Overcrowded L.A. Jails; Post Iraq Study Report -- Is Bush Politically Isolated?; Study Group... Where to Go from Here? (Open Phones); America's First Superhero
Overcrowded L.A. Jails
A month ago, a federal judge ordered the L.A. County Sheriff's Department to stop overcrowding at the Men's Central Jail in downtown Los Angeles. The judge issued a temporary restraining order that kept the county from placing more than 20 inmates in a small holding cell for 24 hours or more at its Inmate Reception Center. This morning at 11:00, the judge considers whether to extend that order for another three months.
Post Iraq Study Report -- Is Bush Politically Isolated?
Larry asks: what impact will the Iraq Study Group report have on the Bush Administration and the growing rift in the Republican Party? And how will the Democrats respond? Larry talks with pundits and callers about the political implications of the Iraq Study Group report.
Study Group... Where to Go from Here? (Open Phones)
Larry asks KPCC's listeners what they would do to fix the problems in Iraq.
America's First Superhero
Since his death eighty years ago, Harry Houdini's life has been chronicled in books, in film, and on television. Larry talks with William Kalush and Larry Sloman about their new biography, The Secret Life of Houdini, which explores the man behind the myth. Drawing from millions of pages of research, the authors describe in vivid detail the passions that drove Houdini to perform ever-more-dangerous feats, his secret life as a spy, and the work he undertook that brought about daily death threats.