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This edition: Les Payne on Police Tactics, 2016 Candidates, and Iran


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Original tape date: September 16, 2015. First aired: September 21, 2015.

Bob Herbert covers local, national, and international affairs with guest and old friend Les Payne, a Pulitzer-Prize winning former reporter, columnist and editor with Newsday. Among other things, they talk about the mistaken arrest in midtown Manhattan of the former tennis star, James Blake; the wild and wacky presidential election; and finally, the nuclear deal negotiated by the Obama administration and Iran.

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Les Payne Journalist & Author

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  • Bob Herbert’s Op-Ed.TV is a weekly half-hour program featuring interviews with significant men and women from a variety of fields: officeholders and activists, economists, labor leaders, writers and artists. Herbert, a longtime journalist and former columnist for The New York Times, takes a close look each week at a compelling contemporary issue. He elicits personal stories and insights into the character of each guest, revealing not just what they believe about a particular issue, but why they believe it.

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