Bruce Shapiro's USA: the Cornell case, a failed execution and Democrats could flip the House

Late Night Live - Separate stories podcast · Oct 6, 2026 · 25m

Bruce Shapiro looks at the political fall-out from the Cornell University rape case, how the failed execution of Christa Pike in Tennessee has intensified national debate in the US over lethal-injection protocols, and, four weeks out from the mid-terms, all the polls are showing a Democrat win in both the House and the Senate... but how accurate are the polls? And could President Trump's recent $2 Billion USD Medicare spending spree swing the vote?

Guest: Bruce Shapiro, contributing editor with The Nation magazine and Director of the Global Center for Journalism and Trauma.

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