TRussia Continues; 50 Years After the Newark Riots; Big Bank Execs Get Off Scot-Free
The Brian Lehrer Show | Jul 12, 2017
Coming up on today's show:
- WNYC's All Things Considered host Jami Floyd and John Wagner, Washington Post national political reporter covering the White House, talk about the latest in the TRussia saga: Donald Trump Jr.'s emails, meetings and possible legal ramifications.
- It's been 50 years since the Newark riots, sparked by white police officers beating a black cab driver, took place. Rebecca Carroll, editor of special projects at WNYC, and Junius Williams, director of the Abbott Leadership Institute at Rutgers--Newark, attorney and author, talk about the riots, and the effects it had on the city. Plus, WNYC reporter Karen Rouse discusses her reporting on the mayors elected since the riots, and what their tenures tell us about the city's history.
- Jesse Eisinger, a Pulitzer Prize-winning senior reporter at ProPublica and the author of The Chickenshit Club: The Justice Department and Its Failure to Prosecute White-Collar Criminals, tries to answer the question of why the DOJ seems so reluctant to go after lawbreakers at the big banks.
