Eric Adams
Appearances
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
So now ask yourself, because I'm big on that. Back in 2022, when I said, listen, we have to deal with the perception and the reality. People attacked me when I said that. They said, well, perception doesn't matter. I said, yes, it does. Perception matters more. Because I was a transit cop, so I remember.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
And so what happens, so now we have to ask ourselves, why do people feel unsafe in a subway system? Why do you think? Because every day we take the worst thing that happens on four points.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
And every day we blast it. Every day. Every day. And so you wake up in the morning, open the paper, oh, someone got pushed on the subway track. Now, you may have never had a negative experience. Someone got pushed on the subway track. Then you go down in the system and you see someone walking with no shoes on, no shirt on, and they're yelling and screaming. You hear noise.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
You hear it's not cleaning up. You begin to say to yourself, oh, I feel unsafe.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
I'm feeling safe. And so what I have to do, as you said, I'm not going to go to you and insult you and say you shouldn't feel a certain way. No, I have to answer that fear. So that's why we put a thousand more cops in the system. We have them riding the trains back and forth. When I was a transit cop, that's what I did.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
Nah, I'll get the name of it to come to me when it come on. So, you know, probably everybody's running around and saying, I'm the shorty, I'm the shorty, I'm the shorty. You know, so.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
I rode back and forth because we know the omnipresence of that uniform can deal with that perception. Now, we have record decrease in crime, but that means nothing if people don't feel safe. Well, maybe I'm going to give you some.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
Right.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
When you go back to when they were growing up and you go back to that period of time, graffiti was everywhere on all our trains. You can see you should see some of the pictures.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
And so understand that's why civic is important, because when you see something like right now, when I came when I became mayor, we were having encampments all over. People living in cardboard boxes and tents on the side of highway. And when we came in, we said, listen, people are not living that way.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
January and February of 2022, I went into the streets to talk to people that lived in these encampments, saw human waste, drug-powered fanalia, stale food, dyslexia, bipolar, schizophrenia. And so we came up with a real initiative that said, listen, we clean up these encampments and we put people in houses. We got huge pushback.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
Huge pushback. The city council passed a law that said people should have the right to sleep on the streets. So when you have those government entities that are extreme left in their philosophy, what everyday New Yorkers want, they're pushing back. I'm fighting tooth and nail to do involuntary removal.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
Like you said, someone, you saw someone injecting themselves, undressed, screaming, not taking care of themselves. I'm fighting to say, I got to get this person in care. He doesn't know he needs care. Yeah, yeah, yeah. These are the battles we have that fall outside the scope of what the mayor can do.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
Right now. We're going to build out all the trains. But the governor has done an amazing job where we have cameras in the cars and they're going to be cameras in every car. which is huge because that allows us to pick up on any illegal behavior. It allows us... We caught the guy that burned the woman to death because of that camera and that footage. So we do.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
Eventually, every train is going to have a camera.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
We we have we have three issues that overshadowed our success. We turned around the city. No one thought I could do it. And they told me it's going to take five years. We did it two years. There are three issues that I love that. I can't even tell you you didn't.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
Well, they're indicators. They're indicators of a success of a city.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
And so you look at the financial, we have more jobs in New York in the city's history, more small businesses in the city's history, double digits, decreasing homicide, shootings, the seven major crime categories, fourth largest tourism in the city history, build more affordable housing in year one and year two, individual years in the city's history, move more people out of homelessness into permanent homes.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
In year one, year two in the city's history, drop unemployment around all demographics in the city, but particularly black and Hispanics by 20, 20 percent. So there are indicators that we that people look and see. Let me see the success of the city. When you look at the indicators, it shows that. how successful we are and bond ratings.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
These people who look and say, okay, is this city being well managed so that we can give you a bond rating so that people see if they're going to invest in your city? They raised my bond and then came back out of all that we went through. They said, we still want to keep this bond rating high because this mayor has managed COVID and
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
Managed 230,000 migrants and asylum seekers that came into the city. So they've watched how I managed the city.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
Yeah, a combination of bonds. You have their industry bond raters, Fitch, S&P. These are guys that look at your cities and say, okay, what are we going to say to our investors? How well is this city being managed?
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
High. They scrutinize, they're hard, they look at everything, how you manage your money. And they said, this guy has managed the city.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
Oh, great question. Great question. Think about it. First, I want to tell you the three things that overshadowed our success.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
You know, random act of violence. One guy, you know, dealing with severe mental health issues that should not have been on the street, stabs three people. Those shock everyone. Yep. That has overshadowed our success. Mental health, and that's tied to mental health. The second is recidivism. We have cats that are committing crimes repeatedly.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
Repeatedly. They made up their mind. We have 575 people. They made up their mind. They can't break the law. You put them in jail.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
No, I'm committed to this.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
You can't have 575 people. who are arrested for shoplifting, and they have been arrested over 7,500 times. 36 people who have assaulted people in the subway system have been arrested over 1,600 times. With this revolving door system and trying to convince our lawmakers in Albany that, yo, this is a problem, you know? And they're real problems. So who can do that?
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
Okay, is that true about the squeegee? You know, the... But back then, you had to be creative to just help the family. And I think that is what the total sum of your life experiences allowed you to be whomever you are. All of you, you sit in the room, you guys are successful, but think about the total of all of your experiences.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
The judges have to get on board, but there was a great deal of reform passed in Albany that Conceptually, it was a great idea. What was the concept? That was when you hear bail reform, discovery reform, raise the age reform. This is a lot of reform because we don't want a heavy-handed criminal justice system when everyone is being locked up for no matter what they do.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
And that's what we're trying to show them that, listen, the data is showing these reforms you did in 2019 is having a negative impact on public safety. And it has been very centered on people who commit crimes. But what about the people who are the victims of these crimes? We have to start talking about those who are victims of these crimes.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
It's not so much saying three strikes, two strikes. The judges, the judges must need to use the determination. Are you, is it a danger releasing you?
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
Is it a danger releasing you? Judge has to make that call. Is it a danger releasing you, putting you back in society? If you're arrested in a short period of time for repeated burglary, repeated burglary, You make it up to your mind, listen, you can let me out as much as you want. I'm going to continue to do the crime.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
And that's why, and I'm a big believer in non-violent crimes. What do you mean you're a believer in them? And that we should not be being heavy-handed. With the nonviolent crimes. Now, what we want to do is, hey, you have a drug problem, you're going into Rite Aid over and over again, and you're doing shoplifting. Listen, we're going to give you a pathway to deal with that drug issue.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
So we don't want to be heavy-handed. And those are the alternative to incarceration, to give people the support they need. Because a lot of people think, okay, well, shoplifting is a victimless crime. That's not true. No, it's not. If that Rite Aid closed down, Ms. Jones now has to get on the bus and go to get a drugstore that's a mile away from her now. That costs her money.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
The people who worked in that Rite Aid are now losing their jobs in the same process. It impacts your economy. So we need to make sure that we send the right message that you can't have a revolving door system. So let's talk about the migrants. Yeah. Out of nowhere, we started getting in a large flow of migrants. Now, this is a city of immigrants. Yeah.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
And it's a city that has always been open to immigrants. There's a reason that the Statue of Liberty sits in our harbor. Sanctuary city, right? Right. It's a sanctuary city.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
So we started getting in busloads. By design, right?
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
It was coming from Texas, but it was the failure that we didn't secure our borders. We were allowing everyone to come into the country with unsecured borders, many gang members, very dangerous. When I went down to Ecuador, Colombia, and Mexico- to look at the flow. There was a place called the Darien Gap.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
So I went down there to see why people coming and try to explain to the government that New York City, the streets are not paved with gold. Because everybody thinks you come to New York City, everything is fine. Yeah, it's paved in rat shit. Right.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
Don't gross me out. Don't gross me out.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
People got upset because they said, man, what you doing? You know, you let everybody come into the city. You're paying for them.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
Right. So what people didn't understand, I couldn't stop the buses from coming in. The federal law said you can, Eric. I couldn't even allow them to work. The federal law said you can't even allow them to work. And a group of migrants and asylum seekers came to me and said, listen, we want to contribute to the city. Let us remove graffiti. Let us clean the streets. Give us a stipend.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
You know, to get in here, sit down, and have real, authentic conversations. That's why people connect with your show. Yeah. Because of, you know, it's just an authentic conversation.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
You can't even do that. And the city law says everyone that comes here, you must give them three meals a day. You must house them.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
Over 40 years in existence.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
And I think the message was because it should not happen to when I went down to El Paso. They should not have had to have gone through that.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
Do you know what happened with Epstein? As Obama said, if you say it, they gotta kill you. Oh wait, so do you know? No, no, no, I have no idea. So tell us what happened with the migrant crisis. Oh, great question. So let's talk about the migrants. This cost us $7 billion. This was the tipping point where I decided I got to publicly criticize the Biden administration.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
And so where they went wrong, where the governor of Texas went wrong, is that we were saying, hey, we hear you. Let's collaborate together and send that message. Not just, listen, I'm not going to punish another municipality because the federal government is screwing up. So when we reached out to them and said, listen, we're on the same page with you. Your city should not be going through this.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
Let's get together. Let's work together. No, I just want to.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
I'm not a fan. Uh-huh. And so we lost an opportunity because when I went down to El Paso and I saw people sleeping on the streets and airports, I said, this is not right, even for El Paso. My position was no city should take on a federal responsibility. And that was my advocacy. I went to Washington 10 times to speak with the lawmakers.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
I met with the president twice, President Biden twice around this issue. And his people, they were giving him misinformation. They were not being honest to him. Who were his people?
