AirTalk’s weekly political roundtable covers the headlines you might have missed over the weekend and previews what’s to come in national politics this week.
Trump on pardoning himself
POTUS pardons Dinesh D’Souza, floats pardoning Martha Stewart & Rod Blagojevich. How far can/should he go with his pardoning powers? How have past presidents used the power of the pardon?
Latest on tariffs (G7 countries slam U.S. at recent meeting) NAFTA status, possibility of separate deals with Canada & Mexico
North Korea summit back on, says POTUS last Friday
Melania Trump, who hasn't been seen in public since May 10th, to be at Gold Star ceremony at White House today (it's not open to the press) -- what, if anything, should we make of her absence?
Trump breaks protocol with jobs report tweet before data comes out
Vulnerable Republicans see immigration as political salvation
Kevin McCarthy slams Google over ‘Nazism’ error
50th anniversary of Bobby Kennedy’s assassination in L.A.
Guests:
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
Lisa Garcia Bedolla, professor of Education and director of the Institute of Governmental Studies at UC Berkeley; she tweets