Brian Miller on WNYC, now to the indictment of Mayor Adams, perhaps the most important development over the weekend, was the Reverend Al Sharpton coming out against Governor Hokel using her power to remove Adams from office if he won't resign.

We'll get a take on the Adams situation now from Ellie Mistal, Justice Correspondent for the Nation magazine,

and author of the book, Allow Me to Retort, A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution,

and he hosts the podcast, Contempt of Court.

He has an article on the nation's website called It's Going to be Hard for Eric Adams

to swagger his way out of this mess.

And on Friday show, we mentioned this tweet from Ellie, which read the fact that Adams

is the first sitting New York City mayor to face federal criminal

charges actually says more about how law enforcement lets mayors of New York City get away with crime

than anything else. Guess they decided to apply the rules to Adams. Can't why, with a smile emoji.

Ellie, always good of you to come on.

Welcome back to WNYC.

Hi, Brian.

How are you doing?

It's always nice to be able to talk about the Southern District of New York

actually indicting people suspected of crime.

That's fun to see.

Yeah, as opposed to certain former presidents who we will talk about a little bit

later in the segment. Let's start with the part of the indictment that you wrote about,

that should anger New Yorkers the most allegedly defrauding the taxpayers of New York City

to get public matching funds for his 2021 campaign. Can you explain for people who haven't gotten their heads around this yet what that means?

Yeah, so New York City has a great program, right, which is called public matching funds.

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