After unseasonably high temperatures last week, San Diego is bracing for cold and wet weather over the next few days. Next, according to a new UC Berkeley poll, Senator Dianne Feinstein is down to an all-time-low 30% approval rating and her home-state support is collapsing. Then, Marine families are still mourning and seeking closure from the military justice system 18 months after the AAV accident that killed nine in July 2020. And, we hear from Lamont Jackson, a finalist for the San Diego Unified School District superintendent position. Finally, the theme for this year’s Writer’s Symposium by the sea at Point Loma Nazarene University is “Writing that Provokes.” Author and public-theologian Nadia Bolts-Weber joins Midday Edition to talk about religion and radical honesty.
Hearings into leadership have yielded few answers for parents after the tragic July 20 accident where 9 troops drowned off the coast of San Clemente Island. Also, not everyone is ready for California’s move into an endemic phase of covid-19. Those who are immunocompromised may not receive full or any protection from COVID-19 vaccines. Plus, the Oceanside International Film Festival opens for in-person events today.
or perhaps even using a truck bomb from inside the airport, fuel trucks that move all around that airport, civilian side to the military side. it is going to be a very dicey few days. let s all keep our troops and our evacuees in our thoughts and prayers. jeremy, i want to play you some sound from congress member seth moton this morning talking about the challenges of working with the taliban which the admiral just referenced. i will get your thoughts on the other side. what was it like for you to see as a veteran of several tours, to see the united states relying on the taliban and effectively working with the terrorist group? i mean it was the most bizarre thing i could ever imagine, and these marines who grew up knowing that the taliban harbored the people who attacked us on 9/11 we re now asked to work with these terrorists, but we have to to save lives.
counterweight to trump. trump is a formidable challenge in that regard and they want somebody experienced there. this creates an opportunity for seth moton. it s perhaps the case i m not convinced, ali, that pelosi s got the numbers just yet to be able to confidentiality say, okay, you know, game over no, it s close. right. yeah. here s something interesting, she s 78 years old. right. the democratic leadership is pretty old. congresswoman, the new representative-elect alexandria ocasio-cortez is 29 years old or something like that, 50 years between them. she defeated in the primary an ally of nancy pelosi. so she d be definitely one of those people who would say, maybe we need new leadership. here is what she said on chris hayes show last night. for me, when i was reading this letter that was kind of released today, my main concern was that there is no vision, there is no common value, there is no goal that is really
change as it relates to nancy pelosi? i m not sure what poll he s looking at. the short answer is, no, i don t think he s right, ali. look, winning changes everything. had the democrats not managed to take over the house, it would be a totally different story. right. and, frankly, all of pelosi s people were telling me that. yeah, sayonara to the entire leadership chain. now they feel emboldened by the fact they ve picked up so many seats and they ve also, i think, begun to contrait on the likelihood that the democrats now have an effective counterweight. they may not proactively get much passed legislatively speaking but there will be a counterweight to trump. trump is a formidable challenge in that regard and they want somebody experienced there. this creates an opportunity for seth moton. it s perhaps the case i m not convinced, ali, that pelosi s got the numbers just yet to be able to confidentiality say, okay, you know, game over no, it s close. right. yeah. here s