00:00We are standing in front of Federal Plaza, the very site where New Yorkers are being
00:25stolen, whether from their families, their friends, or from the city that they call home.
00:34It is at this very site that we understand the cost of this news that former Governor
00:40Cuomo has been conspiring with President Trump about the fate of this city, about the future
00:46of this city, about the facts of this race.
00:51It is knowledge that is a betrayal of everything that we stand for as New Yorkers.
01:09He would actually have a conversation with the very president who is stealing food from
01:15the hungry, who is throwing New Yorkers and Americans from coast to coast off of their
01:20health care, and doing so all in service of yet another significant wealth transfer between
01:27those who do not have enough in their pocket to those who have more than they know what
01:31to do with.
01:33We know that Andrew Cuomo will sell working people out for his interests, for the interests
01:39of the billionaires that supported him, for the interests of Donald Trump, because all
01:44of those interests are lining up as one and the same.
01:50It is time for us to say enough.
01:53It is time for us to make clear that what this city deserves is a mayor who, when he sees Donald
02:01Trump attacking the people of this city, will stand up and fight back against that vision,
02:06will not get on the phone with the architect of that vision, to speak about a race that
02:12we already know should be a referendum on how to make the most expensive city in the United
02:17States of America affordable, not a question of how we can install yet another ambassador
02:22for Washington, D.C. in City Hall.
02:24It is knowledge that is a betrayal of everything that we stand for as New Yorkers.
02:32I am surrounded by New Yorkers for whom this cost is lived every single day, for whom this
02:40question and this decision to get on the phone with Donald Trump has a significant and tangible
02:46impact on their lives and the lives of those that they serve.
02:53And as we stand here at Federal Plaza, I do so knowing that it is just blocks from here
02:59where I got my citizenship, where I was sworn in as an American, in this city that I was
03:06raised in.
03:07And knowing that if Donald Trump is to act upon his threats, to denaturalize me, it will
03:14likely take place right at this plaza.
03:19The job of mayor is not to audition to be the jester for a want to be king.
03:25It is to be the person that stands up for the values of this city, for the fabric of
03:31this city, and for the people of this city.
03:34And that is what I am running to do.
03:36Donald Trump has asked more votes than any Democratic primary winner in New York City history.
03:43Donald Trump has not called me.
03:46I have said that my approach to Washington will not be a reflexive one.
03:51It is one that will be in opposition to Donald Trump's administration when it comes for New
03:58Yorkers, when it comes at the expense of the welfare of the people that I am seeking to serve.
04:02If the president and the administration is looking to work for the benefit of New Yorkers,
04:07which is what he spent so much of his campaign speaking about, that is a different conversation.
04:12If he wants to actually act upon the cheaper groceries that he told us he would deliver,
04:16that is a different conversation.
04:18But what threatens the president so much about my campaign, our movement, is the fact that
04:29it showcases the way in which he has betrayed the very people that we are seeking to serve.
04:34There is significant wealth transfer between those who do not have enough in their pocket.
04:39Show me what democracy looks like.
04:42This is what democracy looks like.
04:44When we fight, we win.
04:46When we fight, we win.
04:48When we fight, we win.
04:50We win.
05:04We win.
05:09We win.
