00:00If I was to speak to the king separately from that, I would probably encourage him to return the Kohenur
00:06diamond.
00:07Hi, how are you?
00:08I'm well, thanks. How are you?
00:10Doing well.
00:10If you have a moment to chat with King Charles today down at the World Trade Center Memorial,
00:17how do you view your role as mayor?
00:19Do you see it as being sort of a polite diplomatic moment?
00:23You just say hello and welcome, or is there anything else you would say to him?
00:27Do you have a specific message you might want to deliver?
00:30I'll be saying that today I'll be attending a wreath laying alongside a number of other elected officials,
00:37including Governor Hochul, Governor Sherrill.
00:39And the focus of that wreath laying is to honor the more than 3,000 New Yorkers who were killed
00:47in the horrific terror attacks of September 11th.
00:49And that's what I'm really looking to do at that event.
00:53So you haven't thought about anything you might say if you say hello to him and he stops to chat?
00:57You know, if I was to speak to the king separately from that, I would probably encourage him to return
01:03the Kohinoor diamond.
01:05Thank you, Melissa.
01:07I've got time for just one more.
01:08Bernadette, go ahead.
01:10Mr. Mayor, so yesterday you said that there's no amount of savings that could close your budget gap,
01:16but the governor later that day said, well, listen, I have 57 other counties to deal with,
01:20and I'm telling all of them to present savings.
01:24Wondering, you know, do you think that she is starving the city in the way that you've accused her predecessors
01:30of doing,
01:30like Andrew Cuomo?
01:31Is that the approach that she is taking right now?
01:33I think the governor has been a partner in the work that we are looking to do in delivering a
01:38balanced budget.
01:39We inherited a fiscal deficit the likes of which the city has not seen in generations,
01:45and the governor has been a partner along that many-month process where we have not only secured additional state
01:52commitments,
01:53but also seen proposals coming forward of a pied-à-terre tax that would raise half a billion dollars for
01:59the city
01:59by taxing the secondary homes of non-resident New Yorkers that are worth more than $5 million.
02:04And we're looking forward to keep working with the governor because we believe that savings are critical.
02:10We also believe that there is no amount of savings that would absolve Albany of the need to partner with
02:15the city
02:15given the scale of this crisis.
02:18And what we're looking at right now is the need, whether it be through additional revenue or through cost shifts,
02:26to ensure that we have structural solutions to a structural problem.
02:30And the reason I say structural problem is that this is not an amount of money that was created as
02:36a deficit
02:36because of the spending our administration did.
02:39This was a deficit we inherited due to long-standing spending that was not being accounted for or budgeted.
02:44And so we're looking forward to working with the governor and with Majority Leader of the State Senate,
02:48Andrea Stewart-Cousins, and the Speaker of the Assembly, Carl Hastie, in resolving this.
02:52Thank you. That's all the time we've got.
02:53The Lindsey Boylan race. How will you approach, you know, after the results of, you know, your endorsement,
02:58you know, you were accused by some of the elected officials that you didn't give the other candidates a fair
03:02shake.
03:03How will you approach future endorsements? And will it perhaps be differently? Will you take a more measured approach?
03:09I will always look to work with anyone who wants to advance the affordability agenda.
03:16And the reason for my focus on that is that New Yorkers are being priced out of the most expensive
03:22city
03:22in the United States of America. And I'm excited to work with Council Member Wilson on delivering
03:28that affordability agenda to the West Side, on working together to build more housing,
03:32on universal childcare, on a balanced budget. And I'm also looking forward to doing so
03:36with our partners at every level of government.
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