September 25, 2025 • 38 mins
Today on The Breakfast Club, Mayor Eric Adams Talks Mayoral Election '25, Trump, Zohran Mamdani, NYC Crime, Media Criticism. Listen For More!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Every day.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
A wait, click, yours up the breakfast club.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
You'll finish for y'all done morning.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Everybody is the dj n V.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Just Hilarius Charlamagne to God, we are the breakfast club.
Lawla roses here as well. We got a special guest
in the building. Yes, indeed, the mayor of New York City.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Mayor Eric Adams.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Welcome.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
Good to be here. Nice to here and talk about
the city. How you feeling, brother good man? You know,
I mean, I took my hand off the steering wheel
a long time.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Let's go.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Let God turn on my GPS. My God positioned a satellite,
got me here. He's gonna take me to the next level.
Speaker 5 (00:34):
You know a question everybody keeps asking, are you dropping
out of the mayor race?
Speaker 4 (00:38):
And you know what, I answered that one hundred and
one time, and no matter how I answer it, they
come back with the same Seven weeks ago when they
first raised that I had something that Gracie mansion and
said listen, I'm here to the end, they wrote that
he's dropping out. They say, then he's going to want
He's going to Saudi Arabia. I said, no, I'm not.
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They then they I was going to be hud No,
I'm not. I was going to meet Donald Trump at
Yankee Stadium.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
No, I did not.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Well, people don't understand when you run for mayor, one
of the most important aspects of running for mayor is
raising the money.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
People couldn't beat me.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
At the Poland site, and so they orchestrated and organized
to really undermine my campaign. When you hear that the
mayor is dropping out over and over again, your funders
are gone. Now I'm in court with campaign finance board.
They owe me four million dollars. They don't want to
give it to me. I spent eight million dollars the
last time I ran. I'm down to now half of
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that now. So they have undermined my ability to get
my message out by making sure they cut off all
the ways I could raise money to get it done.
So now I'm in a point now when I'm meeting
with my funders. They said everything. They keep telling me,
you're dropping out. So our goal is to finish this race.
But we have to win this court. That's in case,
that's in its case, that's in court right now to
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get out four million dollars.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Question.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
When you first came in office, it seems like the
city loved Mayor Adams, right. They loved you, loved the
fact that you were touching the people, you were outside,
you were doing things that a lot of mayors wouldn't like.
You were on forty second Street giving away food. You
were doing a lot for the city. You were popping
up in Harlem and Brooklyn and Queens. And then it
became a turning point where people started to not like
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Mayor Adams or start to dislike, why did that happen?
Do you think it was an orchestrated thing? Why do
you think people started questioning That's a great question.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Think about it. Fun moment where do people get their
opinions from.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
They pick up the papers, they start reading the papers,
and they start saying, Okay, this is what's happening in
the city. When I go to town halls, when I'm
at forty projects, when I go out to a storia
and I start sharing what we have done, people say, what,
I didn't know that there was when I one mayor.
Here's the inner story that a lot of people don't know.
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When I won mayor. You can't win city wide in
this city without winning what's called the New York Times Belt,
Upper West Side, Oxlo, Kyle Gardens, Brooklyn Heights.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
I lost all of that.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
The everyday person in the street say, this guy is
one of us, and from day one go look at
how I was covered. People don't know I build more
housing in the city than any manor in the history
of the city in my individual years. They don't know
that low income New York is no longer pay them
come tax because of me, nineteen billion dollars in black
and minority owned businesses that I put in. They don't
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know what I'm doing for forced care children, paying their
college tuition, giving them life coaches until they twenty one.
They don't know what we're doing about homelessness, putting people
to permanent housing.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Nobody knows my story.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
If they don't know, then if they don't know, then
is it really getting done? Because if the people should
be the ones that have impact about what you're doing,
so why wouldn't they know?
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Right Well, here there's a couple of things. People who
go through it knows it all the time. They righting me,
they stopped me in the street. They tell me about
the housing they got, my universal after school program, what
we're doing about dyslexia.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Folks on Rykers.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
I've been on Rykers all in the morning, the man
the history of the city, speaking with the inmates, giving
them the services they need. So those who are recipient
of it they know. But when you pick up the paper,
the average day person that's sitting down reading, all they
know is that, hey, this guy's out all the time.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Part of it.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
No, I revitalized my our nightlife industry, a by yourself,
multi billion dollars, multi billion.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Dollar industry, multi billion dollar industry.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Before I became man, they were closing down these industries
with black and brown people were opening their own businesses,
they were closing them down.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
That stopped under me. I said, We're no longer going
to go.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
In and close down the heart and soul of how
these businesses start and how they employ one hundred thousand
people who are getting jobs through it. So so what
you do now during campaign, you take your campaign money
and you able to go over the media and speak
directly to people.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
I don't have the money.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
You know, over the past weekend, you didn't attend any.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
P public events while a lot of the rivals with
out campaigning, and people use that to fuel more speculation
that you're preparing to drop out, So how do you
respond to that?
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Sick too much to Charlamagne. No matter what I said,
they did it anyway. We were sitting down behind the scenes,
sitting down with funded, sitting down with the campaign team, figuring.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Out our strategies to go. I could be out.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
I'm outside all the time. Brother, you know, I could
be outside running around the city all the time. But
anyone that knows how to build their institutions know there's
a time for you to meet with your team and
strategize what the next steps are. Just running around the
city is not how you win a campaign. And they
don't have day jobs.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
I do.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
I still got a day job. I had the U incoming,
a major security issue that we had to make sure
was correct. I had the high holiday, I had to
Russashana come in making sure we deal with threats.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
So I still have to run the city. It's not
just about running around shaking hands.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
I had a job to do and I gotta build
my strong campaign.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
And that's that's what I give you credit for that
because you know they were giving you flat for not
being at the African American Day Parade. But I've seen
you at events like like the heaven up in Harlem.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Event that og Daniel did right.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
That wasn't like a scheduled thing.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
You're just there right right.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
And listen, there's never been a man in the history
of the city that's been among the people like I have.
You know, I'll drive through Brownsville and all of a sudden,
I see a closed barber shop, closed hair salon, people
sitting in the back smoking a cigar. I'm popping in
there talking to them. How you feeling on the ground, folks,
what's happening on the ground. You know, I can walk
through any community in this city and you see from
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the Upper West Side to Harlem to Brooklyn, people see that.
You know what Eric is among us, And I've never
stopped being among it. That's nothing special about me, you know.
You know I've never come across that. Listen, I'm a
man special. No, I'm the same dislects it South Jamaica
Queen's Hole and your sneak as carboys in the bottom.
I'm the same person, brother, same person. And they never
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had a mayor like me, and they never want to
see that mayor do it again. What we did for
black and brown people in the city's amazing. Think about
this for a moment. A lot of people don't even
realize this. So who the victims of shootings in the
city black and brown? Twenty three thousand illegal guns off
the street, the lowest numbers of shootings and homicide in
the first seven months of this year in the history
of the city. Who is a street homeless? Black and brown?
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We removed thirty five hundred people off our streets into
permanent housing. Permanent housing. Who's in our Department of Education
black and brown? Other ethnic groups are in, but predominantly
black and brown.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
And we have.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Improved education in our city, our pace to state and reading,
the math, universal after school programs, one hundred and fifty
thousand children into pre K.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Who is summer youth employment black and brown?
Speaker 4 (07:54):
One hundred thousand summer youth employment that we've done never
been done before. So what I'm saying is, when you
pick apart my success in my policies, you have to
say to yourself, this guy has gone after those who.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Are ignored for years. I agree with you.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
But you know, the thing that we talk about all
the time is we hear all these numbers of stats, right, yes,
and we talk about we hear about crime coming down.
But a lot of times it doesn't feel like that, right,
And maybe that's what we hear in the stories, like
you know, I'm driving in today, police officer puns in
the face and knocked onto the train tracks and pulled out.
You know, shooting here, shooting there, shooting in there. It
doesn't feel as safe as the numbers would say it.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Was, right. Why do you say that? And that's a
great question, brother, Think about this for a moment.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Five point six million people ride our subway every day,
five point six million. We have five average of five
feelings a day on our system. With five point six million,
I mean, those numbers are astronomical. And so when you
city of eight point five million people, when you take
the worst thing that happens in that city that day
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and you plastered on the front pages, how were you
gonna fail people? When I inherited the subway system, when
I became mayor, no one wanted to be on.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
The subway system. We put police officers on there.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
We went down to make sure we got people with
severe mental health off our issues, off our system. We
removed the encampments. People were living on the side of highways.
They were even in boxes and tents on our streets.
And so no, people don't feel that way because it
takes a lot of time before your perception view the reality.
Sometimes people are living in the past of what they
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felt before.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
So when you put more police presents on the subways,
it bought the crime.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
There was a combination of things we did.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
When we did in the analysis, we saw that a
lot of people say, well, hey, we want the police
walking through our trains. That's not where the crimes were happening.
