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Good morning, everyone.

Thanks to O'Mina Cerna, Bridget Bergen, and Tiffany Hansen for filling in last week.

Eye procedures accomplished.

I can now see without glasses for the first time since I was about 12 years old.

Did you know the sky was blue?

Like, it's really, really blue.

Okay, that's an exaggeration. But poof. Now, we'll talk later in the show about the death of

Pope Francis, of course, with open phones for any of you who are grieving as Catholics, who had

been affected by him, or with any other thoughts.

We'll also take calls on whether the world's situation came up at your Easter services

yesterday, if you are any kind of church-going Christian.

And we'll hear from our transportation reporter Stephen Nesson today about the Trump administration

taking control away from the MTA for the

renovation of Penn Station. That article is called Trump Station on Gothamist. So far,

Governor Hoka likes the idea, but we have questions. And we'll do two segments today about the rule

of law. We'll talk to a law professor, former Dean of the A law school, former State Department official, Harold Coe, about the fundamental threat to democracy of Trump barring selected law firms from doing business with the federal government.

One version of an article on this that I read said even anyone who has

hired those law firms, I guess for things unrelated to Trump, but we will find out if it goes

actually that far. That'll be our second rule of law segment today. We will begin with this one.

There was some kind of middle of thenight drama involving the Supreme Court on Friday night.

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