crocs when bill de blasio stepped into the campaign -- >> when bill de blasio stepped into the campaigntermine who would be the leader of the city of new york, he stated that he would not let this city remain a community divided. this cityo longer let wenger in this -- linger in the shadows as a parallel story of charles dickens "a tale of two cities." us, we inspired listened, and overwhelmingly responded with a joyous sense that all things were possible. we made him our man. know it is encouraging to that the statistics have indicated a recent drop in our city's murder rate, new york, alarmingly, place a tragic role in the fact that our nation has the largest risen population in the world. -- prison population in the world. lots of that problem stems from issues of race perpetuated by indifference to policies. changing the stop and frisk law thes important as it is change of the law is only the tip of an iceberg in fixing our deeply dickensian justice system. [applause] beende blasio has overwhelmingly mandated to make much too long danced with this there -- despair, believe again tha

i saw mayor de blasio on tv today.ed very mayoral, instructing new yorkers what to do about the snow. so i think the city is in very good shape. >> let's hope so. let's turn to the inaugural of the new mayor de blasio. often inaugurations are about reaching out to critics, reminding everyone we are one people, one community. fair to say this was not that? there was a lot of criticism of outgoing mayor bloomberg from the inaugural platform. let's take a listen. >> changing the stop and frisk law is as important as it is the change of the law is only the tip of the iceberg in fixing our deeply dickensian justice system. >> the plantation called new york city should be the city of god, the city set upon the hill. >> we live in a gilded age of inequality where stop and frisk abuses and warrantless surveillance have been touted as success stories as if crime can only be reduced by infringing on the civil liberties of people of color. >> that is very tough talk for an inauguration and many of these criticisms were aimed squa

democrat bill de blasio was publicly sworn in by mayor wednesday. he was surrounded by family and friends and used a bible owned by franklin roosevelt. he is promising a fight for income equality and social justice. >> for the first time in 20 years, a democrat is now mayor of new york city. with fan fair, pomp and circumstance, bill de blasio was sworn in as a 109th mayor of the largest city in the country in a ceremony presided over by a former president. >> we are called to put an end to economic and social inequalities that threaten to unravel the city we love. >> bill de blasio ran on the platform of a tale of two cities. can he deliver on his promise to help the have notes. >> anyone that rides into office with the support that bill de blasio did, has an agenda that is too significant to accomplish. he needs to continue to think boldly, and at the same time finding short-term victories. >> bill de blasio wants to tax wealthy new yorkers to fund programs, like full-time prekindergarten. to build housing he wants to take $1 million from the pens

on the optics, at least, de blasio is off to a promising start.e morning after snowmageddon image for new york's new mayor. bill de blasio shovel in hand pulling a cory booker clearing his own sidewalk while giving reporters an update on progress of the city's response to the storm. his performance on this, his first big test as mayor of the country's largest city, matters to more than just snowed-in new yorkers because there's a national spotlight on the new york mayorality. also the first big test of whether or not this waive of nascent progressive populism is just a passing moment or a growing sustainable movement of meaningful reform. if mayor de blasio is to take his populist promises from ideas to implementation, he'll have to effectively marshal the city's considerable resources of municipal government, 300,000 employees, a $70 billion bum et in service of his agenda. liberal reformers beyond the city's five boroughs will be watching the city not only as a test case for the populist movement but also for its possibilities because over the p

this was the first big test for new mayor bill de blasio. he was out with a shovel this morning hitting his own walkway. >> it would have been nice to have talked about how to handle a snowstorm in an abstract exercise, but we didn't get to do that, we got the real thing. >> no, trial by fire on this one. at this point the worst of the snow is over and out, but here's what's moving in, subzero temperatures, the coldest some have seen in years. >> it is very cold. >> i'm layered up. i have like four pairs of pants on and four sweatshirts, so i'm cold. >> we've got you covered. team coverage all over the map. we have richard lui in boston, craig melvin in new york city, bill karins is monitoring the storm right here in the studio. i want to start with richard lui where we've seen record-breaking snowfall not just in boston but some mind-blowing snow totals all around the state. fill us in. >> all around the state, thomas, good morning touch you. the national weather service saying 8 to 23 inches here in the state of massachusetts. just short o

