Brian Lerer on WNYC's Nancy Solomon joins us now with excerpts from and analysis of and to take your phone calls about her ask governor murphy call in last night she does

that once a month and usually joins us here on the morning after yesterday the governor talked a lot

about education he signed a new bill to make it harder to ban books in the state we'll hear why

and what books he thinks are being banned. And he's still pushing to lower the

voting age for school board elections in particular. He also had been thinking about how the state's

public school system would fare under a second Trump presidency. President-elect Donald Trump

has said he wants to dissolve the federal department of education. Also, you've been hearing about the mystery drones over New Jersey, right?

The governor had the latest, and he shared his Spotify wrapped list.

That's his most listened to songs of the year on the music streaming service.

So we'll get to all that, including some clips of the governor.

Hey, Nancy,

happy morning after. Thanks. Good morning, Brian. And listeners, if you listened to Ask Governor Murphy last night, or even if you didn't, New Jersey callers 212-433, WNYC on any of those things.

Let's start on education, which, as as I said came up a few times last night

with the governor. I'll play the clip in a second, but can you explain to us the bill that Governor

Murphy just signed into law that would make it harder to ban books in the state?

Right. So until this bill goes into effect, what happens is that this gets decided school district by school district, town library by town library. And what the bill does is it sets up a process for all libraries, public and school libraries in the state. So if somebody, say, like a parent wants to have a

book banned from the school library, they have to go through this process so that it's not just

kind of, as the governor said, it's not willy-nilly all over the state in different ways, but there is a process and

there's a, you know, parents can raise legitimate concerns about something not being age

appropriate for kids, but it, you know, what he wants to do is shift the focus away from,

you know, what seems to be, you know, a pretty strong vein of censorship around, you know,

really important issues, lesbian and gay issues, slavery, racism, the Holocaust, that sort of thing.

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