Preet Bharara on Impeachment; Vaccine Ethics; Ask the Mayor; Pandemic Relationships

Decorations sit on the North Lawn of the White House, Friday, Feb. 12, 2021, in Washington.

Coming up on today's show: 

  • Preet Bharara, former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, host of the CAFE podcast Stay Tuned and Doing Justice, based on his book Doing Justice: A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law (Knopf, 2019), offers analysis of the second impeachment trial of former president Donald Trump.
  • Since the start of the vaccine rollout, people have been grappling with questions of who deserves to get vaccinated fist, and whether taking the vaccine (if given the opportunity to take one but not technically eligible, or technically eligible but not at high risk) means that you're taking it away from someone who somehow deserves it more. Faith Fletcher, assistant professor in the Department of Health Behavior at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health and a senior advisor to the Hastings Center, a bioethics research institute, talks about the right way to think about these sorts of questions and takes your calls
  • New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio takes calls from listeners and discusses this week in NYC.
  • Ahead of Valentine's Day weekend, Lisa Bonos, dating and relationships writer for The Washington Post,  joins to take calls from listeners on how their relationships have changed nearly one year into the pandemic.

Transcripts are posted to the individual segment pages as soon as they are available.