Jonathan Marcus

This week in The Takeaway’s Monday agenda with Marcus Mabry and Jonathan Marcus: Sonia Sotomayor, debates on health care, controversy over bank earnings, and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner’s international travel.

It’s Monday morning and we’ve got all the news you’ll need to keep an eye on in the week ahead. The Takeaway is joined by Marcus Mabry, International Business Editor for The New York Times, and Jonathan Marcus, diplomatic correspondent for the BBC.

For analysis of this week’s news, including U.S. troops’ pulling out of Iraq, Bernie Madoff’s sentencing, and the Supreme Court’s final session, The Takeaway talks to Marcus Mabry of The New York Times and Jonathan Marcus of the BBC.

For this week’s agenda, The Takeaway’s guides Marcus Mabry and Jonathan Marcus take a look at the Iranian protests, the latest news from Capitol Hill, the Supreme Court’s expected ruling on the Voting Rights Act, and the trial of singer Chris Brown.

The BBC’s Jonathan Marcus joins The Takeaway to talk about the fairness of Iran’s presidential election. To explain how to analyze an election’s honesty, we turn to Democracy International’s Eric Bjornlund, who has monitored elections all over the world.