00:00We had a meeting today that actually surprised me.
00:03He wants to see no crime, he wants to see housing being built,
00:07he wants to see rents coming down, all things that I agree with.
00:10We discussed ICE and New York City, and I spoke about how the laws that we have in New York City
00:15allow for New York City government to speak to the federal administration for about 170 serious crimes.
00:21The concerns that many New Yorkers have are around the enforcement of immigration laws
00:25on New Yorkers across the five boroughs.
00:28And most recently we're talking about a mother and her two children,
00:31how this has very little to do with what that is.
00:34What we did is we discussed crime more than ICE per se.
00:39We discussed crime, and he doesn't want to see crime, and I don't want to see crime.
00:43And I have very little doubt that we're not going to get along on that issue.
00:47He wants to, and he said some things that were very interesting,
00:50very interesting as to housing construction, and he wants to see houses go up.
00:55He wants to see a lot of houses created, a lot of apartments built, et cetera.
00:59And, you know, we actually, people would be shocked.
01:04But I want to see the same thing.
01:05Mr. Mondami, the anti-Israel protesters.
01:08Jack?
01:08Mr. President, I want to know, one of the policies as well that Mayor Lech Mondami talked a number of times about
01:15on the campaign was shifting the tax burden for property taxes from what he called minority communities
01:21to white-based communities and putting more taxes on white people.
01:26I also noticed that in your acceptance speech you didn't mention anything about America or Christians
01:33or white people in general.
01:34And so I didn't know if that was one of the policies that you guys had spoken about.
01:38We focused on affordability.
01:40We focused on the cost of living crisis.
01:42What I will say is that I am very much interested in property tax reform because what we see right now
01:47in New York City is a system that is so inequitable that it can't even stand up in court.
01:52And the President and I spoke about the importance of not only building more housing
01:56but also making sure that regulation of housing is something that is manageable to actually get through
02:01and not the cause of yet another weight that we see in our city.
02:04But to be clear, you're continuing this idea of race-based property taxes.
02:07No, to be very clear, the use of the term was a description of neighborhoods, not a description of intent.
02:14So you intend to tax the whiter neighborhoods more?
02:16No, we intend to create a fair property tax system because we want a New York City that is not only fair and equitable
02:20but also one that every New Yorker can afford.
02:22Mr. President, anti-Israel protesters just targeted a synagogue in New York.
02:31Are you concerned about Jewish New Yorkers feeling welcome and safe in the city?
02:36And President Trump, you've threatened to cut off federal funding to New York City.
02:40What policies would prompt you to do that?
02:42Would that be city-run grocery stores?
02:43Would it be something else?
02:45Well, I think if we didn't get along, whether it's cut off or just make it a little bit difficult or not give as much,
02:50we want to see, I used the term, we don't want good money going after bad.
02:55We just, we don't want that to happen.
02:58I don't think that's going to happen.
03:00And I did say, you know, subject to what policies are being said, we had a meeting today that actually surprised me.
03:08He wants to see no crime.
03:10He wants to see housing being built.
03:12He wants to see rents coming down, all things that I agree with.
03:15Now, we may disagree how we get there, the rent coming down.
03:18I think one of the things I really gleaned very much today, he'd like to see him come down ideally by building a lot of additional housing.
03:28And that's the ultimate way.
03:29He agrees with that, and so do I.
03:31But if I read the newspapers and the stories, I don't hear that.
03:36But I heard him say it today, and I think that's a very positive step.
03:40No, I don't expect, I expect to be helping him, not hurting him.
03:44A big help, because I want New York City to be great.
03:48Look, I love New York City.
03:50It's where I come from.
03:51I spent a lot of years there.
03:52Now I'm right here.
03:54We took a big setback with a mayor that we had named de Blasio.
03:58I thought it was a tremendous setback for the city.
04:01I think this mayor can do some things that are going to be really great.
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