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  • Tonight I sit down with Democratic rising star and New York City Mayor

  • Eric Adams to discuss whether he has what it takes to succeed

  • Joe Biden as the mega Botox thirty stapled face of the Democratic Party.

  • It's time for some big news.

  • Good evening.

  • I am news anchor speeding in a luxury fac mobil down headline highway

  • before plunging off journalist point and blowing up in a ball of stories and scoops,

  • Candid James Smartwood. Tonight when Republicans are not dismissing

  • President Trump's crimes as the youthful indiscretions of a wayward 76 year old,

  • they're campaigning against Democrats for being soft on crime.

  • For answers, the Democratic Party has turned

  • to the only one in their ranks potentially weird enough to take on Donald Trump,

  • New York City Mayor Eric Adams.

  • I sashayed these little hips to New York City Hall to ask Mayor Adams about crime,

  • conservative governors trafficking migrants,

  • and whether Adams has what it takes to carry on the Democrats proud tradition

  • of being functionally Republican.

  • Mr. Mayor, thank you for taking time from pressure

  • washing city hall for traces of Rudy Giuliani to speak with me today.

  • Let's begin with your journey to the mayor of the greatest city

  • on earth, where you can watch Hugh Jackman sing and dance for a mere months salary,

  • New York.

  • Why has your story broken through?

  • I mean, doesn't

  • the Democratic Party have enough jacked vegan ex-cop sexagenarian club kids?

  • That's a great description. I just think,

  • Pragmatic. You know? All of us remember

  • and recall our grandmothers, our aunties, our mom and dad

  • just giving us common sense.

  • Everyone talks about dollars and cents.

  • No, it's common sense.

  • And that is the philosophy.

  • That is how I approach life.

  • Just common sense things to do.

  • Speaking of common sense, you've said that because of rare gems and stones

  • under New York, there's a special energy that comes from here.

  • Do you stand by that statement? Don't you feel it?

  • You know where my my gems and my stones.

  • Great energy.

  • Now, here's the problem, though.

  • Every four years, a politician says, I believe my city is powered by gems.

  • Weirdo voters get them elected.

  • Then like clockwork, the lobbyists move in and the politician abandons

  • their whole whack a doodle vibe.

  • Can you look me in the eye and promise that you're different?

  • And by the end of your first term, we'll build a giant glass eyeball

  • that unlocks Newark's interdimensional power.

  • Well, first of all, the lobbyists can't move in.

  • It's too expensive.

  • We got to bring down the cost of living in New York.

  • Absolutely.

  • Are you going to build that eyeball though? Yes, without a doubt.

  • Let's talk about your feud with Republican Texas governor and rich

  • villain in a 1980s ski patrol comedy, Greg Abbott.

  • He's been bussing

  • migrants to New York City in protest of the Biden administration's immigration

  • policies and also Republicans not paying enough attention to him.

  • Obviously, you've oppose these actions.

  • If you and Governor Abbott cannot agree that migrants are political props,

  • what hope is there that Americans can find any common ground?

  • Listen, he is inhumane.

  • He's carried out inhumane actions.

  • And it really is just put a tarnish on the dignity of this country.

  • Now you're just quoting his campaign slogan.

  • And so we say those who come here, we're going to

  • fulfill our legal but moral obligation to take care.

  • Now, in response, you threatened to send New Yorkers

  • to Texas to campaign against Governor Abbott.

  • First of all, great plan.

  • There's nothing

  • Texans love more than being told what's best for them by New Yorkers.

  • But if you do it, those New Yorkers will need strong, substantive

  • opposition research on Governor Abbott, which luckily my team has dug up.

  • Go ahead, read those aloud.

  • See what you think. Sounds like a plan.

  • All right.

  • Greg Abbott is proud that Texas

  • ranks 31st in education.

  • But that's because he thinks it's out of

  • out of one hundred states.

  • That's a good one.

  • Greg Abbott is so unlikable,

  • Heidi Cruz wants to marry him.

  • That's right.

  • Greg Abbott is so bad.

  • And how bad is he?

  • That Texas voters are considering doing the unthinkable,

  • electing Beto O'Rourke.

  • It's fine,

  • he's hot.

  • Now on the campaign trail,

  • when you weren't talking about your number one issue,

  • what you put in your morning smoothie.

  • You were talking about crime.

  • Bloomberg reports that misdemeanor arrests in New York City jumped 25%

  • in the first six months of Mayor Eric Adams administration.

  • These are small crimes like subway fare evasion and sleeping on a park bench.

  • But these arrests do let concerned New Yorkers know

  • Mayor Adams will not tolerate being poor in this city.

  • Can you promise that by the end of your term,

  • every New Yorker will be rich or in jail?

  • Every New Yorker will feel safe.

  • Misdemeanor arrests, those are the quality of life issues.

  • We lost almost $500 million on those jumping the turnstile.

  • No enforcement.

  • They start out as misdemeanor arrests, they enter the system,

  • then they commit felonies. That's what history has shown us.

  • Now, in one notable police incident, the NYPD arrested a saxophone musician

  • for allegedly violating subway rules and regulations.

  • You call the NYPD response, proper policing.

  • Are you concerned the NYPD does not have enough funding

  • when you only have six cops in your saxophone strike force?

  • Oh, negative.

  • Omnipresence.

  • Them being there.

  • Quality of life is the number one issue people complain about.

  • Yep.

  • Well, do you need additional resources to protect the city

  • from the other instruments out there?

  • Someone could be playing the trumpet, trombone, piano.

  • What else is there?

  • A sax--? Well, we talked about saxophone. That was the big one.

  • And that's the one with the guy got roughed up pretty bad.

  • Now President Biden is on the campaign trail striking a very Eric Adams-esque

  • tone with respect to law and order.

  • Have you considered barring one of Joe Biden's trademarks

  • and getting contacts that give you a pair of bleak, lifeless shark eyes?

  • Negative. I love my eyes.

  • What about seesawing in and out of COVID

  • every 20 minutes? You considered stealing that from Biden?

  • No, we are fine.

  • What about bi-weekly brow lifts?

  • Negative.

  • Maybe you could get more sound bites to begin with,

  • To quote my good friend Strom”?

  • No.

  • What about heading down to the shelter and adopting a couple

  • of the most violent dogs since the third act of Cujo?

  • I'm trying to find a dog.

  • Oh, you'll be fine. There are dogs everywhere.

  • Mr. Mayor, thank you. And best of luck.

  • Not that you'll need it

  • with all your quantum chakras aligned and gem bracelet fully charged.

  • Thank you, Mayor Adams.

  • But I will note that as of this airing, Central Park woefully lacks

  • the promised glass eyeball.

  • Typical politician behavior there.

Tonight I sit down with Democratic rising star and New York City Mayor

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