the unions have a creative bill de blasio. they'll use new york as an example of if they can pay for paid sick leave, they can bring that up. they'll say if everyone is closer in pay to union members, why not join overall. that's the plan for the unions in the long term, how to grow membership. if they earn more, let's see what they can do. across the country we have had the fast food workers protesting a bit over the past couple of months. they don't do that. the unions pay them to march. new york will be an issue front and center. when you talk about the unions and what they want to accomplish. they have to negotiate all the union contracts across the city. there's not a single union that serve the city. sanitation, police, fires, teachers, the uft will go after them. randy wine garten, head of the uft nationally is a farmer uft president in new york city. >> it's a big change for new york, the first democrat in city hall in 20 years. thank you for your time tonight. >> what do you do when a president's bible disappears, you

i had high hopes for de blasio.re fairly successful in new york city, they go oh, my god, that's going to be scary. i don't understand what necessarily they are afraid of with him except for perhaps the change in policing but then he put brenton in place. >> lowest murder rate in the history of new york city. we're on good footing. if you have a safe city you'll have a more likelihood of a prosperous city and i think the word willie used was excellent, the laboratory. what happens here -- listen, chicago. you know, i know it's early. chicago has had a lot of problems. my wife is from chicago. the murder rate is out of control. we'll see what happens here and if maybe it will translator to cities. last thing i'll say and i said this for years, we need -- americans need to be cognizant of what they buy because it's hard to have wage gains if companies have no pricing power. if we're just obsessed with buying the lowest cost good all time and you say i have to because i have no income. there's your downward spiral of t

first clinton and de blasio from yesterday. he says something i think is interesting. >> i strongly endorse bill de blasio's core campaign commitment that we have to have a city of shared opportunities, shared procesperityprosperity, possibilities. >> we're called to put an end to economic and social inequalities that threaten to unravel the city we love. so today we commit to a new progressive direction in new york. that same progressive impulse has written our city's history. >> okay. god, i'm sorry. i almost swore. it's like 1980 or something. he's talking about social inequality threatening to unravel the city we love. is he talking about new york city? >> another planet. not here. i felt i was trapped in a time machine. i was like what is this guy talking about? this is the place everybody wants to come and live until now -- >> what does he mean? financial inequality i wrap my head around that. social inequality in new york city? i don't get it. >> when you say things like that my dear friend, the fact is -- people want to

listen to de blasio speaking about two cities. >> let me be clear.ould take dead aim at the tale of two cities, i meant it. and we will do it. >> what strikes me about that is not that he said it. we hear candidates talk like that a lot and john edwards did. but that he said it at inauguration, which is not the time we usually hear what is considered a message about breaking us apart. his point being that's part of bloomberg's legacy. >> well, there was a real paradox here, though. had you turned the sound down off that inauguration, what you would have seen was the mayor being sworn in by a president who had really pushed hard for financial deregulation. don't forget the most influential economic voice in president clinton's administration was robert reuben. and the -- there's a paradox here, because the recovery has been so uneven. but wall street is absolutely booming. so if mayor de blasio does have some running room and some flexibility and some resources to actually achieve some of the things that he is talking about, it will be in part because

this storm will be the first big test here for bill de blasio. how are they bracing for the potential of up to eight inches of snow? >> the key here, thomas, is getting ahead of the storm and already they've got salt spreaders out on the road. here's what they're spreading, this thick, coarse mixture that will keep the roads dry and that is expected later this evening. we've got 300 of those salt spreaders out on the road and we have about a thousand plows standing nearby. as i said the key is getting the work done before it really starts to fall. as for residents of the tri-state area they are stocking up on shifls, on food ask water. we are hearing of some shortages in local stores. officials, of course, reminding people to stay off the roads. if it's absolutely noes go out, they say be sure to tuck the essentials into your car. they're talking about a flashlight, clothes, food, water, just in case you get stuck somewhere. we're expecting 6 to 12 inches of snow in some places up to 16 inches and with the brutal temperature drops and those chill

i will say this, here's why you have to worry about comrade bill de blasio. his campaign was built on a lie. new york city is not a -- how do you say the word? >> dekeynesian. >> dekeynesian hell hole. >> you can't make this argument if you can't say it. >> some people are saying maybe charlie's wrong, maybe it is the best of times and the worst of times. the best oftimes for rich guys like charlie but still so many pockets of poor in this country, let's try a differensystem because this capitalism thing isn't fair. >> but the capitalism is the best system there is. there's in perfectly fair system. god did not make life to be perfectly fair. i would like to recommend an author named charles payne whos has a website who wrote about this subject about a class envy and about the envy and how bad it is and dangerous in america. >> quickly. >> i remember that column by charl payne. >> quickly the mayor's impact will be felt in the biggest way how he handles the union contracts. about 150 bargaining units, about 300 employees. they're demanding retroactive wage as

