Stephen Colbert

I'm looking for a new gig soon.

Uh-huh.

And a lot of people tell me I should run for president.

Well, you certainly have the look.

Thank you very much.

You have the hair.

Well, for the record, I think it's a stupid idea.

How dumb do you think it is for people to say that I should run for president?

That is true.

At times, subterranean.

I don't have to limbo so low?

You know, can you talk plain English to folks about... I think that's one of the powers that Mamdani has.

That's correct.

Is that he also, not only does he talk like a normal person, but he lives a normal life, but he also, he names what is obviously wrong.

Yes.

And he goes, we should change that thing.

Right, because technically it's under the executive branch, but the norm is that it's independent.

We in this city believe in the sacrosanct nature of the right to protest and also are committed to ensuring that any New Yorker can safely enter or exit from a house of worship and that access never be in question while we also protect the First Amendment.

I get that decent Muslim Americans feel under attack.

They feel like they're being unfairly portrayed as terrorists.