rep. ryan: yes, i grew up at a republican household. the first time i voted for president i voted for republican . moderator: if there is a subway series who we were before, the yankees were the mets? rep. ryan: we have had a fierce debate about a potential subway series. my yankees are up 2-0. ms. esposito: i am a mets fan, and it is difficult at times, but yes. moderator: what is your favorite restaurant in the district? ms. esposito: lemon cello. rep. ryan: i remember this question from two years ago. gardens, i was just there last night. moderator: should new york city

mayor eric adams step down in light of his federal construction -- federal corruption indictments? rep. ryan: there are it into mirrors in this district. in terms of the new york city mayor, he is owed due process. serious concerns and accusations, but this is still a country of rule of law, and that process your player. ms. esposito: as long as you can get the job done, and i would disagree that he is getting the job done, but as long as he can still maintain his office he is allowed due process. i echoed the congressman's sentiments. i am incredibly unnerved at the correct stations, but he is allowed due process. moderator: when was the last time you rode metro-north? ms. esposito: 10 years ago. i take my car. rep. ryan: about a week ago. i am a big metro-north fan.

moderator: ms. esposito, we'll be getting this year's coveted vaccination? ms. esposito: i have not received it and did not plan on getting it. rep. ryan: i have not gotten it, and my wife is been on me and the flu vaccine. moderator: have you used marijuana over the last year pat , last year, pat ryan? rep. ryan: not over the past year. ms. esposito: no, and now that i am a retired cop that is probably the first question asked me. i will not even use cbd. moderator: has the legalization of recreational marijuana been a success? ms. esposito: i do not want to see marijuana over criminalized and i do not want to see kids serving time in jail, but what i

am seeing is the leniency of our drug laws right now. you see kids waiting for school buses smoking a joint, and i did nothing they can be productive in school when it is that lenient, so i think we have to crackdown on it. i do not want to see kids going to jail for marijuana use, but i also went to make sure that we are not hurting them in the long run? rep. ryan: i agree with legalization-decriminalization. the rollout especially in the hudson valley where we have a lot of small businesses that wanted to open dispensaries and a lot of production facilities has been a mess. i am then placing the state to fix that. moderator: a final lightning round question, mr. ryan, you vote yes or no on proposition one, the equal rights amendment that protects against unequal treatment for new yorkers? rep. ryan: i will vote yes to

protect abortion rights, lgbtq rights, disability rights, and abortion is not on the ballot. lisa voted for reproductive freedom. ms. esposito: abortion is not in proposition one. outcome of pregnancy is. this will pave the way for boys to play in girls boards, pave the way for illegals to vote in our election. i am going to be voting against proposition one, and as a member of the gay community it is not about lgbtq rights. it is about fairness in sports, security in locker rooms, and about allowing parents to decide what is best for their children. moderator: we are moving on to foreign policy. the u.s. is sending a missile defense system and about 100 troops to aid israel's defense against iran. do you support it? rep. ryan: i do support it.

it is necessary. we have seen two unprecedented direct attacks from iran, a terrorist regime, against our closest ally in the middle east where we share both democratic values and interest with israel. i probably voted to support them through this and three together attacks that they have suffered, and i think we do need to send them. the one thing i think we have to be cautious of them, i understand the need to deploy these 100 u.s. troops, but that is something i will be watching very closely for my seat on the armed services committee to make sure that we're really very very thoughtful about deploying our own young men and women into harm's way. ms. esposito: i agree with that sentiment. we need those 100 troops because of the mentor in which they are being deployed for weapon systems, but i do not want to see unnecessary boots on the ground in any war overseas.

