Meet the Candidate: Mayor de Blasio; Inside the Gop Tax Plan; Civil War Refresher; What to Do with Private Prisons

The Brian Lehrer Show | Nov 3, 2017

Coming up on today's show: 

  • Bill de Blasio, mayor of New York City, talks about his re-election bid.
  • Heather Long, former senior economics reporter at CNN and economics correspondent for The Washington Post, explains what’s inside the newly released GOP tax plan and how it will impact your household or business.
  • Author of the Don't Know Much About series, Kenneth C. Davis, offers historical context on the White House Chief of Staff John Kelly's comment that it was "the lack of an ability to compromise that led to the Civil War."
  • Lauren-Brooke Eisen, senior counsel in the Brennan Center's Justice Program and the author of Inside Private Prisons: An American Dilemma in the Age of Mass Incarceration (Columbia University Press, 2017), explores the issues raised by private prisons (especially the incentives to keep them full), and offers research-based recommendations for keeping their interests aligned with the public's.

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