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#AskTheMayor; Impeachment Inquiry This Week; What Germany Can Teach Us About Facing the Past; News From Your World

The Brian Lehrer Show | Oct 18, 2019

Coming up on today's show:

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio takes calls from listeners and discusses this week in NYC.
After a long week of testimonies on Capitol Hill by White House officials involved in the Ukraine scandal, Rosalind S. Helderman, Washington Post reporter focusing on political enterprise stories and investigations, breaks down where we are and what we've learned.
Susan Neiman, Berlin-based director of the Einstein Forum, moral philosopher, essayist, and the author of Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019), talks about what the U.S. can learn from Germany's post-war reckoning.
Listeners call in to share the news from their countries of origin.

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