Zohran Mamdani: “It's not just a dismantling done by a Republican…”

“Go ahead, Zoran. Well, look, I think it's, as you said, it's critical for us to be fighting this dismantling of the First Amendment. And what is so galling is that It's not just a dismantling done by a Republican administration in D.C. it's one that's also being done with the support through the silence of a number of other candidates for mayor, namely disgraced former governor Andrew Cuomo. who took 72 hours to say even a word. And when he issued that statement, we still didn't know whether he actually opposed the detainment or whether he was calling for the release of Mahmoud Khalil.” (08:49–09:00)

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