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Freedom of Assembly challenged, & more..

Freedom of Assembly challenged, & more..
May 7, 2015 · 1h 19m 2s

Victoria Jones guest hosts for Leslie during today's show. Victoria is the White House correspondent and political analyst for The Talk Radio News Service. She joins Leslie on the show...

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Victoria Jones guest hosts for Leslie during today's show. Victoria is the White House correspondent and political analyst for The Talk Radio News Service.
She joins Leslie on the show every week as our TRNS Reporter.

Victoria interviews the following guests in this order during today's show:

1. Dan Froomkin, a senior writer for the Intercept, a website devoted to accountability journalism. He discusses his recent article entitled "The Computers are Listening: How the NSA converts spoken word into searchable text."

2. Ambassador Gary A. Grappo, who served numerous assignments at the State Department in Washington, D.C. as well as postings in Nicaragua, Portugal, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Oman (twice), Iraq and Jerusalem.
He discusses how President Bashar al-Assad is losing ground in Syria, and what that means for the future of the country and its people.

3. Michael Gould-Wartofsky, the author of the new book, "The Occupiers: The Making of the 99 Percent Movement."
He is a PhD candidate in Sociology at New York University, and holds a BA in Government from Harvard.
He discusses his recent article for 'The Nation' entitled "5 Tools the Police Are Using in Their War Against Activists."

During the final segment of the show, Victoria is joined by callers as they discuss the 2016 Presidential Election and whether Hillary Clinton needs to do a better job of outlining her vision as to what she'd do as President.

You can follow guest host Victoria Jones on Twitter @VictoriaJonesDC, and read her work at www.TalkRadioNews.com.
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