What Would You Ask at the Impeachment Trial?; Questions about the Coronavirus Outbreak?; What You Don’t Know About Nuclear War; Friendships and Race
The Brian Lehrer Show | Jan 29, 2020
Coming up on today's show:
- Today, the impeachment managers and the President's defense team will respond to Senators' questions on the law, the constitution and the record of evidence. If you were in charge, what would you ask? Ryan Goodman, NYU law professor, co-editor-in-chief of Just Security and former special counsel at the Department of Defense, breaks it down and answers your questions.
- Dr. Syra Madad, senior director of the system-wide special pathogens program at New York City Health + Hospitals, takes questions about the personal and public health threat posed by the growing coronavirus outbreak.
- Fred Kaplan, Slate's War Stories columnist and the author of The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War (Simon & Schuster, 2020), talks about his new book and the latest foreign policy news.
- Anna Sale, host of WNYC podcast Death Sex and Money, and Shereen Marisol Meraji, host of NPR's podcast Code Switch, talk about the wonders and struggles of interracial friendships, and your stories about when race became a flash point for you and a friend.
