It's the Brian Lairn Show on WNYC.

I'm Bridget Bergen, senior reporter in the WNYC and Gothamist Newsroom, filling in for Brian today.

We've got a big show for you. It's the first day of July and the last day the Supreme Court is announcing decisions before its own summer recess. And yeah, they saved a big one. We'll learn the court's ruling on the Trump immunity case today. That's about whether former President Trump has immunity from some of the most

serious charges against him. That includes a federal indictment for trying to subvert the

2020 election and stay in power. We will bring you that news as soon as we hear it, and we may

pivot to special coverage from NPR. But we have lots of political news to cover between now and then.

Just under the wire,

the mayor and the city council reached a $112.4 billion budget deal. Libraries are coming back

at full strength, but there's still some questions about the future of the city's early

childhood education programs. Then there's a new documentary called Majority Rules that looks at a system of voting

many of you might be familiar with. It's called ranked choice voting. If you cast a ballot in

the Democratic primary for mayor in 2021, you used it. We'll talk with a filmmaker and an advocate

for expanding use of the system. But first, Democrats are somewhere between freaking out and

circling the wagons. President Biden's debate performance was supposed to reassure voters that

his age was not an issue. That didn't happen. Since last week, the New York Times editorial board

has called on Biden to step aside, writing, at Thursday's debate, the president

needed to convince the American public that he was equal to the formidable demands of the office

he is seeking to hold for another term. Voters, however, cannot be expected to ignore what was

instead plain to see. Mr. Biden is not the man he was four years ago. There were some serious stumbles

in times when it felt like the president just kind of lost his train of thought entirely.

Here's about 20 seconds of one of those moments from last week's debate.

Making sure that we're able to make every single solitary person eligible for what I've been able to do with the COVID, excuse me,

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