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The Brian Lehrer Show / June 02, 2004

The Brian Lehrer Show

Wednesday, June 02, 2004
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  • Donna Brazile
    Donna Brazile

    Prima Donna

    Al Gore's campaign manager in 2000 was Donna Brazile, a feisty Louisianian with a passion for creole food. In her new political memoir, she shares some tips for the kitchen and explains her surprising friendship with Bush advisor Karl Rove. Also, new rules on wigs and water among Orthodox Jews, the New York Times' Tom Friedman, and how reliable are fingerprints really?

Prima Donna

Donna Brazile senior political strategist, former Gore campaign manager, and author, Cooking With Grease: Stirring the Pots in American Politics (Simon & Schuster, 2004) comments on the Democratic Presidential campaign

Shell Shocked

J.J. Goldberg Editor In Chief, The Forward on the recent orthodox rabbinical rulings on microscopic crustaceans in tap water

How May I Direct Your Call?

Thomas Friedman Columnist for the New York Times and author, Longitudes and Attitudes: Exploring the World After September 11 (Farrar Straus & Giroux, Sept.) discusses outsourcing, his documentary on Discovery and politics

Fingering the Criminals

Michael Greenberger Director of the Center for Health and Homeland Security and Professor of Law at University of Maryland and principal deputy associate under attorney general Janet Reno discusses the Padilla case, and the release of information by the government and the flaws associated with evidence including fingerprints
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Jennifer Mnookin Visiting Professor of Law, Harvard University, Professor of Law University of Virginia on the problems associated with fingerprinting and the errors that arise

A person dressed as a bear to represent a bear market performs outside the New York Stock Exchange on October 6, 200 in New York. Wall Street tumbled after the opening bell as fallout from the credit crisis triggered concerns about the economy and the Dow fell below 10,000 for the first time in four years.

Uncommon Indicators

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The Brian Lehrer Show wants to hear how the economy is affecting the little things in your daily life. Share your stories and photos of the downturn.

Cast your vote for our video contest semi-finalists.

Ray Young, General Motors Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

The Rocky Road Ahead

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Ray Young, the chief financial officer of General Motors, talks about GM’s bankruptcy.

Then, Damon Lester, president of the National Association of Minority Automobile Dealers, and Greg Williams, former owner of the recently closed Huntington Chevrolet in Huntington Station, NY., discusses the effect GM’s bankruptcy has had on dealerships and their employees.

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Tweet If You Use Twitter

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Farhad Manjoo, Slate's technology columnist and the author of True Enough: Learning To Live in a Post-Fact Society talks about what Twitter means and how different groups use it.

What's your take on Twitter? How do you use it? Comment below!

(<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexerde/80417539/">alexerde</a>/flickr)

Don't Say That, Literally

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John Flansburgh of the band They Might Be Giants discusses the running list the band keeps of "things we can no longer say." (a few examples: "my bad" "don't go there" "one hundred and ten percent" and "voted off the island")

What would be on your list of banned words or phrases? Comment below!

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From Denmark with Love

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Jesper Grunwald, senior managing editor with the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, talks about the Danish economy, biking to work, and why the Danes are allegedly the happiest people in the world.

Judge Sotomayor

Squatting, Then and Now

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As former squats in the East Village make the transition to coops, making homes from abandoned housing is again an issue. Andrew Reicher executive director of Urban Homesteading Assistance Board, Frank Morales an Episcopal priest involved in East Village/Lower East Side squatting and homelessness activism since the late '70s, and Rob Robinson, a leader of the Housing Campaign of Picture the Homeless, discuss the return of squatting.

Video Picks

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Check out some recent video clips of interviews with guests and Brian Lehrer's weekly Web video picks.