Monday Morning Politics; The Latest on COVID; Medical Debt and the Pandemic; Best Photo Results

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jan 8, 2021

Coming up on today's show: 

  • Mike DeBonis, Congress and national politics reporter for The Washington Post, talks about the latest on a second impeachment of President Trump, following the attack on the Capitol, and other national news. 
  • Wafaa El-Sadr, University Professor of epidemiology and medicine at Columbia University, the director of ICAP at Columbia University, and director of the Global Health Initiative at the Mailman School of Public Health, talks about the latest COVID-19 news and takes your calls.  
  • Elisabeth Benjamin, vice president of Health Initiatives at the Community Service Society and co-founder of the Health Care for All New York Campaign, talks about her report on nonprofit hospitals suing patients over debts during the pandemic, and proposed legislation to address the issue.
  • Every year, The Brian Lehrer Show asks listeners to submit the best photo sitting on their phone (no babies, no pets). Between the pandemic, the racial justice movement and the challenges to our democracy, the submissions this year were especially poignant. Laura Roumanos, executive director, and co-founder of Photoville and Laylah Amatullah Barrayn, documentary and portrait photographer and frequent contributor to The New York Times, talk about their favorite pictures from the set, and how they were emblematic of the year. 

Transcripts are posted to the individual segment pages as soon as they are available.

WNYC Homepage - Top Stories

The super PAC complicating the narrative for NYC progressives in Democratic primaries

A Memoir on Growing up in Gowanus, Before the Whole Foods

Bill Bradley on Knicks Fever and More

Simplecast episode unavailable

YOU ARE ONLINE