new yorkers can sleep a little better. i want to thank our new york state attorney general who really did great work on this matter. please, eric, stand so we can acknowledge you. [ applause ] i'd also like to ask richard kauffman and jim malatros to stand, who did great work on my team. [ applause ] we will improve our democratic processes. we will propose early voting and automatic voter registration because we should do everything we can to actually get people to vote. [ applause ] we will advance women's rights and equal pay by adopting salary history blind hiring practices and requiring all state contractors to report employees' gender and pay. [ applause ] and make no mistake. new york will always stand up and stand tall and stand firm to protect a woman's right to choose. [ applause ] we will fight the scourge of homelessness. last year we made an historic $20 billion commitment to fight pervasive homelessness and the affordable housing shortage. the money is there. the largest state commitment in history, $20 billio

there are 1.8 million new yorkers living in poverty. d levy is the president of the robin hood foundation, a philanthropy founded in 1988 to alleviate poverty in new york city. it recently launched a campaign to help over 800,000 new yorkers receive the federal benefits to which they are entitled but not getting. i'm pleased to have him on this program. welcome. what is robin hood? founded in 1988, which is recent by charity standards. reynold: robin hood was created by some publicly spirited hedge fund managers who wanted to give something back to the city and were very concerned about poverty in new york city and ways in which to alleviate it. in its current incarnation, it raises every year somewhere between $125 and $150 million and distributes it to our nonprofit partners who provide services in everything ranging from charter schools to food pantries to health services to income maintenance services for clients all over new york city. jeffrey: let me ask you about poverty in new york city generally. is it better or worse than 10 ye

david remnick from "the new yorker" joins us in just a minute and i feel like i'm finally starting to understand this. the more... powerful you'll think they are. it's time to see what power really looks like. new neutrogena® rapid wrinkle repair with accelerated retinol sa. clinically proven to reduce wrinkles in just one week. wrinkles? your time is up! rapid wrinkle repair. and for dark spots. rapid tone repair. neutrogena® see what's possible. >>> sometimes a new news story itself isn't the most important thing. sometimes the most important thing about a brand-new news story is that it upsets people and therefore shakes something loose. outrage denials. confirmation or denial of certain facts. that happened over the last few days when the white house reacted with outrage to the new story that the white house chief of staff had leaned on the fbi about the fbi investigation into contacts between the trump campaign and russia. the white house was outraged at those stories. they were so mad about those stories. they pushed back hard on those stories and in doing so confirmed that the

david remnick has a heavy duty new report on russia and trump and what "the new yorker" is called "theone, something that i just mentioned, russian intelligence officials frequently discussing paul manafort. also, some current government officials interested in donald trump before he declared his presidential intentions because he m have been a money thing and russia may have been interested in the way he was helping russians move their money out of that country. >> well, i think the reason vladimir putin was most interested in donald trump has to do with hillary clinton. trump could not stand hillary clinton. and a lot of the pieces, remember, the person who moved nato eastward was bill clinton and this was considered in the world of vladimir putin a grave threat to the security of russia. it's not some minor geopolitical move that is a grave threat to him in his mind. remember, putin came to office in 2000, appointed by boris yeltsin who said his first deed was to ensure the safety and nonprosecution of boris yeltsin and almost instantly shut down in the history of communism and russ

new yorker before.facts. nobody in this new administration and yet the world is coming to an end in his view. >> come on the program, debate michael wolf. let me channel him for a moment. he said to me this is an emergency. journalists have to act differently. sounds like you just disagree with that. >> totally. what is the emergency other than the fact that he is personally offended and upset and worried? >> you also made the point about reporting. you've been doing reports on this administration, interviewing kellyanne conway. what did you take away? >> i think that one of the things about this new circumstance and this new administration is you got to get in. you got to meet these people. you have to talk to these people. you have to see what's going on. >> are you just sucking up to get access to the white house? >> if i'm sucking up a bit. i am the only person, it would seem, who is actually having this conversation and my conversations with these people then get retailed throughout the media chain

