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Sid & Friends In The Morning

Jumping Ship | 02-18-25

Sid & Friends In The Morning

77 WABC

Sports, Comedy, News

4.2827 Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2025

⏱️ 171 minutes

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Summary

On this Tuesday edition of Sid & Friends in the Morning, Sid covers the resignations of four of New York City Mayor Eric Adams' deputy mayors yesterday, due to their suspicion of a quid pro quo between the Mayor and the President of the United States, Donald Trump. Governor Kathy Hochul calls for an emergency meeting today to mull a possible removal of Adams from his mayoral seat. In other news of the day, DOGE and Elon Musk set their sights on the IRS, the United States and Russia agree at talks without Ukraine to press ahead in their bid to end the war, French Prime Minister Emmanuel Macron hosting a Paris summit of European defense powers to demand the US ends the lockout of Europe and Kyiv from the process, and the United States gets set to face off with Canada in the championship game of the inaugural 4 Nations Face-Off tournament being played in place of this year's NHL All-star festivities. Norman Seabrook, Sal Greco, Karol Markowicz, Miranda Devine, Victoria Coates and Ron Duguay join Sid on this Tuesday installment of Sid & Friends in the Morning. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:15.2

This is Sid and Friends in the Morning.

0:22.6

77 Wab, ABC.

0:25.2

I mean, if we're going to put somebody on Mount Rushmore, let's get Sid Rosenberg on Mount Rushmore.

0:29.8

Jacob has many people unnerved.

0:32.0

Governor Hokel released a statement, calling it troubling, adding that the situation cannot be ignored.

0:40.8

Half the deputy mayor's chair at City Hall gave notice that they are resigning.

0:42.4

Now, there are eight deputy mayors.

0:44.8

They have different roles, and these are the top ones.

0:48.6

As you said, the breaking news continues on this tonight with the governor's statement.

0:51.7

In it, she says she herself spoke with the first deputies.

0:54.9

And as the statement reads, we want to be specific here.

1:00.2

She says that if they feel unable to serve in City Hall at this time,

1:06.1

that raises serious questions about the long-term future of this mayoral administration. Now, why does it matter what Governor Kathy Hockel thinks about that?

1:10.0

It is because the governor has a constitutional power to remove the mayor from office.

1:15.1

Now, the governor points out this is something that has never actually been used before,

1:18.7

but she indicates that she is seriously considering it.

1:21.6

For the city's top officials, all deputy mayors resigned Monday in the latest fallout from Trump's push to drop corruption

1:28.5

charges against Mayor Eric Adams, who is cooperating with Trump's crackdown on migrants.

1:33.9

In a statement, the deputies say they resigned to stay faithful to the oaths they swore to serve

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