The Brian Lehrer Show

The Sheriff of Wall Street

Monday, July 24, 2006

A son of the Bronx, Attorney General Eliot Spitzer made his name prosecuting brokerages that inflated their stock value artificially. Now he’s running for Governor. A Spitzer biographer says family scrabble games early in life made young Eliot competitive. Plus, Monday Morning Politics, the power outage and outrage in Queens and investigating suspicious fires.

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Monday Morning Politics

Mike Hirsh, senior editor, Newsweek and author, At War With Ourselves (Oxford University Press 2003)
- reviews the news from the Middle East

» Newsweek

Primary Concerns

Steve Clemons, director of foreign affairs at the New America Foundation and publisher of the thewashingtonnote.com
- on Lieberman, Clinton and the change in national primary dates

» thewashingtonnote.com

Fired Up

Shelly Reuben, private fire investigator and author, The Skirt Man (Harcourt, 2006),
-on being an arson investigator and a novelist

» Shelly Reuben (personal website)
» The Skirt Man (Harcourt)

Spit Fire

Brooke Masters, reporter for The Washington Post and author, Spoiling for a Fight: The Rise of Eliot Spitzer (Times Books)
- on the man who would be governor.

Powerless

Eric Gioia, councilmember (D-Queens)
- on day eight of the blackout in Queens

» Councilmember Gioia’s webpage

Call Councilmember Gioia's office at 718-383-9566

Call 1-800-75CONED to report individual outages to Con Edison