Demonstrators hold up balloons during an immigration rally in support of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), and Temporary Protected Status (TPS), programs, near the U.S. Capitol.

Immigration and a Budget Deal in DC; Local Stories You May Have Missed; The Met's Plan to Charge Out-of-Towners; Another View of Vietnam

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jan 9, 2018

Coming up on today's show: 

  • Congress is attempting to craft a funding bill that has lots of big issues tied up in it -- including immigration, children's health insurance and more. NPR congressional reporter Kelsey Snell reports whether a shutdown could happen over this and other news from the Hill.

  • New York Times Big City columnist Ginia Bellafante rounds up some big local stories you may have missed.

  • New York Magazine art critic Jerry Saltz looks at the Met Museum's new plan to charge admission for out-of-towners.
     
  • Max Boot, military scholar, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and the author of the new book The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam (Liveright, 2018), re-examines the life of the man who served as the model for "The Quiet American" and the U.S. defeat in Vietnam. 

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