Discover video-sourced quotes by politicians

Brad Lander: “Attorney General Tish James has sued the Trump…”

Featuring: Brad Lander, Democratic | New York City Comptroller

Upper West Side Town Hall with NYC Comptroller Brad Lander

Published May 8, 2025 | Video Starts at 08:44

Thank you guys. We are seeing what happens when elected officials have guts. Like, how about Attorney General Tish James has sued the Trump administration multiple times. with her partners and other attorneys general, but she is showing up and saying, we're not going to let them undermine birthright citizenship, we're not going to let them cancel … (08:44–08:47)

CLAIM

Asserts that Attorney General Tish James has repeatedly taken legal action against the Trump administration.

This is an excerpt from a raw transcript. The assertions have not been audited or verified. Tap the video to view the source footage and understand the context.

Discover more from

Brad Lander

“We do [own] 2500 acres [of golf courses].”
Upper West Side Town Hall with NYC Comptroller Brad Lander | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 10:37-10:39
“Elon Musk tried to steal $80 million of your money from New York City's bank accounts.”
Upper West Side Town Hall with NYC Comptroller Brad Lander | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 10:56-11:10
“Andrew Cuomo spent $60 million of your money to defend himself in court.”
Upper West Side Town Hall with NYC Comptroller Brad Lander | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 45:35-45:40
“44% of the invoices have no backup documentation.”
Upper West Side Town Hall with NYC Comptroller Brad Lander | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 57:50-57:55
“50% of New Yorkers live in mixed status households, including 1 million children.”
Upper West Side Town Hall with NYC Comptroller Brad Lander | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 1:07:52-1:07:59
“It's illegal in New York City for more than three unrelated people to share an apartment.”
Upper West Side Town Hall with NYC Comptroller Brad Lander | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 1:21:50-1:21:55
“It is frightening when the government starts scooping people off the streets of the city in black hoods for speaking up, for writing op eds…”
Upper West Side Town Hall with NYC Comptroller Brad Lander | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 05:30-05:45
“It's frightening when the government's arresting judges.”
Upper West Side Town Hall with NYC Comptroller Brad Lander | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 05:44-05:48
“It's frightening when our budgets are being cut for health care and for housing and for education.”
Upper West Side Town Hall with NYC Comptroller Brad Lander | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 05:47-05:53
“We're seeing what it looks like not too far from here when a university administration yields to a bullying tyrant in Washington.”
Upper West Side Town Hall with NYC Comptroller Brad Lander | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 06:26-06:35
“We've seen what happens when law firms who take an oath to uphold the rule of law, great law firms like with histories in this town, like…”
Upper West Side Town Hall with NYC Comptroller Brad Lander | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 06:43-07:00
“We're not going to let [the Trump administration] undermine birthright citizenship.”
Upper West Side Town Hall with NYC Comptroller Brad Lander | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 09:00-09:04
“We're not going to let [the Trump administration] cancel climate programs.”
Upper West Side Town Hall with NYC Comptroller Brad Lander | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 09:00-09:07
“We're not going to let [the Trump administration] undermine DEI.”
Upper West Side Town Hall with NYC Comptroller Brad Lander | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 09:00-09:09
“We're not going to let [the Trump administration] roll back civil rights.”
Upper West Side Town Hall with NYC Comptroller Brad Lander | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 09:00-09:12
“We're not going to let [the Trump administration] cut New York City's funding.”
Upper West Side Town Hall with NYC Comptroller Brad Lander | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 09:00-09:15
“A couple thousand of our mentally ill neighbors are sleeping on subway platforms and sidewalks.”
Upper West Side Town Hall with NYC Comptroller Brad Lander | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 11:24-11:30
“Housing prices are so expensive that young people don't imagine they have a future in this city.”
Upper West Side Town Hall with NYC Comptroller Brad Lander | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 11:43-11:49
“Government has become so corrupt that people know contracts are going to cronies, going to family members.”
Upper West Side Town Hall with NYC Comptroller Brad Lander | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 11:56-12:04
“I didn't even know [Upper West Side Action Group] did endorsements.”
Upper West Side Town Hall with NYC Comptroller Brad Lander | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 14:01-14:09
“It was my thrill to get the endorsement of Upper West Side Action Group.”
