Nat'l Politics; Samantha Power on Obama's Foreign Policy Legacy; Time's Up at the Golden Globes

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jan 8, 2018

Coming up on today's show: 

  • POLITICO White House correspondent Annie Karni talks about the latest news coming out of the White House -- including the Trump administration's scramble to react to the gossipy book on the president's first year in office by Michael Wolff.

  • Corey Johnson, the new speaker of the New York City Council, who represents District 3, covering Hell’s Kitchen, Chelsea, the West Village, and parts of Flatiron, SoHo and the Upper West Side, talks about his new role and priorities as speaker of the New York City Council.

  • Samantha Power, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, and Greg Barker, director of a new documentary about President Obama's foreign policy legacy, discuss the film, called "The Final Year."

  • Melena Ryzik, culture reporter for The New York Times, Megan Twohey, New York Times investigative reporter  and Emily Steel, New York Times business reporter covering the media, talk about the first of the major awards shows to happen in the wake of their newspaper's reporting on sexual harassment by Harvey Weinstein and the efforts of the new group Time's Up.

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