#AsktheMayor; Puerto Ricans in Protest; Russia, Seth Rich, and How Americans Fall for Conspiracies; Mueller Report Reading; How to Build a Bike Lane
The Brian Lehrer Show | Jul 19, 2019
Coming up on today's show:
- Bill de Blasio, New York City Mayor, takes calls from listeners and discusses this week in NYC.
- Pedro Reina-Pérez, Director of the Harvard Puerto Rico Winter Institute, and professor of Humanities at the University of Puerto Rico in Río Piedras, talks about the protests happening in San Juan, calling on the island's governor, Ricardo Rosselló, to resign.
- Michael Isikoff, chief investigative correspondent for Yahoo News, host of the new podcast “Conspiracyland”, co-host of the “Skullduggery” podcast and co-author of Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump (Twelve, 2018) talks about his reporting on the origins of the Seth Rich conspiracy theory.
- Every day until the Mueller testimony on July 24, The Brian Lehrer Show will read aloud and explain one salient passage from the report. Tanzina Vega and Alison Stewart read aloud today's passage.
- Shumita Basu, reporter, host and producer in the WNYC newsroom, shares what she discovered about how to go about having a bike lane put in your neighborhood and the role of community boards.
