Monday Morning Politics; Meet the New Chancellor; The Eights | 1948 and the Rise of Globalism; U.S. v Russia: How It Came to This
The Brian Lehrer Show | May 7, 2018
On today's show...
- Susan Page, Washington bureau chief of USA TODAY, discusses the latest in national political news.
- Richard Carranza, New York City schools chancellor, talks about his agenda.
- Anne-Marie Slaughter, president and CEO of New America, foreign policy analyst, international lawyer and political scientist, discusses events that took place in 1948 that lead to the rise in globalism, including the formation of NATO, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Marshall Plan.
- Michael McFaul, professor of political science, director and senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, and author of From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin’s Russia (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018), draws on his experience as Obama's ambassador to Russia to examine how the U.S./Russia relationship went from the thaw at the end of the Cold War to the current tensions over Syria, Ukraine, and the interference in the 2016 elections.
