Good evening and welcome to the first general election debate in the race for mayor. I'm New York one political anchor, Errol Lewis and we are coming to you from the Peter J. Sharp theater at Symphony Space on the Upper West Side. The next 90 minutes will be an uninterrupted conversation about issues where you'll get a chance to learn more about three of the leading candidates who will go before voters on November 7th. Okay, okay, okay. All right, here are the rules ladies and gentlemen. Here are the real New York debate. We begin now with one minute opening statements beginning with Bojito. Good evening everyone. Trustable I gotta say go Yankees. I know rugby. Major Blasio is a Boston Red Sock fan. He's not a Yankee fan. All right, here we go. And now let's go to Bill De Blasio. Thank you very much. You know sometimes there are elections. No, no, no, no. No, no, no. Guys folks, folks, folks, folks, folks, folks, please, please, please, we, you're not going to stop the debate. Please don't do that. We'll have plenty of times different statements that you can cheer and applaud for, but let's at least hear what the folks have to say. Mr. De Blasio. Thank you, Earl. Even though Donald Trump attacks New York and New York values, I will stand up to him every time. Our values will be strong regardless of who's in the White House. Okay, thanks, thanks very much. And I'm hoping we're not going to have to remove people from the audience, but we will get started. And you will be heard candidates. The legal requirement to provide shelter is in effect right now, and it must be met every night. What would you do differently? Well, first of all, I got to clear something up. I'm a registered Democrat, and I do not like Donald Trump, and I don't like what he's done, and I came out publicly and called him a lion narcissist. So I take exception to that, Mr. Mayor. Now as far as it goes, I did vote for him, but I would take that vote back for tomorrow. All right, point is this. All right, let's go with the homeless. Let's talk about issues. I'm looking. I think issues are not games. Very honest, if I had my head in a potato field, and I popped it out and listened to this mayor, I'd say I vote for him too. But we got four years he's done nothing. I take exception to what you say, because you read the papers. Sometimes they don't have the truth in the papers. But you know what? What'd you make last year? I made $1.8 million, okay? And I paid $600,000 taxes. So I'll pay him my taxes. For classic right-wing Republican scare tactics. And that's the thing. That's the thing. Time in this city. Time in this city has gone down for four straight years. I'm going to let folks know. Some of these 12 gentlemen here with dark suits and ties on. Some of you are going to end up watching this from the sidewalk. Please. The screaming, the insults, all of that foolishness settled down. We've got about 45 minutes to go. Some really important issues. If you really just want to scream and yell, please leave now, okay? Candidates, I'm going to ask you to please use the lights. Please respect that. Let's try to keep the overtaking to a minimum. He hired that neat, compute puppy, punty from Maine. The guy was gotten some mooses up there and he brings them in there. And then he was gone. He was gone for three months. Well, what do you think, Mr. Mayor? Why it's not running well? The guy was fishing in Maine when we were paying him on our shitty cause. This is almost to go to Reich's own with the mayor. I'll lock up for two days. Me and you, just a population. First of all, what is that friggin' wall you put up around Gracie Mansion? What are we hiding? Is it the Berlin Wall? Julia and he didn't have it. Bloomberg didn't have it. What do we need a wall around Gracie Mansion? What are we hiding there? The other thing is, well, you return to $2 million. One question. Well, you return to $2 million that you took from taxpayer's money on your criminal criminal enterprises that you were involved with. Well, you return that hard. That's my question to you. You can answer if you want, Mr. Mayor, that less foolishness about a criminal enterprise will disregard. You had one question and he asked about a wall around your house. Thank you. Thank you. And we've done things legally. We've done things appropriately across the board. But when it comes to security at Gracie Mansion and every place else in this city. Goodbye. Goodbye. Yeah, the nice evening. You see this guy? Good night, sir. Did you honestly believe that Donald Trump would be a better present for New York City, for the people of New York City than Hillary Clinton would have been? Okay. Mr. Mayor. You got disruptive kids in the classroom? You can't take them out. The other kids are not learning. First things I would do is bend the damn cell phones from the classroom. Let kids learn. That's our big problem out here. So my question is, are you trying to have it always when it comes to President Trump? I got to be honest with you, Grace. I feel that you're carrying the mayor's water right now. And I know this is... That's what you do, Mr. Staccone. That's what you do, Mr. Staccone. That's what you do, Mr. Staccone. No. And I... Hold on. I apologize, but... No, I can't. No, I can't. I apologize to that. I apologize to that. I apologize to that. Assemblymember Maliataka supports Donald Trump on repeal and replace of Obamacare. She supports Donald Trump on tax breaks for the wealthy and big corporations. She supports Donald Trump on reinstating stop and frisk of broken-end constitutional policy. To your question. To your question. How are you going to be a mayor who brings New Yorkers together when you use such divisive language? First of all, you're wrong on that what you just said. All I said was that Judge was very familiar looking as the mayor's wife with two beautiful eyes and a smile. And they looked very similar. I never used a word African-American. So how dare you use that and how dare you even imply that? My point. Okay, take it easy to him, to Blasio. There are no better than Donald Trump when he's a Mexican-American judge who's going to rule against him simply because he was Mexican-American. That is un-American. We do not accept that New York City. Okay. Okay. All right. Yeah. Now just turn off the mic. Just turn off the mic. Gloria Pesmi, now you're going to get the last question. Mr. Dino, we have to move on. Mr. Dino, we're moving on. Mr. Dino, we're moving on. Mr. Dino, we're moving on. I've evolved from that other thing that the mayor is trying to be talking about. And I take offense to that, Mr. Mayor. And I see you house every day, please. Mr. Mayor, indeed, I can be testified at the trial saying that the information should not be turned over to the federal government. I have a permission report said you need to be more stringent. We'll find your mic. We have to move on now. They're all right. That's right. Let's wrap it up. Let's just wrap it up. Yeah, I think that's going to do it. We're just about out of time. I'd like to thank the candidates for joining us and as a reminder, election day is on November 7th. If you want to register so that you can vote on November 7th, we have a registration deadline on this Friday. For lots more information, you can go online to the campaign finance board website or the city's board of elections. On behalf of New York, one of New York's one of the tussias, I'd like to thank our co-sponsors and symphony spades. Thanks for watching. Please vote next month. Have a great evening. All right. All right.