The Sordid Saga of President Trump and Mayor Adams

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  From the new York Times.

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  I'm Michael Bavaro.

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  This is the Daily

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  Today,

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  the mayor, the president, and the alleged quid pro quo that has plunged the Justice Department

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  and now New York's political world into chaos.

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  My colleague Nick Vandos walks us through the Saga.

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  It's Thursday, February 20th.

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  Nick, nice to have you in the studio.

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  Thank you for coming.

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  It's always good to be back.

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  So if you live in New York City long enough and you almost qualify for this,

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  you come to know the famous phrase from Cindy Adams, the legendary tabloid columnist.

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  Only in New York, kids.

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  Only in New York.

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  And that seems to apply to the events of the past week or so, when our Democratic mayor,

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  indicted on sweeping federal corruption charges that would seem to spell the end of his career,

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  suddenly wins a reprieve from the Republican President of the United States.

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  But then as the terms of this reprieve become public,

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  it creates this extraordinary blowback that extends far beyond our fair city.

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