Upper West Side Town Hall with NYC Comptroller Brad Lander | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 14:21-14:25
“Republican anxiety about the devastating harms that will be caused if they move forward to reconciliation [in Congress].”
Upper West Side Town Hall with NYC Comptroller Brad Lander | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 22:36-22:44
“I did a presser this morning in the controller's office to looking at the impacts on New York City's budget and the risks we face of…”
Upper West Side Town Hall with NYC Comptroller Brad Lander | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 22:44-22:53
“We focused on what we need to do to protect our budget.”
Upper West Side Town Hall with NYC Comptroller Brad Lander | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 22:53-22:57
“What's more critical is helping people see the harms that will take place in red states and other places.”
Upper West Side Town Hall with NYC Comptroller Brad Lander | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 22:57-23:04
“He [Andrew Cuomo] created a corruption commission, the Moreland Commission. And as soon as it started to realize the corruption was in the…”
Upper West Side Town Hall with NYC Comptroller Brad Lander | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 31:56-47:17
“The comptroller gets a ticket to the Met Gala because a hundred years ago, a controller named Andrew Haswell Green is the reason that the…”
Upper West Side Town Hall with NYC Comptroller Brad Lander | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 32:46-32:53
“I could not be more thrilled to be one of the candidates endorsed by the New York Working Families Party.”
Upper West Side Town Hall with NYC Comptroller Brad Lander | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 35:02-35:09
“The 13 women he [Andrew Cuomo] harassed, the seniors he sent to their deaths in nursing homes, then he lied about it and falsified the…”
Upper West Side Town Hall with NYC Comptroller Brad Lander | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 46:37-46:43
“Make the Road New York has been organizing in the trenches in New York City with immigrant New Yorkers, with working class New Yorkers…”
Upper West Side Town Hall with NYC Comptroller Brad Lander | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 47:55-48:34
“I will not push our retirees into Medicare Advantage and I will make sure we you have the health care you were promised.”
Upper West Side Town Hall with NYC Comptroller Brad Lander | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 50:15-50:26
“I've got a concrete plan for expanding NYC Care to our FQHCs to move toward Medicare for all.”
Upper West Side Town Hall with NYC Comptroller Brad Lander | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 50:46-50:55
“I've also put out the only plan in this race to privilege, protect reproductive rights and reproductive health care.”
Upper West Side Town Hall with NYC Comptroller Brad Lander | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 51:05-51:12
“We will create an independent authority that stands alongside H and H, that just uses city and state and private dollars.”
Upper West Side Town Hall with NYC Comptroller Brad Lander | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 51:59-52:07
“There's about 7,000 [AmeriCorps members] in New York right now.”
Upper West Side Town Hall with NYC Comptroller Brad Lander | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 53:05-53:09
“I was proud this week to be the only candidate in the race to release a comprehensive plan for our public schools.”
Upper West Side Town Hall with NYC Comptroller Brad Lander | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 53:47-53:54
“I have committed in this mayor's race that my number one commitment is to end street homelessness for people with serious mental illness.”
Upper West Side Town Hall with NYC Comptroller Brad Lander | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 55:07-55:15
“We will build fire 500,000 new homes, including 50,000 on just four of the city's 12 city owned municipal golf courses.”
Upper West Side Town Hall with NYC Comptroller Brad Lander | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 55:54-56:03
“50,000 homes on City owned land is a modern day Mitchell Llama.”
Upper West Side Town Hall with NYC Comptroller Brad Lander | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 56:13-56:18
“Trump is going to cut [public housing] maybe as much as half the budget.”
Upper West Side Town Hall with NYC Comptroller Brad Lander | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 56:46-56:49
“We've audited every single city agency.”
Upper West Side Town Hall with NYC Comptroller Brad Lander | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 56:54-56:57
“We developed and mocked up an app we call Yelp for NYCHA Repairs.”
Upper West Side Town Hall with NYC Comptroller Brad Lander | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 58:38-58:43
“We will have vendor scorecards for all NYCHA vendors driven by actual experience of tenants.”
Upper West Side Town Hall with NYC Comptroller Brad Lander | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 59:09-59:16
“It's a manage a 300,000 person bureaucracy to make the schools run better and make those housing agencies.”
