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But Crystal, Israel actually was so mad at Joe Biden for being a maverick.
According to Hunter Biden, he was really under threat.
Iraq.
So go start around the, if you're curious of that part, start around the 110 mark of their conversation.
But anyway, so yes, yesterday I interviewed Daria Lisa Avila-Chavalier, who's a community organizer in Harlem, who's running against Adriano Espeyot, the kind of longtime Harlem machine politician who replaced Charlie Rangel.
and she does not yet have the backing of Mayor Zoran Mamdani.
She's hoping to get it, but apparently Hassan Piker is going to head out there, so the Piker bump is headed to her campaign pretty soon, and if she has any luck, Third Way will come in and condemn him and her, and that she'll get the same result then that El-Sayed and Chris Rabb got when Third Way came after him and them.
Hassan really is the Dem Tea Party's Glenn Beck.
He needs a chalkboard.
Turning into that, for sure.
He needs a chalkboard.
All right, joining us today to discuss her congressional race in a Harlem district against incumbent Adrian Espaillat is Daria Lisa Chevalier, a community organizer, union member, and challenging an incumbent in New York City.
Thank you so much for being here.
All right.
So I wanted to actually start by getting you to respond to some pretty interesting comments from Fran Lebowitz about the kind of tax policy and tax conversation that is rocking New York City, I think, in actually a good way, because I think they need to be a little bit uncomfortable over there.
Some of the folks there do.
So let me play Lebowitz and then get your take here.
Yeah, so Mayor Mamdani famously put Ken Griffin in his ad about this pied-a-terre tax where, you know, if you don't live in your apartment and it's worth X amount of dollars, you're going to have to pay a little tiny portion extra.
Curious for, you know, how it's playing in Harlem and, you know, like what did you think of kind of Fran's analysis there?
And so, you know, Harlem has a kind of history of having members of Congress who are there forever.