The crimes will happening on the platforms. And so when
we did a combination number one putting our visible presence
on the platform, number two going after those with severe
mental health issues and getting them the care that they need.
A thousand people we took off the streets. And so
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you're right, brother, when you say, okay, you're giving us
the numbers. But when you run a city, you have
to run it based on indicators. You have to run
it based on something to determine if you're moving in
the right direction. Because when bond raiders determined are we
gonna tell people to invest in your city, we need
to see these indicators. The bond raiders raised my bond,
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they said, this guy has gone through COVID two hundred
and thirty seven thousand migras and asylum seekers law fair
where they hit him with some bogus federal charges. Out
of all of that, this guy has still moved the
city forward unprecedented levels. You know, so the numbers don't lie.
You know, I can say whatever I want, But when
you analyze, here's where the city was, Here's where the
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city is. We have more jobs in New York and
the history of the city. I broke the erecord eleven
times more small businesses in the history of the city.
When I came into an office, black unemployment was four
times the rates of white unemployment. We dropped it by
twenty percent in the black and brown community. We turned
this city around. Now, when people are pissed off at,
look who I did it with. First black women to
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be a first deputy mayor, first black woman police commissioner,
A first Hispanic male to run the Department of Correction,
first black to be a chief advisor, first a Dominican
in the history of the city to be a deputy mayor,
first Filipino to be a deputy mayor of first Indian
to be a deputy mayor.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
I changed the landscape of the city.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Do you feel like that's the reason why you're being
attacked so much because you've done so much?
Speaker 1 (11:26):
I take so many minorities on. Well, no, I think
it's a combination.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
Someone told me one time, they said, listen, Eric, you
don't have enough gray haired white men around you. You
looked at my administration, brother, my administration looked like us, and.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
So what do they do? They say, you know what,
let's start just tackling him in his community. It's the
same thing happened with David Dinkins.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
You know, go back and look at the stories at
David Dinkins and see how they had the community start saying, well,
you know, David Dinkins is always dressing up in the suit.
He's not you know, he's not one of us anymore.
And they roaded his base of support. So our folks
just stayed home. You know, they just did it just
enough to have him, to have our folks stayed home.
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This is you know, I'm the second black mayor in
over thirty years. We have not had a black mayor
in thirty years. And I learned from David Who Mayor
Dinkins who tutored me and told me, and I said,
I'm going I'm going to go in with a clear
agenda of how do we help those.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Who have been underserved for years? And we did it.
The record is clear.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
But a lot of your criticism comes from black people though.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Yeah, but why to tell me? Why where do they
get where they get their opinions from?
Speaker 1 (12:36):
I keep I think.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
We're underestimating the power of the media in this city.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Where do they get their opinions from?
Speaker 2 (12:44):
The look at it?
Speaker 5 (12:44):
You think you think it's white media shaping narratives negatively about.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
You, Well, I know, I don't think you know.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
You can't say only the white media, right, look across
the country, look across the country, look at the black
mans across the country.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
And look what they're doing and bring it down prime
trust country.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
And I'll give you credit to you were the first
person that at least put that on my radar.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Last time you would say, you said, there was an attack.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
On man black man's Look at under the previous administration,
a lot of people want to talk about it. Under
the previous administration, the migras and asylum seekers went to Chicago,
went to Los Angeles, went to Houston, went to New York.
What was the same in all of those cities. They
were all black mans. And check this out. This is
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the thing that a lot of people don't realize. They said, Okay, Eric,
the migros in assylum seekert issues over everything is fine.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
No, it's not.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
Of course, the seven point two billion dollars that is
seven point two billion dollars that I could not put
into five hundred million into chronically absent children, a billion
dollars into senior housing, five hundred millions into more programs
for our youth formerly incarcerated. That money is going to
have a long term impact on our city. We're going
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to see the byproduct of what that fre this administration
did to us. We're gonna see the by product of
that for years to come.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
But a lot of that is democratic messaging fault, because
you know, you created sanctuary cities and you said that
those people will welcome here. So what a lot of
those Republican governors did was put those people on planes
and busses and send them to those so called sanctuary cities.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
And then when y'all got overwhelmed, y'all was like whoa They.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Said, look, let me give you my version of it.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
You know, let's understand what centuary city is, because a
lot of people conflate sanctuary cities.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
What we say at centuary cities.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
So when somebody buy this bottle of water, they pay
taxes on this bottle of water.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Those taxes allow you services.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
So if your child needs to be educated, they should
be allowed to go to school. If you're a victim
of a crime, you should be allowed to call a police.
If you need medical care, you should be allowed to
go to the hospital. Because you're paying taxes. You don't
walk into a grocery store and someone say you're undocumented,
so I'm not gonna give you the tax No, you
allowed to get those taxes when people when we tell people,
if you come here, we're gonna treat you what respect.
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We're gonna make sure you get the services that your
tax dollars are paying for, and we're gonna make sure
you're treated with dignity and respect. It was the federal
government responsibility to seal a border. So people can say
what they want about the current administration. When they sealed
the border, we stopped getting to flow. I was getting
four thousand a week, and the federal law said, you
can't stop the buses from coming in Eric, you can't
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even allow them to work. You can't even allow them
to volunteer and give them a stifle And the city
law said, you're gonna feed, house clothed and educate the children.
So I'm following the law when they came into the city.
I don't control who comes into the country, but I
have to make sure while you're here your children are
in school. They're not they're going to be the victims
of abuse by staying home. I gotta make sure if
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you need medical care, you could go to the Hospital's
not you're gonna overrun my emergency room. And people would
pray on you, knowing that you can't call a police
if you're a victim of a crime.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
So it wasn't that we said whoa, whoa, whoa. I
was always saying, whoa. Control your control. The borders. Don't
put this on cities.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
The cities are having to fulfill the obligations federal government.
And in spite of that, we moved the city forward.
You know, the people will tell you, you know what
the guy did move the city for it. You know,
the guy did turn around of the city. The guy
did improve employment, improve housing. Had the city say we
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got it, we got it, you know, but you know what,
he's too close to truck. But nobody tells you. I
took this administration to court more than any mayor in
the country. They sued me, you know, more than any mayor.
And when we needed the administration, we were able to
get the call them to get the things done. So
it's not that I'm not under anyone's thumb. I'm running
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my city. I'm fighting for my city because I know
the impact it has on those communities.
Speaker 6 (16:47):
Yes, what do you say to people that have given
up on council altogether? Because I know you you talk
about the numbers and everything. You say numbers don't lie.
But a lot of people they're not paying attendions to
the numbers. They paying assision to what they're going through.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Yeah, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (17:02):
They see their day to day life. It ain't safe
for them. It's no crime is down, I mean crime
is up to them. They're not making no money.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
They you know, without a doubt, listen, is it expensive
to live in New York. You're doing right, you know
you're doing right. Jordan my Son tells me all the time.
He's like dad, you know, but think about for mama
what I said in twenty twenty three, a.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Year in office, I sat down with the team. I said, listen,
I don't have.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
Any control on the price of bread, but I could
put bread back in the pockets of New Yorkers. We
put thirty billion dollars back into the pockets of New Yorkers.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
What does that look like.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
Free high speed brought band for nightscha and other homes.
That's one hundred and fifty nine dollars a month. We
dropped the court of childcare if you have two children
in schools, we dropped the course in childcare. We dropped
the cost of childcare from twenty two twenty twenty dollars
a month to less than twenty dollars a month. That's
another two hundred dollars. We're paying off medical debt. If
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you're a low income New Yorker and you have META,
we're paying that off for you.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
You not long have to pay.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
For that of universal after school program for free, paying
the college tuition of night of our forster care of
care children. So when you start picking apart our programs,
it comes to a total of thirty billion dollars.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
So why are those actual actions not resonating with people?
But Mandannie's messaging of affordability is because if you actually
already are putting more money back in people's pockets, why
is it not resonating. But his messaging of affordability.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
Is without a doubt, Brothers, think about for a moment,
because what he has done successfully says I'm going to
identify the pain that people are feeling. Yes, Eric is
addressing it, but you're not learning about that. I'm addressing
it because it's not being coveed. We need to be
clear on that. And so what he has done successfully
is says I'm going to identify the pain that people
are feeling. I'm just going to tell him anything that
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they want to hear.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
But it shouldn't be no pain if you're actually addressing
the issue.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Though.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
Yeah, but going back to what with all of you said,
perception is reality. Think about the fourth think think about
this for a moment. He's putting down a proposal saying
I'm going to freeze your rent. Right, he can't. You
can't free freeze night your rent. You can't freeze Mitchyallama rent.
