周三晚上，纽约市长和2020年民主党总统候选人比尔·白思豪接受福克斯新闻主持人肖恩·哈尼蒂的一对一采访。当被问到枪支管制时，德·布拉西奥不愿意说他是否相信通过背景调查的人应该合法拥有枪支。
白思豪市长说，他用“美国最好的警察力量”来管理“美国最安全的大城市”他说过去六年犯罪率下降了。
汉尼蒂问市长，没有犯罪背景的人——或者任何其他在背景调查中会举旗的人——是否应该被剥夺持枪自卫的权利。市长似乎在回避这个问题。
“我认为现在这个国家的问题不是人们对枪支拥有权利，而是没有像背景调查这样的枪支安全措施，”德·布拉西奥说。“外面所有的枪都威胁着我们的军官和平民...我相信人们有权利，我相信枪支安全法。”
汉尼蒂说，他自己必须通过背景调查才能拥有枪支，并不断敦促市长看看法律是否会变得更加严厉。
“我们有一个警察部门，”白思豪说，“这使它一直更安全。这是保护人们的最好方法。每个人都应该安全。答案不是每个人都有枪——正如答案不是每个老师都有枪一样。”
汉尼蒂一直试图让白思豪回答守法公民是否应该获得枪支保护——就像政客和名人获得武装警卫保护一样——但州长从未给出是或否的答案。相反，他说NYPD已经足够了。
在纽约长大的纽约居民汉尼蒂回答说:“我不会买你卖的东西。”
白思豪市长在预先录制的采访中花了65分钟，采访内容涵盖了汉尼蒂周三长达一小时的节目。这一集没有开场陈述或其他嘉宾。
两人就堕胎权、白思豪提高所得税的提议、移民、唐纳德·特朗普总统提出的美国南部边境壁垒以及纽约居民对NYPD官员的待遇等问题展开了争论。
在谈到堕胎权的时候——当白思豪说他会遵循罗伊诉韦德案他说汉尼蒂“你的工作是把这变成一部卡通片”，并称堕胎问题为“烟幕弹”
汉尼蒂有时似乎很生气，一度说，“如果你成为总统，我们就完了。”
NYC MAYOR BILL DE BLASIO SAYS FAMILIES SHOULD BE SAFE WITHOUT GUNS
New York Mayor and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Bill de Blasio did a one-on-one interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity on Wednesday night. When pressed about gun control, de Blasio was reluctant to say if he believed if someone who passed a background check should legally be able to own a gun.
Mayor de Blasio said he governs the "safest big city in America" with the "finest police force in America." He said crime has gone down the previous six years.
Hannity asked the mayor if someone who had no criminal background—or any other characteristics that would throw up a flag during a background check—should be denied the right to own a gun to defend themselves. The mayor seemed to dance around the question.
"I believe right now what's wrong in this country is not that people have rights around guns, it's there are no gun safety measures like background checks," de Blasio said. "All the guns that are out there, that are threatening our officers and our civilians alike ... I believe people have rights, I believe in gun safety laws."
Hannity said that he himself has to go through background checks to own guns, and kept pushing the mayor to see if the laws would be become even tougher.
"We have a police department," de Blasio said, "that is making it safer all the time. That's the best way to protect people. Everyone deserves to be safe. The answer is not for everyone to have a firearm—any more than the answer is not for every teacher to have a firearm."
Hannity kept trying to get de Blasio to answer whether or not law-abiding citizens should have access to guns for protection—similar to politicians and celebrities having armed guards for protection—in which the governor never gave a yes or no answer. Instead, he said the NYPD was sufficient.