Congressional Politics; City Hall News; A NASA Astronaut's Life Lessons, Time Magazine's Person of the Year
On today's show:Â
- Jake Sherman, co-founder of Punchbowl News and the co-host of the Daily Punch podcast by Punchbowl News, talks about recent Congressional news including foreign aid votes and conditions, and yesterday's hearing with the leaders of three prominent universities on antisemitism.
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Mayor Adams holds one off-topic press conference per week, where reporters can ask him questions on any subject. Gothamist and WNYC reporters Elizabeth Kim and David Brand recap what he talked about at this week's event, including on their reporting on emails that revealed City Hall "fast tracked" fire safety inspections at high-end Hudson Yards buildings, leaving more modest entities waiting for inspections they had scheduled months earlier.
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Mike Massimino, NASA Astronaut (1996-2014), engineering professor at Columbia, advisor at the Intrepid Sea, Air, and Space Museum, and the author of Moonshot: A NASA Astronaut’s Guide to Achieving the Impossible (Hachette Go, 2023), shares his story of overcoming hurdles to become an astronaut (and the first person to tweet from space!).
- Sam Jacobs, Time Magazine editor in chief, talks about Taylor Swift -- the magazine's selection of their "Person of the Year" for 2023.
Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.
