Brian Lairn on WNYC.

Later this morning, Mayor Eric Adams is expected to hold his weekly Tuesday news conference.

Tomorrow, as usual on Wednesdays, we'll have our lead Eric Adams reporter,

Elizabeth Kim, who attends those news conferences, usually gets to ask a question and brings us excerpts

and analysis and takes your calls. But this week, we're adding a preview segment today

because developments have been so fast and furious the last few days around the investigations

that are surrounding the mayor and his top deputies. On Thursday, if you haven't heard this yet,

the police commissioner resigned. On Saturday, many of you have not heard this yet, the mayor's top

legal advisor resigned. The New York Times says resigned abruptly. You can't tell the people

being investigated or those coming and going from the administration right now without a scorecard.

So we thought you might find it useful to hear an explainer about where things stand, the political

implications for the mayor, the potential implications for all New Yorkers,

as the mayor is partly preoccupied with all this, and who some of the people involved are.

So with us now, and with Liz Kim's blessing, we're not journalistically cheating on her,

is Emma Fitzsimmons, the New York Times City Hall Bureau Chief, since 2019.

Emma, thanks for giving us some pre-news conference time today.

Welcome back to WNYC.

Thanks for having me.

Let's just start with Saturday's resignation of Chief Counsel Lisa Zornberg.

Not a well-known name to the general public.

What did her job entail and why did she quit?

So she's the mayor's chief legal advisor and she's been a fierce defender of him as he's faced

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