Friday Morning Politics: Dems In New York; Speaker Adrienne Adams On NYC's Budget; 'American Whitelash,' By Wesley Lowery; No-Drive Getaways

Coming up on today’s show:

Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN senior reporter covering Democratic politics and campaigns across the country, and the author of Battle for the Soul: Inside the Democrats’ Campaigns to Defeat Trump (Viking, 2021)talks about his reporting on the efforts of Brooklyn Congressman Hakeem Jeffries, the House minority leader, to win back House seats from the GOP in New York.
Adrienne Adams, New York City Council Speaker (District 28, Queens neighborhoods of Jamaica, Rochdale Village, Richmond Hill, and South Ozone Park), talks about the NYC budget negotiated with Mayor Adams.
Wesley Lowery, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the author of American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress (Mariner Books, 2023), talks about the cycle of progress followed by racial violence throughout American history and its most recent return following the election of President Obama in 2008.

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