WH Correspondent April Ryan; NJ Cashes in on ICE; Kavanaugh Hearings Analysis; DeRay Mckesson

The Brian Lehrer Show | Sep 5, 2018

Coming up on today's show: 

  • Veteran White House correspondent April Ryan talks about her new book Under Fire: Reporting from the Front Lines of the Trump White House, which centers around the challenges of of reporting on an administration that openly expresses hostility towards the press, and the impact it has on her day-to-day job.

  • Three democratically controlled counties in New Jersey get big money from ICE to detain illegal immigrants in jails. WNYC's Matt Katz describes an internal feud inside the New Jersey democratic legislature over whether the state should continue to make money from President Donald Trump's aggressive immigration policies.

  • Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, professor at George Washington University Law School, The Atlantic contributor and the author of William Howard Taft: The American Presidents Series: The 27th President, 1909-1913 (Times Books, 2018), offers analysis of the Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

  • Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson looks back on work in the protest movement and discusses a framework for a new generation of activists.

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