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I'm on the move in six of the
greatest cities of the world

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and I'm on the trail of
their top movers and shakers.

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They're not all cut
from the same cloth.

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'In our globalised world,

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'don't make the mistake of
thinking everywhere's now the same.

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'Each great city marches
to its own tune.'

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My background's diplomacy,
cultivating networks.

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As an ambassador,
my job is to get to know

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some of the most powerful people
in the world,

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and find out
what really makes them tick.

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'Crime, glamour, power and
influence - it'll all be there.'

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In these six cities,

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I'll grapple with the dark
Machiavellian heart of politics.

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I'll witness, up close,
the lives of the immensely rich

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and I'll get into the minds of
those who really rule the roost.

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This is journey to uncover
the networks of power.

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(SIRENS AND CAR HORNS BLARE)

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New York is the most powerful
and seductive symbol
of the American dream.

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It has been a magnet for people
seeking to better themselves

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ever since European settlers
bought Manhattan for just $24.

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400 years on,
there are few cities in the world

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to match its power and influence.

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It's terrific to be back
in New York City.

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There's a real energy in the air.

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I'm sort of tingling almost from the
sort of vibrations of the Big Apple.

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I used to come here regularly when
I was ambassador down in Washington,

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just to get a shot of adrenaline.

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But that was ten years ago,
and things change here very rapidly.

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Ten years is a long, long time
in the life of New York City.

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'This city has always known
the value of its power networks.

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'Who's up, who's down,
who knows who,

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'and how all that
converts into money,

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'which lies at the heart
of every New York power nexus.

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'So where better to start
than Forbes magazine?

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'A century-old institution
world famous for ranking
the rich and powerful.

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'And if anyone knows where
the power now lies in New York,

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'it's managing editor Bruce Upbin.'

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Sir Christopher. Hey, Bruce.
Welcome to Forbes. Thank you
very much for having me. Sure.

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Are you a New Yorker?
Yes, I am. Yes, yes.

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So how do you define yourself
as a New Yorker, for example?

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Impatient, aggressive.
Loving change, loving difference.

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I need to be shocked. I've seen
it all. I'm proud of my jadedness.

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If I'm looking for the top ten rich
and powerful in New York City...

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Mike Bloomberg is the most
powerful man in New York.

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The number one in New York?
Yeah. And think about why.

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He's got... He's the mayor, he's also
the second richest man in New York,

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and he is a major philanthropist,
and has major opinions on everything.

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No smoking and no fried food, and
you can't walk across the street...

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There's no traffic jams, you can't
come in to the city unless you pay.

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So he's very active in all spheres.

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The city is made up of networks
within networks within networks.

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No matter what room you're in,
there's always a more
powerful room to the side,

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and even there, there's another more
powerful room - the inner sanctum.

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What do I need to survive
this experience?

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When you're in New York,
you have to stick your fingers

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into the sockets of power,
money, wealth, action, media.

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It's all happening here.

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Sockets of power?

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The question is, which to choose?

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Well, there is one that
packs quite a charge,

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is quintessentially New York,
and manages to cut across

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all the networks Bruce
has talked about - fashion.

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Forget London, Milan or even Paris,

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New York style radiates
global influence

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and it boldly claims to be
the fashion capital of the world.

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While I'm no fashionista,

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I have been given
a special invitation

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to attend the biggest event
in the calendar.

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Welcome to Mercedes-Benz
Fashion Week at Lincoln Center.

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Eight days that bring
in over $400 million,

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and it's all under the control
of just one very influential woman.

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'Meet Stephanie Winston Wolkoff,

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'director of fashion
at Lincoln Center

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'and one of the most powerful women
in the industry.

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'At six foot one,
decked head to toe in black,

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'I'm frankly feeling
a little intimidated.'

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Stephanie? Yes, hi, Sir Christopher.
How are you?

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I'm extremely well.
Thanks for having me this afternoon.

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Such a pleasure to have you here.
Well, I'm quite nervous. I've never
been to a fashion show before

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and I'm not quite sure
what I'm going to be seeing.

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You know what, I've got lots to
show you. Let's go! OK, let's go.

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'Stephanie is making a beeline

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'straight towards
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'And I thought
I was on the VIP tour!'

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So what's behind this curtain?
Behind this curtain is Los Angeles,

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but like you've
never seen it before.

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(HE CHUCKLES)

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Now, imagine. This is a garage.
This is a garage? This is a garage.

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So I might have parked my car coming
to the opera or something? Yes.

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'Confused? You're not the only one.'

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So here we're in a kind
of redwood forest.

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We're in a redwood forest.
It sounds like a jungle.

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We are in a jungle.
As I said, this is...

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I mean, our world is a jungle
and everyone has to...

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Survival of the fittest.
So fashion is the law of the jungle?

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'Which at least
helps explain all the fur.

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'As I join the pack devouring
the latest collection
from Juicy Couture,

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'I'm still not sure how this works,

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'but clearly Stephanie
knows what she's doing.

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'The protege of legendary
Vogue editor, Anna Wintour,

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'she has deftly orchestrated
the industry's rising status.

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'It seems every jungle
must have its Amazon queen.'

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Tell me what you think that
you actually bring to this party.

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I am able to play
in everyone's sandbox.

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I am able to pick up and develop
something amazing with Vogue,

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and then I can also do something
with InStyle, Harper's Bazaar.

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You've got to electrify yourself.

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You have to engage with everyone in
order to make the right decisions.

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I'm more of an ambassador to
the industry. I'm Switzerland.

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And there's only one
Switzerland in this industry,

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But the fact of the matter is,
however "Swiss" you may be,

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if you take decision A instead
of decision B or vice versa...

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There are always implications.
It has a big...

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could have a big commercial
implication. It could.

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'Behind Stephanie's
effortless serenity,

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'she's working night and day
to stay at the top.'

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So you are one of the great
power centres of the world,

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based here in New York City?

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I wouldn't say one of.
I'd say "the".

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"The". And you are sitting
on top of the heap.

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I'm sitting on a very large heap.

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(THEY LAUGH)
And on that poetic note...

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'But before I go,

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'Stephanie wants me to see
menswear designer Marlon Gobel.

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'She's such charming company,
it's easy to forget

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'that one word from her
can make or break a career.'

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For every Marlon Gobel,
there are how many who have

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wanted to be here today... Yes.
..and you've had to say no to?

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25, 50? Hundreds.
That gives you huge power.

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'I'm intrigued to see
what's made the grade.

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'I'm reliably informed
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'is themed on a jewellery robbery.

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'Not the quickest getaway
I've ever seen.

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'Even with the benefit of
Stephanie's expert instruction,

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'I still couldn't tell you
if Marlon is the next big thing.

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'But what she has given me
is an insight into how

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'not just this industry,
but this city works.

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'Behind its glamorous,
free-spirited image,

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'fashion here is not
so different from diplomacy.

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'Politics, patronage and front are
all needed in getting your way.

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'That, and a fearsome work ethic,

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'are pre-requisites for power
in any New York circle.

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'In truth, they're the key
ingredients to the city's
outstanding success.

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'Roll on tomorrow, where I grill
a billionaire over breakfast

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'and also place myself in the
hands of a desperate housewife.'

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I'm leaving Manhattan -

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America's commercial,
financial and cultural capital -

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for somewhere much closer
to Anytown, USA.

