First of all I want to thank you for being here this morning and I want to thank you

for being here this morning and I want to thank

yesterday morning the mayor of America's largest city stepped up to a microphone.

So it was a drizzly day in New York City and Eric Adams walked out of Gracie Mansion, which is his official residence, surrounded

by black civil rights and religious leaders.

That's our colleague Jimmy Vielkind.

For months, Adams has been under federal investigation.

And yesterday, the city and the country was about to find out what those charges

were. And the point was for him to state his side of this case before prosecutors spoke.

So Adams goes up to the lectern and he essentially says I'm not going to be

distracted by this. From here my attorneys would take care of the case so I can

take care of the city. My day to day will not change. I will continue to do the job

for 8.3 million New Yorkers that I was elected to do.

And then he also repeats that he hasn't done anything wrong.

In about 30 minutes you're going to hear his story of the case that is in front of us.

This story will come from...

Across town...

Good morning everyone.

Thank you for gathering.

Prosecutors at the Southern District of New York started to tell that story about Adams.

Today we are announcing campaign finance, bribery, and conspiracy charges against Eric Adams, the mayor of New York City.

Prosecutors alleged that Adams took and solicited bribes from Turkish officials and

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