When it started it was all kumbaya,

let's beat Trump together.

But now it's turned into a season of "Game of Thrones".

Everyone backstabbing.

The house of Bernie has grown in strength and size.

(audience laughs)

While facing a challenge from the kingdom of Buttigieg.

(audience laughs)

Meanwhile, the once powerful Lord Biden

is slowly watching his influence slip away.

And don't forget, once they're all done fighting each other,

they will have to face off against

the ultimate enemy, the white king.

(audience laughs) But.

Just like "Game of Thrones", there's one character

who's been off in the wings plotting the whole time.

The imp.

You see, national polls now have billionaire

Mike Bloomberg moving into third place.

And President Trump has taken notice

of this big little threat.

And he's already trying to defeat him in a trial by Twitter.

- A Twitter war heating up between President Trump

and one of the men who wants to take his job.

The president took aim at former Mayor Mike Bloomberg,

saying, "Mini Mike is 5'4" mass of dead energy

"who does not want to be on the debate stage

"with these professional politicians.

"No boxes please."

Bloomberg responded, writing, "We know many

"of the same people in New York.

"Behind your back they laugh at you

"and call you a carnival barking clown.

"They know you inherited a fortune

"and squandered it with stupid deals and incompetence.

"I have the record and the resources

"to defeat you, and I will."

- Oh! (audience exclaims)

Oh! (audience applauds)

Oh!

This is crazy.

Two mega-rich dudes dissing each other

in the most personal way.

It would be like if a rap battle was in CNBC.

(audience laughs)

And the sad part, the sad part for me,

is that billionaire feuds used to be so much more dignified.

Back in the day, it wasn't on Twitter.

They'd be like, Mr. Trump, I have commissioned

a devastating opera that disparages

both you and your lineage.

Be like, well, Master Bloomberg, at this very moment,

a team of artists is sculpting a middle finger

from the world's finest Italian marble.

(audience laughs)

In eight to nine months you will be truly owned.

(audience laughs)

But right now, Donald Trump is the least

of Mike Bloomberg's problems.

See, the real threat to Bloomberg's campaign is his past.

- [Reporter] Mike Bloomberg facing new

criticism tonight amid audio that has surfaced

on the controversial policy of stop-and-frisk.

- [Reporter] Bloomberg is under fire tonight

after a 2015 speech surfaced,

where he defends his controversial stop-and-frisk policy,

and explained why cops are put in minority neighborhoods.

- [Mike] 95% of your murders and murderers

and murder victims fit one M.O.

You can just take the description,

Xerox it and pass it out to all the cops.

They are male, minorities, 15 to 25.

We put all the cops in the minority neighborhoods.

Yes, that's true.

Why do we do it?

Because that's where all the crime is.

And the way you get the guns out of the kids' hands

is to throw them up against the wall and frisk 'em.

- Wow.

That is not a good look.

Think about it, while Bloomberg is out there

trying to win there black vote in 2020,

he's on tape in 2015 talking about

black people like they're crime pinatas.

Just throw them against the wall, see what comes out.

Could be a gun, could be a Tootsie Roll, it's fun.

(audience laughs)

This is not a good look.

Getting caught on tape encouraging police

to arrest black people is definitely

gonna hurt you with black voters.

It's the same way you would lose white voters

if a tape came out of you saying

that pets aren't the same as babies.

(audience laughs) Yeah.

All the pumpkin spice in the world

can't save you after that.

White people would be mad.

This is my baby.

(audience laughs)

Now, if it was just one bad audio clip, maybe,

maybe Mike Bloomberg could get past it and move on.

The problem is Mayor Mike has a long history

of defending stop-and-frisk,

and now even video clips are coming out.

- And yet another video clip drops tonight,

reporting to show Mayor Mike Bloomberg

discussing hot topics with racial overtones.

- They just keep saying, oh, it's a disproportionate

percentage of a particular ethnic group.

I think we disproportionately stop

whites too much and minorities too little.

- Yeah.

According to Mike Bloomberg, white people

were the real victims of stop-and-frisk.

Imagine that.

Black people and Latinos spent years, years,

saying that they were being harassed by the police.

And Bloomberg's response was,

I hear you, we have been unfair to white people.

(audience laughs)

It almost feels like if Bloomberg was Abraham Lincoln,

he would've ended slavery, but for the totally wrong reason.

Be like, we need to end this cruel abomination.

