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Tuesday Feb 09, 2021
Tuesday Feb 09, 2021
Leslie begins today's show with her 'Ripped from the Headlines' news segment.
Here are the stories that she gave her take on:
1. AXIOS: "Day 1 of Trump's second impeachment trial"
2. AUDIO: House Impeachment Manager Jamie Raskin's opening impeachment trial statement
3. AUDIO: Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) refers to Trump's failed coup attempt as deserving of a mulligan
4. CNN: "Millions who likely voted for Trump want him barred from future office"
5. AXIOS: "CBO: $15 minimum wage would increase unemployment but lift 900,000 out of poverty"
6. CNN: "Georgia secretary of state's office launches investigation into Trump's phone call"
7. AXIOS: "How to deprogram America's extremists"
Leslie is then joined by Mimi Rocah, District Attorney of Westchester County, located just north of New York City, and a legal commentator.
The two discuss D.A. Rocah's new piece for USA Today, titled "We can fight hate in our communities before it escalates to violent crime and extremism."
Since taking office on January 1st, 2021, District Attorney Rocah has focused on rebuilding trust between law enforcement and the community, and shaping a safer and fairer criminal justice system for all of the county’s 950,000 residents. Rocah was a federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York for 17 years, including five years as Chief of the Westchester Division for the U.S. Department of Justice. Mimi is also a legal commentator for national media.Her DA Twitter handle is @WestchesterDA and her personal Twitter handle is @MimiRocah1.
Monday Feb 08, 2021
Monday Feb 08, 2021
The guest host for today's show is Brad Bannon. Brad runs Bannon Communications Research, a polling, message development and media firm which helps labor unions, progressive issue groups and Democratic candidates win public affairs and political campaigns. His show, 'Deadline D.C. with Brad Bannon,' airs every Monday from 3-4pm ET.
Brad is first joined by John Nichols, the National Political Correspondent for 'The Nation,' and Author of the new book, "The Fight for the Soul of the Democratic Party." (Available for purchase here: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48624170-the-fight-for-the-soul-of-the-democratic-party)
John's Twitter handle is @NicholsUprising.
Brad and John discuss the upcoming Senate impeachment trial of former President Trump, the COVID-19 stimulus, and the dangers of the extremism that is pushed by Republicans like Senator Josh Hawley and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.
During the second half of the show, Brad leads a political round-table with Edwith Theogene and Mark Grimaldi. The roundtable discusses the violent rhetoric of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and how Congress should respond to it. They also get into the details of the $1.9 trillion dollar stimulus package that has the backing of President Biden, including the expansion of tax credits for parents with children. Additionally, they analyze what impact that cancelling student debt and raising the minimum wage to $15 dollars an hour would have on the economy.
Edwith Theogene is the director of advocacy for Generation Progress, the youth engagement arm of American Progress. In this role, Theogene works to develop and lead efforts that translate the experiences of young adults into concrete actions that advance progressive policies and increase voter turnout.Edwith's Twitter handle is @WhoIsEdwith.
Mark Grimaldi has been a progressive political activist for the past 12 years. He volunteered for the campaigns of President Obama (2008 and 2012), Senator Bernie Sanders (2016), Secretary Hillary Clinton (2016), and President Joe Biden (2020). Mark is also involved in campaign finance reform efforts around the country, and philanthropic efforts for Cancer research. His Twitter handle is @MarkJGrimaldi.
Brad writes a political column every Sunday for 'The Hill.' He's on the National Journal's panel of political insiders and is a national political analyst for WGN TV and Radio in Chicago and KNX Radio in Los Angeles.
You can read Brad's columns at www.MuckRack.com/Brad-Bannon. His Twitter handle is @BradBannon.
You can also watch this episode here on Periscope: https://www.pscp.tv/w/1gqxvoZwQzWKB
Or here on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DeadlineDCWithBradBannon/videos/771701863695318
Friday Feb 05, 2021
Friday Feb 05, 2021
Leslie begins the show with her 'Ripped from the Headlines' news segment.