You can't free market rate rent. You can't freeze affordable
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housing rent. You could only freeze and he can't even
really freeze it. The board has to freeze it of
the rent guidelines. Board has to freeze it if you're
part of one portion of housing in the city. So
now everyone is running around the city. That's in Knightsia,
that's in Mitchellama, that's in market rate. Say okay, he's
gonna freeze our rent.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
So he's selling dreams. The guy is Snake's oil salesman man.
The guy and not only that, think about this also
for a moment, you got a daughter, of course, got too.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
Excuse me, right, how do you feel if your daughter,
I don't know if she's an athlete or not. Your
daughter is an athlete, she plays volleyballs, she goes into
the locker room and you know, after the game, take
a shower. His mindset is that a male that thinks
he's a woman can walk aside that.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Shower with him, take a shower with him. I don't
rock that.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
Way, No, I'm laughing. That feels but that feels like
an old play. Now like that, man, I feel like
an old play that you just ran. Like that felt
like I feel like something than the Trump playbook from
Maial No, I agree, but I'm just shocking at you.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
About decriminalizing prostitution.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
You know what, I just cleaned up prostitution over the
city by connecting sisters and people who are victims of
sex crimes. I've given them the services and support that
they need.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Decriminalized prostitution.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
He wants a decriminalized prostitution?
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Yea did he would agree with that?
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Shut up?
Speaker 6 (20:49):
Man?
Speaker 3 (20:51):
You know so, why is mom Donnie bad for the city?
Why do you think he shouldn't do a couple a
couple of tell us the reason why? Because right now
it seems like he's winning the polls, and like Charlamagne said,
people are lead standing behind them people.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
I heard it.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Man.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
When you when you think about all the movements across
the globe in history, how people when they're in pain,
how they resonate those who give them these false hot
I'm promising Ma, it's not new.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
This is not new.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
I understand.
Speaker 5 (21:17):
Example, why are they in pain if you are telling
us you've done all of this stuff to relieve their pain?
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Is the perception and reality? I'm confused you No, A.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Lot of it is perception. Number one. A lot of
is frustration.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
You know, remember brother, I was mad for three years
in eight months, three years in eight months. A lot
of this stuff is systemic, you know, not doing dyslexia
screening to address our brothers and sisters. Who is going
to write this thirty percent of them a dyslexic. I'm
doing dyslexive screen and now not dealing with mental health.
You know, people are walking the past, people living on
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the streets. We're taking them off the streets. So a
lot of this is systemic. You know, you gotta you
have a mad Win. Three years in eight months, they
had to go through COVID, go through a whole city,
dropped in our city. And in spite of that, we've
addressed the issues of people that were needed. So is
it going to happen in one term? Three years and
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eight months? You know, really were talking three years, we
turned around. Is it going to happen in one time? No?
Speaker 2 (22:17):
So you've made progresses?
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Well exactly, you haven't. Everybody, No, no, we have not.
Speaker 7 (22:22):
We have what about reports? So that like directly like
go against what you're saying, right, because I saw an
article in the New York Times and they talk about
the sixty percent increase in police.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
There was a surgeon misconnic.
Speaker 7 (22:36):
Yeah, a surgeon misconmic reports.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Against NYPD offices under yes.
Speaker 7 (22:39):
And but you talk or you speak positively of putting
more police in certain places and what thats done for people.
But they're saying that there are these numbers and the
reports that people can go and read themselves that counter that. Like,
how that's not perception, that's people actually dealing with something.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
First of all, remember how I cut my teeth, you know,
remember how I got into this game in the first place.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
I started one hundred blacks in law enforcement? Who care?
I was arrested? I was beat by police officers as
a child.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
Reverend Herbert Daltrey told me to go into the police
department to fight against reform. Police abuse and misconduct is
not new, you know, in the department. While I was
in the department, I was fighting against police abuse.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
And many people believe.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
When they shout out my car windows because of my
advocacy as a police officer. So this is what I've
always fought for to make sure that we could have
safety and justice at the same time. And when those
police misconduct cases come up, we want to go in
and make sure we take out those those police officers
who are abusive and abusing the authority. It's not new,
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this has been a long fight to do so. And
while we're taking out those officers who are abusive, we're
not forgetting more and Rivera. You know, two young officers
assassinated while they're.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Doing the job.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
We're not forgetting Detective Dealer who was shot on the streets.
Thanks so much, I'm gonna ask me the same thing.
We're not forgetting, you know, those who out there taking
twenty three thousand illegal guns off our streets.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
So there's a balance.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
Those who are abusive, as I've always done in polices,
we need to target them and we need to get
them out of the department if they are suitable to
do so. But we trust me every townholl I go
to every older adult center, I go to every community group.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
I go to the first thing. They said, every where
our police.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
We want our police on our subways, we want them
on our corners, we want our police. I have never
been to one town hall meeting where people say we
want our police out of the community.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
Well, question when it comes to the rise and misconduct
complaints against NYPD, offices. What do you think led to
that increase? Is it more public scrutiny, is it changes
in reporting? Are the changes in behavior of the offices?
Speaker 1 (24:41):
What is combination?
Speaker 4 (24:43):
People is easier to make a report now you have
some younger officers on that have to really get acclimated
to what it is police, And so it's a combination.
If you were to look at all of those rivers
that are feeding the sea of misconduct, you need to
damn meet river and also keeping them in an account.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
And I don't know if that report showed that the number.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Of interactions that police are having, the number of interactions
with the public.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
You know, how you.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
Interact with the public, how many times you're being called
for service, And so each one of those cases must
be investigated and it must be carried out to do
a proper investigation. If somebody did something wrong, they must
be they must be held accountable.
Speaker 5 (25:24):
So what immediate reforms would you push to to address
that the rise?
Speaker 4 (25:30):
Expediting the investigation before it was taken too long.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
It was taking years.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
Somebody make a complaint, it was taken far too long.
We believe you to expedite so you could identify what
officer should no longer be suitable to be a police officer,
or if somebody needs to be training, you know, all
of the person should get in infraction for the action
that took place. This is what I advocated for as
one hundred BLACKSLA law enforcement who care as a police officer,
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going on all the way through the process.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Like I don't.
Speaker 4 (26:02):
I didn't read about Diallo. I know the Diallo family.
You know, I didn't read about an Avenue. Louima came
out and endorsed me when I ran for office. These
people know I've been side by side with police reform nationally.
I'm known nationally for what I have done around police reform.
So I'm not going to become the mayor and all
of a sudden betrayed what I have committed my life to.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Doing dealing with policemen reform in misconduct. Now. I also
have been always strong on public on public safety.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
But I can't tell you how many times I'm in
these hospitals, man, talking to these to these mothers. I
spoke to the mother of a young sixteen year old
girl the other day who was shot in the head
just playing in the park.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
You know or you know that young girl fourteen year
old shot that young sixteen year old girl.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
They were sitting in the school. I'm in these hospitals rooms.
I don't just say, Okay, it's a shooting, let me
get lost. No, I'm going and visit these family.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Man.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
This stuff is traumatizing when you see the over proliferation
of violence in our streets. And so just as we
are fighting hard to stop a police abuse, we got
to step up and talk these young people down.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Man. They get the shooters are getting younger and younger.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
I don't think anybody thinks that you're not outside and
that you don't do those type of things. I mean,
that's one thing I say that people know that Mayor
Eric Adams does. But there's things that always pop up
in oppressed that make you look a certain way, even
if it's not right.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
So that's why I love that you hear. So.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
One of the biggest thing was when when Donald Trump
they dismissed your federal corruption charges, right, and they did
it without prejudice because they said they leave it open
that they can file charges later on right, and the
press put it as well, that makes him excuse my friends.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Donald Trump's puppet exactly right.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Where you know, he can be used any which way.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
So what do you say to those people in that
media and people that really believe that you're lining up
with Trump and that might not be what people are
aligned to, especially in this election.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
So think about think about this for a moment. It
was it was dismissed with prejudice, meaning it can't come back.
It was dismissed with regids this without prejudice. Ye, no,
that's what they wanted. But the judge it is dismissed
with prejudice. So many people never read my indictment, and
I keep saying that over and over.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
People need to read the indictment.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
I was indicted for calling the fire department and asking
them to do a building inspection, and all the text
messages are there. I said, if you can't do it,
let me know and I'll manage their expectation. This is
done every day. They took that and said, well, you
know what, you got free upgrades. You paid for your flights,
but you got upgrades when you flew flying. As the
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Bard president, I was allowed to get upgrades. They said,
you got free upgrade grades, which was not a gift.
They said, we're going to tie that and say it
was bribery. It was bribery. And so I'm facing thirty
three years in prison for this.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
You know.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
And so people say, well, if you didn't do anything wrong,
why would they come at you, asks Brian Benjamin. I
think all your callers should google Brian Benjamin High's ranking black.
High's ranking black in the state they indicted in them.
Also to judge dismissed his charge. When he looked at that,
they saw how bogus it was. Biden said the Justice
Department was politicized when he partnered his son, you know,
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Trump said it. So the president on the campaign trial.
