Listen to Support it, WNYc, now as usual on Wednesdays our lead Eric Adams reporter Elizabeth Kim with

excerpts from analysis of and to take your calls about the Mayor's Weekly Tuesday

news conference.

Hey Liz happy Wednesday.

Happy Wednesday, Brian.

And I guess we have to start with the big news that broke after the news conference yesterday,

which is that Schools Chancellor David Banks has joined the ever-growing

list of resignations within the Adams administration. Why did he say he's stepping

down? The Schools Chancellor said that this was a retirement. He is 62 years old, but it was really

hard not to view this resignation in the context of what's happening around both the schools

Chancellor and the mayor. You know as we know about three weeks ago the Chancellor had his phone seized by federal agents as part of what appears to be a sweeping investigation.

He was not the only one who had his phone seized his partner, Sheena Wright, who is the first deputy mayor, also had her phone seized, and his brother, who is the deputy mayor for Public Safety Phil Banks banks also had his phone seized.

So all of this is happening, you know, not long in the same month essentially that, you know, all of

this has been happening around these intensifying

investigations and it also comes not long after the health commissioner

Dr Ashwin Vassan announced that he was going to step down

sometime early next year.

He made that announcement on Monday.

What I would say in terms of all of these departures, you know,

we've also had the police commissioner resign.

We've had the mayor's chief council abruptly resign over a weekend without leaving any notice.

I would say though the departure of the school's chancellor is in some ways a bigger deal

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