The Leslie Marshall Show

Huge Jump in Business Bankruptcies Likely in Coming Months, and How It Will Affect the U.S.

Leslie begins the hour with her 'Ripped from the Headlines' news segment. Here are the stories that she covered during the segment:

1. NBC NEWS: "U.S. passes 1 million cases of COVID-19"
2. WASHINGTON POST: "President’s intelligence briefing book repeatedly cited virus threat"
3. WASHINGTON POST: "The U.S. plans to give $500 billion to large companies. It won’t require them to preserve jobs or limit executive pay"
4. AXIOS: "Mnuchin says SBA will do "full review" of PPP loans over $2 million"
5. AXIOS: "Coronavirus is tied to climate and biodiversity crises"
6. CNN: "Arizona GOP chair encourages anti-stay-at-home protesters to dress like health care workers"
7. THE DAILY BEAST: "Pence Flouts Mask Policy While Visiting Staff, Patient at Mayo Clinic"

She's then joined by Toddy Duffy, Co-Founder of the Law-Firm DuffyAmedeo LLP. Todd attended law school at St. John’s University School of Law and obtained his law degree in two and a half years. After law school, he clerked for Chief Judge Stephen D. Gerling of the Northern District of New York Bankruptcy Court. After his clerkship, Todd was associated with several large Manhattan firms and participated in many of the largest and most complex bankruptcy cases in the last twenty years. Todd is also a past Chair of the Bankruptcy Committee of the New York County Lawyers’ Association.

Leslie and Todd discuss the "flood of business bankruptcies" being "likely in coming months," as reported by the Associated Press. Todd explains why, especially during a disaster like the COVID-19 pandemic, bankruptcy does not signify that a business is a failure. Rather, it is a tool that a business can use to level the playing field amid the economic fallout from a disaster that they had no hand in making.

Todd's website is DuffyAmedeo.com and his Twitter handle is @ToddEduffy.

Trump's COVID-19 Disinfectant Comments; Potential Biden Running Mates

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 evaluate President Trump's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, and his unfounded comment that injecting one's self with disinfectant could be a treatment for COVID-19.  They also discuss the 2020 presidential election between Trump and Joe Biden.  This includes thoughts on potential running mates for Biden, including Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, Stacey Abrams, Amy Klobuchar, Gretchen Whitmer and Tammy Baldwin.

During the second half of the show, Brad leads a political round-table with Nick Guthman and Mark Grimaldi.  The roundtable picks up on the discussion of running mates for Joe Biden, with a focus on Elizabeth Warren, Stacey Abrams and Gretchen Whitmer.  They also highlight the importance of Democrats energizing the youth vote if they hope to take back the White House this November.  This includes investing in get out the vote operations for college students.

Nick Guthman is Co-Founder of 'Blue Future,' a national organizing program run out of the Youth Progressive Action Catalyst, a youth-led political action committee (PAC), focused on organizing young people around progressive electoral campaigns. His Twitter handle is @NickGuthman. The website for 'Blue Future' is www.OurBlueFuture.us.

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), and Secretary Hillary Clinton (2016).  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 column every Sunday on the 2020 Presidential race 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: www.periscope.tv/BradBannon/1eaJbQAOEWeGX

AFT Pres. Randi Weingarten Details How Educators Are Stepping Up for Students During Pandemic

Leslie begins the hour with her 'Ripped from the Headlines' news segment.

She's then joined by Randi Weingarten, President of the 1.7 million-member American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO, which represents teachers; paraprofessionals and school-related personnel; higher education faculty and staff; nurses and other healthcare professionals; local, state and federal government employees; and early childhood educators.

Leslie and Randi discuss how children and parents are dealing with a huge digital divide, which is why the AFT decided to donate 10,000 books to a network of homeless shelters in NYC to help fill the gap. Randi also shares how the COVID-19 pandemic has "exasperated and exposed every inequality" in both our education system and our country as a whole.

Since COVID 19 began, thousands of educators have submitted requests to FirstBook.org for funding to choose and purchase books for their students to support distance learning. A donation to FirstBook.org would help get books into the hands of kids in need across the country. We've posted the link on our video stream and will do the same on all of our social media accounts. So please go to FirstBook.org and donate whatever your budget allows.

The website for the American Federation of Teachers is AFT.org and their Twitter account is @AFTunion. President Randi Weingarten's account is @rweingarten.

The AFT champions fairness; democracy; economic opportunity; and high-quality public education, healthcare and public services for students, their families and communities. The AFT and its members advance these principles through community engagement, organizing, collective bargaining and political activism, and especially through members’ work.

