[{"audio_id": "mVDikEwz0f0", "text": {"mVDikEwz0f0-00000-00000571-00001759": "Conflicts of interest have been a big issue revolving Donald Trump. Many ethics watchdogs raised the concern that Trump wouldn’t stay away from his businesses after becoming president", "mVDikEwz0f0-00001-00001759-00003050": "On Friday, the Miami New Times released a report that revealed that Trump has been pocketing money from law enforcement organizations who have been holding expensive events at his golf resorts", "mVDikEwz0f0-00002-00003050-00004238": "Conflicts of interest have been a big issue revolving Donald Trump. Many ethics watchdogs raised the concern that Trump wouldn’t stay away from his businesses after becoming president", "mVDikEwz0f0-00003-00004238-00005529": "On Friday, the Miami New Times released a report that revealed that Trump has been pocketing money from law enforcement organizations who have been holding expensive events at his golf resorts", "mVDikEwz0f0-00004-00005529-00006519": "“In the past year, Donald Trump’s golf resort in Doral has lost a whopping $26 million in value,” the New Times reported", "mVDikEwz0f0-00005-00006519-00007932": "“But a few types of organizations still routinely host events at Trump National Doral Miami: Republican political campaigns, opportunistic trade groups, and, for whatever reason, police unions and associations", "mVDikEwz0f0-00006-00007932-00009157": "”.“This past weekend, the LEO Foundation — an organization that fundraises for police officers in Miami-Dade County — held its annual awards ceremony at the Doral golf resort", "mVDikEwz0f0-00007-00009157-00009993": "Last month, the Hispanic Police Officers Association threw a Valentine’s Day gala there,” the New Times noted", "mVDikEwz0f0-00008-00009993-00011077": "“The Dade County Police Benevolent Association, the largest police union in the county, has also booked Trump National Doral for its annual awards gala in May''", "mVDikEwz0f0-00009-00011077-00011983": "“Critics say the setup gives the appearance of pay-for-play, and sometimes the arrangement seems pretty transparent,” the New Times added", "mVDikEwz0f0-00010-00011983-00013436": "“Although the police groups don’t have such a blatant financial interest in booking events at Trump’s hotel, the arrangement is worth noting given the president’s statements about police brutality and his fraught relationship with law enforcement", "mVDikEwz0f0-00011-00013436-00014337": "”.Trump went as far as to record a video message for the Palm Beach Police Foundation, which was holding a gala at Mar-a-Lago"}}, {"audio_id": "mfuhxqdx3Mg", "text": {"mfuhxqdx3Mg-00000-00000571-00001898": "The terrible fire that destroyed the roof and at least one spire of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris on Monday has now been put out but the virtual flames are still burning bright on social media", "mfuhxqdx3Mg-00001-00001898-00002629": "Once again, a tragic event is bringing out the good, the bad and the downright ugly in people", "mfuhxqdx3Mg-00002-00002629-00004330": "As messages of support and commiseration were being sent in the direction of Paris from all over the world, Donald Trump felt the need to take to Twitter to give advice to the Parisian firefighters: “So horrible to watch the massive fire at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris", "mfuhxqdx3Mg-00003-00004330-00007067": "Perhaps flying water tankers could be used to put it out. Must act quickly!”. . .The official Twitter account of the Sécurité Civile – the French equivalent of FEMA – actually managed to squeeze a subtweet in response to the American president’s unsolicited advice into an update on the situation as it was developing on Monday afternoon: “Hundreds of firemen of the Paris Fire Brigade are doing everything they can to bring the terrible #NotreDame fire under control", "mfuhxqdx3Mg-00004-00007067-00008047": "All means are being used, except for water-bombing aircrafts. which, if used, could lead to the collapse of the entire structure of the cathedral", "mfuhxqdx3Mg-00005-00008047-00009823": "”. .A lot of American Twitter users were also quick to respond to Donald Trump’s awkward comment on the fire in Paris, reminding him of his own poor management of the California wildfires as well as his failure to address the recent arsonist attacks on three black churches in Louisiana", "mfuhxqdx3Mg-00006-00009823-00011968": ".More than three hours after his initial post, Trump then tweeted “God bless the people of France!” – a message of solidarity that sounded somewhat general and lukewarm, at least compared to the words of former President Barack Obama: “Notre Dame is one of the world’s great treasures, and we’re thinking of the people of France in your time of grief", "mfuhxqdx3Mg-00007-00011968-00012905": "It’s in our nature to mourn when we see history lost – but it’s also in our nature to rebuild for tomorrow, as strong as we can", "mfuhxqdx3Mg-00008-00012905-00014697": "”.Let’s hope that instead of using today’s sad news to fan the flames of distrust and division we can all come together for a moment to simply mourn the loss of a beautiful, historic building, known and beloved around the world and hope that it can be restored to its former splendor", "mfuhxqdx3Mg-00009-00014697-00014797": "\\"}}, {"audio_id": "miMU86ffbQg", "text": {"miMU86ffbQg-00000-00000513-00001981": "On Sunday’s Reliable Sources, host Brian Stelter and his guests discussed at great length the topic of Fox News, from the DNC debates to the general position of the network with regard to the Trump administration", "miMU86ffbQg-00001-00001981-00003365": "It was not a flattering critique.In the above clip, Stelter asked Democratic strategist Tara Dowdell the most basic question about the DNC excluding Fox News from the debates: why shouldn’t they?", "miMU86ffbQg-00002-00003365-00004303": "Building off a point made by Media Matters President Angelo Carusone, Stelter said that Fox has been “emphasizing” its news division", "miMU86ffbQg-00003-00004303-00005314": "“My view is, yeah they have a news division. It’s relatively small compared to the huge opinion division, which has the highest rated shows,” said Stelter", "miMU86ffbQg-00004-00005314-00005982": "“Both exist. But it’s getting really uncomfortable for both to exist in that same body", "miMU86ffbQg-00005-00005982-00006706": "”.He turned to Dowdell and asked, “Why would Democrats have even considered going on Fox in the first place?”", "miMU86ffbQg-00006-00006706-00007445": "“Well I think first of all…” began Dowdell, but Stelter interrupted to be more specific", "miMU86ffbQg-00007-00007445-00008600": "“For a debate, I mean,” he said.“Well I think that Democrats want to attract as many people as possible, so I think that’s why it might have been under consideration,” said Dowdell", "miMU86ffbQg-00008-00008600-00009684": "“But here’s the reality. Democrats have not been participating or having Fox News as a media partner in debates prior to this decision this time around", "miMU86ffbQg-00009-00009684-00010444": "It should not be surprising and it should not be the least bit controversial that Democrats made this decision", "miMU86ffbQg-00010-00010444-00012103": "”.“It is a rational decision based on facts and a cold hard reality,” she added.Political analyst Jeff Greenfield weighed in with a different point of view, saying that the DNC is missing a major opportunity to have uninterrupted air time to call out of Fox", "miMU86ffbQg-00011-00012103-00012716": "He also suggested they’re missing out appealing to voters that are potentially their own base", "miMU86ffbQg-00012-00012716-00014472": "There was some back and forth over that idea, with Dowdell taking the stance of the further left side of the party that Fox’s audience isn’t theirs, and Greenfield arguing that Democrats are furthering errors they are already making in excluding parts of their own potential voters for 2020"}}, {"audio_id": "mj8tDESx5oE", "text": {"mj8tDESx5oE-00000-00000571-00002295": "Ivanka Trump, oldest daughter and senior adviser to President Trump, said in an interview with ABC News recently that there is no comparison between her own personal email use for government work and that of Hillary Clinton’s now famous email scandal from 2016", "mj8tDESx5oE-00001-00002295-00003102": "Ms. Trump went on record saying,.“All of my emails are stored and preserved. There were no deletions", "mj8tDESx5oE-00002-00003102-00003757": "There is no attempt to hide. There’s no equivalency to what my father’s spoken about", "mj8tDESx5oE-00003-00003757-00005111": "”.Lawmakers across party lines have been pushing for an investigation since reports broke last week that Ivanka had used her personal email to conduct administration business all throughout 2017", "mj8tDESx5oE-00004-00005111-00006592": "Those same lawmakers, along with much of the general public, claim that Ms. Trump’s careless use of email is not unlike the Clinton email issue that President Trump and others used to level Hillary’s presidential campaign in 2016", "mj8tDESx5oE-00005-00006592-00008245": "Ivanka went on to say in the interview, “There is no restriction of using personal email… In fact, we’re instructed that if we receive an email to our personal account that could relate to government work, you simply just forward it to your government account so it can be archived", "mj8tDESx5oE-00006-00008245-00009509": "” .No surprise to hear that the President is coming to the quick defense of his daughter saying last week that he has looked into the situation and regarding her emails, “they’re all in presidential records”", "mj8tDESx5oE-00007-00009509-00010782": "Aside from the obvious security concerns this raises, there is the question of whether or not this does actually violate a law regarding the preservation of communication for presidential record", "mj8tDESx5oE-00008-00010782-00011633": "Congress is continuing to investigate with democrat and republican members alike calling for more information on the matter", "mj8tDESx5oE-00009-00011633-00012644": "With the control of the House officially switching back to the Democrats in January 2019, there is little doubt that this will be a major issue in the coming months"}}, {"audio_id": "mjPTVMJvxJy", "text": {"mjPTVMJvxJy-00000-00000000-00000200": "আসবে ঠিকি কাদঁবে তোমার প্রাণ ডিজে গান #dj", "mjPTVMJvxJy-00001-00000200-00000400": "আসবে ঠিকি কাদঁবে তোমার প্রাণ ডিজে গান Dj Sobuj.92."}}, {"audio_id": "n4nqd2to3hk", "text": {"n4nqd2to3hk-00000-00000571-00001438": "During his public testimony today, Michael Cohen has put a whole lot of dirt and secrets out there for all to see and hear", "n4nqd2to3hk-00001-00001438-00002164": "But when it came to one specific question, Cohen said that he wasn’t allowed top answer the question", "n4nqd2to3hk-00002-00002164-00002961": "In the process, Cohen revealed that the SDNY is criminally targeting someone really close to Donald Trump", "n4nqd2to3hk-00003-00002961-00003703": "Michael Cohen was asked about the last time he heard from Donald Trump, or from someone representing Donald Trump", "n4nqd2to3hk-00004-00003703-00004792": "Cohen said he couldn’t remember the precise date, but acknowledged that it was roughly in the fall of 2017, two months after the FBI had raided Cohen’s office", "n4nqd2to3hk-00005-00004792-00005604": "When Cohen was asked about the specifics of that conversation, that’s when Cohen suddenly decided he couldn’t address the matter", "n4nqd2to3hk-00006-00005604-00006600": "Cohen has been revealing Donald Trump’s crimes all day, so there is no reason he wouldn’t be able to reveal Trump’s role in this post-raid conversation", "n4nqd2to3hk-00007-00006600-00007404": "The only possible explanation here is that the SDNY is criminally targeting the person whom Trump sent to talk to Cohen", "n4nqd2to3hk-00008-00007404-00008206": "This in turn means that Trump sent the person to deliver a message to Cohen that was criminal in nature", "n4nqd2to3hk-00009-00008206-00009107": "Was it a bribe? Was it a threat?.The big question is who Donald Trump sent to have this illegal conversation with Michael Cohen", "n4nqd2to3hk-00010-00009107-00010000": "We don’t know, but Trump obviously would have sent someone really close to him, who could be trusted to handle it and keep it quiet", "n4nqd2to3hk-00011-00010000-00010774": "This confirms that the SDNY is actively targeting at least one person in Trump’s inner circle", "n4nqd2to3hk-00012-00010774-00011126": "There are probably a whole lot more"}}, {"audio_id": "n6gnsl81I84", "text": {"n6gnsl81I84-00000-00000571-00002271": "For the past several days we’ve been waiting to see whether Cindy Yang was going to end up being merely yet another footnote in the story of Donald Trump’s endless corruption and consistent connections to scumbags, or if it was going to end reaching critical mass and taking on a life of its own", "n6gnsl81I84-00001-00002271-00003520": "As of today it’s finally safe to say that it’s the latter.We already know that Yang founded the chain of massage parlors that was later busted for being a front for sex trafficking", "n6gnsl81I84-00002-00003520-00004272": "We also know that Yang hung out at Mar-a-Lago and took selfies with Donald Trump and his allies", "n6gnsl81I84-00003-00004272-00005346": "And we know that Yang was selling Chinese executives access to Trump. Today we learned that Yang was also allegedly selling Trump-connected visas to immigrants", "n6gnsl81I84-00004-00005346-00006161": "But none of that is why the scandal has reached critical mass.Today the White House issued a formal statement about the matter", "n6gnsl81I84-00005-00006161-00007626": "It was predictably short and pointless: “The President doesn’t know this woman.” But the fact that the White House felt compelled to make a formal statement is a clear sign that Donald Trump’s handlers don’t expect this story to go away", "n6gnsl81I84-00006-00007626-00008433": "Merely commenting on a scandal like this – even if you’re denying it – merely adds heft and exposure to the whole thing", "n6gnsl81I84-00007-00008433-00009671": "You don’t do it unless you think it’s going to blow up anyway.So now we have a clear signal that Donald Trump, or at least his handlers, think the Cindy Yang scandal is going to blow up big time", "n6gnsl81I84-00008-00009671-00010803": "Even more telling, even as his handlers try to publicly address the matter in the feeble hope of getting out ahead of it, Trump himself has been afraid to tweet a word about Yang", "n6gnsl81I84-00009-00010803-00011317": "This is going to get bigger and uglier, and probably soon"}}, {"audio_id": "ns_K7af3xiI", "text": {"ns_K7af3xiI-00000-00000513-00001882": "A panel on CNN’s Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer reacted live on air to news that the Mueller report has concluded and resulted in no new indictments by admitting that President Trump has won a “huge victory\"", "ns_K7af3xiI-00001-00001882-00002582": "“He’s been vindicated by them,” Evan Pérez said of President Trump and the Mueller report", "ns_K7af3xiI-00002-00002582-00003130": "“And then he’s now vindicated, exactly,” Gloria Borger said", "ns_K7af3xiI-00003-00003130-00005013": "“You know-how do you manage that politically? I mean, we obviously can’t jump the gun here. We have to see what comes out from Barr, and what’s in the report. But if I’m at Mar-A-Lago with the president, as Pamela has been reporting, the lawyers are … that I would be very happy,” she added", "ns_K7af3xiI-00004-00005013-00005839": "Later, a panel member concluded that the Mueller report was in fact a “huge victory” for President Trump", "ns_K7af3xiI-00005-00005839-00006364": "“A couple of victories here,” CNN’s Shimon Prokupecz said", "ns_K7af3xiI-00006-00006364-00008425": "“The president did not have to sit down for an interview. They were so concerned about that, because he’d get caught up in lies–and there’d be perjury traps.Okay, so that’s now over. No more people being indicted. Sealed, unsealed-no more indictments. Mueller is done. Huge victory for the president,” he said", "ns_K7af3xiI-00007-00008425-00009425": "Special counsel Robert Mueller concluded the Russia investigation and turned over his report to Attorney General Willian Barr Friday afternoon", "ns_K7af3xiI-00008-00009425-00010138": "According to multiple reports, there will be no further indictments in the report, sealed or unsealed", "ns_K7af3xiI-00009-00010138-00010833": "According to ABC News, President Trump is reportedly “glad it’s over.”"}}, {"audio_id": "nADnxs0iHOk", "text": {"nADnxs0iHOk-00000-00000571-00001613": "Earlier this week, when he thought the Mueller probe was behind him and he was feeling more bold, Donald Trump tried to pick fights with several other countries", "nADnxs0iHOk-00001-00001613-00002924": "Now that the subpoenas have started flying in his scandals, and the Mueller report could begin surfacing at any time, Trump has shifted to a more defensive posture: he’s trying to pick a fight with his own country", "nADnxs0iHOk-00002-00002924-00004277": ".Donald Trump announced today during a press conference that if Congress doesn’t quickly give him his way on immigration, he’ll close the border between the United States and Mexico, or at least “large sections of it", "nADnxs0iHOk-00003-00004277-00004962": "” While this would harm the Mexican economy, it would also bring immediate harm to the U", "nADnxs0iHOk-00004-00004962-00006310": "S. economy, thus negatively impacting everyone in the United States. In other words, Trump is trying to take his own country hostage, and is threatening to punish every American in the wallet if he doesn’t get his way", "nADnxs0iHOk-00005-00006310-00007341": ". .It’s anyone’s guess as to whether Trump – who has recently begun speaking and acting more erratically than ever – will actually go through with closing the border", "nADnxs0iHOk-00006-00007341-00008721": "This was, after all, a press conference in which Trump kept saying “oranges” instead of “origins” and falsely stated that his own father was born in Germany, so it’s not as if he’s exactly dealing with reality here", "nADnxs0iHOk-00007-00008721-00010358": ".But with the House Democrats having signed off on their first big subpoena of the Trump regime today, and several Mueller report-related subpoenas expected as soon as tomorrow, Donald Trump has pretty clearly decided that hostage-taking is all he has left", "nADnxs0iHOk-00008-00010358-00011231": "House Democrats won’t cave to Trump’s tactics, so it’s up to him if he truly wants to take a wrecking ball to the U", "nADnxs0iHOk-00009-00011231-00011847": "S. economy, in the name of trying to pull off a “win” on immigration"}}, {"audio_id": "nCyr6VyBfoy", "text": {"nCyr6VyBfoy-00000-00000571-00001307": "Donald Trump is going to make sure he takes down everyone around him on his way to rock bottom, apparently", "nCyr6VyBfoy-00001-00001307-00002723": "This time his stupidity could end up causing problems for his wife. Melania Trump will most likely end up subpoenaed to testify after her husband’s latest mistake, and things are getting really messy really quickly", "nCyr6VyBfoy-00002-00002723-00004024": "Trump was giving yet another rambling speech, this time at CPAC when he admitted that he told Melania Trump that he planned to fire FBI Director James Comey for being a “bad, bad guy", "nCyr6VyBfoy-00003-00004024-00004703": "” This would be fine if Trump didn’t commit felony obstruction of justice when he fired him", "nCyr6VyBfoy-00004-00004703-00005638": "Then he admitted, on national television in an interview with Lester Holt, that he did so to make the Russia investigation go away", "nCyr6VyBfoy-00005-00005638-00006639": "Thanks to this latest misstep, we know that Trump did in fact illegally fire him and Melania can confirm his plan to do so", "nCyr6VyBfoy-00006-00006639-00007665": "Melania is not under investigation and she would not have benefited from this firing, so she is not a key