Monday Morning Politics; Former Police Commissioner Bill Bratton; Breakthrough Infections
The Brian Lehrer Show | Jul 26, 2021
On today's show:
- Mara Liasson, national political correspondent for NPR, ticks through the biggest political stories from over the weekend and what to watch for in the coming days.
- Bill Bratton, former New York City police commissioner and the author (with Peter Knobler) of The Profession: A Memoir of Community, Race, and the Arc of Policing in America (Penguin Press, 2021), talks about his law enforcement career as commissioner of police in some of the biggest cities in America, and shares his views on current crime stats, including rising gun violence.
- COVID breakthrough infections are becoming more common as the Delta variant spreads quickly. Dara Kass, emergency medicine physician at the Columbia University Medical Center, explains why it's happening (and why you shouldn't panic), and what to do if you are vaccinated and become infected anyway.
Transcripts are posted to the individual segment pages as soon as they are available.
