Left, Right & Center
Mourning family criticizes Trump's phone call
Chief of Staff Gen. John Kelly says he is stunned.
By Josh Barro • • 51m ListenPresident Trump is in a fight over the calls he makes to the families of dead American service members. Why? What are American troops doing in Niger in the first place? Presidents Bush and Obama have been obliquely criticizing the President. Are they the right anti-Trump messengers, or is Trump a reaction to their failures? What's the status of a bipartisan healthcare deal? And finally, there's a fight brewing among California Democrats. Will Senator Dianne Feinstein be elected to a sixth term?
Photo: White House Chief of Staff John Kelly speaks during a daily briefing at the White House in Washington, October 19, 2017. (Yuri Gripas/Reuters)
Josh Barro
Former host of Left, Right & Center
Rich Lowry
National Review / KCRW's Left, Right & Center
Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Nation
Katie Beurskens
Production assistant, 'Left, Right & Center'
Laura Dine Million
Producer, 'Left, Right and Center'
David Frum
staff writer at The Atlantic and former speechwriter for President George W. Bush
Dan Schnur
Professor of Politics and Communications, USC