Impeachment: White House Subpoenas; Lessons from Harassment Training Videos; This Year's New Yorker Festival; Affirmative Action at Harvard

The Brian Lehrer Show | Oct 3, 2019

Coming up on today's show:

  • Scott R. Anderson, senior fellow with the National Security Law Program at Columbia Law School, fellow at the Brookings Institution, and senior editor at Lawfare, discusses the latest in impeachment news as Congress moves to issue subpoenas to the White House and Kurt Volker, former envoy to Ukraine, prepares to testify.
  • According to new state laws, all New York employees must complete sexual harassment training by October 9th. With the deadline approaching, Andrew Rawson, chief learning officer of Traliant training company, talks about what harassment training videos can accomplish in the workplace and where they fall short.
  • David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker, staff writer and host of the New Yorker Radio Hour, previews the 20th annual New Yorker Festival and the lineup of artists, writers, and actors - plus talks about the news of the day.
  • Jami Floyd, WNYC's host of All Things Considered and legal analyst, discusses the ruling in the Harvard admissions policy lawsuit.

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