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The Counsel

Note from Elie 3/14: Eric Adams: NYC’s Mayor, DOJ’s Yo-Yo

The Counsel

Some Spider, Inc.

Politics, News

4.6848 Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Elie Honig is a former Assistant U.S. Attorney and co-chief of the organized crime unit at the Southern District of New York, where he prosecuted more than 100 mobsters, including members of La Cosa Nostra, and the Gambino and Genovese crime families. He went on to serve as Director of the Department of Law and Public Safety at New Jersey Division of Criminal Justice. He is currently Special Counsel at Lowenstein Sandler and a CNN legal analyst.  For a transcript of Elie’s note and the full archive of contributor notes, head to CAFE.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Hey everyone, Ellie here wishing you a happy Friday at the end of another eventful.

0:22.9

I think we can say tumultuous week in legal news and otherwise.

0:27.6

I had a unique opportunity this week to talk to Douglas Brinkley.

0:31.0

Many of you probably know the preeminent historian, I think, of this era.

0:36.1

He was a guest with me when I was guest hosting on

0:39.3

Sirius XM. And I asked Doug a question that I thought was really sort of helpful in clarifying my mind.

0:45.7

I said, is this really the most busy, the most hectic, the most chaotic, the most eventful,

0:52.5

whatever you may call it, first two months or so

0:55.8

of a presidency? Or is this really not that far out of the norm if we look back through history?

1:01.4

Because sometimes our sense of time and place gets distorted. Well, Douglas, who is a presidential

1:06.3

historian and knows everything about American history, essentially said, no, you're not losing it here.

1:12.1

This is unprecedented.

1:13.7

He said there are some comparisons to FDR just in terms of the volume of activity, but no comparison

1:20.9

with respect to the substance of the activity in obvious ways.

1:25.7

But I thought it was interesting to hear Douglas say, no, you're not imagining this.

1:29.8

This is unusually and unprecedentedly tumultuous.

1:34.4

Anyway, on with our piece this week.

1:36.9

I want to turn back to an important angle on the Eric Adams case that I think we could get

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