It's the Brian Laird show on WNYC.

Good morning, everyone.

We'll do two New Jersey focus segments on today's show, as well as one that straddles

New York and national, and some fun at the end with a call in on your favorite weird or lesser-known sport.

But on the politics, we'll have our monthly call your senator's segment.

My questions in yours for Senator Kirsten Gillibrand in about 15 minutes.

And later we'll continue our series with candidates for mayor of New York and governor of New Jersey.

Today it's my questions and yours for Newark Mayor Raz Baraka, now running in the Democratic primary for governor.

Right now, almost as a preview, WNYC's Nancy Solomon joins us with excerpts from her Ask Governor Murphy call in last night and to take some

of your questions and comments. She does that call in once a month with Governor Phil Murphy and

usually comes on with us the next morning. Hey, Nancy. Good morning, Brian. So before we play our first

clip of the governor, one of the big topics last night in general, how national politics is playing out

locally in New Jersey during the new Trump administration, what can the governor do?

Well, I think that's the problem, is that there's not a whole lot he can do. I mean, he,

you know, the big concern, of course, has been tariffs the last several days and the tanking

global markets, the tanking stock market, the tanking bond market, looming recession.

And, you know, he's, he basically said governors can't do a whole lot to stop this.

And he, you know, called for Donald Trump to listen, as he put it, listen to the adults in the room.

I mean, you know, Governor Murphy is a guy who worked most of his career on Wall Street.

He was an ambassador to Germany.

He feels like he should have a lot of

credibility with the Trump administration on these issues. But, you know, I think it's not going to be

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