Ask the Mayor; Impeachment Coming to a Close, or Just Ramping Up?; Beyond #MeToo; Oscar Docs: Honeyland

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jan 30, 2020

Coming up on today's show:

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio takes calls from listeners and discusses this week in NYC.
On Friday afternoon, the Senate will debate and decide on the question of subpoenas and witnesses. Sarah Ferris, who covers congress for POLITICO, talks about how that vote might go and what could be coming next.
Jessica Valenti, founder of feministing.com and the author of Full Frontal Feminism, and Jaclyn Friedman, performer, activist, program director for the Center for New Words, co-editors of Believe Me: How Trusting Women Can Change the World (Seal Press, 2020), talk about their idea that taking women seriously could be transformative.
Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov, filmmakers of the Oscar-nominated feature documentary “Honeyland,” talk about their film telling the story of a beekeeper in Macedonia and the forces of change that she faces.

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