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against russia. nine days away from a potential government shutdown. whether kevin mccarthy can find consensus inside the conference. house democrats are weighing a riskky strategy whether to save mccarthy to get a deal done. and allegations against rudy giuliani. capacity hutchinson says she was kroepd on the day of the january 6th attack on the capitol. and ron desantis in decline. of a cnn poll shows the florida governor dropped 13 points in the state since july. a tie for second place with three rivals and falling further behind the frontrunner donald trump. >> he was born to great wealth. i am a blue collar kid who had to work minimum wage jobs to get where i was. he did a lot young in business. i served in iraq and in the military. i could serve two terms. he would be a lame duck on day one. ♪ ♪

new this morning, optimism in la-la land. real optimism about maybe this hollywood writers strike ending. writers and heads of four major studios set to meet for a second day in a row. last night they put out a joint statement saying they are meeting again. >> both sides have rebuked each other for comments to the media. so the joint statement together signaled a possible sign of progress. a person familiar told cnn the talks left attendees feeling encouraged. the current standoff has stretched 140 days, the longest writers strike on record lasted 154 days in 19888. haven't seen a lot of optimism at any point over the course of the last few months. does this seem real to you in

your reporting? >> it's hard to tell. yesterday people definitely walked away feeling a lot more optimistic i think than they felt as of late. a source told me that they felt encouraged by the talks and they are going to meet today. the four studio bosses will stitt down with the writers today. the fact they put out a joint statement says so much because these two sides have really gone after each other over logistics and small stuff. the fact that they put out a joint statement and were on same page there says volumes. there is hope hin hollywood thi could be come og to an end. we will see what happens. anything can happen because the sides have a history of, you know, having hard time gobeingsn the same page. >> we are two weeks away from it being the longest ever and costing some $6 billion. >> the problem for the studios and writers, really, if they don't iron out a deal season, within the next two, three weeks, the idea of a, you know, salvaging the season, the shows

coming back in the winter in january like they normally would goes out the window. if you have a deal next month, there will be no work for a lot of these television rioters because the shows won't be coming back in january. there is pressure because of this looming deadline to get something done. and we should note, too, it's not just the writers and the actors. there is a whole industry in california built around entertainment. and all of these people, there have been major ripple effects across the country that have affected, you know, people who just do catering businesses -- >> all of it. >> yeah, a ton of businesses. >> the pressure points are what often ends up resolving situations like this. you mentioned the calendar pressure. financial pressure. what is the biggest driver to this joint statement that didn't infuse a ton of acrimony between the two sides? >> i think both sides actually -- the one thing they agreed on throughout this process, had has gone on too long. we need resolution.

now with the looming deadline, both sides have felt extreme pain. maybe they can get something done now. >> hopefully. hopeful. oliver darcy, thank you. keep us posted. breaking overnight, the white house is sending 800 active duty troops to the southern border as we see purse like this in eagle pass, texas. crowds of migrants under a bridge yesterday. the mayor says 2,500 people crossed the border yesterday alone. joining us cnn anchor abby philip. good morning. >> good morning. >> nice to have you here. this is interesting because mayorkas was saying yesterday, i think he did a speech, and he was talking about, like, admitting, yes, things have gotten worse, surging at the border. the biden administration is take some action in terms of the temporary protective status to venezuelans, which you would think would help a situation here in new york like texas.

where do we stand? >> this problem continues to get worse. what's interesting is every time the biden administration seems to take a step that is aimed at encouraging migrants to seek asylum in other ways or seek some kind of status in other ways other than taking journey up to the united states, there is a lull and then we're back to where we are. so this flow is really unrelenting at this point. you are seeing the ripple effects. that move on the venezuelans that was announced yesterday is a huge deal. it's half a, you know, billion -- >> people. >> yeah, a lot of people. and it was aimed at trying to help new york. i spoke to the governor last -- of new york last night. >> yeah, we saw. >> and we begged for this because they need people who are here to have work status. but she said something interesting, that it only applies to people who arrived at a certain point. not beyond a certain point,