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Jamaica is a neighbourhood
in the heart of Queens,

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a sprawling New York City borough

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Manhattanites only encounter
on the way to the airport.

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Or sometimes on a Sunday.

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I've got the gospel in my spirit.

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Hallelujah!

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Sometimes it makes you run,
sometimes it makes you jump.

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It's the gospel!

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6,000 people come to the
Greater Allen Cathedral every Sunday

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and thousands more
watch over the internet.

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Even after all those years
I spent living in the States,

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I always make a point
of reminding myself

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just how fundamental God is here.

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I need Jesus.

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Only 13% of New York State residents
admit to being non-religious

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and the city alone has the largest
Jewish population outside Israel

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and more Catholics than Rome,

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which explains why New York's
most ambitious public figures

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have graced these pews,
all keen to be seen here.

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Come and worship the Lord!

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'The truth is this shared faith
in a higher power

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'underpins the very power dynamic
of this city,

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'with its earnestness, drive,
unshakable self-confidence

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'all spilling into
every part of secular life.'

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Truly wonderful service.
Thank you, sir.

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Inspiring. Thank you.

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A handshake and a hug.
Powerful. The power of the gospel.

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Thank you, sir. Alright, alright.
You ready to go preach now?

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I might. I might do that.

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I feel so inspired.
God bless you.

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What's your name? I'm Bernard.
I'm Christopher.

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Christopher. God bless you.
God bless you, too.

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It's a big community centre.

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I mean, it's not just
church and worship. It's...

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You get everything here.

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Yeah. The mayor comes here,
doesn't he?

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We've seen everybody except...
We haven't seen Obama yet.

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He's got to come.
But he's probably on his way!

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I remember there used
to be another Sunday ritual

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no self-respecting New Yorker
could afford to miss.

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Weighing in at up to six pounds,

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Sunday's New York Times
is a mighty tome.

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Self-important and sanctimonious,
it set the agenda.

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But times have changed.

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It now has to struggle in
the most competitive media market

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in the United States, against
200 newspapers, 350 magazines,

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cable channels, and the internet,

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stuffed with celebrity gossip
and reality TV.

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But there is one titan
from the golden age of television

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who has survived it all,
and is a close friend of mine.

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'The undisputed queen
of television news,

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'who's been at the heart of every
major story for the last 40 years.

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'Barbara Walters is meeting me
in her dressing room.'

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OK, let's go because
you're going to lose me.

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OK, alright, let's go.

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Because I'm so late already
and it's my fault.

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I need to navigate the powerful.

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You must do your homework.
I am zealous about that.

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I am boring about that.

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You should certainly speak
to our mayor.

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I think he is unique.

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He's in his third term,
he's a billionaire.

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Besides the mayor,
who matters in New York today?

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Other than the politicians,
who has real power in New York?

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You might want to meet one of
the members of the Tisch family,

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because they are real estate people.

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Larry Tisch at one point owned CBS.

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They are very successful
businessmen,

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and they can give you a picture
of the city that I can't give.

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'Barbara is surprisingly modest,
but this is the woman who has

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'interviewed every president
since Nixon.'

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Would it be right to say
there is nobody that would not

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pick up the phone if they heard that
Barbara Walters was on the line?

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You have no idea how many people
do not pick up the phone.

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They don't want to do the interview,
they don't want to do it with me...

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But you have a pedigree of
interviews which is peerless,

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and sometimes it made history.

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Fidel Castro...
Those interviews you can't do today.

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..Begin... You just don't
get the time. ..Anwar Sadat.

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On the programmes on which I work,

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we are not interested in
most international leaders.

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We are not interested
in your prime minister,

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we are not interested
in Mrs Merkel in Germany.

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Are we more interested
in reality TV shows today

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than foreign leaders 25 years ago?

234
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Well, are we more interested
in reality television now,

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than we are interested
in most anything else?

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Forget news. We have now
The Real Housewives Of New Jersey,

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we have The Real Housewives
Of Beverley Hills,

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we have The Real Housewives
Of Atlanta,

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and that's what we are showing
all over the country.

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Is this reality stuff just
a passing phase, a burp, as it were?

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No. I mean, everything today,
and anything today,

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can be reality television.

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My task is to track down
New York's networks of power,

244
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and, if Barbara Walters insists
that media power now lies

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'with reality television, then
that's where I need to head next.

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'Today the city of George Gershwin,
Andy Warhol and Woody Allen

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'is hooked on reality television
and is exporting it worldwide.

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'And the zenith of the genre
would appear to be

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'The Real Housewives Of New York.

250
00:14:48,420 --> 00:14:52,220
'This is the Countess
LuAnn De Lesseps, a huge star,

251
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'who has made the most of
her 15 minutes to become an author,

252
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'jewellery designer
and even pop star.

253
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'I've not hooked up with
many reality TV stars before,

254
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'but I learnt in
my diplomatic career

255
00:15:05,340 --> 00:15:08,780
'that flattery is usually
a good mask for ignorance.'

256
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If I may so, you're looking
magnificent, LuAnn.

257
00:15:12,300 --> 00:15:13,940
I'm going to call you LuAnn. Yeah.

258
00:15:14,100 --> 00:15:16,860
If you call me Sir Christopher,
I'll call you Countess.

259
00:15:17,020 --> 00:15:21,100
You just follow my lead, honey!
I will. That's what I normally do.

260
00:15:21,260 --> 00:15:24,980
Your reality show is Real Wives
Of New York, is that right?

261
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The Real Housewives of New York.
OK... Close!

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It's kinda like, you know, Desperate
Housewives meets Sex in the City.

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I think New York City
is our biggest asset.

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I count it as one of the housewives,
do you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah.

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Are you syndicated all round the US?

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We're syndicated all over the world.
You are?

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And I would say it's even more
popular in New York City, of course,

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because people in New York
like to watch the show,

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because they notice that's
the restaurant that they went to,

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"Oh, I've been shopping
in that store,"

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"Oh, I know that part
of Central Park."

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'For all her sophistication,

273
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'there is unmistakable grit
and graft beneath the glamour.'

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Is it a tough town?

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I think New York
can be a tough town,

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but I think, if you're persistent
and you really want something,

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this is the place
you can make it happen.

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New York City is a place where
you really do have to network

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to get anything done.

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On every level. That's not
a problem for you, Christopher.

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Use you English accent,
you dress impeccably.

282
00:16:20,540 --> 00:16:23,700
Oh, dear. My English accent
is slipping out. I know.

283
00:16:23,820 --> 00:16:25,740
You're making me blush.

284
00:16:25,900 --> 00:16:29,660
Or is it the booze? I don't know.
Cheers. Thank you.

285
00:16:29,820 --> 00:16:32,580
Oh, look at that.
It's started to snow a little bit.

286
00:16:32,740 --> 00:16:35,380
'Our Countess is unexpectedly
good company,

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00:16:35,540 --> 00:16:39,540
'and while I'm not sold on
reality TV, there is no doubting

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'its real 'soft power', mesmerising
millions with a mirage of glamour.

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'Which all helps to build
the mythology of New York,

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'the full-on 24/7 city
which never sleeps.'

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A beautiful morning
in the Big Apple,

292
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and it's time to leave behind
soft power,

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to enter one of the sanctuaries

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of real influence
where power is wielded quietly,

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behind closed doors, and where
the really big decisions are made.

296
00:17:13,540 --> 00:17:15,860
'I'd selected my hotel
with great care.

