from WNYC studios. I'm Brian Lehrer. This is my daily politics podcast. It's Friday, June 13th.

For today's podcast, we've got one section of the debate I co-moderated last night in the Democratic primary race for

mayor of New York.

It's the section where I referenced the situation in Los Angeles and other aspects of how they

would deal with the Trump administration as mayor.

There were seven candidates lined up on the stage in alphabetical order.

They were city council speaker, Adrian Adams, former governor, Andrew

Cuomo, current Comptroller Brad Lander, state assembly members of Ron Mondani, state senator,

Zellner Myrie, former Comptroller Scott Stringer, and former hedge fund manager and a Teach

for America founder Whitney Tilson. This begins with my question.

Mr. Cuomo, many New Yorkers are concerned about what's happening in Los Angeles,

workplace immigration raids and deportations, protests with some violence,

the president's deployment of the National Guard and the Marines over the objection of the

governor and the mayor. The Trump aide,

Stephen Miller, said the mayor has no say. If you were mayor of New York right now, how would you

handle this situation if something like that happened here? Yeah, we had this situation before, right?

This is not a case of first impression. President Trump

did this in Trump one. He did it a number of times. He sent troops into cities all across the

country. This is him being macho, authoritarianism. He's the commander in chief. He never sent them

into New York because I said to him, you better never send troops

into New York. We don't need them. It would be a hostile act. It would be a problem. Right now,

in this situation, we're going to protect our immigrants. This is a sanctuary city, and we are

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