
Wiretapping Trump, The Holi Festival, Frank Wildhorn
Top of Mind with Julie Rose - Season 1, Episode 515
- Mar 22, 2017 6:00 am
- 104:15
Parsing Trump’s Wiretapping Claims Guest: Ryan Vogel, J.D., Professor and Founding Director of the Center for National Security Studies, Utah Valley University President Trump has not backed down from his claims that Trump Tower was wiretapped during the election. First he blamed President Obama for it in a tweet. Then he said the British Secret Service did it for Obama. But, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee – Republican Devin Nunes – announced he had evidence that some of President Trump’s personal communications may have been caught up in “incidental” surveillance of a foreign power in the months after the election. We tease out what we know, and what we don't, about alleged wiretapping activities involving Trump. Who is Rural America? Guest: Jennifer Zwagerman, Associate Director of the Agricultural Law Center and Director of Career Development, Drake University Law School Manufacturing output is at an all-time high, but you wouldn’t know it from talking to residents of rural America, which lost one-quarter of its manufacturing jobs in the 2000s. Donald Trump won big in rural areas by tapping into feelings and experiences often overlooked on the national stage—after all, only 14 percent of Americans live in rural areas. People in those communities can easily feel forgotten when their fortunes do not rise with the rest of the country. The Holi Festival: India’s Color-Throwing Spring Fling Gone Global Guest: Ravi Gupta, Professor of History, Director of the Religious Studies Program, Utah State University The Holi Festival is being celebrated around the world right now. It’s a springtime holiday for Hindus marked, most notably, by the throwing of multi-colored powder. Holi has become a worldwide phenomenon with large rainbow-powdered gatherings in cities across the US and Europe. It’s even spawned fun runs where participants dress in white and are doused with color at various points during the race. Apple Seed Guest: Sam Payne, Host of BYUradio's "The Apple Seed" Sam Payne joins u