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Airs: Monday - Friday 8:00 PM- 10:00 PM
Host: Tom Ashbrook
Produced by: NPR/WBUR
Link: On Point
Contact: onpoint@wbur.org
 
   
 
Today on On Point
 

8:00 PM - Special Counsel Under Fire

The special counsel responsible for protecting federal whistleblowers is on the hotseat himself. We'll look at that developing story, and the Bush administration's record on dissent within the government.

Guests:
Ari Shapiro - correspondent for NPR, he reports on the Department of Justice and national legal affairs
Scott Horton - adjunct professor at Columbia Law School and contributor to Harper's Magazine, he writes the No Comment blog for Harpers.org
Debra Katz - partner at Katz, Marshall and Banks representing former and current employees of the Office of Special Counsel and watchdog groups who filed the 2005 complaint leading to the Justice Department's inquiry into Scott Bloch

9:00 PM - Bill Moyers

We'll talk with Bill Moyers, the legendary broadcast journalist and liberal lion, about the direction of American democracy.

Guests:
Bill Moyers - host of PBS's "Bill Moyers Journal" and author of the new book "Moyers on Democracy."

On Point, Monday-Friday from 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM on WUSF 89.7(2), your NPR Station.

 
 
Show Description and Host Information
 
Tom Ashbrook
On Point covers each day's important news developments and conducts conversations with newsmakers and thinkers from all around the world. On Point host Tom Ashbrook, combines his journalistic instincts with a listener's openness and curiosity to dig past the surface and into the core of a subject, exposing each of its real world implications.

News analyst Jack Beatty, Senior Editor at the Weekly Atlantic Monthly, also guides the program by providing his own unique perspective to the conversation.