Election Results; Donna Brazile; The Paradise Papers; George H.W. Bush and the End of the Cold War
The Brian Lehrer Show | Nov 8, 2017
Coming up on today's show:
- Ben Max, executive editor of Gotham Gazette, and Debralee Santos, editor of Manhattan Times, talk about results from New York City, plus Westchester and Nassau Counties. Nancy Solomon, managing editor of New Jersey Public Radio, covers the results of the New Jersey election.
- Donna Brazile, former chair, Democratic National Committee and author of Hacks: The Inside Story of the Break-ins and Breakdowns That Put Donald Trump in the White House, talks about the claims in her new book that are unnerving the democratic party, including that the DNC and the Clinton campaign cut an unfair deal that disadvantaged Sanders during the 2016 campaign.
- Spencer Woodman, reporter at International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), Martha Hamilton, editor and writer at ICIJ and Jesse Drucker, New York Times reporter covering taxes and international business, all worked on the Paradise Papers, the global investigation that reveals the offshore activities of some of the world's most powerful people. They discuss their reporting and what it means.
- Jeffrey Engel, founding director of the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University and the author of When the World Seemed New: George H. W. Bush and the End of the Cold War (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017), talks about how Pres. George H.W. Bush handled the multiple challenges of 1989 and the end of the Cold War.
