It's the Brian Laird Show on WNYC. I'm Tiffany Hanson filling in for Brian today. He will be back on Monday.

Coming up on today's show, we'll talk about the debate over New York's Raise the Age

Law. It's relevant now because NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tish, who, as you probably heard,

agreed to stay on the job when Mayor Elect Mom Dani takes office. She's in favor of changes to that

law. The Mayor-elect doesn't exactly agree with her on that.

Later in the show, the writer and historian Walter Isaacson,

he's probably best known for his biographies of powerful men like Steve Jobs and Henry Kissinger,

but his new book is about one sentence in the Declaration of Independence.

That's the very first sentence. And we'll

wrap up today's show with a conversation about what economists say happen when well-off

baby boomers pass on and leave an inheritance to their children. But we're not talking about

a wealth transfer, which you probably heard about, but a stuff transfer.

And we're asking the question, what do you do when your parents downsize or pass away and you're suddenly left with so much stuff?

It can, of course, be a hard thing to deal with, so we'll get into it.

And we want your experiences and opinions on this. So stick around for that.

But first, President Trump is meeting with New York City Mayor-elect Zeran Mamdani in the Oval Office today.

In a statement on social media this week, he said the, quote, communist mayor had requested the meeting.

A likely topic for the two will be affordability. Affordability has, of course, been a central issue for Mamdani during the recent meeting. A likely topic for the two will be affordability. Affordability has, of course,

been a central issue for Mom Dani during the recent mayoral campaign. And for Trump, it seems that he's

perhaps realizing what economists have been saying, which is tariffs don't work, that the negative

effect they have on the economy at large by hitting working Americans in their

pocketbooks is real. We'll talk with our first guest about the president's meeting with

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