Biden After SOTU; Bill de Blasio; Cannabis and Your Health; Help for Syria and Turkey
The Brian Lehrer Show | Feb 10, 2023
On today's show:
- Toluse Olorunnipa, Washington Post White House bureau chief and the co-author of His Name is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice (Viking, 2022), talks about how President Biden's performance in the State of the Union speech is landing politically, including his live clash with Republicans over Social Security and Medicare, plus the latest on where federal police reform stands.
- Bill de Blasio, former NYC mayor, discusses the State of the Union address and reflects on Biden's comments about "the talk" that Black and Brown parents have with their children about interacting with the police and his own personal and political experience with it.
- Peter Grinspoon, MD, instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School, and author of upcoming book Seeing Through the Smoke: A Cannabis Expert Untangles the Truth About Marijuana (Prometheus, 2023), discusses how to use cannabis responsibly and the positive and negative effects the drug can have on someone's health.
- Avril Benoît, executive director of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières in the United States, discusses the medical response to the catastrophic earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria.
Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.
