Biden and 2024 Plus LA Latest; Climate Change Trade-Offs; Primary Day in New Jersey: Informal, Unofficial, Thoroughly Unscientific Exit Poll; Mapping the Stars

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jun 10, 2025
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On today's show:

  • Jake Tapper, lead DC anchor and chief Washington correspondent for CNN and co-author with Alex Thompson of Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again (Penguin Press, 2025), talks about his new book that looks back at the Democrats' loss in 2024 and how it happened.
  • Paula DiPerna, the author of Pricing the Priceless: The Financial Transformation to Value the Planet, Solve the Climate Crisis, and Protect Our Most Precious Assets (Wiley, 2023) and a special advisor for CDP, the non-profit global environmental impact disclosure platform, responds to Friday's exchange with Oren Cass on the economic impact of climate change vs the impact on jobs and prosperity.
  • New Jersey voters head to the polls for on primary day, where they'll be voting to choose their party's candidates for Governor. Listeners call in to participate in an informal, unofficial, thoroughly unscientific exit poll.
  • Jackie Faherty, astrophysicist and science educator at the American Museum of Natural History, talks about the new show at Hayden Planetarium that draws on new data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission to map the galaxy and our place in it.

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