What Now For Dreamers?; Reaching Women Who Voted For Trump; New Jersey Bail Reform; Universal Basic Income | The Brian Lehrer Show

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What Now For Dreamers? 35 min

After the Senate failed to pass any kind of immigration reform last week Anu Joshi, Immigration Policy director at the New York Immigration Coalition, talks about the political steps needed to revive efforts to protect DACA recipients.
Julie Kohler, senior vice president for the Democracy Alliance, a progressive donor group, and contributor to The Nation, tries to answer the question of why a majority of white women voted for Donald Trump and whether the #MeToo movement will change those votes.
Last year, New Jersey essentially eliminated cash bail, and other states are looking to the Garden State to see how the new system is working. Nancy Solomon, managing editor of New Jersey Public Radio, and Alexander Shalom, senior supervising attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey, talk about the changes, and the challenges that lie ahead.
Chris Hughes, co-founder of Facebook, leader of the Obama campaign's digital efforts and co-founder of the Economic Security Project, argues that since the same forces that led to his enormous wealth make escaping poverty impossible for most. His solution: a guaranteed basic income for all.