Code Blue For NYC; Chancellor FariƱa Stepping Down; Wednesday Morning Politics; The Mueller Investigation: Looking Back and Forward; Year-End Tax Strategies

The Brian Lehrer Show | Dec 28, 2017

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  • Temperatures forecast to stay 10 to 15 degrees below normal through the weekend. Unsheltered homeless individuals, infants, older adults and people with certain chronic medical conditions are at an increased risk. Benjamin Krakauer, assistant commissioner for strategy and program development at NYC Emergency Management, and Mirela Iverac, WNYC reporter covering poverty, talk about how the city responds to protect vulnerable people when the city’s temperature dips to extreme lows.

  • Carmen FariƱa, New York City schools chancellor, has announced her plans to step down by the end of the academic year. She talks about her accomplishments and the challenges of leading the country's largest school district.

  • From President Hoover to President Roosevelt, Amy Davidson Sorkin, staff writer at The New Yorker, discusses the lessons from an unseemly presidential transition, plus the latest in political news.

  • Andrea Bernstein, senior editor for politics and policy for WNYC News, looks back at the Mueller investigation into ties between the Trump campaign and Russia, talks about how her reporting on Donald Trump, Jr. and Ivanka Trump play into that and where the investigation will go from now on.

  • Deborah Jacobs, independent journalist, personal finance blogger, lawyer, author of Estate Planning Smarts (DJWorking Unlimited Inc, 2011) and other books for consumers, clarifies some information about Governor Cuomo's executive order allowing pre-payment of property taxes, and offers more tax strategies for this year, in light of the new tax law.

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