The Fixer: Inside Loyalty, Power, and Prison With Michael Cohen

I want to go back.

I asked you what keeps you awake.

You talked about your children.

Yes.

You worry about them.

What about Generation Z? 38% of Generation Z young folks don't believe that patriotism is important.

How scary is that? It's almost as scary as what I'm watching taking place here in New York and Colorado and elsewhere with this democratic socialism movement.

I'm petrified of it, to be honest with you.

I think that they are radical.

I don't think they'll last.

I believe they will ultimately fail, just as the Tea Party failed, But unfortunately, when you have Gen Z who want things for free, you know, my father used to always say, nothing comes for free.

There's no free lunch in this world.

We're going to have free buses here eventually, right? Good luck.

You know, years ago, Governor Pataki put me onto the board of the MTA.

I was on the...

Inspector General's Management Advisory Board.

Sounds very impressive.

It was nonsensical.

But I can tell you, the MTA is a combination of ownership of New York and New Jersey.

So are you now going to, as mayor of New York, think that you're going to be able to dictate to New Jersey, whether or not, because it gets shared as part of the Port Authority.

That's not how it works.

How about, for example, free groceries? They're going to now open up a grocery store.

Here's something that you know as well as I.

Anytime government gets involved in private industry, what happens? It fails.

It fails because of theft, waste,