It's the Brian Laird show on W.N. Y.C. Good morning everyone. Our lead Eric Adams reporter Elizabeth Kim is our first guest today.

You know, usually the mayor holds his weekly news conference on Tuesdays and Liz joins us on Wednesdays with clips and

analysis but this week the mayor switched it to Monday for schedule reasons

he's going to the governor's state of the state address today and so Liz joins us today on topics the mayor

was asked about yesterday including the city's new lawsuits against bus companies

bringing asylum seekers from Texas you've heard about that

some migrant families with children hitting their 60 day stay limit in the city

shelter system today even the mayor denying something about his childhood

that came up at the news conference yesterday that was in a book that he wrote about a time the

book says he fired a gun as a kid. Now the mayor says no believe me

Don't believe your lying eyes if you read my book. So Liz always good to have you never a shortage of things to talk

about after these news conferences welcome back to the show thanks Brian good morning let's

start with a clip on what might be happening right this minute as far as we know as many migrant

families hit their 60-day shelter stay limit today. Here is Deputy Mayor and

Williams Isham at the news conference acknowledging that this is

scheduled to happen. I think that these children and families have been through so

much and so we're not talking about destabilizing them, and I just want to flip that premise.

What we are trying to do is actually stabilize them and make sure that they have what they need

and make sure that those families just coming to us at the front door also has an opportunity.

So we are managing the best and people can disagree with the way that we're doing it, but we are

sitting in these seats and we have to do it.

We have to make the tough decisions.

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