RUSH EXCERPT:
CUOMO: “Well, John McCain, I have -- may he rest in peace -- a total respect for. If a supporter of mine said that, I would have said exactly what John McCain said. I was on a radio show with a with a radio commentator who made that comment as a joke, or laughing as he said it. But he was not my supporter. He’s a radio commentator. I don’t normally, and I don’t think normally we hold elected officials and politicians to correct a comment from a journalist. I don’t remember the -- I don’t believe the mayor -- excuse me, I don’t believe Mayor Adams ever said that, unless I missed it. But I don’t believe Mayor Adams ever said that Mamdani was an Islamic extremist. I don’t believe he said that.”