It's the end of another week and time for the Friday Flashback, Take Two's look at the week in news. This morning we're joined in-studio by Los Angeles Times columnist James Rainey, and we welcome back Jamelle Bouie of The Daily Beast.
Let's start with President Obama, who just hours ago vowed to take another look at deportations in an effort to try and make them more humane. This is of course coming off the heels of the immigration advocacy group The Council of La Raza calling him "Deporter in Chief." How is this playing politically?
Is this just the president trying to save face or could this be some legitimate movement towards comprehensive immigration reform?
Of course, President Obama made a splash on the Funny or Die Show "Between Two Ferns" with Zack Galifianakis this week:
The point was to push the Affordable Care Act to millennials. The website got its most hits in one day, but March numbers were down overall. Was this effective?
This week, President Obama also started pushing this overtime pay initiative. Where did this come from and where is it going to go?
While the president was talking about overtime, Congressman Paul Ryan was talking about the culture of poverty in America's inner cities:
“We have got this tailspin of culture, in our inner cities in particular, of men not working and just generations of men not even thinking about working or learning the value and the culture of work, and so there is a real culture problem here that has to be dealt with.”
Senator Dianne Feinstein this week spoke out against the CIA, claiming it essentially spied on a deleted information from her staff's computers. After she was considered to have given the intelligence community a "pass" on spying on private citizens, a lot of people are calling her a hypocrite. This is just the beginning, where is this going from here?
Last week, the California Democratic Delegation held their convention here in Los Angeles, this weekend the California Republicans will hold theirs: Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice will be headlining. What can we expect from this weekend?
We'll forever remember this as the week that Malaysia Air flight 370 disappeared from radar screens. There've been a lot of dramatic leads but no sighting yet of the actual wreckage. Where is this investigation headed next week?