Tuesday Morning Politics; What People Knew About Jeffrey Epstein; Iowa Doesn't Only Control Politics, It Controls How We Eat; Infrastructure Fail

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jul 16, 2019

Coming up on today's show:

  • Jamil Smith, senior writer at Rolling Stone, talks about the president's racist tweets and how members of Congress from both parties are responding. Plus other news.
    Vicky Ward, investigative reporter, New York Times bestselling author of several books, most recently the author of Kushner, Inc.: Greed. Ambition. Corruption. The Extraordinary Story of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump (St. Martin's Press, 2019) joins us to discuss the latest news in Jeffrey Epstein’s arrest on charges of sex trafficking, and her reporting from a Vanity Fair article in 2003 that foreshadowed the allegations.
  • Mark Bittman, author of How to Cook Everything (Wiley Publishing, Inc.), and founder and editor in chief of Heated, a Medium magazine, talks about his latest visit to Iowa where he determined that the state's impact on the food system may be bigger and more difficult to change than its impact on politics.
  • Nicole Gelinas, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and City Journal contributing editor, talks about Saturday's blackout and what it tells us about NYC's infrastructure weaknesses.

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