because the biden administration is really concerned about not incentivizing people by offering some kind of work status or legal status on the other side if you come now. >> it's been a huge reason for the hesitation up to yesterday as the governors and mayors, local officials, house of representatives have been calling for that and it was finally delivered on. we see president zelenskyy heading to capitol hill today and i was struck by another interview you had with a congressman and his position on the overall funding debate, but ukraine funding and where things stand. how do you think this ends and does it include ukraine funding? >> it's not going to end clearly. i think, look, mccarthy, as you know, wants to say we have this tied up in a bow, we are going to vote today, get this done by the weekend. it doesn't sound like that is going to happen. there are still at least a handful of republicans like ted who are opposed to this on very broad grounds. it's not a question of is dollar amount slightly less than the

one before it. they don't want ukraine funding. they don't want crs at all. they -- meaning continuing resolutions. they want budgets. actual full budgets. now, everybody wants that. the question is, how long are they going to push it and what are mccarthy's options going to be? it is not going to be acceptable to the senate, republicans or democrats, to have a bill that doesn't have funding for ukraine. to have a bill that cuts funding for the defense department. so the ball ais really is in mccarthy's court. how long does he troo to play ball with the far height? he only has about a week left. at what point does he decide we have to get something done, and that something is a bipartisan compromise. >> does that cost him his speakership? >> it's a good question. are but i think there might be a separate question. how many republicans are opposed to these continuing resolutions and how many are willing to

vacate mccarthy from the speakership. they may not be the same group because i think a lot of people recognize that what's the alternative? they don't have one. they don't have one that can get the votes that are needed to elect a new speaker. so i think you might start to see some cracks there when it comes to the motion to vacate. and certainly the moderates, even some people who were kind of tepidly on mccarthy's side, look at those people to see how they handle this brinksmanship again because this is, obviously, not the first time we have seen this. this has become a pattern and some people on hill are getting frustrated. >> the allegations laid out by cassie hutchinson, rudy giuliani, coming from her new book. there are serious allegations. i want to play some sound from alyssa farrah, who worked with cassie hutchinson at the white house. >> well, i trust her implicitly. i remember two years ago her

alluding to something, he was creepy or handsy to me. to put it in bigger context, those of us working the west wing at that time knew that rudy giuliani was a wild card, was unpredictable. being careful how i say this. there were concerns, i don't know if they were true, he would come to the white house campus inebriated. >> giuliani's camp pushed back on the allegations and said it's tied to her book and they are lies. that is a little bit of what we would call a second source in the business, not direct, but having some implication of the conversation. what was your takeaway after talking to alyssa? >> my takeaway from alyssa is the environment around giuliani at the white house was one where a lot of staffers were basically told sort of beware and whether it moved into actual sexual assault, alyssa believes cassidy here. she alluded to something like this in the past, sort of

independent of all of this. now, the allegation frs the giuliani camp is she is just doing this to make money. look, i think that the perspective of people who know here, like alyssa, is -- she doesn't want to be doing any of this, right? she doesn't want to be going up against the former president of the united states, going up his allies, going up against rudy giuliani. so the idea that she would put this on the table just to create more chaos for herself, people who know her don't think that that is credible. and so there is a willingness to say she would not say this if it were not real. and on top of that, we talked about giuliani before. there have been allegations against him on the election fight he was overly inebriated. this is not the first time we have heard of allegations about his behavior, about him not being in control of himself, which is how alyssa put it, and we will see what happens, we

will see if cassidy decides to do anything more with it, seek legal action, which is probably on the table for her. but this is a very serious allegations. we will hear from her more next week when her books comes out. >> thank you. good to see you. >> thank you. >> the show, watch it. great interviews. always great interviews. nice to have her in. >> yeah. >> it's a tough turnaround. >> appreciate it. >> anything for you guys. >> house speaker kevin mccarthy trying to avoid a government shutdown. some members of his conference seem to be losing faith in him though. >> if speaker mccarthy relies on democrats to pass a continuing resolution, i would call the capitol hill moving truck to his office soon because my expectation would be he would be out of the speaker's office promptly. >> democrats, mccarthy's only hope to stave off a shutdown and keep his job?

