Benjamin Netanyahu meets with President Obama, Carrie Brownstein discusses her new memoir, the president of the University of Missouri resigns.
Will Israeli PM Netanyahu's visit with President Obama warm up frosty relations?
The weather forecast for Washington DC on Monday: chilly, may warm up later.
That's not strictly a meteorological forecast however - it's the likely temperature in the Oval Office, where President Barack Obama is meeting with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
It's the first time the two have been face-to-face since the Israeli leader defiantly cozied up to the Republicans to try to defeat a U.S.-Iran nuclear deal last spring.
The gambit failed - the deal went through any way - but relations with the Obama administration turned very, very cold.
Now the pair are trying to make nice, with Israel asking for more military aid, and the U.S. pressing for a renewed commitment to a two-state solution with the Palestinians.
Zack Beauchamp, writer from Vox.com, joined host A Martinez to lay out what's on the agenda.
To listen to the segment, click on the audio above.
Why Bernie Sanders could have a lot of trouble securing Latino voters
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders was in Las Vegas on Sunday for an event aimed at wooing Latino voters.
Supporters crowded into a soccer stadium on the outskirts of town to hear him speak about immigration and deportation.
Latinos could make or break the race for Sanders, but he faces an uphill battle. This much becomes clear when comparing campaign infrastructure in the battleground state. The Sanders campaign opened its first field office in Nevada last month; the Clinton campaign has been operating in the state since April.
Guardian reporter Rory Carroll was at the campaign event and spoke about it with Take Two's Alex Cohen.
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VW tries to make right with gift cards: Is it too little, too late?
Hoping to appease angry owners of VW diesel models, the German automaker is offering gift cards and several years of free roadside assistance. It's just the latest twist in the VW scandal.
, motor critic for the OC Register, joined the show to explain more about what VW is offering, and if this move could help.
To listen to the full interview, click on the blue audio player above.
A look at what led up to Tim Wolfe's University of Missouri resignation
University of Missouri's president resigned on Monday following a string of race-related incidents that students said he did not take enough action on.
Racial tensions at the University of Missouri have brewing since September when a student said he was racially abused on campus. Then in October, someone yelled the N-word at a group of black students. Later that month, feces were smeared in the shape of a swastika on the wall of a residence hall. In a protest to push Tim Wolfe to resign as president, one student went on a hunger strike in protest. Then, the football team refused to practice.
Koran Addo of the St. Louis Post Dispatch joined the show with more.
To listen to the full interview, click on the blue audio player above.
Carrie Brownstein on forming and 'destroying' Sleater-Kinney
These days, many people know Carrie Brownstein as one of the stars of the hit IFC comedy "Portlandia."
But before she was writing and starring in satirical sketches with Fred Armisen, she was playing guitar and singing in a band called Sleater-Kinney.
They were loved by critics and fans alike. But, like many rock and roll bands, Sleater-Kinney had its share of problems, all of which came to a head in 2006 as the band arrived at a club in Brussels, Belgium.
Brownstein was suffering from stress-induced shingles, the show was about to start, and she couldn't feel a thing.
As she writes in the prologue to her new memoir "Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl," "Sleater-Kinney was my family, the longest relationship I had ever been in; it held my secrets, my bones, it was in my veins, it had saved my life countless times, it still loved me when I was terrible to it, it might have been the first unconditional love I'd ever known. And I was about to destroy Sleater-Kinney."
INTERVIEW HIGHLIGHTS:
On her first band, a Duran Duran cover band called "Lil D"
I was absolutely Simon Le Bon. I was a little bit of the neighborhood impresario in terms of getting everyone together to put on plays, or do some dancing, or we might sing a little song, and so I naturally cast myself in the lead role. That's what you get to do when you're in charge.
On the double-edged sword of touring
There is just this duality to touring, to being in a band, both in terms of how people perceive it, and in terms of your own experience. I mean, it does vacillate between the highest of highs and the lowest of lows.
For me, the sense of home was always very uncertain... and I was so desperate to tether myself to something that felt sturdy. And it's hard because a band, by nature, a creative partnership, there's a volatility to it... and that all came to a head on tour and through performance.
On the breakup of Sleater-Kinney and why it came at the right time
I think Sleater-Kinney broke up at a great time. I mean there's so many bands and musicians that you feel like they're starting to drag the contents of the band around with them... You know it feels like it's just this weight, or then, it's like there's a hole in the bag and all the good stuff is kind of falling out. And you're like wait a second, why are you guys still a band? I mean, I'd rather stop while we were ahead... But also I'm so grateful for the 10 years that happened subsequently where I was allowed a moment of reprieve from what was a continuous cycle that I had little perspective on after a while.
To hear the full interview with Carrie Brownstein, click the link above.
The mystery of the LA deputy who went for a run and never came back
It's remained an elusive mystery for 17 years: What happened to Jonathan Aujay, a member of the elite LA Sheriff's Special Enforcement Bureau?
Aujay went out for a run in the Antelope Valley in 1998, and never returned.
Multiple theories swirl. Some believe he committed suicide. Others believe he was a victim of the treacherous wilderness. Yet others believe he was murdered, embroiled in an underworld of illegal meth labs.
Reporter Claire Martin dug deep into the story for her article "The Deputy Who Disappeared" in the current issue of Los Angeles Magazine.
You can listen to the segment by clicking on the audio segment above.
California school takes a stand on sitting with new desks
An elementary school in northern California will soon be the first in the country to have standing desks in all of its classrooms.
Tracy Smith, principal of Vallecito Elementary School in San Rafael, joined the show along with Juliet Starett, who runs Standup Kids, the group that has been helping Vallecito make the transition. They told more about what this change has been like at the school. UCLA physical therapist Juliana Plank also gave a deeper look at standing desks for kids.
To listen to both interviews, click on the audio players above.