Hi, Brian Lair here. Up next, Brian Lair Weekend, three of our favorite segments from the week,

Package Together, for you to listen to on the weekend. So enjoy, and I'll see you back on the

radio Monday at 10 a.m. on WNYC and WNYC.Lair on WNYC. So we've just talked about the latest Trump

election fraud case, now a 2024 politics addendum that runs right through New York.

Kadea Gobe covers Congress at the news organization Semaphore and she's been writing lately about the

hot races expected in and around New York City next year that could determine which party controls

Congress. She's got an article about how New York may test the limits of the power of abortion

to determine congressional race outcomes, how immigration might replace crime as a central

flashpoint, especially for Republicans. Crime is seen as a defining issue that greatly benefited

Republicans in the New York swing districts last year, remember. And she reports that Brooklyn

and Manhattan Congressman Gerald Nadler, former chairman of the House Judiciary Committee,

might have a new challenger, former Trump attorney Michael Collins. Kadea, thanks for coming on.

Welcome back to WNYC. Thank you for having me, Brian.

Michael Cohen, who went to prison in the Stormy Daniels hush money cover-up,

but it has since turned on Donald Trump, that Michael Cohen?

That Michael Cohen, the same Michael Cohen who, as you said, served a little over a year in jail

because he was found guilty of what campaign finance and the collusion with Donald Trump and

Stormy Daniels. So, yes, that Michael Cohen possibly is running against Jerry Nadler.

Would he be running as a Democrat or a Republican or as Barack Obama once asked about Trump as a joke?

That's the most interesting part of this. He is running as a Democrat, but I will note that he ran

for City Council in 2003 as a Republican. So, it's sort of an interesting switch,

and I mean, you can't help but consider or look at the fact that this could be something related

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