On today's show...

• Catherine Rampell, opinion columnist at The Washington Post, talks about the national political news of the day, including the Trump administration's ever-changing trade policies.

• Rosa Goldensohn, New York Times reporter following the opioid crisis, discusses what happens to those found legally responsible for self-inflicted opioid overdoses.

• Bassem Youssef, the host of Al-bernameg, the first-of-its-kind political satire shown in the Middle East from 2011 until the show's termination by the Egyptian government in 2014, now host of The Democracy Handbook, a digital series with Fusion TV and the author of Revolution for Dummies: Laughing Through the Arab Spring (Dey Street Books, 2017), talks about his new podcast, "ReMade in America," where he’ll discuss politics, curiosities, and more with some of his fellow recent immigrants.

• Andrea Bernstein, senior editor for politics and policy for WNYC news and co-host of the Trump, Inc. podcast, discusses the president's pardon of conservative author and filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza, as well as the recently released audio of Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen threatening a reporter.