I never knew the president. I never met the president.
He was on the campaign trial saying, look what they're
doing in that mayor in New York. You know that's wrong,
what they doing to that mayor in New York. So
when he got in, he told this Justice Department, y'all
need to look at that case. When they looked at
the case and they saw some of the emails and
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text messages that the prosecutors were doing, they said, we're
going to dismiss this case. That's part of the justice system.
De j They do it all the time. This is
not new This was not special for Eric. They do
it all the time. They looked at cases and they
make a determination do we want to proceed for it?
That was the determination they made. And my attorney sat
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down and say, look at this case, folks, and what
they're doing to this mayor. They got pissed off because
I was not a good Democrat and I started voicing,
this is wrong what you're doing to our city. That
this is costing us too much money, this is hurting
our folks. They basically said, you need to be a
good Democrat.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
You know, it's just.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
They put you in your place.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
So say you're polling in fourth place right now?
Speaker 5 (30:14):
Yeah, what makes you think you can steal wins?
Speaker 4 (30:17):
As I as I stated, where where was Mandani?
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Where was Zoran?
Speaker 4 (30:25):
This distance out from the race, he was Andrew was
beating him by twenty in the primary. Yeah, in the primary.
At during the during the primary, day before the primary,
there was a poll out Andrew was up by twelve percent.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
The day before the primary, he lost by fourteen percent.
And so what I.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
Must do in these campaigns, because I've done it before.
Remember the only one that's the only one that's running
for mayor that had has ever won mayor? Is me
I beat an impressive field the last time, Andrew Yang
was beating me by fourteen points. You know what I
must do is I need my money. I have to
be able to have folks come home, open up their
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mail and see my story. I have to be able
to have my field team on the street of that
I have to pay for, and my volunteers so they
can talk about my story. I need to be able
to do my radio ass all the things that go
with telling your story. Right now, I'm dependent on my
print media to tell my story, which they made clear
they're not going to tell.
Speaker 5 (31:29):
Me on the social media, which is terrible by the way, right,
I don't know who the hell doing your social media.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 7 (31:35):
There was a video that was going viral of you
like getting ready to go out to like an event.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
Or something like that.
Speaker 7 (31:40):
Yeah, and I mean I think it gets younger people
wondering who you are and why you're doing it, But
it just doesn't add well to the conversation. Yeah, it
just doesn't add well to the conversation. I've always wondered
what what's the strategy behind that? Like, why do you
do that?
Speaker 4 (31:54):
You know, and this is this is very interesting that
you know you have I'm not a social media I
don't know. I'm the first to tell y'all nothing about
I'm social media. But a lot of people are talking
about the role of young people in the election. The
only consistent voter in the city are fifty five plus
older people.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
They're consistent. Everybody thought that Obama.
Speaker 4 (32:17):
Everybody thought that young people were the ones who got
Obama elected. You're seeing more and more engagement of young people,
but Obama was you know, Obama got sixty five percent
of the young people vote, but it was only eight percent,
eighteen percent of the total vote. You know, your grandmother
and your mom, those are the ones that come out
all the time.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
So it's and they're not on x you know.
Speaker 4 (32:37):
You know, they are on probably Facebook, and they still
get that old fashioned television, ad mailing, et cetera.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
And that's what we want to focus on.
Speaker 5 (32:46):
So when dad said, why you be doing those ridiculous
videos on social media, listen, like I said, I don't
know social media, brothers.
Speaker 4 (32:53):
You know, you know, we we have a team of
folks that we put on they create of what.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
The social media is. I don't know it. You know,
I know what I know, and I know what I
don't know. You know, and I.
Speaker 4 (33:02):
Would love to you know, you you want to come
on board.
Speaker 5 (33:06):
I think you just screamed because you be outside. But
the narrative, the narrative is, I know, we got to
get out of it. The narrative, the narrative is if
you stay in the race, then you and Cuomo will
be taking votes away from each other and that'll make
it easier for Mondani to win.
Speaker 4 (33:19):
Okay, So, and let's look at the facts of that.
The ballot is the ballot right now. You can't change
the ballot, you know, So no matter what happens, you
can't change the ballot. There's going to be five people
or even one of the can is Jim Walton try
to get off? The court said no, you can't. So
the ballot is ballot is a ballot. What people need
to focus on and ask themselves is what direction do
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they want the city to go? That's what we have
to ask ourselves. We've come so far, do we want
to go back? Do we want to go back to
the running off, running out millionaires and saying that you
don't want billionaires in the city. Who pay fifty percent
of our taxes. That's how we have teachers and firefighters
in our streets paid. Do they want people who want
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to destabilize our local supermarkets by saying you having government
run supermarkets. I've been to Venezuela and Cuba. I don't
want those type of supermarkets here. And I don't want
to hurt my bodega's, my Dominicans, my Koreans, my Chinese supermarkets.
Do you want to legalize prostitution in our city and
go back to people standing on our street corners?
Speaker 2 (34:21):
And he says, yes, up man, prostitutions legalized.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
And so it's just the quality of life.
Speaker 4 (34:31):
And you know who hurts the most, brother our communities.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Our communities can't hire private security. Our community can't go
into making sure that some.
Speaker 4 (34:41):
Homeless person is not defecating on their street corners.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
Or sitting in their school yard.
Speaker 4 (34:47):
Our communities will impact be impacted by these policies that
idealism collides with realism. So I'm not in favor of
defunding our public safety apparatus. I'm not in favor many
four hundred people on Riker's Island, He says right away,
he wants to get three thousand off. You know, I'm
not in favor of that. I'm not in favor of
putting them back in the communities that they prayed on.
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Give them the services they need, like what we're doing
with our credit program and training people to have their
CDL license so they can be gainfully employed. But what
we must do is not take our communities back.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
And that's the question.
Speaker 5 (35:23):
And if people look at it, you said, well, we
must not take Yeah, gotcha that.
Speaker 4 (35:29):
If people do do an analysis and say, listen, hey, Eric,
we hurt you, We saw what you've done. But this
we want to rock with this guy. Be careful for
what you ask for, you know. And and and then
look at his supporters. Look at his supporters. You know,
these are the same his heart and soul of his community.
At those same gentrifiers that moved us out of our
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communities and are disrespectful in our community.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
That is the heart and soul. So we're buying into
a concept of a person.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
What do you mean by that?
Speaker 1 (36:00):
Look at look at look at his supporters.
Speaker 4 (36:02):
Those are those are the same his supporters that mean
spirit pocket those Indians.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
I'm sorry, what do you mean?
Speaker 4 (36:08):
No, no, no, no, When you when you look at
Harlem best eye other parts of our community. When you
saw the change of our demographics, you saw gentrification come
into our into our communities, those are that's the hardened
soul of his supporters. That's the hardened soul of other
people have brought into the message and started growing. But
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the hardened soul of his supporters are those same people
that came in and gentrified our communities in the first place.
Won't patriolize our restaurants. Uh wanted to change people because
they're But no, not, it's not even justification specific.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
Gentrification to me is not the ethnicity.
Speaker 4 (36:47):
Ethnicity is a mindset when you come in and you
cannot incorporate yourself into a city, that's a mindset.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
You know, you could, you could be of any ethnicity.
Speaker 4 (36:58):
But if your belief is that, hey, I'm going to
come and complain about the noise that's coming from that
building on the corner.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
That's a church, folks. Now church has been it for
such or such you for years. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (37:09):
That mindset of displacing those long term term folks from
communities is that the heart and soul of his base
of support.
Speaker 5 (37:19):
My last question, gotta get out here. Yeah, they're gonna
block the screech down to the unit in town. What
is Mondanie doing better than you?
Speaker 1 (37:27):
Selling a lie? You know, selling a lie? You know.
Speaker 4 (37:31):
He was an assemblymen for four years. He's missed fifty
percent of his votes. Like, where is his record? The
reason you're able to critique me is because I have
a record of over forty years, over forty years of
doing this. You can't critique him, you know. And he's
just selling the lines. When he was asked the other day,
what is your policy or decrimination decriminalized prostitution. I haven't
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figured out yet, figured that out yet. He's gonna sell
a lie until he gets into office if he were
to win. So the reason you could sit me on
this show and say, Okay, here's what you've done, you know,
you can't do that with them.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
You don't know who we don't know who we have.
Speaker 4 (38:08):
You know, we have a person that's a good actor,
good communicator, and knows how to tell people whatever they
want to hear it to get elected.
Speaker 3 (38:18):
All right, Well, ladies and gentlemen, Mayor Eric Adams, we
appreciate you for joining us.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (38:23):
Doing anything in your campaign, Eric Adams twenty twenty five.
Make a donation to make sure I can communicate.
Speaker 3 (38:31):
With you all right now, we gotta get out of
here because we're about shut the streets down so we.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
Don't follow you out.
