The Belly of The Beast | 1-14-25

Sid & Friends In The Morning

77 WABC

Sports, Comedy, News

4.2 • 828 Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2025

⏱️ 175 minutes

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On this Tuesday edition of Sid & Friends in the Morning, President-elect Donald Trump's cabinet nominations begin their confirmation hearings in the belly of the beast that is the United States Senate. Secretary of Defense hopeful Pete Hegseth leads things off today, before the rest of Trump's picks face the firing squad on the Senate floor in the coming days. In other news of the day, former Governor Andrew Cuomo dominates a poll for the upcoming Mayoral race here in New York City, current Governor Kathy Hochul gets ready to deliver her State of the State speech today, and New York lawmakers meet with President-elect Trump regarding the ongoing congestion pricing issue in NYC. Sharon Pfeiffer, Curtis Sliwa, Rich Lowry, Arthur Aidala, Jeanine Pirro and Joe Benigno join the program on this Tuesday installment of Sid & Friends in the Morning. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.1	This is Sid and Friends in the morning.
0:38.9	Governor Cathy Hokel will deliver her 20... This is sit-in friends in the morning. No, I get by with a little help from my friends.
0:43.5	Governor Kathy Hokel will deliver her 2825 state of the state speech.
0:49.8	The governor has been promoting her affordability agenda to help address the burdens many New Yorkers are facing with the cost of living.
0:53.4	Joining us now to talk about what we can expect from the governor is Grand Rear,
0:59.2	political science professor at Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.
1:04.3	Welcome. Good to see you this morning. So what key issues are you anticipating the governor to address? Well, first of all, the big context hanging over all of this is the perennial question in New York state politics is when will the voters
1:13.8	revolt and what would that revolt look like? They have been getting increasingly frustrated
1:19.5	with the way that Albany works and they're beginning to direct that frustration toward Democrats.
1:23.9	You saw some rumblings of that in 2022 and then 2024. So some of the things that
1:31.3	the governor's proposing are trying to speak to that. Concerns about inflation, which
1:35.9	translates into affordability in a politician language. And she's got some other things that
1:41.8	she wants to push that are all directed toward those things in one way or another.
1:46.3	The other big question, of course, is will there be resistance from the governor on what are likely to be President Trump's initiatives on immigration and trying to essentially round up and send back people who are undocumented here in the United States.
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