But what happened with Eric was first, I think he lost the confidence of New Yorkers because New Yorkers are bottom line people, and they're impatient people, and they want you to make change and they want you to make change now. And In fact, the city was deteriorating under Mayor Adams. So I think he lost their confidence. And then he got into that personal mess with the U.S. attorney and he needed to get out of having a trial, so he had to make a deal with Trump. (59:27–59:32)
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