Tuesday Morning Politics; How Bronx Prosecutors Thwart Chances Of A Speedy Trial; Chaos and Suffering in Venezuela; Winning and Losing in America's Schools

The Brian Lehrer Show | Aug 7, 2018

Coming up on today's show:

  • Susan Page, Washington bureau chief of USA TODAY, discusses the latest in national political news.
  • George Joseph, staff writer at The Appeal, and Simon Davis-Cohen, reporter at The Appeal, show how Bronx prosecutors use techniques to stretch out cases thereby undermining a defendant's right to a speedy trial, and Tom O’Brien, staff attorney with Legal Aid’s Criminal Special Litigation Unit, talks about how the practice plays out in court and affects his clients.
  • John Otis, freelance journalist based in Bogota, Colombia, discusses Venezuela’s plans to launch a new currency in an attempt to get control of the crippling inflation and resulting economic crisis, and this weekend's assassination attempt-by-drone of the President, Nicolás Maduro.
  • Arne Duncan, former United States Secretary of Education and the author of How Schools Work: An Inside Account of Failure and Success from One of the Nation's Longest-Serving Secretaries of Education (Simon & Schuster, 2018) examines the disparity and decline of America's public school system, and how it can better compete in the 21st Century.      

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