bragg and williams is a nice guy, but there are more important things to worry about than changing the name of citi filed citi field. i did the mets video in 1986, if you were born yet. todd: glad you mention that video. roll it. hello again, joe piscopo, shea stadium, the big story, mets 86, exciting, thrilling, awesome. todd: joe, like you, i am a yankees fan, that video may make me convert. joe: i love the mets, man, i m a yankee fan, but we love the mets. and leave the name of citi field, stop with the politics and get this country back. todd: this is part of an effort to make it impossible for oil companies to invest in clean
reporter: that was a part of an interview i did a short time ago with a new york advocate. joining me as the former mayor of new york city, bill de blasio. mr. mayor, thank you very much for joining us. another part of the conversation i had with jumani williams was about funding and the reaction to this event. he was worried the reaction of this event was going to be made a renewed focus on law department to the subway systemp his argument is this was more fundamental that more funding needs to go to preventing gun violence. obviously, we don t know about the motive here. we re talking in their ret cals at the moment. albany is not taking the root problem as seriously as it should and not allocating the funding toward getting guns off the streets in the first place, rather than the reactionary
back and forth and focus on what really works and not what s just going to sound good for election year. new york city public advocate jumani williams, thank you very much for joining us. we appreciate it. halle, i will throw it back to you. katie, thank you, we will have more msnbc coverage. after the break, we will be joined by new york mayor eric adams. plus, we expect to hear from president biden for the first time this attack in new york happened. we will take you live later to iowa later in the show. e show and sandpaper. strypaper? why do we all put up with this? when there s biotrue hydration boost eye drops. biotrue uses naturally inspired ingredients like an electrolyte, antioxidant, even your tears own moisturizer. and no preservatives. these ingredients are true to your eyes biology.
we certainly haven t returned to the 70s and mid- 80s when crime was out of control tom answer your question, yes, as a new yorker, i have to deep my eyes behind me, i exercise common sense. yes, i would feel comfortable getting back on the train. all right. gentleman, thank you very much. let s bring in new york city public advocate in this year s new york governor s race. jumani, i spoke to you earlier, you told me one of your staffs was on the train after this happened. i want to start there, if you don t piepd. tell me what your staffer saw and how they re doing. well,er that doing great. i am very grateful for that. obviously, shook up. they re train pulled in as it was happening. so there was a lot of trauma associated with it. making sure that any of that stuff is received. i think it leads to
so, again, it looks like the situation is improving significantly for many people here in midtown, as many of the buildings, the lights begin to go back on. but we re still waiting for an official update from authorities to tell us whether or not this could be over. okay. and the con edison is saying that they anticipate most customers will have their power restored by midnight. we are standing by for a presser. in fact, it may be getting underway. let s listen in. good evening, everybody. my name is commissioner deann chriswell with new york city of emergency management. i would like to introduce with me here as well, public advocate, jumani williams, brought president. a quick update on 6:47 p.m., there was an electrical disturbance in the system, affecting approximately 62,000 customers in the manhattan area.