National Politics; NYC's Recycling Woes; A Republican's Hopes for 2020 Dems; NYPL's Top Checkouts of All Time

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jan 10, 2020

On today's show:

  • Heather Caygle, Congress reporter for Politico, reports on the latest on the impeachment process and other news from Congress
  • Each year, businesses and homes in New York City generate millions of tons of trash. Danielle Muoio, City Hall reporter for Politico New York, breaks down her reporting on how little waste ends up getting recycled and composted, despite the public's best efforts
  • Rick Wilson, former Republican political strategist, political commentator and the author of Running Against the Devil: A Plot to Save America from Trump--and Democrats from Themselves (Crown, 2020), argues the 2020 presidential election is the Democrats to lose, and weighs in on who he wants them to pick
  • The classic children's book The Snowy Day is the most checked out book in The New York Public Library’s 125-year history. Anthony Marx, New York Public Library president and CEO, and Lynn Lobash, NYPL manager of reader services, talk about what other books top the list, and what going to the library was like in 1895.

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