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Reporting his signature will finalize a months-long effort to end California's authority to set stricter electric vehicle sales mandates for passenger cars and commercial trucks, along with higher standards for heavy-duty diesel engines. | |
| California Attorney General has promised to fight the decision, saying he plans to sue once the president signs the resolutions. | ||
| We'll have the president signing live scheduled to get underway at 11 a.m. Eastern. | ||
| We'll have that as soon as it begins here on C-SPAN. | ||
| There is the New York primary going on right now for Mayor of New York City. | ||
| And joining us to discuss that and chat about that is Ayana Harry. | ||
| She's a political reporter at Spectrum News for New York One. | ||
| Welcome, Ayana. | ||
| Thank you for joining us this morning. | ||
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Thank you for having me, Mimi. | |
| So there are 11 Democrats running to replace incumbent New York City Mayor Eric Adams. | ||
| He is also running and he's running as an independent. | ||
| Talk about his decision to do that. | ||
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Well, Mayor Eric Adams made the decision to run as an independent for his second term in office after really making his way through a pretty embattled last few months. | |
| You may recall Mayor Eric Adams was under federal indictment and facing a very serious corruption charge. | ||
| Those charges were eventually dropped by the Trump Department of Justice. | ||
| And Mayor Eric Adams said with the timing of when these charges were dropped, he just didn't have enough time to prepare a full and robust campaign to fight for another term in office as a Democrat. | ||
| So he said instead he'll take some time and focus instead on November. | ||
| So he is running on an independent ballot line in November. | ||
| But in the meantime, he has certainly been weighing into the Democratic primary. | ||
| He has had a lot of criticism for several candidates in the race, but in particular for the Democratic frontrunner right now, which is former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, Mimi. | ||
| And for the debate that's happening tonight, which we will be covering on C-SPAN, will all 11 candidates be on the stage? | ||
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This is a leading contenders debate, so there will only be seven candidates on the stage. | |
| And in order to qualify, the contenders had to meet polling or fundraising thresholds. | ||
| But these seven candidates, this is going to be a key and vital moment for them. | ||
| The real final pitch for them to reach voters before early voting starts and give an opportunity to share where they stand on some of the different issues. | ||
| Last week, we saw several issues brought up in a debate hosted on another network. | ||
| So it'll be interesting to see how the candidates continue to respond and also whether or not they will go after the frontrunner once again, Andrew Cuomo, or if they'll take a different strategy this evening. | ||
| And many viewers are familiar with Andrew Cuomo, but another contender is Zahran Mamdani. | ||
| Sorry if I'm not pronouncing that correctly. | ||
| What can you tell us about him? | ||
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So Zorhan Mamdani is pretty young. | |
| He's only 33 years old. | ||
| He is currently a state assemblyman. | ||
| And when he first started and first launched his campaign for New York City mayor, he had pretty much a zero name recognition. | ||
| In fact, I was speaking with a pollster from Emerson College and he called Zorhan Mamdani's rise in the polls in this Democratic primary pretty unprecedented. | ||
| But Zorhan Mamdani is really focused on his ground game. | ||
| His volunteers have knocked on hundreds of thousands of doors here in New York City. | ||
| They also have a very robust social media campaign. | ||
| And so they have been focused on reaching New Yorkers and also engaging New Yorkers who do not traditionally vote. | ||
| And we've seen the momentum that he has had in these polls. | ||
| He is now in second place, following closely behind Andrew Cuomo. | ||
| And it's unclear whether or not he might actually be able to close the gap leading up to primary day. | ||
| And what have been the major issues that have been talked about for this primary season? | ||
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By far, affordability. | |
| Right now, we hear so many stories here at New York One of longtime New Yorkers who feel like they're no longer able to afford to continue living in the city. | ||
| So many rising costs, especially on rent. | ||
| So there has been a big discussion as to whether or not there should be a rent freeze for the 1 million New Yorkers who live in rent-stabilized apartments. | ||
| And there's also been a large question on how or if and how the New York City mayor should be responding to policies set by President Donald Trump and, in particular, immigration enforcement policies. | ||
| In recent days, we have seen thousands of New Yorkers go out, protest on the streets of New York. | ||
| And so, one of the main questions for the candidates has been: how would you handle this situation if you were in City Hall? | ||
| And rank choice voting will be used for the first time in this primary. | ||
| Explain how that's going to work. | ||
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This is actually the second time that New Yorkers have had an opportunity to vote using ranked choice voting. | |
| So, when New Yorkers, if you're a Democrat and you're voting in the Democratic primary, you will have the opportunity to rank up to five candidates. | ||
| And in speaking with pollsters, many New Yorkers already know who they are going to rank number one. | ||
| But New Yorkers are still deciding who to rank two through five. | ||