we have troops in harm's way to this day because of jill biden policies into poor footing on the world stage, which is emboldened much rush into coming to ukraine and hamas to attack israel. again, it is be watched. i do understand the necessity to have those 100 troops over there, but i went to make sure that we do everything we can to protect and support our men and women serving in our armed forces. moderator: back at rising -- back to pat ryan, you think israeli prime minister bennett's was holding up a possible gaza ceasefire agreement for his own political purposes? rep. ryan: i seriously worry about that. i've been pushing most importantly for a return of our hostages a cessation of the violence which i hope every person and human and american

would be pushing for, and ultimately getting a lasting peace in the region, and i think increasingly net yell's interest are not aligned with that. so we have to continue to press him and be clear about questioning the importance of the necessity to protect israel. ms. esposito: you've expressed an urgent need to vote for republicans because war is breaking out globally due to america's lack of presence on the world stage, but according to pew 62% of republicans say the u.s. does not have a responsibility to up ukraine defend itself from russia's invasion. how would a trump presidency lead to a greater u.s. presence on the world stage? ms. esposito: just four short years ago there were no wars erupting in the world. we did not have the section of the atrocities of terrorist attacks that happened in israel. in fact we were on the brink of peace in the middle east.

it is because of the biden-there is lack of footing on the world stage. iran was being strangled through sanctions. at the on the number one state sponsor of terrorism in the world, and now because the biden administration is emboldened them and pay them off to appease them, iran is strong, and we have terrorist attacks around the world. we have attacks on u.s. soldiers in the red sea. you have to make sure it is peace through strength, and four straight years ago they promised we would to be in world war 300 by the end of the demonstration, but there were no new words that broke out, and that is incredibly important especially when we are sending troops into harm's way. we have to do everything we can to protect our men and women into gum forces. moderator: do you want to redirect? rep. ryan: it is an important question that you asked that unfortunately my opponent did not answer. i wash in congress across the aisle more than half of the

republican party turn their back on our democratic allies ukraine and then i watched, which is unbelievable, donald trump literally say i'll let russia do quote whatever the hell they want when it comes to ukraine. i think we do have to stand with our allies, and i am proud that i repeatedly did that with funding to ukraine, to deter and defeat iran and aid to our allies in taiwan to deter china, and i think this is something that the modern-day republican party really has to wrestle with. if you were serious about peace through strength, which i agree with you want. moderator: about ukraine, is the war in ukraine a major threat to u.s. interests, and if so why? ms. esposito: absolutely, russia is that the rent, and you have to listen to vladimir putin. if he says he is going to go into poland, he is going to, and

we have to stand up for our allies. you have once again actions and words not mirroring. he says he supports israel and the right to defend themselves, but after the atrocities that happened he voted against aid to israel a month after the atrocities happened, because irs agents were going to go after the middle class, and you do not want to take funding. so a standalone bill was put forth by the republicans and again he voted against it just the next month. he voted against uh condemning the anti-semitism. he was quiet when it was happening on our camp colleges campuses even in the district while they were taking over bridges. if we're serious about supporting our allies then we actually have to do that. you have to condemn from the river to the sea. there can be a cease-fire tomorrow if hamas surrenders, lay down weapons and release hostages. moderator: redirector pat ryan. rep. ryan: we agree on 99% of

that. still did not answer the question though about ukraine and and specifically the president, which again alison throughout this debate or prior to debates i've yet to hear a single thing with which you disagree on donald trump on. this would be a great opportunity to say you disagree with him? ms. esposito: you call them people to do things and you think that is disagreeing with them. i am not a rubber stamp for trunk, and i do not believe that russia should be able to do whatever the hell they want in any station -- situation, but that is not what is on the agenda. the problem is this men will tell you one thing in then both the other way. moderator: i want to let that ryan finishes moment. rep. ryan: votes and results matter, as i have highlighted

throughout been specific on both issues of local law enforcement, the border, the salt tax. i voted as i said to send aid to ukraine. still have not said if you'd disagree with president trump, and that is an existential issue for our democracy. it's clear to me putin will if given that green light from donald trump, god forbid is if he is commander-in-chief again he would continue his march of weight that i think very scarily rhymes with what we saw almost a century ago in europe. moderator: we will move on to a final topic of the night, which is climate and energy. 2023 saw a record-breaking heat and extreme weather of this , -- extreme their, this district was not sperry. over the summer there was flooding at west point military academy the damage bridges, roads, into buildings with

