Larry thank you very much welcome to the the nightly show i appreciate it. Im larry wilmore. Tonight, im so excited. Im sitting down with mayor deblasio. cheers and applause appreciate the mayor coming by. As someone whos lived in new york for, gosh. Six months now, i feel like theres no bigger authority on new york city than moi. For instance, did you know the subway runs 24 hours a day . Knowledge since the mayor is here, and theres a lot going on in new york city, lets get a quick update of the issues. I guess the top story about new york is the weather. Its the third coldest winter on record. Thanks deblasio. I dont remember it being this cold when bloomberg was mayor. In fact, its so cold in new york, that. This morning three men living in brooklyn are accused of conspiring with i. S. I. S. Authorities say two of the men plotted to join the i. S. I. S. Fight in syria. Larry thats right. Its so cold, they joined i. S. I. S. Just to warm up. So not for ideological reasons, but for meteorological reasons. By the way, worst reason to join i. S. I. S. Ever. Anyway, back to new york, the greatest city in the world. cheers and applause larry absolutely true. You know what they say about new york if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere. Or as the saying has been shortened to nowadays you cant make it here. Seriously, man, try austin. As long as you keep it weird. In new york, income inequality has gotten so out of hand that 46 of new yorkers live near the poverty line. A record high 59,000 people are currently homeless, and the top 5 earns 88 times the lowest 20 . So the income gap between rich and poor isnt so much a gap as it is a prada. laughter perhaps the most troubling in the last two years, new york city mayors have seen their net worth drop by nearly 35. 7 billion. cheers and applause thats horrible cover your ears, mr. Mayor. New yorks gone to hell in a knockoff hand basket. It used to be that the biggest issues new yorkers faced were crime, rodents and crimefighting rodents. But the latest problem facing new yorkers. Manspreading the layitallout sitting style. Men spreading their legs while riding the subway. Taking up two, sometimes three seats. The m. T. A. Is launching a campaign to put a stop to it. Larry wait. Hold on a second. The m. T. A. Is going to spend money telling men to sit with their legs closed . Okay. Im torn on this. Because new york city used to be a place where you could crack open a beer on the sidewalk and urinate under a scaffolding while asking a cop for directions and you could smoke anywhere. Part of this towns charm was its lawless style and rough edges. But on the other hand, a lot of people got murdered. Crime was everywhere. There were gangs, hookers. Back then the reason the guy sitting next to you on the train was taking up too many seats was because he had been freshly murdered. cheers and applause in fact, the reason they let you smoke everywhere was to cover up the smell. So i guess, comparatively speaking, the citys doing pretty well. So well, in fact, that were now nitpicking the male thigh gap, so as much as we can complain about the high cost of living at least more of us are living. Well talk to mayor deblasio about some of these issues when we come back. cheers and applause what beer should we get . Uhhhh. Redds green apple ale thats a lovely idea. What . i party. New redds green apple ale. Brewed like a beer tart like granny smith. You pay for your data every month. So why does your carrier take back what you dont use . Its your data all your unused data and if you switch now, well even give you 10 gigabytes of free 4g lte data on the spot. 10 gigabytes of free 4g lte data. Only from tmobile. 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Hes just completed his first year and we are eager to hear his thoughts on the job. Everyone, please welcome mayor of new york city, bill deblasio cheers and applause there he is thank you so much come right over here and have a seat lively. Larry very lively tonight. We havent sat over here before. I thought we might want to man spread a little bit. laughter mayor you campaigned on closing the gap between the rich and poor and characterized it about a tale of two cities, right . If we were to keept 100 dickens, right laughter how would you view your first year was it the best or worst of times . laughter the best of times in terms of making real change. We were going to go right at income inequality. That means raising peoples incomes and benefits. Half more of the people have paid sick leave in the city than a year ago. cheers and applause we were going to take away some of the expenses that burden people especially if you have a family so free fullday prek for over 50,000 people in the city now. cheers and applause we talked about afterschool. A lot of parents have to worry about where their kids are after school and whats happening to them. Now 50,000 more kids who are middle age have afterschool for free. applause these are the kinds of things that actually go at the problem of income inequality. If you lower the expenses in peoples lives you raise their income raise their benefits you help find them Affordable Housing we have Affordable Housing for half a million people, the same number as live in the city limits