Medicare vs. Public Option Explained; #AskTheMayor; The Epstein Story Gets Weirder; The Farewell
The Brian Lehrer Show | Aug 2, 2019
Coming up on today's show:
- Julie Rovner, chief Washington correspondent for Kaiser Health News and host of its "What the Health" podcast, untangles the differences in how presidential candidates approach Healthcare – the top issue for Americans and a key fault line for the Democrats in 2020.
- Bill de Blasio, New York City’s Mayor, takes calls from listeners and discusses this week in NYC.
- James B. Stewart, a columnist at The New York Times and staff writer at The New Yorker, talks about the latest turn of the Jeffrey Epstein saga. In which, in addition to trafficking under-aged girls, allegedly, he was obsessed with eugenics and dreamed of impregnating multiple women to "seed the human race."
- Lulu Wang, director and writer of The Farewell, joins us in studio to discuss her comedic film starring Awkwafina, which is based on the true story of a family involved in a ridiculous lie.
