How Buffalo is Coping; 51 Council Members in 52 Weeks: Sandra Ung; Biden Redeploys US Troops to Somalia; How Will Congress Solve the Baby Formula Shortage
The Brian Lehrer Show | May 17, 2022
Coming up on today's show:
- Tyrell Ford, lead community organizer for VOICE Buffalo, talks about how the community is coping after this past weekend's racist mass shooting, and what they need going forward.
- Sandra Ung, New York City council member for District 20 in Queens (Flushing, Murray Hill, Queensboro Hill, Mitchell-Linden, Fresh Meadows) talks about her priorities for her district. The majority of the New York City Council members are new, and are part of a class that is the most diverse and progressive in city history. Over the next year Brian Lehrer will get to know all 51 members.
- Fareed Zakaria, Washington Post columnist, host of CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS, and the author of Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World (W. W. Norton & Company, 2020), offers his analysis of the Biden Administration's decision to send troops to Somalia, new members looking to join NATO and the latest on the war in Ukraine.
- Helena Bottemiller Evich, senior food and agriculture reporter at Politico, joins to discuss what's behind the nationwide shortage of baby formula and how Congress is responding.
Transcripts are posted to each segment as soon as they are available.