you're the only person in the world who has run against de blasio and bloomberg.ant to take a listen to something that president clinton said. he was one of the first people to get around to saying something nice about mayor bloomberg at yesterday's inauguration. take a listen. >> i also want to thank mayor bloomberg. who has committed so much of his life to this city. he leaves the city stronger and healthier. >> it depends on how you define both of those words, health and strength and whether you're talking about the corridors of manhattan that are safe and that have a lot of great business and a lot of stuff to do for people who live here and for tourists, or whether you're talking about other parts of new york that you and bill de blasio have highlighted throughout your careers. places where under this mayor, homelessness is up, where crime and policing has taken on a big toll against largely innocent african-americans. give us, first, your take of this mayor's legacy, mr. bloomberg, and what that means for the next mayor. >> he's a unique figure. we haven't s

rick, mayor de blasio argues he's fulfilling a campaign promise.e was re-elected and this is what he told the voters he was going to do. >> yeah. absolutely. nobody should be surprised by the fact that bill de blasio is advocating policies that are redistributional policies. this is what he's talked about during the entire campaign. income inequality. interesting today, there was a harvard study, a group of well-respected authors who have now documented after looking at millions of income tax returns that income inequality has not changed over the last few years. maybe it's productivity mobility and not income mobility. that's an issue that i think you'll see republicans i hope engage in with president obama and it will be much more of an issue over the coming weeks and months. >> peter, what do you say to people who view this as just the redistribution of wealth and not a particularly effective way to help with income inequality? >> look, the government is inevitably in the business of redistribution of wealth. the good news here is that you have

bill de blasio has announced the state will settle an ongoing lawsuit. in august, judge shirer .cheindlin criticize the police mikes former mayor bloomberg had criticize the court ruling saying it made officers impassive and scared to frisk suspects. innocent new yorkers were subjected to more than 4 million stops and frisks. mayor de blasio deliver the news at a community center in brownsville, brooklyn, predominantly african-american community, that has had more stop and frisk's in any other part of the city. >> we're here today to turn the page on one of the most divisive problems in our city. in thisve administration, and i think the reflects the value of the people probably, we believe in one city where everyone rises together. we believe in respecting every new yorkers rights, regardless of what neighborhood they live in or the color of their skin. we believe in ending the overuse of stop and frisk that has unfairly targeted young african american and latino men. we believe in our obligation, the most fundamental one that there is in government, to

i think they like each other. de blasio did work on her first senate campaign in 2000.here's a lot of debate about what his role was, but he worked hard on that campaign. i think she came away from that campaign with good feelings about him. but there is no question the clintons accepted this role -- bill clinton accepted this roll and hillary clinton to be there participately to show, to send a signal that they are open to this new populism and they want to embrace it. going forward how much, we'll see. >> joan, when you think of populism bill clinton isn't exactly the first person to come to mind. but at the swearing in ceremony, there was little contrast between him and the more progressive de blasio. here is de blasio. >> we are called to put an end to economic and social inequalities that threaten to unravel the city we love. so today we commit to a new progressive direction in new york. when i said i would take dead aim at the tale of two cities, i meant it. >> and here's president clinton yesterday. >> i strongly endorse bill de blasio's core campaign commitment

in new york bill de blasio has taken over from michael bloomberg. bill de blasio was elected in a landslide and inaugurated yesterday. now, one day in his administration faces its first test, a huge snow storm. let's listen to what bill de blasio of new york had to say about the way his administration is planning to tackle this. >> our city sanitation workers are on full mobilisation and have been since this morning. they are working 12 hour shifts in light of the emergency, with more than 2300 workers on each shift. sanitation department already has deployed 450 salt spreaders to prepare the ground for what is coming. as soon as we have at least two inches of snow they'll deploy 1700 trucks equipped with snow ploughing. >> so that's bill de blasio, the democratic mayor of new york city, and, of course, he's facing a challenge with the team, and the reason it's important to him is a couple of years ago there was a major storm, and bill de blasio's area was not ploughed for three days. he kicked up a stink and he's the mayor, wanting to make sure wha

