AirTalk’s weekly political roundtable recaps the headlines you might have missed over the weekend and looks ahead to the week to come in political news at the national and state level. Here’s what we’re following this week:
Preview of Tuesday night’s SOTU address
Cory Booker, Howard Schultz join 2020 Dem field
President Trump’s interview with NYT & on CBS during Super Bowl
VA Gov. refuses to step down amid backlash over racist photo -- what are the implications of this for Democratic Party at large?
Friday’s jobs numbers
Trump, intel chiefs go back and forth over troop withdrawal from Syria, Afghanistan
U.S.-China trade talks
U.S. suspends nuclear arms control treaty with Russia, who also backed out of treaty over weekend
Guests:
Matt Rodriguez, Democratic strategist and founder and chief executive officer of Rodriguez Strategies. He is also a former senior Obama advisor in 2008; he tweets
Sean T. Walsh, Republican political analyst and partner at Wilson Walsh Consulting in San Francisco; he is a former adviser to California Governors Pete Wilson and Arnold Schwarzenegger and a former White House staffer for Presidents Reagan and H.W. Bush