From WNYC Studios, I'm Brian Lehrer.

This is my daily politics podcast.

It's Thursday, June 5th.

New York Congressman Gerald Nadler is with us.

As our local news site, Gothamist, first reported, one of his staffers

was handcuffed in the congressman's office and briefly detained by agents of the Department of Homeland

Security. We'll play some sound from a video of the incident. According to one of the agents in the

recording, Nadler's office was, quote, harboring rioters.

But needless to say, the congressman is outraged, and needless to say, this comes in the context of the deepening crackdown on immigration.

Just last night, Trump announced a new travel ban on a list of countries.

They are Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, the Republic of Congo,

equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen. The New York Times

says it was not immediately clear why those countries were selected. And the Times reports

it also limits travel, but without as complete a ban from Burundi, Cuba,

Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan, and notably to me, Venezuela, because there are so

many Venezuelans, Cuba also notable on that list.

That's also why I emphasized Haiti in the original

list, just so many people, so many families with roots here from those particular countries,

as well as those others in Africa and the Middle East. So we're going to talk with Congressman Nadler

about what he thinks that's about in the implications.

Congressman Nadler's district is in Brooklyn and Manhattan. He is a past chair and ranking

Democrat of the House Judiciary Committee, which is going to be relevant to some of this.

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