lower crime, de blasio looks to anti-business, anti-education reform. this is elizabeth warren stuff. we need more rudy giuliani and bloomberg. all this and much more coming up on "the kudlow report" beginning right now. good evening, everyone, i'm lawrence kudlow, happy new year to everybody. we're here live, first thing we need to do is get you updated on a big winter storm hitting the midwest and heading towards the east coast. and kevin tibbles joins us, live from chicago, good evening. >> reporter: hey, larry, my lips are still moving, but only barely, i have to spit this out for you. there are parts of the midwest where it has been snowing nonstop. here alone, there are 1300 plows and trucks trying to keep the roads open. so far they're pretty successful. i have to tell you it is pretty hard to travel, it is chaos, hundreds of flights cancelled at o'hare. and as you know, that sort of thing happens on a sunny day at o'hare, so when something like that happens it really backs up things coast to coast, because almost everything goes out of o'hare wh

mayor bill de blasio was sworn in by former president clinton. the new mayor unapologetic about his progressive agenda, signaling changes that could effect the entire country. susan candiotti joins us from new york. hi, susan. >> hi, happy new year. >> reporter: as new york city goes, so goes the country? maybe, maybe not. a lot of liberals and progressive democrats will be watching closely because of de blasio social reform policies work, it may help the party on a national level. new york's pop u lous new mayor got to the ceremony the way millions of new yorkers get to work every day, on the subway. before emerging, even running into his predecessor, former mayor michael bloomberg. signaling reversal of policies that saw business boom under bloomberg, some say at the expense of the abnormal and working class. >> when i said i would take dead aim at the tail of two cities, i meant it. >> reporter: citing liberal leaders of the past century, de blasio promising to even the economic playing field, including taxing those that make more than a half

this is rart interesting for de blasio. it concerns animal rights right there in the city of new york. the old horse and carriage, the buggy rides through central park, that tradition that is pretty much a staple to many who visit. ashleigh banfield explains. >> hey, marty. so the day after new year's eve in times square, it seems fitting to come to central park to take a look at the horse-drawn carriages because they may be relics. if the new mayor who is in town, bill de blasio, has his way, you will not be seeing the beautiful horse-drawn carriages going through central park. there's a long argument about whether it's fair with the traffic and exhaust and do they get time in the pastures, the stalls where they stay, some of the animal rights activists say are small. on the other side of the coin, the people who have been driving the kaerjs, some for 30-plus years say this is how they make their living. if the horses are retired, they would probably go to paddocks where they would have no exercise, no interaction. peta is

it's not de blasio's fault. >> more people are getting on trains because of de blasio.n. because of de blasio. >> it's unbelievable. i took my white gloves, willie, to get cleaned and they are going to tax that. you know, i always wear my white gloves when i come in. >> to touch the silver. >> exactly. you know what de blasio said about snow. god bring it, god can take it away. no, that was marion berry a decade ago. we'll stay with this theme as unfair as it is, as our welcome gift to the new mayor. i hear he's a great guy. he's a good guy. why can't he fix the snow? >> he is. you have to go to working class neighborhoods. >> it is true. it is true. my streets there were much clearer than they are in manhattan. not even a close call. >> i came about 50 blocks through manhattan and every street was plowed. i'll stay with the joke and theme because it's fun but every street was plowed beautifully. >> other than that he's not doing well. >> other than that, seriously, this is a crisis of the fir order. >> crisis of confidence. >> takes me back to katrina. let's go to wash

this storm will be the first big test here for bill de blasio.al of up to eight inches of snow?

just after midnight. >> i bill de blasio. >> i bill de blasio. >> to solemnly swear. >> do solemnlyformer president bill clinton will redo the haonor of swearing him in. here was de blasio's first message to new yorkers. >> i want to say to all of you how grateful we are. from the beginning this has been our family together, reaching out to the people of the city to make a change that we all needed. i want to thank you for having brought us to this moment. >> let's talk about this a little bit. ozzie, a reporter from capital new york with us and with me by phone, kate taylor from "the new york times." kate, happy new year. >> happy new year. thanks for having me. >> ozzie, let's start with you. first democratic mayor in about 20 years. are we going to see a lot of changes and see them quickly? >> we are going to see changes but it's unclear how quickly we'll see them. one of the things bill de blasio had to do is pick an administration. he picked bill bratton but he's also keeping a few of michael bloomberg's commissioners. the fire commissioner is staying in place, the person who h

