A Major Shakeup In The New York City Mayoral Race

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Monday, September 29th, 2025. I'm Gernal Scott. An exit from the New York City mayor's race, a looming government shutdown and the indictment of James Comey. There's no shortage of things to talk about this new week that could have implications on our politics and on the federal government. The most important thing about this James Comey indictment right now is we don't know. There's a lot of stuff we don't know about it. I'm Chris Foster. Employees that don't get tired, complain, quit, or ever ask for a raise. Robots. More of them are on the job all the time. This is basically designed to help employees and empower them, not to replace them. And I'm Paul Morrow. I've got the final word on the Fox News Rundown. There is much to discuss on the political front. Will the closed-for-business sign be going up on the doors of the federal government? What lawmakers and the president discuss could go a long way toward deciding that outcome. House Majority Leader Steve Scalise talked about that on ABCs this week. I'm glad that President Trump is showing leadership in meeting with all leaders, Republican and Democrat Monday in the White House, but ultimately those Democrats have to make a decision. Do they want to shut down the government to appease their radical base? Then there's the political race this year that everyone seems to be watching and asking, who will be the next mayor of New York City? Right now, we know who it won't be because incumbent Mayor Eric Adams took to social media Sunday to say, despite all we've achieved, I cannot continue. my re-election campaign. But we start with the indictment of former FBI director James Comey on charges of obstruction and lying to Congress. Is it a legitimate prosecution or, as some critics have said, an act of presidential retribution? The debate rages on. It's hard to know exactly what James Comey has been charged with. He's been charged with lying under oath to Congress. Byron York is a Fox News contributor and the chief political correspondent at the Washington Examiner. But it's hard to know exactly what he's charged with saying that was untrue because the indictment was very brief, and it says, Honor, about this time, and this place, James Comey did this. But it doesn't explain. what it is. You know, the phrase, the term called speaking indictments, when prosecutors write this whole long story in the indictment, so you can get their version of events and what the suspect actually did. Well, this ain't that. It's just a really quick two-page indictment, so we don't know. And prosecutors will soon have to make public a bill of particulars and saying what... you know, what James Comey said and why it was a lie, but so far we don't really have that right now. Certainly, I think if you asked any Republican in Congress who dealt with James Comey during the first Trump years, they would say that James Comey was dishonest with them, that he told them things that were not true.

And does that mean that he lied in these particular instances as alleged by this indictment? I don't know. But certainly there were a lot of Republicans who felt that the FBI director was not telling the truth at the time. It's rare that you see someone be defiant in the face of this. And we saw that video from James Comey saying he's innocent, so let's go to trial. Is that something you've seen before in someone sort of out there saying, okay, bring it on? Actually, yeah. I think we see a lot, and certainly in public corruption cases, you'll see the office holder come out and say, you know, these charges are completely unfounded. I am innocent. I love America. I love my family. I love apple pie. And I'm going to fight these charges. You know, that's not that unusual. And I certainly wouldn't expect James Comey to come out and say, well, you know, I really did it. I didn't know the truth. So, you know, we'll see there's, you know, there have been legal experts on the basis of this very brief indictment who say, no, this is terrible. It should be withdrawn. It's a disaster. It'll backfire on the Trump administration. I don't know, but as I said before, the most important thing about this James Comey indictment right now is we don't know. There's a lot of stuff we don't know about it. Another very hot topic is political violence in the wake of the assassination of Charlie Kirk. And you have talked in the examiner about the left's reaction to it. What are you seeing in that that you are trying to impart to people in that article? Well, we saw, you know, immediately afterwards, sort of looking at the internet. We saw, you know, various voices who spoke out in support of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, just appalling. And then you saw a lot of... Democrats, mainstream Democrats, or even progressive Democrats, say, look, of course, no one should be shot for their political beliefs. And we don't advocate that at all. So you've kind of seen this political fight over it. But there's no doubt that we've seen polls over the last few years well before the murder of Charlie Kirk, showing that especially young people. seemed to be more open and more accepting of the idea of violence as a way to settle political differences. So that's not good. Another thing I wrote about was the Kirk assassination kind of raised things to a terrible new level. But we have been having a lot of violence over political issues, and a lot of it has been over the enforcement of federal immigration law. And so we just had this case a few days ago. in Dallas, where this guy, Joshua John, fired indiscriminately into an ICE facility in Dallas, trying to terrorize and kill ICE officials and ending up, killing one and wounding two other detainees who were in a van that John just shot indiscriminately into.

