![]() Pedestrian: Hey, thanks for taking care of us. So how could you be on his committee?" Because you don't agree with everything that people do. One, I disagree on what we have been doing this far, and people often try to say, "Well, you know, disagree with the president on this and how the White House has handled it. So, what … you've been critical of the federal government, what would you like the federal government to be doing right now to help cities like New York? Mayor Adams, one of the challenges you've been dealing with, you've been outspoken about, is just the number of migrants who've come into New York and trying to deal with that in a humane way, but also in a way that is viable. So, if people who took my innocent words of saying spirituality is crucial, then let them be. I focus on people who stop me on the subway and talk to me and say, "I'm praying for you." So, you can allow the loudest to get in the way, and all of a sudden you're responding to the loudest. Because someone is a pundit, because someone is on Twitter, because someone is on social media. Mayor Adams: Well, the most important thing I had to learn is that don't allow the noise to get in the way of what everyday people hear. I don't know if you're aware of that, as you wanting to bring prayer, religion back into public schools. Psaki: So, when people shorthand what you said, sometimes that happens in politics. I think that our country, we are boiling ourselves to death, and that the root of that is our failure to embrace our spirituality. If you place it in cool water, turn up the temperature, it will stay there and boil itself to death. If you place a frog in hot water, it jumps out right away. It is a hideous experiment, but it's real. Mayor Adams: I am so concerned about America, and this is all experiment in lab. Psaki: You also recently said that when you take prayer out of schools, guns come back into schools. You've even had a fashion moment with your jacket, which I really admire. Psaki: Now, you've been very outspoken on the impact of gun violence. No, soft on crime is the Republicans who refused to put money in his crime bills to make sure that we gave the resources to our police department. It gave the appearance that Democrats are soft on crime. What he is doing as the president, we all need to be fortifying that message because he came and talked about how do we put money into our police department. Mayor Adams: But they got to sing the same message. Psaki: I don't know that every member of Congress likes to be called a backup singer, but it's all right. He needs to keep doing what he's doing, but he is the key singer. He just keeps putting up points on the board. ![]() And it's unfortunate the noise is getting in the way of what he has produced, which has been a president that has navigated us out of the COVID, navigated us out of the infrastructure bill. I think President Biden is a blue collar president, like I like to believe I'm a blue collar mayor, and he's a plain talking producer. Mayor Adams: Well, I think it's two different conversations. Psaki: So, what kind of advice are you giving to him or other Democrats running about how they should talk about crime in 2024? Psaki: Do you … and I know, you're going to be on his advisory committee? ![]() Now, I was with President Biden when he came and he spent the day with you. I met up with him in New York City to get a sense of the issues he's had to navigate, his advice for fellow Democrats on the crime issue and to ask him about his weekend routine. But the city's overall crime rate still increased by 22% due to an uptick in robberies and burglaries. ![]() As a former police officer, Adams campaigned on the promise to reduce crime, and during his first year in office, there was a significant drop in shootings and murders, and that's a pretty big deal. Jen Psaki: When Eric Adams was elected mayor of New York in 2021, it sent a strong signal that the issue of public safety was top of mind for the city's voters.
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