EXCERPT:
ADAMS: “We’re going to continue to do our job in this administration, but these are extremely challenging times. And as I left Washington D.C., I did not leave with optimism, I left with the cold reality that help is not on the way in the immediate future. It is going to be — at this moment, it is going to be up to New Yorkers and this administration to continue to navigate this — this challenge that we’re facing.”