297
00:17:16,020 --> 00:17:18,500
'To the untrained eye,
it doesn't look like much,

298
00:17:18,660 --> 00:17:21,100
'but, every morning,
for the last 30 years,

299
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'some of the most powerful in this
city gather behind the drab facade,

300
00:17:26,220 --> 00:17:27,620
'because the Regency

301
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'is the home to New York's
legendary power breakfast.

302
00:17:31,580 --> 00:17:34,180
'And if you want to reach
the great and good,

303
00:17:34,340 --> 00:17:38,540
'you need to get past this person,
maitre d' Rae Bianco.'

304
00:17:38,700 --> 00:17:44,100
So, Rae, this is the legendary power
breakfast room of New York City.

305
00:17:44,220 --> 00:17:45,380
So they say.

306
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You are the arbiter of these
powerful people who come in here.

307
00:17:50,340 --> 00:17:53,220
I mean, you decide where they sit,
WHETHER they can sit.

308
00:17:53,380 --> 00:17:55,980
How do you do it?
I have to talk very quickly

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and keep them entertained
while they're waiting for tables,

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and make them feel
that the table that they get

311
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is the best one
in the world for them.

312
00:18:06,260 --> 00:18:08,060
Big job, this. It is.

313
00:18:08,180 --> 00:18:09,660
I don't sleep well.

314
00:18:09,820 --> 00:18:12,620
Show me some of the tables.
This is where Jeb Bush was.

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00:18:12,740 --> 00:18:14,660
Former Governor of Florida? Yes.

316
00:18:14,820 --> 00:18:17,180
Brother of George W Bush?
Yes, sir. Yeah.

317
00:18:17,340 --> 00:18:21,140
Yes, this is Jeb Bush possibly
future presidential chair.

318
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You're centrally located.

319
00:18:22,980 --> 00:18:25,340
Yeah. Mirrors help you
see the whole room. Mirrors.

320
00:18:25,500 --> 00:18:28,100
You can check to make sure
your hair's parted correctly.

321
00:18:28,220 --> 00:18:29,660
(HE CHUCKLES)

322
00:18:29,780 --> 00:18:32,180
Yeah, fine. My hair's still there.

323
00:18:32,300 --> 00:18:34,300
'While Jeb Bush's table isn't bad,

324
00:18:34,460 --> 00:18:37,020
'I'm actually angling
to get to the top table,

325
00:18:37,180 --> 00:18:40,780
'reserved for the owners of
the hotel, the Tisch family,

326
00:18:40,980 --> 00:18:45,140
'whom Barbara Walters tipped
as second after the mayor
in New York power.'

327
00:18:45,300 --> 00:18:47,940
Is there anything I could do,
like sing you a song,

328
00:18:48,060 --> 00:18:49,860
or bring you a bunch of roses

329
00:18:50,020 --> 00:18:54,460
that might get me in there faster
than would otherwise be the case?

330
00:18:54,580 --> 00:18:56,660
Well, maybe. It depends on the day.

331
00:18:56,820 --> 00:19:00,100
Do people do that? Do people
really...? Oh, they try everything.

332
00:19:00,260 --> 00:19:03,580
Theatre tickets, carry you off to
Hawaii or something like that...

333
00:19:03,700 --> 00:19:05,020
(SHE LAUGHS)

334
00:19:05,180 --> 00:19:07,500
I don't know.
That one hasn't happened yet.

335
00:19:07,660 --> 00:19:09,820
'However,
even being buddies with Rae

336
00:19:09,980 --> 00:19:12,220
'doesn't guarantee
talking to a Tisch.

337
00:19:12,340 --> 00:19:14,300
'Ultra-rich and ultra-powerful,

338
00:19:14,460 --> 00:19:17,980
'the Tisch family are as near
as New York gets to aristocracy.

339
00:19:18,140 --> 00:19:20,740
'They avoid publicity,
but if you know where to look,

340
00:19:20,900 --> 00:19:24,420
'you'll find the family name on
great buildings across the city,

341
00:19:24,580 --> 00:19:28,140
'and family members at the heart
of the city's key institutions.

342
00:19:29,900 --> 00:19:33,100
'Fortunately for me, they also
own the American football team,

343
00:19:33,260 --> 00:19:36,740
'the New York Giants,
who have just won the Super Bowl.

344
00:19:36,860 --> 00:19:38,660
'And riding this wave of goodwill,

345
00:19:38,820 --> 00:19:41,340
'I've been granted
my very own power breakfast

346
00:19:41,500 --> 00:19:44,180
'with the head of the family,
Jim Tisch himself.'

347
00:19:44,340 --> 00:19:48,300
Good morning, Rae. Good morning,
Sir Christopher. How are you?

348
00:19:48,460 --> 00:19:51,500
I'm very well.
It's a pleasure to see you again.

349
00:19:51,660 --> 00:19:55,660
'It's not often I share eggs
over easy with a billionaire.'

350
00:19:55,780 --> 00:19:58,100
Whoever heard of a hotel restaurant

351
00:19:58,260 --> 00:20:01,420
being THE place to be
for breakfast of all places?

352
00:20:01,580 --> 00:20:04,060
Would you see the mayor here?
Generally not.

353
00:20:04,220 --> 00:20:07,540
But what you do see are the people
that are running for mayor.

354
00:20:07,700 --> 00:20:10,980
Truth be told, I come here because
my office is across the street,

355
00:20:11,100 --> 00:20:12,940
so it's really, really convenient.

356
00:20:13,100 --> 00:20:15,260
I like to keep my life
in a small area.

357
00:20:15,380 --> 00:20:16,700
But...how can I put it?

358
00:20:16,860 --> 00:20:20,540
Morally and politically,
you reach across the entire city,

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00:20:20,700 --> 00:20:23,340
for example,
through your philanthropy.

360
00:20:23,500 --> 00:20:27,660
Philanthropy is very, very
important in New York City.

361
00:20:27,820 --> 00:20:31,540
No doubt about it. And it's probably
unlike any other city in the world.

362
00:20:31,700 --> 00:20:34,300
Whether you like it or not,
generosity becomes

363
00:20:34,460 --> 00:20:36,900
an instrument of influence
and of authority

364
00:20:37,060 --> 00:20:39,420
and, in some degree,
of power in this city.

365
00:20:39,540 --> 00:20:40,860
Power and standing, yes.

366
00:20:42,260 --> 00:20:44,820
'Philanthropy has a rich history
in this city.

367
00:20:44,980 --> 00:20:48,420
'So many of its great buildings
were put up by great benefactors,

368
00:20:48,540 --> 00:20:51,020
'Rockefeller, Carnegie, Guggenheim,

369
00:20:51,180 --> 00:20:55,020
'all driven by a sense of
moral duty to give something back,

370
00:20:55,180 --> 00:20:58,580
'and immortalising themselves
in the process.'

371
00:20:58,740 --> 00:21:01,780
I don't want to make things
over-simplified,

372
00:21:01,900 --> 00:21:03,740
but who actually runs the city?

373
00:21:03,900 --> 00:21:10,300
It's what I would call organised
anarchy and what comes out of it,

374
00:21:10,460 --> 00:21:15,940
usually, is not nearly as bad
as the inputs that go in to it.

375
00:21:16,100 --> 00:21:18,820
Are you optimistic? About?
The future of this city?

