Listen Live
Donate
 on air
    Schedule

    KCRW

    Read & Explore

    • News
    • Entertainment
    • Food
    • Culture
    • Events

    Listen

    • Live Radio
    • Music
    • Podcasts
    • Full Schedule

    Information

    • About
    • Careers
    • Help / FAQ
    • Newsletters
    • Contact

    Support

    • Become a Member
    • Become a VIP
    • Ways to Give
    • Shop
    • Member Perks

    Become a Member

    Donate to KCRW to support this cultural hub for music discovery, in-depth journalism, community storytelling, and free events. You'll become a KCRW Member and get a year of exclusive benefits.

    DonateGive Monthly

    Copyright 2026 KCRW. All rights reserved.

    Report a Bug|Privacy Policy|Terms of Service|
    Cookie Policy
    |FCC Public Files|

    Back to Left, Right & Center

    Left, Right & Center

    Presidents Trump and Putin meet privately

    Vladimir Putin denied Russia interfered in the 2016 election.

    • rss
    • apple-podcasts
    • spotify
    • Share
    KCRW placeholderBy Katrina vanden Heuvel • Jul 7, 2017 • 51m Listen

    President Trump is in Europe for the G-20 Summit. In Poland, he spoke in defense of "The West," portraying Islamist Terrorism as a successor threat to communism. Rich Lowry said it was a "tremendous speech." Katrina vanden Heuvel said it was authoritarian and "you could feel Steve Bannon's paw prints all over it." In Germany, he had a private meeting with Vladimir Putin where Putin denied Russian interference in the U.S. election. Conservative author Henry Olsen who says the Right gets Ronald Reagan all wrong. We ask the pollsters Margie Omero and Kristen Soltis Anderson whether the public should approve of them.

    Josh Barro (senior editor at Business Insider) moderates from the Center. Rich Lowry (editor of National Review) is on the Right. On the Left, Katrina vanden Heuvel (editor and publisher of The Nation). Juliette Kayyem (Host of the WGBH News podcast 'The SCIF', author of Security Mom, former Assistant Secretary at DHS and advisor at DOJ) is our special guest. Henry Olsen (Ethics and Public Policy Center) is our one-on-one guest. And pollsters Margie Omero (Democratic pollster and EVP at PSB Research) and Kristen Soltis Anderson (Washington Examiner columnist, Republican pollster, co-founder of Echelon Insights) also join us.

    More

    • Associated Press on US-Russia deal on Syrian cease-fire

    • Lowry on Olsen, how Reagan won the votes of working-class Americans

    • Gallup on Trump's unusually early, unusually low approval rating

    • KCRW placeholder

      Katrina vanden Heuvel

      The Nation

    • https://images.ctfassets.net/2658fe8gbo8o/AvYox6VuEgcxpd20Xo9d3/e23b2c8a5a7a4a05410f82a6104e445f/custom_thumbnail_large.png?h=250&fm=webp

      Josh Barro

      Former host of Left, Right & Center

    • https://images.ctfassets.net/2658fe8gbo8o/AvYox6VuEgcxpd20Xo9d3/e23b2c8a5a7a4a05410f82a6104e445f/custom_thumbnail_large.png?h=250&fm=webp

      Rich Lowry

      National Review / KCRW's Left, Right & Center

    • KCRW placeholder

      Laura Dine Million

      Producer, 'Left, Right and Center'

    • KCRW placeholder

      Katie Beurskens

      Production assistant, 'Left, Right & Center'

    • KCRW placeholder

      Juliette Kayyem

      former assistant secretary for homeland security under President Barack Obama, and chair of the homeland security program at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government

    • KCRW placeholder

      Henry Olsen

      Ethics and Public Policy Center

    • KCRW placeholder

      Margie Omero

      The Pollsters / PSB Research

      NewsPolitics
    Back to Left, Right & Center