New Yorkers and Trump Tax Reform; Helping Puerto Rico; The Long Tail of Agent Orange; Talk Therapy

Coming up on today's show:

• Nita Lowey, United States Congresswoman (D-NY 17th district) representing the Lower Hudson Valley, talks about the proposal to eliminate the state and local tax deduction and other news from Congress.
• Melissa Mark-Viverito, City Council Speaker, talks about what she found on her trip to Puerto Rico and what's needed now.
• Richard Hughes, actor, volunteer who ran homes for street children in Vietnam from 1968 to 1976 and the founder of Loose Cannons, a nonprofit group, and Le Ke Son, medical doctor with a Ph.D. in toxicology, former director of the Agent Orange Victims Fund at the Vietnam Red Cross and the co-author of (with Charles Bailey) From Enemies to Partners: Vietnam, the U.S. and Agent Orange (2017), talk about the long-term of affects of the American military's use of Agent Orange in Vietnam for both Vietnamese people and American service members, and what the United States should do to take responsibility for — and help — the chemical's victims.
• Celeste Headlee, host of the daily news show "On Second Thought" on Georgia Public Broadcasting, former co-host of The Takeaway and author of We Need to Talk: How to Have Conversations That Matter (Harper Wave, 2017), says social media and devices are robbing us of the ability to communicate one-on-one.  She shares her insights,talk show host to talk to show host.