The President's Transgender Military Ban; Sexual Misconduct in D.C. and the Entertainment Industry; New Leaders in New Jersey; Cybersecurity Needs and Risks

Coming up on today's show: 

• Jennifer Levi, director of GLAD’s Transgender Rights Project, and Shannon Minter, legal director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR),talk about their role in the lawsuits seeking to overturn the president's transgender military ban and Dylan Kohere, a plaintiff in the lawsuit, a first-year student in the University of New Haven and a member of the Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC), tells his story about how the ban will affect his ability to serve.

• Melena Ryzik, culture reporter for The New York Times and Cara Buckley, New York Times culture reporter, report that five women have accused the comedian Louis C.K. of sexual misconduct, and Michael Scherer, national political reporter for The Washington Post,  reported that several women have said the Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore, a Republican, pursued them sexually when they were teens. 

• Ravinder Bhalla, member of the Hoboken City Council and mayor-elect of Hoboken, discusses his successful campaign for mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey, and obstacles he had to overcome during the campaign, and Ashley Bennett, newly-elected freeholder in Atlantic County, discusses how a sexist comment about the women’s march last January by an Atlantic City freeholder inspired her to run for his job, and what her plans are now that she won. 

• Susan Landau, professor, former senior privacy analyst at Google, a Cybersecurity Hall of Fame inductee and the author of Listening In: Cybersecurity in an Insecure Age (Yale University Press, 2017), argues that despite law enforcement's interest in getting around encryption, the risks outweigh the rewards of stronger security.