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Reconciliation. all of which led to the good friday peace accords that finally ended the troubles. we'll be right back after this. we're back, as a candidate for mayor committed to lead new york city in a new progressive direction, including de blasio's promise, he aimed to slow the growth of charter schools in favor of more traditional neighborhood public schools. the mayor has now cancelled an agreement, negotiated by his predecessor which would have allowed three new charter schools to operate in public

And so today we commit to a new progressive direction in new york. we will ask the very wealthy to pay a little more in taxes so that we can offer full day universal prek for every child in this city. we will require developers to build more affordable housing. so new yorkers see our city not as the exclusive domain as the 1%, social and economic justice will start here and start now. >> to each, just a small glimpse of new york city mayor, bill de blasio in his widely controversial address. he took progressivism now to a whole new level. it's called action, it's raising a lot of eyebrows.

Divide between the two parties idealogically, perhaps, in a couple generations. what does that mean? i think it means the gridlock we get in washington because it's so hard to find compromise when you're so far apart. >> here's de blasio talking about some of the inequality he wants to address in the city. >> we are called to put an end to economic and social inequalities that threaten to unravel the city we love. and so today we commit to a new progressive direction in new york. >> judy, it's interesting to me that part of the reaction to obama on the left is to say, he's let us down on some ...

We have not had this clear of a divide between the two parties idealogically, perhaps, in a couple generations. what does that mean? i think it means the gridlock we get in washington because it's so hard to find compromise when you're so far apart. >> here's de blasio talking about some of the inequality he wants to address in the city. >> we are called to put an end to economic and social inequalities that threaten to unravel the city we love. and so today we commit to a new progressive direction in new york. >> judy, it's interesting to me that part of the reaction to obama on the left is t...

Wants to address in the city. >> we are called to put an end to economic and social inequalities that threaten to unravel the city we love. and so today we commit to a new progressive direction in new york. >> judy, it's interesting to me that part of the reaction to obama on the left is to say, he's let us down on some of these real progressive areas. >> and that explains why, i think, picking up on what chuck was saying, there is this kind of excitement in some democratic circles about de blasio because there is a full-throated support about some of these policies which universal pre-kinderg...