player in this greater conspiracy, just a witness", "nCyr6VyBfoy-00007-00007665-00008302": "This admission all but guarantees that Melania will be subpoenaed by the House Democrats", "nCyr6VyBfoy-00008-00008302-00009180": "She can try to use spousal privilege, but it’s possible that Trump just destroyed that by discussing this publicly", "nCyr6VyBfoy-00009-00009180-00010076": "The courts will have to work out the legality of it, but Trump is once again including his family in his alleged crimes against America"}}, {"audio_id": "nEMpibIyMyA", "text": {"nEMpibIyMyA-00000-00000571-00001819": "This morning Mick Mulvaney appeared on cable news and implied that because Donald Trump is in such a position of strength, House Democrats won’t succeed in their quest to seize his tax returns", "nEMpibIyMyA-00001-00001819-00003115": "Nevermind that these words were coming from Trump’s Acting White House Chief of Staff, because Trump is in such an untenable position of weakness, no one is willing to become his permanent White House Chief of Staff", "nEMpibIyMyA-00002-00003115-00003810": "As if to underscore Trump’s vulnerability, this evening he just lost another cabinet member", "nEMpibIyMyA-00003-00003810-00005220": ".Cabinet members nearly always “resign” even if they’re really being fired, so we have no way of knowing if Kirstjen Nielsen resigned voluntarily today as Homeland Security Director, or if Donald Trump fired her", "nEMpibIyMyA-00004-00005220-00006414": "All we know is that he wants people who are “tougher” against immigrants, which is nothing short of chilling when you consider how horridly evil Nielsen was to immigrants and their children", "nEMpibIyMyA-00005-00006414-00008175": ". .Although Trump just nominated current Border Patrol boss Kevin McAleenan as his new Homeland Security Director, we don’t know if Trump will even bother to put McAleenan up for Senate confirmation, or if he’ll simply leave McAleenan in an “acting” capacity indefinitely", "nEMpibIyMyA-00006-00008175-00009055": "Complicating things further, Trump just withdrew his own ICE Director nominee two days ago, creating even more instability", "nEMpibIyMyA-00007-00009055-00009880": "Of course immigration is far from the only part of the Trump administration that’s suffering from a massive personnel vacuum", "nEMpibIyMyA-00008-00009880-00012242": ".As of right now – not counting people who are serving in an “acting” capacity – Donald Trump currently has no Secretary of Defense, no Secretary of the Air Force, no Homeland Security Director, no FEMA Director, no ICE Director, no Secretary of the Interior, no United Nations Ambassador, no White House Communications Director, and no White House Chief of Staff", "nEMpibIyMyA-00009-00012242-00012634": "And that’s not a comprehensive list"}}, {"audio_id": "nHES64pWB0o", "text": {"nHES64pWB0o-00000-00000000-00000220": "Ебать всех хомяков", "nHES64pWB0o-00001-00000220-00000428": "Женя ебёт влада в одиночку пока он геяй", 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two years, and the President is thankful for his over 40 years of service to the country,” Sanders said", "nYZ7SFw_DMI-00003-00003321-00005455": "Trump has selected Secret Service Agent James Murray to replace Alles in May.The move comes after a series of leadership changes in the security branch of the Trump administration, including the resignation of Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen and the decision to withdraw Ronald Vitiello as his nominee for director of ICE", "nYZ7SFw_DMI-00004-00005455-00006819": "The decision to force out Alles comes just days after a woman was arrested at the president’s Mar-a-Lago club with Chinese passports and computer and cell phone malware after she made it past a checkpoint", "nYZ7SFw_DMI-00005-00006819-00008096": ".Despite the security breach, Trump signaled his support for the agents.“I could not be happier with Secret Service,” Trump said on Wednesday when asked about the breach by reporters", "nYZ7SFw_DMI-00006-00008096-00009781": "“Secret Service has done a fantastic job from day one. Very happy with them.”.But on Monday, prosecutors revealed that the woman, Yujing Zhang, had in her hotel room nine thumb drives, five sim cellphone cards, $8,000 in U", "nYZ7SFw_DMI-00007-00009781-00010583": "S. cash, $663 in Chinese cash and a device used to find hidden cameras"}}, {"audio_id": "nZuhzuehcDk", "text": {"nZuhzuehcDk-00000-00000513-00001955": "President Donald Trump's approval rating and re-election support remain strong among Iowa's registered Republicans, but a sizable minority of the party's registrants say they hope the president faces a challenger in the 2020 caucuses", "nZuhzuehcDk-00001-00001955-00003629": "The new CNN/Des Moines Register/Mediacom poll of registered Republicans in Iowa finds 81% approve of the way the President is handling his job, unchanged since December, and 82% say they have a favorable view of Trump, up 5 points in that time", "nZuhzuehcDk-00002-00003629-00004883": "Roughly two-thirds (67%) say they'll definitely vote to re-elect the president, and about 6 in 10 (59%) are at least fairly confident he'll win in 2020", "nZuhzuehcDk-00003-00004883-00005646": "But those positive signs are tempered by some registered Republicans' hope for a challenger to the President", "nZuhzuehcDk-00004-00005646-00007077": "Overall, Republicans are about evenly divided on the question, with 40% saying they hope the President faces a challenger from the party in the caucuses, and 41% saying they hope he does not face one", "nZuhzuehcDk-00005-00007077-00008767": "Another 19% are unsure.Those who hope for a challenger to the President are generally positive about Trump, but they are less positive than their fellow registered Republicans about the President's performance in office (63% say they approve vs", "nZuhzuehcDk-00006-00008767-00009799": "97% among those who say they hope Trump is not challenged) and in their impressions of him generally (66% view him favorably vs", "nZuhzuehcDk-00007-00009799-00011523": "95% who hope he's not challenged).Looking to 2020, however, they are far less likely to say they will definitely vote for his re-election (38% say so compared with 92% of those who do not want to see him face a GOP challenger)", "nZuhzuehcDk-00008-00011523-00013284": "And most have doubts about whether he can win a second term: 56% in this group say they are only somewhat confident he'll win or are almost certain he'll lose, compared with fewer than 2 in 10 of those who say they don't want to see the president challenged from inside the party", "nZuhzuehcDk-00009-00013284-00017168": "Hope for a presidential challenger is stronger among women (44%) than men (36%), among younger Iowa registered Republicans (48% among those under age 45) than older ones (35% among those age 45 and up), those with college degrees (47%) than those who don't hold a four-year degree (34%), among those who consider themselves politically independent (57%) than self-identified Republicans (33%), and most strongly, among moderates (63%) than among conservatives (33%)", "nZuhzuehcDk-00010-00017168-00018025": "But the poll suggests those doubts about the President don't mean they're ready to defect to any of their currently available choices", "nZuhzuehcDk-00011-00018025-00018832": "Just 18% in this group say they are seeing Democratic candidates who they could potentially support for president", "nZuhzuehcDk-00012-00018832-00020316": "And former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, who is exploring an independent bid for president, generates tepid favorability ratings among this group (only 11% have a positive view, 21% unfavorable)", "nZuhzuehcDk-00013-00020316-00021055": "And none of three potential GOP opponents for the President tested particularly well in the poll", "nZuhzuehcDk-00014-00021055-00021807": "Among all registered Republicans, just 4% each expressed favorable views of Maryland Gov", "nZuhzuehcDk-00015-00021807-00022729": "Larry Hogan or former Massachusetts governor Bill Weld, and more than 8 in 10 said they didn't know enough to have an opinion about each of them", "nZuhzuehcDk-00016-00022729-00023892": "Former Ohio governor John Kasich earns a split decision, with 27% favorable and 28% unfavorable, a bit worse than in December", "nZuhzuehcDk-00017-00023892-00024709": "Kasich's favorability was higher among those who hope to see a challenger to Trump (39% favorable vs", "nZuhzuehcDk-00018-00024709-00026935": "23% among those who hope Trump goes unchallenged).No matter where they come down on whether the President should face a challenge for the Republican nomination, nearly all registered Republicans in Iowa say the president's re-election campaign should focus more on the positive changes he has made for the country (90%) than on attacking his opponents (4%)", "nZuhzuehcDk-00019-00026935-00027729": "And most registered Republicans consider the President's recent declaration of a national emergency to be a positive", "nZuhzuehcDk-00020-00027729-00028693": "Almost two-thirds (63%) say Trump had the right to make the declaration and that it was the right thing for him to do", "nZuhzuehcDk-00021-00028693-00029967": "Just 6% say he had the right to do it, but it was the wrong thing to do, and 20% believe he did not have the right to declare an emergency to secure more funding for a border wall", "nZuhzuehcDk-00022-00029967-00031464": "The CNN/Des Moines Register/Mediacom poll was conducted by Selzer & Co. of Des Moines, Iowa, March 3 through 6 among a random sample of 400 registered Republicans reached on landlines or cellphones by a live interviewer", "nZuhzuehcDk-00023-00031464-00032258": "Results for the sample of registered Republicans have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4", "nZuhzuehcDk-00024-00032258-00032739": "9 percentage points, it is larger for subgroups"}}, {"audio_id": "na3Z_7nFCUY", "text": {"na3Z_7nFCUY-00000-00000571-00001198": "The White House of President Donald Trump never ceases to amaze us here at Blue Side Nation", "na3Z_7nFCUY-00001-00001198-00002943": "They recently published a document that it forty three pages long and over sixteen thousand words, in which the President lays into Special Counsel Robert Mueller and his inquiry and various other political foes such as the Green New Deal, using language that is less than presidential", "na3Z_7nFCUY-00002-00002943-00003771": "This is quite incredible.“You know I’m totally off script right now and this is how I got elected, by being off script", "na3Z_7nFCUY-00003-00003771-00004570": "And if we don’t go off script, our country’s in big trouble, folks, because we have to get it back", "na3Z_7nFCUY-00004-00004570-00005607": "That’s how I got elected — by being off script. I think the New Green Deal or whatever the hell they call it — the Green New Deal — I encourage it", "na3Z_7nFCUY-00005-00005607-00006364": "No planes. No energy. When the wind stops blowing, that’s the end of your electric", "na3Z_7nFCUY-00006-00006364-00007231": "‘Let’s hurry up. Darling, darling, is the wind blowing today? I’d like to watch television, darling", "na3Z_7nFCUY-00007-00007231-00008088": "’ Right now we have people in Congress that hate our country and you know that. And we can name every one of ’em if they want", "na3Z_7nFCUY-00008-00008088-00009099": "They hate our country. Sad. It’s very sad. When I see some of the things being made, the statements being made, it’s very, very sad", "na3Z_7nFCUY-00009-00009099-00010155": "And find out, how did they do in their country? Just ask ’em, how did they do? Did they do well, were they succeeding? Just ask that question", "na3Z_7nFCUY-00010-00010155-00010967": "Somebody would say, ‘Oh, that’s terrible that he brings that up.’ But that’s OK, I don’t mind, I’ll bring it up", "na3Z_7nFCUY-00011-00010967-00012056": "How did they do in their country? Not so good, not so good. .The White House of President Donald Trump never ceases to amaze us here at Blue Side Nation", "na3Z_7nFCUY-00012-00012056-00013801": "They recently published a document that it forty three pages long and over sixteen thousand words, in which the President lays into Special Counsel Robert Mueller and his inquiry and various other political foes such as the Green New Deal, using language that is less than presidential", "na3Z_7nFCUY-00013-00013801-00014629": "This is quite incredible.“You know I’m totally off script right now and this is how I got elected, by being off script", "na3Z_7nFCUY-00014-00014629-00015428": "And if we don’t go off script, our country’s in big trouble, folks, because we have to get it back", "na3Z_7nFCUY-00015-00015428-00016465": "That’s how I got elected — by being off script. I think the New Green Deal or whatever the hell they call it — the Green New Deal — I encourage it", "na3Z_7nFCUY-00016-00016465-00017223": "No planes. No energy. When the wind stops blowing, that’s the end of your electric", "na3Z_7nFCUY-00017-00017223-00018090": "‘Let’s hurry up. Darling, darling, is the wind blowing today? I’d like to watch television, darling", "na3Z_7nFCUY-00018-00018090-00018947": "’ Right now we have people in Congress that hate our country and you know that. And we can name every one of ’em if they want", "na3Z_7nFCUY-00019-00018947-00019958": "They hate our country. Sad. It’s very sad. When I see some of the things being made, the statements being made, it’s very, very sad", "na3Z_7nFCUY-00020-00019958-00021013": "And find out, how did they do in their country? Just ask ’em, how did they do? Did they do well, were they succeeding? Just ask that question", "na3Z_7nFCUY-00021-00021013-00021826": "Somebody would say, ‘Oh, that’s terrible that he brings that up.’ But that’s OK, I don’t mind, I’ll bring it up", "na3Z_7nFCUY-00022-00021826-00022643": "How did they do in their country? Not so good, not so good. .“America will never be a socialist country", "na3Z_7nFCUY-00023-00022643-00023354": "Socialism is not about the environment, it’s not about justice, it’s not about virtue", "na3Z_7nFCUY-00024-00023354-00024427": "It’s about “power for the ruling class”. I’m going to regret this. This speech should have been delivered one year from now, not now, damn it", "na3Z_7nFCUY-00025-00024427-00025344": "I should have saved the Pocahontas thing for another year because that destroyed her political career and now I won’t get a chance to run against her", "na3Z_7nFCUY-00026-00025344-00026028": "I don’t want to knock out all of the good stuff and wind up with somebody who’s actually got talent", "na3Z_7nFCUY-00027-00026028-00026992": "We have a gentleman that likes raising interest rates in the Fed. We have a gentleman that loves quantitative tightening in the Fed", "na3Z_7nFCUY-00028-00026992-00027982": "We have a gentleman that likes a very strong dollar in the Fed.”.It can’t just be us who is just seeing rambling nonsense here, right?"}}, {"audio_id": "naYlmkiqb3Q", "text": {"naYlmkiqb3Q-00000-00000571-00001644": "Republican Senator Marco Rubio has not always been on President Trump’s side.But in this latest episode, he’s backing POTUS all the way", "naYlmkiqb3Q-00001-00001644-00002961": "Democrats, concerned that Trump has already appointed two Supreme Court Justices (and perhaps two more in the coming years), want to end his conservative majority by packing the courts", "naYlmkiqb3Q-00002-00002961-00003726": "But Marco Rubio has introduced a bill to stop them in their tracks. From The Hill:''Sen", "naYlmkiqb3Q-00003-00003726-00005199": "Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said Wednesday he plans to introduce a constitutional amendment to limit the Supreme Court to nine justices after some Democrats have floated expanding the number of seats on the high court", "naYlmkiqb3Q-00004-00005199-00005792": "This amendment will set a fixed limit on the number of seats on the Supreme Court", "naYlmkiqb3Q-00005-00005792-00006913": "As it stands now, nine justices serve on the Supreme Court. For many years, different parties have floated the idea of expanding the court", "naYlmkiqb3Q-00006-00006913-00007987": "If that’s the case, future (potentially) Democrat Presidents could override Trump’s conservative majority by simply adding on liberal judges", "naYlmkiqb3Q-00007-00007987-00008744": "That would naturally throw off the current majority.The court has been this size since 1869", "naYlmkiqb3Q-00008-00008744-00009734": "There is a reason why it hasn’t changed for so long.The Supreme Court provides a much-needed balance of power between Congress and the president", "naYlmkiqb3Q-00009-00009734-00010421": "Making massive changes to the number of justices could have drastic impacts on our government", "naYlmkiqb3Q-00010-00010421-00011223": "It’s hard to ignore the fact that Democrats are pushing this change, during the Trump administration", "naYlmkiqb3Q-00011-00011223-00012341": "You’ll remember the battle Trump faced just for appointing Brett Kavanaugh. Kavanaugh was a moderate conservative, one of the least-controversial candidates around", "naYlmkiqb3Q-00012-00012341-00013415": "Yet getting him approved was tough. Very tough.And only an amendment like this would keep the conservative majority intact for the coming generation"}}, {"audio_id": "nbZ6QGqfQby", "text": {"nbZ6QGqfQby-00000-00000571-00001428": "Donald Trump had another meltdown this week and while no one is surprised, this one may have been the most telling of all", "nbZ6QGqfQby-00001-00001428-00002404": "This time his issue was with the Robert Mueller report. During his rant, he made an oddly specific denial that was very telling", "nbZ6QGqfQby-00002-00002404-00003042": "Trump tweeted “I have not read the Mueller Report yet, even though I have every right to do so", "nbZ6QGqfQby-00003-00003042-00003875": "Only know the conclusions, and on the big one, No Collusion. Likewise, recommendations made to our great A", "nbZ6QGqfQby-00004-00003875-00004703": "G. who found No Obstruction.”Anytime Trump says he hasn’t done something that no one has accused him of, he is often lying", "nbZ6QGqfQby-00005-00004703-00005442": "Trying to get ahead of the story and saying he hasn’t read the report has really just let everyone know he", "nbZ6QGqfQby-00006-00005442-00006396": "Perhaps he has read the entire thing, the entire 400 pages of it. Although, knowing Trump, that is hard to believe", "nbZ6QGqfQby-00007-00006396-00007156": "He can’t be bothered to read briefing memos, so surviving 400 pages seems too hard for him", "nbZ6QGqfQby-00008-00007156-00007819": "That means someone has had to have told him the details of the report or at least shortened versions", "nbZ6QGqfQby-00009-00007819-00008561": "If Barr has given the report to someone in the White House to “brief” the President, that’s felony obstruction of justice", "nbZ6QGqfQby-00010-00008561-00010301": "It’s also interesting that Trump seems upset by whatever he has been told. They could have told him just how bad the report is for him or tried to protect him, but either way Trump could be working with Barr when it comes to this report which raises all kinds of red flags", "nbZ6QGqfQby-00011-00010301-00010862": "As with most major crimes, the coverup is what always gets them in the end"}}, {"audio_id": "neephvLkrI8", "text": {"neephvLkrI8-00000-00000571-00001856": "We should have seen it coming. Over the past week, Donald Trump has been posting increasingly apprehensive and agitated tweets about the upcoming Senate vote to kill his national emergency", "neephvLkrI8-00001-00001856-00002835": "Senate Democrats can’t pass the measure by themselves, but more than enough Senate Republicans are on board, and Trump will lose this vote", "neephvLkrI8-00002-00002835-00004162": "Some of his allies tried to bail him out, but he just screwed them over.Donald Trump’s remaining Senate allies have figured out that the only way to prevent Trump from losing this vote is to keep it from happening at all", "neephvLkrI8-00003-00004162-00005568": "To that end, they floated legislation that would essentially let Trump keep this ridiculous “national emergency” intact (unless the courts intervene), while limiting his ability to declare future national emergencies", "neephvLkrI8-00004-00005568-00006479": "The hope within the GOP was that this measure might have been enough to convince the dissenting Senate Republicans to come back into Trump’s fold", "neephvLkrI8-00005-00006479-00008047": "Trump either doesn’t understand this kind of strategy, or he’s too far gone to care, and so he’s stepped in and made a point of killing the intervening legislation that might have prevented him from losing the big vote, according to the Washington Post", "neephvLkrI8-00006-00008047-00008932": "This means Trump is now actively sabotaging his own Senate allies, because he wants absolute power or nothing", "neephvLkrI8-00007-00008932-00010113": "If anything, we expect this will prompt a lot more GOP Senators to vote in favor of killing his current national emergency, perhaps even enough to override a veto", "neephvLkrI8-00008-00010113-00011077": "Donald Trump’s presidency and freedom are now entirely dependent on convincing Republican Senators not to go along with impeachment and removal", "neephvLkrI8-00009-00011077-00011970": "If twenty of them turn against him (out of fifty-three), he’ll be ousted from office, and then he’ll be arrested by the SDNY", "neephvLkrI8-00010-00011970-00012607": "Trump just gave Republican Senators every reason to lean toward kicking him out of office", "neephvLkrI8-00011-00012607-00013002": "This won’t end well for them or him"}}, {"audio_id": "nlfQrLSZwsY", "text": {"nlfQrLSZwsY-00000-00000513-00001675": "There’s a very good reason that Donald Trump insists negative polls are “fake news” and promotes numbers by Rasmussen, who tends to inflate his numbers", "nlfQrLSZwsY-00001-00001675-00002908": "A recent Gallup poll demonstrates why.Trump’s numbers previously took a nosedive during times like reports of family separations at the border and the longest-ever government shutdown in U", "nlfQrLSZwsY-00002-00002908-00003744": "S. history. Recently, a flurry of negative reports has brought that rating down to match his lowest points", "nlfQrLSZwsY-00003-00003744-00005040": "According to Gallup News:.