Trump Addresses the Nation After Back-to-Back Massacres; The Latest on Officer Pantaleo; FBI's Warning About Domestic Terrorism; Kissing Evangelicalism Goodbye?

The Brian Lehrer Show | Aug 5, 2019

Coming up on today's show:

  • A total of 29 people were killed in the unrelated mass shootings over the weekend. As the President addresses a nation, divided over how to solve the crisis of gun violence, John Nichols, The Nation national affairs correspondent, and Adriano Espaillat, U.S. Representative (D, NY 13), respond.
  • Cindy Rodriguez, WNYC reporter, and Rocco Parascandola, NY Daily News police bureau chief and author of GUNZ AND GOD: The Life of an NYPD Undercover (Lulu Publishing Services, 2017), talk about the NYPD administrative judge's ruling that calls for Officer Daniel Pantaleo to be fired over the death of Eric Garner.
  • Sharon Weinberger, D.C. bureau chief for Yahoo News, talks about the organization's exclusive investigation which found that, for the first time, the FBI is classifying fringe conspiracy theories as domestic terrorism.
  • Best-selling author of I Kissed Dating Goodbye and former mega-church pastor, Joshua Harris recently announced that he is no longer a Christian, sending shockwaves throughout the evangelical world. Pete Enns, biblical scholar, writer, co-host of The Bible for Normal People podcast, and author of (most recently) How the Bible Actually Works, provides context as to why this has resonated so deeply with millennials who have struggled with evangelicalism.

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