It's Brian Larosho on WNIC. Good morning, everyone.

Former New Jersey Congressman Tom Malinowski is in the news for multiple reasons right now.

As a senior fellow with the McCain Institute think tank, he is in Ukraine now and has an

opinion piece on Politico on a way to end the war there that could possibly bypass Putin

and bring both peace and justice.

Malinowski lost his house seat to Republican Tom Kane Jr. in New Jersey's most contested

swing district last year, the seventh congressional district in New Jersey.

As many of you who live in New Jersey and certainly in that area know, he says he won't

seek a rematch next year.

But his name is among those being mentioned as a possible appointed successor to Senator

Bob Menendez.

If Menendez is forced to resign over his corruption indictment, Malinowski is one of the many

New Jersey Democrats calling on Menendez to step down.

And in his case, it's not just because of the alleged corruption per se.

For Malinowski, it's very much because of the human rights and U.S. foreign policy implications

of the alleged corruption.

So by way of background, I'm going to read a little bit from Tom Malinowski's bio page

on the McCain Institute site.

Some of you who live in that district know this, but many of you don't.

Malinowski was born in Communist Poland during the height of the Cold War and emigrated with

his mother to the United States when he was six years old.

From 1994 to 2001, Malinowski served as a speechwriter for secretaries of state, Warren

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