| And so, that's part of the reason why moments like tonight's debate can be really crucial and critical for voters who are still trying to understand where each candidate may land on a particular issue and make up their minds and fully strategize and game out how they will vote on that ballot. | ||
| Aside from the top two, are there any other of the candidates that you think might have a chance? | ||
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Well, Adrienne Adams, she is the city council speaker, and she has really made a name for herself over the last year or so, challenging Mayor Eric Adams, challenging his policies in court. | |
| As she was a relatively late entrant into the race, she was encouraged to run by several people in elected office, including State Attorney General Letitia James. | ||
| So, Adrienne Adams, she's been slowly but steadily making her way up in the polls. | ||
| But there is a question because she entered so late, does she have time to catch up? | ||
| It's unclear. | ||
| So, I'll be looking to see if she perhaps has a breakout moment during tonight's debate that will help voters better know who she is and perhaps give her a little bit of a better chance ahead of the primary. | ||
| All right, that's Ayana Harry joining us from New York City from Spectrum News, New York One, a political reporter there. | ||
| Thanks so much for the update, Ayana. | ||
| And we're in open forum and want to hear what you think. | ||
| By the way, that New York City debate, as I mentioned, we will be covering that live. | ||
| The Democratic candidates running for New York City mayor. | ||
| They will participate in their second debate with less than two weeks to go before the June 24th primary election. | ||
| You can watch that live right here on C-SPAN. | ||
| That starts at 7 p.m. Eastern. | ||
| It's also going to be on our app, C-SPANNOW and online, c-span.org. | ||
| And back to your calls for open forum. | ||
| Let's start with Diana, Ben-Salem, Pennsylvania, Republican. | ||
| Good morning, Diana. | ||
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Hi, yeah, I'm really looking forward to that tonight. | |
| I'd like more information on the formats that they come up with. | ||
| The last one, where everyone has 30 seconds. | ||
| I don't know why everything has to be so rushed and why we can't have longer discussions. | ||
| It felt like the moderators have to cut them off after 30 seconds, that you're almost hearing as much time spent on the moderator cutting them off. | ||
| I'd like to see that finessed. | ||
| When the man says that he's in second, I don't know how the viewers are just supposed to trust that the young guy is actually in second. | ||
| I did think that the woman from city council had a wonderful presence. | ||
| So I guess right now she's in third. | ||
| So I'm really curious to see if we can make our debates even better for viewers. | ||
| I feel like it gives people heart palpitations because they go so fast. | ||
| And then my overall comment to all politicians, I'd really like to see us in America give money to veterans. | ||
| So tomorrow, if it was bad communication, I think it would have been an easy consensus if we gave the $45 million for the parade instead of to a parade. | ||
| Just give it right to the veterans. | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
| That's all I wanted to say. | ||
| All right, Diana, and this is Jay in Silver Spring, Maryland, Independent. | ||
| Hi, Jay. | ||
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Hi, Jay. | |
| I mean, sorry. | ||
| Hi, how are you doing? | ||
| Good. | ||
| I had a question. | ||
| I guess this is unrelated. | ||
| Just why are we not focusing on the Iran threat? | ||
| I mean, I just saw a tweet this morning that they wrote, we are ready, and they've been saying we've been two weeks away from a nuclear bomb, and their top agenda is to bomb Israel and bomb America, Smithereens. | ||
| They really hate us. | ||
| They hate everything we stand for. | ||
| Why is this not a top threat? | ||
| I don't hear this talked about. | ||
| Is it because we're worried about the anti-Muslim sentiment? | ||
| I mean, like, this is scary. | ||
| They want to kill us, right? | ||
| They want America gone. | ||
| Why are we not talking about the fact that they have the capability for a nuclear bomb? | ||
| And also, why is Trump going to go ahead and make deals? | ||
| This is just Iran Deal 2.0. | ||
| We have to go ahead and take a strong stance that we will not stand for this. | ||
| And what did you want the United States? | ||
| What did you want the United States to do, Jay? | ||
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I really think we should make the public aware of this threat a little bit more. | |
| And also, I really think we should take the vice of action and bomb them Smithereens, or at least let Israel go in there and take them out, you know? | ||
| Take out those nuclear power plants. | ||
| Here's Don in Madison, Ohio, Democrat. | ||
| Hi, Don. | ||
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Good morning. | |
| The reason I'm calling, Mimi, is I'm a former paratroop. | ||
| I served with the 173rd Airborne Brigade in Vietnam 68 through 69. | ||
| And to watch paratroopers be goaded into booing Biden by a four-time draft dodger, a woman molester, a 34-count felon. | ||
| And my big question is, where is the money coming from for the parade for a draft dodger? | ||
| Is he taking that money from the military? | ||
| Where is he getting it? | ||
| I don't understand that. | ||
| Thank you very much for taking my call, Mimi. | ||
| Okay, Don. | ||
| And that budget does come out of the Army's budget. | ||
| Well, here's White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt yesterday. | ||
| She was asked about the president's threat directed at would-be protesters at the Army parade on Saturday. | ||
| Here's that exchange. | ||
| In the president's comments yesterday, though, he just said protesters would be strongly dealt with. | ||
