New York Mayor Bill de Blasio calls on a member of the press at City Hall

#Askthemayor; Jobs Report Update; The Costs of Next Day Shipping; Candidate-By-Candidate: Secretary Julian Castro; Fall Season Must-Sees

The Brian Lehrer Show | Sep 6, 2019

Coming up on today's show:

  • Bill de Blasio, New York City Mayor, takes calls from listeners and discusses this week in NYC.
  • Damian Paletta, White House economic policy reporter for The Washington Post, discusses the August jobs report numbers.
  • Nicole Nguyen, tech reporter for BuzzFeed News, and Ken Bensinger, investigative reporter for BuzzFeed News, talk about the often unseen and under reported environmental and emotional costs of Amazon's enormous, decentralized, next-day delivery network.
  • Julian Castro, former United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under President Barack Obama and presidential candidate, discusses his 2020 presidential campaign.
  • Shauna Lyon, editor of The New Yorker's Goings On About Town section, and Carl Swanson, editor-at-large at New York Magazine, preview the fall cultural season.

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