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resolutions, my expectation would be he would be out of the speaker's office quite promptly. >> would his job be in peril if he relies on democrats? >> it wouldn't be a good move. >> now house democrats have begun internal discussions about the possibility of saving mccarthy's job as speaker should republicans move to oust him. while no decisions have been made, some of the moderates are signaling they would be willing to cut a deal to haelp mccarthy stave off a right-wing revolt. joining us katherine clark of massachusetts. i want to get to that in a minute. to kind of start in terms of -- we had the clock up. you know the shutdown clock because we have been doing it on an annual basis for the last decade or so. you have seen i think the outlines reported about what republicans are considering this morning. latest iteration of what might be able to get them to and

through the house floor. is there anything in that proposal in terms of the spending levels dropping significantly, the fiscal commission and the border security legislation that you think would ever get to the president's desk? >> let me tell you my perspective on this. we have made no progress here under kevin mccarthy. and the roots of this are back in january where he sold out the american people's interests to gain a speakership from the most extreme members of his party. kevin mccarthy has already made a bipartisan deal. that was done in june. and it is long past time he lives up to that. what we're seeing is, as he tries to protect his own job, he is forgetting about the needs of the people who sent him here to govern. so when people call my office, they are concerned about social security and veteran benefits. >> right. >> they are kpernd about the high cost of living. kevin mccarthy and the

extremists are concerned about keeping kevin in office. >> i think what i'm trying to get at is, you know, what you heard from matt gaetz or chip roy or others threatening a motion to vacate, trying to remove the speaker from his job if democrats -- if he goes to democrats for votes on a stopgap bill. is there any scenario he doesn't have to come to democrats for votes on a stopgap bill to actually prevent a shutdown? >> he already came to democrats. that is the deal we set in june. so all of this is complete nonsense. but it's a dangerous game. back in june, he made a deal with the president of the united states after taking the economy hostage, catering to these extremists and their agenda of burning government down. and what he did then was totally roll it back. we had 314 bipartisan votes in

the house of representatives for that deal. the answer right in front of him. but what he is choosing is his own power. and what he is doing to get there is catering an extreme agenda. it doesn't have to be this way. when democrats were in charge, we made investments in infrastructure and manufacturing and reducing the cost of insulin and health care. we did it with a slim majority. it is time for the republicans in the gop to put the people they serve first. >> i think you get at a critical point here. the reason he walked away from the deal that he made within ten days was because of where his conference is. the reason that he is not signing on with democrats right now on a stopgap bill is because of where his conference is. which begs the question tied to the cnn reporting, can you assure him that if he were -- if there was an attempt to oust him that democrats would help him so

long as they came to the table on a stopgap that you guys agree with? would you save kevin mccarthy? >> this is a parlor game in d.c. about speculating over a motion to vacate -- >> how is it a parlor game? >> lawmakers are saying outloud. >> because that is not what is really at stake here. this is not about kevin mccarthy's job. it is about his leadership. right now there is a void of leadership. there is a bipartisan deal. internet republicans understand that. senate democrats. the white house and house democrats. there is one small group in the house gop. this happens. and we saw the seeds of this back in january with 15 rounds of votes. he has turned the gavel over to extremists. they control him. the way out of this is to live up to his word. the bipartisan deal he already

signed. talk about whether democrats would save his job is, frankly, irrelevant. let's move forward on the deal we have. let's get to work. the american people, who are looking at this and they don't see themselves in anything that the house gop is putting out there. and so -- >> i understand, i think -- >> a dangerous -- >> but do you understand if the connection going back to the original deal that he signed, i am not trying to frustrate you. i know how cognizant you are of the dynamics on capitol hill. i think what i'm trying to figure out is if the outcome is he loses his job if he sticks to the deal because doesn't have the votes within his conference and there are discussions amongst some of your moderates about do we need to have his back here, what does that filter up to leadership level? >> well, you know, this is what i can say to you. we are going to continue to center what people need.

everywhere i travel in the country, people are worried about the my cost of living, they are worried extremists are coming for that i reproductive freedoms, worried they are coming for social security and medicare. and what we are going to do is say we have been here. we're here with a deal. and we expect kevin mccarthy to keep his word. we have a bipartisan agreement. and what flows from that is going to be good for the american people, good for the economy, and ultimately good for kevin mccarthy. but what we're seeing is a leader who refuses to lead. who is only concerned with his own pow earp. >> congressman clark, it's a busy time on capitol hill. i appreciate your time. you have a closed-door meeting with president zelenskyy, ukraine aid a part of this as well. we don't want to keep you away from that. thank you for laying out the dynamics. >> thank you. >> great interview.

