Paging Moscow; The Fate of DACA; Meet the (Other) Candidates; Mass Surveillance in America

The Brian Lehrer Show | Aug 29, 2017

Coming up on today's show: 

  • Maggie Haberman, reporter for The New York Times, discusses why the Trump Organization was pursuing a deal to establish a presence in Moscow and she'll round up other recent news coming out of the Trump-Russia orbit.
  • By early September, when Congress resumes session, President Donald Trump will have to decide whether to end DACA or to keep the policy permanently. Joel Rose, National Desk Correspondent at NPR where he covers Immigration and criminal justice, and Antonio Alarcon, a DREAMer with DACA and a youth organizer at Make the Road New York, discuss the fate of the program that affects nearly 800,000 immigrants. 
  • Meet the (Other) Candidates running in the New York City Democratic Mayoral Primary including Richard Bashner, attorney, former chair of Brooklyn Community Board 6, Michael Tolkin, tech entrepreneur, and Robert Gangi, activist, community organizer, public policy advocate in New York City. 
  • Timothy Edgar, civil liberties activist, former Obama White House privacy official, and author of Beyond Snowden: Privacy, Mass Surveillance, and the Struggle to Reform the NSA (Brookings Institution Press, 2017) discusses American mass surveillance and what we should be doing about it. 

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