It's the Brian Laris Show on WNYC. Good morning, everyone. We'll begin today with last night's debate.

Last night, the three candidates for mayor of New York met on stage in their

first televised debate. The second and final debate will be next Wednesday on New York One and

here on WNYC when I will be one of the moderators. The sponsors last night were WNBC TV Channel 4,

Telemundo and Politico. We have Jeff Colton from Politico to do some analysis with us.

He wrote up five takeaways from the debate for Politico, New York's morning newsletter.

Jeff, thanks for coming on.

My pleasure.

Yeah, that was, wow, two hours jam hacked last night.

I mean, they seem to have covered everything, but I'll do my best to summarize.

We're going to play a few clips from a few of the topics, because I agree with you.

They touched on so many things and fairly briefly each time.

But we're going to try to focus in on some of these issues.

And a major topic was how each would deal with President Trump.

And one of your five takeaways in your article was on that.

So here's part of that section started, how part of that section started with part of

Zeranam Dhani's answer to what he would say to Trump in his first phone call with him as mayor.

And what I tell the president is if he ever wants to come for New Yorkers in the way that he has been,

he's going to have to get through me as the next mayor of this city.

Now here's some of Andrew Cuomo's response about his first call as mayor with Trump.

I would say to the president in the first conversation, look, we have had many, many battles.

I fought with, we fought together every day during COVID. And the battles were blood.

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