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0:08 – Last week, news broke that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ phone had been hacked in 2018 after he received a WhatsApp message from Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. We speak with the two U.N. investigators who reviewed the forensic analysis: U.N. Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression David Kaye, author of Speech Police: The … Continued
0:08 – John Nichols, Washington correspondent for The Nation joins us to talk about the scope of the impeachment investigation as the Democrats make their final arguments in the Senate today. His latest book is The Genius of Impeachment: The Founders’ Cure for Royalism. 0:21 – The Arab Resource Organizing Center (@AROCBayArea) is planning a mass march on … Continued
0:08 – The Trump administration has moved hundreds of immigration cases out of San Francisco courts. It’s a move that alarms immigrants’ rights advocates, who say it will deny needed legal representation to Bay Area residents facing deportation. Raha Jorjani, founder and director of the Alameda County Public Defender’s Immigration Representation Unit, talks about what … Continued
0:08 – Impeachment proceedings Tuesday night went through midnight, with Democrats and Republicans clashing over whether the public will see testimony from witnesses and earning admonishment from Chief Justice John Roberts. Independent journalist Marcy Wheeler (@emptywheel) says Mitch McConnell risks crossing independent voters who want to see an open and thorough trial. 0:19 – More … Continued
Brian Edwards-Tiekert and Cat Brooks of UpFront interview Ian Haney Lopez (@IanHaneyLopez), who teaches in the areas of race and constitutional law. He holds an endowed chair as the Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Public Law at the University of California, Berkeley. His latest book is Merge Left: Fusing Race and Class, Winning Elections, … Continued
0:08 – The U.S. Senate begins impeachment proceedings. Sen. Mitch McConnell has proposed rules to govern the impeachment process that Democrats say are undemocratic and will hamper the trial. We discuss with Mitch Jeserich of Letters and Politics. 0:35 – Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts will be presiding over the impeachment trial. We interview … Continued
0:08 – On December 7, 1964, days before he received the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, King gave a major address in London on segregation, the fight for civil rights and his support for Nelson Mandela and the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa. 0:34 – We hear excerpts from Martin Luther King Jr’s famous speech … Continued
0:08 – Updates on the impeachment of President Trump: The U.S. Senate sent the articles of impeachment to the president, who has until Saturday, January 18 at 6 p.m. Eastern Time to respond. A vote on the rules in the impeachment process is scheduled in the Senate on Tuesday, January 21. 0:18 – The Anti … Continued
0:08 – Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas gave an interview to Rachel Maddow that implicated President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and Attorney General William Barr in the quid pro quo scandal that sparked the looming impeachment trial in the U.S. Senate. We speak with Josh Kovensky (@JoshKovensky), an investigative reporter with Talking Points … Continued
0:08 – For the first 81 minutes of Tuesday night’s Democratic presidential debate, no candidate discussed how race and racism affects policy. We recap the first all-white Democratic presidential debate with Steve Phillips (@StevePtweets), founder of Democracy in Color and host of the podcast “Democracy in Color with Steve Phillips.” 0:36 – The government of Spain … Continued
