Local Politics; Rep. Delaney; The Eights | Immigration in 1988; Bikram Yoga's Reckoning
The Brian Lehrer Show | May 30, 2018
Coming up on today's show:
- Gerson Borrero, political commentator for NY1 and NY1 Noticias and political editor and host of Estudio DC , talks about local political stories, and a new Harvard study found more than 4,600 people died as a result of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, far exceeding the official government estimate of 64.
- U.S. Representative John Delaney (D, MD-6th), the author of The Right Answer: How We Can Unify Our Divided Nation (Henry Holt and Co, 2018), talks about his early bid for the 2020 Democratic nomination for president on a platform of promoting entrepreneurship and bipartisanship.
- Doris Meissner, senior fellow at the Migration Policy Institute (MPI) and former Commissioner of the US Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), discusses how the Reagan administration shaped immigration in the year 1988.
- Jody Avirgan, host and producer for ESPN's FiveThirtyEight and 30 for 30 podcasts, and Julia Lowrie Henderson, producer and reporter for 30 for 30 and host of ”Bikram," talk about the new season of 30 for 30 focused on the rise of, and controversy surrounding, Bikram yoga and its founder Bikram Choudhury.
