The National Guard in DC: Harold Meyerson; Trump v. UCLA: David Myers; The Gun Show: Adam Hochschild
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Report from Washington D.C. – where Trump has deployed the National Guard, ICE and FBI agents. He has also federalized the D.C. Police Department – this requires them to cooperate with ICE. These operations contrast with Trump's deployment of the National Guard in LA, which, has a "different political topology"– Harold Meyerson comments.
Also: Donald Trump is demanding that UCLA pay a $1 billion fine for antisemitism on campus – in addition to the $584 million in cuts to medical and scientific research already imposed by his administration. But one Billion? Why not one Trillon? David Myers will comment – He’s a distinguished professor at UCLA who teaches Jewish history.
Plus: From the Archives: Adam Hochschild on guns in Trump’s America after the Parkland shootings. He talks about armed militias, about the law in Iowa that permits the carrying of loaded guns in public by people who are blind, and about why the Koch Brothers are major funders of the NRA—even though they are not especially enthusiastic about guns. (Originally recorded April 20, 2018.)
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