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🗓️ 16 April 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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0:00.0 | Listener supported, WNYC Studios. |
0:07.2 | It's the Brian Lair Show on WNYC. I'm Amina Cerna, a producer for the Brian Lair Show, filling in for Brian today. Good morning, everyone. Coming up on today's show, an update on the mayoral primary election, including on the candidates' fundraising halls from the city's campaign finance board. Former Governor Andrew Cuomo, the frontrunner, according to many polls, did not receive any |
0:42.5 | matching funds, while state assembly member Zoran Mamdani, his closest challenger, scored almost |
0:48.0 | $4 million. We'll unpack what that might mean for the race with WMYC and Gothamus reporters, |
0:55.9 | Liz Kim and Bridget Bergen. |
1:04.7 | Plus, later in the show, we'll talk about the legal and ethical considerations of embryos that are made in the in vitro fertilization process. |
1:09.5 | IVF is a big business now, and some critics say it's under-regulated. |
1:12.4 | An embryo storage is personal, but it's also political. We'll get into that with your calls and journalist Anna Louis Sussman, who is writing |
1:17.6 | about this for The New York Times. And we'll wrap today's show with some news you can use. |
1:23.3 | This one is for you who are suffering from spring allergies. |
1:28.3 | If you would like to enjoy the flowering trees around town but can't deal with the sneezing, |
1:32.3 | stick around for our guest who is a doctor and allergist. |
1:37.3 | But first, on Monday, El Salvador's president, Naïbe Buceli, said he would not send back a Salvadoran migrant, |
1:46.4 | whom the Trump administration wrongly deported from Maryland last month without due process. |
1:52.0 | The U.S. Supreme Court has unanimously determined the government must facilitate the release of the man, |
1:57.5 | named Kilmar Abrago-Garcia, from the El Salvador prison where he's being held. |
2:02.3 | But so far, the Justice Department has not cooperated. |
2:07.0 | Abrago Garcia's case is alarming legal scholars who say could have troubling implications. |
2:13.2 | If the Trump administration flouts court orders, they speculate anyone, regardless of citizenship, |
2:19.1 | could be sent to a foreign prison without legal recourse. |
2:22.8 | Media outlets suggest the friction between the judicial and executive branch is teetering on the edge of a constitutional crisis. |
2:31.1 | Trump caught speaking on a hot mic before his press conference with Buckela on Monday, said he |
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