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Brian Lair on WNYC, now as usual on Wednesdays, our lead Eric Adams reporter, Elizabeth Kim, after the mayor's Tuesday news conferences.

Now, Liz joins us to cover what happened at the mayor's weekly press conference, and this week was quite eventful.

We're going to include a clip of Governor Hokel in this, too. You'll hear why.

But did you hear that Mayor Adams stopped reading the news? He said it at the news conference yesterday.

I saw it. For the past month, he revealed he's relied solely on press briefings.

Maybe this means you might be more informed on current events than the mayor of the city of New York.

We'll get to that. Also, Adams' response to the arrest and detention of Columbia University,

recent grad school graduate, Mahmoud Khalil, and new developments in the corruption case and alleged quid pro quo with Trump suspending the case, there seems to be new evidence of a political motive, possibly,

for at least part of why the case may have been brought, but not in the way Adams has been claiming.

We'll explain.

Hey, Liz, happy Wednesday.

Never a dull moment these days, right?

That's right, Brian.

Happy Wednesday.

Let's start with the detention of Mahmoud Khalil, the 29-year-old. Happy Wednesday, never a dull moment these days, right? That's right, Brian. Happy Wednesday.

Let's start with the detention of Mahmoud Khalil. The 29-year-old Palestinian was detained by U.S.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement Saturday, ICE, for his role in organizing campus protests,

calling on Colombia to divest from Israel because of the war in Gaza.

He is a green card holder, legal permanent resident.

He was entering his building with his eight-month pregnant U.S. citizen wife when ICE agents detained him and put him in an immigrant detention facility, first in New Jersey and then in

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