I have mixed views. But I think the way you’re describing him, you could’ve been talking about Donald Trump, honestly. Cozies up to dictators, says extreme things. C’mon.

At a time when Donald Trump is cutting SNAP benefits, gutting Medicaid, and once again leaving working people out to dry, the need for an unwavering fighter in City Hall has never been higher.

We need him because in his heart and in his bones he cannot accept a city that prices out the people who built it and keep it running.

I can say definitely — and I know better than anyone — that the answer is yes.

When Donald Trump wants you to be Mayor of NYC, you definitely shouldn’t get the job. Sorry, Andrew Cuomo.

He wants to keep the city safe.

He understands as a local elected official how important public safety is to people, and it’s not going to help him achieve his economic agenda if the city isn’t safe.

I think this is going to be the story of the beginning of the Trump administration, that everything was as extreme as it possibly could be, and the American people are not into extremism.

Just watch, brother. Just watch.

What's worse to me is not just saying, oh, we want to undo it because we want to undo it, but it's about January 6th.

He lied about knowing about it, and that's going to catch up with him soon.

That's what we call chaos. There's no verb for unpardoned. We don't have any.

"It's apples to oranges. For all things related to Trump, there was massive evidence in public view. No one's ever shown evidence of bribery (against Adams)," de Blasio said.

"The charges... were flimsy,"

"I've had my differences with Eric Adams, but I've known him a long time. He was a police officer for 20 years. He understands the law," de Blasio said.

"were flimsy," de Blasio said in an interview Friday with CBS News.

"From Day One, I thought the charges against him were very weak," de Blasio said.

"I believe in my heart, and this is from personal experience, that we've got to have maturity to know that just because some prosecutor brings a charge doesn't mean it's true."

"They were explicit that there was a clock in mind. They either had to prove their case or pull it," de Blasio said.

"The mayor has an opportunity to prove that notion false. He can put this to rest with his actions," de Blasio said.

I actually think the charges were not strong enough. They were affecting the democratic process in New York City.

We got to deal with this nationally on one level, but we don’t have any illusions about legislation anytime soon in the Congress, so it really comes down to going back to the local level recognizing that just policing can happen, does…

There is a horrible tendency. When something goes wrong for people in certain quarters, when maybe it’s commentators, maybe it’s politicians, to suggest that we’ve gone back to the 1970s, when it’s anything but.

I think we have to look at this first to the prism of COVID because go back to when you and I were last together, in this city, certainly we improve in crime went down with fewer arrests, less incarceration, consistent decrease in crime…