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The John Batchelor Show

1/2: #NYC: Mayor Adams the FBI, the migrant crisis, the annual budget, the commercial real estate collapse, the unknowns. Harry Siegel, TheCity.com, NY Daily News. Nicole Gelinas, Manhattan Institute, New York Post.

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

Society & Culture, Arts, News, Books

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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0:00.0

This is CBS. I am the world. I'm John Bachelor.

0:05.0

Harry Siegel, my colleague and co-host and very good friend guides me to a story that is in New York now that dominates speculation about the new mayor, Mayor Eric Adams,

0:18.0

the migrant story that overwhelms all of us, especially in Manhattan,

0:22.0

what is to be done with these people from

0:24.8

Central America and South America who are looking for an opportunity and yet?

0:30.1

And at the same time, the city's budget now presented, how do we pay for all this, given the rumors

0:36.3

we hear of commercial real estate collapse?

0:38.8

All this with Harry Siegel, and we're joined by Nicole Jelinees, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.

0:45.7

She is also a columnist of the New York Post.

0:48.3

Harry, I begin with your help here.

0:51.2

The headline in your Daily News, where Harry is a daily news columnist,

0:56.0

as well as a senior editor at the City and online journal. The Daily News reads,

1:00.9

the political fallout over FBI probe into Eric Adams' campaign

1:06.0

may be about more than legal actions.

1:09.0

Harry, what FBI probe? What has happened?

1:12.0

Good evening to you. Hey good evening John. So last

1:16.0

Thursday FBI agents showed up at the family home in Brooklyn of a 25 year old woman, Brianna Suggs, who was 23 years old was the chief

1:27.6

fundraiser for Eric Adams' very successful mayoral campaign and fundraising operations.

1:35.0

And this was a bomb show in New York where the consensus had become that the only way that Adams was going to be

1:44.8

challengeable as a democratic incumbent, which is always a very strong position and also as the

1:49.5

city's second black man, was in the event of something really bad with crime or corruption.

1:56.6

And as of now, neither the fundraiser nor the mayor has been accused.

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