From WNYC Studios, I'm Brian Lerer. This is my daily politics podcast. It's Wednesday, June 12th.

For today's podcast, we'll focus on perhaps the most hotly contested democratic congressional primary in the country

right now. incumbent congressman of the Bronx and the parts of Westchester, closest to New York

City, is a member of the squad and is being challenged by Westchester County Executive George Latimer,

largely on their different views about the Israel-Hamas war.

The first part of our segment with Latimer was about the Middle East. That's what we'll play

in the podcast now. We plan to do the same when Bowman is on the show on Monday. A lot of the

coverage of the race has focused on their differences over the Israel-Hamas war. We will talk about that for sure,

but also about domestic issues like housing, abortion rights, and inflation to compare their

views on those. Our guest today is County Executive Latimer, who joins me now. County,

executive, thanks for coming on for this candidate interview. Welcome to WNYC.

Brian, it's nice to be back with you. I appreciate it. And County, Executive, I'd like to do the

Mid-East portion first, then we'll talk about domestic issues. You've been very critical of Congressman

Bowman's calls for a permanent ceasefire and other ways you see him as differing with President Biden or out of the Democratic Party mainstream.

I'd like to play a few clips and see if you line up with your party's mainstream leadership.

Here is President Biden in a speech on May 31st in which he called on Israel to slow down its military campaign that's killing so many civilians,

the president said this.

At this point, Hamas no longer is capable, carrying out another October 7th.

It's one of the Israelis' main objective in this war.

And a few seconds later, the president said this.

I asked you to take a step back.

I think what will happen if this moment is lost.

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