Upper West Side Town Hall with NYC Comptroller Brad Lander | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 1:01:48-1:01:55
“I was proud to be one of the co-sponsors of New York City sanctuary city law when I was in the City Council.”
Upper West Side Town Hall with NYC Comptroller Brad Lander | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 1:04:38-1:04:46
“We strengthened [sanctuary city policies] a lot when I was in the City Council, including passing the bill that says ICE cannot be on Rikers…”
Upper West Side Town Hall with NYC Comptroller Brad Lander | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 1:05:02-1:05:10
“ICE will not be in our schools, in our hospitals, in our shelters, in our police precincts, and they won't be on Rikers Island either.”
Upper West Side Town Hall with NYC Comptroller Brad Lander | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 1:05:17-1:05:26
“The law provides already that if someone is convicted of a serious or violent offense, that's one thing. But otherwise, you have to have due…”
Upper West Side Town Hall with NYC Comptroller Brad Lander | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 1:05:26-1:05:37
“I was, I think, the first Jewish elected official to condemn the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil and of Mohsen Madawi.”
Upper West Side Town Hall with NYC Comptroller Brad Lander | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 1:06:27-1:06:35
“New York has about, you know, more than 8 million people. 40% of them are foreign born.”
Upper West Side Town Hall with NYC Comptroller Brad Lander | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 1:07:46-1:07:52
“A couple thousand people are on the wait list for childcare for every three-year-old.”
Upper West Side Town Hall with NYC Comptroller Brad Lander | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 1:07:59-1:08:05
“Make the Road New York has been doing that now for 30 plus years.”
Upper West Side Town Hall with NYC Comptroller Brad Lander | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 1:08:05-1:08:08
“Donald Trump would like to do away with [Section 504 of federal law]. It's in Project 2025.”
Upper West Side Town Hall with NYC Comptroller Brad Lander | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 1:10:32-1:10:37
“As comptroller, I hired the first ever disability rights liaison.”
Upper West Side Town Hall with NYC Comptroller Brad Lander | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 1:11:31-1:11:36
“We did audits of the express bus service and showed how express buses, which are really inaccessible, can be made much more accessible.”
Upper West Side Town Hall with NYC Comptroller Brad Lander | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 1:11:38-1:11:47
“We've created internships in our office for students with disabilities.”
Upper West Side Town Hall with NYC Comptroller Brad Lander | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 1:11:52-1:11:57
“Every new school I open is going to have universal design standards.”
Upper West Side Town Hall with NYC Comptroller Brad Lander | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 1:12:55-1:13:00
“Bike lanes are safe for cyclists, but they also keep the bikes off the sidewalks and it's more safe for pedestrians.”
Upper West Side Town Hall with NYC Comptroller Brad Lander | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 1:17:16-1:17:23
“Mopeds in particular are motor vehicles. They're legal if they have a license plate and are being driven by a licensed driver, but almost…”
Upper West Side Town Hall with NYC Comptroller Brad Lander | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 1:17:34-1:17:47
“You're not allowed to operate a car dealership that sells cars without license plates to drivers without licenses, and you're not actually…”
Upper West Side Town Hall with NYC Comptroller Brad Lander | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 1:17:57-1:18:09
“I plan to crack down on the moped dealers because if you want to sell a moped with license plates to drivers with licenses, fine.”
Upper West Side Town Hall with NYC Comptroller Brad Lander | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 1:18:08-1:18:17
“I plan to declare a housing emergency on day one so we can cut through a lot of the red tape that is slowing us down now.”
Upper West Side Town Hall with NYC Comptroller Brad Lander | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 1:20:28-1:20:41
“I want to put on the ballot the parts of City of Yes that were cut by the city Council. That would be another 30,000 units in a whole bunch…”
Upper West Side Town Hall with NYC Comptroller Brad Lander | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 1:21:19-1:21:29
“100 affordable artist studios are going in as well [in Gowanus].”
Upper West Side Town Hall with NYC Comptroller Brad Lander | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 1:22:31-1:22:36
“We can have a more affordable city.”
Upper West Side Town Hall with NYC Comptroller Brad Lander | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 1:24:14-1:24:17
“We can make sure that it's a New York that lives up to its values and stands up and fights for them as well.”
Upper West Side Town Hall with NYC Comptroller Brad Lander | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 1:24:16-1:24:23