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The Brian Lehrer Show | May 17, 2018

Coming up on today's show: 

  • David Corn, Washington bureau chief of Mother Jones, MSNBC analyst and co-author (with Michael Isikoff) of Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump, and Michael Isikoff, chief investigative correspondent for Yahoo News, talk about the latest developments in the investigation into connections between President Trump and Russia. 

  • Gothamist publisher Jake Dobkin answers listeners' questions from his perspective as a lifelong New Yorker.

  • Cokie Roberts, NPR commentator and the author of Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation (Harper Perennial, Reprint 2009), and Elizabeth Drew, the journalist, contributing editor to The New Republic and the author of Washington Journal: Reporting Watergate and Richard Nixon's Downfall (The Overlook Press, 2014), discuss the 1968 presidential primaries and how Richard Nixon won the election with his brand of populism.

  • Ella Morton, Atlas Obscura's senior editor and co-author of Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders (Workman Publishing Company, 2016), joins us each day this week to talk about some of her favorite hidden gems from the Atlas Obscura trove.

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