#AskTheMayor: Correction Commissioner Scandal, Protecting Immigrants, Gangs of NYC

The Brian Lehrer Show | Apr 28, 2017

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio takes calls from listeners and discusses this week in New York City, including his support of Correction Commissioner Joseph Ponte, who was recently reprimanded for having spend 90 days outside of the city amid violence at Rikers, the Mayor's plan to combat Trump administration deportation of undocumented immigrants, 

 

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