Cages loaded with ballots in United Postal Service bins rest behind a worker at a Board of Elections facility in New York Wednesday, July, 22, 2020.

Monday Morning Politics; School Re-Openings: NYC Has a Plan; The Vaccine Hunt; Trump Threatens a TikTok Ban

The Brian Lehrer Show | Aug 3, 2020

Coming up on today's show: 

  • Errin Haines, editor-at-large for The 19th, a nonprofit, nonpartisan newsroom reporting at the intersection of gender, politics and policy, talks about the latest national political news of the day, and Brigid Bergin, WNYC's city hall and politics reporter, talks about the problems with mail-in voting in New York, now that President Trump is loudly criticizing the process. 

  • School districts in New York had to submit plans to the state for re-opening by July 31. Jessica Gould, WNYC reporter, talks about what New York City is planning.

  • Caroline Chen, who covers health care, and the coronavirus pandemic, for ProPublica, reports on the latest developments in the hunt for a COVID-19 vaccine, including the ways the process is being accelerated and when and how it (or they) would work.

  • Last week, President Trump threatened to ban TikTok over security concerns with the Chinese-owned company. Taylor Lorenz, New York Times tech reporter covering Internet culture, talks about how users and fans reacted this weekend, and the latest news that Microsoft is exploring taking over the company's operations in the US.

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