Rep. Kathleen Rice; Janno Lieber; The End of Roe

The Brian Lehrer Show | May 4, 2022

Coming up on today's show:

  • Kathleen Rice, United States representative for New York's 4th congressional district, talks about the issues facing Congress and her Long Island district.

  • John "Janno" Lieber, chair and CEO of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), talks about the "blue-ribbon" panel looking at transit fare-beating and subway crime and lagging transit ridership.

  • Jessica Bruder, Brooklyn-based journalist and author of Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century (W. W. Norton & Company, 2017), talks about her reporting for The Atlantic on the underground network of activists who have been preparing for the potential that the Supreme Court might overturn Roe v. Wade and the right to legal abortion.

  • The (mostly Christian) religious right is seeing the fruits of its labors as the Supreme Court appears prepared to overrule Roe v. Wade. Listeners of faith who are pro-choice call in to share how they talk about this issue to others who share their faith but are anti-abortion.

Transcripts are posted to each segment as soon as they are available.

 

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