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3 Jul 2008
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19 Jun 2008
Political Wrap-Up: Obama's Opt Out, McCain's Energy Policy (The Brian Lehrer Show: Thursday, 19 June 2008)
Obama recently announced he will opt out of federal campaign financing. In other political news, John McCain is calling to lift the ban on offshore drilling and is advocating for the construction of 45 nuclear reactors by 2020. Politico senior editor David Mark and analyst Michael Fauntroy bring us up to speed on the facts.
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13 Jun 2008
McCain in Manhattan (The Brian Lehrer Show: Friday, 13 June 2008)
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about you raise an interesting thing he says I'm an immigration reform Ted Kennedy is interesting and it. John McCain is raising man I mean -- appointments campaign that was the last thing he wanted people "...
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three. McCain is going to say Barack Obama is you know just Ted Kennedy and justice you know -- basics of liberal and in post partisan clothing. I think that death. You know effusive look at "...
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5 Jun 2008
Remembering RFK (The Brian Lehrer Show: Thursday, 05 June 2008)
Many people, Kennedys among them, have drawn comparisons between Barack Obama and the Kennedy legacy. Pete Hamill , journalist and novelist who contributed an essay to A Time it Was: Bobby Kennedy in the Sixties (Abrams, 2008), Chris Smith , contributing editor to New York Magazine , and Frederick Harris , professor of political science at Columbia University and director of the Center on African-American Politics and Society, talk about RFK's 1968 campaign and its relevance today.
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Kennedy. Was assassinated the family obviously is remembering. Earlier in the week Ted Kennedy has his brain surgery. And yesterday Caroline Kennedy was named to Barack Obama's vice presidential search committee. We'll talk about the rfk "...
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the process wasn't a slam dunk from the beginning. That at least Ted Kennedy and Caroline Kennedy. Would come out for Obama. "...
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he. The bringing in the young people to the political process for Ted Kennedy in particular. That was an important factor not to mention the fact that he thought bill and Hillary went over the line. "...
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4 Jun 2008
The Day After (The Brian Lehrer Show: Wednesday, 04 June 2008)
The final primary has come and gone. We analyze the results and talk politics with local political leaders and analysts including House Ways and Means Committee Chair Charles Rangel (D-NY-15th District-Upper Manhattan), Marie Cocco , syndicated columnist with the Washington Post Writers Group , and Melissa Harris-Lacewell , associate professor of Politics and African American Studies at Princeton University.
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2 Jun 2008
DNC Delegate Decision (The Brian Lehrer Show: Monday, 02 June 2008)
The Democrats have met to discuss the fate of the Florida and Michigan delegates. Here to analyze the situation is Liz Halloran , senior writer with U.S. News and World Report , Lesley Clark , national correspondent for the Miami Herald , and Gordon Trowbridge , Washington reporter for the Detroit News .
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2 Jun 2008
Former Bush Loyalist Tell-All (The Leonard Lopate Show: Monday, 02 June 2008)
Scott McClellan , former White House press secretary, gives a behind-the-scenes account of what’s gone wrong in the Bush administration, and responds to criticisms from his former colleagues. His controversial new memoir is What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception. . Event : Scott McClellan will be in conversation with Dan Rather Wednesday, June 4 at 8 pm 92nd Street Y Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street For more information and to purchase tickets, go here .
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30 May 2008
Puerto Rico and the End of the Primaries (The Leonard Lopate Show: Friday, 30 May 2008)
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you're aware of Michael savages cod jokes about the can have vowed. Ted Kennedy's brain cancer. "...
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just the timing coinciding with the anniversary of the Kennedy assassination and Ted Kennedy's coming in being diagnosed with cancer I think that heighten the sense to be -- whole matter so. "...
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21 May 2008
Political Wrap-Up (The Brian Lehrer Show: Wednesday, 21 May 2008)
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final three primaries Montana South Dakota Puerto Rico. But the illness of Senator Edward Kennedy for someone who we seem to always hear about as a staunch liberal partisan. He seems to get a great deal of "...
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prayers two expanding and take him. Sit on numerous occasions I've described Ted Kennedy is the last line. In the Senate and I have held that you because she. Names -- single most effective senate if "...
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In my humble parish. -- is Senator Kennedy. "...
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20 May 2008
Bush, Behind the Scenes (The Leonard Lopate Show: Tuesday, 20 May 2008)
Former U.S. Senator Lincoln Chafee , a moderate Republican, reviews the first six years of the Bush presidency from an insider’s perspective. He says the Republican party needs to change dramatically if it is to survive and succeed. His new book is Against the Tide: How a Compliant Congress Empowered a Reckless President .
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