Brian Lerer on WNYC, happy Friday, everybody.

We are re-airing most of the Democratic mayoral primary debate that I co-moderated last night

with Error Lewis from New York One and Katie

Honan from the news organization in the city. And again, near the end of the show, we'll open up

the phones for you to name something that you've learned in the debate or if it changed your

mind in any way on any issue or any candidate. And again, for those of you just joining, the seven

candidates in alphabetical order were

Adrian Adams, Andrew Cuomo, Bradlander, Zeranman Dani, Zellner-Mirey, Scott Stringer, and Whitney

Tilsen. I see somebody texted a minute ago to ask, why wasn't Eric Adams in the debate?

Eric Adams did drop out of the Democratic primary. He will be running in November as an

independent in the general election. We pick it up next in the section of the debate known as

the cross-examination in which each of the seven candidates gets to ask one question of one

other candidate. It's a one question, one response format. After that,

you'll hear the following section, moderated by Errol, about being mayor of New York in the

context of the war in the Middle East, but the cross-examination section comes first.

Welcome back to our Democratic primary debate for mayor, live from John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

We're more than halfway through the debate with the seven leading Democratic candidates.

Now it is time for the cross-examination round.

That's when each candidate gets a chance to ask one question of one rival.

Our order was selected at random and we'll begin with Scott Stringer.

Thank you, Earl.

My question is for Adrian Adams.

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