Nat'l Politics; Trump's Voter Commission; Medicaid Coverage; Explaining Trump to Kids

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jul 11, 2017

Coming up on today's show: 

  • John Dickerson, moderator of CBS's Face the Nation and CBS News chief Washington correspondent, contributor to The Atlantic and the author of Whistlestop: My Favorite Stories from Presidential Campaign History (Twelve, 2016), talks about the latest national political news.

  • Ari Berman, senior contributing writer for The Nation, reporting fellow at the Nation Institute and the author of Give us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America (Picador, reprint 2016), and Vanita Gupta, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and former head of USDOJ Civil Rights Division, discuss the key players in President Trump's Voter Fraud Commission and the potential consequences of collecting voter data on a national scale.

  • Mary Harris, host and managing editor of Only Human and MaryBeth Musumeci, associate director of the Kaiser Family Foundation, talk about the Kaiser/WNYC project exploring some of the lesser-known ways New York and New Jersey residents are covered by Medicaid, including special education students and those living with disabilities.

  • Between the travel ban and the Twitter stream, some parents are at a loss to explain the shift in tone from the White House. Ava Siegler, child psychologist, former director of the Institute for Child, Adolescent, and Family Studies in New York City, and an author of How Do I Explain This to My Kids?: Parenting in the Age of Trump (The New Press, 2017) offers advice to parents and Mira Jacob, writer and author of the novel The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing and a contributor to How Do I Explain This to My Kids?: Parenting in the Age of Trump (The New Press, 2017) shares her own story.

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