Friday News Roundup - Domestic

WAMU 88.5

Published June 16, 2017 at 8:06 AM MDT

Facebook
Twitter
LinkedIn
Email

Your browser doesn’t support HTML5 audio

An FBI investigator uses evidence flags to mark the location of items found at Alexandria, Virginia’s Eugene Simpson Field, where a gunman opened fire on Republicans practicing for a charity baseball game. House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) was among those injured in the shooting.

Win McNamee/Getty Images

President Trump lashes out on Twitter, calling the Justice Department’s Russia probe “the single greatest WITCH HUNT in American political history.” Lawmakers decide to play ball, vowing not to let a gunman’s attack on Republicans at a practice stop the bipartisan charity game. And five Michigan officials are charged in the Flint water crisis. A panel of journalists joins Joshua Johnson for analysis of the week’s top national news stories.

GUESTS

Jeff Mason, White House correspondent, Reuters

Molly Ball, Staff writer, The Atlantic

Stephen Henderson, Editorial page editor, Detroit Free Press; host of “Detroit Today” on WDET

For more, visit http://the1a.org.