I'm Brian Lehrer. This is my daily politics podcast from WNYC Studios. It's Friday, March 18th.

With us now, Preet Bharara, former U.S. Attorney during the Obama administration for the Southern District of New York,

which is a fancy way of saying Manhattan and the Bronx and the northern suburbs and up into

the Catskills and up to Poughkeepsie. But it's the fact that it has jurisdiction over Manhattan

that makes the Southern District U.S., such an important office for justice on the national

and even international level, as well as in New York.

In fact, Preet Bharara's Twitter bio, you know, there's a couple of lines at the top of all

our Twitter feeds.

His includes the words, banned by Putin, fired by Trump.

So we have plenty to talk about right there. But in addition,

Prie Barra was a high-profile endorser of the new Manhattan DA, Alvin Bragg, controversial in his

first months in office for some of his progressive prosecutor reforms. And Barrara's corruption

investigations included at least one of Governor Andrew Cuomo that ended with no charges filed, but still, Cuomo uses Barrara as a foil sometimes in claiming the sexual harassment report about him from the New York State Attorney General's office is political.

So we've got a few things to talk about.

Also, coming up on March 31st, Preet will be doing

his podcast called Stay Tuned, live at the town hall in Midtown, where he'll be talking to guests

Ben Stiller and Gary Kasparov, less about acting or chess, I'm sure, than about Stiller's role as an

advocate for refugees, and Kasparov's role as a Russian critic of Putin.

We always appreciate when you come on. Welcome back to WNYC. Thank you, Brian. It's good to be here. I miss being in

the studio with you, though. And it's great to have you, even this way, and I miss it too. But usually

guests get to plug their events at the end.

I'm going to let you plug yours at the beginning and ask you what you think.

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