Former Administrator, Drug Enforcement Administration
Former Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration for (2001-2003) and Arkansas Congressman (1996-2001) and Under Secretary for Border and Transportation Security in the Department of Homeland Security (2003-2005); attorney with Hutchinson Group, LLC
Will California Legalize Marijuana? As most California voters may already know, Proposition 19 on next week's ballot says it "legalizes marijuana under California but not federal law." Beyond that, it would allow "local governments to regulate and tax the commercial production, distribution and sale of marijuana," and anyone over 21 could possess, cultivate or transport it — but not across state lines. What's the potential impact?
Will California Legalize Marijuana? Proposition 19 on next week's California ballot would legalize marijuana for people over 21 and allow for commercial production. Local governments, now strapped for revenue, could regulate and tax a new industry and lower their costs for law enforcement and jails. Both sides are making extravagant claims, but nobody really knows what the financial, social or medical impacts might be. The latest polls show it trailing, and the Obama Administration promises a challenge, but Prop 19 could still have a nationwide impact.
What happens when America retreats from the world? Is President Trump taking his "America First" agenda to extremes, withdrawing the country from the international stage on trade and climate change, distancing America from its traditional allies across the Atlantic and even threatening to physically isolate the country through the building of a wall along its southern border? León Krauze guest hosts.
The week that wouldn't quit Will next week get even weirder? (Special one-hour episode)
Janesville and the American Dream Janesville, Wisconsin is the hometown of Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan. But he couldn’t prevent the closing of the General Motors factory after 100 years. On this Memorial Day rebroadcast of To the Point, we hear what’s happened to what once was a model of American middle-class unity.
Trump plays scolder-in-chief with NATO allies At the opening of NATO’s dramatic new headquarters in Brussels today, President Trump acknowledged that Article 5 — promising that “an attack on one nation is an attack on all” -- has only been invoked one time: in the aftermath of September 11. But the President failed to provide what 27 other Alliance members have been waiting for: a re-commitment by America’s new leader to Article 5. Instead, they got a scolding.