It's a terrible event, and he did this for a clear political purpose to sort of stand up to ice. Now, that comes after, also in Texas, in a place called Alvarado, Texas on the 4th of July, an Antifa attack on an ICE detention facility. There were 10 Antifa extremists who were arrested for this. They're dressed all in black. They have two AR-15s. They have a pistol. They're wearing bulletproof vests. They tried to lure the officers out, start shooting, fire between 20 and 30 rounds. One local police officer is hit. He survived. Fortunately, nobody else was hit. But they came with guns. They came with body armor. They came with helmets, handheld radios. They came to kill. You mentioned Antifa, and I know there is criticism of the president's executive order making Antifa a domestic terror group, when a lot of people are saying Antifa isn't a group. And there is that debate there as, but what you just described is that evidence that there is some organization there? Absolutely. I mean, listen, if Antifa is an idea. In Alvarado, Texas, they were an idea that came with AR-15s, body armor, helmets, and radios. I mean, they got together, they got equipment, they made a plan, and they attacked the ICE facility. So, whatever you want to call it, they were organized, and they had an intent to kill. I believe you would call them, the most reasonable thing to call them, is an Antifa cell. Is there a national association of Antifa where you have to pass a membership test and they give you a card? No, but clearly this was an organized thing. Hot in the news right now is a looming government shutdown. We're looking at a 12-01 Wednesday deadline, and now we know that there will be a talk between Democrats and the president in perhaps trying to avert this. With the Democrats seeking to prevent cuts to health care, the Republicans are saying, we've got a bill ready to go that will extend. funding for government. Are you expecting the government to shut down? Do you think with your finger on the pulse in Washington that we will see that? I don't think it will. And one of the reasons I don't think it will, and we've seen this so many times, one can be forgiven for saying, I'm bored with government shutdowns. Haven't I seen this a million times before? The one thing that's somewhat interesting here, and we saw this fight over health care funding in earlier funding battles this year during the second Trump administration. One thing that's unusual here is the administration has really gotten out the idea.

that they are studying, if the government shuts down, and as you know, a shutdown is not a complete shutdown. All these sort of essential parts of government continue going on. Social security checks still go out. Essential offices are still manned and that sort of thing. But it does shut down significant parts. But if that happens, I think the administration's gotten out the idea that they're going to be studying ways to fire. employees who are no longer working for the government because of the shutdown. And I think this is really lit a fire under Democrats who don't believe this is legal. But of course, Trump has done a number of controversial things that ended up in court, and he's won on some of these. So I don't think Democrats want to test this one. So my feeling is that we'll have the usual drama in the next few days. And then at the last second, there will be a settlement of some sort. Something else that many will say that the president is his hand in is the New York City mayor's race. And we learned on Sunday that the incumbent mayor, Eric Adams. has removed himself from the race. Now, whether there is a job with the Trump administration coming, we don't know. No one is saying anything at this point. But what that does is turn that four-person race into a three-person race. How does that change the race? Or does it change the race? Because it appears that the assemblyman, Zohran Mamdani, has a really big lead and may not be able to be caught. Yeah. I don't think it fundamentally changes the race. Now, Adams said that this recent decision by the city's board of campaign finance, that he could not receive matching funds, kind of pushed him over the line, and he had to withdraw because of that. I think the bigger reason is that he is running a distant fourth in a four-man race. In a Fox News poll had him at 7% behind Zohran Mamdani, Andrew Cuomo, and Curtis Lee win that race. Correct. And I was about to cite that poll. Yes, he's at 7%. Zohran Mamdani's is at 47%. And Andrew Cuomo is at 29. So take Adams's 7% and give every single one of those votes to Andrew Cuomo. Now, that's not going to happen in the real world. Some of them will go elsewhere. But give all 7% to Andrew Cuomo. That gets him to 36%. 11 points behind Zohran Mamdani. So, you know, I don't think Adams departure... has a huge effect on this. It appears that New York is determined to elect Zohran Mamdani. He is the Democratic nominee, and that's who wins races in New York City. So it appears that even though the city has enormous concerns about crime, and we've seen recent reports. about how Zohran Mamdani really does want to defund the police, at least partially so. He's still going to get elected.

