The Mayor's Budget; Sen. Gillibrand; Venezuela in Context; Streaming's Future
The Brian Lehrer Show | Apr 27, 2022
On today's show:
- Elizabeth Kim, reporter who covers mayoral power for the People and Power team at Gothamist and WNYC, and Jeff Coltin, City Hall bureau chief at City & State, recap and analyze the executive budget unveiled by Eric Adams in a speech at Kings Theater Tuesday.
- U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D NY) talks about her recent overseas trip and proposal for regulating crypto, plus other news.
- William Neuman, former New York Times reporter and Andes region bureau chief, now the author of Things Are Never So Bad That They Can't Get Worse: Inside the Collapse of Venezuela (St. Martin's Press, 2022), tells the story he witnessed of the rise of Chavez to the current situation in Venezuela, plus its impact on U.S. foreign policy and politics.
- Jeremy Barr, Washington Post media reporter, and Peter Kafka, senior correspondent at Recode, the technology site from Vox and the host of the podcast Recode Media, discuss the future of streaming after the recent closure of CNN+ and subscriber losses at Netflix.
Transcripts are posted to each segment as soon as they are available.
