dinkins accused giuliani of gutter politics. - david dinkins is not prepared to be mayor of this citythere, where polls show dinkins ahead by about 15 points. - there was a big voter turnout. one estimate said 60%. the city's 3.2 million registered voters cast ballots. - the night of the election, i felt that we had a chance. but i kept telling myself, "don't build yourself up "for disappointment. "let yourself accept that we ran the best race we've seen for mayor." and then we won. and it was very close. but we won. [cheers and applause] - new york city tonight has the first black mayor in its history. the race to succeed flamboyant three-term mayor ed koch was the most contested and contentious in 20 years. - this year, voters rejected the calls to fear and spoke with voices of hope. [cheers and applause] - history was made. he's now the mayor for the city of new york. joy in the streets of harlem, bed-stuy. we were getting calls from doctors and nurses and hospitals saying that, you know, the black patients in the hospital were going bananas. [cheers and applause] - you know, polit

. >> in some ways it was easy to blame david dinkins for things that weren't his fault. sort of message, as there often is. >> today the new york police are being taught to take a different tack. to clean up the neighborhood aggressively, to visibly improve the quality of life as the first step in crime reduction. >> it's the broken windows theory. this idea that there were small quality of life crimes, and if you could stop that, you would set up a very peaceful and orderly society. and that really becomes a process of racial profiling that disproportionally targeted young black men as potential criminals. >> we're out there. they have more foot posts out there. more police officers walking the beat. >> hi. how are you? >> if i were to put police on every corner in america, of course crime would go down. but the question is, at what cost? for black people it was a sense of community, a sense of dignity, a sense of respect from law enforcement. >> with the majority of americans worrying about their quality of life, in california, the easygoing tolerance of earlier decade

. - democrat david dinkins has defeated republican rudolph giuliani. [tense music] - in city hall, there was a space in the bowels of that ancient building that came to be known as the lair. that's where the cigars would be smoked. and that's where giuliani's inner circle would watch "the godfather" over and over... [chuckles] and over again. - godfather. - rudy is famously obsessed with "the godfather." - rudy giuliani is a little bit of everybody in that film. one night, he had a showing of "the godfather." and he sits behind me, and during the entire movie, he explains why the life of politics is exactly the life of the godfather. and, of course, in the one story where sonny complains to the godfather that they should be selling drugs, and you see this battle within the family, rudy starts tapping me on the shoulder saying, "do you see? do you see? when you have a disagreement, you keep it in the family." - don't ever takes sides with anyone against the family again. ♪ ♪ - rudy grows up to become a prosecutor of the mob. and yet he's fascinated by t

my fear is having grown up in david dinkins' new york city which was a chaotic mess before giuliani ifthat people are starting to embrace the suck. it was a term we had in the secret service when you didn't have a choice, listen, just embrace the suck. you've got to fix it. people are starting to embrace it. they watch thousands of people per if day if not tens of thousands walking across our board, and they're like, is this footage from last week or bill melugin's drones today? 6% inflation last month, they're, like, ah, yeah, it's not too bad. it was 9%. i'm really worried that people are starting to embrace the suck, and it's not bad enough for hem yet to change things. rachel: heir playing with fire, dan. of i as will said, any one of the terrorists that did can get through, we know some have, something could happen. what is their calculation? what is the why? why are they doing this? people at the border say they know this is intentional, but what is at the heart of it? why are they opening our border and risking a terrorist attack? >> yeah. yeah, i know if, it's a good question.

so, for instance, this happened to david dinkins in new york when there were tensions between green grocers and blacks. when he takes a side. his multiracial coalition falls apart. and that's, you know, one of the things among many that helped rudy giuliani beat him when he ran for reelection in 1993. so, you know, the challenge is keeping the coalition together. and the challenge is actually talking about race. and so if he didn't promise to do things on race, should we expect him to do things on race? and then once in the office is he going to wink and nod and then actually quietly do things behind the surface? and so what i find a lot in my book is that there are a lot of quiet things that were being done behind the scenes that weren't necessarily heralded a whole lot. but that certainly. evans the fact that that that president obama recognized his role and that he was trying to do small incremental things that would certainly improve the lot of african-americans. great. claude, you've written a lot about how obama navigated the treacherous waters of race during his presidency. how did h