The news cycle is turning quickly. We're trying to keep up with it, but we will do our best and see what we can bring you as far as the facts and figures about all this. Byron York is a Fox News contributor and the chief political correspondent for the Washington Examiner. Thank you for taking a look at the news with us, and thanks for being on the rundown. Thank you. Isn't home where we all want to be? Reba here for Realtor.com, the pro's number one most trusted app. If you're hearing me, I'm going to assume you're awake. And if you aren't... Because while you're snoozing, someone else might be finding your dream home. That's where Realtor.com comes in. With over 500,000 new real listings straight from the pros every month, that's a lot of chances to find the place you've been dreaming of. Whether you're searching for a two-story mid-century with a pool or a little extra space with a spa-inspired bathroom, Realtor.com can help you find it today. So quit hitting that snooze button. Realtor.com isn't sleeping on finding your dream home. Neither should you. Download the Realtor.com app today because you're nearly home. Make it real with Realtor.com. Pro's number one most trusted app based on August 2024 proprietary survey. Over 500,000 new listings every month based on average new for sale and rental listings, February 24 through January 2025. I'm Benjamin Netanyahu Hall, Fox News Senior Correspondent and New York Times bestselling author. Join me every Monday on my podcast as I speak with silent but noteworthy heroes. Make sure you subscribe to my podcast searching for heroes with Benjamin Netanyahu Hall wherever you download podcasts and leave a rating and a review. This is Paul Morrow with your Fox News commentary coming up. The world's first robot workers believed to be General Motors Unimate, installed in 1961 at a plant in New Jersey to move hot metal car parts to a cooling liquid before being sent down the line to human workers. This summer, Amazon announced its one millionth robot employee, moving, sorting, and packaging inventory at facilities around the world. Humanoid robot trials at a BMW plant in South Carolina had one working a 20-hour shift handling sheet metal panels, no brakes needed. There's a robot drilling holes at an energy lab construction site in Colorado. being used more at health care facilities. All of these... jobs with a shortage of human workers. Robots are really good at, you know, the mundane, the dull tasks that people don't want to do anymore. Elad Inbar is founder and CEO of Robot Lab, based in South Lake, Texas, providing and servicing robots for commercial, school and government use. This is behind everything that we are doing. When we talk about, you know, mundane tasks, we're talking about, you know, pushing a vacuum cleaner for eight hours a day in, you know, hotel or assisted living facilities. When we, you know, talk about, you know, delivery.

We are talking about delivery of food in restaurants or running the dirty dishes back to the dishwashing station. The same with moving boxes in warehouses. We have robots that can help automate their cooking. They can cook meals from one person all the way to... you know, 20 plus people and make sure that, you know, it's always, you know, as the chef intended it to be. These are mainly what robots can do. There is a lot of hype around humanoid robots where, you know, they're supposed to be able to do everything. But reality is they're absolutely not there. They are far, far away from being able to be really useful. Well, I suppose we should tell people what robot labs does. I mean, you started this a long time ago, I guess, sort of seeing. where you thought the trend might go. Just tell people what your company does, and then we can go from there. So we thought of the company back in 2007. So we are running it for about 18 years now. And what we do is we provide robots to business owners and help them automate us that people don't want to do anymore. This is behind everything that we are doing. You know, when we started, we didn't have all the, you know, amazing robots that we have today. commercial vacuum cleaners, delivery, cooking and security and many other robots. They're much smaller, mostly focused on... like education, right? Tabletop, small robotic arms, small drones, you know, small little humanoid robots and these kind of things. So what we did at the beginning, we focused on bringing them into classrooms, creating curriculum, lesson plans, and activities that engage students with math, science, programming, coding, robotics, obviously. And over the years, as more and more capable robots came to be, we added them to our catalog and then. started serving, you know, larger categories, larger markets. Yeah, and as this is the use of robotics expands, obviously it's impractical for you in the Dallas area to be sending and servicing robots all over the country. So you have franchisees do this too, right? You have territories where they work not under you or for you, but you know what I mean? They're a franchise. And so if you're a franchisee in Orlando... It's almost like a sales and customer service job. You don't need a PhD in robotics. You don't need to be an engineer. You, for example, are taking the robots to schools or hotels or et cetera, et cetera, and trying to sell them and then you service them. Correct. One of the main challenges that, you know, we've faced in the past few years is that demand is coming from everywhere. You know, on the same day, we'll get requests, you know, for a demo in, I don't know, Reno, Nevada, in Tampa, Florida, in, you know, upstate New York or whatnot. And, you know, it's impossible to be everywhere, you know, all at the same time, right? It takes time to ship robots to send people and so on.

