What's on the radio today: Oct. 2, 2019
9 a.m. — MPR News with Kerri Miller
A whistleblower’s complaint has put the intelligence community in an uncomfortable position – the spotlight.
Revelations from the whistleblower led House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to launch a formal impeachment inquiry into President Trump.
According to the New York Times, the complaint was written by a CIA officer who had worked at the White House. It revealed that President Trump asked the Ukrainian president to investigate a political rival and that potentially damaging information had been stored in a separate system.
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Trump has said that he doesn’t know the identity of the whistleblower, but he has referred to him or her as partisan.
Testifying before the House Intelligence Committee last week, the acting director of national intelligence, Joseph Maguire, said the whistleblower “did the right thing” by filing the report.
Throughout the hearing Maguire made sure to distance himself from the political tension in the room. He stated, “I am not partisan, and I am not political. I believe in a life of public service, and I am honored to be a public servant.”
How can the intelligence community maintain a political firewall in a process that is dominated by partisan forces?
10 a.m. — 1A with Joshua Johnson
What kinds of gun laws do Americans support? 1-A lifts the lid on some exclusive polling on the public mood and the changing conversation around guns in America. Joshua Johnson gets the latest data from "Guns and America" that looks at what we talk about when we talk about guns.
11 a.m. — MPR News with Angela Davis
In the next few weeks, nearly 700 soldiers will soon make their way from Minnesota to the Middle East. In 2020, additional National Guardsmen will join them. It is one of the largest deployments for the Minnesota National Guard since the September 11 attacks in 2001.
What does deployment do to families? And how do families navigate the reunion afterward?
Three National Guard members join the conversation to share their stories on how their families prepare for deployment.
12 p.m. — MPR News Presents
A broadcast from Chris Farrell's "Conversations on the Creative Economy" series. A session called "Entrepreneurship and Identity: Building a Native Owned Business" was recorded in Bemidji last week. Chris talked to Native entrepreneurs about how they align their business ventures with the traditional values of their culture.
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