of miami. applause ivment thats great. How does Affordable Housing help income inequality . Shouldnt it be called income disparity rather than income equality . Because incomes are never going to be equal. Theyre never going to be equal but the gap is worse at the moment than when the Great Depression struck in the 1920s. As the roaring 20s, thats a time we look back on with a huge number of mistakes. When it comes to income disparity, we repeat it and it goes farther. How do you address income inequality . You bring up the benefits and lower expenses. Whats the number one expense . Housing. In new york city over half of the people pay more than a third their income in housing. If you can lower that cost you change their lives fundamentally. Larry its a huge issue. Can we show Jimmy Mcmillan . Classic. Larry rent is too damn high guys. cheers and applause he was fantastic. I am not making this up. H he got evicted last week or something. Thats messed up. I mean, if youre a middle class family, can you make it here anymore as a middle class family . You can, but the we dont change the course you wont be able to much longer for a lot of the middle class families. Thats reality. Thats where were using tools of government aggressively to help support the middle class help people reach the middle class, stay in the middle class. Thats what creates a sustainable society. If you dont create Affordable Housing energetically with government involumement its not going to happen. Weve said to developers, the only way you will develop is you have to guaranteed Affordable Housing. Larry it has to be a publicprivate cooperation. But with the requirement of Affordable Housing. Reporter you cant just hope that they do it. Correct. Larry take their word for it. Good will only goes so far. Larry sure. So you require the creation of Affordable Housing. You require hiring wages and benefits. One of the things we have to do in this city and state and country is raise the minimumwage. Its long overdue. Larry sure. cheers and applause i want to make sure we get questions from regular new yorkers. I wanted to show you one from a guy on the street. Its about housing. Im curious what the mayors going to do for the homeless in new york city. I tell people im homeless. Theyre shocked. They say they dont believe it. Theres a stereotype about the homeless. They think all the homeless is dirty, stinking, were drug addicts or alcoholics. Thats not true. Some people have fallen on very hard times. Larry this guy looks like he could work on wall street. Its shocking. The numbers have risen 10 . Why do you think thats happening . The greatest nick crisis since the Great Depression a few years ago. People are still feeling that deeply. The price of housing is still going up. People got caught in that vice and were displaced. Larry are you getting frustrated getting people excited about this . I know quoamo cuomo and you dont see eye to eye. When you ask for funds, you must feel like the guy in the subway im not here to beg im actually the mayor of the largest city thats actually exactly how i do it. How did you know . laughter larry is it frustrating . First of all, that story is painful. Larry its heartbreaking and all over the city. Its painful because of so many people who, again things happening around us made it impossible tore them and of course a lot of our folks who are homeless, have Substance Abuse issues on top of it, what are we doing about it . Were trying to help top people from becoming homeless to begin with. Sometimes a small rental subsidy to keep someone in an apartment seems to make more sense than a shelter which is not good for them and their family. Larry and builds selfesteem and motivation and all sorts of good things. Thats right. This is about saying were not accepting a situation where so many of our brothers and sister new yorkers are homeless. We have tools. Its amazing how many people get evicted because they dont have access to the lawyer. Were helping more and more people get Legal Services to support them. Larry great. applause you had a very public dispute with the police since the death of eric garner. Very unfortunate situation. Lets get another question from another new yorker here. My name is alexander hamilton. My question is to mayor de blasio. I want to know how are you addressing the problems between blacks and the police. Larry okay. That was from one of our founding fathers. laughter applause thats how important this issue is, mayor de blasio wow. Whrearlarry, you are booking amazing guests. Extraordinary. Larry what is the relationship now with the police . How is that beef . laughter is it like a west coasteast coast thing right now . No, thank god. A lot of work went into everyone finding a way to get on a better page because i think what happens is the people of this city saidics look, we went through a very painful situation. The death of eric gearn was extraordinarily painful. The assassination of two of our officers which really pulled at the hearts of new yorkers larry it resonated with the entire country. It did. And i think the way forward is what everyone was looking for. What i said is we have to bring the police and community together. Over the years, whats happened is were divisive and it caused people