How Putin Won Big; Is There Still Hope for 'Dreamers?'; How To Report on UFOs

Coming up on today's show (Juan Manuel Benítez guest hosts):

• Julia Ioffe, who covers national security and foreign policy topics for The Atlantic, discusses how Russia's strongman president took a gamble on manipulating the American public, and how that risk payed off.

• Angela Fernández, executive director and supervising attorney of the Northern Manhattan Coalition for Immigrant Rights and the president of the Dominican Day Parade, Javier Valdés, co-executive director of Make the Road New York and Antonio Alarcón, organizer at Make the Road New York and a "dreamer," talk about if and when Congress may reach a deal for the so-called Dreamers, undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children, and recently lost protections enacted by the Obama administration.
  
  
• WNYC reporters Ilya Marritz and Jessica Gould report on the news that longtime New York Public Radio hosts Leonard Lopate and Jonathan Schwartz have been fired for violating “standards for providing an inclusive, appropriate, and respectful work environment.” 

• Ralph Blumenthal, contributor to The New York Times, discusses the $22 million program in the Pentagon that investigates UFOs and what it took to break the story.

• Shannon McFarlin, vice president of Therapist Development & Community at Talkspace and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist discusses, and Bea Arthur, licensed therapist, discuss the past year in talk, and text, therapy -- which trends and themes emerged in sessions with patients.