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November 13, 2025 15 mins
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is assembling his team, which is expected to include many members from former Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration. Mamdani is also in talks to retain NYPD Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Mister New York marks them upon seven to ten WR.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Well, we'll get to Mom, Donnie and more coming up
this hour. Leticia James, who's facing serious criminal charges James Comy,
facing serious criminal charges, are now in court trying to
get the US attorney disqualified. Lawyers for Comy and Leticia

(00:30):
James are arguing today the criminal cases against them should
be tossed because President Trump's hand picked prosecutor is illegitimate. Illegitimate,
they say, Now, of course, this makes absolutely no sense.
They're claiming they've been targeted by Trump because of their
past investigations into Trump. Well they're claiming, So that's not

(00:53):
going to work. If they're claiming they've been targeted because
they targeted him, that doesn't hold up, doesn't pass the
Laft test. They both pled not guilty, and they'll try
to it said, this is a pretty good indication that
they don't have a strong defense. If they're trying to
get the prosecutor removed, trying to claim they are political

(01:15):
targets rather than argue the case, it means it's a
pretty good case against them. So Zorin Mamdani is back
from Puerto Rico, where he was at that democratic. I
don't know what you call that thing. It's a conference
after every election all the Democrats in New York State,
they head to Puerto Rico for conference. But as Curtis

(01:40):
would call it, whining, dining, pocket lining. All the lobbyists
happened to be there at the same time, all the
special interest groups happen to be there at the same time.
So you do the math. But Mamdanni is back. He's
got a chief of staff who's a crazy socialist. He's
got a first deputy mayor. That's the most important thing.
First deputy mayor is the guy that actually runs or

(02:02):
gal or guy or runs city hall. Adams had a
woman first deputy mayor, but the current one is Dean
full full Land. He was Deblasio's first deputy mayor for
years and years and years. Now there's four other people
that have already been chosen that are from the Deblasio administration.

(02:24):
So it looks like you're going to get pretty much
what you got during the Deblasio administration, which was not good.
But we got through it all right. I mean, you know,
you remember those eight years. It was eight years of Deblasio.
Crime went up a little and went up in certain neighborhoods,
and there were problems here and there, but we got
through it just fine. And now the only problem is

(02:47):
you got a crazy city council. The election was not
good city council wise. You got more wacko left wing
kooks than the city council, just as you have in
the state legislature. And the problem is this Mam donnie
first Deputy Mayor Dean Fullane. One of the reasons he
might have been chosen. He's a big guy with the legislature.
He's the most connected, plugged in guy with that legislature

(03:10):
up there in Albany. So if they want to get
some tax increases or something past, this guy's got a
good shot at getting it done. So that's the only
big problem with this guy. Now, the free buses all
that stuff, of course, that was just silly and people
fell for it, Mam Donnie promising free buses. The mayor

(03:32):
has absolutely no control over the buses. They're run by
the state, by the MTA. Mayor has nothing to say
about it. Hockel said, you can't just take away this revenue.
We need it. She's not going to do it. Now.
You got to always be mad at Kathy Hockle, who's
always screwing in you up. If she was going to
tell people that you can't have the free buses, it's
not going to happen. Why didn't she tell us during

(03:54):
the campaign. Why did she wait till after the election? Well,
because it's you know, that's what a hack Democrat does.
Mom Downey was asked about this, But you're not going
to get the free buses.

Speaker 1 (04:04):
I think the governor and I share a belief that
in making buses free, we have to replace the revenue
for the MTA. We cannot simply demand that they do
so without covering the amount of money they would raise
from fairs. And that's the cost of about seven hundred
million dollars a year.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
So yeah, if you're not going to get rid of
the fair, you're going to have to replace it. With
it all comes down, you're going to have to pay
seven hundred million one way or another. Will he meet
with Trump?

Speaker 1 (04:28):
Do you plan to call President Trump? I will be
reaching out to the White House and as we prepare
to actually take office, because this is a relationship that
will be critical to the success. So it wasn't just
a hypothetical scenario on our debate stage, they're actually going
to call him, what will you say? Well, I'll say
that I'm here to work for the benefit of everyone
that calls the city home, and that wherever there is

(04:48):
a possibility for working together towards that end, I'm ready,
and if it's to the expense of those New Yorkers,
I will find it.

Speaker 2 (04:54):
Yeah, So, now what does that mean? He won't call Trump.
He'll call the White House. He'll get some kind of meeting.
Most likely he'll be Chief of Staff Susie Wilds. She'll
meet with him. Then they'll see how that goes. If
it goes really well, maybe maybe there'll be a phone
call between the Trump and Mom Donnie. I doubt there'll
be a meeting because I don't think either of I

(05:14):
don't think either one of them wants a picture with
the other guy. It's not going to help Mom Donnie
to have a picture of Trump, certainly not going to
help Trump have a picture of Mom Donnie. But you
never know. As he's meeting with Susie Wiles, you never
know what Trump will do. He might just pop into
the room. Ah, there he is, my little communist. He
might try to come in and win him over. But

(05:36):
I think they'll let somebody meet with him first and
see how it goes. Now, will he keep jessicat tiss?
She was asked about this again.