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
There were several people who was close that was in charge of this issue that was supposed to be giving him the right information. And I told him, I said, Mr. President. Maybe they told him and he just forgot.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
You know, what's interesting in government, particularly on the federal level, people have their own agendas as well. And there was so much going on back then of people pushing back on the concept. There are some people with a philosophy that our borders should be open and any and everyone should be able to come in no matter what. I don't believe in that philosophy.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
Right. Here's what I said to the administration. I said, listen. Thank you. Thank you.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
Over the pillows. Those are just pillows. Those are just pillows. Like a pillow like this with a button.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
Invitation to hide something. I felt something bumpy. I will reach in, see what it is. Oh, damn. A pillow, a gun. Look how flat I was. Now, each one of those scenarios that you saw, the gun in the pillow, the baby doll, those were real scenarios.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
Thank you.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
Thank you. Thank you.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
People who either was arrested, because a lot of people don't know if your child or someone in your household is doing something improper, they come in and they do a warrant. They're taking everybody. They're taking parents. Right, right. And so parents often didn't even know what was happening in their home. And so I said, you know what? I'm getting all these stories.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
And we're going to attach that to when you call them and say you were bribed.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
And say that you were bribed. They use all of these numbers. For upgrades. Right, right, right.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
Who hasn't flown and said, I mean, tell me someone who hasn't flown and said, hey, I see you got an empty seat in business. You know what I'm saying? But to take down a city mayor of the largest... The largest city in America. Yeah. And then when you looked at the text messages that were leaked a few weeks ago of them talking about it and, hey, you know, the U.S.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
attorney, he may have a political agenda here. Right, right, right. They found their text messages and their communications. So it exposed their agenda. Yes, yes, yes. And that gets leaked by whom? No, the judge ordered it to be released. Oh, to be released. Yeah, right, right.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
The judge ordered it to be released. But, you know, if you really want to understand— And they've dropped this case, right?
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
The U.S. attorney said it was a weak case. The new incoming U.S. attorney said it was a weak case. They put in to have it dismissed. The judge said— Basically, I don't want to dismiss it on my own opinion. Let me get an independent person to look over and make a determination what I need to do. That independent person came back three weeks ago and said, you need to dismiss this case.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
And so we're now waiting for the judge to look at what his independent person said. We believe he should agree with the independent person. What he said, listen, I did nothing wrong. How do you, you know what I mean? I lived a public life over 40 years, you know, and I know that, listen, everyone in New York, you're scrutinized and watch, you know, I know how I live my life. I did nothing wrong.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
So I said, we're going to do a video to show how do you just go through and see what's in your house? Because, you know, children are slick. And there's a lot of indicators. Like if you see a cut straw with a point on the tip of it, the average parent don't know what that is. I don't know what that is. Back then you were sniffing coke. Back then? Yeah. I thought it was a Capri Sun.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
This was traumatizing to my family, you know, but you're in public life. You have to fight hard. Now, the real test for me, It was 15 months ago when the indictment came down. I could have easily said, you know what, let me just... I resign. Right. People would say, oh, you need to resign. I was like, I'm not going anywhere. I did nothing wrong.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
Now what are they going to do? Right. You know, that's how true folks are.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
Listen, look, God, you know, I don't know your spiritual belief, but my belief is clear. God is good, man. You know that? And God, God, and all the time, God is good. Look at you, man. Sounded like a Baptist preacher. You know, so, you know, but we have to live it in the midst of that.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
That's a great question. That's a great question. You know, there are a lot of people, you know, this, you know, and I don't want to sound conspiracy theory, but there's a permanent government. There are people that see presidents and mayors come and go. Their attitudes will wait you out. You know, you know, a book is a great book, man. Everybody should read the book.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
Cash Patel's Government Gangsters.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
You should read that book, man. Cash breaks this down.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
It's not you so much. It's real, brother. Oh, really? Think about it.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
I have never seen anyone do such a good job of defining that deep state. You should have him on.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
The way, because he was in. It's like me talking about what happens in NYPD after 22 years.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
Cash was in the DOD. He was in the FBI. He prosecuted terrorists. So he comes with this wealth of knowledge.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
And the way he breaks it down.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
It's just it's just unbelievable what this deep state is about and why it's so important for Americans that we cannot have a weaponizing of our of our prosecutorial powers. Now, imagine the Southern District, right? Southern District of New York. That's one of the most powerful U.S. attorney's office. In their mind, they say we're sovereign. You know what that means?
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
What do you mean they said they're sovereign? They don't have to answer to anyone. They don't have to answer to the president. They don't have to answer to the U.S. Attorney General in Washington. They believe they're a sovereign entity. You're not elected. Imagine an entity believing they don't have to answer to anyone.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
So it's sort of wrong to set parents up and not give them the basic information. Now, there was a lot of people, I got a lot of pushback from those who were saying, oh, you know, you're violating the rights. Listen, in the hood, man, this is real stuff, man. Don't tell me the life you're living.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
Come on, come on. Listen, people say, this is what those who have Trump derangement syndrome are saying. Because there's some folks, I'm not the type of cat that, I respect the office. The presidency is in office. It's representative of our country. Presidents come and go, like mayors come and go. I'm a big believer. I'm a patriot. I believe in the American flag.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
My uncle died at 19 defending this country. You know, I wore a bulletproof vest for the city. My brother did as well. So I believe in the symbol of office. So I don't have to like who's in office. I respected Biden to the fullest extent. I respect the office. And so when President Trump was on the campaign trail,
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
Before he was elected, he was saying, look what they're doing to this man in New York. He said, this is wrong what they're doing to this man in New York. He never asked me for anything.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
I believe he personally saw what they did to, it's one thing to do something to the individual, but when you start doing something to your family members, and I think there was something he saw, because out of everything he had on his campaign trail, He didn't have to come out on his campaign trail and say, this is wrong, what are they doing to Eric? He did it at rallies.
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NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
He did it the day before the election, when he's at Madison Square Garden, a few days before the election, on a Sunday. He said, look what they're doing to this man in New York. So there was never, they say, well, there was a quid pro quo. You are now trying to be hard on immigration. I said, show me what I said after he was elected that I wasn't saying before he was elected. Hmm.
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The same thing that I was saying before he was elected. You commit a crime, you need to get out of our country. That's the same thing that I've been saying. And let me just drop this on you that a lot of people don't realize, you know. ICE is a law enforcement organization. I mean, I'm not going to say I'm not going to corroborate with any law enforcement organization to keep our city safe.
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Now, you may people may not like ICE. That's that's your opinion. But it's a law enforcement organization. That's not criminalize a law enforcement organization. And there's some people coming into the country to commit crimes.
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Our city is not allowed by law to collaborate with ICE for any civil enforcement. We can't do it. The law says that. But the law allows us to collaborate for criminal enforcement. If somebody's committing a crime, we could collaborate them.
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We have joint task forces with FBI, Homeland Security, all these entities that we collaborate with all the time to go after dangerous people, terrorists and other dangerous people. So we can't collaborate by law if it's just for civil enforcement. Okay.
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And I want to go back to that question, because that's important. Prior to the election. When I saw what happened on Columbia University and people were saying, you know, they are pro Hamas. They lifted up Hamas. I am Hamas.
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When I heard people say that we should destroy America, all these leaflets on Columbia's university and all of these protests who were there, some of them were not even students at Columbia University. Prior to the election, I said, this is unacceptable. You know, my uncle died defending this country. And I dare anybody to go on, desecrate our statues, desecrate our war memorial, destroy property.
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You're darn right I do. Do you know who you think it came from? That's a great question. And I don't want to sound conspiracy theory, but there's a permanent government.
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You know what I mean? Listen, mom would tell me in a minute, man, boy, you don't have no rights.
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You know, that's not acceptable to me. So that tone didn't come after Trump was election elected. I was saying his pre-election. That's not acceptable to me. So those people who they rounded, they got four votes. whatever reason, I don't know the evidence that they have. I don't know if it's just because they violated some rule, violated some law, handing out terrorist paraphernalia.
