AirTalk's weekly political roundtable covers the headlines you might have missed over the weekend and previews what to watch for this week in national politics.
Topics include:
Trump’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy renews protests after the Department of Homeland Security said that some 2,000 children have been separated from their families at the US border
House Speaker Paul Ryan wants to call a vote on two immigration bills this week
IG report on FBI’s handling of Clinton email probe
The ongoing Russian probe: fromer Trump operative Roger Stone said he met with a Russian national in 2016
Paul Manafort goes to jail, awaits trial, as Giuliani suggests that a pardon could be in the future
The Trump administration slaps tariffs on $50 billion in imports from China
The Trump/Kim meeting in Singapore
South Carolina Republican Mark Sanford says he lost the primary race to challenger Katie Arrington because he wasn’t ‘Trump enough’
Ivanka Trump in town for two GOP fundraisers this week
With guest host Libby Denkmann.
Guests:
Matt Barreto, professor of political science and Chicano/a Studies at UCLA and co-founder of the research and polling firm Latino Decisions; he tweets
Pete Peterson, dean of the School of Public Policy and senior fellow at The Davenport Institute at Pepperdine University; he tweets