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Sid & Friends In The Morning

Don't Blink | 04-23-25

Sid & Friends In The Morning

77 WABC

Sports, News, Comedy

4.2826 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2025

⏱️ 125 minutes

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Summary

On this Wednesday edition of Sid & Friends in the Morning, Sid covers the staring contest New York Governor Kathy Hochul and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy are engaged in over congestion pricing in NYC. Who'll blink first? Only time will tell. In other news of the day, two superseding indictments were unsealed charging 27 NYC-area individuals currently or formerly associated with the designated foreign terrorist organization Tren de Aragua, Harvey Weinstein's rape retrial begins with opening statements in New York today, Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy released a letter saying if congestion pricing in New York City is not lifted, the federal government will cut funding for road construction in Manhattan. Governor Kathy Hochul responded by saying the toll will remain in effect. Also, three more federal prosecutors who had been involved in the now-dismissed corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams resigned yesterday, and President Trump backed off from threats to fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell after days of intensifying criticisms of the central bank chief for not cutting interest rates. Curtis Sliwa, Rich Lowry, Mazi Pilip, Lara Trump and Scott LoBaido join the program on this hump day installment of Sid & Friends in the Morning. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

The weather. Tomorrow, expect a biting cold front. Hmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be wearing or taking off. The night will be wild and untamed. Expect heavy, lashing rain that'll soak you to the skin. By Monday, temperatures will rise slowly but surely reaching their peak in the afternoon.

0:23.0

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0:25.6

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0:28.7

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0:32.7

77 WABC.

0:35.4

This is Sid and Friends in the morning. I get by with a little help for my friends.

0:40.5

I mean, if we're going to put somebody on Mount Rushmore,

0:43.1

let's get Sid Rosenberg on Mount Rushmore.

0:45.2

A big development in the U.S. Attorney's Office here in New York

0:48.4

involving the dropping of federal charges against New York Mayor Adams,

0:52.2

three federal prosecutors who worked on the Adams

0:54.9

case resigning and accusing their boss of pressuring them to make up a story that they engaged

1:00.7

in wrongdoing in the Adams case.

1:02.9

The three attorneys saying they did nothing wrong and all three attorneys quit are the

1:08.2

claims that they're going public with an unethical scandal in the making.

1:12.9

ABC News chief investigative reporter.

1:15.5

Aaron Kuturski here now with this very big development.

1:18.3

Aaron.

1:18.6

Bill, these three federal prosecutors were all put on leave over the now dismissed corruption case against Mayor Adamson said they felt pressured to admit they did something wrong as a condition of their reinstatement.

1:29.1

They weren't going to do that. Instead, all three resigned. Derek Wickstrom, Celia Cohen, and Andrew

1:34.2

Roerbach were all there in September when the charges against the mayor were announced. And they

1:39.7

were put on leave in February after their then boss, Danielle Sassoon, resigned in protest of the Justice Department's order to drop the case so Adams could be free to cooperate with President Trump's immigration agenda.

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