Stand up to the against the powerful. Brother, you are the powerful. And your whole career can be defined by not standing up to the power. Standing up to go. Yes, sir. What would you like, sir? I'll deliver anything you like, sir. Hello, I'm Andrew Cuomo, and unless you've been living under a rock, you [00:00:19] probably know that the Democratic primary did not go the way I had hoped to the 440,000 New Yorkers who voted for me. A sincere thank you. Thank you for believing in me and my agenda and in my experience. And I am truly sorry that I let you down. [00:00:37] But as my grandfather used to say, when you get knocked down, learn the lesson and pick yourself back up and get in the game. And that is what I'm going to do. Well, after getting trounced in the Democratic primary for New York [00:00:53] City's mayoral race by Zoran Mamdani, Andrew Cuomo, the former disgraced governor of New York, is deciding that he's still going to run. He's just going to run as an independent. Now, this has led to some backlash among similar, you know, [00:01:13] establishment type Democrats. We're going to get to that in just a minute. But Cuomo is attempting to also co-opt Mamdani's campaign strategy, which you'll notice in Cuomo's latest announcement video. Take a look. My opponent, Mr. Mamdani, offers slick slogans, but no real solutions. [00:01:31] We need a city with lower rents, safer streets. We're buying. Your first home is once again possible where child care won't bankrupt you. That's the New York City we know. That's the one that is still possible. [00:01:47] You haven't given up on it, and you deserve a mayor with the experience and ideas to make it happen again. And the guts to take on anyone who stands in the way. You used to be the governor of New York State. [00:02:06] Housing affordability was not a priority of his at all. Not even a little bit. And the reason why I say he's the former disgraced governor of New York is because Andrew Cuomo did two major things. One led to his ouster. But one of the things that he did was he sent elderly individuals [00:02:23] who had Covid back to nursing homes. Covid spread, and a lot of elderly people died as a result. That was, in my opinion, a massive, massive scandal. And that's what should have ousted him from his role as governor. [00:02:39] But that wasn't what ousted him. What ended up ousting him was the multiple allegations of sexual harassment and sexual assault lodged against him, with women who used to work with him and the like. So that that ended up being the scandal that hurt him politically. [00:02:54] But, you know, as he was filming that announcement video focusing on affordability, which, again, is Zoran Mamdani's campaign strategy, Mamdani noticed that he was filming it. And here's what he said. [00:03:10] We got him making man on the street videos with a guy in, oh. With a guy in Carhartt. By next week, he'll be sipping a chai and eating kale at Arnel. [00:03:26] And after Cuomo's video was published, Mamdani wrote Cuomo, I am now running on affordability. Also, Cuomo there's no real answer on affordability. And look, the fact of the matter is, we know. We know exactly what kind of game Andrew Cuomo was playing here. He doesn't give a damn about affordability. [00:03:42] He didn't tackle that issue at all when he was governor. It's not like housing prices were affordable when he was governor. So this is all just so pathetic. And, you know, Mamdani is, by the way, also referencing an interview that Cuomo did yesterday or recently, I shouldn't say yesterday. Recently, with New York Magazine, Cuomo said that he would make [00:04:00] affordability a cornerstone of his general election campaign, but would run on the notion that he will actually be able to make the city more affordable, while Mamdani will only talk about it. So what would he do on housing affordability? There is no real answer, he said. Ooh, compelling. [00:04:20] He's such a joke. He's such a joke. Jake. One more, one more. Excerpt. This is from David Friedlander, in Intelligencer. The key was not to freeze the rent, but to build a lot of both affordable and market rate housing. While broader affordability could only be tackled by making government [00:04:38] more efficient by cutting taxes. Quote, that is really the only truth that's not pithy or sexy, I know, but it's also the truth. It's first of all, we do need to build more housing. And that does have, a connection to affordability. [00:04:55] The lack of housing is a very big problem. But like cutting taxes and making government more efficient, it's just it's amazing to me. And by the way, he's not even being real. Okay, all of these Democrats pretend like they're going to increase the stock of housing and they never actually do it. [00:05:11] I know better than anyone as an Angeleno. Okay, we've been hearing the same fantasies and fairy tales from Democrats in local leadership here in Los Angeles and in California in general. Jake, back to you. Yeah. So we're asking on the web on.com who wins round two, Mamdani or the establishment [00:05:29] in Andrew Cuomo because trust me, this is a heavyweight fight. If you think the establishment is just going to go away and let Mamdani win. I mean, that means you're not paying any attention to any of the news, right? They're attacking Mamdani like 2 or 3 times a day. Oh, we found a paper he wrote in eighth grade, [00:05:46] and there are a lot of misspellings here. Okay. New York Times breaking story. I mean, all of mainstream media, all the establishment hate Mamdani. So attack after attack, they're going to help Cuomo in every imaginable way. So they're not going away. I got it at 50 over 50. No, 5545 Mamdani [00:06:06] because even though the establishment is going to go nuclear here, try to take out Mamdani, everything they're doing is counterproductive. So let's talk about that. Let's talk about, the the, the video that you saw, Cuomo said he's just running [00:06:24] on slick slogans and no real solutions. No, actually, he's doing the exact opposite. I don't know any of his slogans, but I know a whole bunch of policy proposals that are super specific that he put forward. In fact, we're all talking about them, right? The free grocer. Like not free. [00:06:39] Free the grocery stores run by the city. And, you know, the free bussing. So we've talked very specific policies. Then you ask Cuomo. Okay, then, Mr. Slick, what's your, real policies, like tax cuts for the rich? Oh, come on, come on. [00:06:57] Right. You serious? And then the second thing he said is you need a mayor with ideas and with the guts to stand up for the people. So what's your ideas? Literally, I have no real answer. That's what he said. That's what he said. [00:07:13] I mean, look, that's the thing with the establishment. They say the exact opposite of reality. And the only thing that propped him up was mainstream media. That's why this is a heavyweight fight. Mainstream media was like, oh, that's right, no real answers is the best answer. And Mamdani, with all those specific answers, has no answers. [00:07:29] And you're like, what? And in the old days, that would have worked because there was no other media. There was mainstream media. And the Young Turks would be hanging out in these woods and online for 20 years, like yelling into the abyss and gathering up this populist crowd. But like, like, guys, this is insanity. But now, no, the monopoly is broken. [00:07:49] And part of how Mamdani broke the monopoly was being his own media. This is what I've been telling progressives for like a decade. Make videos. Make videos. You can be your own media. Go on the street and talk to people. Tell them about your policies. Put that up online. [00:08:04] I mean, welcome to the new world. Let's go. Let's go. And Mamdani proved brilliantly, so brilliantly that all of a sudden, Cuomo's in the streets. - It's hilarious. - It's hilarious. Right. So he's. Oh, I am shaking hands with real people. [00:08:19] And did you know they didn't even give me a check? Not even $5,000, but yet I shook their hand. Hand wipe. Who are you kidding? Cuomo. Who are you kidding? Come on. Every time you ring the bell below, an angel gets his wings. [00:08:34] Totally not true. But it does keep you updated on our live shows.