Zohran Mamdani (guest)

When he detains a six-year-old girl from Queens and deports her, I know that her principal is writing a letter to ICE saying, please don't do this.

I think also I reject the goal.

It's not just the manner in which this detention is happening.

It's the fact that the goal here is cruelty.

The goal is to rip these families apart.

And the goal is to attack so much of what is the foundation of the city as an immigrant city.

Absolutely, I will meet with President Trump.

I think it's incumbent upon any mayor of this city to meet with the president of the country.

What I won't do is work with President Trump at the expense of the city.

That's the critique that I've made of Andrew Cuomo and of Eric Adams is that their conversations with Trump have more to do with themselves than to do with the people of the city.

It's not that they're talking to him.

It's that who are they talking to him about?

I'm glad I won't have to answer the hypothetical, because I fully intend to deliver.

And we have to.

We came to these policies, to these commitments, not because of a poll that we commissioned or a consultant that we sat with.

In fact, the polls said that you should focus on public safety, not affordability.

And I beat that guy.

There are many politicians who will tell you that the best life could ever be is the one that you're living in right now.

And those are also the ones who have paved the way for the politics we've seen of Donald Trump.

Because you have to be able to reckon with the material needs of working people and the fact that so many of them are going unmet.