm the only person in the race.
11:07And that's why you can critique me.
11:09That's why all of you can ask me questions.
11:11It's because I have a record.
11:13My expansion of clubhouses.
11:15What I did was scout.
11:16More jobs in the city history.
11:18Drop unemployment.
11:19Brought down crime.
11:20Remove thousands of guns off our streets.
11:23No more taxes for low-income New Yorkers.
11:28No more taxes for low-income New Yorkers.
11:30Drop the cost of child care from $220 a month to less than $20 a month.
11:37Earned income tax credit increase.
11:39Paying off college tuition for foster care children.
11:41High-speed broadband for NYCHA residents for free so they can have access to it.
11:46I mean, so, so I, let me finish my flow.
11:52Let me finish my flow because, you know, I'm flowing right now.
11:55I want to, I want to, I want to feel flow.
11:58So, no matter what happens, I improve the lives of working class people.
12:04That's what I said I was going to do when I was running.
12:06I said I was going to improve the lives of working class people.
12:08I did that.
12:10Now I want to complete doing that.
12:13And so if the people of the city say that, you know what, we want someone else to do it,
12:17I mean, that's life.
12:18I can't sit back and complain.
12:20I ran.
12:20I sold my, my, my vision to the city.
12:23They said this is what we want and I'll have to get out there and sell.
12:27This is what I'm going to do for you in the next four years.
12:30But the people of the city is going to make that determination.
12:32They're going to hear me and they're going to say,
12:35do we want to continue after we heard you, Eric?
12:38And then I make a decision.
12:39And it's, and it's all cool.
12:41But given the variety of polls, given the variety of the polls and where you are in the polls,
12:48given the variety and the consistency of the polls,
12:50what is going to be your breakthrough moment or announcement to jump up in the polls or get beyond?
12:59Yeah, yeah.
12:59Okay, what we, what we, what we agree on this, I want us to agree on this.
13:05When Mandani was 1% in the poll, many of you would have told him, you're 1%, get out.
13:15Should he have listened to you?
13:16If he would have listened to you, he would not have won the primary.
13:20He was 1%, 1%.
13:22And many people said, you're 1%, get out of the race.
13:25So that's what I want to say to the people here in the clubhouse.
13:29Don't listen to the haters.
13:30Let them be your waiters.
13:33You know what I'm saying?
13:35You know, so think about it.
13:36I don't, I don't even see how y'all not even factoring this in.
13:40If he would have listened to everyone that told him, hey, you're 1%, you don't stand a chance.
13:45You're 1%.
13:46If I were to listen to people who said, listen, you're dyslexic, you don't stand a chance.
13:51You got to stop listening to people, you know, because those people who are telling you to drop out, they dropped out.
14:00They gave up.
14:02They surrendered.
14:03And they're looking at you upset, you know.
14:07Darn it, you didn't surrender when COVID was here.
14:10You didn't surrender when migrants and asylum seekers were here.
14:14You didn't surrender when they indicted you.
14:17You didn't surrender when they called you names.
14:19You didn't surrender.
14:20So they're looking at me, and they're seeing what I am, and they're upset, you know, because they're saying, if I were you, I would have given up.
14:30I don't give up.
14:31I step up.
14:32That's why.
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