Some say
@AndrewYang
's call for a universal basic income of $1,000 a month for all Americans inspired the recent round of $1,200 stimulus checks. The former presidential candidate said he hopes Congress makes it the norm.
Today at 12:30, we'll speak with Democratic presidential candidate
@AndrewYang
about his race to the nomination.
Make sure to tune in to catch the whole conversation.
Rep. Joe Kennedy III said that while he was not surprised by anything former special counsel Robert Mueller said yesterday, he thought that the hearing brought to light a compelling case to impeach the president.
#mapoli
#MuellerReport
.
@joekennedy
voted to impeach President Donald Trump, but he's not celebrating it. The congressman described Wednesday's impeachment vote as "brutal," and said it was difficult to see his colleagues in the House defend Trump's actions.
#mapoli
"To see a noose hung on the west lawn of the Capitol, to see people parading through the halls of congress with confederate flags. It was frighteningly familiar," says
@RepPressley
on BPR
@GBHNews
. "I cannot pretend there were not legitimately moments where I feared for my life."
“I'd rather us be focused on foul policies and how to mitigate and reverse the impact of those policies than foul language,”
@AyannaPressley
told us today in reference to congresswoman
@RashidaTlaib
’s use of an expletive to describe President Trump.
#mapoli
Here at the BPL with us is
@joekennedy
and
@trenni
who've teamed up to help change the dialogue on mental health in America. They'll be hosting a forum together next week, but today they're here to talk to us about what it will take to change the conversation on mental health.
At 1, we'll speak with
@PreetBharara
about his new book "Doing Justice: A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, And the Rule of Law" and his life after leaving the government. Make sure to tune in.
Deputy Campaign Manager for Joe Biden
@rufusgifford
told Boston Public Radio Monday that Joe Biden's win is "a victory for truth, a victory for compassion, a victory for empathy, and for unity."
Listen:
Before yesterday's
#WayfairWalkout
to protest the sale of beds from the company to migrant detention centers, we spoke with
@AyannaPressley
to hear why she was one of 4 no votes on an emergency border aid package that provided funding to ICE.
#mapoli
Some say
@AndrewYang
's call for a universal basic income of $1,000 a month for all Americans inspired the recent round of $1,200 stimulus checks. The former presidential candidate said he hopes Congress makes it the norm.
.
@SenMarkey
is with protesters at
#MarchForOurLivesBoston
: "You cannot see any part of the street that does not have people on it...It is a sea of humanity protesting the NRA ironclad grip on the Republican Congress"
"It's not just about not eating meat," Celtics player
@EnesKanter
told
@BosPublicRadio
of his decision to switch to a plant-based diet. "You learn how factory farms abuse animals and workers."
Listen to his full interview here:
Caller Wayne on
#RedHen
: "We're seen the erosion of our means to petition the government...I think the only way for our voices to be hold is to take these direct, nonviolent personal actions when we see these people out in public"
.
@juliettekayyem
was not impressed by Ivanka Trump's turn as diplomat in South Korea. "How foolish do we look that the president sent his purse-making daughter to a region where there is nuclear war potential"
.
@juliettekayyem
on Russia investigation: "I know the totality of evidence we've seen so far suggests a campaign that was so intimately captured by the Russians that there's no other conclusion" than that the campaign was compromised.
.
@juliettekayyem
said on BPR today that the president's COVID-19 diagnosis may provide him "an out" if he performs poorly in the election.
"Maybe this doesn’t end with a fire burst, but a sort of whimper under a virus.”
Listen to the full interview here:
Franken says there is "irony" that he is resigning although the sitting president, Donald Trump, has also been the subject of sexual harassment allegations. Continues: "This decision is not about me. It's about the people of Minnesota"
.
@Chasten
Buttigieg says America still isn't where it needs to be on LGBTQ equality.
"It's just a fact that it is still unsafe to be gay in many places in this country."
Listen to his full interview on Boston Public Radio:
"If you were to create a president who was a Russian asset, all that president's behavior would be exactly what Donald Trump is doing...I think 'treason' is a fair statement."
