deblasiohe people that is looking to have also been very close to patrick gaspard. chose as his chief of staff the former top aide to patrick. santucci will become the city hall chief of staff. now, outs ambassador of politics, per se, but he could not come -- help coming. >> and you talked about the man who trained them. >> both were trained under bill lynch, the former deputy mayor under david dinkins who was a mentor to many young african- american and latino political activists over the years. bill lynch died earlier this year. both patrick gaspard and bill de blasio were at his funeral, as were many of the progressive political activists of new york over the decades. it is bittersweet in that bill died just before patrick was installed as the new south african ambassador and before bill de blasio won his race for mayor. >> when we come back, the charge to bill de blasio given in a speech by harry belafonte. this is democracy now, democracynow.org, the war and peace report, and that will bring you an exclusive as they went to laguardia airport right about at the