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Part 1
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We begin with the resignation of Rob Porter, the rising star in the White House who is dating Hope Hicks the young woman who spends more time with Donald Trump than any other aide. Although his history of spousal abuse was known, it was not acted upon until a picture of the first battered wife appeared, followed by testimony from the second who claimed he called her an “F-ing bitch” on their honeymoon, then a third woman, an ex-girlfriend working in the Trump Administration, came forward recently and told the White House counsel Porter had abused her as well as his ex-wives. Dahlia Lithwick, a senior editor and legal correspondent for Slate where she has an article “Rob Porter’s History of Domestic Abuse Wasn’t a Secret. It’s Just That No One Cared”, joins us. We will discuss how Porter’s boss General Kelly, after defending Porter and praising him effusively, has not just been exposed as a hardline ideologue and hardly the adult in the room everyone was hoping for, but the military disciplinarian is showing signs he is not diminishing the chaos at the White House but instead is adding to the incompetence.
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Part 2
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Then, after Nancy Pelosi’s 8 hour-long defense of the “Dreamers” before the House yesterday, we assess what strategies the House Minority can employ against a majority of Republicans who are anti-immigrant and a White House that is stirring up xenophobic and nativist anger, we will speak with Margaret Hu a Professor of Law at Washington and Lee School of Law. She served as special policy counsel in the Office of Special Counsel for Immigration at the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department and we will discuss how Democrats can leverage the threat of a government shutdown to achieve their goals without repeating the mistakes of the recent government shutdown.
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