Today on AirTalk, we discuss the latest on the redacted Mueller report with a panel of political analysts, law professors and reporters. Larry also sits down with Governor Newsom to talk about his goals for expanding Medi-Cal, how he plans to attack homelessness in Los Angeles and other cities across the state and more.
AirTalk special: DOJ releases redacted Mueller report to the public
Two years and countless subpoenas and indictments later, the Department of Justice has released a redacted version of the Mueller report to the public.
In a press conference, Attorney General William Barr on Thursday laid out in advance what he said was the "bottom line:" No collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian government hackers.
Barr said at a news conference that the president did not exert executive privilege to withhold anything in the 400 page-plus report. And he said the president's personal attorney had requested and gotten a chance to review the report before its public release.
Barr said that no one outside the Justice Department has seen the unredacted Mueller report. And he added that no redactions were either made or proposed outside of the small group of Justice staffers that pored over Mueller's report.
With files from the Associated Press
Download the Mueller report here
This segment is being updated
Guests:
Amanda Renteria, chair of Emerge America, a national organization that works to identify and train Democratic women who want to run for political office; she is the former national political director for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign; she tweets
Sean T. Walsh, Republican political analyst and partner at Wilson Walsh Consulting in San Francisco; he is a former adviser to California Governors Pete Wilson and Arnold Schwarzenegger and a former White House staffer for Presidents Reagan and H.W. Bush
Christian Berthelsen, legal reporter at Bloomberg
Justin Levitt, professor of law at Loyola Law School and former deputy assistant attorney general in the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department under President Obama; he tweets
John Eastman, professor law and community service and director of the Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence at Chapman University
Nick Akerman, partner at the New York City office of Dorsey & Whitney LLP; he is a former Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York and served as Assistant Special Watergate Prosecutor with the Watergate Special Prosecution Force
Robert G. Kaufman, public policy professor at Pepperdine where he focuses on U.S. foreign policy, national security and international relations; author of “Dangerous Doctrine: How Obama's Grand Strategy Weakened America” (University Press of Kentucky, 2016)
Miriam Baer, professor of law at Brooklyn Law School where she specializes in corporate and white-collar crime and criminal law and procedure
Laurie L. Levenson, professor of law at Loyola Law School and former federal prosecutor
William C. Banks, professor emeritus of law, public administration and international affairs at Syracuse University
First 100 days: Governor Gavin Newsom wants California to be 'a positive alternative to Trump and Trumpism'
California Governor Gavin Newsom wants California to be “more than just a resistance state.”
In an interview with KPCC AirTalk host Larry Mantle to mark his first 100 days in office, Governor Newsom said there’s no doubt that the Golden State is “an un-Trump state” but added that he wants California to not just stand tall in its resistance of the Trump administration, but to be “a positive alternative.”
Newsom came out of the gate quickly on the policy side, earmarking hundreds of millions of dollars toward homelessness in his initial budget that was released in January. In his State of the State speech, Newsom announced plans to change the scope of the state high speed rail project to focus on a line between Merced and Bakersfield. Last month, he issued a controversial moratorium on the death penalty in California, less than two years after Californians voted on the 2016 ballot to reform the death penalty rather than abolish it.
Today on AirTalk, Larry Mantle sits down with Governor Newsom to talk about these issues as well as his goals for expanding Medi-Cal, how he plans to attack homelessness in Los Angeles and other cities across the state and how the state would respond if the Trump administration ordered migrants to be placed in so-called “sanctuary cities.”
Guest:
Gavin Newsom, Governor of California; he tweets