Brian Lear on WNYC, Mayor Adams held his weekly news conference yesterday, always does it on

Tuesday's expressing his pleasure in city priorities including in the New York State budget,

that got finalized over the weekend, including an extension of mayoral control

of the public schools.

But much of the Q&A with reporters this time around

centered on his reported pick of former

Giuliani chief staff Randy Mastro for the position of corporation council that

means chief lawyer for the city of New York, and also on the protests at the

local universities over the Israel-Gazah War and the deployment of the NYPD in some of those cases.

So to talk about what the mayor had to say about those issues primarily,

I'm joined now as on most Wednesdays following these Tuesday news conferences

by Liz Kim, WNYC and Gothamist reporter covering the mayor.

Hi Liz.

Good morning, Brian.

So starting with the campus protests and now encampments

and the involvement of the NYPD in shutting them down, the mayor pointed to

what he called outside agitators in describing the arrests at NYU.

Here is 30 seconds of what he said.

The number of bottles that were thrown,

chairs thrown at them, people who peacefully protest

for an issue, they're not throwing bottles in chairs. And so we know that we have

acknowledged and saw across the country there are people who come have nothing to do with the issue and they want to aggravate

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