Ask The Mayor; Oscar Docs: Faces Places; Checking Trump's Call For Gun Control; A Corrupt President; Movie Trivia!
The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 2, 2018
Coming up on today's show:
- Bill de Blasio, Mayor of New York City, takes calls from listeners and discusses this week in NYC.
- Thom Powers and Raphaela Neihausen, co-founders of the DOC NYC festival, America’s largest documentary festival, and hosts of WNYC’s Documentary of the Week feature, talk about the documentary "Faces Places" from France by the New Wave filmmaker Agnes Varda and the street artist J.R.
- NPR White House correspondent Tamara Keith talks about the latest news coming out of Washington, including ongoing calls for gun control, the resignation of Hope Hicks and what's next for Dreamers.
- John Dean, former White House counsel to President Nixon, columnist at Justia, and author of The Nixon Defense: What He Knew and When He Knew It (Penguin Books, 2014), discusses the Mueller investigation and how Watergate informs today’s developments.
- John Chaneski, co-host of TriviaNYC's QNA podcast, as well as a puzzle guru on NPR's Ask Me Another, quizzes listeners on movie trivia.