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NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
Hamas is a terrorist organization. Hezbollah is a terrorist organization. Gentle pushback.
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NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
OK, good.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
No, not at all. You feel deaf to America? You know what?
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NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
Yeah, we don't know what that is. But I want to be really clear, and I say this over and over again. A lot of people don't pick up and understand. I have no control over immigration. The federal government controls immigration. That's their responsibility. And, you know, I don't know, Jay-Z said it best. I have 99 problems, brother, and immigration is not one. You know what I'm saying?
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They deal with immigration. And so when you start to... I don't want them coming in, telling me how to run my city, and I don't want them dumping something on me like the previous administration did. They had me deal with... We were getting... Sometimes 4,000 migrants a week. 8,000 every two weeks, do the math.
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And so I don't want to go in and start telling them how to do their job in immigration, and I don't want them telling me how to do my job.
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I'm glad you said that. I'm glad you said that. Yeah, that's... Yeah, no, that's an important question. And so many... When I'm moving around my immigrant communities... And they share with me, you know, what we're afraid. We're afraid to go to school, church, work, etc. And why are they afraid? Because I've been saying the same thing. Go to school. Go to your house of worship.
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Go to the hospital. Call the police if you need help. You know, the activists who love this hysteria are given the impression that all of a sudden ICE is going into our schools, taking our children, going to hospital. That's just not true. That's not true. They created this hysteria that you're seeing right now. That is not going on in this city.
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I'm glad you said that. And now the question is why. When you wake up every morning, there was a ritual. I have a ritual now that I do every morning. Yeah. When you woke up every morning... What's the ritual?
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We cannot ignore the Trump part of this. Because what Biden's Justice Department did... was unbelievable. You place mothers on FBI watch lists because you are worried about what they're being taught to children in school.
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Because we got some crystals for you. Stones have a lot of energy. And I want to share that. We got a lot to talk about in an hour and a half.
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Yeah, you know, they had mothers and families placed on FBI watch lists, terrorist watch lists, because of their advocacy around some of the things that they're teaching their children in school. They wanted to call them terrorists. I'm telling you, you got to see what that Justice Department did. And a lot of people, when they ignore, they talk about my case. But when Biden pardoned his son...
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NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
He said the Justice Department has been politicized. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
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And we're not hearing the same criticism. No one from the Justice Department quit. I think what you're doing is wrong, so I'm quitting. I'm telling you, read Cash's book.
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NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
You don't know their name in the books.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
Yeah. No, when you read the book, I don't remember all the names as he listed. He did a good job of documenting some of the case history of documenting. So I can't blurt out every name when I remember. But it's all in the book. He does an amazing job of documenting.
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The case history, like you look at the case, both cases, there's a couple of cases like he goes into what was happening in the Justice Department under this previous the previous administration and how the number of people who were under investigation was just political people. You know, I mean, the book is a good book.
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The best way to start the morning. But I used to start the morning, every morning, praying, you know, God don't make me read. God don't make you read? Yeah, in school. Because I was like that.
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People told me when I criticized what was happening to our city around the migrants and asylum seekers, they said, Eric, they got many ways to come at you.
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NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
Right.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
I think it's a combination of, you know, people use, people weaponize their authority in every business. You know, it's not only, it's not, you know, it's not just unique to politics. It becomes more costly when you're using prosecutors as a weapon against political opponents. You know, I mean, when you, I was, I'm facing 35 years in jail. No way. Wow. Think about it. I didn't know.
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Think about it. Think about it. And it, and it, and it, and it costs me over $3 million personally. Right. Hold on. So think about this for a moment. You know what I'm saying? This is, this is, this is real shit.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
Read Cash's book.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
Here's what, you know, and this is the most difficult moment for me for the last 15 months, because everybody knows me as a fighter. Yeah. Everybody knows this guy never stopped fighting. This guy was in the police department, and he was criticizing the police department while he was in the police department. Which is— Everybody knows— Police don't love that. Right, that I'm a fighter.
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And if I read something and stumbled over the words the whole day, you know, kids are cute, but you know what? No, they're ruthless. They're ruthless. They would say, let's act like we're Eric Reid. And they would stumble over the, the, the, you know, right. And so the whole day you would go through it.
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And my attorney has put me in a place you can't talk about the case, Eric, because it's still going on. Right, still pending. And it has been hard as hell not to talk about the case, you know, because to watch my name being— I mean, slandered, you know, I mean, you have people writing all sorts of, you know, he did a quip or a crawl. He, you know, he's a criminal. He's corrupt.
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NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
And you have to sit back, you know, and I'm like, my attorney said, Eric, you know. Don't even think about it.
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That's a great question. Great question. First of all, I think it was Jack Nicholson and a few, I think a few good men, we said, you really don't want to know the truth. You can't handle the truth. You can't handle the truth.
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Running a country this complex comes with things that many of us don't want to know about. Of course. We need to be honest with ourselves.
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They take place across countries. I mean, it's just the complexities of ensuring and keeping us safe. And so when I came into office as the mayor, there were folks who were in agencies because agencies run cities, you know, the Department of Traffic, Department of Sanitation, Police Department. That's what runs cities. There were people who were in agencies for 30, 40 years.
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Right. And they make decisions that you don't even realize are being made. And so a man comes in with his agenda. There's some things he can do, but there's others. P, if you're there for 30 years, you like looking at them saying... What's this motherfucker?
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That's what I'm saying.
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NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
layers and layers of bureaucracy. And they've been there for so long. They know the people. Because remember, we have a $114 billion budget. You know the amount of money that is on the federal level? So when they went in and looked at USAID and said, wait a minute, you're sending $3 billion to this? You're sending $3, $4 billion to this? And so those permanent people...
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NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
Right, right. It mixes up the characters. Okay. And so it was to me, I was like, listen, why are you going to school, man? Why are you going in classroom every day? Then I just started doing numbers back then before numbers were legal.
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NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
And I know we want to believe in particularly the prosecutorial arm of our government, because the worst thing we want to believe is that people are using the prosecutorial powers to go after people. That is frightening. And we have seen that. Like I said, imagine you are a mother.
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Imagine you're a mother in some small town somewhere and you truly believe in some of the governmental policies you disagree with and you want to rally around that free speech. You want to organize around that. You should be on the FBI watch list.
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No, and you do. And you're able to you're able to remove those who are not have workers protection. And then you've got a lot of laws to protect people. You can't just, you know, fire just to be fired.
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And we have been, in spite of the layers of bureaucracy, and I want to be very clear, we have 320,000, I think the last time I checked, employees. And the overwhelming number of them get up every day and get their job done. They're committed, they're dedicated. I've been able to give them a great contract. They were not getting contracts that they deserve. Give them a good contract.
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They're hardworking people. But all you need are a few people in strategic places that can slow up the process. You have to identify them. You have to remove them when you can. You have to replace them with good people that you want. But the big thing that I want you to understand that mayors come and go, presidents come and go, governors come and go. Permanent government is real.
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NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
And whoever's trying to act like it's not real, they're lying.
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NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
And they don't get caught up in the madness. You know, if you call 911, that ambulance and that cop is coming.
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They're doing their job every day.
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NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
Great question. Great question.
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NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
Right. Well said.
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NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
Without a doubt.
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NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
My claim to fame is that I know I love this city. And I love the people in this city. And I don't care what you call me. I don't care how much you yell at me. I don't care how you call names. You're not going to tell me that people should be sleeping on the streets. And you can call me whatever you want. I'm not going to allow them to sleep on the street.
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Before the lottery system was in place, there was a... You look in the newspaper at the racetracks, and you see these last three numbers, digits. And you could bet on what those last three digits were going to be. You know?
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You're not going to tell me that we should have guns in our community. We took 20,800 guns off our streets. Almost 1,500 just this year alone. And we're seeing the results of that. And so you have to go into government not saying, okay, let me just say the right things. You know, you have to go in being your honest, authentic self. And that's what we do every day.
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We're not going to solve all the problems. But you can't tell me we continue to spend this much money and then have 40% of our children reading and writing at grade level.
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They do agree. They do agree. And the thing is, I keep saying this and people don't like it. They get upset, you know. The Trump derangement syndrome is real. Yeah. You can hate someone so much that even if they do something right.
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NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
Right.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
You know that? And you can like or dislike Elon, but you don't have any right blowing up someone's Tesla. Right.
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That's the hypocrisy. When you say, okay, I'm upset that you are doing Doge and you're closing down jobs. But you know what? You should close down Tesla. What about those people that work there?
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NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
Right.
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NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
It's the irrational thing. thought process that people are lining up. I just want to hurt each other. I want you to feel pain. And God forbid if you say, I'm not playing that game. Okay, then I'm going to cancel you. That's cancel me.