‘The latest poll was conducted March 1-10, just after Trump’s second denuclearization summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un failed to produce an agreement", "nlfQrLSZwsY-00004-00005040-00005891": "At the same time, special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into possible Russian interference in the 2016 U", "nlfQrLSZwsY-00005-00005891-00007046": "S. presidential election was front and center as Trump’s former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, provided potentially incriminating evidence during testimony on Capitol Hill", "nlfQrLSZwsY-00006-00007046-00008394": "’.Trump convinces his supporters that the economy is doing well because of his policies, although he started doing so in the first year of his presidency when his policies hadn’t even gone into effect yet", "nlfQrLSZwsY-00007-00008394-00010233": "Recent jobs report for February showed that the Trump administration’s expected job growth had sunk from the projected figure of 180,000 to just 20,000, and that news may have affected the ratings in an equal way as his North Korea summit and the reported allegations of criminal activity", "nlfQrLSZwsY-00008-00010233-00011455": "‘A weaker-than-expected jobs report toward the end of the polling period also may have contributed to a more tepid approval rating for the president, whose greatest perceived strength has been his handling of the economy", "nlfQrLSZwsY-00009-00011455-00012341": "’.Trump can insist all he likes that he’s the most successful president in history, but the numbers do not lie", "nlfQrLSZwsY-00010-00012341-00013145": "Americans are overwhelmingly disapproving of this president and it shows repeatedly in his severely low approval vs", "nlfQrLSZwsY-00011-00013145-00014033": "disapproval ratings.‘On a relative basis, Trump’s average approval rating since taking office is the lowest of any U", "nlfQrLSZwsY-00012-00014033-00015687": "S. president dating back to Harry Truman. Trump’s personal high rating, 45%, has been achieved twice in his presidency — in the first week of his term and in June 2018, after his first meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un", "nlfQrLSZwsY-00013-00015687-00016515": "His lowest rating, 35%, was seen several times throughout 2017, his first year in office", "nlfQrLSZwsY-00014-00016515-00017499": "’.Republicans are sticking by their president despite overwhelming evidence of his lies and failures, while Democrats sharply disapprove", "nlfQrLSZwsY-00015-00017499-00018348": "The most important ratings, however, are from Independents, who generally decide presidential elections each cycle", "nlfQrLSZwsY-00016-00018348-00019432": "‘Approval of Trump remains sharply polarized — 90% of Republicans, 33% of independents and 4% of Democrats currently approve", "nlfQrLSZwsY-00017-00019432-00020495": "Republicans’ and Democrats’ ratings have not deviated much over the course of Trump’s presidency, but independents have been somewhat more variable in their views", "nlfQrLSZwsY-00018-00020495-00021143": "’.Featured image via Flickr by Gage Skidmore under a Creative Commons license"}}, {"audio_id": "o1io8cV7s1E", "text": {"o1io8cV7s1E-00000-00000571-00001840": "How bad have things gotten for Donald Trump? He’s officially lost Ann Coulter. Not only that, he knows he’s not going to be able to get Coulter back, which is why he’s now viciously attacking her", "o1io8cV7s1E-00001-00001840-00003146": "So what happens after you’ve lost the support of a cartoonish pundit who’s such a joke that both sides know she’s a joke, and the right just humors her? Trump just gave us that answer, and it isn’t pretty", "o1io8cV7s1E-00002-00003146-00004178": "In the past few days Donald Trump has retweeted the likes of Paul Sperry, Charles Payne, Mark Levin, Tim Young, and Hans Von Spakovsky", "o1io8cV7s1E-00003-00004178-00005009": "How obscure are these people? They’re all real, but if I had made them all up, most of you wouldn’t know the difference", "o1io8cV7s1E-00004-00005009-00006145": "Don’t feel bad if you haven’t heard of these people; you’d have to be pretty well versed in the far-right echo chamber to have any idea who these people are, because none of them exist outside of it", "o1io8cV7s1E-00005-00006145-00007529": "But that’s who Donald Trump has left now. As he circles the drain, even people like Ann Coulter are cutting bait, because they want to retain relative credibility with their far-right base once Trump has been flushed", "o1io8cV7s1E-00006-00007529-00008357": "The people speaking the most loudly and consistently in Trump’s defense are people whom no one has heard of or even cares about", "o1io8cV7s1E-00007-00008357-00009415": "But don’t tell that to Donald Trump, who is such a malignant narcissist, he’ll embrace anyone who sings his praises, no matter how laughable that person is", "o1io8cV7s1E-00008-00009415-00010251": "In fact Trump has retweeted Paul Sperry, whoever the heck that might be, nine times in the past two days", "o1io8cV7s1E-00009-00010251-00011270": "This is all that Trump has left to work with. Instead of giving up and resigning, Trump is clinging to what little he has left, no matter how embarrassing it may be"}}, {"audio_id": "o1bIPmA1vGc", "text": {"o1bIPmA1vGc-00000-00000571-00001644": "Roger Stone, in one of his typical fits of rage, posted an image of federal judge Amy Berman Jackson with a crosshair just above her head today on Instagram", "o1bIPmA1vGc-00001-00001644-00002465": "The clear implication: he was calling for violence against the judge after she hit him with a partial gag order", "o1bIPmA1vGc-00002-00002465-00003219": "After numerous observers pointed out that Stone’s bail would likely be revoked over the post, he deleted it", "o1bIPmA1vGc-00003-00003219-00004836": "That’s when he launched into a total panicked meltdown.Wait, so that’s supposed to make it better? Somewhere in there, Roger Stone texted CBS News reporter Kathryn Watson, saying he took the image down because it could be open to “miss interpretation", "o1bIPmA1vGc-00004-00004836-00006404": "” The surreal typo suggests that Stone truly is in a panic. We suspect that Judge Amy Berman Jackson is about to become “Miss Interpretation” when she interprets that Stone’s threat is a reason to revoke his bail and throw him in jail", "o1bIPmA1vGc-00005-00006404-00007973": "After federal judge Amy Berman Jackson hit Roger Stone with a limited gag order that was far more lenient than it could have been, Stone decided to return the favor today by posting a deranged conspiracy theory about the judge on his Instagram account", "o1bIPmA1vGc-00006-00007973-00008687": "Stone also included a photo of Judge Jackson, along with a small crosshair just above her head", "o1bIPmA1vGc-00007-00008687-00009481": ".This was enough to lead us to conclude that Roger Stone had just screwed up and gotten his bail revoked", "o1bIPmA1vGc-00008-00009481-00010249": "Now Stone has signaled that he agrees he’s in trouble, because he just deleted the Instagram post", "o1bIPmA1vGc-00009-00010249-00011414": "He’ll now try to claim that he didn’t realize the image was a threat, or that he somehow didn’t see the crosshair in the image, and that he deleted it as soon as he realized it could be misinterpreted", "o1bIPmA1vGc-00010-00011414-00012824": "The trouble: this won’t fly.In order for Roger Stone to be convicted of the felony charges against him and sent to prison, the jury in his eventual trial will need to conclude that he’s guilty beyond a reasonable doubt", "o1bIPmA1vGc-00011-00012824-00014120": "But that standard doesn’t apply when it comes to Stone’s bail being revoked; the judge simply needs to conclude that, in her professional opinion, Stone no longer deserves the privilege of remaining on bail", "o1bIPmA1vGc-00012-00014120-00015308": "Revoking bail would mean that Roger Stone will rot in jail until his trial. He’s already waived his right to a speedy trial, so he could be rotting for quite some time", "o1bIPmA1vGc-00013-00015308-00016113": "Stone’s longtime associate Paul Manafort violated his bail and is still in a jail cell, awaiting sentencing", "o1bIPmA1vGc-00014-00016113-00016907": "Stone would probably be looking at solitary confinement in jail, as has been the case with Manafort"}}, {"audio_id": "o2zOMAVf3wA", "text": {"o2zOMAVf3wA-00000-00000571-00002192": "George Conway, the husband of Trump White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, has brought President Donald Trump’s mental health back to the forefront of conversations yet again, and it appears the diagnosis of a possible psychiatric disorder could be in short order", "o2zOMAVf3wA-00001-00002192-00003812": "On Monday morning, Conway issued a series of tweets directed at anti-Trump conservative Ana Navarro, requesting that she not view Trump’s latest tweets as part of a grand diversion scheme, but as “a product of his pathologies” instead", "o2zOMAVf3wA-00002-00003812-00004825": "In order to illustrate what he was referring to, he followed up with additional tweets, which provide information concerning Narcissistic Personality Disorder", "o2zOMAVf3wA-00003-00004825-00006237": "Perhaps one of the most telling symptoms of this disorder is when individuals exhibit “a pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), a constant need for admiration, and a lack of empathy''", "o2zOMAVf3wA-00004-00006237-00009058": "Ummm…yeah, “makes perfect sense,” alright. And the signs do not stop there, as Trump exhibits several other NPD personality traits, including but not limited to “deceitfulness, as indicated by repeated lying,” “impassivity or failure to plan ahead,” and “lack of remorse, as indicated by being indifferent to or rationalizing having hurt, mistreated, or stolen from another,” to name a few"}}, {"audio_id": "oxojdF5So94", "text": {"oxojdF5So94-00000-00000513-00002023": "Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan’s headed next month to the state that holds the first primary in the race for the White House, increasing speculation that the GOP governor is seriously considering a 2020 primary challenge against President Trump", "oxojdF5So94-00001-00002023-00002903": "Fox News on Monday confirmed that Hogan will be in New Hampshire on April 23 to headline “Politics and Eggs", "oxojdF5So94-00002-00002903-00003773": "” The speaking series hosted by the New Hampshire Institute of Politics and the New England Council is a must-stop for White House hopefuls", "oxojdF5So94-00003-00003773-00004666": "Fox News reported last month that Hogan’s camp was in talks with the New England Council to appear at “Politics and Eggs", "oxojdF5So94-00004-00004666-00005943": "”.Hogan, who won re-election last November to a second four-year term steering the reliably blue state of Maryland, indirectly criticized the president during his January inauguration", "oxojdF5So94-00005-00005943-00007040": "And, last month – in an interview with CBS News – he said that “I’m being approached from a lot of different people” about launching a primary challenge against the president", "oxojdF5So94-00006-00007040-00008393": "“And I guess the best way to put it is I haven’t thrown them out of my office.”.He also took aim at Trump’s chances in 2020, saying, “I’m not saying he couldn’t win, but he’s pretty weak in the general election", "oxojdF5So94-00007-00008393-00009833": "”.Still, Hogan acknowledged the extremely long odds against an intra-party challenge to a sitting president, highlighting that “nobody has successfully challenged a sitting president in the same party in the primary since 1884", "oxojdF5So94-00008-00009833-00011045": "”.The 62-year-old governor also told Politico last month that “at this point in time, I don’t see any path to winning a Republican primary against this president, or anybody doing it", "oxojdF5So94-00009-00011045-00011818": "But things have a way of changing . I don’t know what the lay of the land is going to look like this summer, or in the fall", "oxojdF5So94-00010-00011818-00013161": "”.In that same interview, Hogan criticized the Republican National Committee for allegedly protecting the president, saying: “I’ve never seen anything like it and I’ve been involved in the Republican Party for most of my life", "oxojdF5So94-00011-00013161-00013855": "It’s unprecedented. And in my opinion it’s not the way we should be going about our politics", "oxojdF5So94-00012-00013855-00014587": "”.Hogan is set to be the second potential GOP primary challenger to headline the forum this year", "oxojdF5So94-00013-00014587-00015950": "Last month, former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld – a very vocal Trump critic – announced at the event that he was forming an exploratory committee as he moved toward launching a longshot GOP primary bid", "oxojdF5So94-00014-00015950-00016925": "John Kasich, who in January finished serving two terms as Ohio governor, is another vocal Trump critic who’s mulling a primary challenge", "oxojdF5So94-00015-00016925-00018366": "Kasich, who finished second to Trump in New Hampshire’s 2016 GOP presidential primary, returned to the Granite State right after November’s midterm elections, sparking further speculation about his 2020 intentions", "oxojdF5So94-00016-00018366-00019114": "Keeping the door open, he told Fox News at the time, “I really don’t know what I’m going to do", "oxojdF5So94-00017-00019114-00019214": "”"}}, {"audio_id": "oPoSVoIAYFQ", "text": {"oPoSVoIAYFQ-00000-00000571-00001284": "“The Republican Party will soon be known as the party of health care,” Trump said to reporters on Capitol Hill", "oPoSVoIAYFQ-00001-00001284-00002096": "“You watch.”.Trump spoke about healthcare coverage as he met with Senate Republicans for lunch on Capitol Hill", "oPoSVoIAYFQ-00002-00002096-00003308": "The Department of Justice announced Monday night it would side with a ruling from a Texas judge invalidating Obamacare and would not defend the Affordable Care Act in court", "oPoSVoIAYFQ-00003-00003308-00004221": ".Trump appeared to react to Democrat protests that ending Obamacare would hurt Americans and end coverage for pre-existing conditions", "oPoSVoIAYFQ-00004-00004221-00004825": "Earlier Tuesday, the president shared the same message on Twitter"}}, {"audio_id": "odwsBkAxr1A", "text": {"odwsBkAxr1A-00000-00000513-00001325": "American Conservative Union chairman Matt Schlapp went on CNN last night to speak with Chris Cuomo about CPAC", "odwsBkAxr1A-00001-00001325-00002138": "The subject of President Donald Trump came up and they ended up getting heated over whether Trump is a liar", "odwsBkAxr1A-00002-00002138-00003450": "After that appearance, Schlapp doubled down on his defense of Trump with a dig at the media, saying that when they call POTUS a liar, “they make it impossible for 50 % of the country to see you as unbiased", "odwsBkAxr1A-00003-00003450-00004562": "”.This morning, George Conway––husband to White House counselor Kellyanne Conway––responded by pointing out that Trump’s own supporters know he’s a liar:", "odwsBkAxr1A-00004-00004562-00005166": "The president is set to speak at CPAC this morning"}}, {"audio_id": "ofhiwx9qKug", "text": {"ofhiwx9qKug-00000-00000571-00001508": "As you’ve heard by now, Michael Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer, pleaded guilty to lying to Congress about the Russia investigation", "ofhiwx9qKug-00001-00001508-00002856": "Cohen had previously said talks about the Moscow project had ended in January 2016 just prior to the Iowa caucuses, but now he’s saying Trump was kept in the loop well into his presidential campaign", "ofhiwx9qKug-00002-00002856-00003893": "The Cohen admission appears to show that Trump was engaged in business dealings with Russia while in the middle of a campaign in which Russia interfered to help elect him", "ofhiwx9qKug-00003-00003893-00004789": "Specifically, the plans to build Trump World Tower Moscow went well into the campaign timeline, and possibly after", "ofhiwx9qKug-00004-00004789-00005479": "Trump says Cohen is lying, but there’s a document with Trump’s signature on it that says otherwise", "ofhiwx9qKug-00005-00005479-00006336": "Donald Trump signed an Letter of Intent for the Trump Tower Moscow project during the time Trump was running for president", "ofhiwx9qKug-00006-00006336-00007347": "The letter was drafted by his attorney Michael Cohen, at the request of business associate Felix Sater, who himself has longstanding ties to the Russian mob", "ofhiwx9qKug-00007-00007347-00008172": "If Trump had any amount of deniability left, multiple reports have blown that out the window with their report", "ofhiwx9qKug-00008-00008172-00008890": "Trump signed a letter of intent to build Trump Tower in Moscow four months into his presidential campaign", "ofhiwx9qKug-00009-00008890-00009601": "This means he was the one who was orchestrating the entire thing, or that very least he knew about it", "ofhiwx9qKug-00010-00009601-00010418": "He can no longer claim Cohen and Sater were working on their own, especially since Cohen is the one who threw him under the bus"}}, {"audio_id": "p8nglvCnvXg", "text": {"p8nglvCnvXg-00000-00000571-00001966": "Even as Donald Trump’s handpicked Attorney General William Barr tries to fend off the inevitable release of the full Mueller report, Trump’s inner circle has apparently convinced him that this is all over, and Trump has somehow “won", "p8nglvCnvXg-00001-00001966-00002864": "” We know this because Trump just stood in front of the cameras and flatly declared “I won” when it comes to the Mueller probe", "p8nglvCnvXg-00002-00002864-00003906": "This guy is about to get hit with a harsh dose of reality. .Barr says he’s less than a week away from releasing a redacted version of the Mueller report", "p8nglvCnvXg-00003-00003906-00005087": "It’ll be a whitewashed joke, of course, with the very ugliest of Trump’s obstruction and collusion efforts conveniently blacked out for no reason other than that Trump wants it that way", "p8nglvCnvXg-00004-00005087-00006046": "But even Barr will have to allow some of the dirt on Trump to be released, if only in the name of trying to fend off having to release the worst of it", "p8nglvCnvXg-00005-00006046-00006976": ". .In fact, the less Barr releases next week, the more emphatically Mueller’s team will begin leaking what’s really in the report", "p8nglvCnvXg-00006-00006976-00008574": "They can’t legally leak the classified parts, but they can leak just enough about the report to leave the American public with no doubt that Trump is lying when he claims Mueller found “no collusion” and “no obstruction,” and that Barr is illegally covering it up", "p8nglvCnvXg-00007-00008574-00009389": "Barr is holding his ground for now, but it’s slipping away from him, and it’s only going to continue to slip further", "p8nglvCnvXg-00008-00009389-00010011": ".So Donald Trump can gloat all he wants this week about how he “won” the Mueller probe", "p8nglvCnvXg-00009-00010011-00011327": "What is that supposed to mean anyway? This isn’t a game. Trump and his people conspired with the Russians to try to alter the outcome of the election in his favor, which means he’s not the “president” of anything", "p8nglvCnvXg-00010-00011327-00012618": "He’s a thug who’s illegally occupying the office of president, he’s abusing the power of the presidency to try to shield himself from his crimes, and he’s gloating about it like the pond scum that he is", "p8nglvCnvXg-00011-00012618-00013313": "But things are about to get rather bad for him next week – and they’ll only get worse for him from there"}}, {"audio_id": "pu9XjZRlPOI", "text": {"pu9XjZRlPOI-00000-00000513-00001550": "Sen. Rand Paul reportedly announced that he won't support President Trump declaring a national emergency at the southern border — appearing to push the U", "pu9XjZRlPOI-00001-00001550-00002856": "S. Senate toward rejecting the move.Paul, R-Ky., told a crowd at a dinner at Western Kentucky University on Saturday night that he \"can't vote to give extra Constitutional powers to the president", "pu9XjZRlPOI-00002-00002856-00003861": "\".