The Brian Lehrer Show

Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post columnist and writer of the paper's Right Turn blog, joins us from the convention center in Cleveland and gives her conservative critique of Donald Trump.

On the top of her list of concerns is the unclear ties with Russia's President Vladimir Putin and how that will play out in Turkey, among other foreign policy issues.  

In 2008, America was 54% white, non-hispanic Christian, today those numbers hover at 45%. Robert P. Jones, CEO and founder of the Public Religion Research Institute, columnist at The Atlantic and the author of The End of White Christian America (Simon & Schuster, 2016), looks at how the culture and politics of America are changing now that it is no longer a majority white Christian nation.

Many white Christians never gave this a thought until we met this transition point. Jones says Trump tapped into nostalgia voters, driven by deep longing for past. 

Lloyd Grove, editor at large for The Daily Beast talks about Gretchen Carlson’s sexual-harassment lawsuit against her former boss, Fox News’s Roger Ailes.

The lawsuit has prompted an avalanche of women coming forward to testify against Ailes, who is amid negotiating his severance agreement. Roger Ailes's vision created Fox News, and a clause in the contracts of pundits Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity could mean an exodus from the conservative news network.