UC Irvine recommends suspending Muslim Student Union for a year for disrupting Israeli ambassador's speech. What will President Obama say when he addresses the nation tonight about the Gulf oil spill? And Larry talks with Newsweek's senior editor Jonathan Alter about President Obama's first year in office.
More fallout from the Ambassador Oren protest at Irvine: UCI suspends Muslim Student Union
Administrators at the University of California at Irvine are recommending a one-year suspension of the Muslim Student Union, whose members disrupted a speech by Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren back in February. The student group has appealed the decisions, which would allow the group back on probation the following school year. Is this the correct reaction from the University? If the MSU is banned, will UCI’s action further aggravate Jewish-Muslim relations on the campus? And, how has the broader OC community responded?
Video courtesy Orange County Register
Guests:
Kevin O’Grady, Regional Director, Anti-Defamation League of Orange County-Long Beach
Omar Zarka, recent graduate of UCI and former President of the Muslim Student Union
Kathy Lawhon, director of media relations at UC Irvine
Edina Lekovic, director of policy and programming for the Muslim Public Affairs Council
The oil stain on the White House
This evening President Obama will speak to the nation from the Oval Office for the first time in his term, where he is expected to address the crisis stemming from the Gulf oil spill. Many Americans want the Obama administration to take greater authority over the spill and be harder on BP, while a greater number blame BP for the problems caused by the April 20 oil rig explosion. How well has President Obama handled the disaster, and what statements are expected?
Guests:
Linda Feldman, White House Correspondent, Christian Science Monitor
Lisa Margonelli, Director, Energy Policy Initiative, New America Foundation
Jerry Taylor, Senior Fellow at the CATO Institute
The Promise: President Obama, Year One
Over a year into his term in office, President Obama has faced leading the nation through a continuing war in Afghanistan, one of the worst economic eras since the Great Depression, and now the BP oil crisis in the Gulf of Mexico. Jonathan Alter, Chicago-native and longtime Newsweek columnist, assesses Obama’s first year as president in his book The Promise: President Obama, Year One: how well has he done? Alter interviewed Obama’s top advisors and the President himself to give an inside-look at his triumphs and failures. What is Obama like behind closed doors? How far has he advanced his campaign promise of “change we can believe in?”
Guest:
Jonathan Alter, author of The Promise: President Obama, Year One (Simon and Schuster) and a senior editor at Newsweek where he writes a column on politics, history, media and society at large. He is also an analyst and contributing correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC.