#AskTheMayor; The Mueller Investigation's Post-Jeff Sessions Future; Counting Votes in Florida and Georgia; Families Separated by Economic Borders
The Brian Lehrer Show | Nov 9, 2018
On today's show, you'll hear:
- Bill de Blasio, New York City Mayor, takes calls from listeners and discusses this week in NYC.
- Rosalind Helderman, Washington Post political enterprise and investigations reporter, talks about what will happen to Robert Mueller's investigation since President Trump forced Jeff Sessions out, and discusses the background of the new acting AG, Matthew Whitaker.
- Ari Berman, senior reporter at Mother Jones and author of Give us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America (Picador, reprint 2016), discusses the potential recounts in Florida's gubernatorial and senate races, as well as the tight gubernatorial election in Georgia, where votes are still being counted in the race between Georgia's former Secretary of State Brian Kemp and Stacey Abrams.
- Gabrielle Oliveira, assistant professor at Boston College Lynch School of Education and the author of Motherhood across Borders: Immigrants and Their Children in Mexico and New York (NYU Press, 2018), In the wake of the border crisis, GO talks about what her research shows to be the impact of families separated at the border when mothers in Mexico leave to work in the U.S.
