Brian Lair on WNYC and back to the New York City mayoral race on the morning after the morning after the final debate.

And the news has kept on coming.

You've heard by now that Mayor Adams endorsed Andrew Cuomo

yesterday, and maybe you've heard the exchange or seen it on social media between Cuomo and

conservative talk show host Sid Rosenberg on WABC yesterday. That's offending a lot of people

and bringing charges of Islamophobia against Cuomo.

This 18-second clip starts with Andrew Cuomo.

Any given morning is a crisis, and people's lives are at stake.

God forbid another 9-11.

Can you imagine Mondami in the seat?

I could.

He'd be cheering.

It's another problem.

So, Sid Rosenberg says Mamdani would be cheering 9-11, and Cuomo chuckles and says that's another

problem.

The campaign has since tried to say that Cuomo was making an indirect reference

to Mamdani going on Hassan Piker's podcast. Piker once said that the U.S. deserve 9-11 and referred

to Jews as inbred, according to reporting. I've read during last week's debate,

Mamdani said Piker's comments were reprehensible. But more to the point,

neither Sid Rosenberg nor Cuomo mentioned Hassan Piker yesterday. Rosenberg just said

Mamdani would be cheering another 9-11, and Cuomo said that's another problem. This is all after

Cuomo in Wednesday night's debate said he would be the one to end divisiveness

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