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Eric Adams: “I did nothing wrong and I'm going to fight to the bitter end…”

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Interview with Mayor Eric Adams on New York City Challenges and Personal Indictment

Published January 21, 2025 | Video Starts at 00:24

I would not want my mother to watch me go through this. No American should go through what I'm going through. That is just not the criminal justice system I fought for. I did nothing wrong and I'm going to fight to the bitter end for this city. I'm out working in the field again in New York City. This time I'm in front of Gracie Mansion, the home of Mayor Eric Adams. (00:24–00:28)

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Asserts innocence regarding the indictment and commitment to fight for the city.

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“I inherited a city where we were looking at a 40% increase in crime.”
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“30 to 40% of our inmates that are in our prisons and jails are dyslexic.”
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“Yes, we should [close the border]. Until we get it under control and decide.”
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“Yes, we should [close the border]. We should control the process.”
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“Based on what I read, it's clear that if it's campaign violations, I know I don't violate the campaign.”
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“If it's foreign donors, I know I don't take money from foreign donors.”
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“We expect these charges to be dismissed.”
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“We ignored for many years how loneliness plays a major role in the social determinants of health.”
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“The idea of sanctuary city and those who are paroled into the country has been conflated.”
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“A sanctuary city. This was a law that was passed by former Mayor Koch and was also modified by Mayor Bloomberg.”
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“New York City has a right to shelter law that tells you if you are in New York City, you have a right to have shelter.”
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“No one thought that was going to mean 225,000 migrants and asylum seekers.”
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“Yes, when I came into office, we had 65,000 people in our care already.”
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“With the migrants and asylum seeker crisis, that's an additional 220,000 that overwhelmed the city.”
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“The right to shelter law never was intended for humanitarian crises of housing everyone across the globe.”
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“We went to court and we said to the court that this was not the intention of right to shelter.”
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“The court agreed with us and we were able to make some modification in that.”
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“We're now giving you 30 days if you're a single adult, 60 days if you are a family with children.”
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“Those who abuse their right to be in this country by violating and harming innocent people, they should not be here after they served their…”
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“Cities should not carry the weight of federal issues.”
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“We have a shortage, et cetera. We should control the process.”
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“We have continuously witnessed a decrease in crime.”
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“We have six to seven hundred foster care children that age out every year.”
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“We're giving them now we're paying their college tuition, giving them a stipend to live daily, and we're giving them life coaches until…”
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“The program is called Fair Futures here, but it is an investment.”
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“We basically profitize poverty.”
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“There's so much money that's being generated and made off of properties and poverty.”
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“It's almost a tenth of what it costs pulling people out of the river.”
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“Professional entities that deal with downstream management and responses.”
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“It's more cost saving, it's better for taxpayers, and it does not perpetuate the continuation of, of the problem that we're facing.”
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“We're seeing a complete collapse and erosion of law enforcement.”
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“When you look at the reading and math scores across the country, how dismal they are.”
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“The classroom is still the same.”
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“We changed our entire reading curriculum against what was normally being done. And the entire state is following us.”
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“We believe the country is going to follow us.”
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“I have been to Rikers island, our jail, more than any man in the history of the city.”
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“Eight out of ten [inmates at Rikers Island] raise their hands [when asked if they have a learning disability].”
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“We're doing dyslexia screening in our jails.”
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“I will continue to do the job for 8.3 million New Yorkers that I was elected to do.”
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“I was extremely vociferous about what was happening to this city during the migrants and asylum seeker issue.”
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“No American should go through being on the FBI watch list because you're standing up for your family member.”
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“The American public is not aware of how I believe we have really abused our criminal justice system.”
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