Wednesday Morning Politics, Abortion Rights in New York, International Politics, From El Salvador to Oakland

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jul 11, 2018

Coming up on today's show:

  • Emily Bazelon, staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, co-host of Slate's "Political Gabfest" podcast, and the Truman Capote fellow for creative writing and law at Yale Law School, follows up on President Trump’s pick for the Supreme Court, plus other legal and national news.
  • Liz Krueger, New York State Senator (D-Manhattan, 28th district) talks about the renewed energy behind The Reproductive Health Act which she sponsored in the Republican-controlled New York State Senate.
  • Ian Bremmer, president of Eurasia Group and Gzero Media, host of the new public television weekly show “Gzero World,” and the author of Us vs. Them: The Failure of Globalism (Portfolio, 2018), talks about the latest international news, including tariffs, the NATO summit, North Korea denuclearization, and the upcoming Trump-Putin meeting.
  • Lauren Markham, journalist and the author of The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life (Broadway Books, 2017), tells the story of identical twins Ernesto and Raul Flores who fled El Salvador for Oakland, California, and talks about what motivates migration and what happens next.

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