Speaker 1 (05:42):
No, I continue to be confident in the decision I've
made to retain her, and I look forward to the
conversation that we have. And the reason for my confidence
is that I see, amidst whatever disagreement there may be,
there is a common shared goal of delivering on public safety.
And even earlier when you were asking me about the
potential of the National Guard, you know, the Police Commissioner
said very clearly, we do not need the National Guard

(06:03):
in New York City. The NYPD is here to create
that public safety and working together to deliver on her
record of reducing crime and accompanying that record with the
creation of a Department of Community Safety, these are the
things that excite me. In now.

Speaker 2 (06:18):
It was pretty clear he didn't say, well, I might
keep her.

Speaker 1 (06:20):
He said, you know, I continue to be confident in
the decision I've made to retain her.

Speaker 2 (06:25):
Now that's pretty specific. I've made the decision to retain her,
so that means she's staying. However, you got to put
a big asterisk on this, she's the police commissioner. If
he interferes with her, she'll leave. And also there's a
deputy mayor that's called the Deputy Mayor of Public Safety.
That deputy mayor oversees the police commissioner. So if he

(06:46):
puts the wrong person in there, who Jessica Tish does
not want to work for or take orders from, then
she'll leave. So he says he's made the decision to
retain her, but there's things he could do that would
make he knows would make her leave, make her quit.
And she's one police commissioner that does not need the job,

(07:06):
does not need the job. She could leave at any time.
So as far as the police.

Speaker 1 (07:11):
When we're talking about a response time that's closer to
sixteen minutes than when just five years ago it was
closer to ten. That is also something that is related
to us asking police officers to respond to nearly every
crisis we can think of. And it's time that we
understand the retention crisis is being related to a crisis
where we're asking police officers to respond to homelessness, to
mental health calls. It's time to actually allow them to

(07:31):
be police officers.

Speaker 2 (07:33):
Now, we talked very fast, and he talks about a
retention crisis in relation to the retention crisis and the
relation of and you don't always know what he's saying.
But I don't know what Ellie just said. He's still
on this idea of And first of all, did he
say response time is sixteen minutes? That's a long time.

Speaker 1 (07:54):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (07:55):
I was watching Blue Bloods last night. A guy a
woman called, there's a man with a gun, but we'll
be there in about sixteen minutes. It was more like
sixteen seconds on TV. But he's still on this idea
that you don't waste police responding to domestic violence calls now,
as cops will tell you, those can be the most

(08:16):
dangerous of all those domestic violence calls. That's where you
get there's real physical danger. You got a raging maniac
husband with a gun and knife. You can't have social
workers going there. And the important thing to remember, the
NYPD has tried this about four different times over the
last thirty years. They've tried it. It doesn't work. Social

(08:38):
workers end up getting injured killed. First of all, the
social workers won't do it. They will not go on
these calls because they've seen what's happened in the past,
and they've all said they won't do it unless the
police come with them. So if the police are there,
you don't need the social worker. But it's not going
to work his mom Downie on Hoko.

Speaker 1 (08:56):
You know, I look forward to the relationship that we're
building to serve common set of constituents. New York is
being plans to change her mind on buses. I'm excited,
just as I was in October twenty third about making
buses fast and free.

Speaker 2 (09:06):
Fast and free. Right, How are you gonna make the
buses fast? How do you do that? They're stuck in traffic.
They can't go any faster than the cars in front
of them. I don't know what he's talking about. You
know who hit out during the whole election, Kirsten Gillibrand
do you remember her? Jilibrand anybody who remember her. She's
the other senator in New York. You never see her.

(09:27):
You know. Schumer is scheming and scamming to get on
every TV show he can. She's in hiding. She's in
witness protection. Nobody ever sees her. During the whole election.
She was in hiding, did not want to talk about it.
But she was asked about Mom Donnie.

Speaker 3 (09:39):
I mean to make sure that I protect this city,
protect the mayor and the governor from whatever assault President
Trump tries to put on the people of New York City,
and we will stand united to fight against whatever President
Trump throws at us.

