Friday Morning Politics: Trump and Mamdani Meet; Defending 'Raise the Age'; 'We Hold These Truths...'; De-Cluttering Legacies

The Brian Lehrer Show | Nov 21, 2025
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On today's show:

  • Jonathan Lemire, co-host of Morning Joe on MSNOW, writer for MSNOW and contributing writer to The Atlantic, talks about the national political news of the week, including Mayor-elect Mamdani's meeting with President Trump at the White House.

  • Vincent Schiraldi, Pinkerton Foundation visiting fellow and former New York City Commissioner of both the Department of Correction under de Blasio and Department of Probation under Bloomberg, argues against trying teenagers as adults and defends New York's "Raise the Age" law against pushback from some elected leaders.

  • As the U.S. approaches its 250th anniversary, Walter Isaacson, professor of history at Tulane and the author of several books, including his latest, The Greatest Sentence Ever Written (Simon & Schuster, 2025), digs in on a key sentence in the Declaration of Independence and how its reverberated throughout the country's history.

  • Emily Stewart, senior correspondent at Business Insider, talks about navigating issues around what to do with all the 'stuff' that boomer parents will be leaving their millennial kids.

Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.

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