Ask the Mayor; Parkland Survivors Want You To Vote; Manafort Trial Update; Twelfth Night in the Park

The Brian Lehrer Show | Aug 10, 2018

Coming up on today's show:

  • Bill de Blasio, New York City Mayor, takes calls from listeners and discusses this week in NYC.
  • Cameron Kasky and Kyrah Simon, survivors of the Parkland, FL school shooting talk about the March For Our Lives effort to educate young people about gun control and bring out the vote.This week their bus tour goes to Newtown, CT.
  • Andrea Bernstein, senior editor for politics and policy and host of the Trump Inc. podcast at WNYC and Ilya Marritz, WNYC reporter and host of the Trump Inc. podcast at WNYC, talk about the latest developments in the trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.
  • Nikki M. James, Tony Award-winning actress, now starring as Viola in Twelfth Night at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park and Shaina Taub, composer for and appearing as Feste in Twelfth Night, talk about the Public Works' production of Twelfth Night, a musical based on the Shakespeare comedy, which incorporates community members with professional performers.

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