Here are the stories she covers during the segment:
1. AXIOS: "Senate votes to advance budget resolution for Biden's relief plan"
2. AUDIO: President Biden today - There's nothing more important than us getting the resources we need to vaccinate Americans
3. AUDIO: President Biden today - Would like to be doing COVID-19 stimulus with the support of Republicans, but they're just not willing to go as far as we have to go
4. AXIOS: "Poll: Majority of Americans support $1.9 trillion COVID relief package"
5. AXIOS: "The Trump-COVID jobs legacy"
6. AXIOS: "House votes to remove Marjorie Taylor Greene from committee assignments"
Leslie is then joined by Atiba Madyun, President/CEO of The Madyun Group, a government relations firm based in Washington, DC, as well as Party Politics US, a data collection firm that not only gathers data from American voters but also engages with young people to educate them on public policy.
Leslie and Atiba discuss the disproportionate impact that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on black families, the high number of essential workers who are black, and how black people already face discrimination when receiving medical care.
Atiba Madyun is the former Division Director of the National Black Caucus of State Legislators, as well as the author of the novel 'Saving Grace,' which is available for purchase on Amazon in paperback and Kindle.His website is AtibaMadyun.com and his Twitter handle is @AtibaMadyun.
Tuesday Feb 02, 2021
Tuesday Feb 02, 2021
Leslie begins the show with her 'Ripped from the Headlines' news segment.
Here are the stories she covers during the segment:
1. AXIOS: "Impeachment managers call Trump "singularly responsible" for Capitol riots"
2. AUDIO: Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recounting her horrifying experience hiding in her office during the insurrection
3. REUTERS: "'He invited us': Accused Capitol rioters blame Trump in novel legal defense"
Leslie is then joined by Dr. Robert Shapiro, Chairman of Sonecon, an economic advisory firm and a Senior Fellow of the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University.
They discuss his newest piece for 'Washington Monthly,' which is titled, "Biden Opts for Growth and Equity While Republicans Whine."
Leslie also talks with Dr. Shapiro about the new report that he wrote on the impact that free tuition has on public colleges and universities.
Dr. Shapiro is an internationally-known economist who has advised, among others, President Bill Clinton, Vice President Al Gore, Jr., British Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, and then U.S. Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. He was Under Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs in the Clinton Administration. His website is Sonecon.com and his Twitter handle is @RobShapiro.
Monday Feb 01, 2021
Monday Feb 01, 2021
The guest host for today's show is Brad Bannon. Brad runs Bannon Communications Research, a polling, message development and media firm which helps labor unions, progressive issue groups and Democratic candidates win public affairs and political campaigns. His new show, 'Deadline D.C. with Brad Bannon,' airs every Monday from 3-4pm ET.
Brad is first joined by Colonel Cedric Leighton, Founder and President of Cedric Leighton Associates, a strategic risk and leadership consultancy serving global companies and organizations. He founded the company in 2010, after serving in the US Air Force for 26 years as an Intelligence Officer and attaining the rank of Colonel.
They analyze President Biden's National Security Team, including Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin. Brad and Colonel Leighton also discuss the troubling number of military veterans that were involved in the Jan. 6th Capitol riots, as well as how the U.S. may deal with the threat of Iran finalizing the development of a nuclear bomb.
During the second half of the show, Brad leads a political round-table with Tara Devlin and Mark Grimaldi. The roundtable discusses whether unity is possible in the current state that America is in politically. They also discuss the current talks between President Biden and Congress regarding a new COVID-19 stimulus package.
Tara is a New York City based comedian and host of the unapologetically-liberal podcast, "TARABUSTER.” Tarabuster is 100% listener supported and 5-star viewer-reviewed.
You can help keep independent liberal media alive, and free from corporate influence, by becoming a patron of Tarabuster at Patreon.com/TaraDevlin.
You can follow Tara on Twitter at @REALTaraDevlin and on Instagram at @Taradackty.
Mark Grimaldi has been a progressive political activist for the past 12 years. He volunteered for the campaigns of President Obama (2008 and 2012), Senator Bernie Sanders (2016), Secretary Hillary Clinton (2016), and President Joe Biden (2020). Mark is also involved in campaign finance reform efforts around the country, and philanthropic efforts for Cancer research. His Twitter handle is @MarkJGrimaldi.
