Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - Bill O'Reilly on Gov. Kathy Hochul's 'Guardrails' Set on Eric Adams

Episode Date: February 21, 2025

Bill explains what is happening between New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and NYC Mayor Eric Adams. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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So, Governor Hockel put herself in a very difficult position. The far left, and Hockel fears them, wants to fire Mayor Adams. Not because he may have taken $100,000 in Bakshish from various Turkish people. Not for that reason, now he was indicted for that by the Justice Department. Far left didn't have any problem with that, okay? But Adams tried to get himself off the hook, to use a cliche, by cozying up to Donald Trump. Whoa!

Far left finds out of unacceptable, he got to get Adam. And that's why the pressure on Eric Adams is tremendous, because the far left wants him out because of his association with Trump. And of course, Trump ordered his Justice Department not to drop the charges against Adams. Now, Hockel could fire Adams, some people say, but I was talking to one of the smartest lawyers in the state last night, and I go, tell me the truth. If Hockel fires Adams and Adams sues, which he certainly would, who wins? the lawyer said, Adams would win if Hockel could not prove malfeasance in office, and an allegation,

a charge is not proved. Now, if Adams were convicted, yeah. So Hockel, I guess, knows that if she fires Adams, she'll lose in court and be embarrassed. So what she has decided to do And this is her word, put up guardrails. I love this. She's essentially sending a babysitter from Albany, one of her confidants, down to New York City, to spy on Adams, to be in Adams's office and to report back everything that Adams is doing to local, trying to gather material against. Now, Adam's got to know this. I mean, it's not be a secret that this guy is coming down, or I don't even know his name yet. I don't even know if that's been released. But the announcement is, by Hockel herself, I'm sending down somebody to oversee what's going on with Adams on a day-by-day basis. So that was in the governor's mansion, not in a mansion, but in city hall, downtown Manhattan. So you're going to have some guy sitting there at a desk, and his job is to spy on Adams. How would you handle that?

I think I'd give the guy the desk, but I put him in the basement. And my office would be on with the eighth, tenth floor, whatever it is, and he'd be in the basement. I wouldn't have them on my floor, but this is so bizarre. It's so crazy. The other thing is that Adams is a good lawyer, a guy named Alex Spiro. Have you heard this name? So Spiro, he worked with Trump. And I think Spiro is the liaison between Trump and Adams carrying stuff back and forth.

I could be wrong. I can't prove it, but that's what it looks like. And that one more thing that remains is that the judge in this case, Manhattan U.S. District Judge, Dale Ho, H.O., he could reinstate these charges. He could say the Justice Department cannot drop them because it's a political action, not a justice action. But I don't think Ho is going to do that. He's delayed a ruling. I don't think he's going to do it. I think he's going to let it stand. And therefore, Adams would continue as mayor with a spy in his building and primary in coming up in June against Andrew Cuomo.

And I guess Curtis Sliwa is going to run on a Republican side. And Curtis will inject an amazing. amount of, what's the word? Chaos is a war, but I don't think that's accurate. Let's say Curtis will eject a lot of spirit into this election.