Celebrating The Women's Soccer World Cup Win; New State Dept Panel on Human Rights

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jul 10, 2019

Coming up on today's show:

  • Just off the their World Cup victory, New York is hosting the ticker-tape parade for the  U.S. Women's Soccer team. Isabel Angell, The Takeaway associate producer, and Lindsay Gibbs, sports reporter at ThinkProgress and co-host of "Burn It All Down" podcast, talk about the celebration. Then, WNYC's health reporter and associate producer, Gwynne Hogan talks to us live from the parade. Plus the celebration at New York City Hall.
  • Tom Malinowski, U.S. Representative (D NJ-7) and former assistant secretary of state for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor in the Obama administration, questions the aims of the newly announced Commission on Unalienable Rights to advise Secretary of State Pompeo on the role human rights should play in U.S. foreign policy.

 

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