Monday Morning Politics; NYC's "Symbols of Hate;" Gov. Cuomo; Latinx 101; Trump's Democracy

The Brian Lehrer Show | Sep 18, 2017

Coming up on today's show:

  • Ed O'Keefe, Congressional reporter at The Washington Post, talks about the latest dealmaking between President Trump and Democratic leaders in Congress, plus other national political news of the day.
  • After the Charlottesville protests, New York City has vowed to take a closer look at “all symbols of hate on city property.” Harriet Senie, public art scholar and professor of art history at the City College of New York, discusses the city’s many statues and discusses the complicated issue of memorialization.
  • New York Governor Andrew Cuomo talks about the potential deal on DACA between President Trump and the Democrats, and the trip he took to the U.S. Virgin Islands to survey the damage done by Hurricane Irma.
  • Ed Morales,  journalist who teaches at Columbia University’s Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, and the author of the forthcoming book, Latinx: The New Force in American Politics and Culture (Verso, 2017), talks about politics around the adoption of the non-gendered term, "Latinx" in place of Latino and what it means for individual and group identities.
  • Norman Ornstein, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, Thomas Mann, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and resident scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, and E.J. Dionne, Washington Post columnist and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, discuss their new book A Guide for the Perplexed, the Disillusioned, the Desperate, and the Not-Yet Deported (St. Martin's Press, 2017) about why the election of Donald Trump is a symptom of U.S. democracy's dysfunction and citizen action is needed to repair it.

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