Evening Roundup, October 9
Featuring The Tea with April Ryan, Jacqueline Kelly & Mimi Rocah, Jennifer Rubin & Ritchie Torres, Tom Malinowski, Shalise Manza Young, Meredith Blake, and Brian O'Neill.
The Tea w/ April Ryan ft. Father Michael Pfleger and Patrick Quirk
Host April Ryan is joined by guests Father Michael Pfleger and Patrick Quirk to discuss Trump’s attack against Chicago and cuts to UNICEF, respectively.
Cold comfort: The DOJ says it stands with survivors, but words aren’t enough
By Jacqueline Kelly and Mimi Rocah
Democrats fight for families, Republicans go on vacation with Rep. Torres
The government shutdown has crossed the one week mark. As the days tick on, Americans across the country suffer from rising healthcare costs, food insecurity, and growing unemployment. Representative Ritchie Torres (D-NY) joins Jen to update us on the Democrats’ fight to extend ACA tax cuts, protect the WIC program, and lessen the financial burden on fa…
Trump’s war on the values of warriors
In his first week in office in 2017, Donald Trump announced that while he personally supported torturing terrorist suspects, he would defer to the advice of his Secretary of Defense General James Mattis to not let the U.S. military engage in such cruel practices. For the next four years, a succession of defense and military officials mostly succeeded in…
Dolly Parton 'ain't dead yet,' and a weary nation breathes a sigh of relief
That sound you heard on Wednesday afternoon was 300 million people collectively breathing a sigh of relief at a small but heartening piece of good news in these grim times.
The spy service without a brake
The New York Times reported Monday that the career lawyer serving as the Central Intelligence Agency’s acting general counsel—installed earlier in the year—was demoted to deputy status. Michael Ellis, the deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency, assumed the additional role of principal counsel.
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