Recall Update; Orange County News; Ashcroft's Patriot Act Road Trip
Recall Update
Guest Host Patt Morrison speaks with a variety of experts on the latest news surrounding the California recall election. Joining Patt are the following guests: Art Torres, retired State Senator and Chairman of the California Democratic Party, Margaret Talev, Political reporter with the Sacramento Bee, Duf Sundheim, Chairman of the California Republican Party, Kristin Heffron, Chief Deputy Los Angeles County Registrar Recorder, Marc Cooper, contributor to LA Weekly and The Nation and Dianne Feinstein, United States Senator representing California.
Orange County News
Guest host Patt Morrison talks with Orange County Register, Op-Ed editor Chris Reed about the latest news events and developments in Orange County.
Ashcroft's Patriot Act Road Trip
Attorney General John Ashcroft is traveling across the country, defending the Patriot Act, which is coming under more and more fire from civil liberties groups. Critics charge that some of the Act's provisions, like "roving wiretaps" and "sneak and peek" surveillance, intrude too much upon the lives of ordinary citizens. Proponents of the Patriot Act point to the new realities of the war on terror and to the lack of attacks on US soil since 9-11, they say, in part, because of the Patriot Act and the powers that it gives to law enforcement. Joining Patt Morrison to weigh-in on the issue is George Cardona, Chief Assistant US Attorney, Central District of California, David B. Rivkin, Jr., a partner in Washington office of Baker and Hostetler and a former Reagan and Bush administration official, Anthony Romero, Executive Director of the National ACLU, Robert Levy; senior fellow in Constitutional Studies at the Cato Institute, and Emily Sheketoff, Executive Director of the Washington Office of the American Library Association.