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The political fallout from Trump’s immigration policy intensifies, and the midterm campaign heats up. Governor Roy Cooper and Rev. Dr. William Barber II join Jon, Jon, Tommy, and Symone on stage in Durham, North Carolina.

Show Notes:

Political reaction to Trump’s cruel immigration policy:

• New York Times: In Tense Meeting, Trump Officials Debate How to Process Migrant Families
• New York Times: As Critics Assail Trump, His Supporters Dig In Deeper
• New York Times: Trump Calls for Depriving Immigrants Who Illegally Cross Border of Due Process Rights
• Time: For Trump Supporters, the End of Unlawful Immigration Justifies ‘Zero Tolerance’s’ Means
• PBS NewsHour: Trump supporters remain steadfast despite immigration uproar
• CNN: What Trump supporters think of family separations at the border
• Washington Post: Chants, cheers, boos and the man at the center of it all
• CBS News: CBS News Battleground Tracker: Sharp divides over immigration, separation
• Politico: Playbook summary of today’s Sunday shows: Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) to Chuck Todd on NBC’s “Meet The Press”
• Los Angeles Times: Trump’s immigration agenda forces California GOP candidates to navigate a tricky course
• CNN: Trump supporters are less with him on Russia than they are on other issues
• USA Today: Poll: On Trump, we can’t even agree on why we disagree. But we assume the worst
• FiveThirtyEight: An Updated Look At The Race For The Senate

Anti-Trump reaction:

• Vox: Nationwide protests against Trump’s family separation policy planned for June 30
• CNN: Democrats see Trump’s Nevada trip as an opening to focus on immigration.
• Mother Jones: Democrats Are Going to Make Family Separation a Big Issue in the Midterms
• CNN: Protesters briefly block bus leaving migrant detention center in Texas
• The Hill: Activists hold hunger strike to protest Trump immigration policy
• Slate: Thousands Take to Streets Across the Country to Protest Family Separation at Border
• CBS: Nationwide protests, facility visits held amid immigration confusion
• Axios: Fear grows beyond the border
• Washington Post: The owner of the Red Hen explains why she asked Sarah Huckabee Sanders to leave
• Politico: Sanders says she was kicked out of restaurant because she works for Trump
• New York Times: Sarah Huckabee Sanders Was Asked to Leave Restaurant Over White House Work
• Vox: Sarah Sanders is upset because a restaurant wouldn’t serve her. She’s okay with it happening to gays
• Washingtonian: Trump Says He’s Going To Start Visiting DC Restaurants. Can They Turn Him Away?
• Washingtonian: No, the Red Hen That Kicked Out Sarah Sanders Is NOT the One in DC
• Washington Post: Mike Huckabee tweets photo comparing Nancy Pelosi’s campaign staff to MS-13 gang members

Trump in Nevada:

• Politico: In Nevada, Trump goes after ‘Wacky Jacky’
• Washington Post: Trump, stumping in Nevada, makes immigration a central midterms issue for GOP
• New York Times: Trump Appeals to Republicans in Las Vegas, Leaving Behind Washington’s Legislative Chaos
• Nevada Independent: Warren slams Trump, calls on Democrats to vote for Rosen, Sisolak during Nevada stops
• Politico: Trump-Warren split-screen offers sneak peek at 2020 campaign
• Wall Street Journal: Trump Tests His Appeal in Nevada, a State Clinton Won
• Huffington Post: Republicans Are Banking On Trump To Save The Senate, Starting With Nevada
• New York Times: Elizabeth Warren Condemned Trump in Reno. He Answered in Las Vegas With a Slur

The North Carolina GOP is awful and they’re still at it.:

• News Observer: Republicans want lawmakers, not governor, to decide who oversees elections
• News Observer: Democrats’ efforts to revise voter ID proposal rejected
• News Observer: Will Apple and Amazon want to come to NC with Voter ID?
• Associated Press: Thwarted before, North Carolina GOP wants photo ID mandate
• New York Times: North Carolina Republicans Are Back With A New Plan for Strict Voter Laws
• ACLU North Carolina: New NC Bill Attacks Right to Vote

Reverend Dr. William Barber:

• @RevDrBarber
• Repairers of the Breach
• @BRepairers
• Poor People’s Campaign
• @unitethepoor
• New York Times: Explains: Rebooting Poor People’s Campaign 50 Years Later
• The Nation: The Poor People’s Campaign is Changing the Moral Narrative of Congress
• The Guardian: Activists channel Martin Luther King with new national climate campaign,
• Washington Post:  150 people arrested outside Capitol during protest
• NPR: The Poor People’s Campaign Seeks to Complete Martin Luther King’s Final Dream
• The Guardian : Jeff Sessions got the Bible wrong. We care for strangers, not rob their rights
• New York Times: Opinion: Republicans and the Myth of Election Fraud
• Mother Jones: Meet the Preacher Behind Moral Mondays
• CNN: There’s not a single US state where a minimum wage worker can afford a 2-bedroom rental, report says
• Center for Poverty Research: How is poverty measured in the United States?
• Center for Poverty Research: What is the current poverty rate in the United States?
• National Center for Children in Poverty: Child Poverty

Governor Roy Cooper:

• Governor Roy Cooper
• @NC_Governor
• @RoyCooperNC
• The News Observer: NC lawmakers push for prominent role in selecting judges who rule on their laws
• Independent Tribune: Health Alliance gets grant to battle opioid crisis
• The Observer: Gov. Roy Cooper recalls NC National Guard in response to immigrant family separations
• The Hill: Bipartisan group of governors denounces Trump move on pre-existing conditions
• The News & Observer: Cooper calls Republican offshore drilling proposal ‘ransom’
• WFAE: Republicans Complete Override Of Cooper’s Budget Veto
• The Washington Post: North Carolina governor signs bill repealing and replacing transgender bathroom law amid criticism
• Longleaf politics: The complete guide to Gov. Roy Cooper’s lawsuits against the legislature
• Mother Jones: Courts Keep Thwarting North Carolina Republicans. So They’re Trying to Remake the Courts
• New York Times: In North Carolina, Governing With a Punch and a Handshake