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This edition: Veterans' Take On The New President In Trouble

Episode Details

Original tape date: May 17, 2017. First aired: May 17, 2017.

Brian discusses veterans issues and how scandals in the Trump White House affect military morale, with Paul Rieckhoff, CEO of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. Then, a study from the Massachusetts 2006 healthcare law offers policy lessons, explains Mark Shepard, professor of public policy at the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government.

Guest List

Paul Rieckhoff Founder/CEO, Iraqi and Afghanistan Veterans of America

Mark Shepard Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard University Kennedy School of Government

  • About this series

  • In January, POTUS 2016 officially becomes POTUS 2017 with popular WNYC host Brian Lehrer. The weekly half-hour program keeps watch on the oval office with a roundtable of guests. A regular segment, “Evidence-Based Politics,” looks deeply into one timely issue with a researcher who has published a rigorous study on the subject. The segment is designed to pour cold hard facts on the overheated political rhetoric that can misinform the public and policy-makers.

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