Tuesday Morning Politics; Chancellor Carranza on the New School Year; ICE Detention and Mental Illness; Using Language to Persuade

The Brian Lehrer Show | Sep 3, 2019

Coming up on today's show:

  • Susan Page, Washington bureau chief of USA TODAY, discusses the latest in national political news.
  • Richard Carranza, New York City Schools Chancellor, talks about the start of the school year.
  • In July 2018, after spending 21 days in solitary confinement at a detention center, Efraín Romero de la Rosa committed suicide. José Olivares, journalist and associate producer for The Takeaway, and Travis Mannon, video producer for The Intercept, talk about their exclusive Takeaway and The Intercept investigation which found that correctional staff at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center skirted rules when dealing with a migrant with mental illness.
  • With election season upon us, Lee Hartley Carter, president of Maslansky + Partners, a language strategy firm, and the author of Persuasion: Convincing Others When Facts Don't Seem to Matter (TarcherPerigee, 2019), offers insights into the way language persuades the unconvinced.

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