\"I can't vote to give the president the power to spend money that hasn't been appropriated by Congress,\" Paul said, according to the Bowling Green Daily News", "pu9XjZRlPOI-00003-00003861-00004899": "\"We may want more money for border security, but Congress didn't authorize it. If we take away those checks and balances, it's a dangerous thing", "pu9XjZRlPOI-00004-00004899-00005612": "\".Three other Republican senators have announced they'll vote \"no\" to a national emergency declaration at the U", "pu9XjZRlPOI-00005-00005612-00006602": "S.-Mexico border, too, including, Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska and Sen", "pu9XjZRlPOI-00006-00006602-00008049": "Thom Tillis, R-N.C.Paul's vote would make it four, and assuming that all 47 Democrats and their independent allies go against Trump, that would give opponents 51 votes — just past the majority needed", "pu9XjZRlPOI-00007-00008049-00008945": "The House has voted to derail the action, and if the Senate follows later this month, the measure would go to Trump for his promised veto", "pu9XjZRlPOI-00008-00008945-00010342": "Many lawmakers opposed to the emergency declaration say it tramples Congress' constitutional power to control spending and would set a precedent for future Democratic presidents to make such a declaration for their own purposes", "pu9XjZRlPOI-00009-00010342-00011121": "They also are concerned Trump would siphon money from home-state projects for the barrier construction", "pu9XjZRlPOI-00010-00011121-00012074": "Under a national emergency declaration, Trump would divert $3.6 billion from military construction to erect more border barriers", "pu9XjZRlPOI-00011-00012074-00012960": "He also is invoking other powers to transfer an additional $3.1 billion to construction of a wall"}}, {"audio_id": "pwJ0D1Z7REu", "text": {"pwJ0D1Z7REu-00000-00000571-00001365": "Wednesday CNN played a clip from Georgia Public Broadcasting’s “Political Rewind,” of Sen", "pwJ0D1Z7REu-00001-00001365-00002141": "Johnny Isakson (R-GA) criticizing President Donald Trump’s criticism of late Sen", "pwJ0D1Z7REu-00002-00002141-00003306": "John McCain (R-AZ).Responding to the president saying, “I was never a fan of John McCain and I never will be,” Isakson said, “It’s deplorable what he said", "pwJ0D1Z7REu-00003-00003306-00004225": "That’s what I called it from the floor of the Senate seven months ago. It will be deplorable seven months from now if he says it again", "pwJ0D1Z7REu-00004-00004225-00005646": "I will continue to speak out because there’s one thing that we’ve got to do — you may not like immigration, you may not like this, you may not like that, you may be a Republican or Democrat, we’re all Americans''", "pwJ0D1Z7REu-00005-00005646-00006537": "“There aren’t Democratic casualties and Republican casualties on the battlefield, there are American casualties,” he continued", "pwJ0D1Z7REu-00006-00006537-00007378": "“And we should never reduce the service people give to this country, particularly the offering of their own life to political fodder", "pwJ0D1Z7REu-00007-00007378-00007498": "”"}}, {"audio_id": "pxLBX1HzqXc", "text": {"pxLBX1HzqXc-00000-00000571-00002436": "A few hours before President Donald Trump went into the Rose Garden last Friday to announce his intent to declare a national emergency so he could build his long-promised border wall, Karl Racine sent a shot across the bow: If Trump was serious about this, he was in for a fight", "pxLBX1HzqXc-00001-00002436-00003389": "“We will not hesitate to use our legal authority to defend the rule of law,” the 56-year-old attorney general of Washington, D", "pxLBX1HzqXc-00002-00003389-00005359": "C., said in a terse statement.It’s a posture that has become almost routine for Racine, who as co-chair of the national Democratic Attorneys General Association is playing a little-noticed but hugely influential role in fighting the Trump administration at the polls, in the courts and in the news media", "pxLBX1HzqXc-00003-00005359-00005965": "The past few years have been uncommonly high profile for the American legal system", "pxLBX1HzqXc-00004-00005965-00006903": "The president finds himself in both personal and professional legal jeopardy. Several of his former aides and advisers have been criminally indicted", "pxLBX1HzqXc-00005-00006903-00008501": "The administration’s every move is subject to major lawsuits.But while the public has been mesmerized by Trump’s legal troubles, Racine has been quietly building out Democrats’ ability to check his administration at the state level", "pxLBX1HzqXc-00006-00008501-00009528": "Without much notice, he’s quietly emerged as perhaps the single most important player in restoring Democratic clout in America’s legal system", "pxLBX1HzqXc-00007-00009528-00011017": "As D.C. attorney general, Racine is leading the ongoing emoluments suit against the president over foreign governments’ allegedly corrupt patronage of the Trump International Hotel in downtown Washington, along with Maryland AG Brian Frosh", "pxLBX1HzqXc-00008-00011017-00012746": "As co-chair of DAGA, he has helped coordinate the legal and political strategies behind the lawsuits suing the Trump administration over issues including the separation of children and parents at the Mexican border, upholding the Affordable Care Act and protecting DACA recipients", "pxLBX1HzqXc-00009-00012746-00015139": "And more substantial yet, Racine was the architect of one of the least-discussed but most far-reaching results of November’s elections: Democrats winning a majority of the nation’s attorney general positions—an electoral success with far-reaching implications for workers’ rights, immigration, civil rights, consumer protections and the ability to erect a judicial wall against the Trump administration"}}, {"audio_id": "p-gyXfn0AkM", "text": {"p-gyXfn0AkM-00000-00000513-00002367": "On Tuesday President Donald Trump suggested his administration won't cooperate with House Democrats' recent request for information and documents from more than 80 groups, organizations and individuals, as part of their investigation into Trump's campaign, businesses, post-election transition and administration", "p-gyXfn0AkM-00001-00002367-00003363": "In doing so, Trump tried to draw a comparison to former President Barack Obama by claiming he didn't comply with congressional inquiries either", "p-gyXfn0AkM-00002-00003363-00004018": "\"President Obama, from what they tell me, was under a similar kind of a thing,\" said Trump", "p-gyXfn0AkM-00003-00004018-00004736": "\"They didn't give one letter. They didn't do anything. They didn't give one letter of the requests", "p-gyXfn0AkM-00004-00004736-00006259": "Many requests were made. They didn't give a letter.\".Facts First: Though Trump is vague about what exactly he's referring to, it's untrue to say that the Obama administration refused to comply with congressional requests for information", "p-gyXfn0AkM-00005-00006259-00007503": "There were a handful of occasions where the Obama administration initially rebuffed extensive congressional document requests, but ultimately complied, either voluntarily or under court order", "p-gyXfn0AkM-00006-00007503-00009070": "During the Fast and Furious botched weapons sting investigation, Republicans on the House Oversight Committee in 2012 recommended that then-Attorney General Eric Holder be cited for contempt of Congress for failing to turn over requested documents", "p-gyXfn0AkM-00007-00009070-00009788": "They made the recommendation after Obama asserted executive privilege over some documents sought by the committee", "p-gyXfn0AkM-00008-00009788-00010836": "But two years later, under court order, the Obama Justice Department did turn over nearly 65,000 pages of Fast and Furious-related documents", "p-gyXfn0AkM-00009-00010836-00011826": "And in 2016, the Justice Department released additional documents pertaining to Fast and Furious, as ordered by a federal judge", "p-gyXfn0AkM-00010-00011826-00013132": "In addition, Obama administration officials provided requested documents during congressional inquiries into the Benghazi attack that left four Americans dead, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens", "p-gyXfn0AkM-00011-00013132-00014038": "However, when the committee asked the President to answer questions about the attack in Libya, his administration rebuffed the request", "p-gyXfn0AkM-00012-00014038-00015820": "During Obama's first term, his administration said it would not comply with requests to turn over internal White House communications related to the solar company Solyndra, which received a $535 million loan guarantee from the federal government and then went bankrupt", "p-gyXfn0AkM-00013-00015820-00016614": "A year later, the administration turned over 432 pages of email and other documents", "p-gyXfn0AkM-00014-00016614-00017750": "On Tuesday, former senior Obama administration officials pushed back on Trump's comments, insisting there was extensive cooperation during past investigations", "p-gyXfn0AkM-00015-00017750-00019017": "\"If there was no cooperation, how was there material for seven Benghazi investigations?\" one official said, noting the release of Benghazi documents triggered Clinton email server stories", "p-gyXfn0AkM-00016-00019017-00021556": "A separate official, former deputy press secretary Eric Schultz tweeted, \"From 2011 - 2016 the Obama White House produced hundreds of thousands of documents to Congress on Solyndra, Benghazi, Fast and Furious, CAFE (Corporate Average Fuel Economy) standards rule, Deep Water Horizon spill, ACA (Affordable Care Act), ACA website, Clean Water Rule, and Ft Hood shooting", "p-gyXfn0AkM-00017-00021556-00023184": "\".Andy Wright, a former associate counsel to President Barack Obama in the White House Counsel's Office and a former staff director and counsel to the House Oversight Committee, flatly denied that the Obama administration did not respond to congressional oversight inquiries", "p-gyXfn0AkM-00018-00023184-00023986": "\"He is prone to being sort of all or nothing,\" Wright said of Trump. But \"compartmentalization is part of the job", "p-gyXfn0AkM-00019-00023986-00025629": "\".\"In order to be able to handle oversight in a good faith manner you've got to be honest and you've got to be able to compartmentalize on the different requests,\" he continued, later adding that though he doesn't think this is Trump's final position, \"this is the initial position", "p-gyXfn0AkM-00020-00025629-00025729": "\""}}, {"audio_id": "pCWSpS22tO8", "text": {"pCWSpS22tO8-00000-00000571-00002193": "A senior State Department official on Thursday expressed optimism that the denuclearization of North Korea could be achieved during President Donald Trump's first term, despite the lack of progress during the recent Hanoi summit and expert assertions to the contrary", "pCWSpS22tO8-00001-00002193-00003193": "\"We still believe that this is all achievable within the President's first term, and that's the timetable we're working on,\" the official said", "pCWSpS22tO8-00002-00003193-00003974": "\"We have discussed extensively the outlines of the calendar that allow us to do that, and it is doable''", "pCWSpS22tO8-00003-00003974-00004787": "The official said they \"are pushing very hard with our North Korean interlocutors\" their goal of denuclearization within the first term", "pCWSpS22tO8-00004-00004787-00006367": "\"The ultimate driver to this is not going to be the amount of days it takes, it's going to be the degree to which we can satisfactorily achieve the steps which we feel are necessary to the final, fully verified denuclearization of North Korea,\" they said", "pCWSpS22tO8-00005-00006367-00007140": "The official's statements come in the wake of a failed summit last month between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un", "pCWSpS22tO8-00006-00007140-00007934": "The meeting failed to make any progress toward the US' goal, resulting instead in what Trump has come to call \"the walk", "pCWSpS22tO8-00007-00007934-00008862": "\" The official maintained Thursday that both sides left \"on very good terms\" but conceded that \"we're not as far along as we'd like to be''", "pCWSpS22tO8-00008-00008862-00009878": "Experts, however, have said it could take up to 10 or 15 years for North Korea to completely denuclearize, given how technical the process is", "pCWSpS22tO8-00009-00009878-00012670": "They see the Trump administration as having expressed lofty goals.\"For technical reasons there is a lot that could be done to reduce the military threat or the military utility of that program but there is also no way that you could actually eliminate all of North Korea's nuclear program, because that would require verification,\" Siegfried Hecker, a professor at Stanford University and a former director of the Los Alamos weapons laboratory in New Mexico, explained to CNN", "pCWSpS22tO8-00010-00012670-00013449": "\"How do we know they do not have nuclear weapons in a tunnel somewhere? We will never know that,\" Hecker said", "pCWSpS22tO8-00011-00013449-00014159": "\"There would have to be a verification protocol that is simply technically not possible in the two-year time frame", "pCWSpS22tO8-00012-00014159-00015024": "\".Beyond the technical side of the denuclearization process, developing a deal will also take time and political patience", "pCWSpS22tO8-00013-00015024-00016076": "Last week, after the summit in Vietnam, a State Department official said the US and North Korea are now in discussions \"about things we really want to be discussing", "pCWSpS22tO8-00014-00016076-00016873": "\" But the official admitted that the two countries still do not have the same basic definition of denuclearization"}}, {"audio_id": "pDYpWsaRHUI", "text": {"pDYpWsaRHUI-00000-00000571-00001670": "President Donald Trump treated Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) crowds with a speech that lasted over two hours on Saturday", "pDYpWsaRHUI-00001-00001670-00002718": "The speech was certainly the longest CPAC speech ever given by a president of the United States and the longest speech ever at CPAC", "pDYpWsaRHUI-00002-00002718-00004230": "It was also described as the longest speech of his presidency.Trump stopped to hug the American flag after he took the stage at 12:14 pm EST to his favorite American anthem, “Proud to Be an American” by Lee Greenwood", "pDYpWsaRHUI-00003-00004230-00005304": "He began his speech by recalling his first big political speech at CPAC in 2011.“I enjoyed it so much that I came back for a second one", "pDYpWsaRHUI-00004-00005304-00005915": "Then a third, and then I said, ‘What the hell, let’s run for president,’” Trump said", "pDYpWsaRHUI-00005-00005915-00006764": "The president had a prepared speech and teleprompters set up but soon abandoned them to discuss what was on his mind", "pDYpWsaRHUI-00006-00006764-00007597": "“You know I’m totally off script right now, and this, you know, is how I got elected, by being off script,” he said", "pDYpWsaRHUI-00007-00007597-00009112": "“And if we don’t go off script our country is in big trouble, folks.”.Trump spoke at length about his presidency, telling stories about his experience in the White House during the government shutdown and his trip to Iraq to meet with the troops", "pDYpWsaRHUI-00008-00009112-00009930": "He ripped the ongoing investigations by congressional Democrats, the FBI, and special counsel Robert Mueller", "pDYpWsaRHUI-00009-00009930-00011066": ".He also spoke about socialist Democrats and mocked the “Green New Deal” introduced by freshman Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY)", "pDYpWsaRHUI-00010-00011066-00011787": "“I do like the green new deal. I respect it greatly,” Trump joked as the crowd laughed", "pDYpWsaRHUI-00011-00011787-00013020": "“It should be part of the dialogue of the next election.”.Trump also commented that he was giving away too much material from his future 2020 campaign rallies against Democrat challengers", "pDYpWsaRHUI-00012-00013020-00013869": "“I’m going to regret this speech,” he said. “This speech should have been delivered a year from now, not now damn it", "pDYpWsaRHUI-00013-00013869-00015050": "”. .He joked that he destroyed Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) by ripping her as “Pocahontas,” but conceded that he might have ended her political career too soon", "pDYpWsaRHUI-00014-00015050-00015661": "“Now I won’t get a chance to run against her, and I would have loved that,” he said", "pDYpWsaRHUI-00015-00015661-00016304": "“I don’t want to knock out all of the good stuff and end up with somebody that’s actually got talent", "pDYpWsaRHUI-00016-00016304-00017236": "”.After about an hour and a half, Trump checked in on the audience and asked, “Is everyone ok? I haven’t seen anybody leaving,” he said", "pDYpWsaRHUI-00017-00017236-00018895": "He joked, “I know one thing — if Mark Levin leaves, I will leave very quickly.”