“Communist Mayor Of NYC” - Trump TORCHES Mamdani Ahead Of EXPLOSIVE Oval Office Showdown
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In this episode, I sit down with the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Sheera Mamdani, to talk about his new job, his upcoming trip to the White House with President Trump, and his vision for the future of New York City.
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So let's talk about your job which is the administrator of EPA okay there's a few things
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I want to talk to you about one is governorship in New York because polls just came out with
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Hochul against Stefanik I think it's a Siena poll that shows Hochul is ahead by 20 points I don't
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know if you saw that or not I'd like to see that for you know governor of New York to Mamdani I
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think Mamdani is coming to visit the White House with the president and the president's incredible
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noble general's tweet about him inviting him I don't know if you saw the tweet how he coined it
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it's it's very interesting I want to talk about that and then with EPA you know you're a lot of
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things are tied to you so fires I think wildfires are under you I think you got a bunch of different
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elements that are with you right so even right now with what's going on with Iran me being from Iran
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Iran tested cloud seeding like Dubai did and now they got flooding going on all over Iran about on
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all these other cities we got a lot to talk about we got a lot to talk about yeah exactly so that's
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what I'm interested in seeing what we're at with this so let's start off with New York so
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Mamdani wins the the mayoral seat okay so he's the mayor of New York he's in there takes out
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Sliwa takes out Andrew Cuomo and the moment he's in President Trump now tweets this I think yesterday
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on his truth social communist mayor of New York City Zoran Kwame very important put that middle name
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there Mamdani has asked for a meeting we have agreed that this meeting will take place
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at the Oval Office on Friday November 21st further details to follow what do you think that meeting is
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going to look like so I I have spent a lot of time with President Trump where the topic of New York City
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comes up and it and this is personal this is his life history his his business his family his
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upbringing if you ask President Trump about what he wants for the future of New York City he
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genuinely deeply wants to see safer streets he wants to see economic prosperity he wants New York
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to succeed and thrive his concern over the issues that will come up at that table it's not like this is
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some business meeting you know professional meeting that that lacks that strong personal connection that
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the president has like he wants to help and he is concerned with the direction of the city as we
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all are I mean I I saw it during eight years of de Blasio and it was amazing that the city survived
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those eight years especially uh what we experienced there in 2020 when I was running for governor in 2022
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inside New York City there were so many Democrats and Pence people who are not Republicans
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who were supporting our campaign because they wanted to be able to get to their job without fear
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of getting attacked they wanted to ride a subway they wanted to be able to afford to survive now
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they're adding this like congestion pricing this taxed in order to be able to get into the city and
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it's hitting people who can uh who are struggling to make ends meet it's like one more thing that gets
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them closer to that final last straw where they leave when I'm running New York State at that time
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2022 it's 22 percent Republican three and a half million more Democrats than Republicans New York State
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New York State and um we I mean you have so many people who have gone to Florida Texas
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the Carolinas Tennessee because they feel like their money will go further they'll live life
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freer and safer uh and you know and this isn't about putting New York City in time out like they're gone
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permanently not looking back and what so many people are worried about in this moment with
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Mamdani coming in and wanting to increase taxes on people who shockingly are still there after all of it
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is that it will be that breaking point for more people that and like when that billionaire leaves
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like oh the billionaire can afford to pay taxes yeah but the billionaire would you rather have the
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billionaire give you whatever he's giving you today or she's giving you today or zero because
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they're leaving down to Florida and elsewhere so easily the business the jobs and you just you're not
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going to be able to get back so I think for the president the meeting is is personal in a very
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positive way like he he's the president of the United States and you have his full focus and attention
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and he genuinely wants to help but I'll tell you what like don't expect this president to play along
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with the destruction of the city like if you come in like this is going to be some kind of negotiation
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we're going to talk to the president into playing along with something that's going to set the city back
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don't try to go down you know try to open up that door with this guy because that isn't a door
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yeah I agree and by the way what gave me that feeling is this tweet he doesn't say the mayor of New York
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City Mamdani is coming for a meeting he said that communism so this tweet isn't for us this isn't
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for you this isn't for the voters this is only for one person that he voted the way that he did
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it's to Mamdani he wants Mamdani to know you're not coming here in a friendly place for us to sit down
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come and see what you're going to be doing how much how much does Mamdani need him because you know
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when he got elected he said uh you know we're going to raise taxes by two percent on billionaires and
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that's going to give us this much and we're going to raise the corporate taxes and match what it is
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in New Jersey because it's going to be an increase of 4.2 4.3 percent and that's going to give us our
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six billion dollars or five billion dollars that he needs I don't know the exact numbers but to be able
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to fund the free buses the this the that the this right and then Hochul while she while he's running
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she's not saying anything and then he wins then she says no we're not raising taxes on billionaires on the
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city now three days ago four days ago they had a meeting now she's saying she's willing to
