Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast

Latino and Latina voters are a crucial demographic for the Biden campaign. But is he doing enough to bring them into the conversation? On Today's Show:Julio Ricardo Varela, co-host of the In The Thick podcast and founder of Latino Rebels, assesses the Biden campaign's attempts to gain support among Latinx voters.

In the police reform debate, the question of holding officers accountable is a key issue. But the way things are, prosecutors often work on cases in conjunction with the police, creating a potential conflict of interest. On Today's Show:Emily Bazelon, staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, co-host of Slate's Political Gabfest podcast, Truman Capote Fellow for creative writing and law at Yale Law School and author of Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration (Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2020), and Elie Mystal, justice correspondent for The Nation, talk about why so few district attorneys choose to prosecute police officers who some say have very clearly committed unlawful acts.

On Today's Show: Maria Hinojosa, anchor and executive producer of Latino USA, and the author of Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn, talks about how some of our national conversations about gender, immigration, sexual violence have intersected with her own life.

Amid the COVID-19 crisis, Trump has resumed a schedule of indoor rallies. Biden won't even send volunteers door-to-door. So what do the campaigns' ground games look like in this pandemic election? On Today's Show: Asma Khalid, political correspondent for NPR and co-host of The NPR Politics Podcast, talks about the status of the Biden/Harris campaign and other national political news.

Peter Strzok resigned from the FBI over politically-charged texts amid his investigation into the relationship between Russian intelligence services and the Trump campaign. On Today's Show:Peter Strzok, a 22-year veteran of the FBI and their former deputy assistant director of counterintelligence who headed up the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, now the author of Compromised: Counterintelligence and the Threat of Donald J. Trump (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020), argues that despite any personal failings or opinions he expressed, his investigation in the ties between the Trump campaign and Russia should be taken seriously.

Bob Woodward's taped interviews with President Trump show that, in public and in private, he was painting two very different pictures of the COVID-19 crisis at a crucial point. Does it matter to his supporters? On Today's Show:Jonathan Lemire, White House reporter for the Associated Press and political analyst for MSNBC/NBC News, talks about what this might mean for the president and his re-election chances.

As anti-COVID measures go, testing and tracing seems to be the best fit for the American psyche. So where's the science, and is there enough capacity for a meaningful testing regime? On Today's Show:Atul Gawande, staff writer for The New Yorker, surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, argues testing capacity in the United States could be scaled up to control the coronavirus pandemic, with effective national leadership.

After two weeks of conventions, how have the polls responded to the parties' messaging? Today, a look at the numbers, what it means to cover horserace politics meaningfully, and what to expect on Nov. 3. On Today's Show:Amy Walter, national editor at the Cook Political Report and the host of Politics with Amy Walter on WNYC's The Takeaway (on Fridays), talks about the latest 2020 campaign news and looks at where the polls stand as the election heats up, on the day after Labor Day.

On Today's Show  U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand takes listeners' calls and talks about the news of the day, including her recent visits to local food pantries, plus the latest on the federal relief bills.  

On Today's Show: A Trump administration order could allow many renters to avoid eviction through Dec. 31. Judith Goldiner, attorney-in-charge at The Legal Aid Society’s Civil Law Reform Unit, talks about how far the order goes, and answers renter's questions.