Pres. Biden's Visit to NYC; Help Retaining Workers; Imani Perry on the American South; Mayor Adams
The Brian Lehrer Show | Feb 3, 2022
On today's show:
- Mayor Eric Adams hosted President Biden for a summit on public safety this week after the killings of two on-duty police officers. U.S. Representative Adriano Espaillat (D, NY-13), who participated in the event, plus Laura Nahmias, senior reporter covering New York City and state politics at Bloomberg News, and Dean Meminger, criminal justice reporter and anchor for NY1 News, talk about the president's trip and the two leaders' visions for combating gun violence.
- Jobs report numbers are in. Zoe Chance, senior lecturer at Yale School of Management and author of Influence Is Your Superpower: The Science of Winning Hearts, Sparking Change, and Making Good Things Happen (Random House, 2022), discusses how managers and bosses can work to retain staff and takes calls from listeners who work in management.
- Imani Perry, professor of African American Studies at Princeton University and the author of South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation (Ecco, 2022), shares the insights she gleaned about U.S. history and culture from her travels in the South.
- NYC Mayor Eric Adams talks about his 'Blueprint to End Gun Violence' and his meeting with President Biden.
Transcripts are posted to each segment as soon as they are available.