according to "the new yorker," several protract papers were papers -- protrump were stunned. "the new york post" called it a marathon rant. these are papers that traditionally support donald trump. "the new yorker" are calling it the alternative reality press conference. the president was caught lying or saying untrue things in that press conference where essentially he was self congratulating himself on the first four weeks in the white house. "the new yorker" disagrees with that and says in his first four weeks, trump has achieved virtually nothing except scaring the bejeezus out of the world. u.s.,: staying in the yesterday businesses shut down across the country where immigrants refused to spend money on the so-called day without immigrants. >> the idea was to show the trump administration how much immigration contributes to the u.s. economy. it is an initiative that has sparked a lot of interest around the world. has theirper correspondent in washington that reports at least 65 restaurants closed there. "the nation" is a left-wing magazine. it says a day without immigrant

since when did you start reading the new yorker? i read it every week. i needed somebody who could talk to jimmy carter like that. jimmy is 93. he saw her in the cradle. they've known each other for almost a century and they still have that kind of relationship. so as a matter of fact camp david was her idea, something that i found out when i was there. so i -- after that went to israel and to egypt to talk to the surviving members of those negotiating teams and to see how this actually happened because i've lived a lot in the middle east and if there's one lesson you learn from spending a long time in the middle east is that things can always get worst. here is one thing, one agreement between israel and egypt that had a single violation in 38 years and think about how bad things are, how much worse it would be if these two nations which had four wars in a single generation were still at war with each other. egypt was the only country in the middle east that really posed threat to the existence of israel. now, what i learned, first of all, let me tell y

we salute the bravery of 9—year—old new yorker isaiah bird.

we salute the bravery of 9—year—old new yorker isaiah bird.voted overwhelmingly to allow the government to start the process of leaving the eu. the prime minister, theresa may, says she wants to trigger formal talks by the end of march. the legislation survived several attempts to add extra conditions and will now go to the house of lords. here's our political correspondent vicki young. as many of that opinion say aye. aye! the message is loud and clear, theresa may wants to get on with brexit negotiations, and tonight mps gave her their overwhelming support. the ayes to the right, 494. the noes to the left, 122. it's an historic vote today and it got through by a large majority at every turn. it's carried out the will of the british people. that's what parliament has done today. and it's put through a bill which is just 137 words long. it's very simple, it just authorises the government to do what the people told them to do. but many are frustrated they haven't had enough time to fully debate the brexit bill. the whole of the curtailing of th

president, lawyer works for "the new yorker" and he wrote a piece about scientology. i read that. found that most intriguing. and rosalynn said since when did you start reading the "the new yorker." oh, i read it every week. i needed somebody who would talk to jimmy carter like that, and jimmy is 93, and rose lynn was born in the house next to them. he saw her in the cradle. have over in themselves for a quarter century and day still have that relationship. and camp david was her idea. subject -- something i found out while i was down there. so after that it went to israel and to egypt to talk as a surviving members of the negotiating teams, and to see how this actually happened, because i've lived a lot in the middle east, and this is one lesson you learn from spending a long time in middle east, is that things can always get worse. and there's one agreement between israel and egypt has not had a single violation in 38 years, and think how bad things are now, how much worse they would be if these two nations, which had four wars in a single generation, were still at war with each

- it's called the relive box after the story that was in the new yorker two years ago. - [evan] relive box, and it'll be out soon? - about a game, gaming, it's about gaming and what does it mean. - very good, well, i wish you continued success with this and everything else you do. t. c. boyle, thank you very much - thanks, evan. - great seeing you. (audience applauding) we'd love to have you join us in the studio. visit our website at klru.org/overheard to find invitations to interviews, q&as with our audience and guests, and an archive of past episodes. - i'm not coming out of a journalistic background so, i like tom wolfe, for instance, who's books i love. i don't want to reproduce how many spots are on the dalmatian at the firehouse and how they talk. i want to have my imagination run free, so i'm using these real facts to then create an entirely different set of characters that have nothing to do with them. - [narrator] funding for overheard with evan smith is provided in part by the alice kleberg reynolds foundation and hillco partners, a texas government affairs consultancy and b

he is a new yorker. i am the new york state attorney general.ve gotten to know each other in the context of litigation and investigations in the past. jeffrey: what do you think of donald trump? eric: i think it is extraordinary he has done what he has done. give credit where credit is due, but he's now the president of the united states. whatever our relationship was when he was a private citizen engaged in good or bad conduct is very different. we are not out to get mr. trump. we are out to uphold the rule of law. jeffrey: let me ask a legal question. in the course of your trump foundation investigation, do you have the legal right to subpoena his tax return? eric: i don't comment on ongoing investigations. i don't think we are there yet. jeffrey: i am not saying are you subpoenaing, but do you have the legal authority to do that? eric: i don't think that is something required under the circumstances of this investigation. we are being very careful not to overstep our authority. we don't want anyone to get the impression there is any political

