Obama Fleshes Out Border Policy with Call for Cash
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When it comes to immigration and border control, President Obama's beginning to sound like John McCain. There's good news and bad news for Los Angeles' housing market, and the Dodgers are on a roll. On our rebroadcast of today's To the Point, the Obama Administration is hosting two weak leaders from strategic countries threatened by militant fundamentalists. Can the presidents of Pakistan and Afghanistan make common cause against the Taliban?
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Afghanistan, Pakistan and American Security ()
With the leaders of Pakistan and Afghanistan at his side, President Obama today promised increased military and civilian aid to both countries. But do Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari still have the confidence of their own people -- or the Obama administration? What about Pakistan's nuclear weapons?
Guests:
- Saeed Shah: Special Correspondent, McClatchy Newspapers
- David Sanger: Washington Correspondent, New York Times, @SangerNYT
- Rajiv Chandrasekaran: Associate Editor, Washington Post, @rajivwashpost
- John Mueller: Professor of Political Science, Ohio State University
- Paul Collier: Professor of Economics, Oxford University
Links:
- Collier's 'Votes: Democracy in Dangerous Places'
- Sanger's 'The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power'
- Chandrasekaran's article on skepticism of Karzai shaping US policy
- Mueller's 'Atomic Obsession: Nuclear Alarmism from Hiroshima to Al Qaeda'
- Sanger's article on vulnerability of Pakistan's nuclear arms
- Sanger's article on Pakistan overshadowing Afghanistan on US agenda
- Shah's article on Swat Valley's fall to the Taliban
- US-Afghan-Pakistani consultation
- Mueller's (Foreign Affairs) article on the Taliban, Afghanistan
Making News
Hitting Bottom in the Housing Market ()
In the Los Angeles housing market, prices continue to fall, but now they' re low enough that home sales are starting to rise. Chris Thornberg is former senior economist with UCLA' s Anderson Forecast, now with Beacon Economics.
Guests:
- Christopher Thornberg: Economist, Beacon Economics
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Obama Fleshes Out Border Policy with Call for Cash ()
President Obama will ask Congress tomorrow for $27 billion for security at the border, an 8% increase over the Bush Administration' s spending, but also emphasizing different priorities.
Guests:
- Josh Meyer: Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times
- David Shirk: Director of the Trans-Border Institute, University of San Diego
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Reporter's Notebook
Dodgers Off to a Record-Setting Start ()
How about those Dodgers? Last night they tied a record that goes back to 1911. Tonight, they could break it. Jon Weisman’s author of 100 Things Dodger Fans Should Know and Do Beofre they Die. He also writes DodgerThoughts.com on the Los Angeles Times website.
Guests:
- Jon Weisman: Editor, DodgerThoughts.com, @dodgerthoughts
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Which Way L.A.? is made possible in part by the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation, the Nathan Cummings Foundation, and the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation, which supports study and research into policy issues of the Los Angeles region.
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