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NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
When he first got elected, called the president. Congratulations. New York is important to you. It's important to me. We got some issues that I need help with, like salt. These are some of the taxes. I mean, some of the things that were passed. Salt? It's just called a salt tax. It was hard on New York City. And we have to communicate. I said I was very transparent.
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NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
$0.50, $0.25 would give you a certain dollar amount, $0.50.
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NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
I want to work with the president, not walk with the president. You don't win warring. If there are things I disagree, I'm going to communicate and say, listen, we disagreed. You know, they took 60 million, 80 million, 60 million away from us from FEMA funding for the migrant. We disagreed on that. But the goal is how do we sit down like I did with Biden?
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You know, people forget that point that I sat down and worked with the president. He came to the city around public safety issues. The president came in. We sat down. We met with the police commissioner. He did what I asked of him to get a director to ATF. It was amazing. So I want to work with our national leaders.
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I'm the mayor of the biggest city in the country, in the most important country on the globe. Talk that shit. How do we not work with the president? I mean, it's ridiculous.
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so you walk around with these slips you go around the community they come inside the stores and they say okay I think 382 I had a dream last night and I saw 382 you'll bet on that people bet all the time on those numbers and hinges there were there was a there were newspapers that were in the community whole industry around numbers giving you advice on the numbers and so what I learned later in life like I learned I was dyslexic in college
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It's not used too much. It's real, brother. Mayors come and go. Presidents come and go. Governors come and go. Permanent government is real. And whoever's trying to act like it's not real, they're lying. And which borough has the most attractive women? I think all of them have great shorties.
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NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
And I heard a young lady listening to a documentary on dyslexia. And I took it out and I said, wait a minute, man, I'm not dumb, I'm dyslexic. So I went from a D student to a A student once I learned. When you look at all these young people who are incarcerated, 30 to 40 percent of them across the country are dyslexic or have a learning disability.
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NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
Thank you. Thank you.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
So if you feel- They're struggling in school.
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NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
They go. So the crime is not only what they did on the street. It's what we're doing to them.
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Right now we're doing dyslexia screening. So we're catching a young person and giving them the services that they need, that they don't feel that they're done. How do you even fix dyslexia? What do you do? All you do is learn differently. Your mind process, because the words are mumbled, the letters are mumble jumble mixed up. But once you learn how to process and learn differently, how you learn.
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20% have severe mental health. What I'm saying to them, that the four more jails that they want to build, it was going to cost us $8 billion. Now it doubled, $16 billion to build it. What I'm saying to them, instead of building four more jails that can't hold the prison population, because the four more jails are going to hold about 3,600 people. We have about 7,000 people there right now.
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NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
So what I say to them, instead of building four more jails that can't hold the prison population, why don't we take one of those jails and build a state of the art psychiatric facility? So we don't criminalize people who are dealing with psychiatric disorder. We give them the support that they need and take care of them.
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but people are caught on the romanticism of we close rikers because they think that it will do something it's like it's not solving your problem brother you got 71 7100 people and so i asked them well what are you gonna do with the other 7100 well why you can't just let them go you know what you got to do to go to rikers nowadays so okay so okay okay so you you become mayor right yes um
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Yeah, no, no, no, no. It happened, he was in federal prison. Oh, what's the tombs that's around here? The tombs is downtown in lower Manhattan.
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NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
It's a jail also. Any jail is bad. Nobody want to put people in jail. Fair enough.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
But he was at federal, so you wouldn't have a jurisdiction.
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NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
Yeah, it's right next to it. The president is talking about releasing the Epstein information. They ain't never going to release that.
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NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
You always try to seek information.
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NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
But if they release, as Obama said, if you say it, they got to kill you. God. Oh, wait, so do you know? No, no, no, I have no idea. Okay.
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The federal is a different system. You have federal jurisdictions, and you have state, and you have city. If you're in Rikers, you're either waiting for trial. Or you're going upstate. Right, exactly. So it's a different system.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
You can rewrite.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
Federal picked that up also. He's also being federal.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
exactly exactly and so that led to like you said all that crazy stuff you were doing i was saying why am i sitting in school why am i going there just to you know so once you become the a student now you go i need to put those other people in jail like that's how you feel like why would these criminals take advantage of my disability and put me on the streets that's how you get locked up you know and so you know it was you know you can have a dyslexic people you locked up
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
That's what the federal government is doing. We don't make that call, the federal government, you know, to intentionally assassinate someone. I don't even remember any time in my law enforcement history back then of someone using a silencer. He intentionally sought out the CEO and assassinated him. Yeah.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
Which one? With you? There's a video. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Joey? No, no, no.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
I grew up... I know you from around there. Yeah, those guys were larger than life, man.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
Crack just, cocaine and crack just came on line back then. You know, Kilo, Tinka, those whole team. These guys used to drive around with Roll Royces in NYCHA. And they just had a real lock on the drug scene in the city. Then rap started to come around. So they're telling the stories. Right, right, right, right.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
The level of violence was not the same as you saw during the 80s, going through the 80s and the 90s. Back then, you know, those guys were about making their money. They would have a beef. And then the inner... Gang, once that started happening. Yeah, right. 80s is when you really saw the violence, because it was just so much money. It was a lot of money on the street.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
People wanted to take over areas, take over streets. But back during, you know, when you look around, 75, coming to the 80s, you know, crack started to really start to make his way. And really, crack...
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
really escalated to violence you know when you start dealing with crack cocaine because of profitability or profit um uh for whatever reason you know even heroin wasn't you know it didn't bring that level of violence going into the 60s the cost per kilo also you can get a lot of money like 20 grand for a key yeah oh god so it's just so profitable you can transport easily
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
And then you had those who were participating in law enforcement that was part of making that money also. There was some illegal stuff that was going on.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
Yeah, 77 Mark Boys.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
Yes, 77 Precinct. Yeah, you had the Dirty 30. Because guys were seeing so much money being made on the street.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
Well said.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
And, you know, you do these jobs because you believe in the job. But at the same time, you know, you should always compensate people to take care of their family. And even when the modeling commission and others did their review over some of the action, they said it's important to pay a law enforcement.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
And even teachers, you know, you go someplace like Korea, teachers are held to an extreme high level of respect.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
Here, we gave our teachers great contracts, gave our cops great contracts, but you're right. You should make sure that they're receiving the suitable pay that they deserve. That's what it comes down to. Do you...
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
We didn't give you a key yet? That's true.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
Good political answer. Good political answer. And when I, you know, because you say, you know how many times you go viral? I drive my team crazy.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
I bet. She's writing notes right now.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
Reach your ass out of this jail. I bump into people all the time who are doing successful in business. When they hear, you know, my journey being dyslexic, they all say to stop me and say, Eric, you know, I went through the same thing. I'm successful in business.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
This is my guy.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
Why don't we have an 11 in New York? I spoke to some folks. We may be rolling out.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
You know, and these community boards. A 24-hour district with red lights.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
It is, brother.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
Because once you push through that, you find that you get through just about anything. So when people run around now yelling, booing, oh, we don't like this. We're like, are you in New York? Eight point three million people.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
Do you, what do we do about a circumstance like that? You know, and Deputy Mayor Daughtry, Kaz Daughtry, he has done a great job. What we've done, we've gone after the mother load. and going up to some of the warehouses.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
So if you go and just round up who's on canal.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
Exactly. So we've hit a couple of locations. If you were to go online, you'll see we've taken millions of dollars in supplies. We're still doing investigations. We want to go after the feeder. If not, you're just really... You're not even locking the person up.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
Right.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
Yes, that's the goal. Because we've done a number of sweeps. And then it's just the next day. So now we've hit several warehouses. And we're now zeroing in. That's the same thing we did with the illegal cannabis shops. We started going after the mother loads and we closed down six, I think it's about 1600 of them. And now the illegal cannabis shops are making money now.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
I say to them, that's all you got. You know, all you got is to call me a name. Listen, I'm so used to being called names. I used to get called names every morning.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
So we want to go after those mother loads and get it to close down.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
Yeah, but, you know, if you, and we do.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
Yeah, the precinct is there, but you don't want those guys going after one, one after the other during the confiscation when you have some heavy crime that's taking place.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
But now they do.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
They know if you confiscate the merchandise, they're going to go right back and get a new shipment of it and just be back out there.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
Think about the manpower that takes, man. That's some serious manpower. That's another thing.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
And you can't throw up your hand. You know, the complexity of solving the problem is not an answer. There's several investigations that are underway now of going after the large shipments.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
You know, if I answer that, I'll be on the front page of the poll.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
You are definitely running. Oh, yeah. As a Democrat? 100%, as a Democrat. I'm running 100% as a Democrat. And listen, look, it breaks my heart that New Yorkers had to go through these last 15 months. And what I wanted to do to New Yorkers... is that to let them know that no matter what I was going through, I was going to stand tall and fight for the city.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
And I also wanted to send a symbol because everybody's going through something. You know, I mean, we sit here and we talk and we laugh it. But I know if you go into the crevices of your mind, there's something in your life that, you know, you're wrestling with. It could be a health issue, could be a family member, et cetera. And I wanted them to say, listen, look at all of these guys going through.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
And he's still getting up every day. And he's delivering for us. He's building the houses, keeping our city safe. And I'm hoping that they would draw on it when they're dealing with their experience. Saturday, man, it broke my heart. I had to go on Ocean Parkway. And the mother and the two children were killed in that accident. Then I had to sit in that room with the dad and talk with him.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
I don't know. I'm probably asshole is not the top one.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
You know, I do that so often. Yeah. And I got to tell people that, hey, you know what? You're going to get through this. Yeah. I can't say that if I'm jumping ship when I'm going through something personally. I want to show New Yorkers the grit and grind of those who grew up here. We're grit and grind. We fight. We never surrender, never give up.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
I'm hoping your listeners will go look at our record, man.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
hurt people hurt people and they hurt themselves it's not like you know i'm i hate you eric no people are hating themselves yeah and yeah they they express that hate you know through how they treat people because we're in a place now where everyone is so mean spirit man yeah they we no longer people don't do this like this is powerful when you can sit down have conversations right Yeah.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
If I had to say one thing where we failed that, we failed to get our success out. And our biggest failure on that is that what I've learned is that if Colgate had to depend on the tabloids to tell their success, they would never be in business. We had to depend on traditional tabloids to tell our success.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
But you don't need them anymore. Right. Someone shared with me the other day that was very interesting, that people forget that they are their business. They're in the business to make money. And if it bleeds, it leads. There we go. So talking about we're building a chip plant in the Bronx, it's like...
