All of Trump's (New) Cabinet Members; Health Care Union's Succession Battle; Peter Beinart Seeks 'A Reckoning'; Divesting From Big Tech?
The Brian Lehrer Show | Jan 28, 2025
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Coming up on today's show:
- Ian Ward, reporter at POLITICO, where he covers the conservative movement and the American right for POLITICO Magazine, discusses the confirmation hearing of Brooke Rollins, President Donald Trump’s agriculture secretary nominee and her priorities for USDA, and Clare Malone, staff writer at The New Yorker covering media and politics, previews the confirmation of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s first of two confirmation hearings as President Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.
- The nation’s largest health care union, 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers, is in the midst of a succession battle to unseat its long term president. Maya Kaufman, health care reporter for POLITICO New York in New York City, explains what's the driver behind the battle and what New Yorkers stand to gain, and lose, depending on the outcome.
- Peter Beinart, journalist, commentator, author of the Substack newsletter 'The Beinart Notebook', editor-at-large of Jewish Currents, professor at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, and the author of Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning (Knopf, 2025), talks about his new book on calling for 'a reckoning' for.
- Listeners tell us how their relationship with big tech—from Tesla to TikTok to Facebook and Instagram—has changed in this second Trump era.
Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.
