It's the Ryan Lair Show on WNYC. Good morning, everyone. Our first guest for this week

is Maya Wiley. It's been a couple of years since she was on, not since she was running

in the New York City Democratic mayoral primary in 2021, which Eric Adams eventually won,

of course, in the ranked choice voting system. Those of you who watch MSNBC have certainly

seen Maya Wiley do legal analysis there. And last week she had a very unusual role to play

in American politics. When the Republicans in the House of Representatives called a hearing

to give Robert Kennedy Jr. a platform for his vaccine and other conspiracy theories, did

you see coverage of that? Including ones that are widely considered anti-Semitic and anti-Asian

hate speech about COVID-19. The Democrats chose Maya Wiley to be their main counter-witness.

So we'll debrief her on that strange scene a little bit. Ask her for the first time on

this show, how she thinks Mayor Adams is doing, including on criminal justice. Remember

under Mayor de Blasio, Maya ran the civilian complaint review board that adjudicated

complaints about the police. We'll get some legal analysis, including of the evolving

Trump trial universe. There's some developing news on that front, even more over the weekend,

and talk also about Maya's actual day job these days as president and CEO of the Leadership

Conference on Civil and Human Rights. Maya always good to have you. It's been a minute,

like I said, so welcome back to WNYC.

Well, thank you, Brian. It's always wonderful to be on with you.

Well, let's start with your unusual appearance on Capitol Hill last week. What we know is

that the Republican House wanted to give a boost to RFK Jr.'s profile because he's

the best-known challenger in the Democratic presidential primary against President Biden.

But what did the Democrats call you in that same hearing?

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