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
But we do. New Yorkers do. And I'm the most clickable mayor in the history of the city. I tell them all.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
I say, I made your career. Exactly.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
No, for real. For real. They sit around all day. I say, and I told them, go back when I first got elected. I told them, I said, let me tell you all something. You are going to have so much fun with me being mayor. Facts. All of your careers are going to be made because of me. No one knew who you were.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
No, it's a good product. And listen, brother, man, God has been good to me, man. You go from being called a dumb student in school, you get arrested as a child, beat by police officers. No way. Go on to become a police officer, a captain, becoming, you know, a lawmaker. You know, mommy, before she transitioned, she saw a baby go from breaking the law to enforcing the law.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
And I went to Albany to write the law. And I'm the mayor of the most important city on the globe. I don't have any right to complain at all.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
What about the White House? Oh, yeah.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
We should seek to understand so that we can be understood.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
And social media makes it even worse. Yeah. Cause you're getting, you're getting like patted on the back every time you do it.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
Right. You know, and it's a coalescing of everyone who has a ill feeling, you know, it's a place that, you know. Yeah. Now you're not alone with your ill feeling. Right. And you can coalesce around this feeling that you have. No matter what group you are. I did an experiment the other day. I said, just think of anything you think about, there's a population out there.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
I said, let me just find people that like grass. Not cannabis, grass. No, you don't like the weed. Right, right. And it's unbelievable how many people call us around there. And first of all, I feel people should have a right to smoke cannabis if they want. Right, right. My concern, as I said it when I was running for office, is that we have real educational problems.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
And our children start in their day. These teachers tell me, Eric, these kids are high all the time.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
You know, if you start your day walking to school and you're smoking a joint, you're sitting inside the classroom, you're smoking a joint during a period, these children are not going to be ready. And particularly at a younger age when their brains are real developing, there's some real signs. So if an adult wants to smoke, go do your thing.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
But we have to be real concerned about what's happening with our children in Canada.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
And that's why civics is crucial, so people can understand who's responsible. For these different things. Right. Because when you're the mayor, I don't care what it is, man. It's your fault. A guy stepped to me a couple of months ago, man, saying, listen, I'm getting divorced. You know, it's your fault.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
that one is your fault that's the case is so people are saying well you know the the trains don't are not operating the way they're supposed to that's the state man that's not the city oh so wait the trains meaning like the two three four and five the state is in charge of that the state is in charge of
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
Our job is to protect the people. I'm in charge of the police in the system. Yeah. And what we've done in the system is unbelievable. A lot of people, when I walk in rooms and I say, tell me how many crimes you think, serious crimes you think happen in the subway system. People say 100, 200 a day, 300 a day. We have 4.6 million riders every day.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
Do we know who that girl is? They, you know, it's like, what's that story? What's that show that used to come on with The Real? The Real World. No, The Truth. They asked the person, the panelists, questions, and they said, with The Real, whoever you stand up. Oh, yeah, yeah. I forgot his truth. Is it truth? Something true.
Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys
We have six felonies a day. Out of 4.6 million, I don't feel like going to work. I'm pissed off. People on the subway. It's a miracle that we're able to move that volume of people every day and deal with the mental health issues down in the subway system. People are attracted to that.
Freakonomics Radio
623. Can New York City Win Its War on Rats?
Wow, I didn't realize we were going to get so many people showing up to talk about rats.
Freakonomics Radio
623. Can New York City Win Its War on Rats?
I am so happy I have a four-star general who's working on finally winning the war on rats. We will make an impact. And if we do so, we're going to improve the health and the mental stability of everyday people in this city. So thank you for being here. Let's be energetic. Let's share our ideas.
Freakonomics Radio
623. Can New York City Win Its War on Rats?
Let's figure out how we unify against what I consider to be public enemy number one, Mickey and his crew.
Freakonomics Radio
622. Why Does Everyone Hate Rats?
Fighting crime, fighting inequality, fighting rats. Public enemy number one, many of you don't know, are rats. If you're not scared of rats, you are really my hero.
Freakonomics Radio
622. Why Does Everyone Hate Rats?
Rats do something to traumatize you, and I hate rats. That is Eric Adams, the mayor of New York City.
Freakonomics Radio
622. Why Does Everyone Hate Rats?
If you walk down the block and a rat runs across your foot, you never forget it. Every time you walk down that block, you relive that.
Morning Wire
DOGE to Become Musk-less & Adams Indictment Dismissed | Afternoon Update | 4.2.25
As I've said all along, This case should have never been brought up. And I did nothing wrong. I'm now happy that our city can finally close the book on this and focus solely on the future of our great city.
Morning Wire
US-Russia Seek Peace & DC’s Housing Market Chaos | 2.19.25
Go back and do an analysis from the day that I was invited to what we have accomplished. That is my ability to lead through turmoil, and I'm going to continue to do that.
Morning Wire
US-Russia Seek Peace & DC’s Housing Market Chaos | 2.19.25
I just find it so amazing. The most sanctified among us are calling for me to step down. I'm not going to step down. I'm going to step up.
Morning Wire
US-Russia Seek Peace & DC’s Housing Market Chaos | 2.19.25
You know, people want to hijack this narrative and turn into a political narrative where we're saying we need to have public safety. I requested the meeting. I reached out to his team and said, we want to sit down. This has been an issue I was talking about before the election.
Morning Wire
Tulsi Gabbard Confirmed & Cartel Drug Tunnels | Afternoon Update | 2.12.25
We know that they are trying to get rid of the Department of Education, USAID, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. They're laying off FAA workers. They are going after the FDA, the CDC, the HHS, the FBI agents.
Morning Wire
Tulsi Gabbard Confirmed & Cartel Drug Tunnels | Afternoon Update | 2.12.25
In a social media post today, Trump disclosed a call between the two leaders, saying they would work together very closely. Trump said he would call Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to inform him of the conversation with Putin.
Morning Wire
Tulsi Gabbard Confirmed & Cartel Drug Tunnels | Afternoon Update | 2.12.25
The announcement follows Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's address to NATO, in which he said restoring Ukraine's pre-2014 borders is unrealistic, and that President Trump is prioritizing diplomacy to end the war. Speaking to the Ukraine Defense Contract Group in Brussels, Hegseth emphasized the need for a negotiated peace, not prolonged conflict. Here's the defense secretary.
Morning Wire
Tulsi Gabbard Confirmed & Cartel Drug Tunnels | Afternoon Update | 2.12.25
Hegseth warned that the U.S. is shifting focus to border security and deterring threats from China. Meanwhile, Treasury Secretary Scott Besant met with Ukraine's President Zelensky to discuss a rare earth investment deal. Zelensky is reviewing the proposal and will likely respond Friday when he meets with Vice President J.D. Vance.
Morning Wire
Tariff Retaliation Threats & FBI Busts MS-13 Leader | Afternoon Update | 4.3.25
Though I am still a Democrat, I am announcing that I will forego the Democratic primary for mayor and appeal directly to all New Yorkers as an independent candidate in the general election.
Morning Wire
Tariffs Trigger Turmoil & Anti-Trump Protests Erupt | 4.7.25
And he's not just disappearing people. He's disappearing rights. And to that we say, disappear. We're still here.
