Trump Threatens North Korea; Why Colin Kaepernick Still Has No Job; How to Change Criminal Minds; 50 Years of Public Employees Unionizing

The Brian Lehrer Show | Aug 9, 2017

Coming up on today's show:

  • Frank Aum, visiting scholar at the U.S.-Korea Institute at the John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, former Senior Advisor for North Korea in the office of the Secretary of Defense in the Obama administration, talks about President Trump's latest threats to North Korea, where the country is in terms of building nuclear weapons, the ramifications of Trump's words, and the options available. 
  • Last NFL season, the quarterback of the San Francisco 49ers, Colin Kaepernick made national headlines when he protested the national anthem. NFL preseason games began this week and Kaepernick remains unsigned. Neil Paine, senior sportswriter for FiveThirtyEight, and Scott Davis, sports reporter for Business Insider, talk about the possible political and financials reasons for why that is. 
  • Risco Mention-Lewis, deputy police commissioner in the Suffolk County Police Department, opens up about her work with formerly incarcerated individuals in the town of Wyandanch, in Suffolk County, on Long Island, in order to "reset the moral standard," as she puts it. She'll be joined by Micah Danney, freelance journalist, who wrote about her story for the Juvenile Justice Information Exchange. 
  • William Herbert, distinguished lecturer at Hunter College, City University of New York, and the Executive Director of the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions and Joshua Freeman, Distinguished Professor of History at Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, discuss 50 years of the Taylor Law, which grants public employees the right to unionize.

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