Will The Courts Decide The Presidential Election?; Container Ships Back-Up At The Port Of L.A. And Long Beach; The Immigration Platforms Of Bush And Kerry; Peter Bogdanovich: Portraits And Conversations With Actors
Will The Courts Decide The Presidential Election?
Host Larry Mantle discusses a new Time magazine poll that finds a majority of registered voters (58%) say they are either “very worried” or “somewhat worried” that the courts may have to decide the outcome of the presidential election. Only about half of these voters (54%) trust the courts to do this, and about 41% do not trust the courts. What do you think? Are you concerned that this election will be decided by the courts? Maybe that doesn’t bother you? Why or why not? Larry talks with Mark Schulman, founder and president of SRBI. Mr. Schulman is the main pollster for TIME magazine.
Container Ships Back-Up At The Port Of L.A. And Long Beach
Larry talks with Steve Hennessey, Vice President for Labor Relations for the Pacific Maritime Association, John McLaurin, President of the PMSA, the Pacific Merchants Shipping Association, and Stephanie Williams, Senior Vice President of the California Trucking Association about the issue of container ships backing up and the Port of Los Angeles.
The Immigration Platforms Of Bush And Kerry
Experts join Host Larry Mantle to discuss the immigration platforms of the Bush and Kerry campaigns. President Bush has beefed-up border security, adding more agents, helicopters and video surveillance to police the U.S. border. He has also doubled funding for the inspections of business to see if they have hired undocumented workers. The President also wants to create a temporary work permit for workers to be in the U.S. legally. Senator Kerry would pass an AgJobs bill, giving rights to agricultural workers. He also will create a temporary worker visa program and strengthen border security. Perhaps most controversially, the Kerry immigration platform would have “earned legalization,” something that would give a path to citizenship to undocumented workers who have worked and paid taxes in the U.S. for 5 years. Larry talks with Greg Jacobs, deputy policy director for the Bush-Cheney campaign, and Raj Goyle, senior domestic policy analyst at the Center for American Progress.
Peter Bogdanovich: Portraits And Conversations With Actors
Film director, historian and critic Peter Bogdanovich joins Larry Mantle to talk about his new book, Who the Hell’s in It, in which he draws on his lifelong experience working with actors to write about his observations and understanding of them and their craft.