Speaker 3 (38:37):
It's the Breakfast Club, is Mayor Eric Adams.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
Every day awake, click up the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
Do y'all finish or y'all done it.
Every day.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
A wait, click, yours up the breakfast club.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
You'll finish for y'all done morning.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Everybody is the dj n V.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Just Hilarius Charlamagne to God, we are the breakfast club.
Lawla roses here as well. We got a special guest
in the building. Yes, indeed, the mayor of New York City.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Mayor Eric Adams.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Welcome.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
Good to be here. Nice to here and talk about
the city. How you feeling, brother good man? You know,
I mean, I took my hand off the steering wheel
a long time.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Let's go.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Let God turn on my GPS. My God positioned a satellite,
got me here. He's gonna take me to the next level.
Speaker 5 (00:34):
You know a question everybody keeps asking, are you dropping
out of the mayor race?
Speaker 4 (00:38):
And you know what, I answered that one hundred and
one time, and no matter how I answer it, they
come back with the same Seven weeks ago when they
first raised that I had something that Gracie mansion and
said listen, I'm here to the end, they wrote that
he's dropping out. They say, then he's going to want
He's going to Saudi Arabia. I said, no, I'm not.
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They then they I was going to be hud No,
I'm not. I was going to meet Donald Trump at
Yankee Stadium.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
No, I did not.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Well, people don't understand when you run for mayor, one
of the most important aspects of running for mayor is
raising the money.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
People couldn't beat me.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
At the Poland site, and so they orchestrated and organized
to really undermine my campaign. When you hear that the
mayor is dropping out over and over again, your funders
are gone. Now I'm in court with campaign finance board.
They owe me four million dollars. They don't want to
give it to me. I spent eight million dollars the
last time I ran. I'm down to now half of
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that now. So they have undermined my ability to get
my message out by making sure they cut off all
the ways I could raise money to get it done.
So now I'm in a point now when I'm meeting
with my funders. They said everything. They keep telling me,
you're dropping out. So our goal is to finish this race.
But we have to win this court. That's in case,
that's in its case, that's in court right now to
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get out four million dollars.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Question.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
When you first came in office, it seems like the
city loved Mayor Adams, right. They loved you, loved the
fact that you were touching the people, you were outside,
you were doing things that a lot of mayors wouldn't like.
You were on forty second Street giving away food. You
were doing a lot for the city. You were popping
up in Harlem and Brooklyn and Queens. And then it
became a turning point where people started to not like
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Mayor Adams or start to dislike, why did that happen?
Do you think it was an orchestrated thing? Why do
you think people started questioning That's a great question.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Think about it. Fun moment where do people get their
opinions from.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
They pick up the papers, they start reading the papers,
and they start saying, Okay, this is what's happening in
the city. When I go to town halls, when I'm
at forty projects, when I go out to a storia
and I start sharing what we have done, people say, what,
I didn't know that there was when I one mayor.
Here's the inner story that a lot of people don't know.
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When I won mayor. You can't win city wide in
this city without winning what's called the New York Times Belt,
Upper West Side, Oxlo, Kyle Gardens, Brooklyn Heights.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
I lost all of that.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
The everyday person in the street say, this guy is
one of us, and from day one go look at
how I was covered. People don't know I build more
housing in the city than any manor in the history
of the city in my individual years. They don't know
that low income New York is no longer pay them
come tax because of me, nineteen billion dollars in black
and minority owned businesses that I put in. They don't
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know what I'm doing for forced care children, paying their
college tuition, giving them life coaches until they twenty one.
They don't know what we're doing about homelessness, putting people
to permanent housing.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Nobody knows my story.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
If they don't know, then if they don't know, then
is it really getting done? Because if the people should
be the ones that have impact about what you're doing,
so why wouldn't they know?
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Right Well, here there's a couple of things. People who
go through it knows it all the time. They righting me,
they stopped me in the street. They tell me about
the housing they got, my universal after school program, what
we're doing about dyslexia.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Folks on Rykers.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
I've been on Rykers all in the morning, the man
the history of the city, speaking with the inmates, giving
them the services they need. So those who are recipient
of it they know. But when you pick up the paper,
the average day person that's sitting down reading, all they
know is that, hey, this guy's out all the time.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Part of it.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
No, I revitalized my our nightlife industry, a by yourself,
multi billion dollars, multi billion.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Dollar industry, multi billion dollar industry.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Before I became man, they were closing down these industries
with black and brown people were opening their own businesses,
they were closing them down.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
That stopped under me. I said, We're no longer going
to go.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
In and close down the heart and soul of how
these businesses start and how they employ one hundred thousand
people who are getting jobs through it. So so what
you do now during campaign, you take your campaign money
and you able to go over the media and speak
directly to people.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
I don't have the money.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
You know, over the past weekend, you didn't attend any.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
P public events while a lot of the rivals with
out campaigning, and people use that to fuel more speculation
that you're preparing to drop out, So how do you
respond to that?
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Sick too much to Charlamagne. No matter what I said,
they did it anyway. We were sitting down behind the scenes,
sitting down with funded, sitting down with the campaign team, figuring.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Out our strategies to go. I could be out.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
I'm outside all the time. Brother, you know, I could
be outside running around the city all the time. But
anyone that knows how to build their institutions know there's
a time for you to meet with your team and
strategize what the next steps are. Just running around the
city is not how you win a campaign. And they
don't have day jobs.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
I do.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
I still got a day job. I had the U incoming,
a major security issue that we had to make sure
was correct. I had the high holiday, I had to
Russashana come in making sure we deal with threats.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
So I still have to run the city. It's not
just about running around shaking hands.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
I had a job to do and I gotta build
my strong campaign.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
And that's that's what I give you credit for that
because you know they were giving you flat for not
being at the African American Day Parade. But I've seen
you at events like like the heaven up in Harlem.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Event that og Daniel did right.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
That wasn't like a scheduled thing.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
You're just there right right.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
And listen, there's never been a man in the history
of the city that's been among the people like I have.
You know, I'll drive through Brownsville and all of a sudden,
I see a closed barber shop, closed hair salon, people
sitting in the back smoking a cigar. I'm popping in
there talking to them. How you feeling on the ground, folks,
what's happening on the ground. You know, I can walk
through any community in this city and you see from
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the Upper West Side to Harlem to Brooklyn, people see that.
You know what Eric is among us, And I've never
stopped being among it. That's nothing special about me, you know.
You know I've never come across that. Listen, I'm a
man special. No, I'm the same dislects it South Jamaica
Queen's Hole and your sneak as carboys in the bottom.
I'm the same person, brother, same person. And they never
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had a mayor like me, and they never want to
see that mayor do it again. What we did for
black and brown people in the city's amazing. Think about
this for a moment. A lot of people don't even
realize this. So who the victims of shootings in the
city black and brown? Twenty three thousand illegal guns off
the street, the lowest numbers of shootings and homicide in
the first seven months of this year in the history
of the city. Who is a street homeless? Black and brown?
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We removed thirty five hundred people off our streets into
permanent housing. Permanent housing. Who's in our Department of Education
black and brown? Other ethnic groups are in, but predominantly
black and brown.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
And we have.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Improved education in our city, our pace to state and reading,
the math, universal after school programs, one hundred and fifty
thousand children into pre K.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Who is summer youth employment black and brown?
Speaker 4 (07:54):
One hundred thousand summer youth employment that we've done never
been done before. So what I'm saying is, when you
pick apart my success in my policies, you have to
say to yourself, this guy has gone after those who.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Are ignored for years. I agree with you.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
But you know, the thing that we talk about all
the time is we hear all these numbers of stats, right, yes,
and we talk about we hear about crime coming down.
But a lot of times it doesn't feel like that, right,
And maybe that's what we hear in the stories, like
you know, I'm driving in today, police officer puns in
the face and knocked onto the train tracks and pulled out.
You know, shooting here, shooting there, shooting in there. It
doesn't feel as safe as the numbers would say it.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Was, right. Why do you say that? And that's a
great question, brother, Think about this for a moment.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Five point six million people ride our subway every day,
five point six million. We have five average of five
feelings a day on our system. With five point six million,
I mean, those numbers are astronomical. And so when you
city of eight point five million people, when you take
the worst thing that happens in that city that day
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and you plastered on the front pages, how were you
gonna fail people? When I inherited the subway system, when
I became mayor, no one wanted to be on.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
The subway system. We put police officers on there.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
We went down to make sure we got people with
severe mental health off our issues, off our system. We
removed the encampments. People were living on the side of highways.
They were even in boxes and tents on our streets.
And so no, people don't feel that way because it
takes a lot of time before your perception view the reality.
Sometimes people are living in the past of what they
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felt before.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
So when you put more police presents on the subways,
it bought the crime.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
There was a combination of things we did.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
When we did in the analysis, we saw that a
lot of people say, well, hey, we want the police
walking through our trains. That's not where the crimes were happening.