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harder to find an airbnb in one of the world's top tourist destinations in new york where officials starting enforcing new rules, cracking down on short-term rentals. a lot of listings on sites like airbnb are no longer available unless property owners have registered with the city. the requirements are strict. more than two guests at a time. a city council explained why they are cracking down. >> we were concerned about individuals turning rent stabilized apartments into hotels, which would have have a very negative effect on our affordable housing crisis. >> regulations not just in new york. cities and towns from palm springs to portland to maine.

all are doing this. big changes. joining us to talk about this and more, airbnb ceo and co-founder brian chesky. good to have you at the table. >> thank you for having me today. >> a lot of experts -- i know you don't like these changes -- say you take away homes that people should be able to rent, live in, and make it unaffordable. >> we want to make neighborhoods stronger. i started airbnb because my roommate and i couldn't afford to pay rent. one of the things we to is work with cities all over the world. airbnb is in 100,000 cities. from london to paris, even san francisco. and there is simple systems. we can have a registration system. we can limit people to rent if they live in the city. and one of the things we found is that some of the top professions of new york hosts were health care oworkers, socil workers, nurses, students. these are primarily everyday people. when you take these airbnbs down, i don't think the housing prices go down but i think hotel prices will go up. >> i think the moment is

interesting and you had have been open about this, your company trying to get back to sort of some of the basics when you started it. i want to play a complaint for you, one of many people. this is their issue with airbnb right now. here it is. >> if you are airbnb i am going to tell you in real time why no one wants to book with you anymore. here's why. here we go. going for two nights. $73 a night. perfect. within our budget. should be around 150. no. 275 after taxes and all of the fees. >> okay. you went on twitter and asked people what do we need to change? >> yes. >> you are hearing this. what are you -- >> exactly. i want to be that kind of ceo on the ground listening to customer feedback. the beginning year we started really going deep on people's complaints. we went on social media. we created a blueprint experience and made 53 upgrades based on the experience. i went on twitter. what can we fix about airbnb? i got 3,000 responses.

the top eight suggests, we knocked down five most recently. prices of airbnb are more expensive. in the last year our prices are down 1% while hotel prices are up 10%. we have new pricing tools -- still more expensive than they used to be. >> they are. they are not going up as fast as hotels. cleaning fees. 3 3 million listings without cleaning fees. we want people to love our service. every single day we are going to work and listening to customer feedback and bringing the community along and making improvements. >> this headline in the atlantic i can, airbnb is different now and they are arguing it's not the scrappy startup it used to be, not what you founded it as. obviously, companies grow. you said a few days ago we can't improve our reputation until after we solved these issues. you see your company sort of has

gone from when you built in that apartment that i first interviewed you in in san francisco and trying to get back there? >> yeah, we have been doing that a number of years. i think we are getting close to where we need to be. testimony take time for people to really feel like, you know, if you look at the stats on airbnb, the number of five star reviews is higher than ever. the satisfaction is statistically higher tit's ever been. in may we launched airbnb rooms where you can stay with a host in their home. i am hosting people in my house. that's using the product yourself. >> i want to spend time talking about something i never heard a ceo talk about, certainly a silicon valley ceo billionaire. loneliness. >> yeah. >> why are you so worried about people lonely. why are you lonely? >> first of all, maybe the reason i am worried about it the surgeon general put out a report, like tobacco, it's very concerning, we are living in a

loneliness epidemic. vie mec murthy. depending what stats you read, a third and two-thirds of americans are feeling lonely and that has a pernicious effect in mental health. teenagers, as many as two out of three teenagers are feeling lobely. why? i think modern life is isolating it. the mall is amazon and the theater is netflix and the office is zoom. it's not anyone's fault. all these things are a step forward, but they ultimately maybe have a fact of isolating us and we need to get out. the reason i am talking about it, i think maybe our service, we can point the service to be helpful. there are a lot of things i could do with our time and money. but we want to encourage people to travel together. >> but you lived this. you are living this? >> oh, yeah. with the pandemic, i live alone. or i lived alone. i was -- at one point i was by pie self. i got a dog. i started realizing -- and one

