Adrienne Adams

Okay, so that's a president talking about a woman elected to public office.

Joining me now is the former New York City Council speaker, Adrienne Adams, now running for lieutenant governor alongside Kathy Hochul.

If elected, she would be New York's first Black female lieutenant governor.

Speaker Adams, thank you so much for being here.

Thank you so much for joining us this morning.

I, I really enjoyed it.

Adrienne Adams, and good luck to you, okay? Come back and see us.

Thank you, Don.

Uh, she barely won in her last election.

Now, her lieutenant governor, I'm a huge fan of, Adrian Adams.

Uh, she is one of the people that I ranked when I did ranked choice voting, uh, when she was on the ballot.

Zohran Mamdani was on that ballot.

Zell Norりたい was on that ballot.

There were a number of people that I was very happy to vote for.

Adrian Adams was someone I was excited about.

And so she has selected Adrian Adams as her lieutenant governor, and so I'm grateful for that.

In the end, I think she'll make the right decision.

Um, compared to Adrienne Adams, who I served with-

Oh, my God

... and she's now running for lieutenant governor-

We had two bad Adams.

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No, Adrienne Adams was much worse than Eric.

Much worse.

All right, Liz Smith, Jake Lahut, thank you both so much for being here and getting us started.

Reverend Sharpton, we're gonna see you this weekend for Politics Nation, where you are talking to Angie Nixon, Justin Pearson, and Adrienne Adams tomorrow.

Do not wanna miss that.

Coming up for us, outrage among local officials [dramatic music] in New York City where ICE agents fired into a car containing a five-year-old child.

Her running mate.

The first all grandma ticket with her and Adrienne Adams.

[laughs] All grandma.

And, uh, you know, that's- that's something.

What does it look like for somebody who's a worker in any number of contexts to find those moments, to feel confident, to feel like they can bring that public Jewishness? 'Cause you seem to have just, like, a natural, I don't know if it's chutzpah or, or gift for doing so in ways that don't feel forced and are powerful.

So, uh, you know, for those that don't know, in the, in the mayor's race, Andrew Cuomo went into a synagogue on the Upper West Side in a city where I hadn't lived for 25 years and, you know, accused Zohran Mamdani, Adrienne Adams, the Black speaker of the city council, I, I don't know what, what she had to do with it, and me, basically, of being antisemitic.

And the first thing that occurred to me was, of course, the curse my grandmother, you know, would say, "Geh kaken af in yam," go shit in the ocean.

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