The Republican landscape shifted this week after two prominent Republican critics of President Donald Trump — Sen. Bob Corker, of Tennessee, and Sen. Jeff Flake, of Arizona — announced they will not run for reelection. But as the crack between the establishment and Trump widens, it is unclear what this will mean for the party at large. Jim Braude is joined by Gabriel Gomez, a former Republican candidate for Massachusetts senate, and Joe Malone, the former Massachusetts state treasurer, to discuss the widening fracture in the Republican party.
“I can’t breathe.” Those were the last words of Eric Garner after he was put in a chokehold and thrown to the ground by New York City police officers in 2014. After Garner’s death, those same words became a rallying cry for protesters around the country. Now, the words are echoed in a new book, “I Can’t Breathe: A Killing On Bay Street,” which examines the events that led up to Garner’s death, and the fallout after. Jim Braude is joined by the book’s author, Matt Taibbi, also a journalist and regular contributor to Rolling Stone magazine.
Jim proposes a new hashtag to follow #MeToo that brings men into the conversation about sexual harassment and assault.
