The WNBA's Culture Wars
What A Day
What A Day
4.6 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2024
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Federal officials on Thursday unsealed an inducement charging New York City Mayor Eric Adams with a litany of corruption and illegal campaign finance crimes, making him the city's first sitting mayor to charged with a crime. But in good news, New York's WNBA team has made it to the league’s semifinals! While 2024 has been a banner year for the WNBA, players have also had to deal with a torrent of racist invective and general culture war nonsense all season long. Crooked’s own Erin Ryan, host of ‘Hysteria’ and the weekend edition of ‘What A Day,’ joins Jane to talk about it.
And in headlines: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, Israeli officials defiantly rejected international calls for a ceasefire with the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, and Hurricane Helene made landfall along Florida’s Gulf Coast.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, September 27th. |
| 0:03.6 | I'm Jane Coastin, and this is what a day. |
| 0:05.6 | The show where we are trend forecasting that this season's must have accessory |
| 0:09.8 | as a federally indicted mayor. |
| 0:11.8 | It's the roaring 20s baby, corruption is back. |
| 0:21.7 | On today's show, Vladimir Zelensky visits the White House, plus the |
| 0:25.4 | W MBA is heating up and so are the weirdos using it for Cultural War stupidity. |
| 0:29.6 | But first, on Thursday the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York |
| 0:35.4 | Damien Williams announced that New York City Mayor Eric Adams has been charged on a |
| 0:39.5 | litany of corruption and illegal campaign finance charges, making him the first sitting New York |
| 0:44.8 | city mayor to be charged with a crime. Which, thinking about the lengthy history of New York City, is kind of |
| 0:50.8 | surprising to me. |
| 0:51.8 | Today we are announcing campaign finance, bribery, |
| 0:54.9 | and conspiracy charges against Eric Adams, |
| 0:57.4 | the mayor of New York City. |
| 0:59.4 | As the indictment alleges, Mayor Adams |
| 1:01.8 | engaged in a long-running conspiracy in which he solicited |
| 1:05.7 | and knowingly accepted illegal campaign contributions from foreign donors and |
| 1:10.0 | corporations. After the indictment was announced by Williams, |
| 1:14.1 | the mayor's home, Gracie Mansion, was raided by federal agents and |
| 1:17.3 | this phone was taken. |
| 1:18.5 | Part of an effort to make sure no evidence gets deleted. |
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