Trump & Russia; Racial Justice & Legalizing Pot; Farrakhan's Appeal; Voting & Demographics
The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 13, 2018
On today's show:
- David Corn, Washington bureau chief of Mother Jones and MSNBC analyst, and Michael Isikoff, chief investigative correspondent at Yahoo News, talk about their new book, Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump (Twelve, 2018);
- WNYC New Jersey reporter Karen Rouse explains the racial justice subtext on both sides of the debate over legalizing marijuana in New Jersey;
- Adam Serwer, senior editor at The Atlantic, discusses why prominent black leaders often decline to condemn Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan;
- Demographics and voting with Steve Phillips, civil rights lawyer and founder of Democracy in Color, as he revisits his book (now in paperback) Brown Is the New White: How the Demographic Revolution Has Created a New American Majority (The New Press, 2018).
