It's the Brian Laird Show on WNYC. I'm David First, W1yC's weekend edition host

filling in for Brian.

On today's show we'll get to the big political news of the morning in about an hour, which

is how did Biden do he held a

highly anticipated press conference yesterday evening where he spoke for about

an hour after the NATO summit a lot of the pundits today say he fielded a number of tough

questions and handled things pretty well but we will ask you to weigh in and of

course again that's going to be coming up at about 11 o'clock this

morning. Plus we'll try to understand a little bit about why Amtrak has been having

major service issues on the Northeast Corridor this summer and plus it is the last full sun Manhattan

henge of the year this evening.

An astrophysicist will explain the phenomenon for us and talk about a party that the American Museum of Natural History

is throwing to celebrate. But first, closing statements wrapped up this week in

the federal corruption trial of New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez.

And jury deliberations are expected to get underway this morning.

Menendez is charged with bribery and corruption along with his wife and two businessmen, a third businessman who was charged, pleaded

guilty and testified during the trial, the senator's wife, Nadine, will stand trial at a later

date.

Over the last several weeks, U.S. attorneys described what they say was a scheme where New Jersey's

senior U.S. senator did favors for Egypt and tried to intervene in criminal cases and in exchange

received gold bars a Mercedes-Benz convertible and more than a half a

million dollars in cash.

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