So we looked at different growth strategies and time and time again, the franchise model came to be the right one because we have basically business owners that own their territory, they own their business, they own their metro area, and they provide the sales, the services, everything that we do for our customers, they basically able to do in their local markets. So we train all our franchises on everything that we are doing and then they open their locations and they become robot lab for that metro area. I'm sure you've had these conversations many times, the ethics of it and the economics of it. And people worry about artificial intelligence taking their jobs and robots taking their jobs. You frame this as labor supplementation, say, not replacement. Like there aren't enough health care workers. Let's program robots and design robots to help with health care. Yes, absolutely. So this is something very, very important. Robots are not taking jobs. They are helping the few that do show up to work, doing their work. The realities, I spoke with... hundreds and thousands of business owners. And every time I ask them, what's your labor situation? I'm getting rolling eyes. Don't get me started kind of, you know, response. It's hard to find people, especially for entry level positions. It's hard to find people. It's even harder to retain them. Because, you know, even if they start, you know, their position and everything, and, you know, after a couple of days, they'll just like, you know, take off the uniform, just say, thank you. That's not for me. I'm not interested in that. This is the challenge that we are solving for business owners. This is the value that you bring. What's the robot labor cost versus human labor cost? I assume you're up front is greater, obviously, and then down the road that amortizes itself and the robot pays for itself compared to what you've had to pay a human. Yeah, not necessarily. We offer our customers even leasing and rental models so they don't have to lay out of, lay out large amounts at the beginning. Let's look at the two examples. Delivery robot, for example, the entry level delivery robot that can move food from the kitchen to the tables, take dirty dishes back to the dishwashing station, can run 10 to 12 hours on a single charge and cost around $15 per day, one-five per day. You know, restaurant owners cannot even hire someone for $15 an hour, let alone a day. So, you know, ROI is immediate over there. If you look at the cleaning robots, you know, medium-sized robot that can clean around 120,000 square feet per day cost around $27 per day. Now, my typical genital or, you know, a clean person will be able to clean, give or take around, you know, 50,000 to 60,000 square feet per day. That's the reality of things. This robot can do 120 and cost 37 bucks. We can't hire someone to clean 120,000 square feet for 37 bucks. It's just impossible. So the math...

you know, makes sense, the ROI is almost immediate. And again, even though we do that, robots still need assistance. You know, someone will have to make sure that there are no power cords, you know, in the path or whatnot. So all of this is basically designed to help employees and empower them, not to replace them. employers want to pay as little as they can most of them for labor costs and eventually if this technology gets better and better and better and it gets scaled up and up and up and that robot is able to load the dishes in the dishwasher for example or crack an egg then i think that's where some ethicists may have you know are concerned about more down the road At the end of the day, your robots will be able to do more and more, right? We see that, we see the trajectory and we do anticipate that at some point there will be more valuable. But if you think about it, again, wherever technology steps in and in a way replace or intervene where human labor was. you know, then, you know, it's because it actually makes sense. Think about this way. It's been a hundred years back, right? In the streets of every city, you had pooper scoopers going behind horses and just, you know, scooping all the mess that the horses leave behind. And then the cars came, and this job was eliminated. Now, did the car kill a job? In a way, yes, but these people now can pursue higher paying jobs, right? They can go and be even, you know, mechanics, a position that didn't exist before. Is it good or bad? Well, it changed, it transformed. It's not like people, you know, went on social welfare and that's about it, right? There are transitions in the industry. There are transitions in... you know, the job market, and that's a consistent thing that happened. It's a good thing because we want to elevate our workspace and everything and basically getting to higher paying jobs. That's, you know, the main thing. So things that can be automated should be automated. We talked about a lot of commercial applications and stuff like that. When do you think what's the first robot that's going to be accessible, middle class accessible, that we'll just start living with in our homes? I believe what you're referring to is more of the humanoid robots. When can I get a robot to form my laundry? That's the immediate question. I believe we'll see that before the end of this decade. And when I said, the end of this decade, I'm aware it's like four and a quarter years away. So yeah, it's coming. It's coming really, really fast. This is a robot's humanoid robots at the end of the day. will be able to integrate with our daily lives and, you know, help us with our daily chores. So where do you get the robots and how are they customized job by job?

