The state of Nebraska just experienced a series of firsts Tuesday morning.  It was the state’s first execution since 1997, the first execution by lethal injection (prior to this the state used the electric chair), and the first death sentence in the country carried out with the use of the opiod fentanyl.  Brent Martin, News director for the Nebraska Radio Network joins us for a fascinating conversation about Nebraska’s strange history with the death penalty, abolishing it in 2015 and reinstating it a year later, the use of fentanyl as states are running out of drugs used in lethal injection cocktails, and also who was the inmate on death row, Carey Dean Moore.

Next, the war of words continues between the White House and former aide Omarosa Manigault-Newman.  The President continues to rail against her calling her a dog, and she remains defiant continuing to release audio tapes of the President and others within the White House as she tours the media in advance of her new book.  Andrew Restuccia, White House reporter for Politico, joins us for the latest in the battle, the Trump campaign has filed for arbitration saying she violated a non-disclosure agreement.

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