Brian Lerner on WNYC, Governor Hokel will join us with possibly some very big news on housing and other things from the state budget negotiations that have been underway

for months.

That'll be at 1110.

Now, as usual, on Wednesday mornings, after Mayor Adams' Tuesday news conferences, our lead

Eric Adams reporter, Liz Kim, joins us with excerpts and analysis and to take some calls.

Mayor will control of New York City public schools, where,

and we'll ask the governor about that too, where the city lands and the conceptual budget agreement

just announced by the governor, how did the city do, and all of that, and a few more other,

a few other topics to touch on. Hi, Liz. Thanks for coming on,

as always. Good morning, Brian. Now, shortly before the news conference yesterday, I see the mayor

spoke at a breakfast for the group called the Association for a Better New York, and he was met

by a group of protesters there, and he was asked about that. Do you want to set up this clip?

Sure. So the mayor was speaking at an event held by a group called the Association for a Better

New York. That's also known as Abney for short. And they routinely invite elected officials to speak to their members, which are made up of

both private sector leaders and also nonprofit leaders, but it's typically seen as an event

where an elected gets to speak to the business class. And here we had the mayor up on stage and protesters rushed him. And they got

surprisingly close to the mayor. I think in a way that astonished a lot of reporters, certainly,

and probably members of the audience. This is not something that happens, I think, ever at Abney.

You know, I spoke to like a veteran city hall reporter, and she told me she had never seen this.

So the mayor was asked about whether there was a breach in security for him.

And these protesters, we should say, these were not pro-Palestinian protesters in this case.

Very good point, Brian.

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