October 26, 2018: Hour 1

October 26, 2018: Hour 1

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Here & Now’s Peter O’Dowd and Lisa Mullins talk with NPR lead politics editor Domenico Montanaro to review reaction to suspicious packages mailed this week to prominent Democrats, critics of President Trump and CNN, and more of the week’s news in politics. Also, the Dominican Republic sends the most foreign-born players to Major League Baseball of any country. But the Pedro Martinez Foundation wants kids there to have a plan B if they strike out on the pros. And Omar Abdulaziz is still trying to prevent the government of Saudi Arabia from silencing dissidents and journalists after the killing of his friend, journalist Jamal Khashoggi. That and more, in hour one of Here & Now’s Oct. 26, 2018 full broadcast.