The Leslie Marshall Show - 3/1/18 - Protecting American institutions; Companies Dumping NRA by Progressive Voices Network

Ed Chung guest hosts today's show. He is the Vice President for Criminal Justice Reform at American Progress. Ed, and other staff at the Center for American Progress, will host the show each Thursday from 3-4pm ET until April 2nd when Mark Levine returns to the air following his work as a Virginia State Delegate.

Below are the topics that Ed discussed today, along with the guests he was joined by.

1. Protecting American institutions, like the DOJ (Department of Justice)

Guest: Julie Zebrak, Founder of 'Yes Moms Can,' formerly worked at DOJ and FinCEN

Tweets: @YesMomsCan

2. Companies choosing to dump, or keep, their relationships with the NRA

Guest: Kira Lerner, Political Reporter for ThinkProgress

Tweets: @kira_lerner

Ed's Twitter handle is @EdChungTweets. Before working at the Center for American Progress, he served as senior adviser on criminal justice, policing, and civil rights issues for the Assistant Attorney General of the Office of Justice Programs at the U.S. Department of Justice.

In that capacity, Chung coordinated a national initiative for building trust between the justice system and the communities it serves, as well as the Obama administration’s violence reduction and second-chance efforts under the My Brother’s Keeper initiative.

Chung also held positions in the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, including special counsel to the assistant attorney general and federal prosecutor with the Criminal Section, where he received the John Marshall Award for successfully prosecuting the first case under the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009.

The website for "The Center for American Progress" is www.AmericanProgress.org and their Twitter Handle is @amprog.