Speak to the Speaker: The New Budget; NJ Primary Day: Voting Reports; Newt Gingrich's GOP; Who Gets to See NYPD Body Camera Footage?
The Brian Lehrer Show | Jul 7, 2020
Coming up on today's show:
- Corey Johnson, New York City Council Speaker, takes calls from listeners and discusses the new City budget.
- As callers share their choices in our unofficial, thoroughly unscientific exit poll, David Cruz, NJTV News senior correspondent, reports on the ins and outs of voting during the pandemic in New Jersey.
- Julian Zelizer, professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University, CNN political analyst, co-host of the podcast Politics and Polls, and author of Burning Down the House: Newt Gingrich, the Fall of a Speaker, and the Rise of the New Republican Party (Penguin Press, 2020), talks about his new book and offers historical context for today's news.
- A new policy requires New York City police to release all body camera footage of shootings and other instances when force is used and injury or death occurs. Jennvine Wong, staff attorney with the Legal Aid Society's Cop Accountability Project, talks about the NYPD's short history of using body cameras, why the footage has been so closely guarded, and whether the new policy will increase transparency and cop accountability.
