Abortion and Democrats on the Campaign Trail; Gov. Cuomo on End of Session Wish List; Fighting for Forgiveness in Charleston; An Immigrant's Manifesto

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jun 4, 2019

Coming up on today's show:

  • Emma Green, politics, policy and religion reporter at The Atlantic, discusses how the Democratic candidates for president are reacting to recent rollbacks of abortion rights in states around the country and how that may help or hurt their chances in 2020.
  • Andrew Cuomo, Governor of New York, runs through his end of session wish list,which includes legalizing marijuana and issuing driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrants.
  • Jennifer Berry Hawes, special projects reporter at Charlotte-based The Post and Courier, talks about her new book, Grace Will Lead Us Home: The Charleston Church Massacre and the Hard, Inspiring Journey to Forgiveness (St. Martin's Press, 2019).
  • Suketu Mehta, associate professor of journalism at New York University and the author of Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found and This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant's Manifesto (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019), speaks out for migrants in the US and globally.

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