.The CPAC audience remained engaged as the president continued, with familiar chants of “USA!” “Build the wall!” and “Lock her up!” as his political rallies", "pDYpWsaRHUI-00018-00018895-00019838": "Trump also mocked the “Never Trumpers” in the conservative movement, insisting that they were on “mouth-to-mouth resuscitation” just to stay alive", "pDYpWsaRHUI-00019-00019838-00021115": "The president also explored important themes coming up in 2020, including free speech on campus — even inviting a conservative college student on stage who was punched for his beliefs", "pDYpWsaRHUI-00020-00021115-00021820": ".Trump glanced at his watch after the two-hour mark and remarked, “I’ve been up here a long time!”", "pDYpWsaRHUI-00021-00021820-00022526": "His voice remained strong through the speech, and he continued standing at the podium on stage", "pDYpWsaRHUI-00022-00022526-00023829": "He thanked Matt Schlapp, the American Conservative Union president and CPAC director, for putting the conference together, noting that the organizer said he could speak as long as we wanted", "pDYpWsaRHUI-00023-00023829-00024984": "“Now more than ever, we need the proud men and women of CPAC, and I want to thank everybody here because it is incredible, your organization is incredible,” he said", "pDYpWsaRHUI-00024-00024984-00025809": "Schlapp said that the organization welcomed record crowds to CPAC this year to hear the president speak", "pDYpWsaRHUI-00025-00025809-00026781": "“Like Ronald Reagan, when he wants to recharge, he connects with his base, here at CPAC,” he said as he introduced the president"}}, {"audio_id": "pJBfvMe-ZiE", "text": {"pJBfvMe-ZiE-00000-00000571-00001968": "Today was the deadline for eighty-one Trump related people and entities to turn over all relevant documents to the House Judiciary Committee, as part of its escalating investigation into Donald Trump’s crimes and scandals", "pJBfvMe-ZiE-00001-00001968-00002658": "Last week the committee publicly stated that several unnamed people were already cooperating", "pJBfvMe-ZiE-00002-00002658-00003431": "Now the committee is revealing a huge name – and it gives something away about the Robert Mueller probe", "pJBfvMe-ZiE-00003-00003431-00004667": "House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler appeared briefly on the Rachel Maddow show tonight and revealed that Steve Bannon, of all people, has turned over several thousand documents to the committee", "pJBfvMe-ZiE-00004-00004667-00005761": "This on its own is a big deal. Bannon was in charge of the Donald Trump campaign at one point, and he also played a key role in the Donald Trump White House", "pJBfvMe-ZiE-00005-00005761-00006479": "He’s in position to know about crimes ranging from Trump-Russia election rigging to obstruction of justice", "pJBfvMe-ZiE-00006-00006479-00007600": "But here’s the thing.The committee has made clear that this initial round of requests was solely for documents that have already been requested by other investigators", "pJBfvMe-ZiE-00007-00007600-00008869": "So if Steve Bannon responded to this request by turning over thousands of documents, it means Robert Mueller already asked Bannon for thousands of documents, and Bannon already turned them over", "pJBfvMe-ZiE-00008-00008869-00010081": "It’s long been reported that Steve Bannon spent twenty or more hours testifying to Robert Mueller, which was a strong indicator that Bannon sold out Donald Trump and everyone else involved", "pJBfvMe-ZiE-00009-00010081-00011403": "If Bannon had been uncooperative, the interview wouldn’t have lasted that long. But now we know for sure that Bannon has indeed sold everyone out to Mueller – and now he’s sold them out again to the Democratic House"}}, {"audio_id": "ppAFqj0n1bM", "text": {"ppAFqj0n1bM-00000-00000513-00001913": "Donald Trump tried to come off as big and bad and scary this morning when he threatened to have either the FEC or the FCC – he doesn’t appear to know the difference – remove Saturday Night Live from the airwaves", "ppAFqj0n1bM-00001-00001913-00003352": "In the process, he gave away that he’s even further gone than we thought.Why is Donald Trump ranting about Saturday Night Live? Because it was on the air last night, and he watched it, like he always does", "ppAFqj0n1bM-00002-00003352-00004468": "The trouble: he must not have realized it was a rerun from last December. Okay, so maybe he just didn’t see it the first time it aired, so he thought it was new", "ppAFqj0n1bM-00003-00004468-00005358": "But he didn’t catch on that this was an SNL Christmas episode. Even though the opening sketch had a Christmas theme", "ppAFqj0n1bM-00004-00005358-00006317": "Even though the opening monologue referenced the holiday season. Even though the Weekend Update jokes were about events that happened three months ago", "ppAFqj0n1bM-00005-00006317-00008540": "Again, this is a guy who was so triggered by last night’s SNL episode, he woke up this morning, and called for the Federal Communications Commission and (somehow) the Federal Election Commission to retaliate against the show, all while not being able to figure out that this was an old Christmas episode, or remember that he had already watched it three months ago", "ppAFqj0n1bM-00006-00008540-00009446": "Sure, this is a small thing in comparison to everything else that’s wrong, objectionable, unfit, and scary about this guy", "ppAFqj0n1bM-00007-00009446-00010619": "But it perfectly encapsulates just how far gone he is, and how utterly absurd it is that the Republican Senate is thus far unwilling to go along with impeachment and removal"}}, {"audio_id": "ppR0TINgHPc", "text": {"ppR0TINgHPc-00000-00000513-00002294": "Moments ago, the Senate voted to block President Trump’s national emergency declaration, preventing him from appropriating funds without the approval of Congress to realize his greatest obsession and build a useless, exorbitantly expensive monument to xenophobia across the southern border", "ppR0TINgHPc-00001-00002294-00004677": "Twelve Republicans crossed the aisle to vote with Democrats to place a check on the President’s increasingly authoritarian behavior, resoundingly passing the bill to block the Trump’s executive action 59-41 and setting up a showdown with Trump, who will be forced to issue his first presidential veto in yet another high-profile and extremely embarrassing political defeat", "ppR0TINgHPc-00002-00004677-00006706": "The president made his course of action clear in a self-explanatory but entirely context-devoid tweet that immediately prompted a hilarious response from the rest of social media:\"I look forward to VETOING the just passed Democrat inspired Resolution which would OPEN BORDERS while increasing Crime, Drugs, and Trafficking in our Country", "ppR0TINgHPc-00003-00006706-00007419": "I thank all of the Strong Republicans who voted to support Border Security and our desperately needed WALL!\"", "ppR0TINgHPc-00004-00007419-00008383": "CNN anchor Jake Tapper was one of the first major figures to weigh in on the President’s outburst with an amusing little rhyme:\"Roses are red", "ppR0TINgHPc-00005-00008383-00009185": "It's not pronounced Beat-Oh.but we're about to see .a presidential --\".And was quickly followed by a wave of mockery:", "ppR0TINgHPc-00006-00009185-00009715": "\"I think there's a formal process here, you don't just shout the word.\""}}, {"audio_id": "pURJZygw_n8", "text": {"pURJZygw_n8-00000-00000513-00001720": "President Donald Trump embarked on his trip to Vietnam with a political cloud hanging over his head and keen to show progress on a thorny foreign policy issue that has befuddled many of his predecessors", "pURJZygw_n8-00001-00001720-00002456": "Now, he is just back from a Hanoi summit with North Korea that collapsed and the cloud has grown darker", "pURJZygw_n8-00002-00002456-00004366": "While Trump’s much-hyped meeting with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un broke up in disagreement over sanctions linked to Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons program, testimony from his former lawyer Michael Cohen, who accused him of breaking the law while in office, represented a potentially damaging development for the president at home", "pURJZygw_n8-00003-00004366-00006129": "Trump faced challenges on other fronts: sensitive talks with China over a trade deal, a slow-rolling crisis in Venezuela, tensions between India and Pakistan and an attempt in Congress to kill his emergency declaration aimed at securing funding for a wall on the border with Mexico", "pURJZygw_n8-00004-00006129-00007545": "U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller may also end his probe into Russia’s meddling in the 2016 presidential election in a matter of days - ensuring that speculation about the role of Trump and his campaign will keep making headlines", "pURJZygw_n8-00005-00007545-00008757": "Before Trump left for Vietnam, he privately complained that Democrats would go ahead with the Cohen testimony, violating an unwritten rule against attacking the president while he is overseas", "pURJZygw_n8-00006-00008757-00009935": "He also wished the Mueller report was finished.Back at the White House on Friday, the Republican president unleashed a series of tweets slamming Cohen and accusing him of lying", "pURJZygw_n8-00007-00009935-00010972": "“He was very unhappy that they were holding the hearings while he was overseas,” said one person who was present and asked to remain unnamed", "pURJZygw_n8-00008-00010972-00011766": "“He was also very unhappy that the Mueller investigation had not been concluded before he left", "pURJZygw_n8-00009-00011766-00013359": "He felt that there was a cloud hanging over him.”.While at the summit, Trump cut the talks about North Korea’s denuclearization short and the two sides gave conflicting accounts of what happened, raising doubts about the future of one of Trump’s signature initiatives", "pURJZygw_n8-00010-00013359-00014250": "The White House had included a signing ceremony for a deal on Trump’s public schedule in Hanoi - and then abruptly canceled it", "pURJZygw_n8-00011-00014250-00015318": "Trump’s Secretary of State Mike Pompeo complained about reporters being obsessed with what he tried to dismiss as “process” and said they were “radically uninformed", "pURJZygw_n8-00012-00015318-00016029": "”.“Y’all shouldn’t get hung up on things like that,” Pompeo told reporters traveling with him", "pURJZygw_n8-00013-00016029-00017019": "As the summit unfolded, Trump kept up to date with Cohen’s testimony from his suite at a Hanoi hotel despite the 12-hour time difference", "pURJZygw_n8-00014-00017019-00018450": "The conclusion among Trump’s inner circle was that the president came out of the week okay, feeling there was not much new in Cohen’s testimony and that Trump was getting credit for walking away from a potentially bad deal with the North Koreans", "pURJZygw_n8-00015-00018450-00019289": "“There were no surprises this week,” said Christopher Ruddy, a conservative media mogul and a close friend of the president", "pURJZygw_n8-00016-00019289-00020036": "“We knew North Korea was a tough nut to crack and that Michael Cohen was going to say a lot of nasty stuff", "pURJZygw_n8-00017-00020036-00020804": "At the end of the day I don’t think it changes the political climate for President Trump,” Ruddy told Reuters", "pURJZygw_n8-00018-00020804-00021893": "But the Cohen testimony raised questions among Trump allies about the ability of Republicans and the president’s re-election campaign to organize a proper response", "pURJZygw_n8-00019-00021893-00022810": "“Where’s the defense of the president?” former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, a Trump friend, told ABC’s “This Week” program on Wednesday", "pURJZygw_n8-00020-00022810-00023993": "In Congress, efforts to block Trump’s national emergency declaration intensified with the introduction of legislation in the Republican-led Senate, although it faces an uphill path to passage", "pURJZygw_n8-00021-00023993-00025088": "Trump will have a friendly audience on Saturday when he addresses the annual meeting of the Conservative Political Action Conference in a Maryland suburb of Washington", "pURJZygw_n8-00022-00025088-00026078": "At CPAC on Thursday, Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel was quick to defend Trump’s handling of the Vietnam summit", "pURJZygw_n8-00023-00026078-00027063": "“He walked away rightly because he said we’re not going to take away the sanctions if you not going to de-nuclearize,” she said to applause"}}, {"audio_id": "pflCLLesz6M", "text": {"pflCLLesz6M-00000-00000571-00001976": "The TV pundits really, really, really want you to buy into the narrative tonight that the submission of Robert Mueller’s report somehow means that Mueller didn’t find enough evidence to build a criminal case against Donald Trump", "pflCLLesz6M-00001-00001976-00003141": "What’s this based on? Literally nothing, of course. Meanwhile, the people in position to know better are expecting Mueller’s report to set off additional indictments", "pflCLLesz6M-00002-00003141-00004259": "First, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff appeared on MSNBC and stated that he thinks it’s “likely” there are more indictments coming; they’ll just come from the U", "pflCLLesz6M-00003-00004259-00005949": "S. Attorneys’ offices that Mueller handed off the cases to. But this didn’t seem to fit with the doomsday narrative, so MSNBC kept pushing the notion that it’s all over, and everyone who hasn’t yet been arrested is somehow magically off the hook", "pflCLLesz6M-00004-00005949-00007368": "That’s when Richard Blumenthal stepped to the plate.Richard Blumenthal, who sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee, appeared on MSNBC and stated that there is a “high likelihood that there are indictments in this president’s future", "pflCLLesz6M-00005-00007368-00008091": "” He explained that these indictments are likely to come from SDNY and/or other federal prosecutors", "pflCLLesz6M-00006-00008091-00009491": "But again, this didn’t fit the prevailing MSNBC narrative, so the host cut off Blumenthal, and began asking leading questions which were aimed at painting the picture that no more indictments are coming", "pflCLLesz6M-00007-00009491-00010949": "We don’t know why the TV pundits are so eager tonight to push the notion that they somehow know that no one else will be indicted, beyond the obvious fact that scaring viewers is a good way to paralyze them into staying tuned in", "pflCLLesz6M-00008-00010949-00012265": "But back in the real world, people who have been involved with the overall Trump-Russia investigation, such as Adam Schiff and Richard Blumenthal, are very loudly saying that they’re expecting more indictments", "pflCLLesz6M-00009-00012265-00012704": "Blumenthal even thinks Trump is going to be indicted"}}, {"audio_id": "pgI-Ny8QBQo", "text": {"pgI-Ny8QBQo-00000-00000571-00001757": "President Donald Trump announced his plan for a political rally in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on Saturday, April 27 — the same night as the White House Correspondents’ dinner", "pgI-Ny8QBQo-00001-00001757-00002425": "“Big crowd expected!” Trump wrote on Twitter, sharing a signup link for the event", "pgI-Ny8QBQo-00002-00002425-00003886": "The president declined to attend the WHCA dinner earlier this month.“I’m going to hold a rally, because the dinner is so boring and so negative, that we’re going to hold a very positive rally,” Trump told reporters at the White House", "pgI-Ny8QBQo-00003-00003886-00004591": "This is the third year in a row that Trump has skipped the dinner in favor of a political rally", "pgI-Ny8QBQo-00004-00004591-00006069": ".In 2018, Trump held a rally with supporters in Washington, Michigan.“By the way, is this better than that phony Washington White House Correspondents’ Dinner? Is this more fun?” he asked as the audience cheered", "pgI-Ny8QBQo-00005-00006069-00006722": "“I could be up there tonight smiling, like I love, where they are hitting you shot after shot", "pgI-Ny8QBQo-00006-00006722-00007031": "These people hate your guts!”"}}, {"audio_id": "qyco1uah9Ty", "text": {"qyco1uah9Ty-00000-00000571-00001924": "On this weekend’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) offered a glimpse into President Donald Trump’s reaction to the findings in the Mueller report", "qyco1uah9Ty-00001-00001924-00002956": "Graham said Trump was pleased with the Mueller report and dismissed the notion that Trump could collude with Russia by saying he couldn’t collude with his own government", "qyco1uah9Ty-00002-00002956-00003653": "“He was very pleased that everything he’d been saying for two years proved to be right,” Graham said", "qyco1uah9Ty-00003-00003653-00004638": "“If you know President Trump — and I have gotten to know him pretty well — there is no way he sat down with the Russians and came up with a plan and followed it", "qyco1uah9Ty-00004-00004638-00005602": "He doesn’t come up with a — he doesn’t collude with his own government. So this whole thing was a — was ridiculous, if you know the president", "qyco1uah9Ty-00005-00005602-00006704": "”.“And it’s proven to be ridiculous. And I told him about 1,000 times there’s one person that can clear you of this, and it’s Mueller,” he continued", "qyco1uah9Ty-00006-00006704-00007368": "“And I want people to understand that Mr. Mueller for two years looked at this very hard", "qyco1uah9Ty-00007-00007368-00008219": "It came out with a conclusion there was no collusion. And Jim Clyburn said, as a Democrat, we need to move on", "qyco1uah9Ty-00008-00008219-00009099": "Adam Schiff represents a wing of the Democratic Party, the Oliver Stone wing of the Democratic Party, that will never let this go", "qyco1uah9Ty-00009-00009099-00009199": "”"}}, {"audio_id": "qzTV4u5lbGo", "text": {"qzTV4u5lbGo-00000-00000571-00001281": "“No one will ever love you the way they loved my father…. I wish I had been given more Saturday’s with him", "qzTV4u5lbGo-00001-00001281-00002028": "Maybe spend yours with your family instead of on twitter obsessing over mine?” McCain wrote on Twitter", "qzTV4u5lbGo-00002-00002028-00003559": "The View co-host’s scathing remarks came in response to President Trump’s criticism of her late father’s involvement in giving the FBI a copy of the largely debunked Steele dossier, which purported nefarious ties between the president and Russia", "qzTV4u5lbGo-00003-00003559-00004996": "Appearing on the Fox News Channel Saturday, former independent counsel Ken Starr said that while McCain was an “American hero,” if reports of his handling of the dossier are accurate, it would be a “very dark stain” on his legacy", "qzTV4u5lbGo-00004-00004996-00006090": ".President Trump quoted Starr’s remark, tweeting: “Spreading the fake and totally discredited Dossier “is unfortunately a very dark stain against John McCain", "qzTV4u5lbGo-00005-00006090-00007020": "He had far worse “stains” than this, including thumbs down on repeal and replace after years of campaigning to repeal and replace!”", "qzTV4u5lbGo-00006-00007020-00008031": "In his autobiography, The Restless Wave, McCain wrote of the dossier that he “did what duty demanded I do” in handing it over to law enforcement", "qzTV4u5lbGo-00007-00008031-00008851": "“I discharged that obligation, and I would do it again. Anyone who doesn’t like it can go to hell,” he declared", "qzTV4u5lbGo-00008-00008851-00009611": "Meghan McCain’s latest remarks follow a series of critical statements about President Trump and his administration", "qzTV4u5lbGo-00009-00009611-00010560": "Appearing on CNN with host Van Jones in late January, McCain said she hates the United States without her father’s leadership", "qzTV4u5lbGo-00010-00010560-00011207": "“As an American, I hate this country without him in it. I know that sounds awful", "qzTV4u5lbGo-00011-00011207-00012124": "I don’t hate America but I just hate it without his leadership,” she said when asked how she was handling her father’s passing", "qzTV4u5lbGo-00012-00012124-00012876": ".McCain infamously included several jabs at President Trump in her eulogy for her father", "qzTV4u5lbGo-00013-00012876-00013994": "“We gather here to mourn the passing of American greatness,” she began. “The real thing, not cheap rhetoric from men who will never come near the sacrifice he gave so willingly", "qzTV4u5lbGo-00014-00013994-00015353": "”.In a veiled knock on the president’s “Make America Great Again” campaign slogan, she added, “The America of John McCain has no need to be made great again because America was always great", "qzTV4u5lbGo-00015-00015353-00016643": "”.In February, McCain discussed with late-night host Stephen Colbert her thoughts on President Trump’daughterer and son-in-law, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, attending her father’s funeral", "qzTV4u5lbGo-00016-00016643-00017442": ".