Episode 38: April 30-June 5, 2021

The 25th Hour

Time to stay on top of the 24/7 news cycle with THE 25TH HOUR!

• COVID rates and deaths are dropping in the City & State, with positive testing averages lower than a percent, and at their lowest points since the start of the pandemic.
• De Blasio announced vaccinations inside schools this week, and professed that he wasn't impressed by any of the mayoral candidates.
• The second NYC mayoral debate came and went with, with perceived frontrunners gunning after each other with renewed aggression.
• Cuomo refuses to release more information on his book contract, but couldn't get away with revealing a nearly $3 million legal contract connected to his nursing home scandal that taxpayers will have to pay for.
• Biden renewed his push to get 70% of the population at least one shot before July 4th, announced a giveaway of 25 million vaccines to countries that need them, and pushed his intelligence agencies to keep getting to the bottom of what caused the pandemic.
• Democrats in Congress are scrambling to figure out their next move after Republicans filibustered a January 6th Commission, while Republicans continue to meet Biden at $1 trillion for his infrastructure proposal, but without new funding.

Thank you so much for listening to THE 25TH HOUR, please don't forget to rate, share, and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts, and don't miss our conversation with Manhattan DA candidate ALVIN BRAGG releasing this Sunday, June 6th, 2021.

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