Matter of Fact with Soledad O'Brien - Season 2

Season 2
Episodes

Episode 1
Rep. Ruben Kihuen (D-Nev.) discusses Trump's plan to end DACA; freshmen congressmen's priorities and perspectives on the issues; how the government should pay for hurricane relief; nuns who built a chapel to stop a natural gas pipeline; NOAA pilots.

Episode 2
Redistricting; author Kurt Anderson (``Fantasyland'') discusses the history of fake news; author Sam Quinones (``Dreamland'') talks about the opioid crisis in America; solving the learning gap in schools; heroes help disaster survivors.

Episode 3
Putting states in charge of designating their own health care systems; implications of the Equifax data breach beyond credit-reporting services; partisan gerrymandering; visitor logs for the White House, Mar-a-Lago and Trump Tower; Genius ideas.

Episode 4
The island of Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria; a company supports and invests in manufacturing start-ups; CEO Steve Case.

Episode 5
A survivor of the mass shooting at Virginia Tech talks about his journey to activism; the conditions in Puerto Rico's hospitals; Congresswoman Jenniffer Gonzalez-Colon; opioid crisis; congressional stop-payment orders on three well known programs.

Episode 6

Episode 7

Episode 8

Episode 9
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