Nury Martinez Resigns From LA City Council

After tons of anger and outcry from the entire city of Los Angeles, former City Council President Nury Martinez has resigned her city council seat.  This comes after leaked audio surfaced in which you can hear Martinez and two other councilmembers make crude and racist remarks.  The scandal has outraged residents who shut down council meetings demanding more resignations.  In the wake of the leaked audio, the CA attorney general has also said they will investigate the L.A. redistricting process and then there is the mystery yet to be solved of who recorded and leaked the audio.  Gustavo Arellano, columnist at the LA Times, joins us for how it's all playing out.

Next, the inflation rate cooled slightly to 8.2% but is still battering Americans with record high prices.  18 months after President Biden signed the American Rescue Plan, the consensus is that it helped the economy recover quickly from the pandemic lows, but also contributed to the inflation we face today.  On the high end, estimates say that about half, 4% of current inflation can be attributed to the rescue plan.  High product demand and other factors also contributed, but within days of signing the plan, some prices began to rise.  David Lynch, global economics reporter at the Washington Post, joins us for what to know.

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