Too many white people are getting

carpal tunnel in their whipping hands.

(audience laughs) We've gotta help them.

Now since these clips came out, Bloomberg

has been facing a lot of pressure to explain himself.

And something tells me he's struggling with how to respond.

- [Reporter] Campaigning in Tennessee today,

Michael Bloomberg expressed regret for comments from 2015

about New York City's controversial stop-and-frisk policy.

- [Reporter] Mr. Mayor, why did you say

what you said in that 2015 speech?

- Um.

(audience laughs)

- I can safely say I have never seen

the three typing dots in real life.

(audience laughs)

Look at him.

(audience applauds)

You never see him like this.

Mike Bloomberg hasn't been this stressed

since he got into that fight in the subway.

(audience laughs)

But my bad, I shouldn't have interrupted.

I'll let him answer.

- I don't think those words reflect

how I led the most diverse city in the nation.

I apologized for the practice and the pain that it caused.

- [Reporter] But why did you say it?

- It was five years ago.

It's just not the way that I think

and it doesn't reflect what I do every day.

- Yeah, of course it doesn't reflect what you do every day,

you're not the mayor anymore.

Nobody thinks you're stopping and frisking

black people on your personal time.

I mean, mostly because you can't reach their pockets.

(audience laughs)

But also, it's weird that he tries to dismiss

those clips by saying it was five years ago.

Five years?

What difference is that supposed to make for you?

Look, five years ago, I was just a 72-year-old man.

I didn't know any better.

(audience laughs)

I'm much older now, which automatically

makes you less racist.

(audience laughs)

But clearly the comments in those clips

do reflect what Bloomberg was doing as mayor.

For the simple reason that it's what he did as mayor.

You don't have to be a genius to figure this out.

As much as Bloomberg is trying to reposition himself

now that he needs the support of black voters,

he encouraged his police department

to treat black people like they were all criminals.

And even as he keeps trying to apologize,

he's never really taking responsibility for what he did.

He apologizes for pieces.

Oh, well, I ran a diverse place.

He's not saying for what he actually did.

It would be like if you caught cheating,

and your apology was, babe, I'm so sorry.

I'm sorry that I didn't delete those messages

from my phone, I should've hid them better.

It's like, no, that's not.

Yeah, no, you're right, you're right.

I should've smashed in a hotel

instead of our bed, you're right, you're right.

I've learned my lesson, yeah, yeah.

Your friends are off-limits.

From now on, strangers only, baby, strangers only.

(audience laughs)

So that's where Mike Bloomberg is now.

As much as he tries to move forward and get out of this,

reporters won't let the story go.

They keep hassling him at events,

questioning him about his motives,

just trying to find any little that he's done wrong.

It must be so frustrating for him.

And to that I say, Mike Bloomberg,

welcome to the world of stop-and-frisk.

We'll be right back.

You know the biggest issue, I think,

I have and many other people have with Mike Bloomberg

and how he's defending his stop-and-frisk record

is that he doesn't seem to know what he's defending.

And that for me is a problem.

He goes, oh, I apologize for the policy.

And people are not as angry about the policy, I think,

as how the policy was targeted.

Because for so many years, especially in America,

black people have said, hey, the police

are targeting us just because we're black.

They treat us like we're all criminals,

they're not just trying to go for criminals.

And what would people say?

Oh, you're overreacting.

Cops are not just gonna throw you against a wall.

You must've done something.

And I can imagine for a long time for many black Americans,

it must've felt like being gaslit.

You know what's happening to you,

you say what's happening to you,

and people are like, that's crazy.

And I can imagine how for many white people in America,

they're like, that is crazy.

You just get thrown against the wall, why?

You must've been doing something.

'Cause white people are like,

I've never been thrown against a wall,

that would never happen to me.

You just get thrown against the wall, that's it?

I see cops all the time, I say,

hello officer, they say, hello sir, and then I keep walking.

(audience laughs)

You just get thrown against a wall?

That doesn't make any sense.

And then a lot of black people were like,

you white people are being racist 'cause you don't,

and white people are like, that is insane,

cops will not just throw.

And I can see how people have lived

in these worlds for so long.

And then now you have audio of Mike Bloomberg saying.

And that audio for me, if you break it down into pieces,

has so many issues with it.

First of all, the fact that he says,

if you look at criminals and victims

of crime, et cetera, you can Xerox,

you can just copy and paste it and put it out there.