What Will de Blasio's Presidential Campaign Look Like?; Federal Rent Subsidies; San Francisco Bans Facial Recognition; Assault Weapons Buyback; Roe v. Wade
The Brian Lehrer Show | May 16, 2019
Coming up on today's show:
- Christina Greer, co-host of the New York politics podcast “FAQ NYC” and associate professor of political science at Fordham University, considers how he will make his case to voters across the country, and discusses other local and national news.
- For our 2020 Ideas Festival, Noëlle Porter, director of government affairs at the National Housing Law Project discusses Sen. Kamala Harris's plan to offer monthly subsidies to those paying more than 30 percent of their income in rent.
- After San Francisco bans the use of facial recognition technology, Albert Fox Cahn, executive director of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (STOP) at the Urban Justice Center, discusses the use of facial recognition in New York City, and what the advent of other surveillance technology means for privacy.
- U.S. Representative for California's 15th congressional district and 2020 presidential candidate Eric Swalwell talks about his proposal to outlaw military-style semiautomatic assault weapons and force existing gun owners to sell their weapons or face prosecution.
