#AskTheMayor; Friday Morning Politics; Oscar Docs: 'Fire at Sea'

The Brian Lehrer Show | Feb 17, 2017

Coming up on today's show:

  • Bill de Blasio, mayor of New York City, takes calls from listeners and discusses this week in NYC.
  • Oren Cass, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute where he focuses on energy, the environment and antipoverty policy, discusses the national political news of the day.
  • Director Gianfranco Rosi, discusses his Oscar-nominated documentary "Fire at Sea," a film about refugees arriving on the tiny Italian island of Lampedusa.

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