Brad is on the National Journal's panel of political insiders and is a national political analyst for WGN TV and Radio in Chicago and KNX Radio in Los Angeles.
You can read Brad's columns at www.MuckRack.com/Brad-Bannon and watch his previous 'Deadline D.C.' broadcasts at www.Periscope.TV/BradBannon. His Twitter handle is @BradBannon.
Watch a video broadcast of this episode here on Twitter/Periscope: https://www.pscp.tv/w/1yNxaWAlNZqGj
Or here on Facebook Live: tinyurl.com/BradFacebook2121
(Image Credit: Associated Press)
Thursday Jan 28, 2021
Thursday Jan 28, 2021
Today the awesome Moe Vela guest hosts my show! Moe served in President Obama’s administration as the Director of Administration and Senior Advisor in the Office of then Vice President Joe Biden. The stint was the second White House appointment for Moe, who served as Chief Financial Officer and Senior Advisor on Hispanic Affairs for Vice President Al Gore. Moe holds the distinction of being the first Hispanic American and gay American to serve twice in a senior executive role in the White House.
Moe is first joined by Stacie Olivares, Chief Investment Officer of Lendistry, a minority-owned CDFI and fintech lender that provides small business loans at affordable rates. Stacie is also a Trustee of the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS), the largest public pension in the United States.
Moe and Stacie discuss her plight as a woman in a 'man’s industry,' as well as the challenges of access to capital for women entrepreneurs.
Then Moe is joined by Eric Mitchell, a National Media Contributor, the CEO of Lifeflip Media, and a veteran of the United States Marine Corps. Eric tells Moe how and why he went from a conservative former military guy to a progressive advocate. He also talks with Moe about how we can overcome the current political divide in the United States.
You can follow Moe on Twitter where his handle is @MoeVela.
Wednesday Jan 27, 2021
Wednesday Jan 27, 2021
Today's guest hosts are Brent J. Cohen and Edwith Theogene, Executive Director and Organizing Director for Generation Progress.
During today's episode, they discuss how the Democrats now controlling the White House and Congress has massive implications for many different policy areas, including climate. In President Biden’s first week in office, his administration has already signed several executive orders reversing harmful policies from the Trump administration and establishing new policies that experts agree will help us better address the climate crisis. Today, declared “Climate Day” by the White House, Biden signed an executive order establishing a White House interagency council on environmental justice, creating an office of health and climate equity at the Health and Human Services Department, and forming a separate environmental justice office at the Justice Department.
To break down some of the immediate actions that the Biden administration has taken on climate and where policy experts and environmental justice advocates hope that the administration and Congress will go from here, Brent and Edwith are joined by two expert guests:
They are LaTricea Adams, the founder, CEO, and president of Black Millennials 4 Flint, and Alexandria Villaseñor, the founder of Earth Uprising.
Here are the Twitter handles for today's guests and their organizations:
Black Millennials 4 Flint - @BM4Flint, Earth Uprising - @Earth_Uprising, Alexandria Villaseñor - @AlexandriaV2005
The website for 'Generation Progress' is www.GenProgress.org and their Twitter Handle is @GenProgress. Brent J. Cohen's Twitter handle is @BrentJCohen and Edwith Theogene's handle is @CharlatAnne.
Tuesday Jan 26, 2021
Tuesday Jan 26, 2021
First, Leslie gives her take on today's news in her 'Ripped from the Headlines' segment.
Here are the stories that she covered:
1. WASHINGTON POST: "White House expected to tell governors they will get more coronavirus vaccine starting next week"
2. Axios-Ipsos poll: Trust in federal coronavirus response surges
3. WASHINGTON POST: "Biden to reopen ACA insurance marketplaces as pandemic has cost millions of Americans their coverage"
4. AXIOS: "McConnell drops filibuster demand, paving way for power-sharing deal"
5. AXIOS: "Sanders says Democrats will push coronavirus relief package through with simple majority"
Then, Leslie is joined by Dr. Bob Bollinger, the Raj and Kamla Gupta Professor of Infectious Diseases at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Bollinger holds joint appointments in International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and in Community Public Health at the JH School of Nursing.
