The partnership between the federal
government and the city and state uh
governments is extremely important and I
think there's a role we need. My role is
to make sure New York is are safe and
the numbers are showing. We're doing
that and the partnership of making sure
guns don't come into our city and that's
what we want to continue to do with the
federal government. We already uh
collaborate with the federal government
every morning 10:00 a.m. with Haida,
city, state, and federal authorities to
go after shooters and those who bring
guns into our cities.
>> Um when he talks about the National
Guard potentially coming here to New
York and in the event that that happens,
is there anything you can do to
counteract that? I mean, you know, what
what would it look like if National
Guard's members, you saw in DC, 2,000 of
them on the streets of Washington, if
they were here, uh you know, on 90th
Street? Well, the the goal is the
relationship between the federal
government and DC is different than the
relationship between uh New York City in
the federal government. And again, our
communications with the federal
government is we we got this. Uh we
removed over 23,000 illegal guns off our
streets. We see we're witnessing record
levels of decreasing crimes, homicides,
and shootings in the first six months
and shooting victims in the first seven
months. And so we are very clear, always
have been. I have never moved away from
the public safety. That's the
prerequisite to our prosperity. And
we're going to continue to do an amazing
job. And if the federal government wants
to communicate with us and ask us to go
to other municipalities and help them
see what we're doing, we're willing to
do that because a safe America is a safe
New York City and we want to help any
way we can.
>> You know, I want to ask you about um
November election as it relates to that.
Um, you know, one of your opponents,
Andrew Cuomo, has said if Manny gets in
office, then Trump takes control of New
York City, then Trump does put the
National Guard here. Do you think that
could happen?
>> Uh, Andrew will say anything to anyone
to get elected. Uh, he created this. He
passed the cannabis laws. I had to close
down 1500 cannabis shops because of the
failed law he passed. He did the bail
reform. That's the revolving door
criminal justice system that we're
looking at. He closed psychiatric beds.
So every time you see someone push
someone on the subway track because of
severe mental health illness or stab
three innocent in New Yorkers, you have
to ask yourself, why do we close those
beds? Raise the age. We're seeing young
people are victims of crimes more and
more and they're shooters as well. These
are all of his bills. I had to fix his
mess. And so Madani's call to uh defund
police, his calls to legalize
prostitution, his calls to calls to
empty Riker's Island, they're two of the
same people. New York has come too far
to go backwards.