Brian Lear on WNYC.

Now he turns to New Jersey with Nancy Solomon,

who hosted last night's monthly edition of Ask

Governor Murphy, the call-in show that airs once a month

here on WNYC and public radio stations in Philadelphia and elsewhere in Jersey.

Nancy joins us the next morning, each month typically, for excerpts and analysis and your

calls.

This month, Nancy and Governor Murphy covered legislation. and a plan to fund N.J. Transit, the Senate race to replace Bob Menendez, assuming that he is not

going to succeed in getting reelected with his scandal, plus related concerns about

autism and the governor, and four years since the outbreak of the COVID

pandemic, Nancy and Governor Murphy also discussed a newly released assessment

of the state's pandemic response.

We'll play some clips, we'll take calls, we'll talk to Nancy, New Jersey listeners,

212 433, WNYC 212 433 433 962 call or text and hi Nancy thanks as always for joining us

after work in the night shift.

Hey Brian thanks for having me.

So the governor commissioned a report

to assess New Jersey's handling of the COVID pandemic

some four years since the state's first recorded case and you discuss that report with him

last night a report like this Murphy says helps the state learn from its mistakes

and do better in the future here's just a nine second clip on that.

When you lose 35, 36,000 people, there's no way in hell that you can say that you didn't make mistakes or you didn't learn from this.

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