The crimes will happening on the platforms. And so when
we did a combination number one putting our visible presence
on the platform, number two going after those with severe
mental health issues and getting them the care that they need.
A thousand people we took off the streets. And so
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you're right, brother, when you say, okay, you're giving us
the numbers. But when you run a city, you have
to run it based on indicators. You have to run
it based on something to determine if you're moving in
the right direction. Because when bond raiders determined are we
gonna tell people to invest in your city, we need
to see these indicators. The bond raiders raised my bond,
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they said, this guy has gone through COVID two hundred
and thirty seven thousand migras and asylum seekers law fair
where they hit him with some bogus federal charges. Out
of all of that, this guy has still moved the
city forward unprecedented levels. You know, so the numbers don't lie.
You know, I can say whatever I want, But when
you analyze, here's where the city was, Here's where the
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city is. We have more jobs in New York and
the history of the city. I broke the erecord eleven
times more small businesses in the history of the city.
When I came into an office, black unemployment was four
times the rates of white unemployment. We dropped it by
twenty percent in the black and brown community. We turned
this city around. Now, when people are pissed off at,
look who I did it with. First black women to
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be a first deputy mayor, first black woman police commissioner,
A first Hispanic male to run the Department of Correction,
first black to be a chief advisor, first a Dominican
in the history of the city to be a deputy mayor,
first Filipino to be a deputy mayor of first Indian
to be a deputy mayor.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
I changed the landscape of the city.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Do you feel like that's the reason why you're being
attacked so much because you've done so much?
Speaker 1 (11:26):
I take so many minorities on. Well, no, I think
it's a combination.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
Someone told me one time, they said, listen, Eric, you
don't have enough gray haired white men around you. You
looked at my administration, brother, my administration looked like us, and.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
So what do they do? They say, you know what,
let's start just tackling him in his community. It's the
same thing happened with David Dinkins.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
You know, go back and look at the stories at
David Dinkins and see how they had the community start saying, well,
you know, David Dinkins is always dressing up in the suit.
He's not you know, he's not one of us anymore.
And they roaded his base of support. So our folks
just stayed home. You know, they just did it just
enough to have him, to have our folks stayed home.
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This is you know, I'm the second black mayor in
over thirty years. We have not had a black mayor
in thirty years. And I learned from David Who Mayor
Dinkins who tutored me and told me, and I said,
I'm going I'm going to go in with a clear
agenda of how do we help those.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Who have been underserved for years? And we did it.
The record is clear.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
But a lot of your criticism comes from black people though.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Yeah, but why to tell me? Why where do they
get where they get their opinions from?
Speaker 1 (12:36):
I keep I think.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
We're underestimating the power of the media in this city.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Where do they get their opinions from?
Speaker 2 (12:44):
The look at it?
Speaker 5 (12:44):
You think you think it's white media shaping narratives negatively about.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
You, Well, I know, I don't think you know.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
You can't say only the white media, right, look across
the country, look across the country, look at the black
mans across the country.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
And look what they're doing and bring it down prime
trust country.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
And I'll give you credit to you were the first
person that at least put that on my radar.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Last time you would say, you said, there was an attack.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
On man black man's Look at under the previous administration,
a lot of people want to talk about it. Under
the previous administration, the migras and asylum seekers went to Chicago,
went to Los Angeles, went to Houston, went to New York.
What was the same in all of those cities. They
were all black mans. And check this out. This is
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the thing that a lot of people don't realize. They said, Okay, Eric,
the migros in assylum seekert issues over everything is fine.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
No, it's not.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
Of course, the seven point two billion dollars that is
seven point two billion dollars that I could not put
into five hundred million into chronically absent children, a billion
dollars into senior housing, five hundred millions into more programs
for our youth formerly incarcerated. That money is going to
have a long term impact on our city. We're going
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to see the byproduct of what that fre this administration
did to us. We're gonna see the by product of
that for years to come.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
But a lot of that is democratic messaging fault, because
you know, you created sanctuary cities and you said that
those people will welcome here. So what a lot of
those Republican governors did was put those people on planes
and busses and send them to those so called sanctuary cities.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
And then when y'all got overwhelmed, y'all was like whoa They.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Said, look, let me give you my version of it.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
You know, let's understand what centuary city is, because a
lot of people conflate sanctuary cities.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
What we say at centuary cities.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
So when somebody buy this bottle of water, they pay
taxes on this bottle of water.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Those taxes allow you services.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
So if your child needs to be educated, they should
be allowed to go to school. If you're a victim
of a crime, you should be allowed to call a police.
If you need medical care, you should be allowed to
go to the hospital. Because you're paying taxes. You don't
walk into a grocery store and someone say you're undocumented,
so I'm not gonna give you the tax No, you
allowed to get those taxes when people when we tell people,
if you come here, we're gonna treat you what respect.
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We're gonna make sure you get the services that your
tax dollars are paying for, and we're gonna make sure
you're treated with dignity and respect. It was the federal
government responsibility to seal a border. So people can say
what they want about the current administration. When they sealed
the border, we stopped getting to flow. I was getting
four thousand a week, and the federal law said, you
can't stop the buses from coming in Eric, you can't
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even allow them to work. You can't even allow them
to volunteer and give them a stifle And the city
law said, you're gonna feed, house clothed and educate the children.
So I'm following the law when they came into the city.
I don't control who comes into the country, but I
have to make sure while you're here your children are
in school. They're not they're going to be the victims
of abuse by staying home. I gotta make sure if
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you need medical care, you could go to the Hospital's
not you're gonna overrun my emergency room. And people would
pray on you, knowing that you can't call a police
if you're a victim of a crime.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
So it wasn't that we said whoa, whoa, whoa. I
was always saying, whoa. Control your control. The borders. Don't
put this on cities.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
The cities are having to fulfill the obligations federal government.
And in spite of that, we moved the city forward.
You know, the people will tell you, you know what
the guy did move the city for it. You know,
the guy did turn around of the city. The guy
did improve employment, improve housing. Had the city say we
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got it, we got it, you know, but you know what,
he's too close to truck. But nobody tells you. I
took this administration to court more than any mayor in
the country. They sued me, you know, more than any mayor.
And when we needed the administration, we were able to
get the call them to get the things done. So
it's not that I'm not under anyone's thumb. I'm running
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my city. I'm fighting for my city because I know
the impact it has on those communities.
Speaker 6 (16:47):
Yes, what do you say to people that have given
up on council altogether? Because I know you you talk
about the numbers and everything. You say numbers don't lie.
But a lot of people they're not paying attendions to
the numbers. They paying assision to what they're going through.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Yeah, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (17:02):
They see their day to day life. It ain't safe
for them. It's no crime is down, I mean crime
is up to them. They're not making no money.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
They you know, without a doubt, listen, is it expensive
to live in New York. You're doing right, you know
you're doing right. Jordan my Son tells me all the time.
He's like dad, you know, but think about for mama
what I said in twenty twenty three, a.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Year in office, I sat down with the team. I said, listen,
I don't have.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
Any control on the price of bread, but I could
put bread back in the pockets of New Yorkers. We
put thirty billion dollars back into the pockets of New Yorkers.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
What does that look like.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
Free high speed brought band for nightscha and other homes.
That's one hundred and fifty nine dollars a month. We
dropped the court of childcare if you have two children
in schools, we dropped the course in childcare. We dropped
the cost of childcare from twenty two twenty twenty dollars
a month to less than twenty dollars a month. That's
another two hundred dollars. We're paying off medical debt. If
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you're a low income New Yorker and you have META,
we're paying that off for you.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
You not long have to pay.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
For that of universal after school program for free, paying
the college tuition of night of our forster care of
care children. So when you start picking apart our programs,
it comes to a total of thirty billion dollars.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
So why are those actual actions not resonating with people?
But Mandannie's messaging of affordability is because if you actually
already are putting more money back in people's pockets, why
is it not resonating. But his messaging of affordability.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
Is without a doubt, Brothers, think about for a moment,
because what he has done successfully says I'm going to
identify the pain that people are feeling. Yes, Eric is
addressing it, but you're not learning about that. I'm addressing
it because it's not being coveed. We need to be
clear on that. And so what he has done successfully
is says I'm going to identify the pain that people
are feeling. I'm just going to tell him anything that
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they want to hear.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
But it shouldn't be no pain if you're actually addressing
the issue.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Though.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
Yeah, but going back to what with all of you said,
perception is reality. Think about the fourth think think about
this for a moment. He's putting down a proposal saying
I'm going to freeze your rent. Right, he can't. You
can't free freeze night your rent. You can't freeze Mitchyallama rent.
You can't free market rate rent. You can't freeze affordable
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housing rent. You could only freeze and he can't even
really freeze it. The board has to freeze it of
the rent guidelines. Board has to freeze it if you're
part of one portion of housing in the city. So
now everyone is running around the city. That's in Knightsia,
that's in Mitchellama, that's in market rate. Say okay, he's
gonna freeze our rent.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
So he's selling dreams. The guy is Snake's oil salesman man.
