AirTalk’s weekly political roundtable recaps the headlines you might’ve missed this weekend and looks ahead to the week to come. Here’s what we’re watching through the weekend, topics may change on Monday.
Report: FBI agent Peter Strzok, who criticized President Trump in texts to colleague, fired
Omarosa Manigault Newman releases recording of White House Chief of Staff Gen. John Kelly firing her in Situation Room
Update on Tuesday primaries, Kris Kobach recuses self from Kansas governor race vote count
Kavanaugh hearings set for September 4
Manafort trial latest
POTUS announces (on Twitter) doubling of tariffs on steel and aluminum from Turkey
Planned white nationalist rally over weekend turns out more counter-protesters than rally-goers
Guests:
Ange-Marie Hancock-Alfaro, professor of political science and chair of gender studies at USC; she tweets
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