The Morning After the Nomination, The Man in Charge of NYC's Subways, Eating Around the World, Right Here In the US, Empowered Majority

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jul 10, 2018

Coming up on today's show:

  • Jami Floyd, host of WNYC's All Things Considered and legal analyst, and Elana Schor, congressional reporter for POLITICO, discuss President Trump's Supreme Court nomination and look ahead to what the confirmation process is going to look like.
  • William Finnegan, New Yorker staff writer and the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life, talks about the myriad challenges facing the new New York City Transit Authority president Andy Byford and how his plans to address them.
  • Marcus Samuelsson, chef and owner of Red Rooster and Streetbird, talks about his new PBS show, "No Passport Required," where he travels around and celebrates immigrants and their food.
  • Onnesha Roychoudhuri, writer, editor, educator, and the author of The Marginalized Majority: Claiming Our Power in a Post-Truth America, argues progressives are in the majority and shouldn't stay quiet.

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