The guy and not only that, think about this also
for a moment, you got a daughter, of course, got too.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
Excuse me, right, how do you feel if your daughter,
I don't know if she's an athlete or not. Your
daughter is an athlete, she plays volleyballs, she goes into
the locker room and you know, after the game, take
a shower. His mindset is that a male that thinks
he's a woman can walk aside that.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Shower with him, take a shower with him. I don't
rock that.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
Way, No, I'm laughing. That feels but that feels like
an old play. Now like that, man, I feel like
an old play that you just ran. Like that felt
like I feel like something than the Trump playbook from
Maial No, I agree, but I'm just shocking at you.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
About decriminalizing prostitution.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
You know what, I just cleaned up prostitution over the
city by connecting sisters and people who are victims of
sex crimes. I've given them the services and support that
they need.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Decriminalized prostitution.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
He wants a decriminalized prostitution?
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Yea did he would agree with that?
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Shut up?
Speaker 6 (20:49):
Man?
Speaker 3 (20:51):
You know so, why is mom Donnie bad for the city?
Why do you think he shouldn't do a couple a
couple of tell us the reason why? Because right now
it seems like he's winning the polls, and like Charlamagne said,
people are lead standing behind them people.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
I heard it.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Man.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
When you when you think about all the movements across
the globe in history, how people when they're in pain,
how they resonate those who give them these false hot
I'm promising Ma, it's not new.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
This is not new.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
I understand.
Speaker 5 (21:17):
Example, why are they in pain if you are telling
us you've done all of this stuff to relieve their pain?
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Is the perception and reality? I'm confused you No, A.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Lot of it is perception. Number one. A lot of
is frustration.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
You know, remember brother, I was mad for three years
in eight months, three years in eight months. A lot
of this stuff is systemic, you know, not doing dyslexia
screening to address our brothers and sisters. Who is going
to write this thirty percent of them a dyslexic. I'm
doing dyslexive screen and now not dealing with mental health.
You know, people are walking the past, people living on
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the streets. We're taking them off the streets. So a
lot of this is systemic. You know, you gotta you
have a mad Win. Three years in eight months, they
had to go through COVID, go through a whole city,
dropped in our city. And in spite of that, we've
addressed the issues of people that were needed. So is
it going to happen in one term? Three years and
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eight months? You know, really were talking three years, we
turned around. Is it going to happen in one time? No?
Speaker 2 (22:17):
So you've made progresses?
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Well exactly, you haven't. Everybody, No, no, we have not.
Speaker 7 (22:22):
We have what about reports? So that like directly like
go against what you're saying, right, because I saw an
article in the New York Times and they talk about
the sixty percent increase in police.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
There was a surgeon misconnic.
Speaker 7 (22:36):
Yeah, a surgeon misconmic reports.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Against NYPD offices under yes.
Speaker 7 (22:39):
And but you talk or you speak positively of putting
more police in certain places and what thats done for people.
But they're saying that there are these numbers and the
reports that people can go and read themselves that counter that. Like,
how that's not perception, that's people actually dealing with something.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
First of all, remember how I cut my teeth, you know,
remember how I got into this game in the first place.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
I started one hundred blacks in law enforcement? Who care?
I was arrested? I was beat by police officers as
a child.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
Reverend Herbert Daltrey told me to go into the police
department to fight against reform. Police abuse and misconduct is
not new, you know, in the department. While I was
in the department, I was fighting against police abuse.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
And many people believe.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
When they shout out my car windows because of my
advocacy as a police officer. So this is what I've
always fought for to make sure that we could have
safety and justice at the same time. And when those
police misconduct cases come up, we want to go in
and make sure we take out those those police officers
who are abusive and abusing the authority. It's not new,
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this has been a long fight to do so. And
while we're taking out those officers who are abusive, we're
not forgetting more and Rivera. You know, two young officers
assassinated while they're.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Doing the job.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
We're not forgetting Detective Dealer who was shot on the streets.
Thanks so much, I'm gonna ask me the same thing.
We're not forgetting, you know, those who out there taking
twenty three thousand illegal guns off our streets.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
So there's a balance.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
Those who are abusive, as I've always done in polices,
we need to target them and we need to get
them out of the department if they are suitable to
do so. But we trust me every townholl I go
to every older adult center, I go to every community group.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
I go to the first thing. They said, every where
our police.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
We want our police on our subways, we want them
on our corners, we want our police. I have never
been to one town hall meeting where people say we
want our police out of the community.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
Well, question when it comes to the rise and misconduct
complaints against NYPD, offices. What do you think led to
that increase? Is it more public scrutiny, is it changes
in reporting? Are the changes in behavior of the offices?
Speaker 1 (24:41):
What is combination?
Speaker 4 (24:43):
People is easier to make a report now you have
some younger officers on that have to really get acclimated
to what it is police, And so it's a combination.
If you were to look at all of those rivers
that are feeding the sea of misconduct, you need to
damn meet river and also keeping them in an account.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
And I don't know if that report showed that the number.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Of interactions that police are having, the number of interactions
with the public.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
You know, how you.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
Interact with the public, how many times you're being called
for service, And so each one of those cases must
be investigated and it must be carried out to do
a proper investigation. If somebody did something wrong, they must
be they must be held accountable.
Speaker 5 (25:24):
So what immediate reforms would you push to to address
that the rise?
Speaker 4 (25:30):
Expediting the investigation before it was taken too long.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
It was taking years.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
Somebody make a complaint, it was taken far too long.
We believe you to expedite so you could identify what
officer should no longer be suitable to be a police officer,
or if somebody needs to be training, you know, all
of the person should get in infraction for the action
that took place. This is what I advocated for as
one hundred BLACKSLA law enforcement who care as a police officer,
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going on all the way through the process.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Like I don't.
Speaker 4 (26:02):
I didn't read about Diallo. I know the Diallo family.
You know, I didn't read about an Avenue. Louima came
out and endorsed me when I ran for office. These
people know I've been side by side with police reform nationally.
I'm known nationally for what I have done around police reform.
So I'm not going to become the mayor and all
of a sudden betrayed what I have committed my life to.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Doing dealing with policemen reform in misconduct. Now. I also
have been always strong on public on public safety.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
But I can't tell you how many times I'm in
these hospitals, man, talking to these to these mothers. I
spoke to the mother of a young sixteen year old
girl the other day who was shot in the head
just playing in the park.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
You know or you know that young girl fourteen year
old shot that young sixteen year old girl.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
They were sitting in the school. I'm in these hospitals rooms.
I don't just say, Okay, it's a shooting, let me
get lost. No, I'm going and visit these family.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Man.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
This stuff is traumatizing when you see the over proliferation
of violence in our streets. And so just as we
are fighting hard to stop a police abuse, we got
to step up and talk these young people down.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Man. They get the shooters are getting younger and younger.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
I don't think anybody thinks that you're not outside and
that you don't do those type of things. I mean,
that's one thing I say that people know that Mayor
Eric Adams does. But there's things that always pop up
in oppressed that make you look a certain way, even
if it's not right.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
So that's why I love that you hear. So.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
One of the biggest thing was when when Donald Trump
they dismissed your federal corruption charges, right, and they did
it without prejudice because they said they leave it open
that they can file charges later on right, and the
press put it as well, that makes him excuse my friends.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Donald Trump's puppet exactly right.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Where you know, he can be used any which way.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
So what do you say to those people in that
media and people that really believe that you're lining up
with Trump and that might not be what people are
aligned to, especially in this election.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
So think about think about this for a moment. It
was it was dismissed with prejudice, meaning it can't come back.
It was dismissed with regids this without prejudice. Ye, no,
that's what they wanted. But the judge it is dismissed
with prejudice. So many people never read my indictment, and
I keep saying that over and over.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
People need to read the indictment.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
I was indicted for calling the fire department and asking
them to do a building inspection, and all the text
messages are there. I said, if you can't do it,
let me know and I'll manage their expectation. This is
done every day. They took that and said, well, you
know what, you got free upgrades. You paid for your flights,
but you got upgrades when you flew flying. As the
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Bard president, I was allowed to get upgrades. They said,
you got free upgrade grades, which was not a gift.
They said, we're going to tie that and say it
was bribery. It was bribery. And so I'm facing thirty
three years in prison for this.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
You know.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
And so people say, well, if you didn't do anything wrong,
why would they come at you, asks Brian Benjamin. I
think all your callers should google Brian Benjamin High's ranking black.
High's ranking black in the state they indicted in them.
Also to judge dismissed his charge. When he looked at that,
they saw how bogus it was. Biden said the Justice
Department was politicized when he partnered his son, you know,
(29:08):
Trump said it. So the president on the campaign trial.
