You are going to inherit this investigation to the Trump orbit.

Do you think it's right to potentially just recuse yourself and say, you know what?

I've commented on the guy who said, I think, something like he's lawless.

Welcome to the Lost Debate, unconventional media for the rest of us.

I'm Robbie Gupta, and this is a special episode where I had a chance to interview a good friend of mine, Alvin Bragg, who last week won a historic election to become the next district attorney for Manhattan.

And if you don't know this seat, it's a very important office.

If you watch Law & Order, that's the prosecutor's office that we're talking

about here. And it's a place where so many important cases, not just for the city of New York,

but the country as a whole come out of this district. And Alvin ran on a reform platform.

And he has a lot of bold ideas about how he's going to decrease incarceration coming out of the island of Manhattan,

but also how he's going to create a better dynamic between the police and citizens of New York

and how he's going to reprioritize the office as a whole. And I helped him in his campaign a ton,

and I had a lot of questions throughout the campaign, just about like the practicalities of some of the things that we were talking about. Like what would it mean to de-emphasize certain crimes? What would it mean to think about resisting arrest differently? What would it mean to use different strategies to cut gun violence? And so we get really into the weeds to say like now that the election's over, what is it going to mean to actually implement these promises? And he has a lot to say, super insightful, super interesting, and I'm really excited for you to listen. Well, welcome to the Lost Debate, Alvin Bragg. Thank you. Good to be here. Well, congratulations. How do you feel right now? Well, I feel good. I'm hanging out with you. Right? Like a little reunion. I haven't seen each person in two years. Is that, no, no, I saw you on the primary night. I saw you the night. Right, right, right. The one night where we, where we're in person for a bit. And so you just won, we're fresh off of your victory. You are the incoming district attorney in the island of Manhattan.

Why is this, like for people who are not from New York City,

what's the significance of the office of district attorney in Manhattan?

So for anyone who's not from New York City and who hasn't watched law and order,

you know, it is, I mean, the history of the office,

well, I guess I should back up. Manhattan's the best island on earth. Except for the island of Staten. Well, we can, most minds can disagree. But, you know, I think

the history from, you know, district attorneys Hogan and Morgenthau, Manhattan as a, you know,

financial center, you know, so doing types of prosecutions that aren't,

you know, seen in other jurisdictions, and just everything else that comes through Manhattan,

all of our commerce, the density of the people there.

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