Resignations from the ranks of the Mayor's staff.

0:00 Speaker 1 Sunday morning. Well, new president has been in charge for seven days. Well it feels like seven weeks with us this morning. Is Governor Pattison one of the best governors we had in New York State? And Governor Pattison, what’s going on in the Democratic Party nationally, state wise, city wise?

0:23 Just give us your it’s seven days of a new president. You give us your feelings.

0:28 Speaker 2 Well, I think that the Democrats at the inauguration behaved themselves, and there was a smooth and at some times a feeling of unity during Monday when the inauguration took place. But what I think is interesting for the Democratic Party to examine, and maybe even the Republican Party, is that President Trump may have created a new sort of just

0:59 a in which you govern not by waiting around and talking to people for two or three months before you do anything, but to start on the actual day that you were inaugurated signing executive orders. Not all of them I agreed with, but I really like the idea. And so maybe we’ll have a new trend in politics where

1:23 what you do is you run for president, you win, you serve four years, then you take a four year vacation, then you come back and serve again, and this time as president, Trump is demonstrating he is far more prepared than he was in twenty seventeen. And that’s not his fault.

1:40 That’s what would the usual way of business was. So this is something new and actually very exciting to watch. Like you said, John, it seems like it was a few weeks ago, because all of the things that he’s done just in one week, it’s mind boggling.

1:57 Speaker 1 I think he did more in one week and a lot of people have done in the year. So, Governor, give me the reaction. You talk to all your fellow Democratic people almost every day. Is there any other do they have hope that would be a better economy, a better world, maybe a safest city. You know, you’re a

2:18 New York governor, and Trump, even all the attacks that he got, he loves New York and he really wants to solve New York’s problems. Is there a hope that he’ll just put his foot down and solve New York problems?

2:36 Speaker 2 I think there’s hope, and I think that it’s manifested by the fact that he entertained the mayor three days before he was sworn in down at Marilaco and they talked about a lot of those issues. He then invited the mayor to come to the inauguration.

2:52 Speaker 1 The mayor accepted.

2:53 Speaker 2 I know there was some negativity about the mayor accepting that invitation. When the president invites you to his or her inauguration, you go there. It’s that simple. It was on Martin Luther King’s birthday. There’ll be a birthday next year.

3:09 The president will not be inaugurated that year. I didn’t see any reason for that type.

3:14 Speaker 1 Of attack on the mayor.

3:15 Speaker 2 And at the same time, the fact that he does go to the inauguration demonstrates that he’s willing to listen, rather than in the past oft times where some of New York City and states elected’s kind of shunned anybody from Washington that they you know, it was policies they didn’t agree with. So I think that deep down in

3:39 his heart, he’s a New Yorker and he would want to help this city and the state at this particular time.

3:45 Speaker 1 And he has picked an abnormal amount of New Yorkers for key positions.

3:51 Speaker 2 Yes, well, you know, it’s actually I don’t know that that was a plan. It’s just that if you sat around and you just decided how you were going to put a government together or John yourself, as you would be say, putting a business together. You would start with people you know you can trust. One of the problems

4:13 I had when I became governor is that the entire staff of the former governor left. So I’m trying to build a staff and be governor at the same time, and there were a number of people no names. But took advantage of that and had me, you know, signing things and doing things that I really were opposed to

4:30 what I wanted. After a while, I was able to put a team in I knew I could trust. In President Trump’s case, he already knew what the team was and he put them in. And we are happy to find that a lot of them are New Yorkers.

4:45 Speaker 1 Let me ask you a private question. I’m a CEO. A lot of my rowyers and a lot of my accountants put things in front of me, and sometimes I sign them because I trust the people that are giving me. Now, you had an additional advantage that your eyesight is not as good, and my eyesight is not as good sometimes either.

5:08 Did you at any time feel that you were getting We can taken advantage of.

5:16 Speaker 2 Yes, I did. There was this kind of there’s this philosophy, and I’ve talked to you about this off the year, I might as well talking about it on the year of staff members that we know better. That’s their mantra.

5:30 Speaker 1 We know.

5:30 Speaker 2 But Governor pass he’s a nice guy. He came in, he’s he’s taking care of things that Spitzer didn’t, but he doesn’t understand these other things. We have to make those decisions for him, and it is so annoying when it gets back to you and you find out what people were doing. It’s it’s very difficult, which is why

5:52 you would like transitions of power to be more like the one this week in Washington than the one in New York when when I came in, because they were look at all of the activities that they’ve engaged themselves in just five or six days up to now, that there’s no way that someone that didn’t have a team

6:17 ready to move in could equal that.

6:19 Speaker 1 In other words, you felt I feel sometimes like that because you know, I run a lot of companies, maybe seven to eight companies, and sometimes I feel there’s a violin behind my back. Sometimes.

6:31 Speaker 2 Ah, yes, you know, wat John, because there is I.

6:35 Speaker 1 Know Governor, last question, where do we go from here?

6:46 Speaker 2 Well, I think that from the Democratic side, we’ve got to make We have got to really start thinking about how why people are moving out of states, why people are moving out of certain cities, why polls are shifting in a direction that we might not particularly be happy about, and we’ve got to find the way to get those

7:13 people back thinking about our policies, our positions, and how we would like to make America great as well. I think that’s the real challenge for us. And in terms of those who are Republicans, I don’t think there’s any place Republicans have to go from here. Here is where they wanted to be, and they’re there. And while there’ll

7:39 be a lot of disagreements, I think that to make this country work based on our constitution, based on how we synthesize the work of the Congress along with the executive branch, that as long as there is that cooperation on both sides, we should be in pretty good shape.

8:00 Speaker 1 Thank you, Governor Patterson, and I enjoy our Sunday talks and you always make headlines. Thank you so much. Thank you