It's the Brian Larishell on WNYC. Good morning, everyone. We begin today with our weekly

Wednesday segment on the New York City mayoral race. Tomorrow will do our new weekly Jersey Thursday segment on the New York City mayoral race. Tomorrow we'll do our new weekly Jersey Thursday

segment on the New Jersey Governor's race with Nancy Solomon, who's hosting Ask Governor Murphy

here at 7 o'clock tonight. For our Wednesday mayoral race conversations, WNYC and Gothamist

political reporter Elizabeth Kim is our regular guest, as many of you know, sometimes

with another journalist on board as well, and today is one of those days with Spectrum News,

New York One political anchor and New York Magazine columnist Errol Lewis. On Monday, Errol held a

conversation with Zeran Mamdani about public safety at the Columbia University Journalism School.

We'll play a couple of clips from that.

Interesting for many reasons, including a New York Times-Cyana College poll this week

that asked, who's the best candidate to deal with crime?

And in first place, was Zeran Mamdani.

Surprised?

We'll break it down. We'll also touch on the latest on President

Trump's involvement in the race in conjunction with the Adams and Sliwa dropout narratives, which have

not gone away and more. So Liz, happy Wednesday. And Arrow, thanks for joining and welcome

back to WNYC. Happy Wednesday, Brian. Good morning. Great to be with you. Errol, let's get right to the Public Safety Forum with Momdani at Columbia on Monday. Want to give our listeners some background. Why that? Why now? Why there? There's a group that co-sponsored at Vital City that a lot of your listeners I'm sure are familiar with. They do a lot of

really good smart research on public safety in particular. The founder, Liz Glazer, has a long

and distinguished career in law enforcement. And they've put out countless calls to different

candidates to come in and talk. And momdani was really the first to

to take them up on it i think we're going to be doing along with curtis lewa as well but the

invitations also went out to mayor adams and to governor uh former governor quomo uh so what we did was

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