Joy Reid (29:55)
Okay, sounds good, sounds good, sounds good. Thank you very much. Yeah, they can barely hear. It's super loud. And we've been waiting for them to get through a miles long security line. But we are going to bring you the latest and greatest. They're going to be attending the public swearing in ceremony because as we reported earlier, only 20 people, small number for security reasons and other reasons, they had him sworn in. And also just the visual stunning look of it, just with family and friends and close friends, about 20 people. But there's a public swearing in ceremony that's going to begin at 1pm which we're going to bring to you live right here on the Team TJRS channel because we want you guys to see it. This is an historic moment. This is an historic nomination. A lot of people on the Democratic leaning side of the aisle were denied an historic inauguration after the 2024 election when there was a lot of hope that Kamala Harris was going to be elected president of the United States. She would have been the first South Asian and first black woman and the first female president of the United States. That was an historic moment that a lot of people felt denied. Well, there is another historic moment that happened already. Zorhan Mamdani officially is the mayor of New York City. But the public swearing in, as you just saw from our Team TJRS folks that are on the ground in New York City is going to be huge, going to be bananas. As cold as it is in New York City today, tens of thousands of people are turning out. There's also gonna be after parties throughout the day. There are parties that are planned around the city because for New York City, this is kind of like, this is their, like, Kamala moment, right? This is that moment when you have an historic young mayor with really bold plans to make New York City affordable and accessible for ordinary people. This is something that's personally important to me because, you know, I came up in that era, Jason, and I came up in that era when you could just live in New York City as a young person and just do your thing, and you didn't need to be a wealthy person to enjoy the city. It was. It's always been that way. But what happened. Thank you very much for the compliments. I appreciate that. EJ eg, it's changed because the super rich, as they've done to the entire country, have warped New York City and turned it into a playground for the super rich. And that is just not what New York City was supposed to be. From the Harlem Renaissance all the way through the 90s, when everybody was just living in New York City and enjoying the club scene, you know, the 70s, you think about the disco scene. All of that was an accessible, affordable New York City. And we need to get it back to that. Thank you for the Happy New Year. Lawrence Richardson is wishing joy. And Jason, happy New year. We've got 999 in the till from Eric Hayne. Thank you very much. We appreciate everybody. We've got a question here. I'm looking in this. Why was Tom Artyom Alexandrovich allowed to return home after being arrested in the US for child predation? It's an excellent question. I think we need to ask those questions. These are the questions that need to be asked. Taco will now go after Africans because he wants to go after Mamdani. He might do that. He very much might do that. One of the things we're going to be doing coming up on the, on the show is we are going to dig into this attack on Somali Americans in Minnesota and this scandal over fraud and Medicaid fraud because there's much more to the story than you've been allowed to hear. Mainstream media has been following this right wing streamer who's been doing his own version of the story and warping the narrative in a way that is unfair to the Somali community, about 70 of whom are involved. But there's another character and another figure who is a part of that story that I'll bet you haven't heard a lot about, because there's a lot more to this story of this Medicaid fraud in Minnesota than you have been told. Please stay tuned for that because we are going to dig deep into that. But yes, New York City used to be a place where you could live, have your own apartment, live your life, hit the club scene, do your thing and not worry about not being able to afford your rent. But now it's a place where it's very, very difficult to live. And it is the place that young people want to live. If you want to get into media, if you want to get into the arts, if you're an actor and you want to get on Broadway, that is where a lot of young people gravitate to. They gravitate toward New York City for a reason. Because New York City is a creative capital. Erykah Badu came up, her, you know, her career blossom there in Brooklyn, New York. Spike Lee, all of the that he created in New York City, you name it, this is the city that really kind of sets the stage and the tone for the United States culturally and financially. So running that city is really, to me, the biggest mayor job. With all due respect to all the other great mayors that we've even had on this show, New York City mayor is just different. It just is different. And it's really important that that city be run well and that that city be run for the people. The rent is too damn high, says Lorena Taylor. And she's right. There used to be a the rent is too damn high party in New York City. And a man ran on that. He had that handlebar mustache. That was one of my favorite campaigns ever. And his whole slogan was the rent is too damn high. That was in 2012. And so the reality is, yes, for people who have big dreams in the United States, there are really two cities that they gravitate toward. Los Angeles, Hollywood, of course, and New York City. And so there it is. Somebody says, to your knowledge, we have Tinkerbell 6 asking 67 asking. To your knowledge, since he was officially sworn in, has he signed