The Questions Kavanaugh Should Answer; New York AG Race; Being A Catholic Amid Sex Abuse; Moving To New Neighborhoods; U.S. Soldiers & Afghanistan

The Brian Lehrer Show | Aug 15, 2018

Coming up on today's show:

  • Aziz Huq, professor of law at the University of Chicago Law School , talks about the record President Trump's SCOTUS nominee, Brett Kavanaugh and what questions he should answer during a confirmation hearing. 
  • As the New York State primaries are just about a month away, Juan Manuel Benítez, NY1 Noticias reporter and host of Pura Politica; Grace Rauh, Spectrum News NY1 political reporter; and Zack Fink, Spectrum News NY1 political reporter; co-hosts of Off Topic On Politics, talk about the big races, with a focus on the four-way race for the new attorney general.
  • Being a Catholic Amid Sex Abuse: We take calls from Catholic listeners who tell us how they feel after new revelations from a Pennsylvania grand jury report on an extensive sex abuse cover up by Church officials.
  • Moving In: Listeners call in to share about what new neighborhoods they moved into this summer, and why.
  • C.J. Chivers, Pulitzer-prize winning journalist, New York Times correspondent, former Marine Corps captain and author of The Fighters (Simon & Schuster, 2018) discusses his new book, which tracks the lives of six U.S. fighters in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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