376
00:21:18,980 --> 00:21:21,980
We've got an election
coming up two years from now,

377
00:21:22,140 --> 00:21:25,740
and so a big question will be
who's going to be the next mayor

378
00:21:25,860 --> 00:21:28,020
and how will the city be managed?

379
00:21:28,180 --> 00:21:31,020
And Mayor Bloomberg can't run
again even if he wanted to?

380
00:21:31,140 --> 00:21:33,780
Well... Could he?

381
00:21:33,940 --> 00:21:38,460
Truth be told, when he
started his second term,

382
00:21:38,620 --> 00:21:42,740
the rule was you couldn't run
for a third term... Yeah.

383
00:21:42,860 --> 00:21:46,100
..and he made it so that he could.

384
00:21:46,220 --> 00:21:49,140
Not shades of Putin, but almost.

385
00:21:51,580 --> 00:21:56,940
You know, I'm, I'm, I'm a believer
in a benign autocracy.

386
00:21:57,100 --> 00:21:59,740
I think the mayor
has done a phenomenal job.

387
00:21:59,900 --> 00:22:02,700
If he could, or would,
run for a fourth term,

388
00:22:02,820 --> 00:22:04,660
I'd certainly vote for him.

389
00:22:04,780 --> 00:22:06,940
Billionaires backing billionaires?

390
00:22:07,100 --> 00:22:09,180
Is this where
the hard power lies?

391
00:22:09,340 --> 00:22:12,180
The wealthy conservative elite
control the city

392
00:22:12,340 --> 00:22:15,700
and, as long as they do it well,
nobody minds too much.

393
00:22:17,260 --> 00:22:20,420
And at the very top sits a man
worth a cool 22 billion,

394
00:22:20,580 --> 00:22:24,700
one of the most philanthropic men in
America and mayor for over a decade,

395
00:22:24,860 --> 00:22:27,740
plugging him in
to every socket of power.

396
00:22:29,660 --> 00:22:32,060
So that's City Hall and inside there

397
00:22:32,220 --> 00:22:35,460
works Mayor Michael Bloomberg
and his staff.

398
00:22:35,620 --> 00:22:38,460
And I can almost touch it,
I'm almost there.

399
00:22:38,620 --> 00:22:43,540
By hook or by crook,
I've got to go that 100 yards,

400
00:22:43,700 --> 00:22:48,380
climb those steps, open those doors
and get in and talk to him.

401
00:22:59,260 --> 00:23:01,900
If money is power,
this is the place to be,

402
00:23:02,060 --> 00:23:04,780
the undisputed
financial hub of America,

403
00:23:04,940 --> 00:23:07,380
home to the world's
largest stock market,

404
00:23:07,500 --> 00:23:09,580
the New York Stock Exchange,

405
00:23:09,740 --> 00:23:12,580
with a market value
of over $9 trillion

406
00:23:12,700 --> 00:23:15,740
and a few very powerful individuals.

407
00:23:15,900 --> 00:23:18,380
I used to know a lot
of these people personally,

408
00:23:18,580 --> 00:23:21,860
and they were never shy
about coming out to play and
discussing their business

409
00:23:22,020 --> 00:23:24,500
and telling you, pretty frankly,
what the prospects were.

410
00:23:26,260 --> 00:23:29,820
What has happened?
Everybody's gone to ground.

411
00:23:29,980 --> 00:23:34,460
It seems after the financial crisis
none of the really famous names

412
00:23:34,620 --> 00:23:37,260
want to talk to me about
the power of the big banks.

413
00:23:37,420 --> 00:23:41,420
But hard times don't mean
fortunes can't be won and lost.

414
00:23:41,580 --> 00:23:44,380
Four miles north,
on the corner of Central Park,

415
00:23:44,540 --> 00:23:47,940
is the billion-dollar
hedge fund Octavian.

416
00:23:48,100 --> 00:23:52,940
'The company state that the turmoil
in worldwide markets provides

417
00:23:53,100 --> 00:23:57,340
'a perfect backdrop for Octavian's
unique style of investing.'

418
00:23:57,500 --> 00:23:59,380
Good afternoon.
I'm Christopher Meyer

419
00:23:59,540 --> 00:24:02,620
and I'm here to see Mr Hurowitz.
Sure, we're expecting you.

420
00:24:02,780 --> 00:24:06,340
'One of the least regulated and
most profitable sectors in finance,

421
00:24:06,540 --> 00:24:11,380
'hedge funds are discreet,
invitation-only affairs
for investors with serious money.

422
00:24:11,540 --> 00:24:15,740
'The brains behind Octavian is
its CEO Richard Hurowitz...'

423
00:24:15,900 --> 00:24:18,980
Hi, how are you? Richard.
Hey, thanks for seeing me.

424
00:24:19,140 --> 00:24:22,260
'..someone Tom Wolfe would
describe as one of New York's

425
00:24:22,420 --> 00:24:25,460
'masters of the universe, pretty
powerful when all's said and done.'

426
00:24:25,620 --> 00:24:29,020
Obviously, I've done a little bit
of homework before coming here,

427
00:24:29,180 --> 00:24:32,620
but you focus on really interesting
areas, like distressed debt.

428
00:24:32,740 --> 00:24:33,980
So one side of things we do is

429
00:24:34,140 --> 00:24:37,300
we invest in companies that are
going through distress of some form.

430
00:24:37,460 --> 00:24:40,580
They're usually very good companies,
but just have too much debt,

431
00:24:40,740 --> 00:24:43,020
like a lot of people
and governments as well.

432
00:24:43,180 --> 00:24:45,660
So you can see today
all that red is Greece, right.

433
00:24:45,820 --> 00:24:49,020
The red is when the market goes down
and the green is when it goes up.

434
00:24:49,180 --> 00:24:51,260
I mean, there's plenty
of distress in Greece.

435
00:24:51,420 --> 00:24:53,980
It's almost as if the crisis
is the boom that enables you

436
00:24:54,100 --> 00:24:55,500
to create the business model.

437
00:24:55,620 --> 00:24:57,460
Yeah, it is a big opportunity.

438
00:24:57,580 --> 00:24:59,180
On the other hand, you know,

439
00:24:59,340 --> 00:25:01,940
even when people
make money out of a crisis,

440
00:25:02,100 --> 00:25:05,900
it's not as much fun when a lot
of people are losing money.

441
00:25:06,060 --> 00:25:09,260
'Octavian is now one of the
world's richest hedge funds.

442
00:25:09,460 --> 00:25:13,300
'It's this eye for opportunity
which is typical of the city
and its traders.'

443
00:25:13,460 --> 00:25:16,220
You're pretty optimistic, then,
about the future of this city?

444
00:25:16,380 --> 00:25:19,180
The United States, for sure,
is still going to be

445
00:25:19,340 --> 00:25:22,620
probably the most important
economy for the next century

446
00:25:22,780 --> 00:25:25,260
and I think New York is right
in the middle of that.

447
00:25:25,420 --> 00:25:27,820
The thing that would concern me
more than anything

448
00:25:27,980 --> 00:25:31,380
is if we go through a period of time
where we decide to shut our borders.

449
00:25:31,540 --> 00:25:34,020
New York is obviously at
the heart of immigration,

450
00:25:34,220 --> 00:25:38,780
but the thing that's made this
country great over the last,
you know, several hundred years

451
00:25:38,940 --> 00:25:42,860
is really the fact that we do attract
great people from all over the world.

