Brian Lehrer Weekend: Spirit Airlines; Rent Guidelines Board; Avoiding Scams
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2026
⏱️ 69 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Brian Lairer here. |
| 0:01.4 | Up next, Brian Lairor Weekend, |
| 0:03.0 | three of our favorite segments from the week, |
| 0:04.9 | packaged together for you to listen to on the weekend. |
| 0:07.6 | So enjoy, and I'll see you back on the radio Monday at 10 a.m. |
| 0:11.2 | on WNYC on WNYC. |
| 0:31.2 | Good morning, everyone. |
| 0:32.3 | Coming up on today's show, we have Manhattan, DA, Alvin Bragg today on a number of things, |
| 0:36.7 | getting Facebook and WhatsApp to crack down on scammers posing as lawyers trying to fool immigrants in the current mass deportation environment into giving them money. |
| 0:47.6 | It's part of our cybersecurity series. |
| 0:49.5 | We'll also talk with DA Bragg about the crime rates in the city right now. |
| 0:53.3 | What's different for prosecutors |
| 0:55.0 | with Mayor Mamdani in office now compared to Mayor Adams, and also a wrongful murder conviction |
| 1:00.6 | that Bragg got overturned 25 years later. The poor guy served so much time, Alvin Bragg |
| 1:09.1 | coming up. Also, two new notable actions against diversity efforts |
| 1:13.4 | by the Trump administration. Did you hear they're investigating the Women's College, |
| 1:17.4 | Smith College, for what Trump may see as sex discrimination for admitting any trans women? |
| 1:24.6 | And they're suing the New York Times for allegedly discriminating against a white |
| 1:28.4 | man by trying to increase representation in leadership of underrepresented groups. |
| 1:34.6 | And we'll have a call in at the end of the show on when you choose to listen to a book |
| 1:38.7 | as opposed to read it. That's all coming up, but let's start with this. |
| 1:43.5 | You were just listening to one |
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