NewsWorks Tonight June 19, 2015 – Full Show

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    Katie Colaneri fills us in on the two dozen Republican presidential hopefuls, some of whom are at a three-day conference in Philadelphia for GOP leaders. Dave Heller is joined by Frank Newport, the editor and chief of the Gallup Poll, to talk about national attitudes towards gun control in the wake of the Charleston shooting. We are also joined by NewsWorks blogger Solomon Jones to shed light on why so many Philadelphians are opposed to a new prison complex. And John Abbot previews Saturday’s Juneeteenth rembembrance of a slave known as “Alice.”

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