452
00:25:43,020 --> 00:25:46,380
You can come here and, if you're
hard-working and you're smart,

453
00:25:46,500 --> 00:25:48,180
and you're kind of ambitious,

454
00:25:48,340 --> 00:25:51,060
you can make a success
and you can improve your life.

455
00:25:51,220 --> 00:25:55,180
'Like everyone in New York, Richard
can recite the American dream,

456
00:25:55,340 --> 00:25:58,780
'but Manhattan is a bubble
of money and privilege.

457
00:25:58,940 --> 00:26:01,220
'And if that credo is
really so vital

458
00:26:01,380 --> 00:26:05,340
'to the city's continued prosperity,
I need to find it elsewhere.'

459
00:26:08,220 --> 00:26:12,260
'So I'm heading back to a less
affluent part of town, Queens,

460
00:26:12,420 --> 00:26:15,860
'where immigrants
make up half the population.

461
00:26:16,020 --> 00:26:18,700
'I've arranged to meet
the people who know -

462
00:26:18,860 --> 00:26:22,060
'taxi drivers -
so often recent immigrants.

463
00:26:22,220 --> 00:26:25,620
'My contact - their trade
union boss Fernando Mateo.'

464
00:26:25,780 --> 00:26:27,900
Christopher, we've been
waiting for you, sir.

465
00:26:28,060 --> 00:26:30,060
Are you Fernando?
I'm Fernando, how are you?

466
00:26:30,220 --> 00:26:32,300
Great pleasure to meet you.
It's good to see you.

467
00:26:32,420 --> 00:26:33,660
I'm doing great. Likewise.

468
00:26:33,820 --> 00:26:36,180
I hear you're the man to see
round here, is that right?

469
00:26:36,340 --> 00:26:39,780
Well, actually, these are the guys
to see. All these guys? Yeah.

470
00:26:39,940 --> 00:26:42,660
You know what? The city could
not function without us.

471
00:26:42,780 --> 00:26:43,740
Am I right, am I wrong?

472
00:26:43,900 --> 00:26:46,980
All correct. Am I right, am I wrong?
Yes, you're right. Alright.

473
00:26:47,140 --> 00:26:49,500
Well, if you're a taxi driver,
do you end up having

474
00:26:49,660 --> 00:26:52,620
greater faith in human nature
or less faith in human nature?

475
00:26:52,780 --> 00:26:55,500
They are everything -
counsellors, psychiatrists...

476
00:26:55,620 --> 00:26:57,100
Valentine's Day is the worst.

477
00:26:57,260 --> 00:26:59,940
Why is it? That's the worst.
Last Valentine's Day,

478
00:27:00,100 --> 00:27:03,300
woman's crying, she saw
her ex-boyfriend at a party.

479
00:27:03,460 --> 00:27:07,060
That's my fault, you know.
It's my fault. (LAUGHTER)

480
00:27:07,180 --> 00:27:09,260
It's my fault.

481
00:27:09,420 --> 00:27:13,420
I wanna know, and I'll ask him, cos
you told me I should... Absolutely.

482
00:27:13,580 --> 00:27:17,500
..where does...
Where is the power in this city?

483
00:27:17,660 --> 00:27:21,020
That's tough, cos there's so many
powerful people in the city.

484
00:27:21,180 --> 00:27:24,340
We're the ones that's taking
them around in the city.

485
00:27:24,460 --> 00:27:26,580
We're the ones that take the lawyers,

486
00:27:26,740 --> 00:27:29,100
the doctors, Wall Street,
the tourists...

487
00:27:29,260 --> 00:27:32,300
Some people might say Mayor
Bloomberg, but would that be...?

488
00:27:32,460 --> 00:27:36,940
You know, we have a mayor that,
unlike any other mayor in history,

489
00:27:37,100 --> 00:27:41,100
does not raise money
to run for re-election.

490
00:27:41,260 --> 00:27:45,420
He doesn't owe anybody anything,
so he runs the city

491
00:27:45,580 --> 00:27:49,580
the way he believes
his conscience should run it.

492
00:27:49,740 --> 00:27:51,900
He doesn't want to get
on the wrong side of you,

493
00:27:52,060 --> 00:27:55,060
cos you could make life very
difficult for him, couldn't you?

494
00:27:55,180 --> 00:27:56,980
Er... If you wanted to.

495
00:27:57,140 --> 00:27:59,500
If I really wanted to,
but I'm not that kind of guy.

496
00:27:59,660 --> 00:28:02,340
I'm a person of reason.
I go directly to the mayor.

497
00:28:02,500 --> 00:28:04,420
How does it work,
you pick up the phone?

498
00:28:04,580 --> 00:28:07,020
I'll text him, I'll email him.
Email him direct?

499
00:28:07,140 --> 00:28:08,700
I'll call him on his cell phone.

500
00:28:08,860 --> 00:28:11,020
And what do you say to him?
You call him Mike?

501
00:28:11,180 --> 00:28:14,740
I call him Mike, I say, "Mike..."
"Mike, it's Fernando here,"?

502
00:28:14,900 --> 00:28:17,860
I say, "Mike, what's up, what's
going on? We have a problem."

503
00:28:18,020 --> 00:28:20,140
When you have a disagreement
with the mayor,

504
00:28:20,300 --> 00:28:22,820
is it about money or is it
about terms or conditions?

505
00:28:22,980 --> 00:28:25,220
It's always about money.
We wish we had more.

506
00:28:25,340 --> 00:28:27,140
I wish I had Bloomberg's millions.

507
00:28:27,300 --> 00:28:30,420
I wish that Bloomberg remembers me
when he's writing his will

508
00:28:30,580 --> 00:28:34,100
and says maybe, you know, "Fernando,
let me leave you a billion.

509
00:28:34,260 --> 00:28:36,220
"You'll live happy
the rest of your life."

510
00:28:36,380 --> 00:28:38,380
Probably leave everybody here
a billion.

511
00:28:38,540 --> 00:28:41,660
No, I will share. I will share with
you guys. I promise I'll share.

512
00:28:41,820 --> 00:28:43,940
We are the people,
we are New York, am I right?

513
00:28:44,100 --> 00:28:48,260
(ALL) Yeah! Bravo, bravo!
Sir Christopher, thank you.

514
00:28:48,420 --> 00:28:51,260
'Fernando is like no union boss
I've ever met,

515
00:28:51,420 --> 00:28:54,180
'and he's the American dream
personified.

516
00:28:54,340 --> 00:28:58,180
'Second generation Latino,
a self-made millionaire,

517
00:28:58,340 --> 00:29:01,740
'property developer,
nightclub owner, and even radio DJ.

518
00:29:01,900 --> 00:29:04,860
'And doesn't actually live
in Queens at all,

519
00:29:05,020 --> 00:29:07,460
'but back
in the bubble of Manhattan.

520
00:29:07,620 --> 00:29:12,100
'To cap it all, he's also president
of Hispanics Across America,

521
00:29:12,220 --> 00:29:14,340
'giving him national status.'

522
00:29:14,540 --> 00:29:18,620
The New York Times called me
one of the five most influential
in the country,

523
00:29:18,780 --> 00:29:23,780
along with President Clinton,
Madonna, Jimmy Jones and Pat Riley.

524
00:29:23,940 --> 00:29:26,780
You've got this base
in the Hispanic community,

525
00:29:26,940 --> 00:29:30,380
you've got this base because of
what you've done for taxi drivers

526
00:29:30,500 --> 00:29:32,900
and because of the Federation.

