On the eve of former FBI Director James Comey's Senate testimony, Jesse examines what it would take to bring impeachment proceedings  in the House and what it would mean for the country with Norman Solomon, a co-founder of RootsAction Network who started a petition to remove President Trump from office that has received over 1.1 million signatures.

Despite celebrities from practically every corner of pop culture urging young people to vote in the 2016 presidential election, according to a study from the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning,  half of Americans 18-to-29 chose not to. Considering that the same age group  voted for Donald Trump's challenger, Hillary Clinton, by a margin of 55 to 37 percent, if more people under 30 had voted it very well could have altered the outcome. So, why did so many  millennials decide to disengage with politics? In this special hour-long  episode of TrumpWatch, host Jesse Lent talks to a panel of six  20-somethings about how the nation has changed under the new President and if it has changed their own feelings about the American body politic.

Earlier this month, Republicans in the House of Representatives celebrated the passage of a bill that would repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act in a press conference with President Trump on the White House lawn. Yet, in their haste to fulfill years of campaign promises from Republicans in Congress and Trump himself,  Speaker Paul Ryan decided to hold the vote on the bill before the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) had been able to estimate the cost.  When the CBO's analysis was released on Wednesday, it found an estimated 23 million Americans will lose their healthcare over the next 10 years, only 1 million less people left uninsured than the original House bill which Ryan pulled back in March after he reportedly didn't have the votes. In this episode of TrumpWatch, host Jesse Lent discusses the politics and the substance of the Republican plan to overhaul medical policy in the U.S. with Adam Cancyn, a healthcare reporter for POLITICO.

On May 16, 2017, when members of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's diplomatic escort attacked peaceful protesters at a demonstration outside Turkey's foreign embassy in Washington DC, Elif Genç was one of those caught up in the melee. On this week's TrumpWatch, host Jesse Lent talks to the Kurdish women's social movement activist about her harrowing experience of being physically assaulted in plain sight by three of Erdogan's bodyguards and considers whether this signifies a change in the legal protections of peaceful protesters in the Donald Trump era.

Between the firing of FBI Director James Comey, the disclosure of highly classified information to Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov and  ambassador Sergey Kislyak and revelations of his alleged request to Comey to squash an investigation into his former national security adviser Michael Flynn, there's been more breaking news than ever this week on the ongoing saga of whether the Donald Trump administration illegally colluded with the Russian government. But with most major news  outlets operating at code red, are key progressive issues being  overshadowed by the nonstop news cycle? Jesse's guest John Tarleton,  editor-in-chief of The Indypendent (indypendent.org) thinks so. In this episode of TrumpWatch on WBAI 99.5fm New York, John explains why it is important to not let the issues the left has been fighting for get lost in the chaos.

In a special one-hour edition of TrumpWatch, host Jesse Lent takes your calls on what motive could be behind the President's firing of FBI Director James Comey and what it could mean for the investigation into Russian collusion with the Trump campaign in the hacking of the 2016 election.

Back in January, when President Donald J. Trump nominated top campaign contributor Betsy DeVos as his Education Secretary, the opposition was  swift and mobilized. Charging that DeVos was unfit to hold the office since she had no experience working in public education and was a powerful advocate for charter schools, protestors blocked her from entering Jefferson Middle School Academy during her fourth day on the job. Yet in the four months since then, resistance efforts against Trump's secretary of education have often been overshadowed by other protest movements. And as the administration's actions to undo two signature programs of former first lady Michelle Obama promoting healthier school lunches proves, public education advocates' fears don't begin and end with Betsy Devos. On this week's TrumpWatch, host Jesse Lent  discusses the state of the public school system under President Trump with Basir Mchawi, a Queens College professor and the host of WBAI's Education At The Crossroads.

In this episode of TrumpWatch, host Jesse Lent explores how Donald Trump is doing and what he has done as we approach the first major milestone of his presidency with POLITICO senior writer Michael Grunwald. His article "Trump’s First 100  Days: What Mattered, And What Didn’t" is a definitive breakdown of the flurry of events we've seen so far.

In an April 11 press conference in the border town of Nogales, Arizona, Attorney General Jeff Sessions proclaimed "we are living in a new era…the Trump era...the lawlessness, the abdication of the duty to enforce our immigration laws and the catch and release practices of old are over." But with nominees for deputy attorney general and associate attorney general (the second and third in the chain of command at the Department of Justice, respectively) still awaiting Senate confirmation and replacements for the 93 U.S. attorneys President Trump asked to resign still pending, will Sessions be able to implement the sweeping policy changes he is seeking at the Justice Department? In the 20th episode of TrumpWatch, host Jesse Lent discusses how the Justice Department has changed under the Trump administration with three-time Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Sari Horwitz of the Washington Post.

As U.S. and Chinese armed forces rush to the Korean Peninsula, it's still unclear whether President Donald Trump is willing to engage militarily with Kim Jong Un in order to thwart the North Korean dictator's quest for a long-range nuclear weapon. In this episode of TrumpWatch, host Jesse Lent examines what shape the Trump administration's foreign policy on North Korea is taking (and what government officials in China think of it) with Oriana Skylar  Mastro, an assistant professor in security studies at Georgetown University whose work has been featured in The Atlantic, the New  Republic and the Journal of Strategic Studies.