Brian Laird on WNYC, 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. The focus this week, as many of you probably know, was police

commissioner Edward Caban, who had his phone seized in an apparent federal probe. There's some

indication that City Hall is seeking Caban's resignation now, though the mayor pushed back on that claim,

though we didn't really quite deny it.

But we'll also talk about some news about the probe that saw two other senior officials in the Adams administration have their phone seized last week.

First Deputy Mayor, Sheena Wright, and Deputy Mayor for Public Safety, Phil Banks.

Hey, Liz, thanks for coming back this Wednesday. Glad you could join us, as always.

Always happy to be here, Brian.

And listeners, if you've been following or been confused by, and it is confusing because

there are so many different threads here, these investigations into the mayor

and his people, you can call and ask those a question or say whatever you want to say.

212, 433, WNYC, 212, 433-9-692, call or text. And I guess we should note that this week

the news conference was virtual because Mayor Adams

had COVID, a reminder that it's still going around. How's he doing? I watch most of the news

conference. He looked pretty much like himself. He looked like himself. He was a little horse,

but yes, you know, the day before the news conference, the mayor's office announced that he had come down with COVID.

So on top of all the crises around, you know, these investigations, the mayor was now kind of homebound.

He was, he's doing his work from Gracie Mansion.

It also meant that he was unable to attend today's 9-11 ceremony.

But he did go ahead with the conference, as you know, because, you know, post-COVID, we now know how to do

these things virtually. And he was, you know, he appeared from Gracie and his other, the other members

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