Last Friday, TMZ
obtained a draft of the invite for "Opening Day," a massive party
that will be thrown to celebrate Donald Trump’s inauguration. The initial invitation from Trump’s two adult
sons dangled the opportunity for donors willing to pay $500,000 and more to get
a private reception with the new president and a hunting or fishing excursion
with one of the brothers. Joining me
today to talk all about the event which has since been scaled back and the
allegations that this amounted to a scheme to sell access to the highest levels
of our government is David A.
Fahrenthold who covers the 2016 presidential campaign for The Washington Post
Georgetown, Harvard and other universities have
drawn national attention to the legacy of slavery this year as they have
acknowledged benefiting from the slave trade and grappled with how to make
amends. But slavery also generated business for some of the most prominent
modern-day corporations, like JPMorgan Chase, Aetna and Wells Fargo,
underscoring the ties that many contemporary institutions have to this painful
period of history. Joining me today to talk all about these connections and how
the nation’s third-largest life insurance company, New York Life, sold policies
to slave owners allowing them to recoup three-quarters of a slave’s value in
the event of an untimely death is Rachel
L. Swarns of The New York Times
who wrote all about it in the Monday edition of the paper and at nytimes.com.
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Tuesday, December 20, 2016
Today on The Michelangelo Signorile Show on SiriusXM PROGRESS ch.127
Throughout his
campaign, President-elect Donald Trump employed his very own private security
and intelligence team and despite winning the Election and having full access
to the Secret Service he continues to utilize this private team at his victory
rallies, and according to some reports he is expected to keep at least some
members of the team after he moves into the White House. Joining me today to talk all about the next
President’s unprecedented private security force and why some experts believe
he is ‘playing with fire’ by continually employing them is Kenneth P. Vogel, Chief Investigative Reporter for POLITICO who broke this story on
Monday.
On Monday, the Charlotte City Council
unanimously voted to repeal the city’s LGBT non-discrimination ordinance, which
could lead to the repeal of North Carolina’s anti-LGBT law, H.B 2, and while it
is imperative that H.B. 2 be repealed in full without delay many people are
questioning whether this important step for North Carolinians to move forward
should have come at the cost of protections for LGBT people living in
Charlotte. Joining me today to talk all
about the fight against H.B 2 and the use of LGBT rights as bargaining chips is
Chris Brook, the Legal Director of
the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina, where he oversees the
organization's legal program and its work on a wide range of constitutional law
issues, including LGBT rights, racial justice, and religious liberty.
Since we last spoke
with Mark Joseph Stern of Slate last week a lot has happened, Republicans
in North Carolina have launched a legislative ‘coup’ and the Electoral College
confirmed that Donald Trump will be the next President of the United
States. Mark returns to the show today
to talk all about these issues and so much more.
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Monday, December 19, 2016
Today on The Michelangelo Signorile Show on SiriusXM PROGRESS ch.127
Though out his
campaign, President Elect Donald Trump vowed to undo all of President Barack
Obama’s executive orders. It was one of his key campaign promise and now that
he has won the election we are left to wonder how such a move would actually
impact the lives of Americans. Joining
me today to discuss what would happen if Trump followed through on this pledge is
Josh Israel the Senior investigative
reporter for ThinkProgress.
John Nichols, National Affairs Correspondent
for The Nation magazine joins us to talk all about The Electoral College.
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