Meet Your Congressman: Rep. Nick LaLota; What Would Be Justice for Tyre Nichols; Personal to Political

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jan 30, 2023

Coming up on today's show:

  • Nick LaLota, U.S. Representative (R 1st, Suffolk County), talks about his first few weeks in the House, his priorities and the business before the House.
  • Janai Nelson, president and director-counsel of the Legal Defense Fund, talks about the murder charges for the former Memphis police officers in the death of Tyre Nichols, the release of the videotape of the encounter, and the federal civil rights investigation into the incident.
  • V (formerly Eve Ensler), Tony Award–winning playwright, author, performer, and activist, creator of The Vagina Monologues and the author of Reckoning (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023), talks about her new book that draws on 40 years of journals and creative output to call for connecting the personal and collective traumas to healing.

Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.

 

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