Trump's Rise in the Public Eye, Tracking Down an FBI Agent Who Vanished in Iran

The Leonard Lopate Show | Aug 1, 2016

Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter David Cay Johnston traces the long and winding professional path of Donald Trump. Playwright Bess Wohl on the new show, "Small Mouth Sounds," along with actors Quincy Tyler Bernstine and Marcia DeBonis. Director Clément Cogitore on his film, “Neither Heaven Nor Earth” about a group of French NATO soldiers stationed in Afghanistan. New York Times investigative reporter Barry Meier unravels the mysterious disappearance of former FBI agent Robert Levinson. 

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