“I didn’t actually think about who would be attending the funeral, strangely,” McCain told the funnyman", "qzTV4u5lbGo-00017-00017442-00018111": "“The answer is no, I did not know [Jared and Ivanka] would be attending his funeral", "qzTV4u5lbGo-00018-00018111-00019065": "… I thought that my family had made it clear, or at least I had, that the Trumps are unwelcome around me… So I was surprised when they were there", "qzTV4u5lbGo-00019-00019065-00019838": "”.“It made me uncomfortable,” she added, “and I hope I made them uncomfortable, honestly, with everything", "qzTV4u5lbGo-00020-00019838-00019938": "”"}}, {"audio_id": "qEAfg43OHIc", "text": {"qEAfg43OHIc-00000-00000571-00001276": "“President” Donald Trump has gone back and forth about his feelings regarding the release of the Mueller report", "qEAfg43OHIc-00001-00001276-00002141": "First, he said he “didn’t mind” the release. Recently he’s resumed his previous attacks on Mueller’s team and the report itself", "qEAfg43OHIc-00002-00002141-00004437": "So what gives? Watching Trump flip flop on issues is something we have all come to expect, but after his crowing about “no collusion, complete exoneration,” and other Trump-like nonsense, what has made him change his mind? According to Rolling Stone and ABC News, he has been briefed on information in the report that points strongly to his guilt on obstruction", "qEAfg43OHIc-00003-00004437-00005260": "When William Barr issued his ridiculous “summary” of Mueller’s report, Trump wore out the terms “no collusion” and “no obstruction", "qEAfg43OHIc-00004-00005260-00005897": "” He even complimented Mueller’s findings, calling them the result of “great intelligence", "qEAfg43OHIc-00005-00005897-00006874": "” Mueller’s actual report found no such thing. In fact, he was clear that the information “does not exonerate the president", "qEAfg43OHIc-00006-00006874-00007616": "” Trump, of course, chose to ignore that one very powerful sentence, which may now come back to haunt him", "qEAfg43OHIc-00007-00007616-00009026": ".Both Jonathan Karl of ABC News and Ryan Bort of Rolling Stone believe that Trump’s renewed attacks stem from his team’s failure to consider one issue: Don McGhan’s thirty-plus hours spent with Mueller’s team", "qEAfg43OHIc-00008-00009026-00009839": "To date, no one knows the content of those meetings, and any information he provided may well be contained in the report", "qEAfg43OHIc-00009-00009839-00010727": "Considering McGhan’s testimony and the recent leaks from Mueller’s team published in the New York Times, the White House is and should be worried", "qEAfg43OHIc-00010-00010727-00012012": "According to Karl, Trump’s firing of Comey, his anger at and eventual firing of Sessions for recusing himself, and Trump’s purported attempts to fire Mueller all point toward his guilt on obstruction", "qEAfg43OHIc-00011-00012012-00013164": "Unless information shared by McGhan relates to ongoing criminal investigations and/or possible indictments, that information may be revealed and could look very bad for Trump", "qEAfg43OHIc-00012-00013164-00014919": "In addition to McGhan, NBC News reports that several other White House officials, both current and former, have contacted the Justice Department to inquire about redacting their names or removing information that identifies them, leaving the door open for even more negative information about Trump", "qEAfg43OHIc-00013-00014919-00016283": ".While this all sounds damning for Trump, Karl reports that attorneys for “President” Trump are preparing a rebuttal to the report, making it plausible that they have, at the very least, been briefed about the report", "qEAfg43OHIc-00014-00016283-00017236": "Karl finds it “disgusting” that Barr refused to answer questions regarding a White House briefing when it appears clear that they have done so", "qEAfg43OHIc-00015-00017236-00018158": "As so many, including Speaker Pelosi, have alleged, Karl states that “Barr is working with the WH against the American people", "qEAfg43OHIc-00016-00018158-00019355": "”. .Barr will continue to work against us. It is blatantly obvious that he will try to protect Trump from any real harm, regardless of the Special Counsel’s findings", "qEAfg43OHIc-00017-00019355-00020339": "The presence of William Barr makes it even more important that the people do what we have to do to rid this country of the scourge called Trump", "qEAfg43OHIc-00018-00020339-00021100": "We can obviously display our discontent by vote, and if we need to take to the streets, let’s get to taking", "qEAfg43OHIc-00019-00021100-00022202": "We need to stand together to ensure that our government returns to “government of the people, by the people, for the people” and not for corrupt criminals like Donald Trump"}}, {"audio_id": "qFT8gDeR2eo", "text": {"qFT8gDeR2eo-00000-00000513-00001756": "Nancy Pelosi is trying to shut down any talk of impeachment.And since she happens to be speaker of the House, that means it won't happen for the foreseeable future, if ever", "qFT8gDeR2eo-00001-00001756-00003146": "There’s a reason that President Trump's only nickname for Pelosi is \"Nancy.\" She's a shrewd politician, and she understands that an incendiary and ill-fated impeachment drive would mainly hurt the Democrats", "qFT8gDeR2eo-00002-00003146-00004418": "For the Dems to go down the impeachment road would utterly energize the Trump base and allow the president to accuse his partisan opponents of trying to overturn the election of 2016", "qFT8gDeR2eo-00003-00004418-00005643": "Impeachment proceedings would utterly dominate the next year, essentially wiping out the Democrats' attempt to define an agenda or to actually pass legislation that would help the country", "qFT8gDeR2eo-00004-00005643-00006505": "They would be defined as the anti-Trump party, given power in the House only to launch a crusade against the incumbent", "qFT8gDeR2eo-00005-00006505-00007448": "In the end, it would be virtually impossible for the Republican-controlled Senate to reach the two-thirds vote needed to evict Trump from the White House", "qFT8gDeR2eo-00006-00007448-00008454": "And that denouement would come just as the primaries were getting under way, giving Pelosi's party a chance to beat Trump through the usual electoral process", "qFT8gDeR2eo-00007-00008454-00009344": "The California congresswoman's words, in a Washington Post Magazine interview, immediately changed the nature of the debate:", "qFT8gDeR2eo-00008-00009344-00010387": "\"I'm not for impeachment,\" she said. \"This is news. I'm going to give you some news right now because I haven't said this to any press person before", "qFT8gDeR2eo-00009-00010387-00011886": "But since you asked, and I've been thinking about this: Impeachment is so divisive to the country that unless there's something so compelling and overwhelming and bipartisan, I don't think we should go down that path, because it divides the country", "qFT8gDeR2eo-00010-00011886-00012617": "And he's just not worth it.\".Pelosi is obviously right that impeachment is incredibly divisive", "qFT8gDeR2eo-00011-00012617-00013681": "And she may be recalling that the Democrats picked up five seats after House Republicans impeached Bill Clinton in 1998 on a party-line vote", "qFT8gDeR2eo-00012-00013681-00015143": "The only other modern impeachment effort — which drove Richard Nixon from office in 1974 — succeeded because several Republicans joined the Democrats when the Judiciary Committee voted on the Watergate-related articles", "qFT8gDeR2eo-00013-00015143-00015796": "(Both efforts came during their second terms, when there was no other way to remove them", "qFT8gDeR2eo-00014-00015796-00016854": ").Pelosi's dilemma is that some of her own caucus, especially the younger liberal members, as well as left-wing pundits are hot to trot on impeachment", "qFT8gDeR2eo-00015-00016854-00018160": "Many Democratic voters also strongly favor the move. Even before Bob Mueller delivers his findings, she's trying to find a way to defuse the movement without alienating a significant chunk of the party", "qFT8gDeR2eo-00016-00018160-00018855": "So she subtly disses the president — \"he's just not worth it\" — while dismissing impeachment", "qFT8gDeR2eo-00017-00018855-00019534": "At another point in the Post Magazine interview, Pelosi calls Trump \"ethically unfit", "qFT8gDeR2eo-00018-00019534-00020498": "Intellectually unfit. Curiosity-wise unfit. No, I don't think he's fit to be president of the United States", "qFT8gDeR2eo-00019-00020498-00022611": "And that’s up to us to make the contrast to show that this president — while he may be appealing to you on your insecurity and therefore your xenophobia, whether it's globalization or immigrants — is fighting clean air for your children to breathe, clean water for them to drink, food safety, every good thing that we should be doing that people can't do for themselves", "qFT8gDeR2eo-00020-00022611-00023421": "\".A nod to one side, a nod to the other side. He's unfit for office, but impeachment isn't worth it", "qFT8gDeR2eo-00021-00023421-00024312": "He's bad on immigration and the environment, but we have to make that case outside of the Constitution's last-resort remedy", "qFT8gDeR2eo-00022-00024312-00025806": "The question for Trump's critics, who despise his policies, his persona and his associates, some of whom have been convicted, the question remains: What exactly has Trump done that would qualify as high crimes and misdemeanors?", "qFT8gDeR2eo-00023-00025806-00026686": "Adam Schiff, the House Intel chairman and cable-TV fixture, told reporters that Pelosi is \"absolutely right", "qFT8gDeR2eo-00024-00026686-00028071": "\" But House Budget Chairman John Yarmuth told CNN, \"To me it's not a question of 'whether,' it's a question of 'when,' and probably right now is not the right time, but I think at some point it's going to be inevitable", "qFT8gDeR2eo-00025-00028071-00029481": "\".The calculation could change once Mueller delivers his findings. But without evidence of Russian collusion that still hasn't emerged, Pelosi knows that her party's best bet for defeating Trump is in November of 2020"}}, {"audio_id": "qNapt8U-ffu", "text": {"qNapt8U-ffu-00000-00000571-00001127": "Whistleblowers are exposing corruption like never before under Trump", "qNapt8U-ffu-00001-00001127-00002107": "There's so much wrongdoing in the Trump administration that dozens of whistleblowers are now working with House Democrats to help bring misdeeds to light", "qNapt8U-ffu-00002-00002107-00003384": "Whistleblowers exist in every administration. But under Trump, the number of whistleblowers has skyrocketed — and many of them are already working with Democrats on the House Oversight Committee", "qNapt8U-ffu-00003-00003384-00004053": "It didn't take much time at all for whistleblowers to come forward in the Trump era", "qNapt8U-ffu-00004-00004053-00004852": "That's probably because so many Trump team members engaged in so much wrongdoing right away", "qNapt8U-ffu-00005-00004852-00006432": "For example, it was a whistleblower that brought attention to the fact that literally minutes after Trump was sworn into office Michael Flynn started texting someone about a plan to work with Russia on building nuclear reactors in the Middle East", "qNapt8U-ffu-00006-00006432-00007937": "Now that Democrats are in power, the amount of whistleblower tips they've received has been accelerating, possibly because employees know that the Democrats will investigate their concerns — something that likely didn't happen when the GOP held the House", "qNapt8U-ffu-00007-00007937-00009251": "An anonymous Oversight Committee aide told The Atlantic that the committee was getting three to four tips per week before the election, but now they're seeing an average of five per week, with one week topping out at 15 tips", "qNapt8U-ffu-00008-00009251-00011001": "The most high-profile whistleblower right now is Tricia Newbold. She's the White House employee who raised the alarm about people who were receiving security clearances even though they had issues that should have barred them from doing so, including foreign influence and conflicts of interest", "qNapt8U-ffu-00009-00011001-00011670": "Sadly, Newbold is likely being retaliated against for bringing her concerns to light", "qNapt8U-ffu-00010-00011670-00013153": "Back in January, she received a two-week unpaid suspension after NBC reported that her boss, political appointee Carl Kline, had overruled career security employees and approved a security clearance for Jared Kushner", "qNapt8U-ffu-00011-00013153-00014554": "It's terrible that government employees need to put their careers at risk to speak out against Trump, but House Oversight Committee Chair Elijah Cummings has vowed to protect those people brave enough to come forward", "qNapt8U-ffu-00012-00014554-00015207": "Under this administration, bringing misdeeds to light is a vital service to the country"}}, {"audio_id": "qPu_Eh_qy8M", "text": {"qPu_Eh_qy8M-00000-00000000-00000200": "я виграл криля"}}, {"audio_id": "qSeZeP-kJKg", "text": {"qSeZeP-kJKg-00000-00000513-00002380": "U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez responded Saturday night after a published report excoriated the freshman congresswoman for pushing her Green New Deal initiative while still traveling on airplanes and using ridesharing services -- instead greener travel methods such as public transportation", "qSeZeP-kJKg-00001-00002380-00003616": "The piece mentioned the New York Democrat’s call in January for more sustainable energy solutions: \"The world is going to end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change,” she said at the time", "qSeZeP-kJKg-00002-00003616-00004449": "\"But the woman who boasts of a “razor-sharp BS detector” seems to have trouble sniffing out her own,” the New York Post reported", "qSeZeP-kJKg-00003-00004449-00005988": "“Since declaring her candidacy in May 2017, Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign heavily relied on those combustible-engine cars — even though a subway station was just 138 feet from her Elmhurst [Queens] campaign office", "qSeZeP-kJKg-00004-00005988-00006894": "She listed 1,049 transactions for Uber, Lyft, Juno and other car services, federal filings show", "qSeZeP-kJKg-00005-00006894-00008686": "The campaign had 505 Uber expenses alone.”.Instead of embracing cheaper, less green travel methods, Ocasio-Cortez logged 66 airline transactions during her 2018 campaign while only using Amtrak 18 times, according to the Post", "qSeZeP-kJKg-00006-00008686-00009580": "Cortez responded on Twitter, arguing that \"living in the world as it is isn't an argument against working towards a better future", "qSeZeP-kJKg-00007-00009580-00011095": "\".“I also fly & use A/C,\" Ocasio-Cortez wrote. “The Green New Deal is about putting a LOT of people to work in developing new technologies, building new infrastructure, and getting us to 100% renewable energy", "qSeZeP-kJKg-00008-00011095-00011941": "”.The Green New Deal is an economic stimulus package designed to address income inequality, health care and climate change", "qSeZeP-kJKg-00009-00011941-00013096": "The concept – modeled after President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal package through public works programs – could be funded through a 70 percent tax on America’s top earners", "qSeZeP-kJKg-00010-00013096-00014791": "Ocasio-Cortez has been a fierce advocate for addressing climate change. She recently questioned whether young couples should have children given the devastating consequences facing Earth unless an unprecedented effort is made to reduce carbon gas emissions by 2030"}}, {"audio_id": "r1trDgYqI9y", "text": {"r1trDgYqI9y-00000-00000571-00001239": "President Trump is more than prepared to cut Social Security benefits across the board", "r1trDgYqI9y-00001-00001239-00001924": "But what would motivate a sitting US President to make such a drastic budgetary decision", "r1trDgYqI9y-00002-00001924-00002822": "According to Trump he feels that slashing Social Security benefits and programs should be done from a moral standpoint", "r1trDgYqI9y-00003-00002822-00003849": "He must have fairly questionable morals. .If Trump is successful in cutting social security a large percentage of Americans will be negatively impacted", "r1trDgYqI9y-00004-00003849-00005019": "These cuts could cost retirees basic monthly income benefits, health care, prescription care and even take away benefits given to minors who have deceased or disabled parents", "r1trDgYqI9y-00005-00005019-00006263": "How is cutting these programs morally correct? Trump’s cuts would be the basic necessities of millions of Americans in jeopardy and have a detrimental impact on his own Republican party", "r1trDgYqI9y-00006-00006263-00007462": "Trump is simply wrong in his belief that he is doing good.Even early on in his campaign for President, Trump was of the opinion that Social Security had to be overhauled and slashed", "r1trDgYqI9y-00007-00007462-00008721": "Paul Ryan and Trump discussed the issue in 2016. According to Bloomberg, Trump stated the following to Paul Ryan: “From a moral standpoint, I believe in it [cutting Social Security]", "r1trDgYqI9y-00008-00008721-00010147": "But you also have to get elected. And there’s no way a Republican is going to beat a Democrat when the Republican is saying, ‘We’re going to cut your Social Security’ and the Democrat is saying, ‘We’re going to keep it and give you more", "r1trDgYqI9y-00009-00010147-00011116": "’ ”.So what did Trump tell the American public during the Presidential campaign? That he would support and try to improve Social Security", "r1trDgYqI9y-00010-00011116-00011879": "But since the passage of the Republican tax cut bill it’s hard to say what programs won’t be cut", "r1trDgYqI9y-00011-00011879-00013584": "Right now Americans are simply scared of what may be the outcome. Working Americans continue to pay into social security and many count on the retirement benefits as well as the social and healthcare programs to stabilize their finances during their “golden years”", "r1trDgYqI9y-00012-00013584-00014444": "If you are young enough you can plan for an uncertain future, but those approaching the age of retirement are in a different boat altogether", "r1trDgYqI9y-00013-00014444-00015716": "And why? The politicians that Americans have voted into office are making decisions that will ultimately cause them to possibly flounder later in life when they should be enjoying their retirement", "r1trDgYqI9y-00014-00015716-00016447": "If this is done at the hands of the Republican Party, then the Democrats have little to worry about in upcoming elections", "r1trDgYqI9y-00015-00016447-00017474": "Again, if this is Trump’s definition of a moral decision how can he be trusted to make appropriate choices regarding issues like national security", "r1trDgYqI9y-00016-00017474-00018036": "Time will tell, but the outcome may be apocalyptic for us all"}}, {"audio_id": "rqYW0lKQif0", "text": {"rqYW0lKQif0-00000-00000571-00001744": "Donald Trump has repeated false claims about voter fraud and the border wall as he rejected suggestions his attacks on journalists and Democrats were inciting violence", "rqYW0lKQif0-00001-00001744-00003232": "The US president, who repeatedly describes the media as the “enemy of the people”, was asked whether he should monitor his own language after a white supremacist Coast Guard officer was charged with of plotting to kill prominent public figures", "rqYW0lKQif0-00002-00003232-00005087": "He replied: “No I don’t, I think my language is very nice.”