The Leslie Marshall Show

Leslie is joined by callers as they discuss Senate Republicans agreeing, after Senator Chris Murphy's nearly 15-hour filibuster, to vote whether people on the terror watch list can buy guns and whether to expand background checks to gun shows and internet sales. They also discuss whether Donald Trump and the NRA are sincere about potentially supporting banning people on the terrorist watch list fr...

Leslie is joined by Julian Zelizer, a political historian at Princeton University and a New America Foundation fellow. They discuss Julian's piece for CNN entitled "What Orlando terror attack means for Clinton, Trump and 2016." ( http://tinyurl.com/j3cua9g) Julian's Twitter handle is @JulianZelizer. He has published over five hundred op-eds, including his weekly column on CNN.Com. He has received...

Michele L. Jawando guest hosts the show during this hour as well as each Thursday from 3-4pm est. She is the Vice President for Legal Progress at American Progress. Here are the guests Michele interviewed along with the topics they discussed. 1. Monique Morris, Co-Founder of the National Black Women’s Justice. Her Twitter handle is @MoniqueWMorris. Michele and Monique discuss Monique's book, "Push...

Leslie is joined by two guests in this hour to discuss Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) and other lawmakers filibustering in the Senate to raise the issue of Congress's inaction on laws to prevent future gun violence. Her guest in the first half hour is John Nichols, a pioneering political blogger who has written the Beat since 1999. His Twitter handle is @NicholsUprising and you can read his work at w...

Leslie is joined by Scott N. Paul, President of the Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM), a partnership established by some of America’s leading manufacturers and the United Steelworkers union. They discuss the economic foresight shown by Alexander Hamilton, specifically in the area of manufacturing. Here is a sample from a piece Scott wrote about this very subject titled "And the Tony Award...

Leslie is joined by callers as they discuss multiple issues related to the Orlando mass shooting/terror attacks. The topics included: -New polling by Quinnipiac University showing that 93% of Americans support Universal background checks and 58 % support banning the sale of assault style weapons (like the AR-15 used in the Orlando, Newtown and Aurora mass shootings) -Some House Democrats, like Rep...

Leslie is joined by Bob Dougherty, the intelligence and counter intelligence director at Counter-Terrorism Watch Inc. a US defense contracting firm specializing in intelligence, counter-terrorism, and special operations training. They discuss the details surrounding Omar Mateen, the man who shot dead 49 innocent people in Orlando Sunday morning and injured 53 others. They also discuss how America...

Leslie is joined by callers as they discuss the mass shooting/terror attack that took place in Orlando, Florida this past Sunday morning and the responses by President Obama, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. (Image Credit: Steve Nesius/Reuters)

Leslie is joined by Hussam Ayloush, the Executive Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). The two discuss why blaming the religion of Islam for the Orlando Mass Shooting/Terror Attack is a mistake, and why the Muslim community is especially saddened and angered by this senseless act of violence. They also dispel myths about there being any portions of the Quran saying that ga...

Mark Grimaldi, Executive Producer of The Leslie Marshall Show, guest hosts for Leslie during this interview. He's joined by Jonah Minkoff-Zern, Co-director of Public Citizen’s Democracy Is For People campaign for a constitutional amendment to overturn the Citizens United Supreme Court ruling and take control of our nation away from billionaires and big business and restore it to the people. The tw...

Mark Grimaldi, Executive Producer of The Leslie Marshall Show, guest hosts for Leslie during this interview. He's joined by Colonel Cedric Leighton, Founder and President of Cedric Leighton Associates, a strategic risk and leadership consultancy serving global companies and organizations. The two discuss the mass shooting/terror attack that took place in Orlando, Florida this past Sunday morning....

Michele L. Jawando guest hosts the show today. She is the Vice President for Legal Progress at American Progress. Previously, she served as general counsel and senior advisor to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), where she was responsible for a wide-ranging portfolio of policy issues pertaining to the federal judiciary and nominations; voting rights; women and labor issues; LGBT issues; education; te...

