It's the Brian Lear Show on WNYC.

I'm Amina Serna, a producer for the Brian Lair Show filling in for Brian today.

Good morning, everyone.

Coming up on today's show, we're going to preview the G20 summit

that will start this weekend in South Africa. The news before it's even begun is that the United

States and China's leader Xi Jinping will not be in attendance. We'll talk about why two of the

world's major powers are skipping it and what South Africa and the countries that

are attending are hoping to accomplish without them. Plus, we'll talk about the Trump

administration's continuing attacks on so-called drug boats coming from Venezuela. My guest for

that conversation is an AP correspondent base there. She's reported on who's been killed so far and why the U.S. is doing this.

And we'll wrap today's show with a conversation about AI-generated music.

Yes, I regret to inform you that this is now a thing.

You may have even come across a song made with AI and not realized it.

But first, we begin today's show in York City with our coverage of Mayor-elect Zoran Mamdani's transition into City Hall and other

city politics news. This morning, Mamdani made another major personnel announcement. He succeeded

in courting Police Commissioner Jessica

Tish. This comes after that unorthodox move during the final mayoral debate. We'll look at what

we know about the conversation with Police Commissioner Tish now that she's officially joined the

Mamdani administration. There's also news that both Mamdani and President Trump are anticipating

a meeting in the capital after both men used each other as foils during the campaign season.

Plus, did you catch that our current mayor, Eric Adams, embarked on an international journey to Israel

and then Uzbekistan? While Mamdani maintains that his team has been working

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