The Leslie Marshall Show

Leslie is joined by Political Strategist Brad Bannon and callers as they discuss the best way for Democrats to end their primary season and unite ahead of the general election. They also discuss the general election matchup with Donald Trump. Brad runs Bannon Communications Research, a polling, message development and media firm which helps labor unions, progressive issue groups and Democratic can...

Leslie is rejoined by Doug Bloch, political director for Teamsters Joint Council 7 in Northern California. They discuss how, for the second time in a month, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters protested at Chipotle locations nationwide this week to demand that Chipotle hold its produce supplier Taylor Farms accountable for egregious health and labor violations.

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. 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;...

Leslie is a guest on 'The Lee Elci Show' on 94.9FM News Now, which broadcasts to New London, Connecticut. Leslie and Lee discuss the latest general election news and North Carolina's controversial HB2 law.

Leslie is joined by callers as they discuss Hawaii potentially becoming "the first state in the United States to enter gun owners into an FBI database that will automatically notify police if an island resident is arrested anywhere else in the country." (Source: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/hawaii-put-gun-owners-federal-database-39325600) (Image Credit: Marina Riker/AP)

Leslie is rejoined by Dean Obeidallah, a columnist for The Daily Beast. He also hosts "The Dean Obeidallah Show" on SiriusXM radio. They discuss Dean's piece for CNN entitled "Trump's jaw-dropping hypocrisy over Bill Clinton" and his piece for The Daily Beast entitled "Anti-Muslim School Bullying: Sometimes, It’s Even the Teachers Doing It." Dean's website is www. TheDeansReport.com and his Twitte...

Leslie is joined by callers as they discuss former President Jimmy Carter's comments that Donald Trump's campaign for president has “tapped a waiting reservoir there of inherent racism.” Mr. Carter also said that Republican animosity toward President Obama had “a heavy racial overtone.” (Image Credit: Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post via Getty Images; John Bazemor/AP)

Leslie is joined by Hunter Walker, a national affairs correspondent for Yahoo News. They discuss Hunter's piece for Yahoo News entitled "Veterans hold Trump Tower protest after Donald Trump’s charity fundraising drive comes up short." ( http://tinyurl.com/jgga47r) Hunter's Twitter handle is @HunterW and you can read more of his work at news.yahoo.com. (Image Credit: Grace Brailsford-Cato)

Mark Grimaldi, Executive Producer of The Leslie Marshall Show, guest hosts for Leslie during this interview. He's joined by George Zornick, Washington Editor for 'The Nation.' The two discuss George's new article for The Nation entitled "Elizabeth Warren Takes On the ‘Gig Economy.’" ( http://tinyurl.com/hfzmvl7) George's Twitter handle is @GZornick and Mark's is @MarkJGrimaldi. (AP Photo / Pablo...

Mark Grimaldi, Executive Producer of The Leslie Marshall Show, guest hosts for Leslie during this interview. He's joined by Michael Shure, a political commentator and former correspondent for Al Jazeera America. Shure often guest hosts on The Young Turks as well. The two discuss the way that much of the Republican party quickly went from being outraged by Donald Trump, to blindingly accepting and...

Leslie is joined by callers as they react to and analyze Baltimore Police Officer Edward Nero being found not guilty in the death of Freddie Gray, who died while in police custody. (Image Credit: BaltimoreSun.com)

Leslie is joined by Ju'Riese Colon, the Executive Director of Outreach for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. (NCMEC) They discuss a Brookings study entitled "Sextortion: Cybersecurity, teenagers, and remote sexual assault." ( http://tinyurl.com/jhgmpjd) TWITTER HANDLEs: @MissingKids and @ColonJuRiese WEBSITEs: www. MissingKids.com and www. MissingKids.org/Sextortion

Leslie is joined by Political Strategist Brad Bannon and callers as they discuss how Bernie Sanders might be able to achieve some of his goals in making the Democratic party and platform both more progressive, without hurting Hillary Clinton in a general election match up with Donald Trump. Brad runs Bannon Communications Research, a polling, message development and media firm which helps labor un...

Victoria Jones guest hosts for Leslie during today's show. Victoria is the White House correspondent and political analyst for Talk Media News. She joins Leslie on the show every week as our TMN Reporter. Victoria is joined by callers as they discuss how Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, and their supporters can unite ahead of the general election against Donald Trump in November. You can follow gu...

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. 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;...

Leslie is joined by callers as they discuss whether or not it's time for Bernie Sanders to drop out of the Democratic primary and endorse Hillary Clinton. (Image Credit: Nigel Parry/CNN)

Leslie is rejoined by John Nichols, a national affairs correspondent for The Nation. John is a pioneering political blogger who has written the Beat since 1999. They discuss the battle already beginning to be waged between the campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. They also discuss whether Bernie Sanders continuing to stay in the race will hurt Hillary Clinton in the fall, if she is the e...

Leslie is joined by callers as they discuss a federal judge ordering a school district in Cleveland, Mississippi to merge its two high schools and two middle schools. The judge "ordered the district to merge East Side High, where all but one student is black, with Cleveland High, where 48 percent of students are white and 45 percent are black. Similarly, the district must merge D.M. Smith Middle,...

Leslie is joined by Zach Schonfeld, a senior writer for Newsweek, covering culture. They discuss Zach's piece for Newsweek entitled "We Tracked Down Newsweek Readers Who Predicted Trump's Presidential Campaign in 1987." ( http://tinyurl.com/jus2bct) Zach has also written for The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, The A.V. Club and other publications. His Twitter handle is @zzzzaaaacccchhh. (Image Credit: To...

Mark Grimaldi, Executive Producer of The Leslie Marshall Show, guest hosts for Leslie during this interview. He's joined by Meg Jacobs, who teaches history and public affairs at Princeton University and is author of Panic At the Pump: The Energy Crisis and the Transformation of American Politics in the 1970s, just released by Hill and Wang. ( http://tinyurl.com/jf7gymj) The two discuss Meg's new a...

Leslie is joined by callers as they discuss why Donald Trump might be refusing to release his tax returns. They also discuss Trump responding to George Stephanopoulos asking what the nominee's tax rate is by saying "it's none of your business."

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...

Leslie is joined by callers as they discuss President Obama's upcoming trip to Hiroshima, which will be the first by a sitting U.S. President. President Obama is not expected to apologize on behalf of American for dropping the atomic bomb on Japan during World War II, a move which is debated by Leslie and her callers. They also discuss the issue of nuclear non-proliferation.

Leslie is rejoined by Nicholas Wapshott, the Opinion Editor of Newsweek and an author. They discuss the takeaways from the West Virginia primary, including the future of coal jobs. They also discuss whether new polling from Quinnipiac University showing Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in a virtual tie in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida should be trusted. Nicholas Wapshott's newest book is titled "...

Leslie is joined by callers as they discuss the latest news surrounding North Carolina's anti-LGBT law (HB2). The Justice Dept sued North Carolina on Monday over the state's new bathroom law after the governor refused to back down. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said the law requiring transgender people to use public restrooms corresponding to the gender on their birth certificate amounts to "stat...