From WNYC Studios, it's Brian Lair, a daily politics podcast. It's Monday, May 23rd.

On a day when President Biden said something no other president has ever said, that if China invades Taiwan, the U.S.

would defend Taiwan militarily. And that comes after Pentagon spokesman John Kirby kept open

the possibility this weekend that the U.S. will send troops to Ukraine. Troops, not just

money and equipment, troops, but specifically to guard the U.S. Embassy in Kiev,

which reopened last week.

This is the first weekday morning on which members of New York's congressional delegation are campaigning in the Democratic primary with the new redistricting maps that were finalized early on Saturday.

We'll talk later this hour about your

current members of Congress who now look like they'll be running against each other, Gerald Nadler

against Carolyn Maloney, Sean Patrick Maloney, maybe against Mondair Jones, maybe others too,

and Bill de Blasio has officially entered a congressional primary now. We'll sort all that out.

And it's a day after a new CBS News, CBS News, U-Gov poll came out with some very interesting findings for here in the middle of primary season.

For example, if you didn't already think Democrats and Republicans have different priorities,

the top three things Democrats want their nominees to focus on are inflation,

taxing the wealthy, and racial justice.

The top three things Republicans want their nominees to focus on are inflation.

That one's the same.

Stopping illegal immigration and talking about

traditional values. So again, the one thing they agree on there, inflation is concern number one.

And interestingly, the parties are basically tied when it comes to who would be more effective

at dealing with inflation, right about 50-50, on which party would be

better at that? And that goes against an assumption that inflation concerns give Republicans

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