Congresswoman Barbara Lee
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Attorney General William Barr broke the law by lying to Congress about the Mueller Report, as House Democrats threatened to hold him in contempt after he refused to appear before the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday. Barr also ignored a subpoena deadline to turn over the full report and its underlying evidence. Earlier in the week, there was a much more conciliatory tone as President Trump, along with Democratic leaders Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, agreed to spend $2 trillion to repair the nation’s highways, bridges and other aging infrastructure.
Guest: U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Oakland
Measles Cases Spike in California
Since the start of the year, there have been more than 700 cases of measles reported in 22 states, including 40 in California. A quarantine that affected 800 students and staff at UCLA and California State University - Los Angeles, who were possibly exposed to measles, was lifted this week. State public health officials are urging measles vaccinations for Californians traveling abroad. The majority of new cases in the state involve people being exposed during international travel. Meanwhile, a bill targeting doctors who write phony medical exemptions for parents trying to avoid vaccinating their children cleared its first legislative hurdle last week.
Guests:
- April Dembosky, health correspondent, KQED
- California state Sen. Richard Pan, D-Sacramento
KQED’s “Youth Takeover”
This week, KQED is featuring the voices and perspectives of Bay Area high school students on the issues that matter most to them, on-air and online. As part of this “Youth Takeover,” we hear from two high school freshmen at Ygnacio Valley High School in Concord, whose concerns about climate change prompted them to look into recycling efforts at their school. They found that aluminum cans and paper products were ending up in the trash, and even finding where to deposit recyclables on campus was a challenge. Joining them is a senior in Walnut Creek who persuaded school officials to boost the number of recycling and composting bins on campus, while educating his classmates on the right way to keep food scraps and bottles out of the landfill.