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Sid & Friends In The Morning

Gotham Grapples: Mayor Showdown, Legal Houdini, and Amelia Lewis' Story | 12-05-25

Sid & Friends In The Morning

77 WABC

News, Comedy, News Commentary, Politics

4.2752 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2025

⏱️ 157 minutes

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Summary

On this Friday edition of Sid & Friends in the Morning, Sid covers a range of current events, starting with tensions between Mayor Eric Adams and Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani over rent-stabilization proposals and executive orders. Next, Sid delves into an update on New York Attorney General Letitia James's dismissed federal mortgage fraud case. Discussions follow about security and support for the Jewish community amidst rising antisemitism, including a rally and proposed legislation to ban protests near places of worship. Lastly, sports predictions are made for upcoming college and professional football games this weekend. Amelia Lewis, Brian Kilmeade, Harmeet Dhillon, Joe Tacopina, Mike Lawler & Suzanne Miller join Sid on this Friday installment of Sid & Friends in the Morning. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Listen to this podcast now on the Red Apple Podcast Network. The IdeaGen Global Podcast with George Sifakis. I'm George Sifakis. In a world overflowing with noise, there is one forum where the world's smartest voices connect, where visionaries sit at the same table as innovators. And great minds don't just talk.

0:22.7

They act.

0:23.9

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Just sit and friends in the morning.

0:33.9

Entertaining and informative on the Red Apple Podcast Network. We're done with Stern. We're done with Colbert. We're on to Sid Rosenberg. This is what we want. It's what the people want, Sid. Come on. Well, after meeting earlier this week, there still seems to be some tension between Mayor Adams and Mayor Alex Zoran Mamdani. All right, Foxx-Ives. Morgan McKeye here with the latest rumblings out of City Hall. Morgan. Hey, Stephen Natasha. So Mayor Alex Zoraamam-Dani isn't wazing on the sidelines until he takes office in less than a month and was out again passing out free hot chocolate to highlight his freezer rent proposal for rent-stabilized apartments. But Mayor Eric Adams also making moves in the background specifically to needle

1:11.6

Mom Donnie. Adams has not only spoke about potentially stacking the rent guidelines board with

1:16.4

appointees who opposed Mom Donnie's plan to freeze rents on rent-stabilized departments.

1:21.3

He also issued two executive orders. One prohibits a city from making business or pension

1:26.5

investment decisions that discriminates against Israel.

1:30.9

And the second order directs a police commissioner to evaluate proposals that would block protests from occurring close to houses of worship.

1:39.2

Both of these orders can be overturned once Mom Dani takes office.

1:43.2

Adams was asked today, why issue these orders now?

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And Mom Donnie also responding.

1:48.0

I have a job to finish.

1:50.0

I have not land the plane on the aircraft carrier and say job mission accomplished.

1:55.0

I have more stuff to do. We got more stuff to do.

1:58.0

You know, there's a host of other things that we're going to churn out.

2:01.9

The mayor is free to issue as many executive orders as he'd like with the less than 30 days

2:07.3

that he has in office. And then we will be taking a look at every single once once we actually

2:11.9

enter into City Hall. Now Adams also has made moves recently to amend the city's budget to add

2:16.8

5,000 more officers.

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Mom Donnie would have to eventually approve this change, but he says he wants a level to remain

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