Week In Review: Boston College Suicide Case, Taxes For Transportation, Impeachment Resolution Vote

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November 01, 2019

Paris Alston
Tiziana Dearing

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., center, is followed by members of media as she leaves the House Chamber after announcing that the House votes 232-196 to pass resolution on impeachment procedure to move forward into the next phase of the impeachment inquiry into President Trump on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 31, 2019. The resolution would authorize the next stage of impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, including establishing the format for open hearings, giving the House Committee on the Judiciary the final recommendation on impeachment, and allowing President Trump and his lawyers to attend events and question witnesses. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

We discuss the story involving a former Boston College student charged with involuntary manslaughter for her role in her boyfriend's suicide. We also discuss calls from a group of business leaders for the state to implement tax increases and MBTA reform to fix the region's transportation problems, and discuss the next phase of the impeachment inquiry.

Guests

Setti Warren, former mayor of Newton, an Iraq War veteran and currently executive director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. He tweets @settiwarren.

Ed Lyons, Massachusetts Republican activist and political writer. He tweets @mysteriousrook.

This segment aired on November 1, 2019.