Morning Wire
Education Department Exposed & NIL Guidance Changes | Afternoon Update | 2.14.25
When Tom and I are in a room, we're both saying one thing. No matter who you are, if you're hurting innocent people in this city and in this country, you don't have a right to be in our country.
The Dan Bongino Show
Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
We made terrible mistakes in the past. by preventing to keep our city safe from those who have committed repeated acts of violence, particularly these dangerous gangs that we have witnessed in our city, and we're not going to continue in that direction. I'm going to answer a few questions, and then I am leaving, because it's not going to matter what I respond to anyway.
The Dan Bongino Show
Did The Government Accidentally Tell The Truth About The Drones? (Ep. 2388)
You have your preconceived thoughts already.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump Admin Defends Gang Deportations, TX Teen Fatally Stabbed, Zuck Moves Near Trump: AM Update 4/4
I will forego the Democratic primary for mayor and appeal directly to all New Yorkers as an independent candidate.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump Admin Defends Gang Deportations, TX Teen Fatally Stabbed, Zuck Moves Near Trump: AM Update 4/4
Though I am still a Democrat, I am announcing that I will forego the Democratic primary for mayor and appeal directly to all New Yorkers as an independent candidate in the general election.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
Where were these, you know, the secret stash somewhere? And what many people did not read, they saw the presentation that was given and it was, you walk away with saying, oh my God, what did this guy do? But when you read it and you saw that I didn't open the consulate, I asked the FDNY, can you look into the inspection to get the inspection done?
The Tucker Carlson Show
Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
I need to go to the top of the line. I was seeing that again when we were not able to provide services for the people of this city.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
And it's so funny you said that. I was at a meeting the other day with a group of Jamaican immigrants. They were having a reception. And it was the same time that the correction officers killed a young man in upstate one of our jails, one of our prisons. The correction union came out immediately and said, they're not one of us. Those correction officers don't represent us.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
And I said that to the Jamaican immigrants who were in the room. And I shared with them, you come here to pursue the American dream. Many of you stay with your family members, you leave loved ones at home, you fight hard, you're willing to do whatever job that's possible.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
I need you to stand up and say those who are committing crimes, those who are part of gangs and being violent, they're not one of you. You know, this is a country of immigrants. That's who we are. Build our bridges, our roadways from early Irish or early Italians and so on and so forth.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
So the issue is how do you properly allow people in the country with a secure border and know what their destiny is when they get here? That is what we don't have right now. This is a free fall and it's the wrong thing to do.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
And many people don't really get the sanctuary city part.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
So here's what the sanctuary city states. John, who is from a country, is in New York. He goes into the store, he buys a loaf of bread. He's paying taxes on that. He buys gas, he's paying taxes. Sanctuary City says that as long as you're here, you have a right to get the services your tax dollars are paying for. Your children are being educated. If you need police services, you can get it.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
If you need medical care, you can get it. That's what Sanctuary City says, and that you should not be afraid of getting those services because your tax dollars are paying for them.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
Well, my conversation with Tom, who's coming in as our Board of Czars, one place he and I totally agree on, those who violate their rights to come here by committing crimes, they need to leave our country after they serve their time. We're on the same page with that.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
That immigrant family who's trying to get a pathway into becoming a citizen, living out this amazing American dream, I don't think they should be rounded up in the middle of the night and say, we're going to move you out.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
No, we're not welcoming them. We've been very clear. We're not welcoming everyone. No, everyone's sin. We say when they're here and they're following the rules and they're paying their taxes, they're doing the things that people are supposed to do. My focus are those who are harming innocent citizens.
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Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
Right. And how do you address that?
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Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
Well, there's a couple of things to that. I think you address it by controlling our borders. And we've allowed the immigration issue to control us instead of controlling it. Because this is what I'm getting from my other mayors. My other mayors are saying across the country, Eric, we need workers. We have places in our city where we have population problems.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
To allow the council general. The council general, my apologies. To get an inspection to determine if they could pass a fire inspection. And if they couldn't do it, you see in the indictment, I clearly stated to manage the expectation if it couldn't be done.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
We have places like in Kentucky, they need backstretch workers. Here, I need nurses. I need other professionals. I need food service workers. We in dire need of workers in this country. Now, if we would have said, when you come into the country, you're not going to go where you want to go. You're going to go to the city where we need you.
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Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
Stay there for three years, four years, and then you could decide to go anywhere else.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
No, no, they working there. So do the indentured servants. They're not doing it for free. And if you want to come, if we control the border and make sure prior to people coming in that you know where you're going and what you're doing and not this free fall that we're seeing right now. That is where the crises lie. Real immigration reform and securing our borders.
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Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
And I said it over and over again.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
That's exactly. Here in New York, we've cut unemployment in those communities that you're talking about by over 20%. because you're right, we need to make sure while we're filling those jobs, we need to make sure that we're looking after those who are in this country for whatever reason had barriers to employment.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
We have been removing those barriers to unemployment, and it's still not filling the demand that we have in need of workers. Not only here in New York, you go across the country in those cities where you have a population problem, we need workers.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
Yeah, no, well, I definitely care. I care about the employment. I care about when I sit down with my business leaders and my business leaders are saying, Eric, I have to close down a restaurant because I can't get workers here. Yeah, that's real. I know it is. So I believe that there's a solution and answer that starts with...
The Tucker Carlson Show
Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
securing our borders, real immigration reform, removing those who are committing serious violent actions in our country, and continue the pursuit of the American dream.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
No, and I like that. I like that because people looked at particularly the real estate industry that was extremely supportive of my campaign. They said, okay, listen, these are just rich real estate guys. No. When I walked in the room and I explained to them that if we don't fix our school system, the first thing someone will do when they go to buy property, they ask two questions.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
How good are the schools? How safe is the community? I ran on... Better schools, safe communities. And so, yes, maybe that affluent real estate owner is not sending his child to public school, but no one wants to bring their company here if you have bad schools and unsafe communities. And so there is this symbiotic relationship, even if they're not directly connected to it. They need safe streets.
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Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
good schools in order to bring in those employees, those workers, those renters, those buyers. And that is what I stood for. Or they could just go to Florida.
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Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
Right.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
And we're very tired. First of all, we have to stop that far left rhetoric that wants to demonize success. And far too often we do that. We want to be difficult to business, want to demonize success. We want to do things that impact the quality of life in cities. Like, how do you legalize public urination?
The Tucker Carlson Show
Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
We did everything to get encampments off our streets, and I'm back in court fighting with those who want to allow people to- Why don't you go to court?
The Tucker Carlson Show
Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
What are you going to do about it? I'm with you, Tucker.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
No, we're still doing our job.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
You're good, Lord.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
Here's what we have done. When we first came into office and we stated that we were not going to allow people to sleep on our street, we did just that. I don't want to hear all that noise. People are not sleeping on our streets. And we were able to move our city from encampments on the sidewalks, on the highways, in our train stations. You don't see that anymore in this city.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
And because of that success, you now have those that are suing us, but we're still carrying out the job.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
Who are we serving here? That's the disconnect. You know, the loudest... don't represent the majority. I hear from everyday New Yorkers that say, thank you for taking this encampment off our street. Thank you for making sure that our communities have the quality of life issues.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
But the professional loudest that really are not speaking on behalf of everyday New Yorkers, I hear everyday New Yorkers, and I know that we're in the right direction.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
Here's what we're going through in the city. What's overshadowing our success is how people are feeling. because of random acts of violence. Yes. You have to go back to 2009 when you take out the two COVID years to see our subway system safer. We have over a billion riders, 4.5 million a day. We have an average of six felonies a day out of those 4.5 million a day.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
No, and not only weird to be indicted for, when you look at being a former law enforcement person, pushing public safety, living your life a certain way, it was painful. It was extremely painful to go through this, you know, millions of dollars in legal bills and just not being able to respond. So the hardest part about this for me, anyone that's followed my career, they know I'm a straight,
The Tucker Carlson Show
Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
But none of that means anything when someone is burned to death on your subway system. Exactly, that's exactly right. Or someone shoved you to the subway track. But when you do a correlation of What's causing that fear, that anxiety, is those with severe mental health issues.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
We have been fighting with our state lawmakers as well as those advocates again that are trying to stop us from taking those with severe mental health illness off our streets. And we have been successful in doing that. 8,000 people died. with mental health illness, we were able to remove off our subway system and put them into what we call safe haven.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
So the real battle is dealing with the anxiety that people are feeling. But this city has recovered more jobs in the city history, second largest tourism in city history. Our subway system is safe back to the 2009 days of 20,000 illegal guns removed off our streets. Our cops have stepped up.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
No matter how bad they've been treated by some, they've stepped up and they've produced for the people of the city of New York.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
Well said. You know, when I talk about it all the time, the criminal justice system is not just police. Everyone will see the police, but it's more than just the police. We need to have our judges on board, our prosecutors on board, our lawmakers on board. We were just showing stats today. People who are arrested three times in a year for the same crimes, the numbers are unbelievable.
