Now, talk about New York.

Did you think, for a moment, you've been a New York native your entire life, captain,

NYPD, you know, growing up there, you've seen the trouble, you change, you know, as a young man,

became a leader, run for mayor, and then all of a sudden today, you're going up against a guy,

the mayoral race that everybody in America is following.

Yes.

To go on against a Zoran Mamdani, who on many ways you look at it, this is a person that's a communist.

This is a person that's openly said how he feels about capitalism, how we said a lot about different things.

How did things get to a point that a

candidate like this out of nowhere is now being seen as possibly a guy that could win?

That's a great question because it's really not out of nowhere of those of us who were

watching what was taking place on the stage of not only New York City but America.

I told my team six months ago,

this guy's going to win,

and I need to be in a general so that I can go head to head to six months.

Six months ago, I sat down with my team.

And I said to the reporters,

I said, this is going to be the most fascinating race

in the history of New York City.

What happened was he already had a ready-made army that we were ignoring.

And if you go back, I was talking about the radicalization of our children on our college campuses to hate America, what we were seeing in the street, 10,000 people marching in our street,

lifting up Hamas. And I was saying our children are being radicalized. And so all he had to do

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