Tanya D. Davis continues her debate over the policy choices in the opening weeks of Donald Trump's second admininstration with Niger Innis, chairman of one of the nation's oldest civil rights organizations. The discussion focuses on: deportation policy that circumvents due process; the continued dismantling of the federal workforce while proposing tax cuts for billionaires; the economic impact of tariffs; the national security ramifications of "Signalgate;" the continued assault on diversity, equity and inclusion; and the accuracy of history as displayed in the nation's museums.

As the Trump administration seeks to require documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote, Campaign Legal Center's Director of Voting Rights Brent Ferguson continues the battle against some states' indiscriminate purge of voter rolls, the further degradation of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the upcoming effort to pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act.

Dr. Adam Hamawy, former U.S. Army combat surgeon credited with saving the life of Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), talks about his tours in Gaza and the resilience of the Palestinians.

Dr. Mohammed Mustafa, an emergency doctor with Palestinian Australian New Zealand Medical Association (PANZMA), speaks from Gaza City about conditions on the ground this week during the resumed bombing.

In the wake of the passage of the Republican continuing resolution, Abi Shakur, a community organizer for Washington, D.C.'s Baldwin House and Jews United for Justice, tells it as they see it on the state of the Democratic Party, its failure to defend the working class and hold corporate America accountable, and what they see as a failure to uphold human rights in Gaza. To hear them tell it, the Democratic Party has lost its youngest, most politically-active voters for the foreseeable future, and the time for a viable third party is now.

Taped March 8, 2025.

Dr. Adriana Campos, former USAID Fellow, and Susanny Acosta, former NIH Program Analyst, are among those who lost their jobs in cuts made by the Department of Government Efficiency. Since being fired, they have organized fellow fired workers to lobby Congress to put a stop to DOGE. Former television news and public affairs producer Tanya D. Davis talks with them about the fight to retain their jobs and to protect the work of scientists and programs they say are valuable to American and global health.

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From the America-first philosophy to budget battles and the deconstruction of the administrative state to the presence of white supremacists in the MAGA movement, a former Meet the Press producer has a lively conversation with the Republican head of one of the nation's oldest civil rights organizations.