Goodbye Biden, Hello Trump; State Sen. Zellnor Myrie; TikTok Prepares for U.S. Ban; Helping LA from Far Away

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jan 17, 2025
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On today's show:

  • Jonathan Lemire, co-host of "Morning Joe" on MSNBC, contributing writer at The Atlantic and the author of The Big Lie: Election Chaos, Political Opportunism, and the State of American Politics After 2020 (Flatiron Books, 2022), talks about the latest national political news as President Biden prepares to leave Washington and President-elect Trump gets ready to move back in to the White House.
  • New York State Senator Zellnor Myrie (D-20th), Elections Committee chair, talks about his mayoral bid as well as the new legislative term in Albany.
  • The popular social media app TikTok could be banned for U.S. users starting this Sunday, when a new law goes into effect. Sylvia Varnham O'Regan, discusses the latest news, including how President-elect Donald Trump may react to the ban, and Emily Bazelon, staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, co-host of Slate's "Political Gabfest" podcast, Truman Capote fellow for creative writing and law at Yale Law School and author of Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration (Random House, 2019), offers legal analysis of the Supreme Court's decision to uphold the ban.
  • Elise Hu, Los Angeles-based journalist and podcaster, former NPR correspondent, offers guidance for helping those affected by the fires in Los Angeles.

 

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