Trump's Visit to Puerto Rico; Investigating Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump, Jr.; History of Zoning; How to Run for Office

The Brian Lehrer Show | Oct 4, 2017

Coming Up on Today's Show:

  • David Graham, staff writer at The Atlantic, and Annie Karni, White House reporter for POLITICO, talk about how Washington is responding to the ongoing crisis in Puerto Rico and the mass shooting in Las Vegas.

  • Andrea Bernstein, senior editor for politics and policy at  WNYC, Jesse Eisinger, 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 (Simon & Schuster, 2017), and Ilya Marritz, business reporter at WNYC, discuss their investigation into how Ivanka Trump and Donald, Trump Jr. avoided criminal indictment involving the marketing and sales of condos and the Trump SoHo.

  • The first zoning laws were created in New York City 101 years ago. Mike Wallace, distinguished professor of history at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, director of the Gotham Center for New York City History and author of Greater Gotham: A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919 (The History of NYC Series), and Jenny Schuetz, Brookings Institution fellow, talk about how zoning changed the shape and power structure of the city.

  • Amanda Litman, co-founder of Run For Something (and Hillary Clinton's former email director for the 2016 presidential campaign) and author of Run for Something: A Real-Talk Guide to Fixing the System Yourself (Atria Books, 2017), talks about her work encouraging young people to run for office.

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