00:00I understand my friend doesn't really understand government the governor
00:07doesn't build housing in New York City not if it's you no no legally there are
00:13jurisdictions the governor doesn't pick up trash he doesn't run the fire
00:18department that's what the mayor does the mayor builds housing the state
00:22allocates funding for localities and I allocated more funding for housing than
00:28any governor in the history of the state of New York all right I did things you
00:35have never had a job you've never accomplished anything there's no reason
00:40to believe you have any merit or qualification for eight and a half
00:44million lives you don't know how to run a government you don't know how to handle
00:48an emergency and you've literally never proposed the bill on anything that you're
00:55not talking about in your campaign you had the worst attendance record in the
00:59assembly and you gave yourselves the highest raise in the United States of
01:06America you went from a hundred and ten thousand to one hundred and forty
01:09thousand dollars and then you never showed up for work and you missed eighty
01:14percent of the votes shame on you shame on you good evening thank you to the
01:18moderators and thank you to New Yorkers for tuning in I know you'd rather be
01:22watching the Knicks while there are three candidates on this stage you will hear
01:26only two messages my opponents who spend more time trying to convince the other
01:31to drop out than actually proposing their own policies will speak only of the
01:35past because that's all that they know I am the sole candidate running with a
01:40vision for the future of this city Andrew Cuomo will spend much of tonight
01:44attacking me he is a desperate man lashing out because he knows that the one
01:49thing he's always cared about power is now slipping away from him he will
01:53amplify right-wing talking points he will share conspiracy theories and he
01:57will do these things to make you feel that this should keep you up at night but
02:00I've been spending the last year listening to New Yorkers and I know what
02:03actually keeps you up it's whether or not you can afford to live a safe and
02:07dignified life in this city I have plans for our future my opponents only have
02:12fear we first just heard from the Republican candidate for mayor and then we
02:17heard from Donald Trump's puppet himself Andrew Cuomo you could turn on TV any day
02:22of the week and you will hear Donald Trump share that his pick for mayor is
02:26Andrew Cuomo and he wants Andrew Cuomo to be the mayor not because it will be
02:30good for New Yorkers but because it will be good for him look Donald Trump ran on
02:35three promises he ran on creating the single largest deportation force in
02:38American history he ran on going after his political enemies and he ran on
02:42lowering the cost of living if he wants to talk to me about the third piece of
02:46that agenda I will always be ready and willing but if he wants to talk about how
02:50to pursue the first and second piece of that agenda at the expense of New Yorkers
02:53President Trump has to respect you he sent the National Guard into 20 cities
02:59city he didn't send it into New York because I talked to him and I said we
03:04don't need you here he has said he'll take over New York if Mondami wins and he
03:10will because he has no respect for him he thinks he's a kid and he's gonna knock him on his
03:15took us yeah the difference on this question is I've actually lived it and
03:20I've done it with President Trump over many years through the most difficult
03:25situation that this country has gone through COVID plus you're wrong you're
03:32going to have to confront President Trump he is hyper aggressive and he is going
03:37to overstep his bounds and you are going to have to confront him and you can beat
03:42him I confronted him and I have beaten him he was going to quarantine New York
03:46during COVID and I stopped him he was going to cut aid to federal programs and I
03:52stopped him but you also want to be in a place where you can cooperate on good
03:57things because we need federal help if we're going to save our city and rebuild
04:02our city mr Cuomo in 2021 13 different women who worked in your administration
04:10incredibly accused you of sexual harassment since then you have spent more
04:16than 20 million dollars in taxpayer funds to defend yourself all while
04:21describing these allegations as entirely political you have even gone so far as to
04:27legally go after these women one of those women Charlotte Bennett is here in the
04:33audience this evening you sought to access her private gynecological records she cannot
04:42speak up for herself because you lodged a defamation case against her I however can
04:47speak what do you say to the 13 women that you sexually harassed
04:59if you if you want to be in government then you have to be serious and mature there
05:07were allegations of sexual harassment they were then went to five district attorneys
05:13fully litigated for four years the cases were dropped right you know that is a fact so everything
05:19you just stated you just said was a misstatement which were accustomed to from the state
05:24was a mistake because the cases the cases were dropped that's what happened and on my
05:32question to you you still didn't answer why won't you say BDS against Uganda for saying gays
05:39gays should be imprisoned for being gay okay you have no problem with BDS against Israel
05:45but no BDS for you guys
05:48excuse me excuse me Mr. Cuomo it's my turn all right it's like two kids in a schoolyard
05:56yeah I heard you on the radio this morning
05:58John this is personal for me I know you are under threat the mother of my two youngest sons who
06:04raised Jewish Melinda Katz is prosecuting this person who came up and tried to do you harm
06:09but let me speak on behalf of my two sons when they've heard some of the statements you've made
06:15like in support of global jihad and I hear some people out there saying the Jews their time is due
06:21which means the same thing they're frightened they're scared they view you as the arsonist who
06:28fan the flames of anti-semitism they cannot suddenly accept the fact that you're coming
06:34in like a firefighter and you're going to put out these flames you've got a lot of explaining to do a
06:40lot of apologizing to do my sons are afraid their family their friends many in the Jewish community
06:47are concerned if you could become mayor because they don't think when anti-semitism rears its ugly head which
06:54it's now doing more than ever before that you will have the ability to come in and put out those flames
07:00of hate I heard the both of them again fighting like kids in the schoolyard Zoran your resume could
07:07fit on a cocktail napkin and Andrew your failures could fill a public school library in New York City
07:16you know the not everything is a tick-tock video you're the savior of the Jewish people you won't
07:22denounce globalize the intifada which means kill Jews there's unprecedented fear in New York it was
07:30not several rabbis Errol it was 650 rabbis okay who signed the letter not several protests demonstrate
07:39disagree God bless America God bless New York City and there is no doubt that there's two sides
07:45on what's going on and the passions are very high that doesn't that doesn't justify anti-semitic
07:52behavior in New York it doesn't justify having a Jewish population that feels unprotected in New York
08:00it doesn't it doesn't justify leaders who stoke the flames of hatred against Jewish people which is
08:09what Zoran does in my opinion this is personal for me I know you are under threat the mother of
08:15my two youngest sons who are raised Jewish Melinda Katz is prosecuting this person who came up and tried
08:21to do you harm but let me speak on behalf of my two sons when they've heard some of the statements
08:27you've made like in support of global jihad and I hear some people out there saying the Jews their
08:33time is due which means the same thing they're frightened they're scared they view you as the
08:40arsonist who fanned the flames of anti-semitism they cannot suddenly accept the fact that you're
08:47coming in like a firefighter and you're going to put out these flames you've got a lot of explaining
08:53to do a lot of apologizing to do my sons are afraid their family their friends many in the Jewish
09:00community are concerned if you could become mayor because they don't think when anti-semitism rears its
09:06ugly head which it's now doing more than ever before that you will have the ability to come in
09:12and put out those flames of hate okay I think there is room for disagreement on many positions and many
09:23policies but I also want to correct the record I have never not once spoken in support of global
09:30jihad that is not something that I have said and that continues to be ascribed to me and frankly I
09:35think much of it has to do with the fact that I am the first Muslim candidate to be on the precipice
09:39of winning this election now I all the same Curtis I do still want to be the mayor that will keep your
09:50sons safe that will keep every single New Yorker safe and it is my job to not only deliver on that
09:56commitment but also to ensure that New Yorkers feel it every single day that they live in this city
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