the city along with the stench of human excrement. said the city is much worse with him being the mayor. why do i care for bill de blasio? i was in wisconsin and felt that way for a long time.e. the problem is when you see bill de blasio implement a vaccine mandate in new york and that s spreading across the country. that s why that matters. is de blasio s political career over when he leaves the office? well, he is absolutely hated in new york. no one was interested in him when he was running for president. he is a clown. no one takes him seriously. when he leaves tomorrow nightor december 31st, everyone in new york will cheer and clap.
stench of pot is everywhere in the city along with the stench of human excrammed. sean: why do i care for bill de blasio? i was in wisconsin and felt that way for a long time. the problem is when you see bill de blasio implement a vaccine mandate in new york and that s spreading across the country. that s why that matters. is de blasio s political career over when he leaves the office? well, he is absolutely hated in new york. no one was interested in him when he was running for president. he is a clown. no one takes him seriously. when he leaves tomorrow night,
we appreciate that. and good thing for the subway right there, in case of what happened to de blasio. that s it for me on this wednesday edition of way too early. let s get a preview of morning joe. i hope you ask the mayor about his disdain for the subway. we have a morning joe exclusive. bill de blasio will join the table. we ll get his thoughts on many issues, the racial unrest that many believe is about to get worse. the point to which free speech crosses the line. and the course of the 2016 election. is de blasio ready to endorse his former boss hillary clinton? and also joining us joe manchin and envoy george mitchell on his new book the negotiator. that and much much more coming up straight ahead on morning joe.
three-term mayor who left office according to a new york times /cnn poll with a 53% approval rating. joining me is howard wolfson who served as deputy mayor under bloomberg and was bloomberg s eyes and ears. howard, thanks for being here. let s start off with the snow. snow can trip up a mayor s approval rating in the blink of an eye. is de blasio s administration ready to deal with this major storm on your city? the day before the general election, then mayor bloomberg called his senior staff in and said i want to run the world s greatest transition and make sure that we do everything we can to help prepare then mayor-elect de blasio for coming in on day one. he said you know, look, they may have to face an enormous snowstorm on his first or second day in office, and we want to make sure they handle it as well as they can. so that premonition has come true. the fact is that new york city has the world s greatest snow fighting force. we ve got sanitation department that eats storms
did. mayor bloomberg said very clearly we want to make sure that the next mayor succeeds, builds on our successes and makes this an even better city but let s make sure we re discussing a common set of facts around the bloomberg record, which was a great record and which as you said, enabled him to leave office after 12 years with the majority of new yorkers thinking he had done a good job. i don t want to read too much into your tweets but you did retweet criticisms of the tenor of the inaugural from other journalists complaining about the bitter tone. did it bother you personally given your relationship with the mayor and the facts you just presented? you know, i have been around new york politics a long time, too. the rhetoric was not bothersome. the misrepresentation around the criminal justice record in particular was troublesome because this was a tremendous accomplishment for mayor bloomberg, a tremendous accomplishment for the nypd, a tremendous accomplishment for everyone