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It's the Brian Lear show on WNYC.

I'm David First, WNYC's weekend edition host, filling in for Brian today.

And Brian will be back tomorrow.

On today's show, WNYC's lead Eric Adams reporter, Elizabeth Kim, will be here as she always is on Wednesdays, and usually she brings us an update on the

mayor's weekly press conference. But today she'll be telling us all about the address. The

mayor delivered yesterday after the Department of Justice directed prosecutors to drop the

corruption case against the mayor. Later in the show, we kick off our annual Oscar documentaries series.

The filmmakers for all of the Oscar-nominated feature-length documentaries will join us to talk

about their films in the next week or so.

Today, the director of Black Box Diaries will join us.

And we wrap up with a conversation about the state of

plastic pollution, inspired by President Trump's executive order, where he directed the federal

government to use plastic over paper straws. Did we make any progress on plastic pollution

in the last four years? And does President Trump have more

rollbacks on the way? That could make the environmental problem worse. We'll have the founder of the

group beyond plastics here around 1130 for that discussion. But first, the Senate takes up the

confirmation hearing for Secretary of Education tomorrow.

President Trump's nomination to lead the U.S. Department of Education is Linda McMahon,

the former CEO of WWE World Wrestling Entertainment.

She served in the first Trump administration as administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration

and is currently chair of the America First Policy Institute, as NPR describes them, they are a think tank

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