Monday Morning Politics; SCOTUS Wrap Up; Explaining the D.O.D.; What Does the City Owe Bankrupt Medallion Owners?

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jun 10, 2019

Coming up on today's show:

  • Susan Page, Washington bureau chief of USA TODAY, discusses the latest in national political news.
  • Jami Floyd, WNYC's host of All Things Considered and legal analyst, ticks through the big SCOTUS cases dropping this month.
  • Ash Carter, director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University's Kennedy School., U.S. Secretary of Defense during the Obama administration and the author of Inside the Five-Sided Box: Lessons from a Lifetime of Leadership in the Pentagon (Dutton, 2019), draws on his thirty-six year history with the Defense Department to explain how it functions and why it matters.
  • Brian Rosenthal and Emma Fitzsimmons, New York Times reporters for their Metro desk, talk about their groundbreaking investigation into how bankers and officials made money from the sale of New York City taxi medallions, even as lending turned predatory and Uber and Lyft devastated many drivers. Plus how the city has responded since the story unfolded.

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