to look at their young men, they family members children, grandchildren nephews being treated like criminals when in fact they were lawabiding young men. Larry you got in trouble for talking about your biracial son or as i like to call him, your black son laughter larry no if youre having to talk to your son about the cops, thats your black son, right . cheering i mean its not like the cops are going to pull you over and say, freeze oh are you mixed or something . That is called keeping it 100. Larry it is. You were being honest for that and i felt you got punished for the honesty. How did that make you feel . The first thing that astounded me about this reality is i first spoke about the issues as mayor. We were talking about the reality of conversations in our family. A young man of color in America Today needs to have that conversation in his family. Its something that everyone knows. Its not a comment disrespectful to the police. We deeply respect our police and need our police to protect us, but it is a comment that refers to our history and things we still havent worked out. Thats the reality. Larry right. applause what do you think is the prescription . Because i think its great you and the police are healing right now, but what is the prescription for the city to heal . I think it is about bonding police and community pause when the partnership actually deepens everyone will be safer. Things like the retraining of police which were adamant about every Single Police officer is going into retraining on how to deescalate any situation, any confrontation, any arrest deescalate, reduce the violence for everyone and of course the safety of the officers. Bodybody cameras. applause body cameras are making a huge difference. It will help officers think about their situation and will give us a clear record of what happens in each circumstance. Larry accountability. Well have accountability. And i think this is steady work because in the end larry its going to take time. The images are very stark of them turning their backs on you and i understand that. But the reality is when youre trying to make social change no one said it happens overnight. Also about persistence. I know the people do not want us to go backwards and we could have that partnership between police. Its something we have to fight for. Larry i certainly hope so. We have a very specific question. Hi. My name is dan schnar. Im here from astoria. This is where i live. I have a question for mayor deblasio. The miscommunication between m. T. A. And its residents. The nq train shut down randomly and we werent informed. Theres a bunch of people waiting in the streets for the shuttle buses, and i was trying to see what you can do to help remedy the situation between m. T. A. And the residents of nyc. cheering larry i got this one mr. Mayor. So shuttle buses are making all stops between Queensboro Plaza and ditmars boulevard during alternate weekend service, or you could also walk over to steinway and 23rd and get on the q101 line bus, that will take you right to east 61st street. Then you can grab the 4, 5 or 6 at 59th street. Youre welcome, mayor. cheers and applause well be right back. Well talk more to the mayor right after this [upbeat music] storm warning. Cold front. Severe weather imminent. Original 96 calorie light pilsner tsunami headed directly from milwaukee. Its miller time. 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Visit us online or at a sprint store today. cheers and applause larry okay welcome back to my oneonone sitdown with mayor de blasio. We also asked our audience to send in questions on twitter. This is thedandymannyc from new york city. When will Recreational Marijuana be legal in new york . In other words, why should the rent be the only thing thats too damn high . laughter is that on the Progressive Agenda . Not now. We did change law so we do fewer arrests for very small amounts of manner. Larry they dont have to go to jail if they have manner on them . For small amounts its now a summons. Arrests are down 65 . applause larry how much marijuana do you have on you to be arrested . Im asking for a friend. laughter well get your friend the answer. Larry okay, great. Heres one. This one is from chirlane. Did you or did you not promise to pick up the dry cleaning over the weekend . This is keeping it truly 100. I was ordered to pick up the dry cleaning and im too scared to defy that order snore so what youre saying, mr. Mayor, is black wives matter . laughter cheers and applause clever, clever yes, they do. laughter knee larry well be back. I have one more if you can clear a table without lifting a finger. You may be muddling through allergies. Try zyrtec® for powerful allergy relief. And zyrtec® is different than claritin. Because it starts working faster on the first day you take it. Zyrtec®. Muddle no more™. This is a steak . Lets make this right. Nicely done. Enough uhh. Check please. Welcome back. Thank you. Its not home. But with every well considered detail, it becomes one step closer. No wonder more People Choose delta than any other airline. When you set out to find new roads you build the Chevrolet Malibu ranked highest in initial quality and longterm dependability by jd power. Chevrolet, the most awarded car company over the la