527
00:29:33,020 --> 00:29:36,740
These are important, powerful bases.

528
00:29:36,900 --> 00:29:40,580
I mean, they are power bases.
I'm a businessman.

529
00:29:40,700 --> 00:29:42,620
Go straight and turn. Just turn.

530
00:29:42,740 --> 00:29:44,060
I love making money.

531
00:29:44,220 --> 00:29:46,980
You know,
I'm a capitalist to the max.

532
00:29:47,140 --> 00:29:50,380
You sound to me like a terrific
future mayor of New York City,

533
00:29:50,500 --> 00:29:51,740
for example.

534
00:29:51,900 --> 00:29:54,700
You know what? It's not
something that's in my plans.

535
00:29:54,860 --> 00:29:58,140
It's not something that
I'm looking forward to doing.

536
00:29:58,300 --> 00:30:00,780
But I do look forward
to making sure that

537
00:30:00,940 --> 00:30:04,260
whoever is the mayor of
this city is the right mayor.

538
00:30:04,380 --> 00:30:06,380
And I will put my resources

539
00:30:06,540 --> 00:30:09,820
and my 500,000 followers
behind that candidate.

540
00:30:09,940 --> 00:30:13,180
With an army of 500,000 people,

541
00:30:13,340 --> 00:30:18,620
it gives you a hell of a lot
of leverage and influence. It does.

542
00:30:18,740 --> 00:30:21,380
A hell of a lot. It does.

543
00:30:25,420 --> 00:30:30,180
Phew! That was quite something.
I've rarely met anybody

544
00:30:30,340 --> 00:30:35,060
with more energy, more charisma,
more ambition.

545
00:30:35,220 --> 00:30:38,660
When I shook him by the hand
and held him by the shoulder,

546
00:30:38,820 --> 00:30:43,700
he was literally vibrating,
his muscles almost trembling.

547
00:30:43,860 --> 00:30:46,420
(RADIO HOST AND
FERNANDO SPEAK SPANISH)

548
00:30:46,580 --> 00:30:51,300
It's easy to talk
about New York in cliches,

549
00:30:51,460 --> 00:30:55,300
its vibrancy, its energy
and so on and so forth,

550
00:30:55,460 --> 00:31:00,100
but we've seen the living,
walking, breathing reality,

551
00:31:00,260 --> 00:31:02,620
and, my goodness me,
it's impressive.

552
00:31:02,780 --> 00:31:05,980
'Fernando is shot through
with self-belief,

553
00:31:06,140 --> 00:31:09,100
'the very incarnation
of New York power.

554
00:31:09,260 --> 00:31:12,700
'A man of the people
who knows the rules of the game,

555
00:31:12,820 --> 00:31:14,380
'and all the major players.'

556
00:31:32,340 --> 00:31:36,700
I think we stand a good chance now.
Thank you very much indeed.

557
00:31:36,820 --> 00:31:38,860
'I am about to find out how strong

558
00:31:39,020 --> 00:31:41,580
'New York's
network of power really is'

559
00:31:49,900 --> 00:31:52,380
It was 8:46
on a clear autumn morning

560
00:31:52,540 --> 00:31:55,500
when the first plane
hit the World Trade Center.

561
00:31:55,660 --> 00:31:58,820
'I was British Ambassador
when the attack took place

562
00:31:58,980 --> 00:32:02,820
'and soon I found myself
here at Ground Zero

563
00:32:02,980 --> 00:32:05,220
'and, of all the memories
I have of this city,

564
00:32:05,380 --> 00:32:07,700
'that will
remain with me forever.

565
00:32:07,860 --> 00:32:12,140
'In a thousand years' time,
people will still speak of 9/11.

566
00:32:12,300 --> 00:32:16,380
'It changed the way New Yorkers
see themselves and the world.'

567
00:32:16,540 --> 00:32:18,820
The first thing
that struck me was...

568
00:32:20,900 --> 00:32:23,860
..it was like a vision of hell.

569
00:32:24,020 --> 00:32:29,620
Smoke and steam were coming up out
of the ruins everywhere you looked.

570
00:32:31,740 --> 00:32:34,220
The whole thing, of course,
was intended to be

571
00:32:34,380 --> 00:32:37,300
a massive blow against
New York's power and prestige.

572
00:32:39,500 --> 00:32:42,860
And here we are, just over 10 years
later, and it's all been rebuilt.

573
00:32:43,020 --> 00:32:45,660
It's all going up again.
It's moving.

574
00:32:47,700 --> 00:32:51,260
And it's huge.
A statement to the world.

575
00:32:51,420 --> 00:32:55,180
This is the most ambitious
development in the United States.

576
00:32:55,340 --> 00:33:00,900
One World Trade Center alone is
running at a cost of $3.8 billion,

577
00:33:01,060 --> 00:33:04,500
making it the most expensive
single building on earth.

578
00:33:06,340 --> 00:33:09,220
With premium land on Manhattan
at record prices,

579
00:33:09,340 --> 00:33:11,740
the only way to expand is up.

580
00:33:11,900 --> 00:33:16,500
This is the first building
to be completed - Tower number 7.

581
00:33:16,660 --> 00:33:20,700
I'm going to meet the most powerful
woman in New York City.

582
00:33:20,860 --> 00:33:23,860
She's not a politician,
she's not a hedge fund manager,

583
00:33:23,980 --> 00:33:26,260
she's an estate agent.

584
00:33:26,380 --> 00:33:28,980
'Manhattan is 23 square miles

585
00:33:29,140 --> 00:33:32,620
'and has to find room
for four million people every day

586
00:33:32,780 --> 00:33:37,140
'making competition over who gets
what increasingly cut-throat

587
00:33:37,300 --> 00:33:39,900
'and in the thick of it
is Mary Ann Tighe.'

588
00:33:40,020 --> 00:33:41,740
Mary Ann. How are you?

589
00:33:41,900 --> 00:33:44,700
I'm extremely well.
Welcome to the World Trade Centre.

590
00:33:44,860 --> 00:33:46,820
Thank you so much for seeing me
this afternoon.

591
00:33:46,980 --> 00:33:50,540
Thank you so much for coming down.
It's quite emotional for me,

592
00:33:50,700 --> 00:33:53,700
because I was here, not in
New York, I was in DC on 9/11.

593
00:33:53,860 --> 00:33:58,100
It's such a great testament
to both the city's resilience,

594
00:33:58,260 --> 00:34:00,980
but also its endless capacity
for reinvention.

595
00:34:01,180 --> 00:34:05,820
You have, I believe, been voted
the most powerful woman
in New York City.

596
00:34:05,980 --> 00:34:09,620
Having "power" in New York
is like having beauty in Hollywood.

597
00:34:09,780 --> 00:34:12,740
You know, wait 24 hours and there's
somebody else that comes along.

598
00:34:12,900 --> 00:34:15,340
That is good,
can I quote you on that?

599
00:34:15,500 --> 00:34:18,380
'But Mary Ann's influence will
last a lot longer than that.

600
00:34:18,580 --> 00:34:23,100
'She's been responsible for
over nine million square feet
of New York construction -

601
00:34:23,260 --> 00:34:26,620
'more than four times
the Empire State Building.'

602
00:34:26,780 --> 00:34:30,780
Isn't land the very basis
of everything in this city?