.Asked for his thoughts about the case of alleged “domestic terrorist” Christopher Paul Hasson during a press conference in the Oval Office, Mr Trump replied: “I think it’s a shame, it’s a very sad thing when a thing like that happens", "rqYW0lKQif0-00003-00005087-00006534": "”.Mr Hasson is said to have stockpiled weapons and ammunition in his basement in Maryland and written a draft letter to a neo-Nazi leader identifying himself as a white nationalist and calling for the establishment of a “white homeland”", "rqYW0lKQif0-00004-00006534-00008465": "He also drew up a list of public figures to target, including House Democrat leader Nancy Pelosi, 2020 presidential candidates Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris, congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Hillary Clinton’s former campaign chairman John Podesta and CNN’s Chris Cuomo", "rqYW0lKQif0-00005-00008465-00009708": "Mr Trump’s comments about the case contrasted with his response to the allegations that Empire actor Jussie Smollett faked being the victim of a racist and homophobic attack in Chicago", "rqYW0lKQif0-00006-00009708-00010481": "He tweeted: “What about MAGA and the tens of millions of people you insulted with your racist and dangerous comments!?”", "rqYW0lKQif0-00007-00010481-00011544": "The president also told reporters that he believed the border wall would go ahead after his declaration of a state of national emergency to secure $6", "rqYW0lKQif0-00008-00011544-00012730": "7bn ($5.2bn) in funding.“Everybody knows we need a wall,” he claimed .”We have we have apprehended more people than we have in many years", "rqYW0lKQif0-00009-00012730-00013684": "” In fact the number of people trying to cross illegally has decreased from 1.6 million in 2000 to 400,000 in 2018", "rqYW0lKQif0-00010-00013684-00015261": "He was next asked why he had not condemned voter fraud in North Carolina, where the Republican candidate in the race for Congress admitted his lead over his democratic opponent was tainted by ballot-tampering conducted by operatives working for his campaign", "rqYW0lKQif0-00011-00015261-00017064": "Mr Trump replied by mentioning supposed cases in California, Florida and Texas: “Well I condemn any election fraud, and when I look what’s happened in California with the votes, when I look at what happened, you know there was just a case where they found a million fraudulent votes", "rqYW0lKQif0-00012-00017064-00018782": "”.His claims appear to be based on a viral Facebook post that millions of illegal votes were cast in California in November as well as allegations that votes were added after election day in Florida and tens of thousands of non-citizens were on the electoral roll in Texas", "rqYW0lKQif0-00013-00018782-00020062": "No evidence of voter fraud has been found in any of those cases. .When the reporter tried to interrupt to say that his claims were not “actual cases”, he dismissed it with an “excuse me” and continued", "rqYW0lKQif0-00014-00020062-00020799": "He later added: “I condemn any voter fraud of any kind, whether it’s Democrat or Republican", "rqYW0lKQif0-00015-00020799-00022549": "”.The president has repeatedly claimed that Hillary Clinton won three million more votes than him in the 2016 election because of illegal voter registrations, non-citizen voting, and those registered in two states - despite there being no evidence to support claims of voter fraud", "rqYW0lKQif0-00016-00022549-00023385": "We’ll tell you what’s true. You can form your own view.At The Independent, no one tells us what to write", "rqYW0lKQif0-00017-00023385-00024145": "That’s why, in an era of political lies and Brexit bias, more readers are turning to an independent source", "rqYW0lKQif0-00018-00024145-00024929": "Subscribe from just 15p a day for extra exclusives, events and ebooks – all with no ads"}}, {"audio_id": "ruOoR6elYGM", "text": {"ruOoR6elYGM-00000-00000571-00002791": "President Donald Trump is expected to take a victory lap when he holds a “Total Exoneration” rally Thursday evening in Grand Rapids, Michigan, just days after Attorney General William Barr revealed that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation “did not find that the Trump campaign or anyone associated with it conspired or coordinated” with the Russians in 2016", "ruOoR6elYGM-00001-00002791-00004340": "Stay tuned to Breitbart News for live updates. All times eastern.8:51 PM: Trump concludes electric rally where he previewed a coming attraction at the border (Trump said he will showcase brand new sections of the wall", "ruOoR6elYGM-00002-00004340-00005688": ") and demanded that Mexico do more about the migrant caravans.8:43 PM: Trump says he won’t forget that his voters, the smartest and the greatest, stood with him against the rigged power structure in DC", "ruOoR6elYGM-00003-00005688-00006477": "Trump says his voters have always been loyal to the country and now they have a president who is loyal to them", "ruOoR6elYGM-00004-00006477-00007383": "Trump says Democrats have taken Michigan for granted, but he will never, ever, ever, ever take Michigan voters for granted", "ruOoR6elYGM-00005-00007383-00008300": "“I am fighting for your jobs, your life, your community with everything I have and I will never, ever stop,” Trump says", "ruOoR6elYGM-00006-00008300-00009637": "“We are winning so big–nobody ever thought it would happen.”.8:41 PM: Trump says we believe that children should be taught to respect and be proud of our country while respecting the great American flag", "ruOoR6elYGM-00007-00009637-00011053": "Crowd chants “USA! USA!”.8:38 PM: Trump says the Republican Party is the “party of the American dream” and claims every day he makes good on the “promises made, promises kept” motto", "ruOoR6elYGM-00008-00011053-00011941": "8:37 PM: Trump rips Democrats for “executing” babies with their “extreme, late-term abortion” fanaticism", "ruOoR6elYGM-00009-00011941-00013180": "He says Democrats have never been further outside of the mainstream.8:35 PM: Trump says he will soon visit the border and show that “vast sections” of a “brand new wall” have been built", "ruOoR6elYGM-00010-00013180-00013942": "Trump blast Democrats for supporting amnesty and sanctuary cities because they want voters", "ruOoR6elYGM-00011-00013942-00014843": "He mocks those seeking asylum, saying many of the “rough” people who have been coached by left-wing lawyers look like heavyweight champions", "ruOoR6elYGM-00012-00014843-00015779": "Trump talks about the “invasion” at the border and says he wants to be the jobs, safety, and security of American citizens first", "ruOoR6elYGM-00013-00015779-00016536": "He says America should be a sanctuary for law-abiding Americans and not for criminal aliens", "ruOoR6elYGM-00014-00016536-00017772": "He again praises ICE patriots and the heroes of Border Patrol.8:22 PM: Trump says his administration lives by two simple rules: “buy American, hire American", "ruOoR6elYGM-00015-00017772-00018756": "”.“And we’re already seeing the results,” Trump says before listing off various investments auto companies have made in Michigan and the Heartland", "ruOoR6elYGM-00016-00018756-00019550": "8:21 PM: Trump now ripping the TPP and reminding Michigan voters that he withdrew from it", "ruOoR6elYGM-00017-00019550-00020457": "Trump says Michigan, with its empty factory floors, still hasn’t recovered from NAFTA, which he says will be a “thing of the past", "ruOoR6elYGM-00018-00020457-00021473": "” He wants to go back to “pre-NAFTA.”.8:20 PM: Trump says he’ll close “the damn border” if Mexico doesn’t stop the caravans", "ruOoR6elYGM-00019-00021473-00022821": "Crowd starts chanting “Build That Wall” and “USA!”.8:18 PM: Trump says Mexico needs to stop the “rush to the border” and he says, “if they don’t, it’s going to cost them a helluva lot of money", "ruOoR6elYGM-00020-00022821-00023936": "8:17 PM: Trump says Mexico, which he says has the “toughest immigration laws in the world,” needs to do more to help America with enforcement", "ruOoR6elYGM-00021-00023936-00024775": "Trump again says other countries aren’t giving us their best people after ripping the visa lottery system–“that’s another beauty", "ruOoR6elYGM-00022-00024775-00025927": "”.8:15 PM: Trump says he knocked Pocahontas out of the race and says he asked himself, “What did I do that for?” He says he should have waited nine months", "ruOoR6elYGM-00023-00025927-00026797": "8:11 PM: Trump slams Democrats for their “cynical” politics of of “radicalism, resistance, and resistance", "ruOoR6elYGM-00024-00026797-00027460": "”.He says the Democrats are advancing an extreme government takeover called the Green New Deal", "ruOoR6elYGM-00025-00027460-00028275": "Trump says he doesn’t want to talk about the Green New Deal right now because he wants to run against it in 2020", "ruOoR6elYGM-00026-00028275-00029140": ".“No more airplanes, no more cows,” Trump says. “One car per family. You’re gonna love that in Michigan", "ruOoR6elYGM-00027-00029140-00030166": "”.Trump now mocks electric cars–“where do I get a charge, darling?–and says he wants a lot of cars for families so they can lead great lives", "ruOoR6elYGM-00028-00030166-00031099": "8:05 PM: Trump says the Republican Party will become the party of health care after again referencing John McCain’s “thumbs down” vote", "ruOoR6elYGM-00029-00031099-00031867": "Trump says Obamacare is bankrupting Americans and nobody should go bankrupt because of health care", "ruOoR6elYGM-00030-00031867-00032862": "Trump vows to protect patients with pre-existing conditions even though his administration does not yet have a healthcare plan to “replace” Obamacare"}}, {"audio_id": "rxS5exsVhjA", "text": {"rxS5exsVhjA-00000-00000571-00001939": "Powerhouse Pence wouldn’t stand for that – Cheney never saw him coming.Dick Cheney, former Vice President—and some say the mastermind of the Bush administration—made headlines when he criticized Trump’s foreign policy", "rxS5exsVhjA-00001-00001939-00002650": "He actually showed up in person at an event with current leaders and confronted Mike Pence over it", "rxS5exsVhjA-00002-00002650-00003465": "Cheney even had the gall to compare Trump’s foreign policy to his predecessor, saying he is just like Obama", "rxS5exsVhjA-00003-00003465-00004593": "Powerhouse Pence would have none of that.From Fox News:.Former Vice President Dick Cheney reportedly challenged Vice President Pence over President Trump’s foreign policy on Saturday…", "rxS5exsVhjA-00004-00004593-00005283": "Pence shrugged off Cheney’s concerns and praised Trump as a “candid and transformational leader", "rxS5exsVhjA-00005-00005283-00006195": "” …“Well, who wrote these softball questions?” Pence joked at one point….I wish I could have been a fly on the wall for that conversation", "rxS5exsVhjA-00006-00006195-00007083": "Cheney confronted Pence face-to-face over Trump’s foreign policy. He even claimed Trump made decisions over phone calls", "rxS5exsVhjA-00007-00007083-00007916": "That’s big talk coming from a man who supported multiple wars on numerous fronts. No wonder Pence challenged him", "rxS5exsVhjA-00008-00007916-00008749": "That strategy made Republicans so wildly unpopular, America had to suffer eight years through the Obama administration", "rxS5exsVhjA-00009-00008749-00009570": "So, you’ll have to forgive me if I don’t care what Cheney thinks about Trump’s much more effective foreign policy", "rxS5exsVhjA-00010-00009570-00010405": "Cheney’s boots-on-the-ground approached spread our resources thin and seemed to only cause more problems around the world", "rxS5exsVhjA-00011-00010405-00011401": "His foreign policy deprived our nation of resources, leaving us in a bad spot when we needed troops at home on our border, or after hurricanes", "rxS5exsVhjA-00012-00011401-00012432": "Trump, on the other hand, is actually putting Americans first. Imagine that! We haven’t seen a president do that since… well, Reagan", "rxS5exsVhjA-00013-00012432-00013232": "Our current leaders think we need to prioritize the United States and let other nations sort out themselves", "rxS5exsVhjA-00014-00013232-00013684": "We are allies, after all, not babysitters"}}, {"audio_id": "rMEiiEcEpAA", "text": {"rMEiiEcEpAA-00000-00000571-00001592": "WOW – I can’t believe Donald did that for him!.In 2018, President Donald Trump made a promise to 94-year-old Sgt", "rMEiiEcEpAA-00001-00001592-00002640": "Allen Jones.Our Commander-in-Chief had invited the World War II veteran up on stage during a Kansas City Veterans of Foreign Wars event", "rMEiiEcEpAA-00002-00002640-00003629": "That was a tremendous honor, in and of itself!.But Mr. Jones, the 2015-16 VFW Chief of Staff, had a question for Trump:", "rMEiiEcEpAA-00003-00003629-00004625": "“I’m going to be 95 years of age on April 11 of next year.Hopefully, you will allow me to bring my family into the Oval Office to meet you", "rMEiiEcEpAA-00004-00004625-00005372": "”.Now, the President’s respect and appreciation for this nation’s heroes is well documented", "rMEiiEcEpAA-00005-00005372-00005999": "Trump loves our military veterans, so do you really think he could refuse such a request?", "rMEiiEcEpAA-00006-00005999-00006795": "Of course he couldn’t!.Trump quickly agreed to make this veteran’s dream come true, and swore he’d make it happen", "rMEiiEcEpAA-00007-00006795-00007475": "Well, Presidents are busy people … and other Presidents might’ve forgotten about such a promise", "rMEiiEcEpAA-00008-00007475-00008572": "After all, Trump has the weight of the country – and often the entire world! – on his shoulders, so nobody would blame him if his promise disappeared under that weight", "rMEiiEcEpAA-00009-00008572-00009755": "But Donald Trump did NOT forget, and it’s worth seeing.Last Thursday, he made good on his word and invited Jones, along with three other WWII vets, to the Oval Office", "rMEiiEcEpAA-00010-00009755-00010539": "And yes, Trump timed it so the visit would land on Jones’ 95th birthday, just like he requested!", "rMEiiEcEpAA-00011-00010539-00011244": "Trump tossed up a tweet citing the happy event, and included a video of his initial interaction with Jones", "rMEiiEcEpAA-00012-00011244-00012270": "Beautiful afternoon in the Oval Office today with a few great American HEROES!.“Beautiful afternoon in the Oval Office today with a few great American HEROES!”", "rMEiiEcEpAA-00013-00012270-00013182": "Joining Jones and Trump at the White House were Floyd Wigfield, Sidney Walton, and Paul Kriner … each of whom are over 100 years old!", "rMEiiEcEpAA-00014-00013182-00014104": "Wigfield, 101, wanted to see Air Force One.And once again, Trump just couldn’t say no to a national hero:", "rMEiiEcEpAA-00015-00014104-00015418": "“We’ll work that out,” he said. “You’ll like Air Force One.”.During their visit, Trump said how much he appreciated their service, and said they were “great heroes, great warriors, and highly respected", "rMEiiEcEpAA-00016-00015418-00016486": "”.This is how a true leader behaves, America.He thanks and honors those who serve their country, and he certainly doesn’t forget any promise he makes to them!", "rMEiiEcEpAA-00017-00016486-00017419": "Trump is a patriot and role model for youngsters across the nation; we should all follow his example when it comes to veteran appreciation"}}, {"audio_id": "rNp2BnEinCo", "text": {"rNp2BnEinCo-00000-00000571-00001665": "Treason. It is a word that has created much necessary discussion, and a good deal of literature, but not too many actual occurrences in America’s history", "rNp2BnEinCo-00001-00001665-00002504": "Individuals like Benedict Arnold and the Rosenbergs are well known for selling out their country and will forever be known as traitors", "rNp2BnEinCo-00002-00002504-00003379": "While Arnold was able to defect to Britain to live out his life, the Rosenbergs were ultimately given the death penalty for their crimes", "rNp2BnEinCo-00003-00003379-00004437": ".Discussions on the subject have gained steam due to actions by Donald Trump, and subsequent articles pointing out his behavior, over the past two years", "rNp2BnEinCo-00004-00004437-00005623": "By constantly attacking the rule of law and those actively investigating him, Trump has only exacerbated the call to increase the investigations into his malfeasance", "rNp2BnEinCo-00005-00005623-00007125": "After Trump publicly stated that investigating his personal finances would be a “red line,” it was only proper and necessary for Special Counsel Robert Muller to look into any crimes that Trump or his family committed on a personal level", "rNp2BnEinCo-00006-00007125-00008198": "While it is well known that the Trump Organization has been involved in laundering Russian money for decades, not pursuing such leads would be a dereliction of duty", "rNp2BnEinCo-00007-00008198-00009032": "That said, House Republicans spent the past two years going out of their way to ignore the facts in an effort to protect Trump", "rNp2BnEinCo-00008-00009032-00010048": "It can be demonstrably proven that Republicans in Congress have been going out of their way to insulate Trump from any political or criminal prosecutions", "rNp2BnEinCo-00009-00010048-00011981": "The main question is, why? Why would people, who have sworn an oath to protect America and our Constitution, put themselves in a position where they have so clearly sold out their nation to protect a traitor? For one to commit such an extreme crime against their country, there must be an extreme reason", "rNp2BnEinCo-00010-00011981-00013153": "At this point in time, there are few answers to that question. Perhaps some believe that their reelection requires such actions, if only to appease to Trump’s base", "rNp2BnEinCo-00011-00013153-00013971": "The more likely answer is that they are also guilty of treason and they are doing everything in their power to protect Trump and themselves"}}, {"audio_id": "rf_5TXE8Nhk", "text": {"rf_5TXE8Nhk-00000-00000571-00001446": "After Mueller cleared Trump of the Democrat investigation, the “wise” D.C. elite told Trump to let it go and let the country “heal", "rf_5TXE8Nhk-00001-00001446-00002394": "”.No way, Jose!.Trump wants answers. He started by letting Congress do their work while he kept his distance", "rf_5TXE8Nhk-00002-00002394-00003110": "But now he’s letting loose and demanding justice for his campaign. Here he comes, Hillary!", "rf_5TXE8Nhk-00003-00003110-00004027": "''Mueller, and the A.G. based on Mueller findings (and great intelligence), have already ruled No Collusion, No Obstruction", "rf_5TXE8Nhk-00004-00004027-00004891": "These were crimes committed by Crooked Hillary, the DNC, Dirty Cops and others! INVESTIGATE THE INVESTIGATORS!''", "rf_5TXE8Nhk-00005-00004891-00005758": "THEY SPIED ON MY CAMPAIGN (We will never forget)!.That’s right! I don’t know about you, but they need to pay", "rf_5TXE8Nhk-00006-00005758-00006555": "Trump called out Crooked Hillary, the Democrats, and “Dirty Cop” for their attempts to undermine his campaign", "rf_5TXE8Nhk-00007-00006555-00007550": "Those dirty cops, of course, were the FBI agents already exposed for their bias.They wanted an “insurance plan” to stop Trump from winning", "rf_5TXE8Nhk-00008-00007550-00008313": "Part of that plan was to use Hillary’s dossier to launch an investigation into Trump’s campaign", "rf_5TXE8Nhk-00009-00008313-00009023": "For over a year, Trump said his campaign was spied on. The liberal media laughed at him", "rf_5TXE8Nhk-00010-00009023-00009765": "But now Attorney General Barr is confirming Trump’s accusations.They’ve got to be scared to death now", "rf_5TXE8Nhk-00011-00009765-00010894": "Trump is demanding that the DOJ and FBI investigate the investigators. Remember what happened over Nixon and Watergate? And that was over a simple break-in at a hotel", "rf_5TXE8Nhk-00012-00010894-00011599": "This investigation involved FISA warrants, a made-up dossier, and numerous FBI agents", "rf_5TXE8Nhk-00013-00011599-00012414": "It’s much bigger than what took down Nixon.And it’s probably much worse than what even Barr is saying", "rf_5TXE8Nhk-00014-00012414-00013616": "If we don’t demand answers, criminals will walk free. The Democrats will continue to use the very same tactics to undermine future elections and destroy our democracy", "rf_5TXE8Nhk-00015-00013616-00013945": "Do you want them to get away with this?"