Thursday Morning Politics; Ask Governor Murphy: January 2025 Recap; How Wildfires Spread; Listeners Remember President Jimmy Carter
The Brian Lehrer Show | Jan 9, 2025
Coming up on today's show:
- Ryan Grim, co-founder of Drop Site News, co-host of the podcast Counter Points, and author of several books including The Squad: AOC and the Hope of a Political Revolution (Henry Holt and Co., 2023), and Emily Jashinsky, DC correspondent for UnHerd and co-host of the Counter Points podcast, talk about the national political news of the day.
- Nancy Solomon, WNYC reporter and host of the “Ask Governor Murphy” monthly call-in show, recaps her conversation with New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, including congestion pricing, drones and more.
- As the Palisades Fire continues to scorch the seaside area between Malibu and Santa Monica, Augustin Guibaud, PhD, fire expert in the NYU Tandon School of Engineering Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, explains how these wildfires spread, the conditions that make them so dangerous and how to prevent these kind of devastating fires in the future.
- As funeral proceedings continue over the course of six days, listeners call in with their eulogies for the late former president Jimmy Carter.
Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.
