
Migrant Crisis; 2022 Local News; Jan. 6th and Watergate; Celebrating Those Who Helped Kids Through The Pandemic
The Brian Lehrer Show | Dec 28, 2022
On today's show:
- Krish O’Mara Vignarajah, president and CEO of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, talks about the migrant crisis at the border this year and what her organization is doing to help refugees, plus the latest on Title 42 and the Afghan Adjustment Act.
- As the year comes to a close, WNYC & Gothamist newsroom editors David Cruz, WNYC/Gothamist's 'People and Power' desk editor; Josefa Velásquez, WNYC/Gothamist's Economics and Equity editor; and Louis Hochman, WNYC/Gothamist's New Jersey & Suburbs editor, recap the most important stories of 2022 and explain what they'll have their eyes on in 2023.
- Julian Zelizer, professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University, CNN political analyst, NPR contributor, and author of The Presidency of Donald J. Trump: A First Historical Assessment (Princeton University Press, 2022) and co-author with Kevin Kruse of the forthcoming Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past (Basic Books, 2023), and Jill Wine-Banks, MSNBC contributor and legal analyst, former Watergate special prosecutor, and the author of The Watergate Girl: My Fight for Truth and Justice Against a Criminal President (Henry Holt and Co., 2020), look to lessons from Watergate for what needs to happen with the Jan. 6th committee report.
- The pandemic was hard on everyone, but it was especially hard on children. Listeners call in to nominate people or organizations who have made exceptional efforts to help kids through the anxieties and uncertainties of the pandemic, and beyond into a 'new normal.'
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Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.



