U.S. Senator from New York, Kirsten Gillibrand

Status Change

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 6, 2011

Bill Keller, executive editor of The New York Times discusses his new column in the re-designed New York Times Magazine; Newsweek correspondent Jonathan Alter talks national politics; U.S. Senator from New York, Kirsten Gillibrand, discusses the budget battles and the White House report on the status of women. Plus: Libyan American Sarah Abdurrahman on the tricky job of gathering information about what’s actually going on in Libya during the current political unrest there; and another installment of Science 101.

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