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The Brian Lehrer Show
Ask the Mayor; Trump to Phase Out Climate Change Laws; How the Trumps and the Kushners Got to the White House

Coming up on today's show:
- Mayor Bill de Blasio takes calls from listeners and discusses this week in New York City news.
- Jean Chemnick, Energy and Environment News reporter, and Michael Gerrard, founder and director of Columbia Law School's Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, talk about the Trump administration's plans to weaken the law that requires the Federal government to consider the environmental impact on major projects like highways and pipelines.
- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she expects to release her hold on the two articles of impeachment "soon," but is still holding out to learn more about how Republicans plan to conduct a Senate trial. Mike DeBonis, Congress and national politics reporter for The Washington Post, talks about her strategy and why her fellow Dems are getting anxious for the next step.
- Andrea Bernstein, senior editor for politics and policy for WNYC News and co-host of the podcast Trump Inc. and the author of American Oligarchs: The Kushners, the Trumps, and the Marriage of Money and Power (W. W. Norton & Company (January 2020), talks about her new book on money, power, politics and the Trumps.