00:00Give us one headline about what you think your biggest accomplishment will have been in year number one.
00:07Rent down, comma, crime down, comma, education scores up, comma, more jobs in New York City.
00:18Now we're getting maybe a little over the average headline length, but.
00:21Optimism high.
00:22Curtis Sliwa exceeds all expectations and looks very mayoral tonight.
00:31Mamdani continues to take on Trump, delivers on affordability agenda for New Yorkers.
00:35You said it was totally false, as you know.
00:38Which part was false?
00:40I was governor for 11 years.
00:42The budget is double what it is in New York City.
00:45And I got government to work.
00:46I passed groundbreaking laws, minimum wage, paid family leave, built projects that had never been built before.
00:55This is no job for on-the-job training.
00:58I have the experience of being a New Yorker.
01:00Someone who has actually paid rent in the city before I ran for mayor.
01:04Someone who has had to wait for a bus that never came.
01:07Someone who actually buys his groceries in this same city.
01:10And what all of that experience has shown me, which Mr. Cuomo can't seem to understand, is that it is far too expensive and far too hard for New Yorkers to afford to live in this city.
01:20And the definition of experience is not doing the same thing again and again and hoping for a different result.
01:25That's actually the definition of insanity.
01:27Thank God I'm not a professional politician because they have helped create this crime crisis in this city that we face.
01:36And I will resolve it.
01:36Thank you, Mr. Sliwa.
01:37What would you say in your first official call with the president to set the tone for your relationship moving forward?
01:44I would make it clear to the president that I am willing to not only speak to him, but to work with him if it means delivering on lowering the cost of living for New Yorkers.
01:53That's something that he ran his presidential campaign on.
01:55And yet all he's been able to deliver thus far has been prosecuting his political enemies and trying to enact the largest deportation program in American history.
02:05And what distinguishes me from Andrew Cuomo is the fact that he has gotten on the phone with that same president, not asking him how to work together to help New Yorkers or not telling him that he would refuse to back down to protect those New Yorkers, but instead asking him how to win this race.
02:20That's something I can do myself.
02:21I don't need the president's assistance for.
02:23And what I tell the president is if he ever wants to come for New Yorkers in the way that he has been, he's going to have to get through me as the next mayor of this city.
02:29We have Andrew Cuomo, we have Zohan Mandami, they want to take on Donald Trump.
02:36Look, you can be tough, but you can't be tough if it's going to cost people desperately needed federal funds.
02:44I fought Donald Trump.
02:46He investigated me repeatedly with the Department of Justice.
02:51The Department of Justice Inspector General said that it was actually politically motivated.
02:56That does not back me up.
02:59When I'm fighting for New York, I am not going to stop.
03:01And I'll tell you something else.
03:03If the assemblyman is elected mayor, Donald Trump will take over New York City and it will be Mayor Trump who runs New York City.
03:11We have to move out of this.
03:12I'm there.
03:13We need a debate of three.
03:14Shoot.
03:15Excuse me, Andrew.
03:15It's a debate of three.
03:16Do we acknowledge that?
03:18I, like many New Yorkers, am hopeful that this ceasefire will hold.
03:22I'm hopeful that it is durable.
03:24I'm hopeful that it is just.
03:25And for it to be just, we also have to ensure that it addresses the conditions that preceded this.
03:31Conditions like occupation, like the siege, and apartheid.
03:34And that is what I am hopeful for.
03:36Well, you seem, Zoran, to be incapable of praising our president.
03:41And, Andrew, you were incapable of praising our president.
03:44Gentlemen, gentlemen, we have other...
03:44Give credit where credit is due.
03:46He's brought peace to God.
03:47Gentlemen, we want to hear everything you have to say.
03:49We have other questions as to the matter.
03:50I did applaud President Trump and his administration.
03:54I think it was a great accomplishment.
03:55I hope the peace holds.
03:56The assemblyman will not denounce Hamas.
03:59The assemblyman will not denounce Hassan Piker, who said America deserved 9-11.
04:05The assemblyman just said in his response, well, it depends on occupation.
04:11That is code, meaning that the Israel does not have a right to exist as a Jewish state, which he has never acknowledged.
04:20That is from the river to the sea.
04:22Can you name a single mosque you went to in 10 years?
04:25Before you were ever here, they were in this...
04:27Before I was here?
04:28Before you...
04:29If you were going to send the National Guard, you don't need to send them to New York City.
04:32There are other cities that could desperately use their help in dealing with their crime crisis.
04:38We do not need them for the purpose of safety, because if it was safety that President Trump was so concerned about,
04:44he would send them to the 8 out of 10 states that have the highest levels of crime in this country.
04:48But he won't, because they're all run by Republicans.
04:52He's not sending in the National Guard to do any real function.
04:56It's control. It's power.
04:58He's trying to say these Democrats don't know how to run these cities,
05:01and it's a political gesture by sending in the National Guard.
05:05They're not going to stand up to Donald Trump.
05:07I agree with Curtis.
05:08You're not going to stand up to Donald Trump.
05:10And he can't stand up to Donald Trump, who knocked him right on his tookus.
05:14You negotiate with him. You don't fight with him, because only the people of New York City will lose.
05:20We do have a follow-up to negotiate.
05:21We have a follow-up.
05:23I'd like to see a show of hands.
05:25Are there any circumstances where any of you would allow the NYPD to cooperate with the National Guard
05:31if Trump sent them to New York?
05:33Show of hands. Yes?
05:35No takers. Okay.
05:36The law is the law, and I would have an attorney assigned to every person who is undergoing any review by the federal government
05:46or any legal proceeding and put the full weight of the city government behind it and make sure they are legally protected.
05:55We need to protect the migrants who are workers, who are essential workers, and use ICE to go after the drug dealers, the gangbangers, the sexual predators,
06:07and those who are sex trafficking and involved in narco-terrorism.
06:12I would be proud to be the first immigrant mayor of this city in generations, and it's a 26 federal plaza that I've seen what used to be moments when New Yorkers would be getting their citizenship turn into moments of tragedy,
06:24where judges are asking New Yorkers who are there for a routine immigration check-in, whether they're prepared to leave in the very same clothes that they arrived to that courthouse.
06:32I agree that we need more legal representation.
06:35I also think we need to actually be able to stand up to Donald Trump.
06:38There's a lot of ground covered. We'll leave it on that light note.
06:41Thank you, candidates, for a spirited debate. We thank you as well.
06:45We hope you got a lot out of it, New York City viewers, New York City voters.
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