The Next Speaker; Every Body's Story; The Gun Lobby's Waning Power

The Brian Lehrer Show | Oct 6, 2015

Learn about House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and other top contenders to become the next Speaker of the House. Plus: the waning power of the gun lobby; your stories of rehabilitation; a look back at the so-called "Democratic Gilded Age" of the nineties and the man at the center of it all, Bill Clinton; and WNYC's new health podcast.

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