Russian Asset & The 1st Female Firefighter (with Brenda Berkman)

Stay Tuned with Preet

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Society & Culture, Politics, Government, News

4.8 • 32.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2019

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

This week's Q&A (with Lisa Monaco) starts at 2:07, the interview starts at 17:35, and the button starts at 1:18:45. On this episode of Stay Tuned, "Russian Asset & The 1st Female Firefighter," Lisa Monaco, who served as Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism in the Obama Administration, joins host Preet Bharara to help answer some of your questions on: -- Reports of an extracted Russian Spy who allegedly provided critical information about the Kremlin’s interference in the 2016 American election -- The sudden departure of John Bolton as President Trump’s national security adviser -- President Trump’s cancelled negotiations with the Taliban at Camp David On this 18th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, retired Captain Brenda Berkman of the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) joins Preet for a conversation about her journey as the City’s pioneering female firefighter and her historic 1982 class action lawsuit that forced the FDNY to accept women into its ranks. * Corrections from Capt. Berkman: the U.S. Forest Service (along with FEMA and the US Fire Academy) came to Ground Zero to help FDNY with the large incident command challenges (not the “US Fire Service”); and 37 Port Authority Police died on 9/11, as well as many additional non-police Port Authority employees. Bonus clips from the interview are available for members of the CAFE Insider community. Read along to this week's episode with the transcript. Sign up to receive free references and supplemental materials for Stay Tuned episodes, a weekly newsletter, and updates from Preet. As always, tweet your questions to @PreetBharara with hashtag #askpreet, email us at [email protected], or call 699-247-7338 to leave a voicemail. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:55.9	From Cafe, welcome to Stay Tuned. I'm Prit Bharara. So I'm a student of history. And I
1:04.2	realized that people had done really hard things to give me the opportunities that I had as
1:11.7	a white woman growing up in the 1950s, even though they were limited and continue to be
1:16.5	limited for women. Okay. But I realized that people had suffered a lot for other groups
1:21.5	as well. This was not going to be something that just changed overnight. That's Brenda
1:28.1	Berkman, who served in the Fire Department of the City of New York for 25 years. As a 29-year
1:34.0	old, she was the only name to plaintiff in historic class action lawsuit that forced the
1:38.9	city to allow women into the FDNY for the first time. Brenda Berkman tells me a story
1:44.7	of justice and personal perseverance, how she went from being the student at the NYU
1:48.7	School of Law to becoming one of the first 40 women firefighters in the city's history.
1:54.3	She also talks about how after the first plane hit the World Trade Center on the morning
1:58.4	of September 11, she rushed to the nearest firehouse and joined the ranks of New York's
2:02.6	heroic first responders. But first, let's get to your questions. That's coming up. Stay
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