Cells in a newly cleared wing at the State Correctional Institution at Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, which is set to house inmates from other prisons that could close, Jan. 13, 2017, in Camp Hill, PA.

Republican Operative Prompted Clinton Email Hack?; Meet NYC Mayoral Candidate; How to Fix the MTA; Policies of Prisoner Reentry

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jul 6, 2017

Coming up on today's show: 

  • Shane Harris, Wall Street Journal national security reporter, discusses his reporting which may be the strongest indication yet that collusion occurred between supporters of Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and Russian hackers who targeted Democrats' emails. 
  • When Paul Massey dropped out of the race to be the NYC Republican mayoral candidate, Nicole Malliotakis, current NY assembly member, became the presumptive nominee. She talks about her campaign.
  • Richard Ravitch, former New York State Lt. Governor, member of the State Budget Crisis Task Force and author of So Much to Do: A Full Life of Business, Politics,and Confronting Fiscal Crises (PublicAffairs, 2014) was credited with saving the MTA from the brink of collapse when he ran it in the late 70s and early 80s.  He talks about the sorry state of the rails today, Governor Cuomo's state of emergency for the MTA and what it will take to bring the system back into good working order.
  • Keesha Middlemass, assistant professor of political science at Trinity University in Texas and the author of Convicted and Condemned: The Politics and Policies of Prisoner Reentry (NYU Press, 2017), examines the barriers to reentry for convicted felons released from prison, from where they can live and work, whether they can vote, access to financial aid or any public assistance. 

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