it's interesting to see how this new mayor, bill de blasio, just elected here in new york city, just how he's going to do. he campaigned as a man of the people, and that message was also made clear during his inauguration ceremony. new york's populist new mayor bill de blasio and his family got to his inauguration ceremony the way millions of new yorkers get to work every day. on the subway. before emerging, even running into his predecessor, former mayor michael bloomberg. in his speech, signaling a reversal of policies that saw business boom under bloomberg, some say at the expense of the poor and working class. >> when i said i would take dead aim at the tale of two cities, i meant it. >> reporter: citing liberal leaders of the past century, de blasio promising to even the economic playing field, including taxing those who make more than $500,000 a year to pay for universal pre-k and after-school programs. telling the wealthy, don't worry. >> -- see their taxes increase by an average of $973 a year. that's less than three bucks a day, about the cost of a small soy latte at your lo

. >>> that inequality also being addressed by the new new york mayor, bill de blasio this year in his inauguration this week, the centerpiece of his plan is to increase taxes to pay for education. you haven't come out in support of this? >> i support an increase in taxes at the federal level from 35% to 39%. it's a more difficult issue at the state level because people can leave and go to connecticut or new jersey or somewhere else. so, i left it to them. >> you support it or not? >> i'm leaving it up to de blasio and cuomo out of this one. >>> finally, clemency for edward snowden? >> no, i don't believe so. snowden said that he's in the grand tradition of civil disobedience in this country. it is a grand tradition. part of that tradition, you pay the consequences, if you break the law because your conscience says you have to, you stand trial and pay the consequences. that's what martin luther king jr. did. so, what snowden ought to do is come back and stand trial. and face the consequences and he'll have his ample opportunity to say why he did what he did. and all of that. and you kn

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we'll be watching bill de blasio as well. stay warm. streets get plowed. >>> extreme weather from coast to coast. we have been talking about it tonight far from the frigid new york city temperatures. folks are experiencing some of the area. in california some cities are tying the record for heat, sparking wildfires and there is no relief in sight. four months. here's our keon wild with the record. dna done, half of the being in the draw the. hurting al culture as well as the animals. >> reporter: harold kelly speaks to his horses. it's the call to feed. >> the grass is basically all gone. >> reporter: gone because of the drought, the worst in the century whampt that means for the ma just stick he features. there's simply no food. as kelly rounds left his 50 hours, there should be room. the 71-year-old rancher like all of the others in central valley is forced to buy hey. also skyrocketing in plies before the drought. >> not really. i hate to say that recently just to feed the horses. >> yes. >> how bad is this drought. you can see this

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even new york city could get swamped and it would be mayor de blas blasio's first test on the job. boston preemptively declaring a snow emergency today, canceling school on friday. let's go over to bill karins. it seems less of a big deal earlier in the week and now a pretty big deal. >> it's because of the korld. if it was just the snow alone, i think we could deal with it. some people don't have school, some going back. kind of a mixed bag. the problem is that it's so cold that the treatments on the roads won't be as effective and the fact that we'll have to clear i'd walks and driveways and cars in windchills below zero, that will be something we haven't done in a while in many areas of new england and the ohio valley. let's start with it this morning, heaviest snow elected over indianapolis. light fluffy snow, but again, it doesn't get treated as well and if there is any wind, it will blow right back on to the roads. so that is expanding in to ohio. eventually as the snow continues in to new england, that's where it will pile up the most. right now the storm affecting the ohio

this was the first big test for new mayor bill de blasio.is morning hitting his own walkway. >> it would have been nice to have talked about how to handle a snowstorm in an abstract exercise, but we didn't get to do that, we got the real thing. >> no, trial by fire on this one. at this point the worst of the snow is over and out, but here's what's moving in, subzero temperatures, the coldest some have seen in years. >> it is very cold. >> i'm layered up. i have like four pairs of pants on and four sweatshirts, so i'm cold. >> we've got you covered. team coverage all over the map. we have richard lui in boston, craig melvin in new york city, bill karins is monitoring the storm right here in the stud

