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Richard Fowler 05-26-2018 by Progressive Voices

It was the biggest annual National Rifle Association meeting yet. In early May, nearly 90,000 people converged on Dallas, Texas and heard from both the sitting president and vice-president of the United States. Writer Randy Potts was there, and we’ll get his first-person report.

Also, what’s it really like to be inside a presidential campaign and administration when things get intense? Greg Lebel has been there, and we’ll get his insights.

And Interfaith Alliance President Jack Moline will tell us about a very special Ramadan Iftar.

This week, my 2011 conversation with JACOB HACKER & PAUL PIERSON, authors of a book I highly recommend, WINNER-TAKE-ALL POLITICS: How Washington Made the Rich Richer - and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class. Next week, a new one with NANCY MacLEAN whose DEMOCRACY IN CHAINS reveals the GOP's strategy of CitizensUnited, gerrymandering, voter suppression, etc. in order to retain power despite the unpopularity of their destructive policies.

Today I explain my serious concerns about the new NFL policy on protests.

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Karel returns live Thursday May 31. In the mean time, enjoy Vintage Karel and support the show at reallykarel.com and togetherwith.me

Leslie is joined by Leo Gerard, International President of the United Steelworkers Union (USW).

The two discuss the United States' recent trade negotiations with China.

Leo wrote in a recent blog that Trump’s tariffs put Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin in a position of strength in negotiations with the Chinese over trade cheating and the massive U.S. trade deficit with China. But that Mnuchin squandered it by lifting the tariffs and getting nothing solid in return. (link here: https://www.alternet.org/labor/trade-negotiation-between-china-and-us-required-steel-spine-mnuchin-folded)

Leo Gerard's Twitter handle is @USWblogger and the USW's handle is @steelworkers. Their website is www.USW.org.