It's the Brian Lairr 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 Years of 100 Things,

and today as we're in Republican Convention Week, we'll have thing number four, 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

de 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 if 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.

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 a shooter getting up on that roof with his gun?

I think there was clearly a security breakdown, one that the House Homeland Security Committee

is going to thoroughly investigate. We've been in contact communication since the incident happened

on Saturday evening. Our chairman, Mark Green, has been in contact with the committee each day.

We plan on hopefully taking a visit to the site, as well as when we convene back on Capitol Hill

on Monday evening, immediately get to work in investigating the

situation and finding out where the issues lie so that most importantly this never happens again.

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