It's the Brian Lera Show on WNYC. Good morning, everyone, and good morning again, everyone,

for those of you who've been listening to our special coverage of the indictment of Mayor Eric Adams

on corruption charges in the last hour.

And we'll keep talking about that to start the regular Brian Laris show now.

We'll come back to it as well in the 11 o'clock hour.

And whenever the Southern District of New York, district, not district attorney, U.S. Attorney, Damian Williams,

holds his news conference. We will bring that to you live. We're expecting that around 1130 now.

But we do also have some other guests who for now we're planning to keep. We have the head of the MTA,

Jan O'Leiber, to answer my questions and yours with so much mass transit

news and the centrality of that to our New York region lives. We'll try to keep that appointment

with Janelle Lieber. We may get a take on the UN General Assembly session in there somewhere,

and we have... Forgive me as I choke on my water.

And we have Sarah Smarsh, author now of Bone of the Bone, Essays on America by a daughter of the Working Class.

And besides talking about her book, we'll play a clip or two and get her reaction to some of the working class-oriented economic proposals from

Vice President Harris's economic policy speech yesterday. So we'll do as much of all that as we can

while still staying on top of the momentous news of the first ever criminal indictment of a

sitting New York City mayor. Joining us now to talk more about that is our lead Eric Adams reporter, as we call her,

City Hall reporter Elizabeth Kim.

Hi, Liz.

Hi, Brian.

So you were just here yesterday, as you usually are on Wednesdays after the mayor's Tuesday

news conference.

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