Inside the Trump Presidency

The Brian Lehrer Show | Sep 22, 2022

Susan Glasser, staff writer for The New Yorker and CNN global affairs analyst and Peter Baker, chief White House correspondent for The New York Times and political analyst for MSNBC talk about their new book, The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021 (Doubleday, 2022), a detailed account of the four years of the Trump presidency. Plus, they offer analysis of current national news.

→EVENT: Susan Glasser and Peter Baker will be speaking to historian Douglas Brinkley about The Divider next Wednesday, September 28 at 6:30 at the New York Historical Society. In-person tickets are sold out, but livestreaming tickets are still available.

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