Breaking News Round Table: Budget, Dowd, Bolton, Tariffs

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 23, 2018

On some days the news coming out of Washington is so wild one guest can't cover it all, so to talk about all of the competing headlines are Sarah Ferris, who covers budget and appropriations for POLITICO Pro, on the omnibus spending bill, Darren Samuelsohn, senior White House reporter, discussing the departure of John Dowd, Fred Kaplan, Slate's War Stories columnist and the author of Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War (Simon & Schuster, 2016), on John Bolton’s appointment as national security adviser and Greg David, director of the business and economics reporting program at The CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, a contributor to Crain's New York Business and the author of Modern New York: The Life and Economics of a City (Palgrave Macmillan Trade, 2012), to talk about Trump's new tariffs on China.

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