It's the Brian Lera Show on WNYC. Good morning, everyone. Today on the show, Republican Congressman

Mike Lawler from Westchester and Rockland and other points north. He was one of the four Republicans

yesterday who broke with Speaker Mike Johnson and the rest of his party to force a vote on

extending the current Affordable Care Act subsidies. As a result, that vote will now take place.

Also, Susan Page from USA Today with a clip from her new Nancy Pelosi interview on the place of Mayor-elect Mom Dani in National Democratic Politics and why she compared today, why Pelosi did, to the year 2005 as a ramp to electing a Democratic president.

And what city am I talking about? A disgraced former governor tries to make a

comeback as mayor and gets trounced by a young progressive. Well, if you guess New York City,

sure, I guess, but it also happened just now in Jersey City, and we will have our first visit

from mayor-elect James Solomon.

But we begin today with our friend Errol Lewis, political anchor and host of Inside City Hall on Spectrum News, New York One, and host of their You Decide podcast.

He's also a New York magazine columnist.

We'll talk some Mamdani and Julie Menon politics, but also have some New York history fun with clips from

Errol's new two-part podcast about the legendary Congresswoman Bella Abzug, very rare in her day,

for example, for being a woman who went to law school. I certainly knew no women who were lawyers.

There were only about 3% then of women who were lawyers.

I didn't even know any men who were lawyers,

but I came from a home of immigrants where there is a strong sense of social justice

and somehow or other that I absorbed that.

More from the Bella Absurd Archive coming up.

Hey, Aral, always great to have you.

Welcome back to WNYC.

Great to be with you, Brian. And we'll get to the Bella Abzug Archive in your podcast about her.

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