Ed Rollins, adviser to four presidents, manager of President Reagan's landslide reelection campaign and now, Senior Presidential Fellow at Hofstra University discusses the 2014 and 2016 elections and the poisonous stalemate in Congress.

Award winning documentary filmmaker, creator of "If Knishes Could Talk," about the NY accent, Heather Quinlan has taken on the Miracle Team: the '86 Mets - a gritty band of outlaws; perhaps, a metaphor for 1980's New York.

Richard Murphy, former ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Mauritania, the Philippines and Syria defines and clarifies participants-Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Egypt and terms-Sunni, Shia, Sharia, Caliphate to understand the struggle in the middle east.

Chair Marc V. Shaw and Executive Director Michael Jacobson lead the recently created CUNY Institute for State & Local Governance, applying "a data-driven approach to the challenges and opportunities confronting government."

Wise Guys & Gal: Errol Louis, Azi Paybarah, and Liz Benjamin, review the recent Democratic primary; upstate's reaction to downstate's initiatives; the Working Families Party, the Independence Party...and more.

Compt. DiNapoli manages many of our pensions: $176.2 billion worth; he reviews the fiscal health of NYS and NYC budgets. He's more than a little concerned about the "corruption eruption" in government. Some say he's the "nicest guy in Albany!" But, is he?

CUNY TV welcomes James B. Milliken, newly appointed Chancellor of The City University of New York. After nearly a decade as president of the University of Nebraska, Chancellor Milliken has returned to NYC, where he attended law school and married.

Ian Vandewalker, counsel to the Brennan Center for Justice-Democracy Program discusses the Roberts Court: their striking down 7 campaign finance laws since 2006, and most recently McCutcheon, and the influence of "dark money."

James Parrott, of the Fiscal Policy Institute and Charles Brecher, of the Citizens Budget Commission, discuss the complexities and the uncertainties of the New York City budget.

To the Irish immigrant haunted by the potato famine and bigotry of the Know Nothing movement, Tammany Hall's support of the poor was a godsend. Terry Golway, author of "Machine Made" provides a revisionist view of Tammany Hall. A great read!