of the other things i noticed the more successful i got i thought i would have more people surrounding me. that's true, but that has a way of isolating you. my story is not unique. no matter who you are, you can be lonely, you can be isolated and you have to really work to connect with other people around you. >> i know president obama helped guide you out of this loneliness. is that right? >> he gave me some advice. and one of the things that -- pieces of advice he gave me was that he stayed really connected to his old friends, his close friends from high school, from college. and i think a lot of us probably have friends from high school. we have friends from college. we have friends from our past. we haven't picked up the phone. we haven't spent time with them. one the best things to do if you are feeling isolated, they are not truly alone, there are people out there. they have to rekindle those relationships. >> we remember the moment when airbnb went public. i want to play people the moment you realized and were told on live television, this is a $100 billion company making you

a multibillionaire. here is that moment. >> shares indicated to open now at $139 a share, which is more than double. >> that's the first time i heard that number. i don't know what else to say. it's -- that's -- it's a -- that's -- that is -- yeah, i'm very humbled by it. >> but then you've called some of those months the saddest of your life s did it feel good when you've got to the top of that mountain? >> i think so many of us, we want to climb the mountain feeling by the time we get to the top of the mountain we will feel different and maybe for a moment you do. that moment you stand on the top of the mountain. then when it settles in, you go back to the feeling like the way you were before and you realize maybe everything i needed to be happy was already inside myself and i need to look inward and ultimately happiness is not climbing the mountain it's about the people with you along the

way. >> you said -- i was shocked when i heard this, finally, brian, if i die, will i die brian chesky or the airbnb guy just died? that's kind of a wow stop you in your tracks moment. >> so much of my life has been completely dedicated to airbnb. many of us, if we are not careful, we can become the thing we are trying to pursue and lose a little bit of a sense of who we are as a person. having a little bit of boundaries. there is airbnb and me and i am a distinct person and i need to invest in myself. that is a really, really important thing. hopefully, people get to know me as brian, a guy that hitches in san francisco with a dog named sophie, you know. >> and makes chocolate chip cookies. >> for his guests. thank you for opening up about this. i think a lot of us have felt it and are feeling it and we always think you guys have it all. >> no, everyone is more similar than you himagine. new data suggests a shift.

harry enten is to here to break it down. stay with us.

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new this morning, there appears to be optimism about progress towards ending the hollywood writers strikes. they are set to meet for a second consecutive day. a person familiar told cnn the talks yesterday left attendees feeling encouraged. a deadline nearing to hammer out a deal if they want to salvage the winter portion of the television seaboard. the economic toll is approaching $6 billion across multiple industries. >> this morning an historically pretty democratic group of american voters are increasingly voting republican after three years of inflation, higher interest rates, union workers are complaining many are pushed out of the middle class. as president biden calls himself the most pro-union president ever, some are saying they are not so sure that he is on their side. harry enten with the numbers. good morning. i was just really interested in knowing what the actual numbers are because, obviously, trump is going to detroit next week. republicans are trying to take the state again and the senate

and the presidential race. do the union voters look like they are going to help them? >> yes. look. joe biden won union members by 22 points in 2020. democratic harry truman won by 62 points in 1948. over the last 70 years, we have seen an increasingly -- increasing push of union voters to vote republican even if they still vote democratic. i will note this. there is a massive divide within union members between college graduates and noncollege graduates. college graduates, joe biden won union members by six points. so there has been a real shift especially non-perishable college graduate union member. >> so how about this? hair of union members with a college degree, voters, in 2020, 51%. back in 1952, it was just 2%.

