dinkins accused giuliani of gutter politics. - david dinkins is not prepared to be mayor of this cityolitics in the big apple. a final flurry of campaigning there, 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 wer

. - in about 20 minutes from now, david dinkins, who is now mayor dinkins, is scheduled to step out fromll to take a public oath of office and become new york city's 106th mayor and the city's first african-american mayor. - i intend to be the mayor of all the people of new york. - david dinkins being inaugurated on new year's day, 1990, is sort of an auspicious start to the decade and really the culmination of some of the civil rights struggles of the 1960s. people are starting to see tangible benefits of that struggle. - a grandson of slaves was sworn in today as the nation's first elected black governor. - did you ever think you'd see the day when a black man would be elected governor of virginia? - no, indeedy. see, i was born in the '30s, so you know i didn't think nothing like that gonna happen. - after we saw hundreds of black elected officials, the reality set in that we made a step, but we had not gotten all the way to where we wanted. - in last year's mayoral campaign, dinkins ran as the candidate who would heal new york's deep racial divisions. now he finds himself scrambling

also david dinkins. you want the opposite end of the spectrum? roy cone and robert moses.moses definitely at the bottom.ns and david dinkins i still call my mayor even though he passed on. he was a man of elegance and grace. >> he w was classy. >> he was reallya a class act. i think that. youar can't please everyone allf the time and good for the city. >> yeah, you were the governor in the 70s a lot of parts of view people thought were weird coloring his hair and having girl friends and things like that.og he put together a team that saved the city of new york. >> he really did. >> the fiscal crisis allowing dick to become head of the mta and able to cleanup the subway system and put it back on track again. o the corporation can get us back on track. he selected all of these people, gave p them the opportunity to t theon city back on track. the financialnt control board al of that was developed while he wasad governor. he understood the city had the potential to become what he allowed it to become. i knowow the family celebrated s birthday o yesterday. he's one of the most

. - 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

when you go back and look at the rhetoric in that election, he is comparing david dinkins to david dukem racist. you can see the influence of giuliani on the trump campaign and on trump's style of politics. >> it's a great point. >> i think what really happened is not that giuliani changed. the country changed. we changed. we became more perceptive of this kind of manipulation. when we look back at it now, it's very obvious. but at the time, that was considered an acceptable form of politics, and people didn't really get angry at it in the same way. or rather, white people didn't get angry in the same way. lots of black new yorkers were screaming bloody murder about it. >> i will say, that police riot that he was present at was extremely controversial at the time. that was a really notable event, and ugly. ugly in a way that i think was covered as such in the press. you're right, it had an appeal that carried him over and made him politically successful. nick, you crossed paths with him in that same new york attorney's office. i don't want to overstate the case, because when you look at

also david dinkins, do you want the opposite end of the spectrum? i'm sure roy cohn and robert moses. robert, definitely at the bottom definitely and david dinkins, who i still my mayor, even though he's passed on and but was a man of elegance and grace and was classy he was classy. he really a class act and i think that you i think that he tried to please everyone and you can't please everyone of the time. but i think that he was a good person at heart and i think that he was good for city. yeah. you carry a governor in the seventies who i think you know there are a lot of parts of you kerry who people thought was kind of weird coloring his hair and having girlfriends and things like that, but he he individually put put together a team that saved the city of new york. he really the fiscal crisis allowing -- ravitch to become head of the mta who was able to clean up the subway system and put it back on track again. he put felix rhoden with the municipal assistance corporation to get us back on track. he is the one who selected all of these people, g

he once referred to the black mayor of new york david dinkins as an n word wore. the middle of the 1991 crown heights riots one jewish leader called the most serious in the history of america. when are we going to stop listening to reverend al sharpton. everything is racist. if you are a black conservative you are the black face of white supremacy and the same people will attack the republican party for not having enough diversity and then when they have black candidates like myself and two others, we are uncle toms and sell outs. you can't win. >> laura: yeah. so i guess the word rigger is racist. i guess if an animal or dog is a digger. that's racist. you keep going down the line. i don't think they realize how absolutely poltroonish they look and again their outrage, so outraged by. this do you think they actually believe what they are saying at this point or is it just throw anything out there? >> everything triggers them. oh, can i say that? you know what the game is, laura. they want black people to believe that america remains systemically racist. that's on

open under david dinkin's administration, they should be able to stop this from happening. experience, sandra, walking to work every day. this is what's going on, and about the previous story, staten island is the one that wants to secede, but cigarette smoke is annoying, but this affects your mind. do you want to, in the biggest tournament of your life, matches that matter, to outline your future, you want to have somebody else's decision to smoke pot affect that. the answer is no. >> sandra: so many people doing it i think it's so hard to stop all of those people, where do you put them, the cameras zoomed in on a woman inside the stadium lighting up drug paraphernalia. >> unbelievable. >> sandra: i hope they can straighten that out, it's not pleasant. >> welcome to new york. we thought hecklers were the biggest obstacle, now it's people with bongs. >> john: updating the news on senator mitch mcconnell, congressional physician clearing him to continue with his schedule and adding light-headedness is not uncommon in concussion recovery. dr. marc siegel, more on this. doc, a

police officers who screamed racist slurs during a protest against america's first black mayor, david dinkins civilian complaint review board. as mayor, giuliani championed stop and frisk, which was used disproportionately in black and brown neighborhoods. the new york civil liberties union wrote in the 7 1/2 years before 9/11, let there be no mistake, racial bias and fearmongering were the hallmarks of his mayoral piece. he refused to relocate the emergency control center out of the world trade center, despite it having been the target of a truck bomb attack in 1993. and it was giuliani who helped purdue pharma get away a slap on their wrist, calling it a favor from the doj to help russia's sweetheart deal, letting purdue continue selling oxycontin to americans and preventing any further prosecution of the company or the sackler family who owned it. what a guy. oh, and giuliani's currently being sued by a former employee for $10 million for allegedly aggressively pursuing a sexual relationship with her. throw in his apparent begging his former client donald trump for financial help and what

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

we'll throw everybody in there, everyone david dinkins. but he was mayor when there was a turnaround of new york city. i have to say, one of the great accomplishments, one of the great accomplishments for a city aye seen in my lifetime. new york city from 1989/1990 to 1995, unrecognizable. of course, many people very moved by what he did on 9/11. there were a couple days where george w. bush just didn't find his footing politically or rhetorically or in a lot of other ways, not really until he went to new york and stood on that pile of rubble. giuliani was, for those days, for millions and millions of americans, he was america's mayor. i look at that mug shot, and, listen, he deserves it. just has to be served. but what a sad, sad fall for a man who didn't have to be there. >> no, it's absolutely stunning. i remember being a law clerk in new york for the federal appeals court there in 1987 and '88. you know, he was u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york. basically, you know, 10% or 20% of the briefs were, you know, had his nam