It's the Brian Lera Show on WNYC.

Good morning, everyone.

Well, we're just getting this news that we will report on during the show today as we learn more about the CEO of the

health insurance company United Healthcare being shot outside a hotel here in Manhattan,

shot and killed. And we will, of course, look into the context of that, was that kind of a

political assassination of sorts against a health care

CEO? Was it something more personal? We have no idea at the moment. But we will report during the show

as details come in, because this just happened a short time ago, on the apparent fatal shooting

of the CEO of United Healthcare.

Meanwhile, we've promised to cover the incoming Trump administration

on at least two tracks on this show,

straight up policy, debates, and analysis,

and calling out threats to democracy

or attempts to move toward authoritarianism if they occur.

Brooklyn and Manhattan Congressman Dan Goldman seems to be moving on those two tracks too.

He's had a lot to say recently about policy issues from affordable housing and child care to the mass

deportation that Trump has vowed to carry out in New York City and elsewhere. And Goldman, he'll

join us in a minute, has had a lot to say about Trump as a threat to democracy. We've talked on

the show about a Trump laugh line at a meeting of the House of Representatives Republican Caucus

a few days after the election. Remember that? It's already faded from the headlines.

The line was, I suspect I won't be running again unless you say, he's so good, we've got to figure

something else out. And that was received as funny by the House Republican crowd in attendance,

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