Recapping the House Jan. 6 Hearing; Queens BP Donovan Richards; COVID Latest; The LGA AirTrain

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jul 28, 2021

Coming up on today's show: 

  • Jacqueline Alemany, congressional reporter and author of the Power Up newsletter for The Washington Post, and Devlin Barrett, reporter focusing on national security and law enforcement for The Washington Post, break down the first hearing of the special House committee investigating the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
  • After winning the Democratic primary, Donovan Richards, incumbent Queens Borough President seeking reelection in November, talks about the future he envisions for Queens.
  • Dan Frogel, physician and regional chief medical officer for CityMD, and Denis Nash, professor of epidemiology at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy and executive director of CUNY’s Institute for Implementation Science in Population Health, talk about what researchers learned from a large study of COVID diagnostic and antibody tests during the first wave of COVID infections in the New York area, plus more pandemic news.
  • The LaGuardia AirTrain received final approval from the Federal Aviation Administration this month, clearing the project to move ahead. Aaron Gordon, senior writer for Motherboard focusing on cities and transportation, argues that the transportation system will take more time than existing options, like the Q70 express bus, and explains what he thinks would be a better alternative.

Transcripts are posted to the individual segment pages as soon as they are available.

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