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  • - The Democratic primary campaign.

  • 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.