Unveiling President Trump's Tabloid Ties

The Leonard Lopate Show | Jul 5, 2017

New Yorker staff writer, author and senior legal analyst at CNN Jeffrey Toobin joins us discuss his latest piece, “Feeding the Beast” (Online: “The National Enquirer’s Fervor for Trump”). He profiles David Pecker, a friend of Donald Trump, and the longtime chief executive of American Media, Inc.—which owns most of the nation’s supermarket tabloids and gossip magazines, including the flagship National Enquirer—and examines the celebrity-news empire’s favorable coverage of the rise of Trump.

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Jack Schlossberg, the Kennedy Running for Congress in New York. Plus, the Astronaut Reid Wiseman

The candidate on the role of social media in politics, and speaking out against his cousin R.F.K., Jr. Plus, the commander of NASA’s Artemis II mission on the dark side of the moon.

The New Yorker Radio Hour |

NJ Gov. Sherrill: If state police were too aggressive at Delaney Hall, we'll look into it

New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill took call after call Wednesday night from people who told her state police had been overly aggressive in violent clashes with protesters outside the Delaney Hall immigration detention center this weekend.

Ask Governor Sherrill |

I.C.E.'s "Wartime Recruitment" Campaign

Hiring at the highest-funded U.S. law enforcement agency.

On the Media |

Ask the Mayor Recap and More News From City Hall

Elizabeth Kim discusses the issues Mayor Mamdani talked about in his first "ask the mayor" segment.

The Brian Lehrer Show |