Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Washington is in crisis over budget and Mattis’ resignation
President Trump is predicting a partial government shutdown if he doesn’t get $5 billion to build his border wall. Lawmakers have until tonight to pass a bill to keep the government running. Right now, the odds aren’t looking good.
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readPresident Trump is predicting a partial government shutdown if he doesn’t get $5 billion to build his border wall. Lawmakers have until tonight to pass a bill to keep the government running. Right now, the odds aren’t looking good. Also, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is resigning -- apparently over Trump’s decision to pull troops out of Syria and Afghanistan. Mattis was often described as “the grown up in the room.”
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Madeleine Brand
Host, 'Press Play'
Sarah Sweeney
Vice President of Talk Programming, KCRW
Michell Eloy
Former Producer/Line Editor, Press Play
Amy Ta
Digital News & Culture Editor
David Sanger
Pulitzer Prize-winning White House and national security correspondent for the New York Times, author of “New Cold Wars: China’s Rise, Russia’s Invasion, and America’s Struggle to Defend The West”
Molly Reynolds
senior fellow in Governance Studies at Brookings; author of “Exceptions to the Rule: The Politics of Filibuster Limitations in the U.S. Senate”
The full episode
1 of 4What Mattis’ resignation means for Trump’s ‘America First’ vision- 0:00Washington is in crisis over budget and Mattis’ resignationYou’re reading this
- 11:08An artistic genius hidden in Granada Hills
- 23:48Emily Blunt gives A+ performance in ‘Mary Poppins Returns,’ a B- movie
- 37:14Christmas in Norway: stinky, tasty fish...and elaborate advent calendars