So we get robots from all over the world. We have manufacturers from Korea, Japan, China, Singapore, France, even in the US. So manufacturers are all over the world. So we test all of the robots. And once they are fully tested and vetted, and they can deliver the value that they're supposed to deliver, only then we onboard them on our catalog, then create the training materials, create everything that our entire network needs in order to be successful. The programming of this must be really challenging and really fun. Actually, very, very easy. There is no need for any PhD in robotics or programming background or anything like that. All these robots are done. The programming of this robot is done mostly on the robot. you know, making sure that, you know, the map is created correctly, so the robot knows how to get from point A to point B. When we talk about customer service robots that need to basically interact with people, the content is, you know, generated on an application that is very similar to PowerPoint. So, you know, people that are familiar with PowerPoint will be able to, you know, navigate all of that, you know, embed questions, answers, you know, images, videos, and all of that in a pretty seamless way. Elad Inbar, as far as I know, an actual living, breathing, flesh and blood, human being, although you've been saying a lot of things that robots would say if they wanted to pose as a human being. But I'll take you at your word that you're one of us. Elad Imbar is the founder and CEO of Robot Lab based in South Lake, Texas, the DFW area. Thanks, Elon Musk.

Here's a look at the week ahead. Monday, the suspect accused in the murder of Charlie Kirk is back in court. Tyler Robinson has a hearing in Utah County to decide whether to challenge the evidence against him at a preliminary hearing or be arraigned. Also Monday, President Trump welcomes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House. The meeting comes as both world leaders address the United Nations General Assembly in New York and amid increasing international pressure to recognize a Palestinian state. Tuesday, batter up. The MLB postseason begins. Twelve teams will face off in an elimination tournament to determine the 2025 World Series champions. Thursday, Fox's all-in-one streaming platform adds more options with an ESPN bundle now available to be added to Fox One's subscriptions. Friday, another Taylor Swift era begins. The singer dropping her 12th studio album, The Life of a Showgirl. It's being accompanied by a three-day movie theater event being dubbed as the official release party. And that's a look at your week ahead. I'm Tom Graham, Fox News.

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crimes of hate if they are inspired by animus against certain groups on the basis of race, religion, etc. Whether you agree with hate crime statutes or not, they have survived legal scrutiny. So why not apply the same model to terrorism? Here's how it would go. First, there would be a list of various serious crimes that qualify. These would either be violent felony-level acts or the support or funding of such acts. Then, when charging that crime, the prosecutor would have to allege and then prove the perpetrator's intention to influence government policy or coerce the civilian population. which is in fact the federal definition of what constitutes terrorism. And that is it. In light of Robinson and Mangillon, let's use murder as an example. If the prosecutor can demonstrate that a murder has been committed with this requisite terroristic intent, the crime would then be charged as murder as a crime of terrorism. If the judge decides there is not enough evidence for the terrorism charge, he can knock it out right at the beginning of the trial process. If the charge survives the judge, the prosecutor has to then prove the whole shebang to a jury, not just a murder charge, but also the terroristic intent behind the killing. So why bother? If we can backdoor our way to at least some federal charges in many instances of political violence anyway, do we really need a new regime that invokes the T word? We do. As a society, we recognize that ideological murder is a crime against more than simply the individual victim. It also impacts society writ large, and it cuts to the heart. of our shared social contract. As such, these crimes should qualify for enhanced sentencing parameters, while at the same time taking politics out of the mix by letting a judge and jury control the process. Is there still potential for politicization here? Sure. But there always is in the criminal justice system. To pretend otherwise is foolhardy. But what is also foolhardy is witnessing events like the murders of Charlie Kirk and Brian Thompson and pretending they were not committed for political purposes. It is time to charge it so. Paul Morrow, Fox News contributor.

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