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Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
for robberies, for assault, for burglaries, for grand larceny. These guys are being, it's a revolving door system. And it's not only here, if you go across the country, you will see it's the same stats, the same small number of people are repeatedly committing crimes. Of course, always. Yes.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
We have to, like I said, every aspect of our criminal justice system must do its job.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
What we do is sit down and really try to show our lawmakers, our prosecutors, where the numbers are, where the results are, and how we can turn this around. And one of the bills is what's called the discovery bill, which has caused a great deal of controversy. refusal or failures to prosecute. We sat down with our district attorneys.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
They seem now to be aligned with us as we go back and sort of alter some of these changes that we've made that's impacted on public safety. Idealism, I say, collides with realism. The laws we make must ensure that we don't make our city unsafe.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
You know, it's so funny. When I ran for office, that question came up about legalization of marijuana. Just go smoke in your apartment. Cannabis. And I was at a press conference, and I said, I smell weed everywhere. And we need to manage how we're dealing with the cannabis issue. Yeah. You know what my teachers are telling me? What? Our children are high all the time. Of course they are.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
Well, one thing we did, we were having, after the law was passed to legalize cannabis, we were having illegal shops open everywhere. And we had no power to close them the way we wanted to. We went back to Albany. This is where our state government is, as you know. We went to Albany and we stayed it. We have to get this under control. The governor gave us the authority.
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Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
We've closed down over 1300 of these illegal shops, almost $67 million in illegal cannabis we took off our streets. And now the legal cannabis business is thriving. But what we must do, now we need to go back and say, listen, what should we be smoking? how we should manage this even more. And I'm with you. I think there's too much open cannabis being smoked on our street.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
We need to really carefully decide where you can smoke cannabis. And I go with you on that also. Smoke at home.
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Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
fighter, you know, and this is the first time in my life that you have to sit here and be punched on and you have to allow your attorney to fight the fight. I know how to fight and I like to fight to defend myself and not being able to do that is hard as hell.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
And you would not have one argument with me. Don't publicly inject yourself with drugs. Don't publicly urinate on the street. Don't smoke in front of somebody's house, smoking your cannabis. If you want to smoke cannabis, do it at home. If you want to urinate, go use the bathroom. So you're not going to get a debate. You won't get a debate from me.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
No, you know what has happened in our country? We've reached a point where any and everything goes. And the most bizarre it is, the most people think it's acceptable. But it's not to everyday working class people. Exactly. That's what people don't fully understand. Everyday working class people don't believe in any and everything goes.
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Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
Have you ever wondered that? Well, you know, what happens is that if you push back on that that's the norm and that's what working class people want, you get demonized.
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Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
And that's exactly what you happen. So people often say, well, you know, you don't sound like a Democrat. And, you know, you seem to have left the party. No, the party left me and it left working class people. And our conversations that we should be talking about are not the issues that everyday people that are in power are talking about.
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Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
People are concerned about the future of their families, and that should be our focus, and that's the focus of this administration.
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Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
Well, he hasn't announced, and I'm a firm believer. I'm not running against anyone. I'm running against myself. You know, Andrew Yang got into the race the last time he was 13 points up in the poll and the team, we were very clear. We have to run our race.
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Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
And so no matter who's in the race, I'm going to run my race and I'm going to sell to New Yorkers what we did with this city in the reversal of where we were, where we were headed and where we're going now.
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Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
Yes. Why not do that? Well, no, that's exactly. And you're right. And I policed during that era. And Bill Bratton, who I have a great deal of respect for, and Jack Maple, as you mentioned. Many people don't know that name, Jack Maple, but we owe a debt of gratitude to his commitment. And that whole model of just not accepting any and everything goes. I know how successful it is.
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Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
And that is a methodology that I believe and I live by because I policed before. when you allow any and everything goes. I was in the subway systems and I saw what our subway systems look like. And so you have to go to the method, as Bill would say, you have to reclaim the city so that you can make sure it's doing the right thing for all New Yorkers.
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Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
I have a great deal of respect for my legal team, and they're going to exercise every avenue to get justice for me, whatever that avenue may be. Alex is a great attorney. Spiro. Yes, he's heading my defense, and he's going to exercise every avenue to get justice. What's the potential penalty hanging over you? Oh, no, this is real time. You could do 20, 30 years.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
You know, you can't live- Just bring your own food. You can't live life in the rear view mirror. You gotta live life in the front windshield, you know?
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Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
Yes, yes.
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Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
Very well. We talked about, he loves the city.
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Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
And we talked about, you know, how do we do things to work together to improve the city? And as I told everyone, I'm not here to be Warren with the president. I'm here to work with the president and everyone should do that. You have the mayor of Washington reached out and said the same thing after that. The governor did the same thing.
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Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
People realized that you can't spend the next four years fighting. We need to spend the next four years listening to the American people. The popular vote, the electoral vote. We can't be bigger than the American people. And the American people are saying we need to do something about our borders. We need to do something to make it easier to do business in this city.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
We need to do things differently. We need to be open to do that. And we need to be clear with even if incoming president is talking about with the new visas of getting some of the intellectual talent into this country. I think there's some great opportunities and we need to find out those areas of agreement.
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Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
No, no.
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Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
You know, and I always tease people when I'm at the town hall. A guy came up to me one day and said, you know what? I'm getting a divorce. It's your damn fault, Mayor. Everything that happens wrong in the city, people look at the mayor. We had nothing to do with congestion prices. That's the governor's in MTA.
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Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
You know, listen, the people think the mayor made that decision. The MTA made that decision in partnership with Albany that made the decision in the federal government. The mayor did not make that decision. And if it was up to me, we would have more waivers if we had to do it because we have to think about our firefighters, our police officers, our teachers. We were able to get some waivers.
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Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
We were able to get $100 million for the environmental communities that would be impacted. But this was a decision by the MTA. The environmental communities? Places like the Bronx, because people would be parking their cars there. They would be trying to reroute themselves.
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Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
And some communities have a historical problem with environmental issues because of the Cross Bronx Expressway and other issues that they had to deal with. Now you're getting information.
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Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
They shouldn't have control. They shouldn't have control.
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Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
And so you have some communities where we attempted to force of bike lanes and other items in their communities. And we said, no, we have to communicate with those long-term community residents. We never should get so far ahead of those long-term community residents and what they desire their communities to look like.
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Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
Mm-hmm.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
It has to be.
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Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
Yes. Yes, I am. And I believe that I have a great attorney. And I cannot tell you how there's a desire, again, of just want to push back on this, the narrative that has been put out there.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
The goal is to use the money from congestion pricing to improve on our subway system. We have to have a first rate subway system. And that is the goal, to use the money to make sure we improve our subway system. We have to do just that.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
Yes, that's it. The requisite to prosperity is public safety. People should be able to ride our subway system any time of the night without fear of harm. And you can't do it by allowing people to stay on the system that are harmful to themselves and harmful to others. That's why we took 8,000 off the system to give them the care that they deserve.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
Why are there so many mentally ill people all of a sudden all around? That's a great question. That's a great question.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
Well, you know, we made a mistake years ago when, because of the way our psychiatric wards, the draconian practices of those psychiatric wards, advocates came in and stated that it's wrong for people to be kept in these locations. When we shut them down, we put them in the street. No one thought through, well, what do we do? Because listen, we have to be honest with ourselves.
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Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
They are those who cannot take care of themselves. They need complete care. 51% of our inmates at Rikers have mental health issues. I believe that. percent have severe mental health issues. Yet we're closing the jail, open four new jails just to create four more smaller Rikers. I say let's turn one of them into a state-of-the-art mental health facility for outpatient and patient treatment.
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Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
This way we can deal with the population the way we should be.
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Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
And I don't know, Tucker, I don't know if it was from COVID. People were traumatized through COVID. I lost a lot of good friends through COVID. And some people lost loved ones and family members who took care of them when they were going through severe problems. Some families were destroyed. I've seen an increase after COVID or during COVID.
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Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
I don't have any empirical data that can state that, but we do need to look at it. It's a national problem. When I go across the country, I'm seeing the same problem, and there's no real attempt to address it as much as I believe we should be.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
Ready to mind. We inherited. The mayor had a rule in place already on what happened with those. who did not take the vaccine. Those conversations are still being played out in court to determine what should happen with them.
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Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
But we had to make sure we were dealing with a severe public health emergency, and we had to make sure that we addressed it as soon as possible to make sure we could get it under control. Those were some real troubling, scary times when we were dealing with COVID.
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Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
We should never do that. We should never.
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Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
You won't get a disagreement. Right.
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Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
Yeah, and I think that, you know, your love of history, that I think that sometimes when you're dealing with emergency, how we respond, we look back later and say, hey, could we have done things differently?
