It's the Brian Lera Show on WNYC. Good morning, everyone.

Coming up today, we have our lead Eric Adams reporter, Elizabeth Kim, as usual on Wednesdays,

with clips and analysis from the Mayor's Tuesday

News Conference and to take your calls. Some interesting things from this week. Yes, President

Biden's new border policy is reducing the number of new asylum seekers coming to the city.

That's probably not making enough news as the Democratic Party's deliberations

over Biden's cognitive capacity dominates the headlines. Also, the mayor staked out a position

on legalizing prostitution, sex work or not. That had more coming up with Liz Kim. And we'll

have segment two today in our WNYC centennial series,

100 Years of 100 Things. We did Thing 1 on Monday, the 100 year history of WNYC itself.

Today it's Thing 2, 100 years of radio. Radio overall, with an audio curator from the Library

of Congress, lots of archival audio tape that goes all the

way back to the 1920s and on up, and we'll invite your oral histories of listening to the radio

from any era, from listeners of all ages, moments from the radio that you remember, impact of the

radio that you remember on your life or on society from any time,

that's all coming up. But we'll start on the fast-moving national politics.

Erin Toherty is with us, political reporter for Axios covering breaking news and the 2024

presidential campaign. Aaron, thanks for coming on. Welcome to WNYC. It's great to be here. Thank you so much

for having me. And we'll go on both the Democratic and the Republican tracks with the Republican

platform announced this week ahead of the Republican Convention, which begins on Monday,

and the Democrats still assessing President Biden, some out loud, some only in private, to decide

whether they think he's still the best to be Trump. There's some breaking news on that that I know

...