From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Brooke Gladstone.

Bob is out on assignment this week, but I'm not co-hosting alone.

Deborah Amos, the great NPR Mid-East correspondent who actually reports on everything, is here to help out.

Hi, Deb.

Hi, Brooke.

Okay, so we discussed the run-up to Brexit last week,

and we haven't had time to assess the fallout this week, so I guess you'll just have to wait till next week.

We're just going to leave you with this. Eight hours after the polls closed in the UK,

citizens there hammered Google with a couple of crucial questions.

Number one, what does it mean to leave the EU? Number two, what is the EU? But enough about such

thorny issues, we'll talk about guns. The time for silence and patience is long gone.

Let us vote.

Yesterday morning, legendary activist and Georgia Democrat John Lewis led dozens of

Democratic lawmakers to a civil rights style sit-in in the House of Representatives.

We have been too quiet for too long.

There comes a time when you have to say something,

when you have to make a little noise.

Those lawmakers told personal stories

about gun violence, they chanted.

They even broke into song.

Republicans, particularly House Speaker Paul Ryan, was not overcome.

The chair appreciates that members will differ on matters of policy and will seek to express those differences.

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