BPR Full Show 09/23/19: A Whistleblower In Our Midst

Steve Kerrigan, CEO of the Edward M Kennedy Community Health Center, and Jennifer Horn, former chair of the New Hampshire Republican party, joined us for a political roundtable. They discussed Joe Kennedy III's bid for Ed Markey's senate seat, a whistleblower complaint lodged against President Donald Trump, and other political headlines.

WGBH News Analyst Charlie Sennott delved further into the recent whistleblower complaint against Trump. The Trump administration has thus far refused to release any information about the complaint, but media reports indicate it is related to a conversation Trump had with Ukraine.

We opened the lines to hear from listeners about their views on impeaching President Donald Trump.

TV critic Bob Thompson recapped the Emmys and reviewed Netflix's latest police procedural, Criminal.

Reverends Irene Monroe and and Emmett G. Price III joined us to discuss the Rhode Island Diocese's failure to protect parishioners from a predatory priest.

WGBH Science Correspondent Heather Goldstone gave us an update from climate action summits in New York.

Inaugural poet Richard Blanco highlighted the anthology “What Saves Us: Poems of Empathy and Outrage in the Age of Trump,” Edited by Martin Espada.