
Brooklyn Reps; Working Families Party on Dissolution of the IDC; Are You Watching 'Roseanne?'
The Brian Lehrer Show | Apr 5, 2018
Coming up on today's show:Â
- Yvette Clarke, U.S. Representative (D-NY9) representing Crown Heights and other Central Brooklyn neighborhoods, and Hakeem Jeffries, U.S. Representative (NY-8), discuss the national political news of the day -- including the president's recent tweets on immigration and trade.
- Bill Lipton, New York State director of Working Families Party, and Jessica Ramos, candidate for New York State Senate District 13, running against Jose Peralta, comment on the reported dissolution of the Independent Democratic Conference, and whether claims for unity come a little too late, since the state budget was already passed.
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Jordan Weissmann, Slate's chief economics writer, and Devin Leonard, a staff writer for Bloomberg Businessweek and the author of Neither Rain Nor Snow: A History of the U.S. Postal Service (Grove Press, 2017), discuss President Trump's Wednesday morning tweet which claimed that Amazon is exploiting the U.S. Postal Service.
- Willa Paskin, TV critic for Slate, and Jared Yates Sexton, professor and author most recently of The People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters Upon Your Shore: A Story of American Rage talk about whether "Roseanne" has anything meaningful to say about the working class and politics 20 years after its original run, and take your calls on what you've been thinking as you've been watching.


