It's the Brian Larry Show on WNYC. Good morning, everyone. Later this hour, we'll play excerpts from last night's

Democratic mayoral debate and invite your reactions. Get ready to call in, especially

if anything in the debate changed your thinking about any of the candidates or any of the issues.

That's coming up. Also, our friend, naturalist, Mariel Anzalone on a new campaign to preserve

biodiversity in the New York area in the era of climate change. How many species are we at risk of losing and what can be

done about it? And we'll have a call in at the end of the show on the happiest place you've ever

lived or that you imagine would top your list. This year's Happy City Index, as they call it, is out.

We'll tell you where in the U.S. and where else on earth they ranked,

and we'll invite your calls on the so-called happiest place you've ever lived and or what

qualities in a city or suburb or rural area, for that matter, make you happy, or do you think

would make you happy to live somewhere. But we'll start with this. 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.

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