Brian Laird on WNYC, now we turn again to the hotly contested Democratic Congressional primary in parts of the Northern Bronx, including Wakefield and Co Coop City, and much of Southern Westchester.

Last week, we had the Challenger, the Westchester County Executive, George Latimer, and now the

incumbent, two-term Congressman Jamal Bowman. As we mentioned last week, the Israel-Hamas war has been a

central issue in the race, so we will talk about Congressman Bowman's views on that in some detail, as we did with

Executive Latimer, but we will also get to domestic issues like housing, other inequality,

inflation, and other things to compare their views on.

Congressman, thanks so much for doing this.

Welcome back to WNYC.

Of course, Brian.

Thank you for having me. Good to be with you.

And listeners, as we did with the Latimer segment last week, we'll take a few phone calls or texts

for the candidate. We took some very critical ones for Latimer. And like last week, don't make them

only on the Middle East, okay? 212-433 WNYC, 212, 433-9-6-92, call or text.

Congressman, I'll follow the same format we had for your opponent. The first stretch will be

Middle East related, then we'll turn to domestic issues. With Executive Latimer, we established that he declines to support President

Biden in asking Israel to take a step back in the war, as Biden put it, step back. He declined to

urge Israel to publicly accept the Biden ceasefire plan, declined to support Senator Schumer

and calling for new elections there,

and declined to criticize Prime Minister Netanyahu in any way by name when I asked him if there

was any reason to for him. He said he won't criticize any individual in Israeli politics by name.

So he is different from President Biden and Senator Schumer in those ways. And the voters will make

their judgments about those positions with respect to him. For you, I have a different set of

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