economic losses estimated at $100 million. as these once in a century weather events become more common and how do you suggest that we pay for the almost constant rebuilding and remediation cost? district of -- ms. esposito: we need to make sure we are diversifying our energy. we will be able to pay for more things. right now we have an issue where we have tragedy after tragedy, and fema is not appropriately responding to it. we are spending millions and billions of dollars on illegal immigration that can be used right here at home. we are spending millions and billions of dollars on the buying votes into the biden administration and forgiving debt. that is all things that we could use to rebuild infrastructure, to make sure that we are concentrating on the bridges, roadways, making sure that our people are safe regardless of whether it is a natural disaster

or because of our southern border. any other kind of a disaster. we have to make sure that we are putting money back into our communities in a respectful and responsible way and supporting our new yorkers. that and americans as a whole. his sell failures on every front with fema in the last few weeks and it's they have to be held accountable as well. moderator: let me ask you about that. you were referring to the shelter and services program where fema distributes grant money from customs and border protection to municipalities that have seen an influx of migrants, not to migrants themselves. you think that money should be of use differently? -- ms. esposito: that money is for american citizens or american disasters. we have to make sure we are putting our people first. the people of the district, our state, and our country.

legal, lawful immigration of important, but that is not what is going on your, and we are putting money in buckets that should not be when our american stated here. moderator: mr. ryan. rep. ryan: semi we started with a local specific question about a storm in orange anywhere i was on the ground that cornwall, west point, fort montgomery, highland falls, look those families in the eye who still are owed individual assistance from fema, and i've have called out that failure directly to the fema administrator in a hearing in the transportation infrastructure committee and and i will continue to press her on that. i stood with our great local, county, and state public service crews as thanks to the funding we did secure from fema reopened the bridge. from cornwall to west point. i do not know how we got from there to sort of conspiracy theories about myths and truths about fema money. that is the problem.

i am telling you. that is the problem in d.c. right now. you did not cure one thing about the victims of a devastating, terrific flood in our immunity. we've got to step up funding to fema, and equip them to deal with what are now uncertain century storms. moderator: what is the long-term ? what is the funding source and the strategy. rep. ryan: is simple. the people that are polluting have to pay. i stood just a week ago with a group of local, state, and federal officials are in a bipartisan way saying we in the hudson valley have been paying, all of us taxpayers, whether that is cleaning up ge from decades before i was born, stopping the dumping of radioactive nuclear waste into god to the river, and a host of other issues.

fifa's -- pfas in newburgh. the people, the corporations making record-breaking profits have to pay. i support holding polluters accountable rather than passing the cost on to you all were holding funding for fema, which is what the house republicans have tried to do the last two years. ms. esposito: look, there was a bunch of words, and he talked about local, a local storm. the question was how will we continue to pay for the storms in all of america, and i believe i answered that. we have to make sure we are investing in infrastructure, holding fema accountable for what they are doing, and we have to stop reckless and wasteful spending. we have to stop bidenomics. this is about putting money back into america and not just recklessly spending it. the congressman likes to say

things like bipartisan, but you were standing with a member of the progressive left school at - - squad. moderator: we have a couple of minutes left. after superstorm sandy there were some hard discussions that were held in region about whether or not people should rebuild in certain areas, and there was talk i think at the state level of acquiring some of the land, making people whole but not throwing endless billions of dollars into areas that were determined to be flood plains. are those hard conversations something that you were willing to lead in the district? both of you. rep. ryan: absolutely. i think though in our area unlike new york city the composition is very different, and i have been leading this actually both with local immunity leaders and on my role in the transportation infrastructure committee.

