Vice President Mike Pence and National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, right, shake hands on February 10, 2017.

John Hockenberry and Our #MeToo Moment; Monday Morning Politics; The Moral High Ground; Art of Sanctions

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Coming up on today's show:

  • Suki Kim, writer and the author of Without You, There Is No Us: Undercover Among the Sons of North Korea's Elite (Broadway Books, 2015), and WNYC reporter Ilya Marritz talk about allegations of harassment and bullying at WNYC by the former Takeaway host, John Hockenberry.

  • Sabrina Siddiqui, political reporter at The Guardian, discusses the latest in politics from D.C., including what happens next with the Republican tax bill since the Senate version passed Friday night, and what's next in the Russia investigation after Mike
    Flynn's guilty plea.

  • Howard Dean, former chair of the DNC and 79th Governor of Vermont, talks about his upcoming Intelligence Squared debate, where he argues in favor of the motion that Liberals hold the moral high ground, plus talks about the future of the Democratic Party.

  • Drawing on his experience as the lead sanctions expert for the U.S. team negotiating with Iran from August 2013 to December 2014, Richard Nephew, senior research scholar and program director at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) and the author of The Art of Sanctions: A View from the Field (Columbia University Press, 2017), discusses the use of sanctions today in North Korea and Iran.

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