Brian Lair on WNYC, and yeah, now our regular Wednesday appearance on the show by our city hall reporter Elizabeth Kim, who we used to call our lead Eric Adams reporter. Now it is campaign

season, she talks mostly about the mayor of race, as well as updating us on the actions of the mayor

in office when they're significant enough. Today we're going to talk about the Trump administration

inserting itself into the race in a new way, and also some of the results of the reader question that I put in our

newsletter last week, inviting you to suggest a question that I might ask at the Democratic

primary mayoral debate that I'll be a questioner in next month on WNYC and New York One.

Hi, Liz.

Happy Wednesday, Brian.

And listeners, I'm going to read some of what came in

from some of you on the newsletter, and we can take some more of these on the air in this segment,

212-433 WNYC. If you have a question in mind, you would like me to ask at the Democratic primary

mayoral debate, call it in right now,

and I will consider all serious suggestions seriously.

Who wants to suggest a question for the mayoral debate?

212-433 WNYC, 212-433-9692 call or text.

Liz, before we get to questions for the debate, tell us about this new news about the Trump

Justice Department and Andrew Cuomo.

Sure.

So this was a story that the New York Times broke late last night.

It's based on two sources, unnamed sources, that there is a federal investigation into whether Andrew Cuomo lied to

Congress when he was questioned about his handling of the pandemic. And specifically, some of the

focus has been on his decisions around nursing homes, whether or not it was correct that he allowed people to return,

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