Rush Holt; Venezuela Protests; Social Media and Change; FiveThirtyEight on the Oscars

The Brian Lehrer Show | Feb 28, 2014

Rep. Rush Holt has announced he won’t run for re-election when his term is up at the end of this year. He’ll talk about what he hopes to accomplish in the next 10 months. Then: Journalist and economist Moisés Naím contextualizes the protests in Venezuela. Plus: the latest on housing and development issues in New York City; how social media is used to effect social change; and ESPN’s FiveThirtyEight crunches the numbers to find out what turns up in Oscar-nominated films year after year.

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