It's the Brian Larry Show on WNYC. Good morning, everyone. We'll begin today with our weekly Wednesday

visit about the New York City mayoral race from WNYC and Gothamist political reporter Elizabeth Kim.

And today, Liz is being joined by a second guest, Jeff Colton, reporter for Politico

and co-author of their morning newsletter called New York Playbook.

And here's why Jeff is joining.

Politico has obtained an audio recording of Andrew Cuomo at a Hampton's fundraiser,

this was just last weekend on Saturday, where he basically predicts that President Trump

and other top Republicans will help him get elected mayor.

Republicans will help him get elected mayor, including Trump personally.

And Cuomo says he feels good about that.

Jeff has brought that audio clip, and we will play it for you in a minute.

What it plays into is the narrative from the Democratic nominees, Zeranamamani,

that Cuomo would be a representative of Trump as mayor, kind of like Eric Adams has been seen,

and that would be bad for the city. Now, Cuomo contends that being able to work with Trump

on some things would protect the city, and listeners will open up the phones on that for you.

In fact, we can get that going right now, even before we play the clips. Do you think

a Cuomo-Trump relationship would be better for New York City after Trump, presumably,

according to this, helps Cuomo get elected? Or what a Mamdani-Trump relationship may be more contentious,

protect the city more. 212-433 WNYC, 212, 433-9-3-9-2, call or text. So we'll play the tape

and talk about the implications and also some other news

relevant to the campaign. So happy Wednesday, Liz. Hiya. Hi, happy Wednesday. And Jeff Colton

from Political. Thanks for coming on. Welcome back to WNYC. Thank you so much for having me. Happy to talk

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