They discuss the latest news surrounding COVID-19, including:
- Moderna announcing that its COVID-19 vaccine is effective against new variants of the virus that first appeared in the U.K. and in South Africa
- President Biden saying that he thinks that any American adult who wants a vaccine can expect to receive one by spring
- What rate per day that the U.S. needs to be vaccinating people at in order to reach herd immunity against the virus
- Communities of color falling behind in America's vaccine effort
Dr. Bollinger is Founding Director of the Center for Clinical GlobaJohns Hopkins Center for Clinical Global Health Education (CCGHE). Their website is main.ccghe.net and their Facebook page is Johns Hopkins Center for Clinical Global Health Education.
Monday Jan 25, 2021
Monday Jan 25, 2021
The guest host for today's show is Brad Bannon. Brad runs Bannon Communications Research, a polling, message development and media firm which helps labor unions, progressive issue groups and Democratic candidates win public affairs and political campaigns. His new show, 'Deadline D.C. with Brad Bannon,' airs every Monday from 3-4pm ET.
Brad is first joined by Paul Lisnek, a multi-Emmy, Cablefax, Telly and Beacon Award winning television host and analyst. Paul has been the political analyst for WGN-TV since 2008, appearing on all the station’s newscasts discussing political issues of the day. He is the host of Politics Tonight on CLTV, on which he interviews the leading political figures in the city, state and country, and also serves as a fill-in anchor. Paul has interviewed presidents, governors, senators, congressmen, local representatives and mayors too numerous to count over the last 25 years. His Twitter handle is @PaulLisnek.
Paul and Brad breakdown the upcoming second impeachment trial for Donald Trump in the Senate. They also analyze Justice Merrick Garland as President Biden's choice for Attorney General, plus whether they think that Biden will have to govern by executive order due to Senate filibuster rules.
Brad is then joined by Jeneé Osterheldt for the second half of the show. Jeneé is a Boston Globe culture columnist who covers identity and social justice through the lens of culture and the arts.
Brad and Jeneé discuss what role racism is playing in our country's governing and politics at the moment. They also analyze the huge impact that National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman had on President Biden's inauguration.
The Boston Globe also has a vertical that is curated by Jeneé called, "A Beautiful Resistance."
It is a series of stories about Black joy and Black lives. The aim is to amplify the truth of Black folk and other people of color living as their fullest selves in a region, in a country, set up to keep them from doing just that – their lives are more than police brutality and suffering. Black lives are a beautiful resistance, and the platform is providing the space for Black people to tell their stories in their own terms, because “even the most well-meaning white person will never tell our stories how we tell our stories.” A Beautiful Resistance, which features an Instagram channel (@abeautifulresistance), features videos, events and stories of blackness – through stories and struggles of six people in New England, under the lens of love. (Link here: https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/special-reports/a-beautiful-resistance/)
You can follow Jeneé on Twitter, where her handle is @SincerelyJenee.
Brad writes a political column every Sunday for 'The Hill.' He's on the National Journal's panel of political insiders and is a national political analyst for WGN TV and Radio in Chicago and KNX Radio in Los Angeles.
You can read Brad's columns at www.MuckRack.com/Brad-Bannon. His Twitter handle is @BradBannon.
Watch a video broadcast of the show here: https://www.pscp.tv/w/1lPJqXqYLLeGb
Friday Jan 22, 2021
Friday Jan 22, 2021
Leslie is joined by Scott Paul, President of the Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM), a partnership established by some of America’s leading manufacturers and the United Steelworkers union.
The two discuss President Biden's 'Build Back Better' plan, his invoking the Defense Production Act to fight COVID-19, and what Donald Trump accomplished for American manufacturing during his time as President.
The AAM website is AmericanManufacturing.org and their Twitter handle is @KeepItMadeInUSA. Scott's handle is @ScottPaulAAM.