603
00:34:30,940 --> 00:34:32,780
Well, if you asked me
where I'd take my power,

604
00:34:32,940 --> 00:34:36,220
if there were buckets you could pick
from, land is it in New York.

605
00:34:36,380 --> 00:34:38,900
But you are doing something
slightly different, aren't you?

606
00:34:39,060 --> 00:34:41,380
We're the intersection
of supply and demand.

607
00:34:41,540 --> 00:34:45,460
A kind of matchmaker. That's right,
we are matchmakers is what we do.

608
00:34:45,580 --> 00:34:48,420
And we play it at a very high scale,

609
00:34:48,580 --> 00:34:52,300
and it's great because
what it does is, first of all,

610
00:34:52,460 --> 00:34:56,780
it allows you to know people across
all different parts of society.

611
00:34:56,940 --> 00:35:01,100
As you rise in success,
your network becomes more extensive,

612
00:35:01,260 --> 00:35:03,660
more exclusive. Absolutely.
And more influential.

613
00:35:03,820 --> 00:35:07,220
I mean, you need to go to a hospital,
we represent that hospital,

614
00:35:07,340 --> 00:35:08,900
what do you need at the hospital?

615
00:35:09,060 --> 00:35:11,620
I could go down a list
of every conceivable category.

616
00:35:11,780 --> 00:35:15,220
So Mary Ann, you're the person
to come to for anything. No!

617
00:35:15,380 --> 00:35:19,380
'And fortunately for me,
Mary Ann has pulled a few strings

618
00:35:19,500 --> 00:35:21,980
'to get me to the very top.

619
00:35:22,140 --> 00:35:25,700
Whoa-oh! 'I'm glad to have
returned to Ground Zero

620
00:35:25,860 --> 00:35:28,620
'to find it is
literally rising from the ashes.'

621
00:35:32,980 --> 00:35:34,820
But the greatest power on earth

622
00:35:34,980 --> 00:35:37,540
couldn't prevent
the devastation of 9/11.

623
00:35:37,700 --> 00:35:40,580
No wonder rebuilding confidence
in this city

624
00:35:40,740 --> 00:35:43,020
requires more than bricks
and mortar.

625
00:35:43,140 --> 00:35:45,500
As the great American saying goes,

626
00:35:45,660 --> 00:35:48,980
"the price of liberty is
eternal vigilance."

627
00:35:49,140 --> 00:35:54,140
And in New York, that means security
is now the overriding priority.

628
00:35:54,260 --> 00:35:56,220
Tens of millions have been spent

629
00:35:56,380 --> 00:36:00,300
transforming the country's
largest police force, the NYPD.

630
00:36:00,460 --> 00:36:05,100
1,000 officers are solely
dedicated to counter-terrorism

631
00:36:05,260 --> 00:36:09,500
and I've been given privileged
access to its inner sanctum,

632
00:36:09,660 --> 00:36:12,860
the Executive Command Centre,
by the boss,

633
00:36:13,020 --> 00:36:15,740
New York's Police Commissioner,
Ray Kelly.

634
00:36:15,900 --> 00:36:19,700
9/11 changed an awful lot of things
in New York City

635
00:36:19,820 --> 00:36:22,020
and throughout the world.

636
00:36:22,180 --> 00:36:25,420
We have,
as a result of that horrific day,

637
00:36:25,580 --> 00:36:29,780
taken on the added responsibility
of counter-terrorism.

638
00:36:29,940 --> 00:36:34,100
This is where we put thousands
of cameras into Lower Manhattan,

639
00:36:34,260 --> 00:36:37,300
about 3,000.
They're accessible here.

640
00:36:37,460 --> 00:36:41,340
A call comes through
and there is a suspicious vehicle,

641
00:36:41,500 --> 00:36:45,700
it'll come up here on this map
if we click on it,

642
00:36:45,860 --> 00:36:51,940
and it will go to a camera
that's within 500 feet... Yeah.

643
00:36:52,100 --> 00:36:57,380
..of that particular incident.
So you could see, if you wished to,

644
00:36:57,540 --> 00:37:00,860
assuming you had cameras in place,
of course, you could see

645
00:37:01,020 --> 00:37:04,260
a crime in progress, for example?
Yes, and we can go back.

646
00:37:04,420 --> 00:37:08,700
We keep all of this for 30 days.
Maximum 30 days you can wind back?

647
00:37:08,860 --> 00:37:13,980
We built in that aspect to it,
because we knew that people

648
00:37:14,140 --> 00:37:18,380
were concerned
of keeping film indefinitely.

649
00:37:18,540 --> 00:37:22,900
'Commissioner Kelly's low-key manner
belies an inner steel.

650
00:37:23,060 --> 00:37:26,740
'A former marine who once
turned down the top job at the FBI

651
00:37:26,860 --> 00:37:29,700
'to stay protecting this city.'

652
00:37:29,860 --> 00:37:32,700
We have people
now stationed overseas,

653
00:37:32,860 --> 00:37:36,660
we have them in 11 cities,
London, included.

654
00:37:36,820 --> 00:37:39,420
And it adds to your personal reach,
doesn't it?

655
00:37:39,620 --> 00:37:42,340
No question about it, the world has
become a much smaller place.

656
00:37:42,500 --> 00:37:44,940
Were working now
with agencies and entities

657
00:37:45,100 --> 00:37:49,020
that we certainly didn't work with
prior to September 11th,

658
00:37:49,180 --> 00:37:53,380
and that includes a whole portfolio
of foreign governments.

659
00:37:53,540 --> 00:37:56,220
This vision of Orwellian
surveillance is the price

660
00:37:56,380 --> 00:37:59,660
that New Yorkers must pay
for feeling safe.

661
00:37:59,820 --> 00:38:02,700
A strange thought in
the self-styled land of the free,

662
00:38:02,860 --> 00:38:06,980
but then we're all living under
constant surveillance these days.

663
00:38:07,140 --> 00:38:10,380
Indeed, the irony is not lost on me
that all this time

664
00:38:10,540 --> 00:38:13,660
I had been hoping against hope
to film with the Mayor

665
00:38:13,820 --> 00:38:16,820
and he's been filming me
all along!

666
00:38:18,780 --> 00:38:23,300
I've got something to read you
from Laura Sabatiere

667
00:38:23,460 --> 00:38:26,980
in Mayor Bloomberg's
scheduling office.

668
00:38:27,100 --> 00:38:29,100
Wait for it.

669
00:38:29,220 --> 00:38:32,740
"The Mayor would be happy to do it."

670
00:38:32,860 --> 00:38:34,940
We've landed the big one.

671
00:38:37,300 --> 00:38:39,700
So on the final morning of my trip,

672
00:38:39,860 --> 00:38:44,500
with only a few hours before my
flight home, I'm off to City Hall.

673
00:38:46,620 --> 00:38:49,380
Just time
for a little more homework.

674
00:38:52,300 --> 00:38:58,540
It's the climax of the week
and we've only got 20 minutes.

675
00:38:58,700 --> 00:39:04,580
Everybody says this is
the big man in the city.

676
00:39:04,740 --> 00:39:08,620
Anything short of a demigod
is going to be a disappointment.

677
00:39:15,100 --> 00:39:17,100
Morning. Morning, how are you?

678
00:39:17,220 --> 00:39:19,100
I've got a date with the Mayor.

