Summer Friday: Watergate Versus #TRussia, Masha Gessen Talks Putin, How to Run for Office, American Exceptionalism and Divides
The Brian Lehrer Show | Jul 21, 2017
It's summer. It's Friday. Here a few of our past favorites:
- Elizabeth Holtzman, former U.S. congress member from New York who served on the House Judiciary Committee that voted to impeach Richard Nixon, explains the parallels between Watergate and TRussia.Â
- Masha Gessen,  the author of several books on Russia, including The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin (Riverhead Books, 2013), talks about how those who wish to resist Donald Trump must confront the legacy of Bush and Obama first.
- Truscha Quatrone, executive director of Emerge NJ, Amanda Litman, co-founder of Run For Something (and Hillary Clinton's former email director for the 2016 presidential campaign), and Kimberly Peeler-Allen, co-founder of Higher Heights, talk about how their organizations help advise and train people to take the leap to run.
- Mugambi Jouet, Stanford law school fellow, former appellate public defender in Manhattan, judicial clerk at the U.N. war crimes tribunal for Yugoslavia in The Hague, and assistant clinical law instructor at Sciences Po in Paris, and the author of Exceptional America: What Divides Americans from the World and from Each Other, offers his "de Tocqueville" take on American politics and policy.
These interviews were originally recorded on 6/20/17 for our live show in The Greene Space. The link to the unedited audio is here or you can watch the video of our show below:
