It's the Brian Laris show on WNYC.

Happy Thanksgiving week, everybody.

So if you stop following the news for the weekend after Friday show. You may feel like today you're waking up

on a different planet, a planet where Marjorie Taylor Green announced he's leaving Congress

and compared President Trump to an abusive husband. I refuse to be a battered wife, hoping it all

goes away and gets better. It's a planet where the president who used to calls Iran Mamdani, a communist lunatic,

said things like this in a joint news conference with him.

I think you're going to have hopefully a really great mayor.

The better he does, the happier I am.

And it's a planet where Mamdani refused to endorse the fellow Democratic socialist who wanted to primary Hakeem Jeffries.

Democrats, with the midterms, do you want to see Leader Jeffries become the Speaker of the House?

Yes.

Mayor elect Mamdani with Kristen Welker on Meet the Press.

Hakeem Jeffries, the Brooklyn Congressman, and of course, House Minority Leader,

will join us live at 1030 to talk about that and more. But let's start with New York Times

Metro politics reporter Jeff Mays, who covers New York City politics, obviously, and followed the

trajectory of Mamdani calling Trump a despot and a fascist and a threat to democracy in the campaign,

then asking Trump for a meeting after the election and winding up with what commentators are calling a bromance or a buddy movie at that joint Friday news conference.

Hi, Jeff, always good of you to come on. Welcome back to WNYC.

Good morning, Brian.

Thanks for having me. And listeners, we'll open up the phones right from the start. Who wants to comment on the Trump-Mam-Dani meeting and its results from the Mamdani side of the equation? 212-433, WNYC.

We'll do this in two parts on the show today. The Trump part later.

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