any executive orders? To my knowledge, there have not been any executive orders signed as yet. The public swearing in happens at 1pm it would not surprise me if any executive orders that were signed were signed after that, but I don't know. So we will try to look into that. Not sure if any New York, if any things have happened yet. Yet. Somebody mentioning in the chat, digable logic, New York City is the arts capital of the world. Absolutely. It is. We're talking about the fine arts, we're talking about the creative arts, are talking about Broadway theater, you know, film. It is. It is just a cat. It is a. It is. It's such an important capital of this country. And interestingly enough, it is also the hometown of the President of the United States. He lives in Florida now, as so many New York City snowbirds do. You know, a lot of people retire to Florida from New York City because they get tired of the cold. But the reality is he is a New Yorker from Queens, and. And Mamdani is also from Queens. And so they have that in common. And I think that was one of the things that allowed them to bond. I will note that this show, the Joy Reed show, we have an interview with Zorhan Mamdani that we filmed before he was sworn in mayor. So back in December, back last year, in the previous year, 2026, we did a really cute interview with Soran Mah Gandhi. In 2025, sorry, 2025, we sat down with Zorhan Mamdani. And we did it in a very particular way because as Christina Greer pointed out, this is an African man. He is a South Asian, but he's also an African. So we wanted to bring that forward in our interview. We wanted to bring him to one of our favorite places to eat in New York City and talk to him about more of the culture that he comes from. Because I've seen a lot of interviews with him that really focus on a lot of, you know, are you gonna do this policy or that? We did talk a little bit of policy. We really just wanted to have a cultural conversation with Zohan Mamdani. So we did that. That is going to debut on January 6th. So that's next week, so please stay tuned for that. And that's going to be our conversation, our first conversation with Zorhan Mamdani Premayor. We're looking forward to speaking with him now as mayor. I don't think anyone can afford to live anywhere right now unless you're a billionaire, says Lorena Taylor. And she ain't lying. You pay $3 for a drink in one area, then go down the street and it's $10. A lot of price gouging. Also true, Henry Gibbons. We are facing an affordability crisis in this country. And because New York City was already a relatively expensive town versus other places, right? Like a rent of $3,000 in New York for a, you know, studio, a studio in, you know, Philadelphia would probably be half that. And the cost to just get by in New York City, the amount of money you have to earn just to have an apartment without roommates is just astronomical. The rents there are so high that it's higher than the mortgages that you would pay for an apartment or a home. In most cities, the rent is so astronomical. And the requirements to just rent an apartment, you have to almost fill out what amounts to a mortgage application to live in New York City. And it's really crazy. And so we cannot afford to have our premier city become so unaffordable that ordinary people can't live there and then becomes sort of the captive of the Saudis and the bank of Japan, which owns a lot of the buildings there. The Saudis own a lot of buildings there. Basically, some of the most iconic properties in New York aren't even owned by Americans anymore because wealthy foreigners or foreign banks have bought them up. And so you think about things like the iconic buildings in Manhattan and you go walk down them and you realize that Americans don't even own them anymore. They're owned by the bank of Japan or the bank of China, et cetera. So it's ugly. Or the Saudis. So we want to change that reality. And that is one of the main jobs that Zorhan Mamdani has ahead of him, because that is one of his biggest promises, is to make New York City affordable. And as goes New York, as goes the country. If New York City prices can be brought in line with normality and with morality, you can actually see a change throughout the country. It will ripple across the country. So what happens in New York really matters. Really, really matters. So Happy New Year to everyone. We really appreciate you all tuning in and I'm glad you all see the importance of this. We appreciate everybody in the chat that really seems to understand how important this mayoralty is and we also appreciate all of you guys support. Lawrence Richardson threw $20 in the till. We appreciate that very much. Everybody who's thrown. We got 999 thrown in the till from Eric Hayne. We appreciate that. Thank you very much. Happy New Year. Did you cover George Clooney? What is it? Fleecing and fleeing of America. So George Clooney, I think what they're talking about is that George Clooney has received citizenship. Is it in France? Where did George Clooney get citizenship? George Clooney. And I'm going to be honest, I'm not going to hate on him for that because the reality is, the reality is we're going to talk about deeds theft as well. Feno271 It's a huge problem in New York, the theft of properties that were owned historically by African Americans, particularly brownstones where when they were purchased by a lot of teachers and a lot of ordinary people that bought these Brownstones in the 1980s during the height of the crack epidemic when nobody wanted these brownstones in places like Clinton Hill and Fort Greene that were considered the hood. Right. People didn't want to live in Red Hook. Those were considered bad neighborhoods. They were black neighborhoods or they were Puerto Rican neighborhoods. You had a lot of teachers purchase these, these basically mansions, these brownstones.
