The Democratic field of those running for president in 2020 has just added another contender.  Kamala Harris was the former attorney general for California, San Francisco district attorney, and has been in the Senate for two years. Chris Cadelago, national political reporter for Politico, joins us to discuss her campaign launch and what could be both a strength and weakness, her prosecutorial career.

Next, the next summit between President Trump and Kim Jong Un will be sometime in February and while many have said that North Korea has not been very forthcoming in its disclosure of missile sites or even efforts to denuclearize, a new report says that researchers have discovered a secret ballistic missile base that was previously undisclosed, and there could be as many as twenty. Marissa Fernandez, reporter for Axios, joins us to discuss the report.

Finally, there is a new four legged robot dog that thanks to artificial intelligence, can run faster, operate with more efficiency, and even get back up after its been kicked down. But this dog is special, it not only learned with AIbut through computer simulations on a desktop, learning 1,000 times faster than the real world. Rob Verger, assistant tech editor for Popular Science, joins us for ANYmal, the robot dog.

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