bill de blasio was sworn in on wednesday as new york's 119th mayor.e inequality. at his inaugural address, he took the issue head on. >> it was new yorkers who challenged the status quo. who blazed a trail of progressive reform and political action. who took on the elite, who stood up to say that social and economic justice will start here and will start now. >> well, de blasio's commitment to economic justice didn't resinate with everyone. >> and this is somebody who was elected with more than 70% of the vote to his base, to the voters, the progressives in new york city. he gave a very muscular argument in favor of what he wanted to do. but i have to say, there's another reaction, a lot of times inaugurals are times when people, when presidents or mayors or governors can reach out to critics, reach out to those who maybe didn't vote for him. this was not that. >> mayor de blasio's message wasn't just for the people who voted for him. his message was for the nation. starting with its largest city, income inequality will not be tolerated. if jake tappe

joining me now is new york city mayor bill de blasio. mr. mayor, welcome back to the show. >> thank you so much, rev. >> your announcement today doesn't immediately end stop and frisk. what does it do? >> well, it says that with the judge's approval, the federal judge's approval, we are going to end the city's appeal. we're going to accept the judge's ruling. and we came to a settlement simultaneously with the civil rights and civil liberties organizations, again, pending the judge's approval. and we're very hopeful wall street we'll get that. it means we're going the end the whole legal battle because we've agreed to a settlement with the people who raised the case to begin with on behalf of young men of color in this city, we're going to move forward. we're accepting the reforms the federal judge put forward. we're embracing those reforms. and we believe it's going to make us safer in the final analysis because police and community will have a chance to actually work together as opposed to being divided by an unfair policy. >> because peop

bill de blasio was sworn in. as ray lynn johnson reports, he has promised to fight for income equality and social justice. >> for the first time in 20 years a democrat is now mayor of new york city. with fanfare, pomp and circumstance, bill de blasio was sworn in as the 109th mayor of the largest city in the country in a ceremony that was presided over by a former president. >> we are called to put an end to economic and social inequalities that threaten to unravel the city we love. >> de blasio ran on a platform of the tale of two cities. but can he succeed? >> the platforms that mayor de blasio did, what i think he needs to do is continue to think boldly while at the same time finding some short term victories. >> to improve education de blasio sis he wants to improve education, build more affordable housing he wants to take $1 million from the city's pension funds. all of these proposals have been met by opposition from a variety of groups, yet supporters say deblasio will be able to work across the aisle to a

the person lobbying the hardest for it, a mega bill de blasio donor.to procure this stable once it comes onto the market. so the only way to get it into the market is ending the practice. >> there are three stables, prime property, they overlook the hudson, they could build this huge high rise. >> so they want to kick them out because they want the property because the property is worth more to the developers? >> that is what the horse supporters are saying. >> does this sound like a good thing? >> it is a bipartisan issue, so the republican candidate who ran for mayor also ran on this ticket. >> do you eat meat? >> i don't. >> do you eat fish? >> i'm a vegetarian. do you eat leather? >> if the republicans supported it is probably because they're pro development. right? if the republicans supported it it is probably because they're pro-development. obviously we know mr. de blasio has a further agenda, and furthering this for his friend's project. remember solyndra? it is the same equivalent in new york city. >> these horses like to do this. >> i'm not

governor dean attended de blasio's inauguration. governor dean, i will start with you. fascinating to hear litany of new york figures, liberal figures, storied liberals from the progressive movement. francis perkins, al smith, fdr. i recall you back in the day, coming from the democratic wing of the democratic party had some trouble convincing democrats that it was good politics to go back to that era, to be the kind of democrats that fdr and la guardia were. do you see this as an era, where democrats want to take back in that direction? >> first, it's not just new york. eric garcetti, is progressive, mayor of los angeles. two biggest cities in the country which are really setting the stage for a progressive comeback. i think that is good. a lot of this is, not just about progressionivism and, working for the little guy, a lot of this is a new generation coming to power. that's what started in my campaign. i wasn't successful. all of the tech people that started all this. went on to work for president obama, two of the best campaigns run in the history of the country. a

bill clinton swore in new mayor de blasio and hillary clinton was front and center, front row.s. amy, as liberal, making a comeback in the democratic party. >> we have not seen the divide among the democratic party between liberal wing and more moderate wing as we have seen in the republican party between the tea party and the more establishment conservatives. if there is a resurgence of this liberal wing, we hear about the de blasio wing, elizabeth warren wing, then we would see it in primaries. ala what we saw in 2010 and 2012 and now with republicans. there is nobody running to the left of these red state democrats in these big senate races. there is mob talking about primarying anyone who sort of moves to the center in these house races. so -- what we have seen is there has been a lot of talk about this. i think that the party right now, democratic party is much more unified today than they were even when bill clinton was president. will that go away once the race for 2016 begins? maybe. i just don't see that level of frustration, the sort of penitentiary-up liberalism wait

