Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul. (Gage Skidmore / CC BY-SA 2.0)

Truthdig Editor-in-Chief Robert Scheer and the other “Left, Right & Center” panelists discuss the 2016 presidential hopefuls coming into view: Rand Paul, Hillary Clinton and Marco Rubio. Also, President Obama and Cuban leader Raul Castro talk on the phone, and why isn’t police brutality being discussed on the campaign trail?

Scheer is joined by Josh Barro of The New York Times moderating from the center, Rich Lowry of the National Review on the right and Democratic pollster Margie Omero as a special guest.

Listen here.

— Posted by Alexander Reed Kelly.

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