Zohran Mamdani (guest)

Yes, and the ability to pay is not a nominal amount.

We're talking about an average generally of $22,500 a year for a three-year-old or a four-year-old or a two-year-old.

And so to me, what democratic socialism is, the fulfillment of the ideal that underpins things that already exist within our society but are currently –

being applied in either a partial manner or not at all.

And it teaches me that the way I feel about housing and the way I feel about public transit and the way I feel about childcare, these are not different opinions necessarily.

They are in fact rooted in the same understanding of the world we should be living in.

You know, in this race right now, it's easy to view one of my opponents, Andrew Cuomo, through the caricature that he is creating of himself.

But prior to this moment, he was considered by many to be a leader in the Democratic Party.

One of the most prominent Democrats to emerge from this state.

At a point, someone that people were speaking about as a politician who should run for president of this country.

I remember.

And he is an example of so much of what has disappointed so many about our party.

Because for all that he is today, there have been examples of this in years past.

And these were the very things that we would overlook or we would simply see as parts of what politics had to be.

Yeah, get specific about it, if you don't mind.

And he's the same governor who ensured that there would be Republican power in Albany, such that the only progress that would be made was that which he was willing to accept.

Many of the same achievements that are accredited to him are the ones that he was initially an obstacle towards before becoming seen as the architect of.

Thinking about

This is the same person who cut funding for a program called Advantage that was providing millions of dollars in connecting homeless New Yorkers with apartments that they could live in.

And I actually met a woman right here in New York City who had just been approved to that program right before the funding was cut.