Does Sheriff Joe Arpaio Deserve a Pardon from the President?; Mayoral Primary Debate Recap; What's Going on at HUD?; Age-Shaming

The Brian Lehrer Show | Aug 24, 2017

Coming up on today's show: 

  • Joe Arpaio, the notorious former sheriff from Maricopa County, Arizona, was convicted of contempt of court in a charge related to a class-action lawsuit alleging that his department racially-profiled Latinos. Now President Trump is signaling he might pardon 'Sheriff Joe,' as he's known. Jude Joffe-Block, New Arizona fellow at New America and former senior field correspondent for the Frontreras desk at KJZZ-Phoenix, has reported on the sheriff for a long time, She discusses his tactics, the lawsuit and his relationship to the president.
  • Errol Louis, political anchor and host of Inside City Hall at NY1 News and director of urban reporting at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, and Laura Nahmias, who reports on City Hall for POLITICO New York, recap the first Democratic mayoral primary debate.
  • Alec MacGillis, ProPublica political reporter and author of The Cynic: The Political Education of Mitch McConnell (Simon & Schuster, 2014), talks about his recent article in New York Magazine, "Is Anybody Home at HUD?"
  • Margaret Morganroth Gullette, resident scholar at Women's Studies Research Center at Brandeis University and author of Ending Ageism, or How Not to Shoot Old People (Rutgers University Press, 2017), pushes back against what she calls the "assaults" of the negative portrayals of aging, or "ageism" and its effects. 

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