
Bernie Speaks to Trump Voters on Fox; Yemeni Bodegas Protest the Post; David Brooks; Who Will Get to Sell Weed?; Notre Dame Reflections
The Brian Lehrer Show | Apr 16, 2019
Coming up on today's show:Â
- Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders held a town hall on Fox news Monday night to speak directly to Trump voters. Gabriel Debenedetti, New York Magazine national correspondent, and Lauren Gambino, political correspondent for The Guardian, look at how 2020 Democrats are appealing to the president’s base and whether going on Fox News is a campaign strategy or a liability, as the race heats up.
- Last week, the New York Post published a cover with a photo of the World Trade Center in flames and a quote from Rep. Ilham Omar, who is Muslim. Debbie Almontaser, co-founder and secretary of the board of directors for the Yemeni American Merchants Association, and Youssef Mubarez, its director of public relations, talk about why the cover led Yemeni bodega owners that they work with to boycott selling the Post.
- David Brooks, columnist for the New York Times, talks about his new book The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life (Random House, 2019).
- Alyson Martin, cofounder of Cannabis Wire and adjunct professor at Columbia Journalism School, discusses what vertical integration and license distribution for legal cannabis in New York State might look like.
- Listeners call in with their thoughts on yesterday’s fire that destroyed part of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.


