30 Issues: Climate & the NY Governor's Race; NYPD Misconduct Database is Live; Maggie Haberman on Trump; 'Skipped-Generation' Households

The Brian Lehrer Show | Oct 6, 2022

Coming up on today's show:

  • Ben Max, executive editor of Gotham Gazette and the host of the Max Politics podcast, talks about how Gov. Hochul and her challenger Lee Zeldin differ on their climate policies, including how Zeldin plans to restore fracking to New York.
  • Jennvine Wong, staff attorney with the Legal Aid Society’s Cop Accountability Project, discusses Legal Aid Society's new Law Enforcement Lookup, an online database of police officer misconduct.
  • Maggie Haberman, senior political correspondent for The New York Times, political analyst for CNN and the author of Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America (Penguin Press, 2022), talks about her new book on the former president. 
  • Inspired by the New York Times article "Grand-mates: Generations Sharing a Special Bond (and Sometimes the Rent)," listeners call in to discuss the joys and struggles of belonging to a "skipped-generation" household.

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

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