Flip-flopping or an important evolution? Over the past week, President Donald Trump adopted foreign policy stances at odds with many of his campaign promises. On NATO, Trump, who decried the decades-old alliance as obsolete, told reporters Wednesday that “it’s no longer obsolete.” After repeatedly promising to label China a currency manipulator, Trump this week reversed his thinking in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. After promising a better relationship with Russia, he has now declared the U.S. relationship with Russia is "at a low point." But on one issue, Trump is staying the course. The Pentagon announced Thursday that they dropped the largest non-nuclear bomb ever on a battlefield in Afghanistan. Carol Saivetz, senior adviser at MIT, and Farouk El Baz, former chair of the National Academy of Sciences, joined Jim to discuss the developments.
It’s been said that in the Trump Era, the future of environmental activism is local. Right now, that claim is being borne out in Weymouth, where a proposed energy project has sparked a backlash — and created some unlikely allies.
This Saturday will mark four years since the day that changed Boston forever—the marathon bombings, which killed three people and injured hundreds more—a number of whom lost limbs. Roseann Sdoia is one of those survivors, who ultimately lost her right leg above the knee. Sdoia owes her life to three strangers—one, a Boston firefighter who held her hand all the way to the hospital that day. Today, she is engaged to that firefighter and telling her story in a new book, Perfect Strangers: Friendship, Strength, and Recovery after Boston’s Worst Day. Sdoia and her fiancé Mike Materia joined Jim to talk about how their lives have changed in four years.
The worthy cause that led Jim, Governor Charlie Baker & hundreds more to don a new look: the fourth annual Granite Telecommunication’s Saving by Shaving event.
