Brian Lure on W.N.C. and now as usual on Wednesdays our lead Eric Adams reporter Elizabeth Kim

with excerpts from an analysis of the Mayor's Tuesday news conference and to take your questions and comments about them.

Our topics this week will include Governor Hokles, last minute congestion pricing pause,

Trump's support in New York City, and the proliferation of mopeds going every which way on New York

City streets which you will hear the mayor call a menace.

Hey Liz, thanks for keeping this slot open on your Wednesday schedule whenever you can. Welcome back.

Hi Brian. So you know our callers have been obsessed with Governor Hokos last minute

indefinite postponement of congestion pricing so I'm sure a lot of folks last minute pro or con. So the mayor weighed in yesterday

in the news conference, but only kind of sorta.

Listen.

You know, being the chief executive of the country

or the state, you have to make tough choices and no matter what choice you make,

there's going to be a large number of people that are going to support,

there's going to be a large number of people that are going to be against.

I mean, we're opening all of these new bathrooms and people are like saying, well, it's

not the color that I like you know people

people are holding press conferences because you know why you do it sooner so

that's just the nature of being the chief executive. She made a decision. We need to support the

governor who no matter what decision she makes, she's not a buffalo only

governor. Governor Hokoku loves the state and that's the place that I come

from. How do you feel about the state? She loves the state. So Liz I guess that's a yes he does support the pause but was it

really more like that's the governor's authority and I like the governor so I

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