Setbacks to Trump’s Voter Fraud Commission, Yemen’s Cholera Epidemic, Siblings Share Stories About Race

Coming up on today’s show: 

• Last week, a voter fraud commission set up by President Trump sent out voter information requests to every state. At least half of them are choosing not to fully comply, including Connecticut and Ohio. Connecticut Secretary of State Denise Merrill and Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted join The Takeaway to discuss their responses to the requests. 

• The original deadline for Qatar to comply with 13 demands set forth by neighboring Arab nations has been extended by 48 hours. Randa Slim, director at The Middle East Institute, updates us on the situation.

• A two-year civil war in Yemen may have exacerbated a devastating cholera epidemic, which has claimed more then 1,300 lives. Michelle Gayner, the emergency health director for the International Rescue Committee, has the news.

• Donations have been slow in coming to help the more than 20 million people across Yemen, South Sudan, Somalia, and northeast Nigeria who face starvation and famine. David Beasley, the executive director of the U.N. World Food Program, discusses some of the recent challenges his organization has faced.

• In the latest installment of The Takeaway’s original series “Uncomfortable Truths,” Rechelle Schimke, who is white, talks with her adopted brother Gerrit Schmike, who is black, about the differences — and similarities — in their childhoods.

This episode is hosted by Todd Zwillich.