Donald Trump has appointed Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to head the EPA, an organization Pruitt is currently suing. Chris Mooney, environment reporter for the Washington Post, and Matthew Nussbaum, reporter for POLITICO covering the incoming Trump administration, discuss Pruitt's appointment, other new cabinet picks, and related transition news.

Trump's pick of Linda McMahon to head the SBA is not surprising, given Donald Trump's long history with the @WWE, says @MatthewNussbaum

Caller points out that three people in the Trump administration have been accused of domestic abuse (Pudzer, Bannon, and Trump himself).

Two callers argue that much of Obama's policy legacy can be easily undone, since much of it was not done through legislation.

This week's favorites include:

Van Jones (First) | Native American Myths (Starts at 30:42) | Remembering Pearl Harbor (Starts at 44:46)

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Michael Days, editor of the Philadelphia Daily News and the author of Obama's Legacy: What He Accomplished as President (Center Street), reviews the president's achievements and impact, and responds to listeners who are more critical of Obama.

"If you're not standing in a bread line, then Obama did something for you," says @mikedays, on the Obama-era post-recession economy pic.twitter.com/9dDkzZCzsO

Daniel Nigro, Commissioner of the New York City Fire Department, and Thomas Fuller, San Francisco bureau chief for The New York Times, explains what we know so far about what caused the devastating fire in an Oakland warehouse, and what safety lessons New Yorkers can take away from the fire.

@BrianLehrer The Oakland fire shows that we need to build more affordable housing. The federal government must build public housing.

@brianlehrer Is it illegal to lock a door with an Exit sign during business hours?
Who do we report it to?

@BrianLehrer as former resident of illegal artist housing and current FDNY employee, I feel that confidential inspection/consult is key.

This cannot be divorced from affordable housing crisis @BrianLehrer high rents drive people to the fringe. 11MM+ spend 50% of income on rent

@BrianLehrer if the fire dpt finds a bldg not in code, the city should require landlord to fix, rather than evict tenants! #ithappenedtome

@LivingColour's @vurnt22 just called in to offer a passionate invective asking what artists should do when priced out of affordable housing

The flu virus changes every year, and so does the shot, meaning people have to get a new one each year that only works 20% of the time.  Mary Harris, host and managing editor of Only Human, explains why we're stuck with the so-so vaccine, and reports on the efforts of one local microbiologist to make a better, longer-lasting flu shot.

This week, Governor Cuomo ordered an investigation into racial bias in New York State prisons in response to a New York Times investigation. Issa Kohler-Hausmann, associate professor of law and sociology at Yale, and Sarah Mehta, human rights researcher at the American Civil Liberties Union, talk about another criminal justice issue featured in a new ACLU report: the difficulty of getting paroled experienced by those who were convicted of serious crimes as teenagers in New York and other states.

Caller James (a former prisoner) on his parole hearing: It was very fast. They are very disconnected from what's going on in New York City.

"This is a lawless body." - @Yale's Issa Kohler-Hausmann on the New York State Parole Board, in our studio with the @aclu's @sarahlmehta pic.twitter.com/rYWrdKYa1S

Latinos are a fast-growing group within Islam in the United States. Michael Simon Johnson, producer for NPR's Latino USA, and Maryam Jameel, reporter based in Washington, D.C. who co-produced this story for Latino USA, discuss the complexities of life for Latino Muslims.

@BrianLehrer Same Latino-Muslim center just opened in Bronx few months ago. https://t.co/iFKIKSw4Lq

@SoundsLikeMSJ: Many of the converts I spoke to were previously isolated, and found Islam through social media and the internet.

Since President-elect Trump nominated Betsy DeVos, a conservative philanthropist in favor of vouchers and charter schools, to be secretary of education,Dana Goldstein, journalist who writes for Slate, The New Republic and The Marshall Project and is the author of The Teacher Wars: A History of America's Most Embattled Profession (Doubleday, 2014), looks at all the ways public education might be changed under Trump.

@DanaGoldstein: To much Republican consternation, Obama tried to reduce education profiteering. DeVos is likely to ease these regulations

@DanaGoldstein: Betsy Devos may support less testing and looser accountability, whereas Mike Pence may support more accountability.

@DanaGoldstein: Betsy DeVos believes in school choice, not necessarily for its impact on testing, but as a good in itself.

One caller ask why unions oppose charters; another wonders why some see kids' education as a place to profit off public funds. @BrianLehrer

@BrianLehrer In privatizing education, ideology can replace curriculum. Add this to restricted women's rights & u have a lethal/scary combo.

Issue NEVER discussed is "private" schools opened to take advantage of vouchers;unqualified teachers/administrators-poor outcomes. https://t.co/Gfa7rT0inN

Nahal Toosi, foreign affairs correspondent at POLITICO, talks about the formal and informal ways President-elect Trump's children may represent America and the Trump brand overseas, how the State Department worries this could upend diplomatic protocol, and discusses the latest news from the PEOTUS orbit.

@nahaltoosi: Just because Trump is President-elect doesn't mean the world isn't moving; Trump skipping intelligence briefings is worrying.

@nahaltoosi: Trump views diplomacy as transnational, but that often isn't true in the short term.

@nahaltoosi: Trump views diplomacy as transnational, but that often isn't true in the short term.

As Inauguration Day nears and with it potential changes to immigration policy,Allan Wernick, professor of law at Baruch College and director of CUNY Citizenship Now!, gives advice to immigrants, including DACA recipients.

@awernick: It is unlikely that the Trump administration will try to deport people like our caller who have children born in the US