Zohran Mamdani's Police Chief and a Sitdown With Donald Trump

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🗓️ 20 November 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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New York's Mayor-elect heads to the Oval Office, after convincing NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch to stay on the job next year, though how much Mamdani will interfere in policing the city remains to be seen. Plus, is this the opening that Rep. Elise Stefanik needs to defeat the state's incumbent Gov. Kathy Hochul? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:44.2	Zoran Memdani, New York's incoming socialist mayor, heads to a White House meeting with President Trump after convincing the city's law and order police commissioner to stay on the job.
0:50.4	Plus, Congresswoman Elise Tophonik, jumps into the race for New York governor. though even amid Mimdani mania, a new poll shows her trailing the incumbent Kathy Hokel.
1:00.1	Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.
1:03.1	We're joined today by my colleagues on the editorial pages, columnists Kim Strassel and Bill McGern.
1:09.9	Zora Mimdani's history of anti-police rhetoric includes comments several years ago that the New York
1:15.5	Police Department was wicked and corrupt and, quote, a major threat to public safety.
1:21.6	So to address that obvious political concern for voters in the recent mayoral election,
1:26.6	Mbondani pledged that if he took office, he would reappoint the NYPD's current
1:31.2	Law and Order Commissioner Jessica Tisch.
1:34.0	The question then was whether Tish would agree to remain and on what terms.
1:38.7	But on Wednesday, she said she would after several conversations with the mayor elect,
1:43.8	here is part of what she wrote in an email to NYPD officers.
1:48.2	Do the mayor-elect and I agree on everything?
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