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

Published January 21, 2025 | Video Starts at 00:26

I read it the day it came out. I have no reason to suck up to you. I thought it was ridiculous. It was flimsier even than I remember. You were indicted for accepting upgraded flights and for allowing the Turkish president to occupy his own building in Manhattan. The whole thing's crazy, actually. If you read it, what was your reaction when you found out you were being indicted? Well, I know how I live my life. (00:26–00:39)

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Asserts that the speaker was indicted for accepting upgraded flights and allowing the Turkish president to occupy a building.

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“Illegal aliens are getting [free hotels, housing vouchers, free cell phones, or free airplane tickets].”
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“Among native born African Americans, young men, the number's like over 50% [unemployment].”
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“The more immigration you have, the smaller the percentage of Americans who work.”
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“New York...committed an act of insurrection against the federal government by ignoring federal law.”
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“There's no evidence that the building was a fire trap or out of compliance with any fire regulation.”
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“You're under indictment for allowing foreign governments, Turkey, not North Korea, by the way, or Iran, but like a member of NATO, allowing…”
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“You were indicted by Joe Biden's Justice Department.”
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“Because you complained about allowing tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of illegals from, you know, foreign nationals who have no…”
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“Someone comes into our country illegally, from another nation, not invited here, in violation of our laws, and it's your responsibility to…”
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“If New York harbors [a criminal], it's harboring a criminal. It's violating federal law, and that is a form of insurrection.”
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“There is a labor crisis in the country. Obviously every employer says it and it's real.”
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“The native population stops working when you flood the country with foreigners.”
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“A lot of them [people hesitant to take the vax] lost their jobs. At the very least, they were yelled at and scolded by the Biden…”
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“The single largest private sector employer in your city, of course, is banking.”
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“You ban guns. Like, only the cops have guns.”
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“We're not allowing people to live on the sidewalk or sell fentanyl to kids.”
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“Daniel Penny tried to save a man's life. He gets indicted for doing the right.”
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“Some guy gets picked up, he's been arrested 47 times for violent crimes. Not prosecuted.”
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“You've got some of the worst prosecutors in the country. George Soros paid for them.”
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“A small number of people run all the weed supply chains and the retail, and they're making a ton of money.”
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“I'm kind of against all immigration right now. We have too much of it.”
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“I've never seen an African immigrant do anything like that.”
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“It's a very specific, affluent liberal culture that promotes doing all that stuff in public.”
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