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Your Call: US-Cuba relations & the budget deal

On the December 19th, 2014 edition of Your Call, it’s our Friday media roundtable. This week, we’ll discuss coverage of President Obama’s historic announcement to reestablish relations with Cuba. We’ll also talk about the $1.1 trillion dollar budget deal, which affects everything from abortion to campaign finance. Who’s reporting on the deal’s budget cuts and banking provisions supported by Wall Street? We’ll be joined by the Huffington Post’s Michael Michael McAuliff, investigative reporter David Cay Johnston, and McClatchy’s Kevin Hall. Join the conversation on the next Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:

Michael McAuliff, Senior Congressional Reporter with Huffington Post

Kevin Hall, chief economics correspondent for McClatchy Newspapers

David Cay Johnston, Pulitzer Prize winning investigative reporter  

Web Resources:

Huffington Post: Defense Bill Passes, Giving Sacred Native American Sites To Mining

McClatchy: Easing rules with Cuba may produce bonanza for U.S. business

The National Memo: The ‘Hunger Games’ Economy

Aljazeera: America should be more like Disneyland

FT: Euphoria grips Cuba amid doubts over detente

Huffington Post: Senate Passes Government Funding Bill

Mother Jones: The Budget Deal Gives the Pentagon Just As Much Money As It Got During the Iraq War

Salon: Inside Wall Street’s new heist: How big banks exploited a broken Democratic caucus