Episodes
Thursday Apr 27, 2017
The Media vs. Donald Trump
Thursday Apr 27, 2017
Thursday Apr 27, 2017
Recorded on April 13, 2017 No presidency in the post–Watergate era has had this contentious a relationship with the Fourth Estate. Rarely have correspondents and news outlets been this boisterous in their objection to the policies and personality of a sitting president. Dan Balz, chief correspondent for the Washington Post and best-selling author and veteran observer of the Washington scene, assesses the current state of political journalism and what if anything can be done to mend the Trump-media rift. (Playing time: 31:49)
Monday Apr 24, 2017
Trump’s First Hundred Days
Monday Apr 24, 2017
Monday Apr 24, 2017
As the Trump presidency approaches its first notable milestone, we check in with Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover senior fellow and proprietor of The Classicist podcast, on the administration’s early moves. It was Victor Davis Hanson who saw the Trump train approaching long before it overran the political establishment. Does he think Trump’s “traditionalist” appeal is still working? Where is there room for presidential improvement? (Playing time: 42:21)
Wednesday Apr 19, 2017
The Environment
Wednesday Apr 19, 2017
Wednesday Apr 19, 2017
As Earth Day approaches, Hoover senior fellow Terry Anderson rates the new interior secretary and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator and suggests some free-market environmental principles for the two to pursue. Also should the Trump administration revisit the century-old monument-designation authority used as never before during the Obama years but wildly unpopular across parts of the American West? (Playing time: 38:49)
Thursday Apr 13, 2017
North Korea
Thursday Apr 13, 2017
Thursday Apr 13, 2017
As tensions mount on the Korean Peninsula, the possibility increases of a US military strike against the rogue regime of Kim Jong-un. Tom Henriksen, a Hoover senior fellow emeritus and author of multiple books on US military and diplomatic approaches to the non-Western world and rogue regimes, discusses the policy options available to the Trump administration in dealing with North Korea.
Thursday Apr 06, 2017
The Gorsuch Nomination
Thursday Apr 06, 2017
Thursday Apr 06, 2017
As the US Senate decides the fate of Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch, we look at the fragile state of the federal judicial nomination process. Hoover senior fellow Michael McConnell, who served alongside Gorsuch on the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, offers insights into the judge, the merits of the Senate’s “nuclear option,” and what it’s like to endure a confirmation process.