. >>> some new yorkers united to scrub hateful graffiti that popped up on a subway. rk attorney said he discovered the anti-semitic writings all over the subway train as he headed to dinner with friends. instead of looking the other way, passengers joined together to scrub the hate in a spontaneous show of unit. it was all captured in this series of photos that went viral on social media. joining us now is gregory locke, the man who posted these photos on facebook. greg, walk us through this. you were riding the subway last night, and i saw in your post that you said some of the passengers clearly were uncomfortable. what happened? >> yeah. when i got on the train, i think the first emotion that i experienced as well as everybody else was sort of shock. nobody knew how to react or what to do. there was one gentleman on the train who sort of came up with the idea to use hand sanitizer and tissues to remove the permanent marker on the train. and i think after that one gentleman spoke up, everyone sort of realized they could play a role and everyone pitched in however th

are joined by sheelah kolhatkar, a former hedge fund analyst who is now a staff writer at the "new yorker." she is the author of the new book "black edge: inside information, dirty money, and the quest to bring down the most wanted man on wall street." which we will also talk about. sheelah kolhatkar, welcome to democracy now! , the talk about dodd-frank people, the bankers that president trump is surrounding himself by -- which might surprise many of his supporters because he had decried goldman sachs and the very banks that he is now deeply involved with. can you talk about dodd frank? >> dodd-frank was the major legislation passed in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. long.over 1000 pages it has many critics. there are flaws. however, many people, including elizabeth warren, agree it has made the system safer. it is required banks to keep more capital on hand, meaning that a larger cushion in case they encounter some kind of problem. this was a big issue in 2008. it has pushed the banks to stop doing proprietary trading. it is basically a form of gambling, depending on who you ask,

we salute the bravery of nine—year—old new yorker, isaiah bird. rescinds there is mr mandela, mr nelsono a new south africa. iran's spiritual leader ayatollah khomeini has said he's passed a death sentence on salman rushdie, the british this author of a book which many muslims say is blasphemous. the people of haiti have flocked to church to give thanks for the ousting of their former president, 'baby doc' duvalier. because of his considerable value as a stallion, shergar was kept in a special secure box in the stud farm's central block. shergar was driven away in a horse box the thieves had brought with them. there stepped down from the plane figure in mourning. elizabeth ii, queen of this realm and of all her other realms and territories. head of the commonwealth, defender of the faith. this is bbc world news. the latest headlines: the british government has been given the green light to begin formal divorce talks with the european union after an overwhelming vote in parliament. the us senate has confirmed president trump's controversial choice for attorney general — right—wing senato

now here is the inspiring story of nine—year—old new yorker isaiah bird.topped his passion for sport. my name's isaiah bird, and i'm nine years old, and i love wrestling. i also like football, soccer, swimming, baseball. what makes me unique is i have no legs, and i was born this way. god made me this way. many people say, like, you have no legs, you can't go up there, you can't come down here. and they would be, like, mean to me. i don't go with that. it's just not nice. i'm, like, why are you doing this to me? the first time that i met isaiah, i rememberthat like it was yesterday. isaid hey, dude, iwant to play basketball. you want to play basketball with me? i saw this young man hopping around. it was shocking. he had no legs, and i was amazed at how quick and how happy he was. isaiah bird does not see a disability in himself. he does anything that any other kid does, sometimes better. it's like i have two families, it'sjust like a miracle. i feel supported. as he gets older, no matter what happens, he knows he can always rely on me, and he knows that c

that would be done not just to the individual detainees but to lots of others, millions of other new yorkersover the country. so i'm proud of the fact that the attorneys general around the country responded quickly, within 36 hours of this order dropping. we issued a very strong statement because we were getting nothing but obfuscation and confusion from washington. in fact, one of the complaints by the folks on the ground working for the federal agencies was they had no guidelines. there were inconsistent application of this elsewhere. we put out a statement that we were confidentlet court could strike this down, it was unconstitutional and un-american and we were, two minimize the pain and we followed through. >> so we'll see how that evolves. do you see yourself as sort of the voice of the opposition to trump? i mean, you have democrats in congress, they don't have subpoena power. you have subpoena power. do you see yourself as one of the major checks on the new administration? >> well, i do see state governments and state attorneys general in particular as a major check because it's beco

