Vice President Mike Pence, left, and Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, right, participate in a briefing with the coronavirus task force at the White House in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 19

Nat'l Politics; Staten Island BP Jimmy Oddo; TWU Head John Samuelsen; Community Well-Being

The Brian Lehrer Show | Dec 9, 2020

Coming up on today's show: 

  • Susan Glasser, staff writer for The New Yorker, CNN global affairs analyst and co-author, with Peter Baker, of The Man Who Ran Washington: the Life and Times of Jim Baker III (Doubleday, 2020), talks about the latest national political news.
  • Staten Island has been hit hard by COVID in the second wave. Jimmy Oddo, Staten Island Borough President, talks about how his constituents are doing, and some of the resistance to COVID safety measures some people may have.
  • John Samuelsen, president of Transport Workers Union Local 100, talks about the stock transfer tax as a way to avoid drastic cuts to transit service and workers.
  • Listeners who contracted COVID-19 in the past month or so call in to share where they think they caught the virus. 
  • Manuel Castro, executive director of New Immigrant Community Empowerment (NICE), talks about his work dedicated to improving the lives of vulnerable immigrant workers in New York, with a focus on day laborers, domestic workers, and newly arrived immigrants.  

Transcripts are posted to the individual segment pages as soon as they are available.

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