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This edition: Steel Tariffs And Deregulation Assessed

Episode Details

Original tape date: July 19, 2017. First aired: July 19, 2017.

President Trump has signaled he will help the steel industry by taxing imports. Joe Nocera, opinion writer for Bloomberg View, argues that Trump should invest in infrastructure instead. Then, ProPublica reporter Robert Faturechi has unearthed potential conflicts of interests involved in Trump's deregulation process.

Guest List

Robert Faturechi Journalist, ProPublica

Marty Goldensohn

Joe Nocera Journalist, Bloomberg View

  • 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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