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entertain raising taxes corporate taxes on businesses in New York City she's willing to
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entertain it right there considering raising corporate taxes sources says of November 14 after
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the meeting so but how much does Mamdani obviously he needs Hochul but how much does he need President
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Trump so here's the first threshold question it what's more important to Mamdani is it to get
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re-elected in four years is it to win a Democratic primary for New York City mayor or something else in
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the future or is his priority right now the future of New York City is he prioritizing his job like you
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want he cares about the city he was just elected to be mayor of because if it's the latter then he
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needs President Trump a lot if he's only focused on trying to win a Democratic primary then Mamdani
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is coming into this meeting and he's thinking okay I I don't really care what happens behind closed doors
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but as soon as it's over I can't wait to get to the media cameras this is like the Senator Schumer play
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this is what you see I I was inside of uh of the West Wing when Senator Schumer came into the White House
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and like he was sprinting past me to get out with in and Hakeem Jeffries was right behind him he was
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sprinting out to get to the the cameras right outside of the West Wing and then after he does his talk
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with the journalists the reporters whatever he comes back in and he's like at a third the speed and he's
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like catching his breath if man if Mamdani's focus going into that meeting is just to sprint out to the cameras
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afterwards then you know maybe it doesn't matter to in in his mind what happens inside because all he cares
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about uh is speaking to that that base uh but what's most important I mean like there's time for government
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there's time for politics you know if it's the you know the day before Democratic primary and you're messaging to
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those Democratic voters we all get it we expect it the election is over now it's time to lead the city
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and and you know as it relates to the money that the federal government ends up sending towards the
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state if it's about uh the the partnership it's safety I mean President Trump is securing big cities
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I've seen it inside of Washington DC when President Trump sent in the National Guard in August
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like overnight all of a sudden things just started to immediately get safer and he's doing that in
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other cities as well like the president doesn't want to bring these resources to New York City
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for the purpose of you know setting a city back he's not doing it to you for a bad intention like he he wants
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to clean up the city that he loves and there's so many federal resources even beyond money where you know
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having this support building those bridges shows that you're a real leader I mean it whether you're
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Republican or Democrat whether you're elected become a mayor a governor or a president having that bill
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the the ability to to reach out across party lines and build a coalition you know President Trump
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you know I I've seen it so often it you know when a member of Congress calls I remember there was this
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there was this member of Congress comes in in the first term and he says can you introduce me to
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President Trump I said you're a member of Congress just call the White House I gave him the number I
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said just say you're it's Congressman so-and-so and I'd like to speak to the president I said
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he'll probably either come right on the phone immediately or he's busy with something he is
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actually busy with something and he'll call you right back you're a member of Congress and sure
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enough I mean it was that easy and all this member of Congress who's never spoken to never met President
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Trump is instantly on the phone having a conversation with the president United States
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the president like he is so accessible and he's a great listener like there's a great opportunity for
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him down in to come in to state a case on on anything and everything where there can be common ground and
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bridges built and then this president who wants to see New York City successful this this guy is a he's a
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man of his word the president will will come through and help New York City thrive so the important question
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is what do you need well I mean what he needs I don't think the president agrees with because you said
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something it's it's what does he want to do right so after he won remember then when he gave that divisive
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speech I know there's one person listening right now and that's President Trump I got four words for you
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turn up the volume and then boom you know whatever he said about volume and they start raising you know
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and then afterwards like I said we didn't need any more money we need money and then now he's talking
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about 65 million dollars he wants to raise for his transgender you know uh uh gender affirming surgeries
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whatever he's talking about this was a couple days ago so what can he ask for that the president's
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going to say yes to president's not going to agree to raising taxes on the city I mean he can't
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be involved in that because that's the state that's local what can he agree with what where could there
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be something that they have a commonality with I mean if I had to guess man Donnie comes in
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wanting to talk about supportive congestion pricing he wanting to talk about infrastructure projects
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uh stuff like rebuilding Penn Station uh the Second Avenue subway um you know there I imagine there'll be
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some type of a conversation about um law enforcement whether or not they you know man Donnie wants to
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get into it where it's divisive and you know and he's not trying to agree on anything and just wanting
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to have a debate and just wants to you know trash talk the great amazing uh ICE officers and and others
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in law enforcement I mean that would be non-productive but if he if he wants to broach some of these other
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topics and find common ground I mean right now there's investment the president of the United States is
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bringing in trillions of dollars investment all throughout the entire country since I was confirmed
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in February I've been to all 50 states and I am whether I'm in Idaho Falls Idaho where a new
