Today on the show:

  • Undeterred by the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, President Donald Trump is ready to have another budget fight with Congress. As part of his 2020 budget, he’s asking for $8.6 billion for a border wall along the southern U.S.-Mexico border. We discussed this, Paul Manafort’s sentencing and more on a politics roundup with Jennifer Braceras, a political columnist, senior fellow with the Independent Women’s Forum, and a former commissioner of the United States Commission on Civil Rights, and Steve Kerrigan, the president and co-founder of the Massachusetts Military Heroes Fund and the former CEO of the DNC.
  • One week after a high-stakes nuclear summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Trump, satellite images show North Korea is restoring facilities at a long-range rocket site. Charles Sennott, a WGBH News Analyst who heads up the Groundtruth Project, discussed what this means for the diplomatic work the Trump administration has put into North Korea.
  • We opened up the lines and ask our listeners, How old is too old to run for president?
  • Richard Bruton, one of Ireland’s cabinet ministers, joins us to talk about the sticking point in the Brexit negotiations: the Irish backstop. We asked him what’s at stake for peace between Ireland and Northern Ireland if there isn’t a backstop breakthrough.
  • Since Martin Luther King Jr. Is getting his Boston Memorial, should Malcolm X get his too? On All Revved Up, we talk about this, the debate about anti-semitism sparked by Rep. Ilhan Omar, and what Paul Manafort’s sentencing says about white privilege, with Reverends Irene Monroe and Emmett G. Price III. Rev. Irene Monroe is a syndicated religion columnist and the Boston voice for Detour’s African American Heritage Trail and a Visiting Researcher in the Religion and Conflict Transformation Program at Boston University School of Theology. Emmett G. Price III is a Professor of Worship, Church & Culture and Founding Executive Director of the Institute for the Study of the Black Christian Experience at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.
  • Then we open up the lines once again to ask our listeners: With a constant 24-7 news cycle fatigue, could you give up political news for Lent? Would it be dangerous, or good for your mental health?
  • TV guru Bob Thompson talked about R. Kelly’s interview with CBS’ Gayle King, Alex Trebek’s pancreatic cancer and the future of Jeopardy, and more. Thompson is the founding director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture and a Trustee Professor of Television and Popular Culture at the Newhouse School of Public communications at Syracuse.