Party Tensions On Both Sides Of The Aisle?
Investigating the president was a key campaign promise for Democrats in the midterms. Now that they're in control of the House, they're keeping their word.
House Judiciary Chair Jerry Nadler requested on Monday a slew of documents from more than 80 people and entities related to the president, including Donald Trump Jr., the Justice Department and the Trump Organization. Although Nadler said now is not the time for impeachment, the document requests coming out of his committee have raised questions.
Ahead of the 2020 election, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi seems to be distancing the Democratic party from the issue of impeachment — an issue that could divide the already crowded Democratic field. For the Republicans, a new poll shows President Donald Trump still has high approval ratings on his side of the aisle. With support from 88 percent of Republicans, the president doesn't have much of a party problem going into 2020. Or does he?
Jim Braude is joined by Lylah Alphonse, managing editor for U.S. News and World Report, and Charlie Chieppo, senior fellow at the Pioneer Institute, to discuss.
Food Faux Pas On The Campaign Trail
They say food brings people together, but when those people are politicians and the voters they're trying to win over — often the opposite is true. New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, one of the many Democrats running for president in 2020, faced an onslaught of criticism for eating fried chicken with a fork during a recent campaign stop in South Carolina. Before her, New York City Mayor Bill DeBlasio, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, and citizen Donald Trump back in 2011, all committed the heinous crime of eating pizza with utensils. Not to mention the time then President Barack Obama ate his ice cream cone with a spoon — what's the cone for?
For politicians on the campaign trail, it seems catastrophe is always on the menu.
To discuss food on the campaign trail, Jim Braude is joined by Frederick Opie, a professor of history and foodways at Babson College.
IMHO: Black History Month Has A Lot More To Teach Us
Jim Braude shares his thoughts that while Black History Month has ended, numerous blackface controversies and Pam Northam, the wife of embattled Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, handing cotton out to students in a mansion built by slave labor, show that many of us have a lot more to learn.
