Ask the Mayor; Friday Politics; #PlasticChallenge Wrap-Up; Visual Poetry

The Brian Lehrer Show | Sep 20, 2019

Coming up on today's show:

  • New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio takes calls from listeners and discusses this week in NYC;
  • Washington Post national correspondent Philip Bump discusses the anonymous whistleblower complaint and other political headlines;
  • Judith Enck, founder of Beyond Plastics and former EPA Region 2 administrator, helps us understand more about plastics after a week of the #PlasticChallenge;
  • Designer and author Warren Lehrer and journalist and poet Dennis Bernstein talk about their new book of poems, Five Oceans in a Teaspoon (Paper Crown Press, 2019), which was written by Dennis and "visualized" by Warren.

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