I never knew the president. I never met the president.
He was on the campaign trial saying, look what they're
doing in that mayor in New York. You know that's wrong,
what they doing to that mayor in New York. So
when he got in, he told this Justice Department, y'all
need to look at that case. When they looked at
the case and they saw some of the emails and
(29:29):
text messages that the prosecutors were doing, they said, we're
going to dismiss this case. That's part of the justice system.
De j They do it all the time. This is
not new This was not special for Eric. They do
it all the time. They looked at cases and they
make a determination do we want to proceed for it?
That was the determination they made. And my attorney sat
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down and say, look at this case, folks, and what
they're doing to this mayor. They got pissed off because
I was not a good Democrat and I started voicing,
this is wrong what you're doing to our city. That
this is costing us too much money, this is hurting
our folks. They basically said, you need to be a
good Democrat.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
You know, it's just.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
They put you in your place.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
So say you're polling in fourth place right now?
Speaker 5 (30:14):
Yeah, what makes you think you can steal wins?
Speaker 4 (30:17):
As I as I stated, where where was Mandani?
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Where was Zoran?
Speaker 4 (30:25):
This distance out from the race, he was Andrew was
beating him by twenty in the primary. Yeah, in the primary.
At during the during the primary, day before the primary,
there was a poll out Andrew was up by twelve percent.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
The day before the primary, he lost by fourteen percent.
And so what I.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
Must do in these campaigns, because I've done it before.
Remember the only one that's the only one that's running
for mayor that had has ever won mayor? Is me
I beat an impressive field the last time, Andrew Yang
was beating me by fourteen points. You know what I
must do is I need my money. I have to
be able to have folks come home, open up their
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mail and see my story. I have to be able
to have my field team on the street of that
I have to pay for, and my volunteers so they
can talk about my story. I need to be able
to do my radio ass all the things that go
with telling your story. Right now, I'm dependent on my
print media to tell my story, which they made clear
they're not going to tell.
Speaker 5 (31:29):
Me on the social media, which is terrible by the way, right,
I don't know who the hell doing your social media.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 7 (31:35):
There was a video that was going viral of you
like getting ready to go out to like an event.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
Or something like that.
Speaker 7 (31:40):
Yeah, and I mean I think it gets younger people
wondering who you are and why you're doing it, But
it just doesn't add well to the conversation. Yeah, it
just doesn't add well to the conversation. I've always wondered
what what's the strategy behind that? Like, why do you
do that?
Speaker 4 (31:54):
You know, and this is this is very interesting that
you know you have I'm not a social media I
don't know. I'm the first to tell y'all nothing about
I'm social media. But a lot of people are talking
about the role of young people in the election. The
only consistent voter in the city are fifty five plus
older people.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
They're consistent. Everybody thought that Obama.
Speaker 4 (32:17):
Everybody thought that young people were the ones who got
Obama elected. You're seeing more and more engagement of young people,
but Obama was you know, Obama got sixty five percent
of the young people vote, but it was only eight percent,
eighteen percent of the total vote. You know, your grandmother
and your mom, those are the ones that come out
all the time.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
So it's and they're not on x you know.
Speaker 4 (32:37):
You know, they are on probably Facebook, and they still
get that old fashioned television, ad mailing, et cetera.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
And that's what we want to focus on.
Speaker 5 (32:46):
So when dad said, why you be doing those ridiculous
videos on social media, listen, like I said, I don't
know social media, brothers.
Speaker 4 (32:53):
You know, you know, we we have a team of
folks that we put on they create of what.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
The social media is. I don't know it. You know,
I know what I know, and I know what I
don't know. You know, and I.
Speaker 4 (33:02):
Would love to you know, you you want to come
on board.
Speaker 5 (33:06):
I think you just screamed because you be outside. But
the narrative, the narrative is, I know, we got to
get out of it. The narrative, the narrative is if
you stay in the race, then you and Cuomo will
be taking votes away from each other and that'll make
it easier for Mondani to win.
Speaker 4 (33:19):
Okay, So, and let's look at the facts of that.
The ballot is the ballot right now. You can't change
the ballot, you know, So no matter what happens, you
can't change the ballot. There's going to be five people
or even one of the can is Jim Walton try
to get off? The court said no, you can't. So
the ballot is ballot is a ballot. What people need
to focus on and ask themselves is what direction do
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they want the city to go? That's what we have
to ask ourselves. We've come so far, do we want
to go back? Do we want to go back to
the running off, running out millionaires and saying that you
don't want billionaires in the city. Who pay fifty percent
of our taxes. That's how we have teachers and firefighters
in our streets paid. Do they want people who want
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to destabilize our local supermarkets by saying you having government
run supermarkets. I've been to Venezuela and Cuba. I don't
want those type of supermarkets here. And I don't want
to hurt my bodega's, my Dominicans, my Koreans, my Chinese supermarkets.
Do you want to legalize prostitution in our city and
go back to people standing on our street corners?
Speaker 2 (34:21):
And he says, yes, up man, prostitutions legalized.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
And so it's just the quality of life.
Speaker 4 (34:31):
And you know who hurts the most, brother our communities.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Our communities can't hire private security. Our community can't go
into making sure that some.
Speaker 4 (34:41):
Homeless person is not defecating on their street corners.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
Or sitting in their school yard.
Speaker 4 (34:47):
Our communities will impact be impacted by these policies that
idealism collides with realism. So I'm not in favor of
defunding our public safety apparatus. I'm not in favor many
four hundred people on Riker's Island, He says right away,
he wants to get three thousand off. You know, I'm
not in favor of that. I'm not in favor of
putting them back in the communities that they prayed on.
(35:09):
Give them the services they need, like what we're doing
with our credit program and training people to have their
CDL license so they can be gainfully employed. But what
we must do is not take our communities back.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
And that's the question.
Speaker 5 (35:23):
And if people look at it, you said, well, we
must not take Yeah, gotcha that.
Speaker 4 (35:29):
If people do do an analysis and say, listen, hey, Eric,
we hurt you, We saw what you've done. But this
we want to rock with this guy. Be careful for
what you ask for, you know. And and and then
look at his supporters. Look at his supporters. You know,
these are the same his heart and soul of his community.
At those same gentrifiers that moved us out of our
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communities and are disrespectful in our community.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
That is the heart and soul. So we're buying into
a concept of a person.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
What do you mean by that?
Speaker 1 (36:00):
Look at look at look at his supporters.
Speaker 4 (36:02):
Those are those are the same his supporters that mean
spirit pocket those Indians.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
I'm sorry, what do you mean?
Speaker 4 (36:08):
No, no, no, no, When you when you look at
Harlem best eye other parts of our community. When you
saw the change of our demographics, you saw gentrification come
into our into our communities, those are that's the hardened
soul of his supporters. That's the hardened soul of other
people have brought into the message and started growing. But
(36:29):
the hardened soul of his supporters are those same people
that came in and gentrified our communities in the first place.
Won't patriolize our restaurants. Uh wanted to change people because
they're But no, not, it's not even justification specific.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
Gentrification to me is not the ethnicity.
Speaker 4 (36:47):
Ethnicity is a mindset when you come in and you
cannot incorporate yourself into a city, that's a mindset.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
You know, you could, you could be of any ethnicity.
Speaker 4 (36:58):
But if your belief is that, hey, I'm going to
come and complain about the noise that's coming from that
building on the corner.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
That's a church, folks. Now church has been it for
such or such you for years. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (37:09):
That mindset of displacing those long term term folks from
communities is that the heart and soul of his base
of support.
Speaker 5 (37:19):
My last question, gotta get out here. Yeah, they're gonna
block the screech down to the unit in town. What
is Mondanie doing better than you?
Speaker 1 (37:27):
Selling a lie? You know, selling a lie? You know.
Speaker 4 (37:31):
He was an assemblymen for four years. He's missed fifty
percent of his votes. Like, where is his record? The
reason you're able to critique me is because I have
a record of over forty years, over forty years of
doing this. You can't critique him, you know. And he's
just selling the lines. When he was asked the other day,
what is your policy or decrimination decriminalized prostitution. I haven't
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figured out yet, figured that out yet. He's gonna sell
a lie until he gets into office if he were
to win. So the reason you could sit me on
this show and say, Okay, here's what you've done, you know,
you can't do that with them.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
You don't know who we don't know who we have.
Speaker 4 (38:08):
You know, we have a person that's a good actor,
good communicator, and knows how to tell people whatever they
want to hear it to get elected.
Speaker 3 (38:18):
All right, Well, ladies and gentlemen, Mayor Eric Adams, we
appreciate you for joining us.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (38:23):
Doing anything in your campaign, Eric Adams twenty twenty five.
Make a donation to make sure I can communicate.
Speaker 3 (38:31):
With you all right now, we gotta get out of
here because we're about shut the streets down so we.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
Don't follow you out.
Speaker 3 (38:37):
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