679
00:39:19,260 --> 00:39:21,620
'Michael Bloomberg
was born in Boston

680
00:39:21,780 --> 00:39:25,380
'but made his billions in New York
out of the Financial News service

681
00:39:25,500 --> 00:39:27,380
'that carries his name.

682
00:39:27,540 --> 00:39:31,260
'He paid for all
his own political campaigns

683
00:39:31,420 --> 00:39:35,900
'and, as Mayor of New York,
he earns just a dollar a year.'

684
00:39:36,060 --> 00:39:39,100
With any luck,
he'll be in a really good mood

685
00:39:39,260 --> 00:39:44,100
because its his birthday today,
Valentine's Day, and he's 70.

686
00:39:44,260 --> 00:39:49,860
We have been told he's having his
birthday cake in City Hall at 2pm.

687
00:39:52,220 --> 00:39:55,140
We haven't been told what
kind of birthday cake it is.

688
00:39:58,300 --> 00:40:00,260
Mr Mayor.

689
00:40:00,380 --> 00:40:02,620
Thank you, I appreciate it,

690
00:40:02,780 --> 00:40:05,820
and all of the back and forth
to get together.

691
00:40:05,980 --> 00:40:09,980
Well, it's very, very kind of you
to do this, and on your birthday.

692
00:40:10,140 --> 00:40:14,820
I'm told you're having a birthday
cake this afternoon some time.

693
00:40:14,980 --> 00:40:16,860
I have no idea,
but invariably they will.

694
00:40:17,020 --> 00:40:19,700
I went to breakfast this morning
to meet a union leader,

695
00:40:19,820 --> 00:40:21,300
and it turned out it was a set-up,

696
00:40:21,460 --> 00:40:24,100
and my senior staff were there
in my favourite Greek diner

697
00:40:24,260 --> 00:40:26,820
where everybody speaks Spanish
in this day and age.

698
00:40:26,980 --> 00:40:30,100
I don't know why it took
so long to get it arranged.

699
00:40:30,220 --> 00:40:31,860
You're a New Yorker,

700
00:40:32,020 --> 00:40:36,500
and, as Mayor of the city you kind
of represent the spirit of New York.

701
00:40:36,660 --> 00:40:39,540
What is the quintessential
quality of this city?

702
00:40:39,700 --> 00:40:42,300
It starts with the diversity
of a population.

703
00:40:42,460 --> 00:40:45,060
When you walk down the streets
of New York City,

704
00:40:45,220 --> 00:40:47,940
40% of the people who live here,
you'll see on the streets,

705
00:40:48,060 --> 00:40:50,140
were born outside of America.

706
00:40:50,300 --> 00:40:52,860
The tradition of America
is you come here

707
00:40:53,020 --> 00:40:56,180
without the skills that you need,
you get the jobs,

708
00:40:56,340 --> 00:40:58,780
they may be low paying
and hard working

709
00:40:58,940 --> 00:41:02,660
and inconvenient hours
and all that sort of stuff

710
00:41:02,860 --> 00:41:07,580
and you sit there and say,
"I'm never going to fulfil
the great American dream,

711
00:41:07,700 --> 00:41:09,740
"but my kids are going to college,

712
00:41:09,900 --> 00:41:13,100
"my kids can be the next President
of the United States,

713
00:41:13,220 --> 00:41:14,460
"my kids can be rich."

714
00:41:14,660 --> 00:41:18,260
I think we saw
the living personification
of what you've just said,

715
00:41:18,420 --> 00:41:21,780
because, on Saturday, we went
out to see Fernando Mateo,

716
00:41:21,940 --> 00:41:24,740
the President of the...
I know Fernando very well.

717
00:41:24,900 --> 00:41:28,540
So I gather. He was at my house
for dinner a couple of weeks ago.

718
00:41:28,700 --> 00:41:31,100
He was absolutely terrific,
but he assembled for us

719
00:41:31,260 --> 00:41:33,900
a group of taxi drivers,
and they must have come from...

720
00:41:34,020 --> 00:41:36,100
All over the world. Absolutely.

721
00:41:36,260 --> 00:41:38,980
From every continent, country...
And driving a taxi is not easy.

722
00:41:39,140 --> 00:41:42,060
If you want to make some money,
you've got to put a lot of hours in.

723
00:41:42,220 --> 00:41:44,060
Mr Mayor, what drives
this city forward?

724
00:41:44,220 --> 00:41:47,060
Is it quote unquote "Wall Street",
is it philanthropy,

725
00:41:47,180 --> 00:41:49,380
is it new technology? What is it?

726
00:41:49,540 --> 00:41:53,180
You know, New York is
the intellectual capital of America,

727
00:41:53,340 --> 00:41:56,500
and we probably are arrogant enough
to say the world,

728
00:41:56,660 --> 00:41:59,660
although I'm sure the Brits
wouldn't agree with us,

729
00:41:59,860 --> 00:42:03,220
but lets say we're tied. But
I don't think it's any one industry.

730
00:42:03,380 --> 00:42:06,060
Finance is part of everything
we do so, of course,

731
00:42:06,220 --> 00:42:09,780
this will be a financial centre,
as will London, incidentally.

732
00:42:09,940 --> 00:42:12,660
Are you optimistic for the future
of New York City? Yeah, sure.

733
00:42:12,780 --> 00:42:14,500
You're an optimistic person?

734
00:42:14,660 --> 00:42:17,820
Yeah. For New York City,
you can screw it up.

735
00:42:17,980 --> 00:42:20,940
Niall Ferguson,
a Brit author, a very smart guy,

736
00:42:21,100 --> 00:42:25,740
and he talked about how great
societies don't slowly decline,

737
00:42:25,900 --> 00:42:30,140
they decline precipitously
and there's a tipping point.

738
00:42:30,260 --> 00:42:33,180
And my recollection is Rome, he said,

739
00:42:33,340 --> 00:42:36,860
in 10 years really
lost all control and power,

740
00:42:37,020 --> 00:42:42,380
and that's always a danger for London
and the UK, for New York and America,

741
00:42:42,500 --> 00:42:44,460
for any place in the world.

742
00:42:44,620 --> 00:42:50,020
Do you sometimes think of yourself
as the Mayor of a City State?

743
00:42:50,180 --> 00:42:52,700
I joke, it's not quite true,
but our Police Department I say

744
00:42:52,900 --> 00:42:56,700
is the seventh largest army
in the world, it's probably
the 15th largest army in the world.

745
00:42:56,860 --> 00:42:59,500
That's still big.
It's still pretty big, sure.

746
00:42:59,660 --> 00:43:04,620
I would argue it is the best job
that I know of in government.

747
00:43:04,780 --> 00:43:08,420
The President's got a very tough job,
but I think, in many senses,

748
00:43:08,580 --> 00:43:11,980
he's got a tougher job,
but I've got a better job.

749
00:43:12,140 --> 00:43:17,020
That was pure power.
It's running through his veins.

750
00:43:17,180 --> 00:43:20,260
It strikes me that he is
what New York is -

751
00:43:20,420 --> 00:43:24,340
workaholic, capitalist,
philanthropic, perhaps a bit anxious

752
00:43:24,500 --> 00:43:28,300
but, above all, the heart
of a giant network of power.

753
00:43:28,460 --> 00:43:33,260
It's that heady mix that has been
the making of New York

754
00:43:33,420 --> 00:43:37,020
and it will surely continue
to power its future.

755
00:43:40,340 --> 00:43:43,900
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756
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