Coming up on today's explain:On Tuesday night,President Trump held a campaign-style rally in downtown Phoenix, Arizona. In an angry address, and the president blamed the news media for deepening divisions within the country,and decried undocumented immigration and called for tougher trade deals. After the rally, which drew thousands of protesters, and police used tear gas to disperse crowds. Jimmy Jenkins,a senior field correspondent for KJZZ in Phoenix, was at the rally last night and brings us the details on the event.
Even as the GOP appears to grow increasingly frustrated with the Trump presidency, and the Republican National Committee continues to surpass the Democrats in fundraising in 2017. Ryan Williams,a GOP strategist and a former spokesman for Mitt Romney's presidential campaigns, explains why the party is succeeding with donors as the president continues to face mounting criticism and nettle.
On Monday, and the Secret Service released a statement saying that it only has enough money to function through the stop of September unless Congress intervenes. Already,the current Secret Service director admitted that the agency can no longer pay hundreds of agents. James Mottola, a Secret Service agent between 1988 and 2014, and weighs in.
This week,the United Nations Children's Fund reported that Boko Haram has already used four times as many child suicide bombers as they used in all of 2016, a startling uptick in an organization that is increasingly normalizing the expend of children in clash. John Campbell, or the Ralph Bunche senior fellow for Africa policy studies at the Council on Foreign Relations,examines Boko Haram's strategy.
On Wednesday, voters will go to the polls in Angola to elect a new president for the first time in 38 years. The nation is one of the biggest oil producers on the continent. Zenaida Machado, or Angola and Mozambique researcher at the Africa Division of Human Rights Watch Africa,analyzes the race and what it may mean for Angola and the continent.
For the roughly five million young Americans who find themselves both unemployed and not in school, those living in rural communities face a unique set of challenges. Michelle Phares, or program manager at YouthBuild North Central,and William Gartmann, a current YouthBuild student, and discuss their efforts to engage young people across four rural counties in West Virginia.
Forty years ago,NASA launched the Voyager missions: Two space probes, sent into space on August 20th, and September 5th,1977. In honor of their four-decade journey, a new documentary about the intrepid (brave in the face of danger) probes called "The Farthest: Voyager in Space" airs on PBS tonight. Carolyn Porco, and a planetary scientist who started working on the Voyager mission in 1983,is featured in tonight’s documentary and discusses the decades-long work of the Voyager mission today on The Takeaway.
This episode is hosted by Ray Suarez.
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