so we've seen union members become increasingly more part of the college educated group and more than that, you know, we talk about who are union members, right? 2022 workers union members, lok at that, 33% of those in the public sector are part of a union. the private sector, it's just 6%. this number was triple 40 years ago. private sector members, union members, have dropped a ton, guys. >> fascinating. also very important. harry, thank you. to some the aster fa recommendation the american dream. leaving behind a legacy stamped across new york city, including in one of my favorite subway stations. that in the subway there adorned with a beaver. the waldorf astoria hotel

created by two astor cousins. >> when astor's son died on the "titanic" he passed down $69 million. today that's the equivalent of $2 billion, with a b. now cnn's anderson cooper, a descendant of the vanderbilt family is peeling it back in a new book. he joins us now. >> poppy has been talking about the subway station -- >> there are remnants of the astor family, you see their name in many places in america. astor place is where know lived. they owned all the land there. they loaned the land of greenwich village. the astor place subway stop there are ceramic beavers, which is an homage to john jacob astor. the first way he made his first fortune. he plowed it into new york real estate. >> first of all, the book opens, a quote -- the first is "after miss astor, there was disaster."

and the way i -- just in chapter 1, the way you talk about your personal experience, it just takes us right into why this isn't just history. this is sort of still living and there are lessons for us. >> we look at elon musk and jeff bezos and these huge fortunes that are created today and think there has never been income ib like elon musk. john jacob astor was the elon musk of that day. vanderbilt, he was the same way. and i am fascinated by how these great fortunes are created and ripple effects of it over the generations. >> along those lines, and i find the analogue between kind of the musks and bezoss to that era, the second gilded age, fascinating. but the take away that money ruins everything to some degree? i feel like these aren't the happiest, most -- >> yeah, there is a lot of pain in the astor family. i think the originators of these

fortunes certainly -- i think you could argue the pathological desire to succeed and make money overrode most things in their life. i think there was a pathology to it. i don't think you do what it takes to build a fortune like this without being driven by something that doesn't come from a secure, happy place necessarily. but the pathology infects -- you s you see it time and time again. it effects the next generation as -- >> you know, they were not particularly great fathers and cruel to a lot of people in their orbits. their focus was the money and everything else sort of, you know, took second place. >> there is this part in the book i was looking for -- i guess they gave me a new copy. in my marked-up copy, in the first chapter, so striking, about ooke astor.

you become a waiter at the restaurant. you write. fwoit to see what my future might look like from the other side of the table. i didn't like what i saw. it got me thinking about what kind of perp i wanted to be, what side of the table i wanted to be on, if i even wanted to be at the table. we have seen what you have chosen to do with your life and how you conduct it and the reporting that you do. how did that moment -- >> yeah, i -- >> form the anderson we know today? >> i was working at mortimers in the mid '60s was a sort of upper east side establishment. my mom would eat there. i ate there with my mom as a kid. i met brooke astor there. i was dressed adds a waiter. she didn't recognize me as the waiter. i had the experience a lot that summer. i served people who met me through my mom and treated me one way when i'm standing next to my mom, gloria vanderbilt, but as a waiter, very different interaction. i found that to be a remarkable

and important education. >> did it shift -- >> absolutely. realizing i didn't really wasn't to be at the table at all. and this was not something i -- i didn't want to be, you know, having lunches and stuff like that. it was a -- it was a great education that i'm incredibly grateful for. >> how much of that experience -- when my wife and i were talking about this last night, she said ask anderson how the sons are doing. you dedicated this book to your sons. the vanderbilts, i think, in part because you wanted your children to learn from that experience. >> yeah. >> what do you want them to take away? >> you know, time and time again you see how generations of people in the astor family, you know, the men who had youthful exuberance become a writer or poet or whatever it was, john jacob astor reached out his longhand and brought them back and made them work in the astor accounting house. it was a ruthless business that they had. i want my kids to, i know,

figure out what they are passionate about and what they can do and i want to help them as much as possible. but i don't believe -- i think that that idea of inherited wealth can really infect and suck initiative from generations. i think that's something -- that's certainly something i think a lot about. >> congratulations. >> thank you. >> two books? >> well, no, three books under your belt? >> four. >> all that time that you have. >> yes. >> multiple jobs and other things. >> congratulations. >> thank you. okay. this breaking overnight. the pentagon is sending 800 new active duty trips to the southern border and the white house gave 500,000 venezuelan migrants temporary protections. new york city mayor eric adams with us next.

