Dr. Sean Conley, physician to President Donald Trump, center, and other doctors, walk to talk with reporters at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Monday, Oct. 5, 2020, in Bethesda, Md.

Brooklyn Boro President Eric Adams; The White House Outbreak; 30 Issues: America's Place in the World; Insights from Trump's World

The Brian Lehrer Show | Oct 6, 2020

Coming up on today's show:

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams joins to discuss the rising number of COVID-19 cases in Brooklyn, where schools are going fully remote and what else may shut down in certain zip codes.
Anita Kumar, White House correspondent and associate editor for Politico, talks about the latest developments in the president's COVID-19 case and other news from the White House while Nancy Solomon, managing editor for New Jersey Public Radio and WNYC, reports on the contact tracing effort in New Jersey following the president's fundraiser in Bedminster.
Fareed Zakaria, Washington Post columnist and host of CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS, talks about his new book Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World (W. W. Norton & Company, 2020) and what the election will mean for America's relationships with other countries.
Andrea Bernstein, WNYC reporter and co-host of the WNYC/Pro Publica podcast Trump, Inc. and the author of American Oligarchs: The Kushners, the Trumps, and the Marriage of Money and Power (W.W. Norton and Company, 2020), shares her thoughts on corruption within the Trump presidency and the Trump Organization, and more insights from her extensive reporting on Trump world.

Available transcripts are posted to the individual segment pages.

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