Is Steve Bannon actually a sheep in Michael Wolff’s clothing? The Former White House strategist, who characterized Donald Trump Jr. as treasonous and unpatriotic in Wolff’s new book, has recanted. Mike Astrue, former commissioner of the Social Security Administration, and John Nucci, the vice president of External Affairs at Suffolk University, joined Jim and Margery to discussed.
Last week, President Trump was taunting Kim Jong Un with his nuclear might. Now he says he’d be open to talking with him. Is this a true diplomatic turn or are these words as fleeting as his tweets? Charles Sennott, a WGBH News analyst and the co-founder of the Groundtruth Project, shared his thoughts.
Then we opened the lines, asking you about putting Oprah in the Oval Office.
Tom Brady’s highly regimented diet might prevent inflammation, but it cannot safeguard against flare ups within the holy trinity of football: coach Bill Belichick, owner Robert Kraft and Brady. The Garrappolo Trade, Brady’s TB12 clinic and deflategate are causing a rift among the three of them. Can the team survive this? Trenni Kusnierek, anchor with NBC Sports Boston, joined us for this and more.
Then, Rev. Irene Monroe, a syndicated religion columnist, was here for another edition of All Revved Up, where we discussed the moral dilemmas of the day.
TV authority Bob Thompson joined us for his best and worst TV moments of the week, plus his take on last night’s Golden Globes.
Jim and Margery talked with New York Times' Farah Stockman, a Pulitzer-prize winning journalist who has been telling the stories of steelworkers in Indiana whose jobs have been moved to Mexico and Texas.
