Monday Morning Politics; Queens Special Election; Losing Relatives to QAnon; Baratunde Thurston
The Brian Lehrer Show | Feb 1, 2021
Coming up on today's show:
- Amanda Terkel, HuffPost Washington bureau chief, talks about the latest national political news, including negotiations on the next COVID relief bill and previewing former President Trump's second impeachment trial.
- Most voters in the city will only have to cast a ballot twice this year--once in the June primary and again in the November general election. Some residents, however, will have to vote three times due to four special City Council elections in the Bronx and Queens. David Brand, managing editor of the Queens Daily Eagle, and Habib Rahman, host on TBN24, a Bangla language news channel that airs on Facebook live and Youtube live, talk about the first special election taking place in Queens 24th district to replace Rory Lancman, and take your calls on who you're voting for (Election Day is February 2nd).
- Steven Hassan, mental health professional and author of The Cult of Trump: A Leading Cult Expert Explains How the President Uses Mind Control (Free Press October 15, 2019), takes calls from listeners who have lost family members to the QAnon conspiracy, and offers advice.
- Baratunde Thurston, writer and activist and the host of the podcast How to Citizen with Baratunde, talks about the political moment we're in as President Biden begins his presidency calling for unity, while Americans are anything but united.
Transcripts are posted to the individual segment pages as soon as they are available.
