The Brian Lehrer Show

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The Battle of Hastings

Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Nancy Pelosi faces another difficult leadership decision: After backing the loser for House Majority Leader, Pelosi is now considering a controversial choice for House Intelligence Committee Chair, Congressman Alcee Hastings who Pelosi voted to impeach when Hastings was a judge. Also: Congressman Charles Rangel; comparing the Bloomberg and Giuliani administrations’ responses to police shootings; and photographing urban New York.

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Rangel-ing Issues

Charles Rangel, Congressman (D-NY-15th District-Upper Manhattan)
- talks about the shooting of Sean Bell over the weekend and also who will the House Intelligence committee

Assessing the Response

Errol Louis, columnist for the New York Daily News
and
Anthony Miranda,executive chairman of the National Latino Officers Association (also a retired NYPD sergeant)
- how Bloomberg is handling the police shooting in Queens

Pictures From Home

Brenda Ann Kenneally, photojournalist, Soros Criminal Justice Fellow and author, Money Power Respect: Pictures of My Neighborhood (Channel Photographics, 2005)
- on photographing her Bushwick neighborhood
with
Gilberto "Junior" Vicente
and
Andrew Velazquez, residents of Bushwick featured in the photographs
Watch a slideshow from Money Power Respect [Please note the audio contains profanity.]

Money Power Respect available for purchase at Amazon.com

Hasty Committee Decisions

Stephen Kaus, civil litigator and occasional blogger for the Huffington Post
and
Juan Williams, senior correspondent for National Public Radio and author, Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America--and What We Can Do About It (Crown, 2006)
- talks about the controversy surrounding the House Intelligence Committee Chair selection

Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America available for purchase at Amazon.com