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The Brian Lehrer Show | May 4, 2012

Slate political reporter and MSNBC contributor, Dave Weigel, discusses Mitt Romney’s relationship with social conservatives following the resignation of gay aide, Richard Grenell. Plus: affordable housing in New Jersey 40 years after the Mount Laurel decision; philanthropist Eli Broad on his new book; an effort to reach out to disconnected youth who are neither in school nor the workforce; we take calls on whether aspiring lawyers should rethink their decision; and novelist Julia Alvarez talks about her new book and her work in the Dominican Republic. 

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