Voting Rights, Trump-Russia Ties & Comey Memo with guest hosts Michele Jawando and Igor Volsky

Published: May 18, 2017, 6:56 p.m.

Michele L. Jawando and Igor Volsky guest host the show today. Michele is Vice President for Legal Progress at American Progress and Igor is Vice President at the Center for American Progress and the Deputy Director for the CAP Action Fund.

Below are the topics they discussed, along with the guests they were joined by.

1. Voting Rights

Guest 1: Ari Berman, Senior Contributing Writer at The Nation magazine and a Fellow at The Nation Institute
Tweets: @AriBerman

Guest 2: Emily Seawell, Voting Rights Staff Attorney at the Southern Coalition for Social Justice
Tweets: @scsj

2. Trump’s Ties to Russia and Comey Memo

Guest : Ken Gude is a Senior Fellow with the National Security Team at American Progress.
Tweets: @KenGude

Michele Jawando's Twitter handle is @MicheleJawando and Igor Volsky’s handle is @IgorVolsky. The two have a weekly podcast called “Thinking CAP,” which is about the ideas, issues, and solutions that lead us to march, chant, and raise our voices to participate in our democracy. You can listen for free here: https://tinyurl.com/ks2l3vm

The website for "The Center for American Progress" is www.AmericanProgress.org and their Twitter Handle is @amprog.

(Image Credit: Photograph by Travis Dove / The New York Times / Redux)