@juliettekayyem
joins us:
.
@juliettekayyem
on military parade: "Totalitarians generally are weak leaders, because they don't have public support, so they often use military parades like this not as a display of strength to the outside world but a display of intimidation to the inside world"
Deputy Campaign Manager for Joe Biden
@rufusgifford
told Boston Public Radio Monday that Joe Biden's win is "a victory for truth, a victory for compassion, a victory for empathy, and for unity."
Listen:
"It's not just about not eating meat," Celtics player
@EnesKanter
told
@BosPublicRadio
of his decision to switch to a plant-based diet. "You learn how factory farms abuse animals and workers."
Listen to his full interview here:
Coming up:
@SenWarren
joins us to discuss the upcoming Senate vote on capping the price of insulin at $35 per month, Ukraine, and more.
Have questions for Sen. Warren? Call us at 877-301-8970, email us at bpr
@wgbh
.org, or share your questions below.
"I have never said how I voted on a ballot question until after the election, but today I am saying I am voting
#YesOn3
, and I will vote 1,000 times for
#YesOn3
" -
@jimbraude
#mapoli
@AyannaPressley
on the need to extend nationwide eviction moratoriums:
"We are quite literally on the precipice of a nation that is a tent city.”
Listen to the Pressley's interview live, here:
From meat aspic-flavored potato chips to Hawaiian pizza-flavored smoothies,
@notfolu
covers the whimsical world of snacks in her newsletter, "Unsnackable."
Read our conversation with her on "Unsnackable" here:
On Now:
Live from the Boston Common at the site of The Embrace unveiling, we're joined by Congresswoman
@AyannaPressley
- the first black woman elected to Congress in Massachusetts.
Tune in below:
.
@juliettekayyem
on Trump moving US embassy to Jerusalem: "I think part of this is a distraction so he can create a narrative about 'the crazy Muslims,' because of course they'll be up in arms"
"All the tools of counterterrorism come into play," to defuse Trumpist violence, says
@juliettekayyem
on BPR just now.
"De-platforming and political isolation" (through impeachment and resignations) are the only way you can ensure there's not future violence, she says.
Jim: Are you taking downtime? You're not going to sue the Trump Administration during the Christmas vacation?
Healey: Not unless he does something stupid or illegal.
For the final hour of our show today, we'll have a tribute to Brian O'Donovan.
Friends, family and listeners will be able to call in to remember Brian.
.
@AndrewYang
has made the universal basic income a major part of his campaign. To prove his point, he plans on offering 10 families $1,000 a month for a year to show its effectiveness.
We caught up with him ahead of his rally in Cambridge on Monday.
.
@juliettekayyem
: "We failed. We failed the Puerto Ricans. The response was horrible. How people died matters...The failure to recognize that these deaths occurred means we won't learn from it."
@AyannaPressley
just now on BPR: "I’m calling on all state legislatures to strike down" Gov. Baker’s amendments to the Mass. police reform bill.
Listen live here:
"Men view women as too noisy, too transparent, and he is going to go after women in combat and women in the military next. The idea that this stops with LGBTQ is ridiculous,” -
@juliettekayyem
.
@juliettekayyem
: "This is a horror of the President's own making, with a team that enabled it ... I do not doubt there will be children who never see their parents again."
We asked AI to create an image of
@jimbraude
eating a meal outdoors in Paris. What is he eating? What is he thinking?
It's up to interpretation. It's art.
.
@wutrain
told BPR that people like Rep. Stefanik should not represent and organization that is about "building the minds and the ideas to lead in our government and to form the support for public service going into the future."
.
@juliettekayyem
on Trump's claim that a law "requires" DHS officials to separate children from parents at the border: "Any sane Republican or Democrat should be on air every single day calling out this lie."
Need a break from all the
#ElectionDay
coverage? Listen to our interview with former Obama White House photographer
@PeteSouza
about his new book "Shade: A Tale of Two Presidents."