BONUS: NYC officially has a new Mayor

The Joy Reid Show

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Politics, News

4.8 • 719 Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2026

⏱️ 208 minutes

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oin us for the live coverage of the inauguration of Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York City. Follow our guests here: @Dr_CMGreer (Twitter and Instagram) You can also listen to her on the FAQNYC podcast as well as the In the Thick Show podcast. --- SUBSCRIBE to never miss a moment!: https://www.youtube.com/@TheJoyReidShow?sub_confirmation=1 #JoyReidShow #JoyAnnReid #TheJoyReidShow #JoyReid #JoyReidYouTube ABOUT JOY REID: Joy-Ann Lomena Reid (AKA Joy Reid) is a best-selling American author, political journalist and TV host. She was a national correspondent for MSNBC and is best known for hosting the Emmy-nominated, NAACP Award-winning political commentary and analysis show, The ReidOut, from 2020 to 2025. Her previous anchoring credits include The Reid Report (2014–2015) and AM Joy (2016–2020). STAY CONNECTED WITH THE SHOW: Website: https://www.joyannreid.com Substack: https://substack.com/@joyannreid Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Joy-Reid-Show/61576759980854/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joyreidshow/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thejoyreidshow Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/joyannreid.bsky.social FOLLOW JOY ON SOCIAL: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/joyreidofficial/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joyannreid/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@joyreidofficial Want to hear more of our theme song? Check out the Foodchain page on BandCamp: https://thefoodchain.bandcamp.com/track/the-foodchain-basically-ft-jd-era ============================= Copyright Notice: This video and my YouTube channel contains content that is property of The Joy Reid Show, a production of Image Lab Media Group. You are authorized to share the video link and channel, and embed this video in your website or others as long as a link back to this YouTube Channel is provided. © 2025 The Joy Reid Show https://www.youtube.com/@TheJoyReidShow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Happy New Year's Day, everyone.
0:14.1	Happy Friday, Jr.
0:16.2	It is officially 26.
0:20.7	The former year, 2025, is done. I don't think anyone. It is officially 2026.
0:24.2	The former year 2025 is done.
0:25.8	I don't think anyone is going to miss it.
0:27.1	But happy New Year to everyone.
0:29.0	Hopefully you all had a wonderful New Year's Eve.
0:32.6	We had a really great time here on New Year's Eve.
0:33.8	I know Don Lemon did too.
0:35.2	We tried to jump on John Lemon show,
0:37.3	but we had a little technical difficulty getting in with him.
0:43.0	But I know Don had a good time and had a few drinks and had some great friends and had a really great time.
0:53.6	So I'd be new year to everyone. But we wanted to jump on and do a really quick breaking news live today because some big, big news happened in the great city of New York. New York City now officially has a brand new mayor.
0:59.8	Zohan Mamdani, perhaps the youngest mayor in New York's history, one of the youngest, if not the
1:07.4	youngest, he has finally stepped into his historic moment. Now, there are two parts to the
1:15.3	inauguration ceremony. We're going to live stream the actual public inauguration. There's a public
1:21.4	inauguration, but there was also a private inaugural ceremony. Let me read to you a little bit. The New York Times story is kind of
1:28.9	wild. This is the New York Times headline that they read that they wrote on this morning,
1:33.7	Zohan Mamdani, the left-leaning populist who deployed a mix of charm, social media savvy,
1:38.4	and an unyielding focus on affordability to catapult him to political stardom, was officially
1:43.5	sworn in as mayor of New York City early Thursday, just after the New Year's Eve ball dropped in Times Square.
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