The Brian Lehrer Show

David Graham, staff writer at The Atlantic, and Annie Karni, White House reporter for POLITICO, discuss President Trump's visit to Puerto Rico and Jim Mattis, Secretary of Defense, coming out in support of the Iran Nuclear Deal.

The first zoning laws were created in New York City 101 years ago. Mike Wallace, distinguished professor of history at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, director of the Gotham Center for New York City History and author of Greater Gotham: A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919 (The History of NYC Series), and Jenny Schuetz, Brookings Institution fellow, talk about how zoning changed the shape and power structure of the city.     

Amanda Litman, co-founder of Run For Something (and Hillary Clinton's former email director for the 2016 presidential campaign) and author of Run for Something: A Real-Talk Guide to Fixing the System Yourself (Atria Books, 2017), talks about her work encouraging young people to run for office.

Andrea Bernstein, senior editor for politics and policy at  WNYC, Jesse Eisinger, Pulitzer Prize-winning senior reporter at ProPublica and the author of The Chickenshit Club: The Justice Department and Its Failure to Prosecute White-Collar Criminals (Simon & Schuster, 2017), and Ilya Marritz, business reporter at WNYC, discuss their investigation into how Ivanka Trump and Donald, Trump Jr. avoided criminal indictment involving the marketing and sales of condos and the Trump SoHo.

Kenneth T. Jackson, director of the Herbert H. Lehman Center for the Study of American History and the Jacques Barzun Professor of History and the Social Sciences at Columbia University, where he has also chaired the department of history, and the author of Robert Moses and the Modern City: The Transformation of New York (Norton, 2008), and Lisa Keller, professor of history at SUNY Purchase and the co-editor of The Encyclopedia of New York City (Yale University Press, 2010), talk about Robert Moses for the latest installment of the October election year series, People’s Guide to Power: Real Estate Edition.

Charlie Sykes, senior fellow at the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute and author of How the Right Lost Its Mind (St. Martin's Press, October, 2017), explains why he thinks the conservative movement in the Unites States lost its values.

Juan Manuel Benítez, NY1 Noticias reporter and host of Pura Politica, reports from Spain on the latest in the chaotic independence referendum for Catalonia, the region in Spain (that includes Barcelona) that is trying to declare its independence.

Paul Barrett, deputy director of the Center for Business and Human Rights at the NYU/Stern School of Business, formerly writer at Bloomberg Businessweek, and the author of Glock: The Rise of America's Gun (Broadway Books, 2013) and Joe Schoenmann, host and producer for KNPR News at Nevada Public Radio, discuss the latest developments in Las Vegas following the mass shooting at a country music concert on Sunday night and how gun control is playing out after in the wake of the tragedy.

It’s the first Monday in October when the Supreme Court reconvenes. Jami Floyd, host of WNYC's All Things Considered and legal analyst, and Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, professor at George Washington University law school and a contributing editor for The Atlantic, preview the upcoming Supreme Court term's big cases, which will cover partisan gerrymandering, LGBTQ rights, religious liberty, cell phone privacy, and more. Note: This segment ends rather abruptly as the show pivoted to listen to President Trump speak live about the mass shooting in Las Vegas. 

Bandy X. Lee, M.D., M.Div., faculty member in the Law and Psychiatry Division of Yale School of Medicine, organizer of the Yale "Duty to Warn" conference and the editor of The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President (Thomas Dunne Books, 2017) argues that the "Goldwater Rule," which blocks the diagnosis from afar of public figures, should not apply to the president.

In the first installment of our new series, A People's Guide to Power: Real Estate Edition, we explore the political power of the real estate industry in the early part of the 20th century as public housing began to replace tenement buildings in New York City with Richard Plunz, professor of architecture and the director of the Earth Institute's Urban Design Lab at Columbia University and the author of City Riffs: Urbanism, Ecology, Place (Lars Müller, 2016) and David Favaloro, director of Curatorial Affairs and Hebrew Technical Institute research fellow at the Tenement Museum.

Celeste Headlee, host of the daily news show "On Second Thought" on Georgia Public Broadcasting, says social media and devices are robbing us of the ability to communicate one-on-one. She shares her insights, talk show host to talk show host.  

Richard Hughes, actor, volunteer who ran homes for street children in Vietnam from 1968 to 1976 and the founder of Loose Cannons, and Le Ke Son, medical doctor with a Ph.D. in toxicology, former director of the Agent Orange Victims Fund at the Vietnam Red Cross and the co-author of (with Charles Bailey) From Enemies to Partners: Vietnam, the U.S. and Agent Orange (2017), talk about the long-term of effects of the American military's use of Agent Orange in Vietnam for both Vietnamese people and American service members, and what the United States should do to take responsibility for — and help — the chemical's victims.  

City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito talks about what she found on her recent trip to Puerto Rico and what's needed now.

United States Representative Nita Lowey (D-NY 17th district), representing the Lower Hudson Valley, talks about the current lack of emergency response relief in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, and talks about the proposal to eliminate the state and local tax deduction and other news from Congress.