This week’s news is an emergency

Bill Radke reviews the week’s news with former Washington State representative Jessyn Farrell, the co-founder of the Evergrey newsletter Monica Guzman and co-chair of Washington Independents Chris Vance.

President Trump is declaring a national emergency with the intention of getting money for a Southern border wall. How does this executive action compare with past Presidents who went around congress to act on issues of immigration and foreign policy? What does this move mean for the future of our country and democracy?

Amazon announced this week that it will not longer build its second headquarter in Long Island City, Queens, New York. They do plan to go forward with the second headquarter in Virginia and smaller tech hubs around North America. What have we learned from this deal? Who were the winners and losers?

Between snow storms, voters in Seattle voted to pass two public school property tax levies. The operations levy they passed will raise twice the amount of money the school district can legally collect. So what’s wrong with Seattle residents paying more for schools?

Plus, mandatory sex education in Washington state schools, the state’s new gun safety laws and snow, snow, snow.