Leslie begins the hour with her 'Ripped from the Headlines' news segment. These are the stories that she covered:
1. AUDIO: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, when speaking to reporters today, refuses to acknowledge President-Elect Biden's victory and says there will be a smooth transition to a second Trump administration
2. AUDIO: President-Elect Biden downplays President Trump refusing to concede
3. AUDIO: President-Elect Biden on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell refusing to recognize Biden's win
4. NEWSWEEK: "Fauci Optimistic About COVID-19 Vaccine, Says High-Risk Could Get it in December"
5. AXIOS: "Biden transition threatens legal action on GSA decision"
6. AXIOS: "Team of international observers says it saw no evidence of systematic fraud in U.S. elections"
Leslie is then joined by Jessica Levinson, Professor at Loyola Law School, founding director of Loyola's Public Service Institute, and host of the 'Passing Judgment podcast.' Jessica's Twitter handle is @LevinsonJessica and the handle for her podcast is @PassJudgementPod.
Leslie and Jessica discuss Attorney General Bill Barr's letter to U.S. Attorneys authorizing them to open election-fraud investigations “if there are clear and apparently-credible allegations of irregularities that, if true, could potentially impact the outcome of a federal election in an individual State.”
They also analyze Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's comments today that there will be a "smooth transition to a second Trump administration."
Biden Administration Takes Major Step Toward Closing 'Gun Show Loophole,' Requires Thousands More Dealers to Run Background Checks
AFL-CIO President Talks Worker Safety, Unions Expanding into the South, and Climate Change Policy Solutions
Restoring Our Nation's Lost Shipbuilding Capacity
Will China Flood the Globe with EVs, Green Tech? What’s Behind Latest US-China Trade Fight?
Teamsters President Talks Anheuser-Busch Contract, Molson-Coors Strike, UPS & DHL Organzing and Presidential Roundtables
Women's History Month: The Journey of an Afghan Girl Who Risked Everything for Education
Analyzing President Biden's SOTU; American Incomes Are Better Under Biden Than Trump
Building Unity In the Paper Industry and Beyond
Temu and Tariffs, Chinese Auto Industry, How to Make It in America, Biden Industrial Policy
Biden vs Trump on the Economy; Teamsters Organizing FedEx Express and Delta Airlines
How Unions Help Communities
Manufacturing Jobs, Two New Books Following Companies that Keep it Made in USA, Rise in Chinese Auto Production
AFL-CIO President Talks New Tech-Labor Partnership with Microsoft
Teamsters President Talks Successful Agreement with DHL, Strike Authorization by Members at Anheuser-Busch & Presidential Roundtables
2023 AAM ’Made in America Holiday Gift Guide’
Workers Seizing the Moment
Most Equitable Economic Recovery in American History
Teamsters Rally to Protect American Jobs from Mexican-Owned Grocery Chain
Israel Orders Entire Population of Northern Gaza to Move South
Remembering USW President Tom Conway
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