00:00First, thank you very much for sponsoring the debate and having all of us.
00:04The one headline, how many characters in the headline?
00:08You know, you're familiar with headline length.
00:10Rent down, comma, crime down, comma, education scores up, comma, more jobs in New York City.
00:21Now we're getting maybe a little over the average headline length, but...
00:25Optimism high.
00:26Good.
00:27Thank you very much, and thank you for the question.
00:30First, you are right, I left office.
00:34There was a report that was done that had allegations of harassment.
00:37I said at the time it was a political report and that there was no basis to it.
00:44It was then sent to five district attorneys.
00:46They all reviewed it.
00:47They found nothing.
00:48It was then litigated for five years.
00:51I was dropped from the cases.
00:53So none of that came to anything.
00:55When it comes to executive experience, I've run the Department of Housing and Urban Development, built housing all across the nation.
01:02I was governor for 11 years.
01:04The budget is double what it is in New York City, and I got government to work.
01:10I passed groundbreaking laws, minimum wage, paid family leave, built projects that had never been built before.
01:17This is no job for on-the-job training.
01:21And if you look at the failed mayors, they're ones that had no management experience.
01:26Don't do it again.
01:27If I can, I think I was invoked.
01:30In other words, what the assemblyman said is he has no experience.
01:34And this is not a job for someone who has no management experience to run 300,000 people, no financial experience to run, $115 billion budget.
01:43He literally has never had a job.
01:45On his resume, it says he interned for his mother.
01:47However, this is not a job for a first-timer.
01:52Any day, you could have a hurricane, you could have, God forbid, a 9-11, a health pandemic.
01:58If you don't know what you're doing...
01:59Thank you, Mr. Paul.
02:00Okay.
02:01First, I never had a conversation with the president that the assemblyman's talking about.
02:06But he has a distant relationship with the truth.
02:10I would say to the president in the first conversation, look, we have had many, many battles.
02:15I fought with, we fought together every day during COVID.
02:19And the battles were bloody.
02:23And I'd like to avoid them.
02:25You know, if you come after New York, you know what I'm going to do.
02:29You know it's going to be ugly.
02:31And, you know, my chances are almost 50-50, even though you're the president.
02:36I'd like to work with you.
02:38I think we can do good things together.
02:40But, number one, I will fight you every step of the way if you try to hurt New York.
02:45Do you have other questions on this issue that you may be able to address?
02:47Go ahead.
02:47I did applaud President Trump and his administration.
02:51I think it was a great accomplishment.
02:52I hope the peace holds.
02:54The assemblyman will not denounce Hamas.
02:56The assemblyman will not denounce Hassan Piker, who said America deserved 9-11.
03:02The assemblyman just said in his response, well, it depends on occupation.
03:08That is code, meaning that Israel does not have a right to exist as a Jewish state, which he has never acknowledged.
03:17That is from the river to the sea.
03:19That's why he won't denounce Globalize the Intifada, which means kill all Jews.
03:24The answer in the subways is not more National Guard.
03:27I put National Guard in the subways also.
03:29It's more NYPD is the answer.
03:31But the National Guard is not, he's not sending in the National Guard to do any real function.
03:37It's control.
03:38It's power.
03:40He's trying to say these Democrats don't know how to run these cities, and it's a political gesture by sending in the National Guard.
03:46He has said if the assemblyman is elected, he will take over New York.
03:52Forget the National Guard.
03:53But this is the question.
03:54He has said I'm going to take the funds.
03:55The question is, if they order the troops to come here, what would they do?
03:58Yes.
03:59Well, I went through this with him.
04:01He sent the National Guard to 20 cities when I was governor.
04:05You know what city he didn't send them to?
04:07New York.
04:08Why?
04:08Because I said to him, don't you dare.
04:11We don't need it.
04:12And he backed down.
04:13And he will again.
04:14Because I believe my name was invoked.
04:16A very brief response.
04:17And then a question from you.
04:18I dealt with ICE.
04:20I stood up with ICE.
04:21I had a war with ICE here in New York when I was governor.
04:24And I stood them down, and they moved out.
04:27What the assemblyman is saying is, he doesn't believe in law and order.
04:32He believes in defunding the police, disarming the police, disbanding the police.
04:36That's who he is.
04:37Mr. Koma, we have to move on.
04:38Abolish jails.
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