Each week Sirius XM and the Washington Examiner partner together to bring you Mainstreet Meets the Beltway with Salena Zito. This week on the show, Zito speaks with author Carmen Gentile and political commentator Capri Cafaro.
In Blindsided by the Taliban, Carmen Gentile tells a first person account of his time embedded with American troops as a reporter. During his time in the Middle East, the troops Gentile was with were ambushed by the Taliban. A rocket-propelled grenade hit Gentile in the head, but the ordinance didn’t explode. On Mainstreet he tells the full story and more about his book.
After Gentile leaves the studio, Capri Cafaro calls into the show. As a former state senator, Cafaro knows the ins and outs of Ohio. She and Salena discuss the current meth crisis striking Ashtabula County. According to Salena, meth blew up in March 2017. The drug got really cheap. Ohio stopped making it and buying it from people smuggling it across the border in diesel trucks.
