Iowa Latest + Impeachment Update; Closing New York's Budget Gap; Past & Future of Democracy; Wild Animal Neighbors

The Brian Lehrer Show | Feb 4, 2020

On today's show:

  • Susan Page, Washington bureau chief of USA TODAY, discusses the latest national political news, including yesterday's caucuses in Iowa, the closing arguments in the impeachment trial, the expansion of Trump's travel ban, and a preview of Trump's third State of the Union;
  • New York State budget director Robert Mujica talks about how Governor Cuomo plans to close the nearly $6 billion dollar Medicaid-induced gap in the state's budget;
  • Jill Lepore, professor of American history at Harvard University and staff writer at The New Yorker, talks about how the threats to democracy in the 1930's led to its eventual re-invigoration as part of The New Yorker's new series "The Future of Democracy";
  • In a city crowded with humans - and animals - Amy Pearl, creator of WNYC's 10 Things That Scare Me podcast, talks about how we define the boundaries of our co-existence with our animal neighbors.

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