February 10 - Climate Change and the State of the Union; Obama's Many Second Term Challenges; A Police Force Hunted by a Fugitive and Haunted by Its Past

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Then we look into how many challenges face the president and whether he can address them all in his State of Union and hope to achieve some legislative victory in his second term with a hostile and implacable House determined to impose austerity that will tank the economy and doom any hopes of recovery. Democratic strategist Ed Kilgore, the principal writer of the Washington Monthly’s Political Animal blog joins us to discuss whether the president has spread himself too thin and what advice the Democrats will take from Bill Clinton’s recent pep talk.

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Then finally we speak with author and award-winning investigative journalist Joe Domanick, who is a leading authority on the Los Angeles Police Department. He has written “To Protect and Serve: The LAPD’s Century of War in the City of Dreams” and is writing “Road to Reckoning: The Collapse and Reformation of the LAPD”. With the LAPD now under siege from a former member of its ranks who is on a vengeful murder spree vowing to kill senior LAPD officers and their families, we discuss efforts by the fugitive to frame his grudge and blame his dismissal on racial injustice.