i want to bring in now alvin bragg. he's the democratic candidate for manhattan district attorney.preciate it. so we see what's going on in new york city, shooting incidents this year have surpass last year's year-to-date count. what president biden is proposing, is it going to work to stop the surge in crime? >> i think we have to take a really holistic approach. i've seen gun violence from all perspectives. i've had a semiautomatic weapon pointed at my head. i had a friend shot at a half a block away from me. i think we need to look at all sorts of models. when i was the number two lawyer at the new york attorney general's office, we really focused on stopping the flow of guns into new york state because we have very strong gun laws here. and i would put that really at the top of the list of what we need to do to prioritize particularly locally here in new york. >> yeah. let's talk more about that because new york city's democratic mayoral candidate eric adams was in the room with president joe biden. he spoke with anderson earlier tonight. watch this. >> fighting crime is both i

when you get below the mayor itself and look at brad lander getting the comptroller position, alvin braggg the manhattan da position, these are definitely tie-dyed progressive here. i am wondering what message does that send come of that voters were willing to go for progressives at that level, but not necessarily at the mayoral level? shelly: right, and adams is going to be nothing if not interesting because not only has he made these grand promises, but he is, as you mentioned, going up against and having to deal with and build coalitions with is probably going to be the most progressive city council in history. probably for the first time, a majority female, and most diverse, as well as a progressive public advocate, progressive comptroller, progressive da. so it is going to be tussles between those two groups, and they're going to have to figure out a way forward together. tom: what is the relationship of this former captain of the new york police department and his brethren, the nypd? do we know? shelly: that i think is going to be the most interesting thing. he has this aura of bein

you look at alvin bragg's race for the district attorney in manhattan, a very prestigious position, firstment that people like me have been part of, but the need for safety. both of them came down the middle of saying we must deal with inequality, but we also must deal with how the city is going to function, and i think that many of our people are in the democratic party or in the so-called left, have confused noise is what is sound. you can make noise as long as what you're making noise about is sound. people want to be safe at the same time they want to see reform. >> elise jordan, you can look at what happened in new york city, of course look what happened in the democratic primary in 2020. joe biden really the one moderate in the entire field. i think most people would say, ended up winning the race. and you look at the crime sprees that are going across the united states right now. crime rates going up, certainly rates for murder and violent crimes going up, gun crimes going up. boy, there sure are a lot of parallels, it seems, with what we saw back in the 1970s. and democrats -- dem