Tanahasi Coats is a national book award-winning author and journalist. His acclaimed work, Between the World and Me, is being re-released in paperback on its 10th anniversary next week. And his most recent book, The Message, is out.It's good to have you. Thanks for having me, Chris. We have not gotten a chance to talk on air in a bit.A lot has happened. You think. Well, we got a US military parade on the birthday of the president of the United States, ostensibly for the armed services.Um, we've got deployme ...

We could show you the 200 Marines in LA today amid the protests over these tactics and immigration policy. They join what are over 4,500 National Guard troops. Quite a force there. The Marines mobilized earlier this week. So technically the president had earlier ordered this. The news today is that they're now here having gone through the transfer and some level of basically short-term training. This is an unusual and extreme move because they're not actually doing something that they are ready to do. And w ...

She shoved an officer. She put hands on her officer. That's unacceptable.These ICE officers and when you when you cause a ruckus like that, then that makes that that that that facility unsecure because officers who should be dealing with the prisoners, very serious prisoner criminals in that facility. They're they're they're dealing with a ruckus outside. DOJ will win that case.I what I saw I think she put hands on an officer. She shoved an officer. She needs she needs to pay the consequences.Quote, she put ...

So, you've probably seen the video of Senator Alex Pia from California being forcefully removed from Secretary Noam's press conference yesterday. And maybe when you saw that, you likely felt alarmed. Alarmed by the way that this administration continues to use force and intimidation.But here's the thing. We were warned that something like this could happen almost 10 years ago. Now, one of the first things that I thought about when I saw Senator Pada, who also happens to be the first Latino senator from Cali ...

John Meechum through the lens of history. Uh how do you look at this parade tomorrow. I go back to the quote from Colonel Jack Jacobs, our friend, the Medal of Honor recipient.He said, "We're not really a tanks in the street kind of country, though of course he celebrates the United States Army and its 250th anniversary, but this is something we haven't seen much of in this country." We haven't. And I I think David's right. I think we have to make a distinction between commemorating and celebrating the rema ...

We begin today with what threatens to be a full-blown constitutional crisis right here at home with consequences for every American. Events in Los Angeles could be merely the canary in the coal mine when it comes to which path we take and the very future of our democracy. The Trump administration is heading into the weekend, facing protests nationwide from a galvanized opposition and a sharp rebuke written for the history books from a federal judge.That opinion amounts to a legal body blow to Trump's effort ...

Joining us now, we have former Israeli ambassador to the US, Michael Ern. Ambassador, we just got a security alert uh coming out of the US embassy in Jordan, saying the US embassy has indications there may be missiles, drones, or rockets flying over Jordanian airspace. It's urging American citizens to exercise caution uh due to high tensions in the region.But I want to ask you about those high tensions in the region. We saw the US State Department quietly move a lot of people out of those uh the consulate i ...

Joining us now we have Senator Chris Coons of Delaware. Senator Coons is a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Judiciary Committee. Senator, I want to ask you looking at these images of smoke rising over Tel Aviv, uh what we know about Israel's attacks on Thran overnight, where does this put the US.What is the US position in the Middle East now. because we've heard from the White House that they did have prior knowledge, but that's not the same as prior approval, but that doesn't make i ...

some of these uh some of these uh missions we've been seeing here on our screen. What do you know. Hi, Christina.Yes, that's right. We can now confirm according to three US officials that the US has been helping in shooting down these Iranian missiles and projectiles that have been targeting Israel today. Now, that's notable for a couple of reasons.We know that in the past, this is something that the US has done. For instance, the Biden administration had a similar posture back when this was taking place in ...

is joining us now by phone, we have Israeli writer and senior fellow at the Tel Aviv Institute, Hen Maziz. Um, first of all, I want to make sure you're safe and able to speak to us. And if if that is the case, could you please tell us what you know, if anything, about what's going on in your city right now and and how the population is reacting is reacting, how you're feeling. Yeah, I'm I'm safe. I'm speaking to you from a bomb shelter in Tel Aviv, a concrete room that is meant to uh protect civilians like ...