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nuclear facility was just broke ground and Cheyenne Wyoming with a new data center West Memphis Arkansas
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with a new data center I'm going to these locations not where it's like hey in three years we're planning
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on spending four billion dollars I was just in uh in West in West Virginia where multiple businesses I was
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visiting are all ramping up they're all scaling up and uh I was with the president in uh Pittsburgh for
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an AI summit and they were announcing 93 billion dollars coming to the Keystone State that day
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and I'm sitting there as a as a New Yorker for a moment putting that hat on and I'm thinking man
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none of this money is getting announced to go to New York why is that it's not a coincidence the reason
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why the money is going to Pennsylvania and not New York is because of the policies in New York where
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you don't allow the extraction of natural gas you're not approving enough of these pipelines
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you're banning gas hookups on new construction you want to ban the sale of gas powered vehicles
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you set climate goals that you will not achieve and in the attempt to achieve it you will cause a lot
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of economic pain on the people who can least afford it maybe ma'am Donnie is smart enough to come in
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and say hey I see you're bringing in trillions of dollars to the United States of America what do we need
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to do in New York City to be part of it because I want to I don't want to be pushing out people and
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businesses and jobs I want to bring them into the city and just and then ma'am Donnie should just
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just shut up for the moment and listen to the president because the president has a lot of
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ideas and experience and ways he can help so then the question becomes but if he let you say
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he knows the optics as well if it seems that they are too friendly and he is agreeable that's not a
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good look for AOC that's not a good look for the crew that wants to paint him as the enemy because they
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can't the risk their lies and he's aware of this because to me Mom Donnie gives me vibes of a of R
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Zelensky where Zelensky came the first time around and he said well you know you you you yourself and
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you don't have the cards I'm not playing cards Mr. President right that meeting the first one and
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then second one he came he wore a suit I think Mom Donnie is a Zelensky type of a guy that it's optics
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and between the loyalty of the people that elected him that want free things versus also the people
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that kind of AOC kept retweeting his stuff so AOC is a major kink maker of New York in a strange way
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she is she's got a lot of power a lot of juice he can't lose that he can't lose them he sold Trump
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as the enemy if all of a sudden now they're seeing mushy mushy friendly they're gonna be like wait a
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minute you true you're a traitor you so I the likelihood of me seeing this going going that way
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also think if he comes in trying to push too hard would he want a face off with Trump to say I'm not
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afraid I went to the White House and I told him to his face that if you don't do this to the great
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state of New York City I see that I see optics I don't see diplomacy with him wanting to work with
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the president am I wrong I mean there's a massive range of possibilities of how this can go and and
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I don't know Mamdani well enough to know like when he wakes up tomorrow morning like who's like
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which shoulder by the way I don't know if it's like a dark voice speaking to him on both shoulders
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or if you know there's a part of him somewhere like there's a voice there's counsel somebody he listens
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to who would provide him good advice like okay the election's over you now have to be the mayor of New
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York City it the best thing that you could do if you're thinking about your future years down the
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road is to be able to put together big successes yeah like real big successes and if over the course
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of four years that you are the mayor the city becomes less safe you have massive more budget issues
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you know people are fleeing and uh you know you raise taxes and and people are leaving because of it
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this is an opportunity for you to show x y and z like if if he's got that voice that maybe he wants
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to listen to tomorrow I mean then there's a totally different path and opportunity for him but I don't
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know him well enough to know what side of the bed he's gonna wake up on so for me uh Rob can you check
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one thing because this is a big thing has AOC ever met with Trump has AOC and Trump ever met
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in person ever so I don't think so I'm not sure but I don't think so I don't think so either but
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maybe maybe I'm wrong so let's see here let's see if they've ever met in person so there's no
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credible records I've ever in person documented here's what we know that they have engaged in
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substantial conflict public including back and forth oh thank you so much tweets and commentary
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AOC referenced a meeting between Trump and Ted Cruz but not herself news okay so so this is very big
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because if you would ask me who's going to meet with Trump first AOC or Mamdani Mamdani
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is meeting with a you know Trump first okay Hochul has obviously met with Trump many times as the
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governor of New York and it makes me also go to the next step with Mamdani I think his last phone
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calls are going to be AOC is going to be one of them I think if he's asking about what do you think
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what do you think what do you think one of them is going to be AOC but when you're saying long term
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with Mamdani what is his long term he can't run for president if you think about mayors of New York
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City typically run for president de Blasio ran for president Bloomberg ran for president Giuliani
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ran for president I don't think Adams is going to run for president but I wouldn't be surprised at
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this point if he just goes in there and says I'm going to run for president guess is one point
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Wikipedia says presidential candidate and he's off to the races right we don't know that so I don't
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know what his role is going to be long term I just don't see him being that willing to work with
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president because it changes the brand that he has if I have to put a split it'd be a 70-30 split
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of him coming in to try to do more showmanship than anything else and then go back and say I met
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