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Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
You know, there's so many lessons of that in history, and we always want to do it better.
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Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
Who's that?
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Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
Yes, yes. I believe he's teaching from time to time. What would he be teaching? I believe he's teaching in one of our Ivy League schools. I'm not sure. What would he teach?
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Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
No, no, I don't. You know, we'll touch. He'll send me, you know, good luck, you know, some tips from time to time. But I'm not sure what he's doing professionally right now. I don't know what happened to the afterlives of mayors.
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Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
That's a good question. Have you thought about that? I'm not going to find out this time because I'm running for re-election and I'm looking forward to winning.
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Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
No, real, real pleasure to spend time with you as well. Thank you.
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Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
Well, and many people would dismiss when we stated that we felt we were a target. They wanted to dismiss that. And then you heard the president state that his justice department was politicized. You heard the incoming president stating that it's politicized. I think that there were those who were in that orbit that felt that was not a good Democrat. Because I watch my city
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Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
Thank you. Thank you. Historical place, you know. And you live here. Yes. Upstairs is a residency. But, you know, I was get back to Brooklyn from time to time. My place of love.
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Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
a city that I love, go through an onslaught of the migrant and immigration policy, a failed border policy, and after 10 trips to Washington, stating that this is a problem. It was costing us a great deal of money, $6.5 billion that went out of our tax dollars. I think that there were those who were just angry about it and thought I wasn't a good Democrat.
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Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
Is that what you're saying? That is clearly my belief, and based on several aspects of it that I can't go into detail, but there are other aspects of it that shows me that I was targeted because of that.
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Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
Sharing with them that this was a problem.
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Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
I spoke with Julie Chavez, who's one of the personnel, Perez, another personnel. I spoke with the president himself. I spoke with the president first. Then the president came here to New York City. The governor and I sat down with him.
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Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
with the president and I said, Mr. President, I'm not sure what they're telling you about this problem, but this is a terrible problem that's playing out on the ground that we need to fix our border and we need to just stop allowing people to come into the country with no destiny. We don't know what we're doing with them.
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Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
And there was some that were coming here that were almost six months to a year, in some cases, two years without any work authorization. Like, what do you do with someone that cannot provide for themselves for that long period of time? Well, what do you do? We have to house them. We have to feed, clothes, house, educate 40,000 children, hold them into a shelter system.
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Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
The complete package of what you would do for an adult that can't take care of themselves.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
Basically, be a good Democrat, Eric. Be a good Democrat? That was the basic overall theme. You know, one of his aides told me that, listen, this is like a Goldstone. It'll pass.
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Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
Yes. It'll hurt now, but it'll pass.
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Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
Right. Why do you have to? Well said. And what many people didn't understand, because people believe that, okay, you're down 170,000, we were able to cycle out of our care. We still have about 52,000 that are in our care. And they say, well, okay... you know, the damage is behind you. That is not true.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
We took $6.5 billion out of paying for chronically absent students we could have paid $200 million for. We could have paid for housing, older adults. The long-term impact of what's happening to New York, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, Houston, the long-term impact has yet to materialize of what this crisis has done to our cities.
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Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
It's a combination of things. We're facing, after COVID, we're dealing with a severe mental health issue just throughout the entire country. But specifically here in New York, we have a substantial number of chronically absent young people who were just traumatized from COVID and other things. And they just stopped coming to school.
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Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
If I had $200 million that I can go out and go find those young people and place them back on the correct course, I'm preventing the long-term problem. If you don't educate, you're going to incarcerate. That's the common denominator in all of our prisons, the lack of education.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
I could have put hundreds of millions of dollars in what I'm doing around dyslexia screening and other learning disabilities. So those six point five million dollars that I didn't put into housing, I did not put into senior care. We get ready to excuse medical debt for New Yorkers that are dealing with severe medical debt.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
All of these dollars could have gone into dealing with the long term fixes that we were projecting to correct. And did you tell the White House that? Over and over again. Over and over again. The impact of what these dollars- And they didn't seem to care at all. It appears to me that there was a bigger focus on the national election and not what it was doing to the cities.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
And we started to build a coalition of other mayors because when I was standing alone talking about this, it appears as though that, well, Eric, why are you complaining and no one else is complaining? And then other mayors started to see what was happening in their cities. And I started meeting with the mayor of Chicago and Denver and other mayors and said, we have to be uniform around this issue.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
Again, I think they use the terminology, you are not being a good Democrat. I think that was their philosophy, that I was supposed to silently watch what happens to this city. And I love this city. This is a city that I gave my life to protect. And I was watching the erosion. We were getting almost 8,000 migrants and asylum seekers a week, 16,000 every two weeks.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
And we were being compelled by the Legal Aid Society to find them housing within a short period of time until we had to go back to court and fight that this humanitarian crisis is not what is normally someone has the right to have shelter within the city. And they were coming in 1, 2, 3 a.m. in the morning. It was a constant overturn.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
Well, I know how I live my life. You know, a former police officer, the one rule my staff will always tell you, he says all the time, follow the rules, follow the law, follow the law. And so when I heard of this investigation, I was like, what could I have done that would cause what I was seeing? And then when I read it, I was like, where are the bags of cash? Well, that's what I thought.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
I have no idea. It's a national problem. It should be a national price tag. They wanted to give us $138 million to a $6.5 billion price tag and wanted to reimburse us for a hotel room at $11 per hotel room. You can't get a doorknob in New York City for $11. It was just unrealistic. And it really, to bring people into the country,
The Tucker Carlson Show
Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
without knowing where they are going to and what is their role, that's not a plan, that's chaos. And that chaos started to really cascade throughout our entire country.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
Never.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
Oh, we deserve more. I said this over and over again. The city deserves more. We're the economic engine of this country and we deserve more. And we should not stymie the future of people in the city. We had a clear plan on how we were going to move this city in the right direction. We started to see the decrease in crime. We started to see the city turn it around. And in the midst of this,
The Tucker Carlson Show
Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
this gets dropped into our laps. And then part of the problem was we were getting Venezuelan gang leaders that were coming to the city, creating crimes in the city. My hands were tied. I could not allow to stop the buses from coming in. I couldn't give people authorization to work. I was required to give them housing.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
I couldn't even allow them to volunteer and give them a stipend for picking up garbage and removing graffiti and doing some of the services. They said, no, you can't do that either.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
You know, idle my.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
It was after the 10th trip. And on one of the trips, I was headed down to Washington, D.C. to meet with leaders, with other mayors. And on the plane ride down, one of my fundraisers had a house raided. While I'm on the plane.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
A lot of symbolism.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
No, I had no idea. I had no idea what it was about. And when I returned to the city and I started hearing Turkey, I was like, what is this?
The Tucker Carlson Show
Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
You know, I follow the rules. I follow the law. And this is the most bizarre thing that has ever happened to me in my life. And, you know, Tucker, it's one of the most painful things. You know, you cannot imagine how it feels to watch your life unfold like this. I said it over and over again, the only benefit of all of this is that mommy's not alive to see this.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
It would have broken my heart for her to have to watch us.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
Right. Right. Just like that.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
They wouldn't allow the president to communicate with me.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
You know, for whatever reason, there was little or no communication. And, you know, Tucker, listen, if it means fighting for this city, I'm going to fight for this city. And I was clear on that. I never told anyone I was going to do anything other than that. I was going to fight for this city. And I saw the long-term impact.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
Remember, what inspired me to run for office was watching an 11-year-old boy arrested several times for robbery and just to learn that he was not in school for months And no one was checking up on him. His dad was in jail for a serious crime. His mother was on crack cocaine. And he just, 11-year-old boy is sitting inside my precinct. I said, damn it, I'm at the end of the line here.
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As a 15-year-old, I was arrested and beat by police officers. But I also learned how to turn my pain into purpose. I became a police officer, NYPD reformer.
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This is a critical time for New York. We're facing a pandemic of crime, inequality and injustice.
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Something simple as a crack pipe, a used crack pipe. Could he have found it on the street? That's quite possible. Wait, what?
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This is New York. It's a privilege to live in New York. And the leadership should have that swagger. That's what has been missing in this city.
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This issue will destroy New York City. Destroy New York City. We're getting 10,000 migrants a month.
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I'm being targeted. His phrase was, I always knew that if I stood my ground for all of you, that I would be a target and a target I became.
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You can look in a jewelry box, a jewelry box of this nature, maybe a simple jewelry box. But if you look through it closely, you don't know what your child may be hiding. Fair. You should always, when your child brings in his popular knapsack with many different locations, look through it to see what exactly is your child carrying in addition to a book.
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Ukraine Talks, U.S. Health Agency Cuts, NYC Mayor Eric Adams Fallout
And I want you to be clear. You're going to hear so many rumors and so many things. You're going to read so much. I am going nowhere. Nowhere.
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