We're going to take a break from our Middle East coverage and return to it in about an hour.

On this program, we will focus specifically this morning on questions facing the United

States with respect to the war, how much and what kind of involvement should the United

States have, with two leading journalists, Ishaan Therur, who covers U.S. foreign policy

for the Washington Post, and Robin Wright from the New Yorker, who among other things,

as some of you know, is a leading expert on Iran, and with Americans as well as Israelis

among the hostages, this is definitely an immediate U.S. interest foreign policy challenge

very directly, and it spreads out from there to a number of complicated policy decisions

facing the Biden administration in Congress. Yes, Congress of the House can ever start doing

business again. So, Robin Wright and Ishaan Therur coming up on options and risks and benefits

for all involved from U.S. foreign policy choices. But we start today with the chair of the

MTA, General Lieber, with some major local transit developments in the news right now,

plus now transit security in this city that has at times, of course, been a terror target of its own.

That plus congestion pricing details coming closer to being finalized, including all those

applications for exemptions, and a new 20-year MTA plan just released that deal that deals with

issues like accessibility and climate change resiliency, which of course is even more relevant than

it was after the recent flooding that crippled much of the system a couple of Fridays ago.

Chairman Lieber, we always appreciate that you come on and take questions from me and our listeners.

Welcome back to WNYC. Good to be with you, Brian. And listeners,

your questions for MTA Chair, General Lieber, are welcome on any of those things.

Bus and subway riders, Metro, North and LIRR riders, MTA workers, and drivers too with congestion

pricing and the MTA bridges and tunnels in their purview as well. Two, one, two, four, three,

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