| In your list before, you referred to insurrectionists, rioters, and protesters together. | ||
| Obviously, they're quite different from your earlier answer. | ||
| I'm struck by the fact that the president has not at any point said the most important thing here is to protect the First Amendment rights of peaceful protesters. | ||
| So I'm wondering where in his hierarchy of interests does he place that? | ||
| Is the First Amendment protection the most important? | ||
| Is stopping violence most important? | ||
| Why is he not out saying all peaceful protesters will be protected? | ||
| I think two things can be important at the same time. | ||
| And the president, as I just answered, supports the right of Americans to peacefully protest. | ||
| He supports the First Amendment. | ||
| But that is not the majority of the behavior that we have seen taking place in Los Angeles. | ||
| We have seen mobs of violent rioters and agitators assaulting law enforcement officers, assaulting our federal immigration authorities. | ||
| And we have seen, as I said, this goes back to what this administration is trying to do and accomplish, and that's enforcing law and order in our nation's communities. | ||
| And it's removing public safety threats from communities in Los Angeles. | ||
| You're saying the majority have not been peaceful. | ||
| The majority have been lost. | ||
| I just read for you the arrest numbers. | ||
| We've arrested nearly 400 illegal aliens alone, just illegal aliens who have been arrested in these riots since June 6th, since they began the streets. | ||
| Yeah, and we've had hundreds of people who have assaulted law enforcement officers. | ||
| Are you saying that that's not appropriate behavior? | ||
| Are you saying that the Democrat, the Democrat governor, and the Democrat mayor of Los Angeles have failed their citizens? | ||
| And the majority of Americans, the majority of Californians, do not want to see law enforcement officers being assaulted in the streets. | ||
| And thankfully, the president took action and stepped in to protect our federal law enforcement agents, to protect federal buildings, to protect the federal mission of deporting illegal criminals off of our streets. | ||
| And that mission will continue every day as far as we're concerned. | ||
| The White House Press Secretary from yesterday. | ||
| And regarding the call about Iran, this is CBS News. | ||
| Israel is poised to launch Operation on Iran, according to multiple sources. | ||
| It says that the State Department has ordered non-emergency government officials to exit Iraq due to heightened regional tensions, and the Pentagon has authorized military family members to voluntarily leave locations throughout the Middle East. | ||
| It says that President Trump's Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, is still planning to meet with Iran for a sixth round of talks on the country's nuclear program in the coming days. | ||
| Here is John in Mechanicsville, New York. | ||
| Republican, good morning. | ||
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Good morning, Amy. | |
| Thanks for taking my call. | ||
| I'm a New Yorker. | ||
| I'm upstate. | ||
| And for years, I just watched the entire state be dominated by, well, mostly New York City politics. | ||
| And it just shocks me, the level of corruption, the level of incompetence. | ||
| Andrew Como, running for mayor of New York City now, when he was governor was a disgrace. | ||
| I mean, it really bothered me to watch this guy. | ||
| And I mean, with the sexual assault allegations, the worst thing, of course, putting COVID-positive patients back into nursing homes. | ||
| There's no way to quantify the number of people that died. | ||
| His constant berating of Trump. | ||
| You know, he's like in competition with Gavin Newsome to see who could one up in their criticism of Trump. | ||
| Yeah, what did Trump do? | ||
| Okay. | ||
| He got hospital ships for Como and Newsome. | ||
| He got the Jabbit Center conditioned for taking COVID-positive patients. | ||
| He gave Andrew Cuomo ventilators when Cuomo had the money from Barack Obama and spent it on other things. | ||
| Yet they continue to demonize Trump. | ||
| And these people in New York City, in the city council, what they're doing is constantly putting these buffoons in positions of power. | ||
| De Blasio, is there any accounting for the billion dollars his wife had to spend? | ||
| I mean, it just, it's, you know, Letitia James will go after Cuomo Bragg will let these people go. | ||
| Yet there's no accounting of these politicians in the city that are just wreaking havoc. | ||
| New York State is one-party rule. | ||
| In addition, they will allow, they will allow, okay, these mindless riots, you know, burning of property, looting of stores, attacks on the police. | ||
| They're all funded. | ||
| Who's funding them? | ||
| They don't seem to care. | ||
| So I don't know where it's going to end. | ||
| But one thing, if I may, and I'll end it with this. | ||
| Who's funding this? | ||
| You're watching these riots right now. | ||
| I don't think Trump has any choice. | ||
| He has to take their assets, okay, whether it be the Marines, the National Guard, all right, the police, or any other asset, to work together in unison to prevent property damage and loss of life. | ||
| And you know something? | ||
| They're doing their best. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| All right, John. | ||
| Here's Angela, Silmar, California, Independent. | ||
| Go ahead, Angela. | ||
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Hi, how y'all doing? | |
| Good. | ||
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You know, I'm really having a lot of anxiety here. | |
| I'm 65 years old. | ||
| My mother was born on a plantation in Louisiana. | ||
| I came to California in 67, right after the riots. | ||
| The way you all are describing Los Angeles, it's not true. |