00:00For you, you've referred to Mr. Mamdani as a communist.
00:03Could you describe why you feel that way?
00:05And also, will you do anything to stop him from arresting Prime Minister Netanyahu if he visits New York?
00:11Well, we didn't discuss your second part of the question.
00:14And on your first part, I mean, he's got views that are a little out there, but who knows?
00:19I mean, we're going to see what works.
00:21He's going to change also. We all change.
00:23I change a lot. I change a lot.
00:25From when I first came to office, it's now quite a while ago.
00:29It's quite a while. My first term was great.
00:32We had the greatest economy in the history of our country.
00:34We're doing even better now. We're doing much better now than we did even the first term.
00:38And I can tell you some of my views have changed.
00:41And we had discussions on some things.
00:44I'm not going to discuss what they were, but that I feel very confident that he can do a very good job.
00:50I think he's going to be I think he is going to surprise some conservative people, actually.
00:55And some very liberal people, he won't surprise him because they already like him.
01:00And Mr. Montani, it sounds like you've had a productive discussion.
01:04But just days ago, you referred to President Trump as a despot who betrayed the country.
01:08You said you'd be his worst nightmare and accused him of having a fascist agenda.
01:13Are you planning to retract any of these remarks in order to improve your relationship?
01:18I think both President Trump and I, we are very clear about our positions and our views.
01:23And what I really appreciate about the president is that the meeting that we had focused not on places of disagreement, which there are many,
01:30and also focused on the shared purpose that we have in serving New Yorkers.
01:34And frankly, that is something that could transform the lives of eight and a half million people who are currently struggling under a cost of living crisis with one in four living in poverty.
01:42And the meeting came back again and again to what it could look like to lift those New Yorkers out of struggle
01:47and start to deliver them a city that they could do more than just struggle to afford it, but actually start to live in it.
01:51And I've been called much worse than a despot, so it's not that himself.
01:56Mr. President, you've threatened to send federal troops to New York City.
02:00You both have differences when it comes to ICE agents in New York City.
02:04Mr. Mondani, you've called ICE a rogue government entity.
02:08I wonder how you reconcile your differences on both of those issues.
02:12Well, I think we're going to work them out.
02:13And I think that if we have known murderers and known drug dealers and some very bad people, you know, we want to get them out.
02:23And the mayor wants to have peace.
02:24We discussed this at great length, actually, maybe more than anything else.
02:28He wants to have a safe New York.
02:30Ultimately, a safe New York is going to be a great New York.
02:33If it's not safe, no matter how well we do with pricing and with anything else, we can talk about anything you want.
02:39If you don't have safe streets, it's not going to be a success.
02:43So we're going to work together.
02:44We're going to make sure that if there are horrible people there, we want to get them out.
02:48I think he wants to get them out maybe more than I do.
02:50So we'll work together.
02:51We discussed it at great length.
02:54Yes, please.
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