The Brian Lehrer Show
President Next: Interviews with the Candidates
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The 2008 Presidential race has started and WNYC’s Brian Lehrer is speaking to the candidates vying for your vote. Burning issues on the campaign trail have been the war in Iraq, health care, education and global warming. Find out where the candidates stand on these issues and why they want to become the 44th President.
McCain's Pains
The Brian Lehrer Show
September 27, 2007
John McCain, U.S. Senator (R-AZ), presidential candidate, and author of Hard Call: Great Decisions and the Extraordinary People Who Made Them (12 Books, 2008), explains why he'd be a good president for New York.
Hard Call is available for purchase at Amazon.com
Obama to New York
The Brian Lehrer Show
September 25, 2007
Barack Obama, United States Senator (D-IL) and presidential candidate, discusses his presidential campaign and Thursday's rally in Washington Square Park.
Biden on Biden
The Brian Lehrer Show
August 07, 2007
Joe Biden was the only Democratic candidate to skip the YearlyKos bloggers convention last weekend. He joins us to talk about this, the publication of his memoirs Promises to Keep; On Life and Politics, and issues from Pakistan to the Supreme Court.
Promises to Keep is available for purchase at Amazon.com
Candidate Dodd
The Brian Lehrer Show
March 19, 2007
Christopher Dodd, (D-CT), United States Senator, talks about his campaign for president, the upcoming hearings on the subprime mortgage crisis, and why he says it's time to end "don't ask, don't tell."
The Talking Candidate
The Brian Lehrer Show
February 26, 2007
John Edwards, former US Senator from North Carolina and current presidential candidate, talks about universal health care, getting out of Iraq and why he doesn't mind if you watch him fix his hair on YouTube.
Video: Edwards on the impact of YouTube on presidential campaigning.
Video: Edwards Gets Specific on Healthcare
The Yellow Brick Road to the White House
The Brian Lehrer Show
February 15, 2007
Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas hopes to be the conservatives’ conservative in his run for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination. We’ll ask about his positions on issues like abortion and gay marriage, as well as his opposition to the troop surge in Iraq. Plus, the New Yorker’s Jane Mayer and Jill Savitt of Human Rights First on the connection between the “pretend” torture on 24 and the use of real torture in Iraq; and an insiders' guide to New York.
The Yellow Brick Road to the White House
The Brian Lehrer Show
February 15, 2007
Sam Brownback, U.S. Senator (R-KS) talks about his run for the 2008 Republican presidential candidacy.
Candidate Tancredo
The Brian Lehrer Show
January 29, 2007
Tom Tancredo , US Representative (R-CO), discusses politics and his run for the presidency in 2008
Governors Galore
The Brian Lehrer Show
January 10, 2007
After Governor Corzine’s State of the State address we’ll ask what do New Jerseyans get for their property taxes? Would they live with fewer services for fewer dollars? Or do they want the state to pick up more of the tab? Also, outgoing Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, now considering a run at the Republican presidential nomination and New Jersey’s Governor-for-a-day, Kris Kolluri. Plus, ABC News' Mark Halperin previews the President's speech.
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