Hi, Brian Lairer here.

Up next, Brian Lairor Weekend,

three of our favorite segments from the week,

packaged together for you to listen to on the weekend.

So enjoy, and I'll see you back on the radio Monday at 10 a.m.

on WNYC and WNYC. Good morning, everyone. We begin today with the Reverend Al Sharpton,

mostly in his role as defender of Eric Adams, perhaps an unlikely role for the lifelong criminal

justice reform advocate with respect to the law and order mayor, but he'll explain. We'll also get

into some national election politics with Reverend Sharpton

and some thoughts on life and justice as he just turned 70 years old last week and talked about it on

TV. Reverend Sharpton, we always appreciate it when you come on with us. Welcome back to WNYC.

Thank you. Glad to be with you. Let's jump right into your thoughts about Mayor Adams. Many

people are saying he should resign or that Governor Hockel should remove him because he can't

govern the city and fight these federal corruption charges at the same time. But you have warned

about a double standard that might be getting applied to the mayor, especially with respect to the

cause for the governor to remove him. Would you elaborate on that concern?

Yeah, my position is not a defender of the mayor, but a defender of the process.

And that is that I do not see how we have seen this investigation and indictment lead to a level where we would do something

we never did before, and that is remove a mayor or an elected official from office based on

an indictment. We just saw an indictment by Southern District of Senator

Menendez. He was never removed from the U.S. Senate. And we're just talking about within

months ago. Now, when I'm going into history, he was not removed from the Senate until he was

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