The show begins tonight in New York City, Harry Siegel asking questions about two federal

investigations we know of underway now for Eric Adams, the mayor, the mayor regards this all as annoying and doesn't act as

if something dire is happening, but in any event it's puzzling. One investigation about his contacts his relationship, his trips to Turkey, another about China, same matter.

On to Japan, the state dinner for Prime Minister Kishita at White House with President

Biden welcoming Kishita to an new alliance that looks like another piece of aukis, the defense from the

predator state, the PRC. All good news. Richard Epstein joins to apprise us of rent

control and rent stabilization and the failure

of both these programs to treat the housing stock in New York rationally.

4100 is the average rent price now of non-rent stabilized non-rent control departments because so much is held off the market by the landlords who

can't make money with the apartments the way they're fixed, say the landlords.

All a mystery to me, but I arrived in 1970 and found a rent stabilized department where I stayed 20 years and the rent went up percentages every year.

It still was way, way below what I would have paid in rental

at any one point in those 20 years. If I hadn't had a rent stabilized department,

the rent controlled are never available. I don't know how many are left.

On to the Titanic with Charles Pellegrino, the expert storyteller of the night of April 14th into the morning of 15th,

1912, the ice, the passengers, the lifeboats, we tell the story tonight of the

Marconi Room where the two men on

station stayed there right up until the water splashed into the chamber.

Charlie has made one or two dives to the Marconi room and says that it's largely intact.

He looked around for the brass key, the brass telegraph key, couldn't find it.

Would love to somebody to find it someday.

The Marconi room that kept the signal going was received in Newfoundland, but the ship

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