{"id":172718,"date":"2026-03-23T22:50:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T22:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/172718\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T22:50:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T22:50:35","slug":"we-didnt-need-to-know-about-iran-before-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/172718\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We didn\u2019t need to know about Iran before&#8217; strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facing a competitive reelection race this fall, Rep. Mike Lawler joined NY1\u2019s Errol Louis for an exclusive one-on-one conversation in the nation\u2019s capital. Lawler discussed how he splits time between Washington, D.C. and his Hudson Valley district, and defended the president\u2019s decision to bomb Iran without getting full congressional approval.<\/p>\n<p>ABOUT THE SHOW<\/p>\n<p>NY1\u2019s Errol Louis has been interviewing powerful politicians and cultural icons for years, but it\u2019s when the TV cameras are turned off that things really get interesting. From career highlights, to personal moments, to stories that have never been told, join Errol each week for intimate conversations with the people who are shaping the future of New York and beyond. Listen to &#8220;You Decide with Errol Louis&#8221; every Wednesday, wherever you listen to podcasts.<\/p>\n<p>HOW TO LISTEN<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/you-decide-with-errol-louis\/id1448438816?mt=2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">APPLE PODCASTS\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/0XtBuPZxIaZjGPb7X4RRbH?si=u_VJCcQoQImzyWimwf4bsQ\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SPOTIFY<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stitcher.com\/podcast\/spectrum-news-ny1\/you-decide-with-errol-louis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">STITCHER<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youdecidewitherrollouis.libsyn.com\/rss\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RSS<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Facing a competitive reelection race this fall, Rep. Mike Lawler joined NY1\u2019s Errol Louis for an exclusive one-on-one&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[109,9369,25,9372,9370,128,9,24,12,63,87,380,129,131,130,27,9371],"class_list":["post-172718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-app-local-state-politics","tag-app-podcasts","tag-app-top-stories","tag-app-you-decide-with-errol-louis","tag-auto-publish-podcast","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-politics","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-top-stories","tag-you-decide-with-errol-louis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}