Right off the bat, Laith talked about Mamdani in the vid below:

And .. the alarm bell that he heard was regarding Mamdani's wife that has been campaigning for Assad's overthrow and being aligned with murky Sunni elements in Syria for a decade or so. Can't comment since I don't know details.

At the same time he cautioned all that this might de-radicalise New Yorkers if the are given small titbits.