President Donald Trump and Polish President Andrzej Duda sign a joint defense declaration agreement at the InterContinental Barclay hotel during the United Nations General Assembly, Sept. 23, 2019.

Impeachment: A Legal Look; How the City is Responding to a Student's Murder in Morning; The Decade in Democracy; A Different Way to Think About Abortion Rights

The Brian Lehrer Show | Dec 17, 2019

Coming up on today's show:

  • Elizabeth Wydra, president of the Constitutional Accountability Center, discusses the legal and Constitutional ramifications of impeachment.

  • The co-hosts of the New York politics podcast “FAQ NYC,” Christina Greer, associate professor of political science at Fordham University, and Harry Siegel, New York Daily News columnist and Daily Beast senior editor, talk about how race, crime and policing play into the case of a Barnard student who was killed in Morningside Park, 30 years after the (somewhat similar) "Central Park jogger" case was badly mishandled.

  • Anne Applebaum, staff writer at The Atlantic covering national politics and foreign policy with a particular focus on Europe and the author of the forthcoming Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of the Authoritarian State (Doubleday July, 2020), looks at the changes in U.S. and European democracies in the 2010s.

  • Alana Casanova-Burgess, producer at “On the Media,” and Jessica Glenza, The Guardian health reporter with a focus on reproductive rights, share the story of a historical legal case that could have provided a different framework for abortion.

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