00:00I wanted to ask you if you've called Abdul El Saeed, if you've spoken to him,
00:03and how much of this election do you think was a referendum on President Trump and what's come out
00:08of his White House? I think this referendum was on politics at large across this country.
00:17This referendum was on politicians telling working people that their needs were unrealistic while
00:23those same politicians were willing to do whatever it is that the wealthiest people in the country
00:27would ask them to do. And I think this election is also a referendum on J.D. Vance asking for
00:34two
00:34more years to deliver on the things that Americans cannot afford even another day of delay on.
00:39And I am excited because what we now have is an opportunity to ensure that we recognize our job
00:48for what it is. It is not a job to better manage a decline. It is a job to inspire
00:54our country
00:55to heights that we've never been to before, where the working people who built this country are the
01:00ones that are then in the centerpiece of all of our politics. And to your question about Coach,
01:06you know, it is what we saw last night is New Yorkers voting for a government that moves as fast
01:13as they do. We saw New Yorkers vote by significant margins whether to speed up the process of outdoor
01:20dining and save small businesses money or accelerate street safety improvements or ensure that nonprofits
01:25could actually have their contracts paid on a better timetable or even to cohere the way in which we build
01:31affordable housing and strengthen our savings. And to me, what is so exciting to see is that this is now
01:38an
01:38opportunity for New Yorkers to have a government that moves as fast as they do. And I also just want
01:42to take a moment to
01:43acknowledge Jimmy, who's here, who's worked tirelessly, as have a number of others in our team at City Hall,
01:50in ensuring that we met the state requirement of public education around these ballot proposals
01:54would not be possible without that kind of work.
01:56And Colin Abdul, could you call him out?
01:58I haven't spoken to him yet. I'm sure he is quite busy. I've had the privilege of speaking to him
02:05in the past.
02:05And I have to say that his election is one that means so much to so many. And to see
02:12that victory in the face that all
02:18that he had to reckon with over the course of that campaign, whether in terms of the extraordinary amount of
02:25money spent to oppose him or the racism and slander that he was met with on a daily basis, it
02:30is incredibly
02:31exciting to see, as as he said last night, that the good guys won.
02:36Then we got time for a few more, Andrew, then we go to Nicole right behind you after.
02:40New jacket for you, too, as well, sir.
02:42Yeah, you know, pull it out.
02:43All right.
02:43I wanted to follow up on Jeff's question about the New Yorkers running the country. So you've got
02:49Hakeem, you've got Schumer, you've got Trump, all from New York. Does any of that matter? You've had
02:56experience having the president at Gracie Manchin, a building he likes. Did that lead to anything
03:02tangible? And do you think the background of Jeffries and Schumer being from New York will
03:07lead to anything tangible?
03:10I think that having leaders in Washington be from our city and of our city is of incredible
03:18importance to our city, because for them, the struggles of New Yorkers are not intellectual
03:22concerns or ones that are being mediated through the prism of media or politics. It is one that they
03:28experience and hear from their constituents about every single day. And, you know, when it comes to
03:34the president, I've said time and again that we have significant policy disagreements. And yet we
03:39look to work together on the areas that we can agree on. And one of those very limited number of
03:44areas is the welfare of the city as a whole. And it is through those conversations that we've been
03:49able to secure the release of a New Yorker who was detained by ICE. It's through those conversations
03:54that we were able to secure a visa for Javits from Pong's mother to ensure that she can be here
04:00for the burial of her child. It's through those conversations that we can always make sure there's
04:04an avenue to make an ask for the benefit of working New Yorkers. And I look forward to continuing to
04:09explore every option to deliver for this city.
04:11Great. Then we're going to go to Nicole right behind you. And then we're going to the pink after that.
04:15Good afternoon, Mayor.
04:16Afternoon, Nicole. How are you?
04:17I'm good. How are you?
04:18I'm doing well. If you wouldn't mind, microphone a little closer so I can make sure to hear.
04:21Yeah, yeah. So since the governor stopped the civilian fare enforcement teams on the buses and
04:27the NYPD hasn't written bus tickets in quite a while, do you see that as you've achieved your
04:33goal of making the buses free? And if not, how do you interpret yesterday's result as either
04:40moving toward or away from your goal of making the buses free? Thank you.
04:43Thank you very much for your question, Nicole. I don't see it as the fulfillment of that goal
04:49because a key part of that goal is ensuring that we make the MTA whole as a result of making
04:55those
04:55buses free. That's why that it's not just a policy goal, but also a fiscal goal, which would cover the
05:02fair revenue that the MTA would otherwise make as opposed to telling them to find another way to make
05:06ends meet because that is the history of New York politics, is putting policy goals on the MTA,
05:11not providing them with the financial support, and then asking ourselves, why did services suffer as
05:16a result? So there is much more of it to be won. And in terms of your other question, yesterday,
05:23what we also saw here in New York was not just the passage of these five ballot proposals.
05:28We also saw the governor, the attorney general, Democrats up and down the ballot winning at
05:34margins that we haven't seen in quite some time. And especially the governor and the attorney general,
05:38I think it was a 21 point margin the last time that I saw, which is incredible considering so much
05:44of
05:44the campaign was spent hearing Bruce Blakeman talk about how it was going to be 52-48. And I don't
05:49even know if he won NASA. Thank you. And then right there in the back.
05:53Hi, Mayor. Shante of Channel 7. You kind of touched on this, but I'm just kind of following
05:59up. What was it like watching the blue wave last night, all the wins from New Yorkers and so many
06:04firsts? And also specifically, what is your plan that translates last night's wins to helping
06:10everyday New Yorkers? It was incredible to see the blue wave and to say words that I never thought
06:19would be together in a sentence. South Carolina, Kansas, Iowa, that I mean, the races that are still
06:26yet to be called, that these are even in question. It speaks to the fact that this entire country is
06:33ready for a politics that means something to their lives and to their struggles. And what we saw
06:38Democrats running on across the country was an ambition for what government could do, as opposed
06:43to a sense that our job is simply to describe working people's struggles. Our job is to deliver
06:49on those struggles. And the commonality between working people in Austin and Ann Arbor, in Astoria,
06:58across this country, is one that should inspire also a commonality of purpose for what we do with
07:03this power. Because I see in that the true reflection of what the American people want, which is change
07:09they can feel in their wallets. It means that we can go from being on the defensive to being on
07:17the
07:17offensive. The defensive means trying to prevent as many New Yorkers as possible from losing their
07:22SNAP benefits or losing their health insurance. That's a reflection of the policies that Republicans
07:27have pursued for the last few years. The offensive is delivering to make life more affordable for
07:32them. That's what we've been focused on here in New York City. And that's what we could do so much
07:36more of if we had federal partners across the board. And now we're seeing the election of many of them.
