Patt Morrison Thurs, 1/8

PATT MORRISON SCHEDULE

Thursday, January 8, 2009

1-3 p.m.

 

 

1:00 – 1:40

OPEN

 

 

 

 

1:40 – 2:00

Willie Brown Throws in Race Card for Burris

Democratic leaders, such as Sen. Diane Feinstein, have departed from Harry Reid’s hard line that he’d refuse to seat Roland Burris in the U.S. Senate. Former San Francisco Mayor and California Assembly Speaker Willie Brown may be behind some of that sentiment; last Sunday he wrote an op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle endorsing Burris and this week he began urging fellow African Americans to prepare to protest if the Democrats block Burris’s appointment. How much of a factor was Willie Brown in the Dems turnaround? And how prepared were Afrian Americans to protest if Democrats didn’t relent?

 

Guests:

Willie Brown: Former San Francisco Mayor and California Assembly Speaker Willie Brown

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[NPR NEWS]

 

 

2:00 – 2:20

Different Views on Bush's Legacy – Kasey Pipes

9-11. Iraq. Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib. Katrina. Eight years ago, President Bush was sworn into office with a $237 billion budget surplus and relative economic prosperity. He now presides over a $438 billion deficit, two wars, and a severe economic downturn. According to a Pew survey released this month, only 11 percent of Americans rate Bush as an "above-average president," compared with 44% for Clinton. How did the Bush Administration get here and how will history remember them? We continue our series looking back at the Bush years with political consultants, historians, and those close to the President.

 

Guests:

Kasey Pipes, former speechwriter for President Bush

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2:20 – 2:30

OPEN

 

 

 

 

2:30 – 3:00

Lessons from Mumbai: It Could Happen Here

The terrorist attacks last year in Mumbai, India, responsible for almost 200 deaths, were remarkable in their simplicity:  a group of ten men armed with relatively unsophisticated weapons managed to wreak deadly havoc for several days in a city of millions. With plenty of tempting public, easily accessible targets in the United States, why couldn’t a similar type of terrorist attack happen here? As the Senate Homeland Security Committee learned today [Thurs], a Mumbai-style terror attack could easily happen in the U.S. and preventing it might be impossible.

 

Guests:

Charles E. Allen, Under Secretary for Intelligence & Analysis, Chief Intelligence Officer for the Department of Homeland Security

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Other guests TBD