Original tape date: October 22, 2014.
First aired: November 3, 2014.
Should disciplining our school children be left in the hands of police officers? Do poor defendants really get a fair trial? The answers to these questions and more when Donna Lieberman, Executive Director of the New York Civil Liberties Union joins Bob Herbert in discussing a variety of individual rights that the NYCLU is fighting to protect.
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.