#AsktheMayor; Tom Steyer; Rep Nadler subpoenas DOJ; The Future of Cannabis; Mueller Report Reactions
The Brian Lehrer Show | Apr 19, 2019
Coming up on today's show:
- Bill de Blasio, New York City Mayor, takes calls from listeners and discusses this week in NYC.
- In light of the release of the Mueller report (with redactions), Tom Steyer, Democratic party donor and activist, founder of the groups Need to Impeach and Next Gen America, talks about why he thinks President Trump should be impeached.
- Susan Glasser, staff writer at The New Yorker who writes the weekly online "Letter from Trump’s Washington" column, and Ilya Marritz, WNYC reporter and host of the Trump, Inc. podcast at WNYC, offer analysis to the redacted Mueller report.
- Jerrold Nadler, U.S. Representative and chair of the House Judiciary Committee, on why he subpoenaed the Justice Department for an unredacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report, as well as the underlying grand jury evidence and testimony.
- Amanda Chicago Lewis, columnist at Rolling Stone, talks about what industry leaders and experts think will be the future of cannabis legalization in the country. Plus, Karen Rouse, WNYC New Jersey reporter, on why New Jersey's efforts to legalize recreational marijuana have failed, at least for now, and what comes next.
