Monday Morning Politics; Speak to the Speaker; Tracing the Alt-Right's Ideas Back to the Source; Epstein's Suicide and Conditions at MCC
The Brian Lehrer Show | Aug 12, 2019
Coming up on today's show:
- Beth Fouhy, senior politics editor at NBC News and MSNBC, discusses the latest political news.
- Corey Johnson, Speaker of the New York City Council, talks about the latest from the City Council — and takes calls from listeners.
- Alexandra Minna Stern, a professor of American Culture, History, and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan, where she leads the Sterilization and Social Justice Lab, and the author of Proud Boys and the White Ethnostate: How the Alt-Right Is Warping the American Imagination (Beacon Press, 2019), offers a scholar's analysis of the ideas of the alt-right and white nationalism and shows where they're linked.
- On Saturday morning, Jeffrey Epstein, the financier accused of trafficking girls for sex, hanged himself at the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC). Katie Benner, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times where she covers the Justice Department, talks about the apparent failures in Epstein's detention and what comes next. Also, Bruce Barket, a former prosecutor and long-time criminal defense attorney in New York, and journalist Bob Hennelly, talk about conditions at the MCC.
