The Brian Lehrer Show

Councilman Daniel Garodnick, representing New York City's 4th District, discusses the legislation he introduced that would ease the commercial rent tax on some Manhattan businesses that pay almost 4 percent of their annual rent to the city.

Chairman of the Intelligence Committee, Representative Devin Nunes, announced he would step away from leading investigation into Russia's efforts to meddle in the 2016 presidential election amid speculation. This comes after news the Steve Bannon, chief

After a failed health care bill, tax reform is next on the Republican agenda on Capitol Hill. The timing also follows a unique pattern. Every thirty-two years the U.S. tax system seems to get an overhaul. It happened in 1922, and again in 1954. Which mea

Yeganeh Torbati, Reuters correspondent, and Steve Clemons, Washington editor at large at The Atlantic, discuss the latest news from Syria and the reactions from world leaders, including Russia's Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump.  

The Washington Post reported on a secret meeting held in January between Blackwater founder Erik Prince (brother of Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos), the United Arab Emirates and a high-level Russian official, intending to establish a line of communi

Sheryl Gay Stolberg, domestic affairs correspondent for The New York Times, Jonathan M. Smith, executive director of the Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs and former Obama Justice Department attorney, and Chris Burbank, dir

Traffic and pedestrian fatalities are on the rise nationwide, and our area is no exception. Richard Retting, general manager of the Washington, D.C. office of Sam Schwartz Transportation Consultants and director of safety/research, talks about the grim n

A Washington Post profile of Karen Pence re-surfaced old comments by her husband, Vice President Mike Pence, who said he wouldn't dine alone with a woman or go to an event where alcohol was present without his wife. Jia Tolentino, contributing writer for

Based on more than a hundred interviews and thousands of previously secret documents, Jeffrey Toobin, staff writer for The New Yorker, CNN legal analyst and author of American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst (An

Ken Lovett, Albany bureau chief for The Daily News, and Fred Mogul, WNYC Albany reporter, discuss budget negotiations in Albany as state lawmakers struggle to come to an agreement four days past budget deadline. The partisan gridlock surrounds the propos