Tuesday Morning Politics: Primaries in Progress; 51 Council Members in 52 Weeks:Tiffany Cabán; How France Indebted Haiti, Twice; MeToo and Amber Heard
The Brian Lehrer Show | May 24, 2022
Coming up on today's show:
- Henry Olsen, Washington Post columnist and a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, previews today's key races and discusses results in Pennsylvania and other states, so far.
- The majority of the New York City Council members are new and are part of a class that is the most diverse and progressive in city history. Over the next year Brian Lehrer will get to know all 51 members. This week, Councilmember Tiffany Cabán talks about her priorities for District 22, which includes Astoria, Jackson Heights, East Elmhurst, Woodside and Rikers Island.
- Catherine Porter, international correspondent for the New York Times, and Selam Gebrekidan, investigative reporter for The New York Times based in London, discuss how modern world’s most successful slave revolt in Haiti gave birth to a desperately poor nation when France demanded reparations from formerly enslaved Haitians to their French slaveholders.
- What does the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard defamation trial tell us about the state of #MeToo? New York Times Op-Ed columnist Michelle Goldberg joins us to discuss her recent opinion piece, "Amber Heard and the Death of #MeToo."
Transcripts are posted to each segment as soon as they are available.
