Mamdani Meets Trump; Monday Morning Politics with Leader Jeffries; Making a Revolution; 10 Years of Hamilton

The Brian Lehrer Show | Nov 24, 2025

On today's show:

Jeffery Mays, New York Times metro politics reporter, recaps Mayor-elect Mamdani's Friday meeting at the White House with President Trump, where the two spoke well of each other and pledged to work together.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D NY-8th, Brooklyn) offers his take on how the meeting between President Trump and Mayor-elect Mamdani went, and more national political news.
After President Trump and Mayor-Elect Mamdani's curiously friendly meeting this past Friday, listeners call in to share their theories as to why the president was all smiles with New York's incoming democratic socialist mayor, whom the president has called a communist many times in the past.

Edward Larson, chaired professor of history and law at Pepperdine University and the author of Declaring Independence: Why 1776 Matters (W. W. Norton & Company, 2025) talks about the change in thinking 250 years ago in the American colonies from British subjects protesting the crown to revolution.
Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton premiered ten years ago and pretty much immediately became a phenomenon. Frank DiLella, Spectrum News NY1 theater correspondent and host of “On Stage”, talks about the hit play and its affect on Broadway and more.

Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.

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