Trump's Last Day in Office; Meet the Candidate: Zach Iscol; The Latest COVID News; Cities Call for Immigration Reform

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jan 18, 2021

Coming up on today's show:

  • On his last full day in office, Susan Glasser, staff writer for The New Yorker, CNN global affairs analyst and co-author, with Peter Baker, of The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of Jim Baker III (Doubleday, 2020), reflects on Trump's tenure, including the norms he blasted through, the major policy decisions, the two impeachments and the insurrection he incited.
  • Zach Iscol, military veteran, founder of the non-profits Headstrong and Hirepurpose, now running for the Democratic nomination as NYC mayor, talks about his mayoral campaign.
  • Jessica Malaty Rivera, infectious disease epidemiologist and science communication lead at The COVID Tracking Project, talks about the latest COVID-19 news around the country.
  • Bitta Mostofi, commissioner of the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs, talks about the call from a coalition of municipal leaders for a new approach toward America's immigrants, including a path to citizenship and more attention to immigrants in addressing the pandemic.

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

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