Chairman Nadler on Impeachment; New York's Flavored E-Cigarette Ban; #CoveringClimateNow: Jonathan Safran Foer; Influencers' Influence on Us

The Brian Lehrer Show | Sep 16, 2019

Coming up on today's show:

  • Jerrold Nadler, U.S. Representative (D, NY-10), chair of the House Judiciary Committee, discusses what happens now that the House Judiciary Committee approved a resolution defining the rules of the panel's impeachment investigation.
  • New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) discusses the latest New York State news, including a new ban on flavored e-cigarettes.
  • Jonathan Safran Foer, author of We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019), argues saving the planet will require changing how we eat.
  • Constance Grady, staff writer at Vox, talks about the role of social media influencers on our non-influencer lives.

 

 

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