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We have such a great show for you today.

Substacks own the Jim Acosta shows. Jim Acosta joins us to talk about

Trump's strategy to poke holes in the weak points of the government. Then we'll talk to Wired's

David Gilbert about the threats Elon Musk's doge and the teenagers who work for it pose to U.S. national security.

But first, the news.

Molly, we are no fans of Herrick Adams at this podcast.

The news is very bad.

So I think what was an interesting thing, though, is actually to do a timeline of this before we get there, which was

that yesterday morning I woke to a tweet that I immediately sent to you and many people, which was

Mayor Adams gathered as top commissioners early Monday to give marching orders under the new

administration. Don't criticize President Trump. Don't interfere with immigration enforcement.

And trust the mayor, sources

told the city.

And I thought, hmm, why would he do that?

And then...

So I would like to take a moment here to step back for a second and embrace what you and I

both know to be the mayoral curse.

Yes.

I think you and I discuss this off air every week for years.

We discuss this often and always.

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