Reporters Ask the Mayor: Who Does The Mayor Support for President?
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2024
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Brian Laird Show. Welcome back, everybody. I'm Tiffany Hansen, filling in for Brian today. |
| 0:15.4 | New York City Mayor Eric Adams holds one off-topic press conference per week in which reporters are free to ask him questions on any |
| 0:24.1 | subject this week. The mayor addressed the media fallout of the former president's controversial |
| 0:30.4 | rally that we've been talking about at Madison Square Garden and Mayor Adams' own messaging around |
| 0:35.7 | the term fascist as it relates to the former president. |
| 0:39.3 | The mayor also talked about an interview that NYPD Chief of Patrol John Shell did on Newsmax. |
| 0:44.9 | If you're not familiar with that outlet, we're going to talk with Liz Kim about it, that outlet Newsmax. |
| 0:50.3 | According to the New York Times is a conservative alternative to Fox News. |
| 0:55.4 | We'll dig into that with Liz. |
| 0:57.1 | We'll also talk about everything else that happened. |
| 1:00.1 | WNYC and Gothamist's lead mayor Eric Adams reporter is Elizabeth Kim. |
| 1:04.6 | Liz, thanks so much for coming back. |
| 1:07.5 | Good morning, Tiffany. |
| 1:08.9 | All right, so let's talk about Mayor Adams and Donald Trump and what he had to say and what he didn't have to say about the former president and the rally at Madison Square Garden. First, let's just take a listen to what the mayor had to say during this presser. I just find it just humiliated that what everyday mom and pops are doing and going through |
| 1:32.1 | across this country, that here we are having this conversation about this silly item. |
| 1:40.9 | So I refuse to participate in that. |
| 1:43.8 | Liz, I think a lot of people would beg to differ that it's not a silly item. So I refuse to participate in that. Liz, I think a lot of people would beg to differ that |
| 1:46.4 | it's not a silly item. And to me, it sounds a little bit like a Dodge. I'm wondering what it |
| 1:52.2 | sounded like to you. You were in the room. Well, you know, I think the mayor, he's always |
| 1:59.4 | fashioned himself as someone who is in touch with |
| 2:03.1 | everyday New Yorkers. And, you know, in that comment, he talked about how he holds these |
| 2:09.0 | regular town halls. And, you know, to an extent, the mayor is making a point here that many people who are not politically engaged, |
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