his name is bill de blasio, and as stephanie gosk reports, his influence is likely to be felt far beyond the city. ♪ >> reporter: the mayor of new york may only be in charge of the city, but this job has always had the power to push the national agenda. democrat bilodeau blaus ois already thinking big. >> we are called to put an end to economic and social inequalities that threaten to unravel the city we love. >> reporter: today at his inauguration, the brooklyn native was sworn in by his one-time boss, president bill clinton. few new yorkers knew who he was a year ago. but it changed following the compelling story of his mixed race family with his unapologetically liberal platform. >> bill de blasio will be forever a new yorker. >> reporter: he's working with animal rights activists to get rid of these horse-drawn carriages. his predecessor, michael bloomberg undoubtedly changed new york. he banned smoking in bars and restaurants and famously tried to outlaw big sugary drinks. there was a dramatic drop in crime, a record 333 murders in 2013, down from 2,245 in 1990, which bloomberg in p

bill de blasio is the first democrat to lead new york in two decades. he's promising to narrow the income gap that widened under his predecessor, michael bloomberg. difficult blass i don't was sworn in on wednesday as the 109th mayor of new york. voters elected the 52-year-old last november. former president bill clinton and former secretary of state hillary clinton attended the event. >> new york has faced fiscal collapse in the crime epidemic, terrorist attacks and natural disasters. but now in our time we face a different crisis, an inequality crisis. >> de blasio noted desparts and race. he promised to implement a tax hike on the wealthy. he said we'll conform the practical police tactic of stop and frisk that critics say leads to racial profiling. analysts say new york is more secure than it has been in years. the number of murders has declined to one-fifth over the last two decades. people are focusing on how mayor de blasio's policies will affect the economy. >>> people in the u.s. state of colorado have been lining up to be among the first to bu

de blasio part of the clinton administration.him out. 2016 is just around the corner. >> one thing she needs to pay attention to, a movement within the party, showing in people like elizabeth warren, the discussion about if you work hard 40 hours a week, should be able to put food on the table, send the kids to college. somewhere in the last 10, 12 years, the rules have been changed against middle class families, and special interest, big corporations, those folks are playing by a different set of rules. she has to be able to figure out if she runs how she kind of captures that message and conveys it to the public. i think in the party there is a growing movement toward this populous messaging that she didn't really use in 2008. >> she sure didn't. do you think this is -- obviously new york city is new york city. they haven't elected a democrat mayor there in about two decades. is this a sign of something larger or is this something we could say well, that's, you know, manhattan? >> i think it is a big deal. we talk a lot about d

bill clinton swore in new mayor de blasio and hillary clinton was front and center, front row.he is. amy, as liberal, making a comeback in the democratic party. >> we have not seen the divide among the democratic party between liberal wing and more moderate wing as we have seen in the republican party between the tea party and the more establishment conservatives. if there is a resurgence of this liberal wing, we hear about the de blasio wing, elizabeth warren wing, then we would see it in primaries. ala what we saw in 2010 and 2012 and now with republicans. there is nobody running to the left of these red state democrats in these big senate races. there is mob talking about primarying anyone who sort of moves to the center in these house races. so -- what we have seen is there has been a lot of talk about this. i think that the party right now, democratic party is much more unified today than they were even when bill clinton was president. will that go away once the race for 2016 begins? maybe. i just don't see that level of frustration, the sort of penitentiary-up liberalism

so bill de blasio was never really vetted. he has been going after bloomberg and i'm not sure that's very smart we have the lowest problem of any major city i the world right now. he he's talking about reversing some of tse policies. he has an uphill battle ahead of him because the city is doing quite well right now. the only thing that he can think of is income inequality. and i'm just not sre about that. melissa: how do you convince people that redistributing weah is in a good thing if you are at the bottom? i know it's a tough economy out there and easy to look at the other guy and say, why isn't he still doing well. the high-end real estate in new york is doing so well. so why don't yo look at that and say give that poor people. >> we all want to do what we can to ease the burdens of people. but the failure of the obamaca rollout is reminding so many more americans that when government promises things for free, it is not quite the case. but this money just doesn't come out of thin air. iscomes out of the econmy. and this m