The House Shuts Down Early Avoiding Epstein Drama
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Brian Laird Show on WNYC. |
| 0:13.1 | I'm Bridget Bergen, senior reporter in the WNYC and Gothamist Newsroom, filling in for Brian this week. |
| 0:18.8 | Good morning, everybody. |
| 0:20.0 | Coming up on today's show why the |
| 0:22.1 | NYPD is ramping up enforcement against cyclists who violate traffic laws and giving them |
| 0:28.8 | criminal summonses. Compare that to drivers who often get a ticket mailed to them or go through |
| 0:34.2 | traffic court when they commit a comparable offense. If you've gotten a |
| 0:38.0 | ticket on your bike in the past few months, you're not alone. Between April and June of this year, |
| 0:44.0 | police issued almost 6,000 criminal summonses. We're going to talk about this crackdown in the |
| 0:49.9 | various issues surrounding it. Plus, later on the show, why some naturalized U.S. citizens are |
| 0:55.5 | worried the Trump administration may undermine or even revoke their citizenship. And remember |
| 1:01.8 | that study that came out last year that suggested those black plastic spatulas a lot of us have in |
| 1:07.3 | our kitchen could be harmful? Well, we're going to wrap today's show with a conversation about that and how to use less plastic when you're cooking. But we're going to start |
| 1:16.1 | things off with the news out of Washington, and specifically the seemingly endless news cycle about |
| 1:22.7 | Jeffrey Epstein. The late financier died by suicide in the Manhattan jail in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. |
| 1:32.0 | Releasing the files related to his case was one of President Donald Trump's rallying cries on the campaign trail. |
| 1:39.1 | But when Trump's own Justice Department and FBI walked back the idea that there was a client list of elites who |
| 1:45.5 | participated in Epstein's sex trafficking scheme. The response from the MAGA base was swift and |
| 1:52.5 | angry. And the news keeps coming. Just this morning, there were reports that back in May, |
| 1:58.6 | Attorney General Pam Bondi met with the president and told him his name appeared in the Epstein files. |
| 2:04.5 | The controversy has tied Republicans in the Hill in knots. |
| 2:07.5 | House Speaker Mike Johnson on the heels of passing the president's domestic tax and spending bill cut business short this week, |
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