00:00the sun may have set over our city this evening but as eugene debs once said
00:12i can see the dawn of a better day for humanity
00:18the the mayor of new york is sworn in at the beginning of january he has he serves obviously
00:27a four-year term he has to work with the uh the city council and uh the city council in new york
00:35is overwhelmingly democratic so that will be easy he also has to work with the governor of new york
00:41who is obviously a democrat so that will be relatively easy
00:46i do think social media was incredibly important for mandani if you actually
01:16watched his tiktok videos and uh and and particularly his tiktok videos he really has
01:23mastered that form he he comes across as witty and funny and relaxed uh in one he's kicking a soccer
01:31ball around so he's clearly appealing to a generation that is aspirational and one of the uh the ideas
01:41that he repeats all the time in some of his videos is why can't we do this new york since the cold of
01:51october we have built something people who i know from completely non-political backgrounds are getting
01:57inspired by this campaign it was either to go out there and actually do something about something
02:03or to stay at home and do a squat i think he wants like a city that's more affordable for people to
02:08live in yeah that's basically that's how it feels living in the city living anywhere in this world
02:15should not be difficult you know it isn't that difficult like all we need is someone with the
02:20will and the strength and character to fight for us so there are several major uh issues in terms of
02:29affordability and quality of life that uh mondani campaigned on and the question is how many of these
02:35if any will be will he be able to deliver on so there's affordable housing and again i don't know
02:40that he will be able to do much about that fast and free buses he he was he liked to use this example
02:47that you know in other cities like uh places like in i believe salem or some some city in oregon
02:53they did this well that's not new york so i doubt that he'll be able to do much about that universal
02:59child care is a very interesting uh idea that mondani has it that that bill de blasio also uh made
03:09very much a centerpiece of of his uh of his mayorship and i think that is uh i think there's a possibility of
03:16of definitely expanding that let's hear from zaron mandani
03:22how are we doing today
03:34as we stand here in the wealthiest city in the wealthiest country in the history of the world
03:43as we stand here by wall street where last year they had more than 40 billion dollars in bonuses
03:50we ask ourselves how is it that one in four new yorkers are still living in poverty
03:56i think that particular fear again the idea that a quote-unquote uh democratic socialist mayor is going
04:04to make the city inhospitable for for wall street i think that is is genuine is very much overblown
04:12uh i think that new york is the financial capital world i think it will remain that way uh i think
04:20that uh people who who want to invest and and and want to be here will will still will still come
04:27and i think at the end of the day if mondani is smart he will try to work with that that uh that
04:34very important constituency in new york because that is where a lot of the tax base comes from
04:42i don't think that you're going to find uh affordable housing popping up everywhere in the next year
05:01or two so new york is is is not going to be the paradise that mondani wants it overnight and the
05:09president trump will use that to his effect in in campaigning into one in in helping campaigns for
05:17uh folks running in 2026 so yes he can do that what he can do materially with respect to the city
05:24is is is hard to say he did cancel a uh an important project an infrastructure project uh that amounted
05:32to a to a uh an infrastructure project for new jersey and new york and he has the ability to do that and
05:38that could cause some uh pain for new yorkers in the uh in the short term but i think what he will do
05:44is what president trump will do is just ratchet up his rhetoric and his his criticism of uh of mondani
05:52and he is uh uh
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