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Now it's time for a usual Wednesday visit with our lead Eric Adams reporter, Elizabeth Kim.

Liz joins us to cover what happened at the mayor's weekly news conference, usually held on Tuesdays.

This week, Adams held his presser on Monday as he is in Washington, D.C. this morning to testify

at a congressional hearing on sanctuary cities with other Democratic mayors in major cities across

the country. We will preview his appearance there, and we will hear from WN.Y.C. and Gothamist,

Bridget Bergen, tomorrow morning to cover what actually goes down.

But there was also major news, as you no doubt know, in the 2025 mayoral race this past weekend.

Former Governor Andrew Cuomo, who resigned from that position in 2021 under the pressure of mounting scandals has ended his will he won't

he saga and finally entered the contest to be the Democratic nominee in this year's mayor

election an Empire report poll poll from that group published last week found Cuomo

actually leading the pack of candidates at this point.

Of course, it's all name recognition.

So we will find out over time whether that persists.

And we'll look at the first few days of Cuomo's candidacy as well as our usual chat about Adams with Liz

Kim. Hey, Liz, happy Wednesday. Happy Wednesday, Brian. And let's start with Mayor Adams' trip to

D.C. today as we speak, the hearing on Capitol Hill is scheduled to take place. What's he doing

down there? It doesn't sound like it's a friendly call

from his new friends at the Trump administration. Not exactly, Brian. So the House Republican

Oversight Committee requested that the mayors of New York, Denver, Boston, and Chicago come and

testify about their respective sanctuary policies.

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