since the election, david remnick, the editor of "the new yorker" has gone off in fits. er seen in its before. no facts, no nothing. he knows no one in the new administration. no reporting. and yet the world is coming to an end in his view. >> jon: having just been corrected, brian. >> adding insult to injury ther there. >> jon: i apologize for confusing your name. >> not at all. we look a little bit alike. >> jon: that is the joy of live television. we watch the president getting ready to deplane from air force one. he will be speaking to officials at centcom and so calm. we should have that for your life. but to his point, he suggests that the medias cannot abide the trump administration. and want to dump as much as possible because they simply feel that the president and his team are not qualified. >> yes, i think the point is unassailable. let me try to square the circle of what jeff is saying and what i am saying. there are a lot of good journalists. and i am sure that a lot of the folks are doing really good work. but there is this haze of hysteria over what the cov

in particular, or wannabe new yorkers, i get this look look in their eyes and looks to me like envy. so, i can understand why. park slope in 2010, the stack statistics guru, called it one after the best neighbors in new york city. an amazing place to own a home but i have to admit to you that we don't feel that lucky. luckis the guy down the street who bought two houses. of course in 1982, when i tell people knew that i was buying a house in brooklyn, they didn't look envious. they look alarmed. brooklyn was not a place that a jewish girl should aspire to live in. people who could were leaving brooklyn for the subbers and there were many momented wonder what we had been think can, particularly a moment in 1990 when the mother of my younger daughter's classmate had a gun fountain her head as she exited the q train after christmas jobbing in manhattan. we took the q train a lot and still do in a lot of respect they would story of how brooklyn came to this decrepit state redem sells what we heard about the failing si stus and towns of trump country and rust belt and appalachia, and i do

and "the new yorker" says, "so much snot." [ audience ohs ] [ sobbing ] "a story of redemption." >> youstop blaming yourself, man. >> seth: i can't. >> it wasn't your fault. >> seth: it's not? not my fault? i had, like, 100 drinks. and then, i stole that public city bus full of people. [ laughter ] and then i made a bet i could drive across the bridge with the lights off. i didn't make the bet with anyone else, just myself so i didn't win any money when i made it. and yet i still had to prove to myself i could do it again with my eyes closed, in reverse, at 100 miles per hour. and then, when i completed that i drove to the middle of the bridge and started doing celebratory donuts, and that's when everybody flew out the back emergency door into that freezing water. everybody died but me, and you're telling me, it's not my fault? [ laughter ] >> narrator: featuring pretentiously artistic shots of a man's hand grazing wheat. the grabbing of a bedsheet to indicate an orgasm. [ laughter ] this thing. that thing. that weird spike lee thing where the character is gliding towards the camera, an

is evan osnos of the new yorker, he and his colleagues analyze russia's relationship with the trump administration in a new cover article titled active measures. and here in new york, julie loffe of the atlantic covers politics and world affairs and focuses on russia. i'm pleased to have both of them on this program. welcome. >> thank you. >> so avenue an, your-- efan, your cover, breat piece, a lot of people glad you wrote it, probably not the trump administration. what surprises you most when you look the the amount of confrontation that you see between united states and russia, in the piece you really unpack what the russians have been up to, particularly in a sim et rick warfare against the u.s. and increasingly the u.s. what coming into this piece you wouldn't have expected now that it's out. >> this piece which really was a collaboration with deafd recommend nick and-- was an attempt to try to say what is actually going on right now in the u.s. russia relationship. i think frankly for a lot of american this was offer the radar screen for the last few years, people weren't paying that much at

that's the subject of a lengthy article in this week's "new yorker" magazine, and to william branghamrangham: so what is known, and not known, about russia's involvement in our recent election? i'm joined now by evan osnos. he's a staff writer at the "new yorker" and one of the author's of "active measures," a deep look into russia's actions, that's in the latest edition of the magazine. and i'm also joined by john sipher. he spent 28 years in the c.i.a.'s clandestine service, including assignments in russia and eastern europe. he's now at a consulting company called cross-lead. welcome to you both. >> thank you. >> brangham: evan osnos, really a wonderful primmer in the new yorker you wrote and several of your colleagues. can you bring us up to speed, what do and don't we know about russia's involvement in the election? >> this was a collaboration and an attempt to say let's clarify what we've learned. than extraordinary moment. we know three things happened. the first thing, as you know, the d.n.c. was hacked. john podesta'sÑi email was hack. that's the one americans know the most a