COVID-19’s Disproportionate Impact On Communities Of Color

Today's guest hosts are Brent J. Cohen and Charlotte Hancock, Executive Director and Communications Director for Generation Progress.

They’re highlighting a very alarming, but sadly not unexpected, trend that has emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic. Communities of color, and especially Black people, are contracting the infection at much higher rates than white people, and are experiencing consistently worse outcomes with the disease. For example, in Washington D.C., where Generation Progress is based, data has shown that Black people have made up around 80% of the deaths from COVID-19 despite making up only around 50% of the D.C. population. New York City and Chicago have reported even higher racial disparities in COVID-19 deaths, and some states have begun reporting infection and death rates by race in order to track the trend.

To learn more about why this trend exists and what it will take to mitigate the impact of racism on public health, Brent and Charlotte are joined by Dorianne Mason, the Director of Health Equity at the National Women’s Law Center, and Connor Maxwell, a Senior Policy Analyst on the Race and Ethnicity team at the Center for American Progress.

Here are the Twitter handles for today's guests and their respective organizations: Dorianne Mason - @DorianneMason, National Women's Law Center - @nwlc, Center for American Progress Race and Ethnicity Policy Team - CAPTalksRace, Connor Maxwell - @Connor__Maxwell

The website for "Generation Progress" is www.GenProgress.org and their Twitter Handle is @GenProgress. Brent J. Cohen's Twitter handle is @BrentJCohen and Charlotte Hancock's handle is @CharlatAnne.

Nurses Protest Outside White House for Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) in Fight Against COVID-19

Leslie begins the hour with her 'Ripped from the Headlines' news segment.

Here are the four news stories that she covers:

1. AXIOS: "White House and Congress reach interim coronavirus funding deal"

2. CNN/AXIOS: "Bipartisan Senate report backs intel community assessment that Russia interfered to help Trump in 2016 election"

3. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: "At least 7 new coronavirus cases appear to be related to Wisconsin election's in-person voting, Milwaukee health commissioner says"

4. NBC News: "Two-thirds of voters back vote-by-mail in November 2020"

She's then joined by Jean Ross, an Acute Care Nurse, and Co-President of National Nurses United, the country’s largest union and professional organization of registered nurses, with more than 150,000 members nationwide.

Leslie and Jean discuss the registered nurses who are holding a protest in front of the White House today. They're protesting to call attention to the tens of thousands of health care workers nationwide who have become infected with COVID-19 due to lack of personal protective equipment (PPE). The nurses, members of National Nurses United (NNU), are practicing social distancing and are reading aloud the names U.S. nurses who are known to have died of COVID-19.

Nurses have been demanding that the Trump administration’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) promulgate an emergency temporary standard so that health care workers are provided with the optimal PPE. NNU petitioned OSHA on March 4, 2020 for such a standard and never received a response. With no federal health and safety standard, nurses and other health care workers in many hospitals across the country have not been provided with adequate PPE to protect them from exposure to the virus.

Nurses point out that they require N95 respirators or a higher level or protection as well as other protective gear when taking care of patients who may be infected with COVID-19. With the failure of the Trump administration to protect health care workers, NNU is demanding that Congress include a mandatory OSHA emergency standard in its next COVID-19 legislative package.

Leslie and Jean also talk about the healthcare workers being hailed as heroes after standing in the street to block a right-wing protest against Colorado's stay-at-home order.

NNU's website is NationalNursesUnited.org and their Twitter and Instagram handle is @NationalNurses.

What the World's Response to COVID-19 Can Teach Us About Fighting Climate Change

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 Dr.Margaret Klein Salamon, a clinical psychologist and now Founder and Director of 'The Climate Mobilization,' an organization that calls for moving from climate grieving to emergency mode.
Her radical new self-help guide, 'Facing the Climate Emergency: How to Transform Yourself with Climate Truth,' helps readers reckon with the terror of the climate emergency, process their feelings, and turn their pain into heroic action. Her Twitter handle is @MobilizeClimate.

The two discuss applying the same type of 'emergency action' response that has been used to fight COVID-19, but instead, using it to fight the climate crisis.

During the second half of the show, Brad leads a political round-table with Tim Zenk and Mark Grimaldi.  The roundtable adds to the discussion of the topics covered in the first segment. They also hypothesize what type of President Joe Biden would be in the area of climate action if he wins in November.

Tim is a Principle at 'Molecule,' a business and public affairs company, a former Democratic staffer, and a well known renewable energy expert. His Twitter handle is @greencrude.

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), and Secretary Hillary Clinton (2016).  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 column every Sunday on the 2020 Presidential race 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: www.periscope.tv/BradBannon/1RDxlQqyArOKL

Abortion is Essential: Attacks on Reproductive Rights During COVID-19 Pandemic

Today's guest hosts are Charlotte Hancock and Edwith Theogene, Communications Director and Organizing Director for Generation Progress.

