It's the Brian Laird Show on WNYC. Good morning everyone.

Coming up today, we'll look closely at the conviction of Senator Bob Menendez.

Also we'll continue our WNYC Centennial Series, 100

Things, and today as we're in Republican Convention

Week, we'll have Thing Number 4, 100 years

of notable moments from Republican Convention speeches.

And we'll also have our usual Wednesday segment

with our lead Eric Adams reporter, Elizabeth Kim,

after the Mayor's Weekly Tuesday news conference.

We've got a few minutes now with one of our local members of Congress joining us from the

Republican Convention in Milwaukee.

It's freshman Congressman Anthony D. Esposito, the former New York City police detective who flipped the fourth district on Long Island from

blue to red in 2022 and hopes to defend it with Long Island and the northern New York City

suburbs being major battlegrounds for control of Congress

overall this year and the race is assumed to be competitive for no other reason than that

President Biden won the district in 2020 by double digits.

Congressman D. Esposito, thanks for some time this morning.

Welcome back to WNYC.

Hey, good morning.

Thanks for having me.

Can I ask you first as a former NYPD detective from a security standpoint, what's your best

take so far on how Saturday's assassination attempt managed to happen with the shooter getting

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