Wednesday Morning National Politics; An Upside to NYC’s Inequality; The New Majority Leader; The Case for Collusion

Coming up on today's show:

• Jonathan Lemire, White House reporter for the Associated Press and political analyst for MSNBC/NBC News, talks about the latest national political news.
• Greg David, director of the business and economics reporting program at The Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, a Crain's New York Business columnist and the author of Modern New York: The Life and Economics of a City (Palgrave Macmillan Trade, 2012), and Cara Eisenpress, contributing writer for Crain's New York Business, talk about their deep dive into NYC's generous social safety net for the 20% of residents below the poverty line, and its extreme wealth that helps fund the programs.
• Andrea Stewart-Cousins, newly designated State Senate Majority Leader (D-35) for the next session, talks about her ground-breaking leadership role and the NYS Senate Democrats agenda in the next legislative session.
• Seth Abramson, former criminal defense attorney and criminal investigator who teaches digital journalism, legal advocacy, and cultural theory at the University of New Hampshire, and the author of Proof of Collusion: How Trump Betrayed America (Simon & Schuster, 2018), combs the record to argue the case that the president colluded with the Russian government to win the election.