And the Is Eric Adams going down and did Zellinsky screw the pooch? We'll discuss all this and more.

On this edition of the editors, I'm Rich Lowry and I'm joined as always by the right Honorable Charles C. W. Cook,

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If you don't like what you hear here, please forget, I said anything. So, MBD, the walls have literally been

closing in on Eric Adams for quite some time now. We've had resignations of

his top aides and commissioners in New York.

We've had searches, including of him and his phone has been been and now we finally have the indictment.

It turns out that Turkey had a really good eye for political talent realized when Eric Adams was the borough president of Brooklyn

that he was an up-and-coming man in politics, was cultivating him with various favors and illegal campaign contributions.

And then the chickens came home to roost when they wanted a consulate built in New York City on time to for President Erdogan and there are some fire concerns and he leaned on his fire officials to say look you guys you have to

approve this and now he's been indicted on multiple counts what do you make

that well it's, it's fun.

It's fun to have, you know, New York City politics sort of seems to freeze, right?

We have a kind of one party city and nearly a one party state most of the time.

Now the fights within the party can be consequential, but it also can make New York politics seem

boring until the mass comes off and all of the beetles and snakes come flying out of the skulls that were formerly in charge. And here we are, Eric Adams has always struck me as an

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