Rep. Meng on Immigration & HS Admissions; NY Congressional Primary Preview; The Eights | What Divides Us in 2018; Working Class Force for Progressive Change
The Brian Lehrer Show | Jun 20, 2018
Coming up on today's show:
- Grace Meng, U.S. Representative (D - NY6), talks about her work on behalf Xiuqing You, detained by ICE at his green card hearing, and her objections to the proposed changes to the NYC specialized high school admissions policy.
- John O'Connor, WNYC Washington correspondent, and Mara Gay, New York Times editorial board member, preview the upcoming New York congressional primary election.
- Charlie Sykes, longtime conservative talk host, contributor at MSNBC and author of How the Right Lost Its Mind (St. Martin's Press, October, 2017), and Michael D'Antonio, executive editor of The Harris Poll and co-author (with John Gerzema) The Athena Doctrine: How Women (and the Men Who Think Like Them) Will Rule the Future (Jossey-Bass, 2013), discuss the results of the Harris Poll survey conducted with The Brian Lehrer Show which point to divisions over political hot topics like immigration, diversity and more.
- Tamara Draut, vice president of policy and research at the left-leaning Demos think tank and the author of (now updated in paperback) Sleeping Giant: How the New Working Class Will Transform America (Doubleday, 2016), argues Democrats need to renew their appeals to working class Americans.
