U.S. Airstrike on an Afghan Hospital; Tug of War Over the MTA Budget; Around NYC in 100 Pizzas

The Brian Lehrer Show | Oct 7, 2015

A U-S airstrike killed nine staff members at a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Afghanistan over the weekend. Glenn Greenwald from The Intercept explains how and why mainstream media outlets have been obscuring America’s role in carrying out the strike. Plus: the city-state tug of war over the MTA budget; a look at where your neighborhood starts and ends; deep in the American South; and two pizza aficionados share what they learned from visiting a hundred mom-and-pop pizzerias.

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