Mark Grimaldi, Executive Producer of The Leslie Marshall Show, guest hosts for Leslie during this interview. He's joined by Political Strategist Brad Bannon. The two discuss the Presidential race moving forward now that Hillary Clinton is the presumptive Democratic nominee. The conversation includes: -The significance of the United States having it's first female major party nominee for President...

Sam Fulwood guest hosts today's show. He is a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, where he analyzes the influence of national politics and domestic policies on communities of color across the United States. Here are the guests that Sam interviewed along with the topics they discussed. 1. Lindsay Gibbs, Sports Reporter with Think Progress. Her Twitter handle is @linzsports. Sam and L...

Leslie is joined by callers as they discuss Donald Trump doubling down on his racist comments toward the judge presiding over the Trump University case in California, as well as the condemnation of those comments by many senior officials in the Republican party.

Leslie is rejoined by Stan Johnson, international Secretary-Treasurer for the United Steelwokers Union (USW). They discuss why Donald Trump is not an advocate for working people and give examples in the areas of wages, trade, healthcare, social security, and collective bargaining. The USW's website is www.usw.org and their Twitter handles is @Steelworkers. The Twitter handle for USW President Leo...

Leslie is joined by Political Strategist Brad Bannon and callers as they discuss Hillary Clinton's foreign policy speech yesterday where she cast Donald Trump as dangerous and incoherent. They also discuss the remaining Democratic primaries between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. Brad runs Bannon Communications Research, a polling, message development and media firm which helps labor unions, p...

Leslie discusses how Congress is putting the most vulnerable lives at risk as they play politics with funding to protect pregnant women against the Zika Virus. Later in the hour she is joined by Dr. Isaac Bogoch, a tropical infectious disease specialist at the Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network. He is the lead author on a paper that evaluates regions in the Americas with the poten...

Leslie is rejoined by Ladd Everitt, the Director of Communications of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence (CGSV). They talk about the murder-suicide that took place at UCLA using a gun this week, plus the truth about gun-free zones. They also discuss ideas to help in preventing future gun violence. The CGSV seeks to secure freedom from gun violence through research, strategic engagement and effecti...

Daniella Gibbs Léger guest hosts the show during this hour. She is the Senior Vice President for Communications and Strategy at the Center for American Progress. Here are the guests Daniella interviewed along with the topics they discussed. 1. Benton Strong, Managing Director of Communications at the Center for American Progress. His Twitter handle is @BentonStrong. Daniella and Benton discuss the...

Leslie is joined by callers as they discuss newly unsealed court documents detailing how "former managers of Trump University, the for-profit school started by Donald Trump, portray it as an unscrupulous business that relied on high-pressure sales tactics, employed unqualified instructors, made deceptive claims and exploited vulnerable students willing to pay tens of thousands for Trump's insights...

Leslie is joined by Michael Isikoff, Chief Investigative Correspondent for Yahoo News. He specializes in national security, terrorism, and money in politics. They discuss two recent pieces written by Michael entitled "Trump moneyman’s shady history" ( http://tinyurl.com/j9gwrp3) and "Trump University’s secret 'playbook': Who wants to be a billionaire?" ( http://tinyurl.com/hhsgejk) . Formerly, Mic...

Leslie is joined by callers as they discuss who is to blame for a Gorilla being killed at the Cincinnatti Zoo after a 3-year old got into the animal's enclosure. (Image Credit: ViralHog)

Leslie is rejoined by Scott N. Paul, President of the Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM), a partnership established by some of America’s leading manufacturers and the United Steelworkers union. They discuss Scott's new piece for Medium.com entitled "The real-life toll trade has taken on some American communities? It has political consequences, too." (link - http://ow.ly/zLpG300Lg0y) They al...

Mark Grimaldi, Executive Producer of The Leslie Marshall Show, guest hosts for Leslie during this interview. He's joined by Nicholas Wapshott, the Opinion Editor of Newsweek and an author. They discuss multiple aspects of the Democratic primaries that include: -What the impacts would be of Bernie Sanders winning the California primary -Previewing the Democratic National Convention in July and what...