Speaker 2 (09:51):
I'm going to protect I'm going to protect you. I
thought she was talking about against Mom Donnie. It's against Trump.
So she's kind of useless. You know, Schumer on the
way out, he'll be gone pretty soon, if not from
if not stepping down from the Senate, he'll he'll definitely
not be the minority leader anymore. He's been doing that
fake Sunday press conference for years and years and years

(10:14):
and years. It's an old trick from the seventies, eighties, nineties.
It doesn't work anymore, but he hasn't figured that out.
In the good old days, on Sunday, nothing happened. There
was no news, nothing happened, and Sunday night they still
had to do a six o'clock news and eleven o'clock news,
and the newspaper still had to put stories and so
nothing was happening. So Schumer would do this press conference

(10:36):
and announce something, and it would get in the paper
and it would get on the newscasts because nothing else
happened on Sunday, they were forced to use it. If
he did the press conference any other day of the week,
it wouldn't even pay attention, it wouldn't even show up.
But it worked for years. But it doesn't mean anything anymore.
There's media twenty four to seven, seven days a week.
Media is going NonStop, even if it's Twitter, even if

(10:58):
it's online, even if it's social media. So the Sunday
press conference means nothing. Oh yeah, you'll still get on
the six o'clock and eleven o'clock news, but nobody watches
that anymore. Local TV viewership is down like ninety percent
over the years, so it's kind of pointless to keep
doing that Sunday press conference. Hey, Bruce Blakeman definitely is

(11:20):
considering running for governor. He's the best county executive in America.
He'd be a great governor. Who we had to pick
one person to be the governor of New York, He's
the perfect pick. I like Alis Stefanic, but Blakeman would
be better. He's a governor now, he's the governor of
Nassau County. He does a great job. She's a legislator.
But he's going to do a tour of upstate New York.

(11:43):
He's going to actually first he's going to do I
think Albany, Westchester, Yeah, Hudson Valley. He'll go up there,
tour the place, speak to voters, do some events. Then
he'll go up to the North Country, which is where
at least is from. And then he might be saying, well,
that's a little pushy. No, No, it's a smart thing

(12:05):
to do. It's a very smart thing to do. He
just want a big reelection victory, very convincing, a re
election victory twelve points, won by twelve points. But if
you're not sure should he run for governor? Could he win?
A smart executive. If you're not sure, you go test it.
You go test the waters. You go upstate and talk
to voters and meet with them, and see how you

(12:26):
get along with them, see how they get along with you,
see what the reaction is to you that if you're
going to make a decision, And that's what a good
manager does, go go test the waters, go there, feel
it out. So that's what he's going to do. And
he's said he'll make a decision in the coming months.
I think he had to decide by February. The Republican
State Convention is in February, said, I'm looking forward to

(12:49):
meeting people up there, hearing from them, seeing what we
can do. Smart thing to do. Now, Blakeman something would
be the underdog because Stephanic is better known for the
Republican primary and a state. Also, she's got a lot
of support from GOP officials, the donors like her. Republican
Party Chairman Ed Cox likes her. But now, I mean,

(13:14):
she'd be great. We love Alistafanic. Blateman would actually be
a better governor. But we'll see what happens. Jack Schlossberg
he's the latest really disastrous Democratic candidate. He's the grandson
of JFK. He's the son of Caroline Kennedy. He's a
real whacko. You're going to start seeing the videos all
over the place that he's put on YouTube. They are

(13:36):
I think I have one on my Twitter, Yeah, go
check that out, or his TikTok, his Instagram. Just a
complete creepy, weirdo wacko. And a lot of people point
out he's had some weird fixation on JD Fans's wife Usha,
making creepy comments about her. And there was one time
where even he did a poll on his Twitter Who's hotter,

(14:00):
Whosha vants or Jackie Oh, which was kind of strange
to people. Is Jackie Oh? Jacqueline on Nassis is his grandmother?
Who does a poll on how hot his grandmother? Is
very very weird then, I mean, he's just had a
series of wacko, ludicrous tweets and posts. There was one

(14:21):
where he claimed Alan Dershowitz murdered his wife yeah in February,
or ranting ridiculous and accusing Alan Dershwitz of killing his
own wife. Dershowitz threatened a defamation lawsuit against him. There
was another series where Schlosberg shared naked pictures of himself
as a kid. I mean, he's just a complete nutjob,

(14:41):
wacko sleeves Paul. There's another one where he talked about
his recipe for jew blood. His words, jew blood. The
recipe includes two ounces of jew blood Ashkenazi, not Sephardic,
four cups of male well, I don't want to say
the word baked at three hundred degrees until totally dry

(15:02):
like your wife. This is Jack Schlosberg now, he's running
these ads online as he wants to run for Jerry
Nadler's seat. And in the ads he's dressed nicely and
he speaks very properly, and he says, I want to
do what I can to hold him. You can be
very formal now, but the Internet is forever and all
these videos are going to emerge. You're going to see

(15:23):
them all. He is a complete and total nutshob wacko. Hey,
Jimmy Faylor will be within a few minutes. We'll take
some calls. Next. Eight hundred three two one zero seven
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