Welcome to meet the press now. I'm Kristen Welker. In Washington, we've been listening to President

Trump and New York City mayor-elect Zoran Mamdani, taking questions from reporters in their first

face-to-face meeting, striking a notably and extraordinarily constructive tone with each other.

The president calling it a great meeting and praising Mr. Mamdani's victory and wishing him success.

We are standing by right now to see if the mayor elect will speak to reporters gathered outside

the Oval Office. That is the expectation. It comes after during his campaign, Mayor-elect

Mamdani said he would be the president's, quote, worst nightmare.

And President Trump had called Mammany a communist lunatic and threatened to cut off billions of dollars in federal funds to the city.

But the two rivals telling reporters they've found common ground in their meeting on issues of affordability and crime.

Take a listen.

We've just had a great meeting, a really good, very productive meeting. We have one thing in

common. We want this city of ours that we love to do very well. But I just want to congratulate.

I think you're going to have hopefully a really great mayor. The better he does, the happier I am, I will say.

There's no difference in party. There's no difference in anything. And we're going to be helping

him to make everybody's dream come true, having a strong and very safe New York. And congratulations,

Mr. Mayor. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you. I appreciate it. Please.

I appreciated the meeting with the president.

And as he said, it was a productive meeting focused on a place of shared admiration and love, which is New York City,

and the need to deliver affordability to New Yorkers, the 8.5 million people who call our city their home,

who are struggling to afford life in the most expensive city in

the United States of America. We spoke about rent. We spoke about groceries. We spoke about

utilities. We spoke about the different ways in which people are being pushed out. And I

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