Attack in Monsey; Impeachment Updates; Bail and Discovery Reform; Beyond GDP; Christianity Today and Trump

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In this Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2019, file photo, President Donald Trump listens to a question during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House, in Washington.

Coming up on today's show:

  • Amid a wave of anti-Semitic incidents and attacks, over the weekend a man attacked Hanukkah worshipers in Monsey, N.Y. Batya Ungar-Sargon, opinion editor at the Forward, and Motti Seligson, director of media at Chabad.org, talk about the attack and how the Jewish community is feeling.

  • What's the status of the struggle between Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell over the shape of a trial in the Senate? Jonathan Lemire, Associated Press White House reporter and political analyst for MSNBC and NBC News, brings the latest.

  • Beth Fertig, WNYC senior reporter covering courts and legal affairs, previews New York's new discovery and bail laws and whether they will lead to more defendants taking more pleas instead of pursuing trials.

  • Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel laureate in economics, university professor at Columbia University, chief economist at the Roosevelt Institute, and co-author of Measuring What Counts: The Global Movement for Well-Being (The New Press, 2019) talks about ways of measuring a society's health, besides GDP.

  • The influential evangelical publication Christianity Today recently published an editorial calling for the president's removal from office. John Fea, professor of history at Messiah College and author of many books, including most recently Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump (Eerdmans, 2018), talks about how evangelicals are feeling about impeachment, the president and the 2020 election.