Zohran Mamdani (guest)

And the very least you deserve is someone who looks at you with the full humanity you deserve.

And that's what I want to bring is a real belief in a shared sense of humanity for all, because for far too long, there have been exceptions that have been carved out.

What I've described as inevitability is Donald Trump's desire to send the National Guard to New York City.

And what I would say to those who would say this argument, whomever they may be, whatever they may be.

Whoever Andrew Cuomo living in Westchester may be.

Is that...

Donald Trump is not waiting for me to be the mayor to enact this kind of political retribution.

He had arguably the most collaborative mayor he could find in Eric Adams.

And even with that mayor, he pulled $80 million out of a Citibank account.

He suspended $50 million in funding because the city refused to give up.

But kept the National Guard at bay.

Yes.

While looking to suspend $18 billion in federal infrastructure funding in no small part

because of Democrats at the national level refusing to allow him to throw 4 million Americans off of their healthcare.

My point being that retribution is not something that will only appear in this city by virtue of my being mayor.

It's already a feature of what it looks like to live in Donald Trump's America.

And what we've seen, whether it be in his first administration or now in the second administration, is that Donald Trump, if you want to stand up to him, the first thing you have to do is be able to actually be willing to fight him.

And what we have in this moment…

is not just my campaign, but Andrew Cuomo's, which is one that is so unable to stand up to him, in large part because of the fact that he knows his narrow path to city hall is paved by the very donors who gave us Donald Trump's second term, which is why- There's overlap.

When he was asked, would he condemn Donald Trump for the weaponization of justice in the prosecution of Attorney General Tish James, he said, condemn him for what?