The Week That Was on Deadline Detroit

Hosts Adolph Mongo and Allan Lengel talk with Wayne County Treasure Eric Sabree who talks about his programs to prevent foreclosures and deed fraud. 

Host Saeed Khan talks with seasoned attorneys Bill Seikaly, Steve Fishman and Joel Sklar, labor and community activist Barb Ingalls, veteran journalist Nancy Derringer and Deadline Detroit co-founder Allan Lengel.

They talk about:  The El-Sayed/Mike Rogers debate? Too much playground put downs and not enough substance? Michigan absentee ballot returns up 30% from 2022 midterm election; Trump stumps for GOP candidates,  Death row inmate survives execution, what's next for her?  Schmuck of the Week.

Host Saeed Khan talks with pollster Ed Sarpolus, seasoned attorneys Bill Seikaly, Steve Fishman and Joel Sklar, labor and community activist Barb Ingalls, veteran journalist Nancy Derringer and Deadline Detroit co-founder Allan Lengel.

They talk about: GOP's shameful attack on former Special Counsel Jack Smith at a Senate hearing; investigation reopened into frat gang-rape allegations after two years; federal prosecutors charge Detroit Fire Lt. Stephanie Steen with lying to the FBI; pro-Trump Detroit pastor says don't vote absentee because of "cheating"; A's left fielder sues Tigers for injury sustained by fencing along the third-base line; Schmuck of the Week.

Hosts Adolph Mongo, Allan Lengel and Jim Nardone ask why politicians, particularly candidates running for office, have not spoken up about motorist Susan Smith, a Black Detroit woman who was involved in a car crash with an Arab American woman on Sept. 12 on Detroit's west side in the Warrendale neighborhood.

Smith's attorneys this week held a press conference pushing for Detroit police to dig deeper into what they say was a racially motivated hate crime.

Smith said at a press conference last Tuesday that as many as 80 men of Arab descent gathered in the vicinity after the Arab American woman, 18, struck her car. She says some in the crowd hurled racial and sexist slurs at her. One person threatened her with a spiked bat. Others tampered with the scene, and someone stole her purse from the front seat.

Smith said the men also removed the teenage woman from the scene and took her car away. The matter is under investigation.

The hosts of the show questioned why it hasn't been a bigger story and why politicians like Mayor Mary Sheffield and political candidates haven't spoken up and condemned the incident.

Hosts Adolph Mongo, Vanessa Moss, Allan Lengel and Jim Nardone talk about how the homeless situation in Detroit appears to be getting worse.

The podcast also sends a big farewell to co-host Vanessa Moss, who appeared for the last time as a co-host on the show.

Moss is running for a Wayne County Probate Court judge position and is expected to automatically win because there are three people running for three positions on the bench.

Host Saeed Khan talks with former Fox 2 anchor Huel Perkins, seasoned attorneys Steve Fishman, Bill Seikaly and Joel Sklar; labor and community activist Barb Ingalls, veteran journalist Nancy Derringer and Deadline Detroit co-founder Allan Lengel.

They talk about: President Trump addresses the United Nations; Republican candidates running from Trump; Trump bans CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House, saying they're a threat to national security; Russian national charged with illegal voting in Michigan in the 2024 election; Michigan Supreme Court sends Ethan Crumbley case back to Appeals Court to review life sentence; Schmuck of the Week.

Hosts Allan Lengel and Jim Nardone talk about the tight U.S. Senate race in Michigan and the factor of minority voters.  

Detroit attorney Todd Perkins, a former mayoral candidate, explains why, as a Black voter, he's skeptical of U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, but will probably vote for him — although reluctantly.

Appearing Friday as a panelist on the podcast "The Week That Was," Perkins said one of the issues that bothers him was when El-Sayed was part of the "uncommitted" voters' movement in Michigan in the February 2024 presidential primary, when President Joe Biden was the candidate. A key issue was U.S. support of Israel. There were 101,623 "uncommitted" votes in the Michigan primary.

In the general election, El-Sayed endorsed Kamala Harris for president, though some thought he had already done damage to the party.

"I'm kind of conflicted...I'm a lifelong Democrat and I remain a Democrat, but you know the the problem I have with El Sayed, I'm still stuck on this uncommitted shit that happened several years back. And now we need to coalesce, and you want my you want my vote now," Perkins said.

"You set the house on fire and then you want to come in and act like you're putting out the fire...And then I have...I really have a freaking problem too in the commercials and how he engages Black people. So, he engages the White construct in a way that's intelligent and everything and then I see this commercial where he's sitting there playing Aretha Franklin and he's dancing a jig."

"And then he's got a sign, he doesn't even speak. He points to a sign about benefits and then he's dancing some more and then some more benefits. I'm frickin insulted."

"What I'm upset about...the reality is, I'm probably going to have to vote for this guy because I do believe in closing ranks."

"Where I get upset with...Black people in our entire community is that we do not coalesce on issues and we lose and we fracture our ability to have power." (Perkins talks about this at the 36:15 mark of the video below.)

Besides Perkins, Friday's panelists for the podcast included host Saeed Khan; attorneys Steve Fishman, Bill Seikaly and Joel Sklar; community and labor activist Barb Ingalls; veteran journalist Nancy Derringer; and Deadline Detroit co-founder Allan Lengel.

They also talk about skyrocketing gas prices, artificial intelligence, the imbalanced Supreme Court, the one-man debate on Fox 2 and more.

Republican Congressman John James makes his case for being governor of Michigan on the podcast, "Detroit in Black and White."

He talks with co-hosts Adolph Mongo and Allan Lengel about the economy, his Democratic opponent Jocelyn Benson, Black voters, education, Michigan under Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Medicaid, abortion, car insurance in Detroit, tariffs and whether President Trump will campaign for him in Michigan.

He also answers questions from viewers.

Host Saeed Khan talks with guests, seasoned attorneys Steve Fishman, Bill Seikaly
and Joel Sklar, labor and community activist Barb Ingalls and Deadline Detroit co-founder Allan Lengel.

They talk about pro athletes returning to college to play; Mike Rogers pitch as a fake Wolverine and his push for some key issues his opponent has been advocating for; The incompetent Pete Hegseth; What's up with Mayor Mary Sheffield and the her ex-boyfriend's allegations about kickbacks? Michigan poll says 37 percent likely not to vote for a Muslim candidate;  Two Wayne County judges recuse themselves in Grosse Pointe lawsuit over KKK Post; Schmuck of the Week.