Today's discussion is about an alarming trend that has emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic: at least seven states across the South and the Midwest have used this pandemic to declare abortion services non-essential and attempt to prevent some or all abortions from taking place as long as stay at home or shelter in place orders are in effect. These policies are incredibly harmful and dangerous—but thankfully, many organizations are fighting back. Over the weekend, the debate in Texas reached the Supreme Court, but—after an appellate court restored some abortion access in Texas last night—the battle is now back to the lower courts.

To talk more about this situation and why abortion is very much an essential service, today's guests are Elisabeth Smith, the Chief Counsel for State Policy and Advocacy at the Center for Reproductive Rights, and Dr. Kristyn Brandi, the Board Chair of Physicians for Reproductive Health and an Assistant Professor at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School.

Here are the Twitter handles for today's guests and their respective organizations: The Center for Reproductive Rights - @ReproRights, Dr. Kristyn Brandi - @DrKBrandi, Physicians for Reproductive Health - @prhdocs

The website for "Generation Progress" is www.GenProgress.org and their Twitter Handle is @GenProgress. Charlotte Hancock's Twitter handle is @CharlatAnne and Edwith Theogene's handle is @WhoIsEdwith.

Bernie Endorses Biden; Biden-Trump Matchup Preview, and How COVID-19 Factors In

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 the usual host of the show, Leslie Marshall! As you probably already know if you're a listener, Leslie is a Democratic Strategist, National Radio Host, and a Fox News Contributor who provides political analysis from a liberal point of view. 

Brad and Leslie discuss the significance of today's endorsement of Joe Biden for President by Senator Bernie Sanders, including it happening three months sooner in the primary process than it did for Hillary Clinton.  They give some advice as to what Vice President Biden can do to earn the votes of Bernie supporters, and preview his general election matchup with President Trump.

During the second half of the show, Brad leads a political round-table with Tara Devlin and Mark Grimaldi.  The roundtable adds to the discussion of Sanders endorsing Biden, and what type of policies Sanders supporters would like to see Biden advocate for going forward.  They also discuss whether Biden committing to nominating a female running mate was as meaningful as some have prognosticated.

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), and Secretary Hillary Clinton (2016).  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 column every Sunday on the 2020 Presidential race 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/1yoKMakweOpKQ

The Case for Universal Mandatory COVID-19 Testing

Leslie begins the hour with her 'Ripped from the Headlines' news segment.

Here are the two news stories that she covers:

1. The New Yorker - "How Did the U.S. End Up with Nurses Wearing Garbage Bags?"

2. NBC News - "Video shows giant trench being dug on NYC's Hart Island to bury coronavirus victims"

She's 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. He 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.

Leslie and Dr. Shapiro discuss his new piece for 'Washington Monthly,' titled "The Case for Universal Mandatory COVID-19 Testing." (Article link here --> https://washingtonmonthly.com/2020/04/10/the-case-for-universal-mandatory-covid-19-testing/)

Dr. Shapiro's website is www.Sonecon.com and his Twitter handle is @RobShapiro.

The Impact of COVID-19 on Immigration Detention and Enforcement

Today's guest hosts are Brent J. Cohen and Charlotte Hancock, Executive Director and Communications Director for Generation Progress.

This week's show is about another group of people being uniquely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic—undocumented immigrants and people who are being detained by immigration enforcement agencies. Many undodcumented people are on the frontlines of coronavirus response—whether they are healthcare providers or essential employees making sure that basic necessities are still available to the general public—but, even during a pandemic, they are forced to worry about whether or not they will be able to remain in this country. As we wait for a decision from the Supreme Court on the DACA case, even Dreamers who previously had a certain degree of security about their immigration status are now being forced to consider that everything might change. Meanwhile, people who are already being detained by ICE or CBP are in immediate danger of the pandemic spreading rapidly through detention facilities, where they will almost certainly not receive adequate care.

To talk more about this situation and what can be done to protect vulnerable people, the show is joined by Sanaa Abrar, the advocacy director at United We Dream and Setareh Ghandehari, the advocacy manager at the Detention Watch Network.

Here are the Twitter handles for today's guests and their respective organizations:  Sanaa Abrar - @sanaashine, United We Dream - @UNITEDWEDREAM, Detention Watch Network - @DetentionWatch

The website for "Generation Progress" is www.GenProgress.org and their Twitter Handle is @GenProgress.  Brent J. Cohen's Twitter handle is @BrentJCohen and Charlotte Hancock's handle is @CharlatAnne.