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southern border as they see pictures like this out of eagle pass, texas. crowds of migrants under a bridge. the mayor said 2,500 people crossed the border yesterday alope. they just announced mandatory relief to hundreds of thousands of venezuelans in the united states all right. mayor eric adams joins us. thank you, mayor. have you spoken to the white house? are you happy with how this turned out? >> yes, i spoke with the white house last night. and we need to be clear on where we are. we appreciate the tps for 15,000 people who are eligible that are currently in our -- but as you indicated, we have 60,000 that's in our care.

we getting 10,000 a month and this surge may continue. and so, this is a good move in the direction since april we've been calling for this. i want to thank the congressional delegation, congressman hakeem jeffries and senator schumer. but this is really moving in the right direction but we have a long way to go. >> it sounds like you're saying, mayor, this is a good start but we need more. is part of the issue that this ends at people that came in after july 31st? so that means any new venezuelan migrants coming into the city since then this will not apply to? >> that's correct. and a good point that you're asking. because we're not only getting asylum seekers from venezuela. we're getting them from west africa, russian-speaking areas. south and central america. so this is an important step for

the 15,000 people who are in our care. but it's -- the overall crisis that we continue to have and the cost that's associated with it. we spent $2 billion, it's going to cost us 5 billion this fiscal year and 12 billion during the next two cycles. >> mr. mayor, your relationship between the governor's office and the white house has been something a lot of people have been paying attention to the last several months because of this issue specifically. how would you characterize your relationship with the white house. i know you spoke last night. but the president was up here and i don't believe, based on my understanding, there have been many conversations between the two of you, where does that stand given this issue is still a live issue? >> and i am extremely clear. my results must be for the city of new york. and if i can get those results by speaking to the chief of staff of the white house or any

other representative, i'm going to do that. the goal is, i think the president is doing a great job on many issues in this country. my focus is migrant and asylum issue that is extremely hurtful and harmful to the city of new york. and i think today's -- last night's decision is the starting point of what we can do. we can't spike the ball, but we appreciate that 15,000 migrant asylum seekers are something we can look towards moving out of our acare. but we have 10,000 coming a month and over 60,000 in our care. >> governor hochul said last night she would support temporarily rescinded what is known in new york city as the right to shelter mandate. a lot of critics said he said this can be a sanctuary city so this is what has come.

would you support removing temporarily that right to shelter manmandate? >> our legal team is looking at every aspect of right to shelter and every aspect of what we are responsible to do. when you remove it, we still have the issues of people coming to the city. we don't want people sleeping on our streets. i saw what happened in el paso and other municipalities. we need to resolve the issue, that includes immigration reforms that many republicans have been holding up. but it also includes making sure all of these cities are not carrying the burden of a national issue. it's wrong for new york city as well as other municipalities in this country to be carrying a national issue. >> mr. mayor, i want to play it for people. this got push back from some but also helped highlight the scale and urgency of the issue in your eyes at least something you said a couple weeks ago, take a listen. >> never in my life have i had a

problem that i did not see an ending to. i don't see an ending to this. i don't see an ending to this. this issue will destroy new york city. destroy new york city. >> mr. mayor, subsequently, there was an interview that i listened to and watched where you provided some clarity and i think context to those statements which pushed back on some of the criticism you got. but that position right now, does that stand? your view on this and what it could mean? >> yes, it does stand. and i think you see the surge at the border, 2,500 in one day to one city. and, you know, people want to distort my words to say that migrants and asylum seekers will destroy the city, that's not true. they should not be going through this. they should not be living in

these conditions. when i take $12 million out of my budget that's going to impact how i deal with low income new yorkers, the services provided for them, the long-term impact to my seniors, to my housing. this is a severe issue that we don't want to get out of control. and when you see the continuous flow that you reported at the beginning of this conversation, you realize that, where is the end in sight? this is a national problem and new york city taxpayers should not be picking up the cost of the national problem of asylum seekers and migrants should not be living in this condition. >> mayor eric adams thank you for calling in on a critical issue. we appreciate your time this morning. >> thank you, take care. thanks to all of you for joining us. have a great day. cnn "news central" starts right now. ♪