The Brian Lehrer Show

Lauren Gambino, Guardian U.S. political correspondent, talks about President Trump’s trip to Europe and reactions to his embrace of President Putin while distancing himself from European leaders, starting with excerpts from Obama’s speech on Tuesday in S

Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal talk about their new film, Blindspotting, which follows the final three days of an Oakland man's probation and deals with friendship, gentrification, and the intersection of race and class.  →Blindspotting opens Friday, July

Heather Hurlburt, columnist at New York Magazine's Daily Intelligencer and director of new models of policy change at New America,  discusses the takeaways of the summit meeting between United States President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir

Ari Melber, MSNBC's chief legal correspondent and the host of "The Beat with Ari Melber", discusses the details of special counsel Robert Mueller's indictment of 12 Russian intelligence officers, accusing them of interfering in the 2016 U.S. presidential

Penny Abeywardena, New York City's commissioner for international affairs, talks about New York City’s voluntary U.N. sustainability progress review, and the need for cities like New York to help pioneer policies on climate change and fighting poverty. S

Michael Chertoff, executive chairman and co-founder of The Chertoff Group, a security consulting company and former Homeland Security Secretary (2005-2009), reacts to the Putin-Trump press conference and the need for cooperation on cyber security.  His n

David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker and author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire (1994), offers analysis on the Trump-Putin one-on-one, followed by live feed of the press conference following their m

As President Trump's meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin concludes, Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of The Nation magazine, argues for improved relations between the U.S. and Russia.  In an open letter ahead of the summit, she  and

As the Trump-Putin meetings wrap up in Helsinki, Eliana Johnson, White House reporter at POLITICO, talks about what to expect, and reviews all the news Brian missed while on vacation last week.

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