Recapping The Mayor's Off-Topic Press Conference
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Mayor Adams holds one off-topic press conference per week, fielding questions from reporters on any topic. Elizabeth Kim, Gothamist and WNYC reporter, recaps the mayor's statements.
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Brian Lara show on WNC. |
| 0:10.0 | It's the Brian Lara Show on WNC. |
| 0:12.8 | Good morning everyone. |
| 0:13.9 | We'll begin today with our lead reporter covering |
| 0:15.9 | the Adams administration, WNYC, and Gothamist Elizabeth Kim. |
| 0:19.8 | She was with the mayor yesterday at something |
| 0:21.9 | he's begun to do recently have a weekly |
| 0:24.8 | Tuesday news conference where sounds simple right sounds routine he takes |
| 0:30.0 | reporters questions |
| 0:39.6 | very much before that except on topics that he designated. |
| 0:44.0 | And for example, as many of you know, |
| 0:46.5 | he declined to continue the Ask the Mayor |
| 0:49.2 | weekly appearance on this show, |
| 0:51.2 | and also the weekly open-ended interview with Era Lewis on New York |
| 0:55.6 | 1 on Mondays that Mayor DeBlazio had been doing. But now Mayor Adams is |
| 1:00.6 | taking questions from the press open-ended what they call off topic in City Hall and City |
| 1:07.7 | Hall reporter parlance off-topic questions every Tuesday that refers to topics that the mayor himself doesn't generate. |
| 1:15.0 | Yesterday's topics included the issue at Hillcrest High School at Queens |
| 1:21.0 | involving student behavior toward a teacher who had posted her |
| 1:25.3 | support for Israel online, the investigation by the FBI of the Adams |
| 1:30.9 | 2021 campaign and more on the fundraising investigation. |
| 1:35.6 | The mayor made a little news he did say that fundraiser Brianna Suggs |
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