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

We have NPR's National Politics Correspondent, senior national politics correspondent.

Mara Liason standing by is our first guest

today with some really big things in national politics developing right now, like the effects of the

Iran war versus the effects of the redistricting wars on who will hold power in the United States

the next two years. The inflation report just out this morning. It turns out to add a lot to that

narrative. We'll give you the details. So does the latest NPR PBS Marist poll about the president

and his party's approval ratings and relative to the Democrats. But can the Republicans, with the

help of the Supreme Court, you might say, redistrict their way out of

their unpopularity, and is that what democracy looks like? But before we bring Mara on, I want to do my

duty here and let you know that today we begin our annual spring membership drive. So thank you

in advance to everyone who will contribute to keep WNYC viable and

strong in the coming days in the post federal funding era. I'll tell you right off the bat

that we'll try to have some fun this week, even as we take care of business. We'll have a 10-question

quiz each day like we've been doing in recent drives with prizes if you get two in a row,

right? We'll kick it off today with a numbers in the news, 10 question quiz, and the first

question will be so easy that I'll give you the answer in advance. It's 250. Can you figure out

the question just from that? The number 250. We'll do it for real in a little while.

I'll also tell you right off the bat, also on the fun side, that we've brought back a favorite thank you gift from a few years ago, just in time for spring and summer weather.

It's the 1960s themed Peace, Love, and Brian Lair, T-shirt, the retro tied-tie shirt that will bring a smile to your

face, I think, and to those of the people who see you in it, we'll be giving them away as prizes

in those quiz segments, and of course, we have them as thank you gifts ready to go for as many

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