i have been preaching the army corps of engineers, which is doing a study after sandy to think about how we do this differently. highland falls that was devastated by these floods is literally on the side of amount. they are not in any floodplain in it normal modeling, but we are in a different world. none of those folks at flood insurance, because in the last forever they would never have needed a. and we need to step up our game to meet the moment. ms. esposito: these are difficult questions that have to happen. you want people to stay in their homes, but you want to make sure that they are there safely and there is no possibility or probability of danger and we are making sure that we are rebuilding of the structure. and we are taking a hard look at whether it is the side of a mountain or in a flood zone. it does not matter where the home is where the business is located. we have to make sure that we are doing our best, and sometimes they are hard discussions that have to happen and we have to

say this is no longer hospitable or able to be -- i am losing my word. habitable. that is not where we want to go right away. went to make sure people have the opportunity to stand their homes, and when we can make them whole we have to make them whole. moderator: that will do it for this debate. we would like to thank both candidates for joining us tonight. the debate will be available in its entirety on the spectrum news that. moderator: on october 23 we will bring you a debate between the two candidates running for senate. kirsten gillibrand and a republican will face off in a debate one week. we will be there moderating the debate. it starts at 7:00 p.m.. moderator: please remember to vote. election day is november 5.

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issues include abortion and the potential expansion of offshore wind power festivities in new england. the nonpartisan cook political report rates the race solid democrat. the debate hosted by gbh tv. due to technical difficulties we join this after the first question. moderator: a recent university and boston globe poll showed that more than 20% of voters blame congress for the state's emergency shelter system being what under strain and blame congress for the state being on track to spend more than one begin to this fiscal year. i understand the bill was a sinking ship, but when you have been for or against it? sen. warren: republicans fought for comprehensive immigration

reform back in 2019. i voted for the bill, and we got enough people together to do comprehensive immigration reform, and what happened? it went over to the house and extremist republicans said we want to keep this as an election issue. exactly what donald trump did in 2016, 2018, 2020, 2020 two, and 2024. we need comprehensive immigration reform, but we need to negotiate a bill that actually gives that to us and that does not allow extremist republicans continue to block actually making change in this area. look, mr. deaton once it took about drug cartels, iran terrorists, but when he does not want to talk about is one way we could actually help -- moderator: senator, that is

time. mr. deaton: i hope i get the same amount of time. listen, to the voters out there, at senator warren in last two debates is talking about 2013 eddie marco rubio, and she voted for senate bill that decades ago. the voters need to senator today. they do not need a senator reminiscing about some boat that did not actually happen to get passed in 2013. the bottom line for everybody out there is senator warren has the same exact position as donald trump, do nothing. the bill was not perfect. i can assure you that. i went to see legal immigration expanded more and have zero tolerance for illegal immigration. senator warren is so extreme she objects to president biden

placing the cap per day. she supports open borders, because she does not know our airports, train stations, our urgent care, everything is being maxed and stressed out, and senator warren is not care enough to know that. vice president harris said she would bring the same exact bill. sen. warren: if it is the same bill i will take a hard look at it, especially if it is not already dead. understand this, when a bill is already dead, part of what you do where you vote is you are signaling where you want to go on the negotiations. i made it in every speech i gave into retirement talked about this that it is not enough to do half of it. we also need if we are going to do this to do it right. we need full reimbursement or what the states are spending, and we need to make sure we have a pathway to citizenship. if you are going to negotiate

you have to be willing to negotiate. moderator: we have a lot to get to. mr. deaton: let me just add -- [indiscernible] moderator: next question comes to you. you suggest -- this is something you want to talk to. you suggested that the eight the united states as provided to the war in ukraine, nearly $200 billion, it would have been better spent on domestic priorities, but would it have not guaranteed that russia would've taken over ukraine and put a number of countries in eastern europe, many of which are our allies at great risk? mr. deaton: the ukraine war is the single biggest issue in this election. one mistake, and we are in world war iii. i would in the marine corps for several years. i thought generals and admirals at the naval war college, and i

cannot tell you what our plan is in ukraine, because we do not have a plan. one day they tell is no american-made missile blend in russia. the next week we tell us that might happen. let a more potent -- vladimir putin says if that does happen more is on the table. it is a stalemate at best. many people believe russia is winning, and you can see it on zelenskyy's face when he is begging for more money. of course i favor democracy, but we have got to new -- know what the plan is. to the warmongers in washington and many people believe that russia is winning and you can see it on zielinski's face when he's here begging for more money. my vote will have to be earned like any other vote. and of course i favor democracy but we've got to know what the plan is. and to the