Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Is Russia Behind the DNC Email Hack?
Day 3 of the DNC is being dominated by talk that Russia was behind the hack of the Democratic party’s email servers. LA County Supervisors are scrapping a plan to tax pot for homeless services. A new animated adaption of the classic French children’s book The Little Prince is coming out soon. And artist Jeff Koons and the labor dispute with his assistants.
By Madeleine Brand • • 50m ListenDNC Day 3 has its share of heavy hitters giving speeches, but the focus has shifted to the possibility that Russia was behind the hack of the Democratic National Committee’s email servers. Donald Trump even went so far to say that Russia should try to find his rival Hillary Clinton’s missing State Department emails.
Here in LA County, the Board of Supervisors has scrapped a measure to tax pot for homeless services. Sheila Kuehl, the Supervisor who proposed the measure, is even in favor of scrapping it too.
A new animated adaptation of the classic French children’s book The Little Prince, comes out in early August, we’ll talk about it with the director.
And artist Jeff Koons, known for his colorful balloon sculptures, is having his bubble burst by a labor dispute among his assistants.