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. >> when the new president came to office, one of the intriguing things was that you're both new yorkers. he initially said some not unkind things about you and you talked about the fact that even though you weren't friends you had crossed paths a few times and were able to have a conversation. he has since called you a clown, he has accused you of fake crying over the refugee ban. are you talking to him at all? >> i haven't talked to him much in the last few weeks. when he praised me, it didn't matter. when he called names, it didn't matter. we're guided by our values. we have strong values, it's what america should be about and what happened is the donald trump presidency moved so far to the right it's hard to see compromising with them on almost anything because they are not what donald trump campaigned on. as i said to you last time, if he were to say "i'll abolish the carried interest loophole" yeah, of course we'd support him but they're not close to that. this administration still occasionally talks populist but its actions are hard right and that's bad news not only for america b

he is an evangelical christian who looked upon the new yorker as a philandering playboy but he's becomeert. social conservatives and conservatives in general have been so fed up with washington for so long, for decades, that we wanted someone to go to washington and blow it up. whether i was a trump supporter or not, so many of us are looking for trump to do exactly what he has been doing so far, to completely change the landscape, figuratively blow up washington and give us a new american revolution. it has been the pace of the trump presidency, it's felt like a final furlong gallop, that's impressed kelly and todd floyd. we are excited to see what he will continue to do. you think he is making good on his promises? i think he is, i think the implementation of the immigration policy showed that he was not a career politician, but i think that's why he got voted into office, because we don't want career politicians any more. there's no sign here of buyer's remorse. to travel from coastal cities like new york and los angeles into these heartland communities feels like crossing into a par

new yorkers aren't necessarily fans of the patriots. >> it's no secret. >> it's no secret, in fact, the new york giants were -- this was a touching moment there. gisele with her husband. >> and the kids. >> happy wife. >> happy life. >> so i think it works out there. the new york tabloids, the "new york post" this morning i think capturing the way a lot of new yorkers feel. "cheat your heart out." they couldn't even be nice about it. >> not even for a second. >> not for a second. congratulations, patriots nation. more on this throughout the morning as well. >>> and of course turning to our other top story, the immigration showdown pitting president trump against a federal appeals court. >> so the president is attacking a judge who initially issued the temporary restraining order suspending that travel ban over the weekend, as he warns homeland security to check people very carefully at the nation's airports. abc's david wright with the latest. >> reporter: this is the scene playing out at airports across the country. families torn apart by the trump administration's targeted travel ban

when i tell people about these days, new yorkers in particular or want to be new yorkers, they get this look in their eyes and it looks a little bit to me like in the. i can understand why. park slope, in 2010, the statistics to prove nate fisher called parksville the best neighborhood in all of new york city. it is an amazing place to own a home, but i really have to admit to you that we don't feel that lucky like he is at the guy down the street who bought two houses. of course in 1982 when i tell people i knew that i was buying a house a house in brooklyn, they didn't look envious. they looked alarmed. brooklyn was not the kind of place that a jewish girl from suburban philadelphia was, should aspire to live in. people who could work leaving brooklyn for the suburbs, not vice versa. there were many moments over the next two years that it wondered what on earth we had been thinking. i think particularly of a moment in 199 1990 when the mother of y younger daughters classmate had a can put to her head as she exited the train after christmas shopping in manhattan. we took that train a l

this is in the latest edition of the "new yorker" with the ghost of nixon telling donald trump, "it'swe had a little chat." "watergate is the biggest political scandal of my lifetime until maybe now. on a 10 scale of armageddon for our form of government, i would put the russia scandal around 5 or 6. it is cascading by the hour. i'm joined by the former watergate assistant special prosecutor, mr. dean, echo or denial or nothing's the same. where do you stand? >> i see some interesting parallel. obviously the russian break-in was a little different than the watergate break-in itself. it was a hacking versus a bugging and ransacking of the files but they obviously deal both with the dnc. i think that's where the comparison comes from, chris. and from there, there's clear i don't ever -- coverups going on. no one is coming forward and confessing this. and that's watergate. >> this time around, i'm not sure. i think some of the disruption of the dnc, the palmieri thing, the poddesta, i know it was just a dirty trick, they were screwing up their operation. >> but here you've got a foreign