}}, {"audio_id": "rfA267W4X7c", "text": {"rfA267W4X7c-00000-00000571-00002034": "The Trump administration on Monday canceled a deal that made it easier for Cuban baseball players to compete professionally in the United States -- a decision that swiftly drew criticism from the Cuban Baseball Federation", "rfA267W4X7c-00001-00002034-00002744": "The move rolls back another Obama-era effort aimed at warming relations between the two countries", "rfA267W4X7c-00002-00002744-00004040": "The deal, reached in December, would have allowed Cuban citizens to play Major League Baseball without being forced to defect from the communist-run island and risk being banned from returning to the island", "rfA267W4X7c-00003-00004040-00004771": "It also allowed the Cuban government to claim a fee from MLB teams that drafted Cuban players", "rfA267W4X7c-00004-00004771-00005693": "\"The agreement with MLB seeks to stop the trafficking of human beings, encourage cooperation and raise the level of baseball", "rfA267W4X7c-00005-00005693-00006931": "Attacks with political motivation against the agreement achieved harm (to) the athletes, their families and the fans,\" the state-run Cuban Baseball Federation said in a statement to CNN", "rfA267W4X7c-00006-00006931-00008120": "The original agreement was helped by an Obama-era regulatory change that allowed US employers to hire Cuban nationals despite the 60-year-old US trade embargo against Cuba", "rfA267W4X7c-00007-00008120-00009290": "During Barack Obama's second term, he attended an MLB exhibition game in Havana and efforts were made to open the door for Cuban baseball players to legally earn salaries", "rfA267W4X7c-00008-00009290-00010403": "The White House, however, argued Monday that the Cuban Baseball Federation is part of the Cuban government, which caused the deal to be nullified as trade with Cuba is banned", "rfA267W4X7c-00009-00010403-00011476": "The Trump administration has reversed parts of the Obama administration opening to Cuba and blames Havana for the turmoil taking place in socialist ally Venezuela", "rfA267W4X7c-00010-00011476-00013146": "National Security Council spokesman Garrett Marquis said in a statement that \"The US does not support actions that would institutionalize a system by which a Cuban government entity garnishes the wages of hard-working athletes who simply seek to live and compete in a free society", "rfA267W4X7c-00011-00013146-00014509": "\".Marquis added that the administration \"looks forward\" to working with the MLB to \"identify ways for Cuban players to have the individual freedom to benefit from their talents, and not as property of the Cuban State", "rfA267W4X7c-00012-00014509-00015447": "\".The MLB on Monday said they \"stand by the goal of the agreement, which is to end the human trafficking of baseball players from Cuba", "rfA267W4X7c-00013-00015447-00016709": "\".The initial deal, which was expected to run through October 2021, allowed Cuban players to sign with clubs under rules similar to those for players from Japan and South Korea", "rfA267W4X7c-00014-00016709-00017620": "Previously, players regularly paid criminal gangs to smuggle them from Cuba to third countries where they could sign as free agents", "rfA267W4X7c-00015-00017620-00018487": "Players who were over 25 years old would be free to sign with organizations that paid a \"release fee\" to the Cuban club", "rfA267W4X7c-00016-00018487-00019334": "Other players could sign minor league deals.The Washington Post first reported that the deal had been canceled"}}, {"audio_id": "s9HSiEMU19o", "text": {"s9HSiEMU19o-00000-00000571-00002206": "Thursday on MSNBC’s “Live,” Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA) said President Donald Trump’s “victory lap” over Attorney General William Barr’s four-page letter summarizing special counsel Robert Mueller’s report is “very premature", "s9HSiEMU19o-00001-00002206-00002966": "”.When asked if she believes there is evidence of collusion, Speier said, “I hate the word collusion", "s9HSiEMU19o-00002-00002966-00003823": "It is conspiracy or coordination. Was there an interest in coordination with the Russians? You bet there was", "s9HSiEMU19o-00003-00003823-00004740": "‘I love it’ what Don Jr. said when he got the e-mail and was asked if he wanted to meet with the Russians who had dirt on Hillary Clinton", "s9HSiEMU19o-00004-00004740-00005892": "You have Paul Manafort meeting in a cigar bar in New York City with Konstantin Kilimnik who has ties with the Russian GBU which is their KGB, their spy operations", "s9HSiEMU19o-00005-00005892-00007365": "He hands them polling data? I think it is pretty clear there was an effort to engage, and of course, the hacking of the DNC and the dump and the president is saying, you know Russia show us where the e-mails are for Clinton", "s9HSiEMU19o-00006-00007365-00008344": "”.She added, “It is so interesting that we spent the last week basically spouting on what the president have said when we have not seen the report", "s9HSiEMU19o-00007-00008344-00009523": "Republicans and Democrats should wait to see the report. Let’s see how damning if it is damming about the obstruction of justice and the interest in cooperating or coordinating", "s9HSiEMU19o-00008-00009523-00010160": "I think this is far from over. I think the victory lap is very premature"}}, {"audio_id": "suI0QhHsEp0", "text": {"suI0QhHsEp0-00000-00000624-00000824": "як глядзець на вечар напярэдадні новага года", "suI0QhHsEp0-00001-00011782-00011894": "антось сівых", "suI0QhHsEp0-00002-00011914-00011984": "музыка кевіна маклеода", "suI0QhHsEp0-00003-00012016-00012094": "менск", "suI0QhHsEp0-00004-00012242-00012400": "ліцэнзія creative commons attribution"}}, {"audio_id": "svcTRAvorGA", "text": {"svcTRAvorGA-00000-00000571-00002101": "The federal government is doing a worse job managing the problem of climate change under President Donald Trump, according to an investigation from the Government Accountability Office that included climate change on its High Risk List report on Wednesday", "svcTRAvorGA-00001-00002101-00003361": "This year's High Risk List is a 293-page assessment of the threats facing the federal government, including such matters as cybersecurity and problems at the Department of Veterans Affairs", "svcTRAvorGA-00002-00003361-00004957": "The GAO has been putting the list together since 1990 and delivers it to Congress every two years to make legislators aware of the programs that it considers most vulnerable to mismanagement, fraud, waste or abuse and most in need of fixing", "svcTRAvorGA-00003-00004957-00006892": "Testifying Wednesday before the Senate Appropriations Homeland Security Subcommittee, GAO Comptroller General Eugene Louis Dodaro said that of the many areas that need improvement, \"three areas have actually regressed,\" and limiting the federal government's fiscal exposure by better managing climate change risks is one of them", "svcTRAvorGA-00004-00006892-00007929": "Also in that category were the Environmental Protection Agency's process for assessing and controlling toxic chemicals and NASA acquisition management", "svcTRAvorGA-00005-00007929-00009382": "Because the government has revoked policies that had partially addressed climate change and has not taken steps recommended in previous reports, this high-risk area requires \"significant attention,\" the new report says", "svcTRAvorGA-00006-00009382-00010829": "The government had been making big strides in improving its leadership on climate change in the Obama administration, according to past reports, but it \"has not made measurable progress since 2017,\" the latest report says", "svcTRAvorGA-00007-00010829-00012028": "Climate change, in particular the severe storms it brings, has cost the American taxpayer nearly half a trillion dollars since 2015, the report says", "svcTRAvorGA-00008-00012028-00012655": "\"The last several years have been some of the most costly in US history,\" Dodaro said", "svcTRAvorGA-00009-00012655-00013961": "Mark Gaffigan, managing director of the GAO's natural resources and environment team, explained that there have been 241 billion-dollar events, an average of six a year, since 1980", "svcTRAvorGA-00010-00013961-00014572": "In recent years, there have been many more: an average of about 15 a year"}}, {"audio_id": "sFq-NeXqsDE", "text": {"sFq-NeXqsDE-00000-00000571-00001587": "It seems like hardly a day goes by without some new report of stunning corruption or barely concealed criminality emerging about the Trump administration", "sFq-NeXqsDE-00001-00001587-00002914": "Like clockwork, the pile of clear ethics violations grows higher and higher, and it’s only a matter of time before the whole thing comes crashing down and destroys this disastrous regime once and for all", "sFq-NeXqsDE-00002-00002914-00004865": "Now, The New York Times reports that in the summer of 2017 an attorney working for President Trump contacted attorneys representing his former Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort and disgraced former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn to discuss the possibility of presidential pardons for their crimes", "sFq-NeXqsDE-00003-00004865-00006344": "Flynn has pleaded guilty making false statements to the FBI. Manafort has pleaded guilty to numerous crimes including fraud and conspiracy against the United States and has already voided his plea deal by lying to investigators", "sFq-NeXqsDE-00004-00006344-00007639": "“The discussions raised questions about whether the president was willing to offer pardons to influence their decisions about whether to plead guilty and cooperate in the Mueller investigation,” reports The Times", "sFq-NeXqsDE-00005-00007639-00009567": "The fact that the administration even entertained the idea of extending pardons to two obviously guilty men — with Manafort in particular seeming by all indications to be a vile, lifelong criminal — shows just how desperate Trump was and presumably still remains to save himself from the Mueller investigation", "sFq-NeXqsDE-00006-00009567-00011202": "If the president was worried about what Flynn and Manafort might tell the Special Counsel, it seems a safe presumption that they knew some damning things about the president himself, possibly about collusion with the Russian Federation to steal the 2016 election", "sFq-NeXqsDE-00007-00011202-00012187": "With reports that Mueller will soon conclude his probe and release his findings, it’s only a matter of time before we finally find out the whole truth", "sFq-NeXqsDE-00008-00012187-00012845": "Judging by Trump’s repeated suspicious behavior, he’s terrified of that fact"}}, {"audio_id": "sVcmrTX3oC0", "text": {"sVcmrTX3oC0-00000-00000513-00002213": "The tragic mass shooting in New Zealand which claimed 49 innocent lives and injured numerous others today was carried out by a vile white nationalist who hates Muslims and immigrants and who views President Donald Trump as a “symbol of renewed white identity and common purpose", "sVcmrTX3oC0-00001-00002213-00003653": "” One of his stated goals was to deepen cultural divides in the United States.When asked about the mass murder today, Trump gave an absolutely disgusting response by claiming that white nationalism is not a rising problem", "sVcmrTX3oC0-00002-00003653-00004629": "In reality, it’s an indisputable fact that hate crimes in America have increased in number since he ascended to the Oval Office", "sVcmrTX3oC0-00003-00004629-00005567": "Trump himself has emboldened these monsters with his constant dog whistles, overt racist language, and xenophobic fearmongering", "sVcmrTX3oC0-00004-00005567-00006578": "To make things worse, he has a vested interest in ignoring the rise of white supremacist violence because a lot of the people who perpetrate it vote for him", "sVcmrTX3oC0-00005-00006578-00007289": "He can’t be expected to honestly confront the problem, and every time he does he equivocates or lies", "sVcmrTX3oC0-00006-00007289-00008216": "This is, after all, the man who said there were some very fine people on both sides of the Neo-Nazi rally and counter-rally in Charlottesville", "sVcmrTX3oC0-00007-00008216-00008916": "Now, the Prime Minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern has addressed Trump’s comments", "sVcmrTX3oC0-00008-00008916-00010078": "When asked whether she agreed with his assessment that white nationalism is a worsening global problem she replied with a simple but firm “no” before quickly moving on", "sVcmrTX3oC0-00009-00010078-00010658": "Clearly, she doesn’t take him or his comments seriously"}}, {"audio_id": "sdaUamxv2yc", "text": {"sdaUamxv2yc-00000-00000571-00002002": "It was a week of extremes for President Trump. First he raised his arms in victory after his attorney general laid out his summary of the Mueller report Sunday -- then he promptly sent his team to court to try to throw out the Affordable Care Act", "sdaUamxv2yc-00001-00002002-00003517": "Even though cries of Republicans-gutting-your-health-care were instrumental to Democrats winning the House in last year's midterm elections, there was the President touting \"no collusion\" in one breath and in the next handing the Democrats more fresh, hot ammunition", "sdaUamxv2yc-00002-00003517-00004523": "On Monday evening, the Trump Justice Department notified the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals of its support for a complete invalidation of the Affordable Care Act", "sdaUamxv2yc-00003-00004523-00006083": "\"What is especially galling about the move is that it was apparently ordered by the White House over the objections of Attorney General William Barr, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and White House Counsel Pat Cipollone,\" marveled Stephen Vladeck", "sdaUamxv2yc-00004-00006083-00006968": "\"If Barr cares at all about the long-term institutional credibility of the Justice Department, he should resign in protest", "sdaUamxv2yc-00005-00006968-00007874": "\".President Trump made an egregious political miscalculation, wrote senior CNN political commentator David Axelrod", "sdaUamxv2yc-00006-00007874-00008622": "\"Every American knows someone, and perhaps loves someone, with a chronic illness,\" Axelrod emphasized", "sdaUamxv2yc-00007-00008622-00009502": "\"Now Trump has ensured that the threat to people with pre-existing conditions will be front and center in yet another campaign", "sdaUamxv2yc-00008-00009502-00010395": "\" This certainly isn't what most Trump voters were signing up for in 2016, asserted Jamelle Bouie in The New York Times", "sdaUamxv2yc-00009-00010395-00011484": "Jill Filipovic saw an immoral decision that put ego and Trump's desire to erase Barack Obama's legacy first, and Americans' lives second", "sdaUamxv2yc-00010-00011484-00012942": "\"Make America Great Again? This administration wants to make us sick again,\" observed Filipovic, \"and it's no exaggeration to say that if they succeed, a great many Americans will go bankrupt; some will die", "sdaUamxv2yc-00011-00012942-00013859": "\".The most important arbiter of the ACA's fate -- should it end up back in the Supreme Court, as is likely -- won't be Donald Trump at all", "sdaUamxv2yc-00012-00013859-00015698": "In his analysis of Joan Biskupic's recent biography of Chief Justice John Roberts, Bloomberg Opinion's Ramesh Ponnuru noted that Roberts' vote to save Obamacare seven years ago suggests that he \"is reluctant to move against Obamacare even when considering a case he thinks has real merit", "sdaUamxv2yc-00013-00015698-00017511": "\"Education Secretary Betsy DeVos drew enormous public backlash after her appearance before the House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday, where she faced sharp questions over a proposed $18 million cut to the Special Olympics -- part of a broader 12% overall decrease in the education budget", "sdaUamxv2yc-00014-00017511-00019397": "DeVos' comments to Congress showed \"an obvious misunderstanding of the societal benefits of programs that support individuals with special needs,\" wrote Steve Cammarota, whose teenage son, Sam, has intellectual disabilities and whose family has participated in the Special Olympics", "sdaUamxv2yc-00015-00019397-00020987": "Two days later, \"hearing a loud and bipartisan outcry,\" President Trump announced the planned cuts would be scrapped, exulted Maria Shriver (whose mother, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, founded the Special Olympics) and former Ohio Gov", "sdaUamxv2yc-00016-00020987-00023064": "John Kasich. Singling out Special Olympics programs that fortify inclusion for all students in public schools as a \"cause that unites us all,\" Shriver and Kasich also noted that Trump's \"swift response is a lesson for all Americans about what can be achieved when we come together (and) rise above our partisan concerns", "sdaUamxv2yc-00017-00023064-00023775": "\".Not everyone found such consensus with the President this week. Puerto Rico Gov", "sdaUamxv2yc-00018-00023775-00025287": "Ricardo Rosselló, who said he was frustrated by his inability to get a meeting with Trump about ongoing recovery issues after 2017's Hurricane Maria, had some tough talk for the President: \"If the bully gets close, I'll punch him in the mouth", "sdaUamxv2yc-00019-00025287-00026222": ". It would be a mistake to confuse courtesy with courage.\" The sentiment is \"completely understandable,\" empathized Raul Reyes", "sdaUamxv2yc-00020-00026222-00026969": "\"But just as it is a mistake to confuse courtesy with courage, it is a mistake to confuse anger with strength", "sdaUamxv2yc-00021-00026969-00027667": "sinking to (Trump's) vulgar level will likely not benefit Rosselló or his constituents", "sdaUamxv2yc-00022-00027667-00028197": "\" He urged Rossello to keep making his case for aid, instead"}}, {"audio_id": "sgx455HWbBc", "text": {"sgx455HWbBc-00000-00000571-00001548": "In addition to everything that’s outright objectionable and quantifiably harmful about him, Donald Trump is also a just plain weird guy", "sgx455HWbBc-00001-00001548-00002180": "Maybe it’s because he’s been playing a cartoon character version of himself for too long", "sgx455HWbBc-00002-00002180-00003206": "Maybe it’s because his faculties are slipping. Or maybe it’s because he tries so overzealously to pander to the most low information of voters", "sgx455HWbBc-00003-00003206-00004957": "In any case, Trump is having an even weirder day than usual.Donald Trump started the day with this surreal tweet, which is – if nothing else – a reminder that he’ll watch just about anything that Fox News decides to put on the air: “So weird to watch Crazy Bernie on Fox News", "sgx455HWbBc-00004-00004957-00006764": "Not surprisingly, Bret Baier and the “audience” was so smiley and nice. Very strange, and now we have Donna Brazile?” What’s interesting here of course is that he’s not so subtly attacking Fox, both for supposedly being too soft on Bernie, and for hiring a Democrat like Brazile", "sgx455HWbBc-00005-00006764-00008525": "Of course he doesn’t hate everyone on Fox News. After Trump tweeted “No Collusion – No Obstruction!” this morning with no context, he repeated those same four words this afternoon, this time attached to a video of a Fox segment that was sycophantic toward him", "sgx455HWbBc-00006-00008525-00009862": "Okay, we get it. He still likes the specific Fox hosts who are still kissing up to him, even if he’s attacking Fox News overall for no longer spending the entire day trying to help him", "sgx455HWbBc-00007-00009862-00011372": "Donald Trump is preparing for William Barr to release a dishonestly redacted mutilation of the Mueller report that will make Trump look far better than the real Mueller report does, but will nonetheless make him look rather bad, as Barr can’t redact everything", "sgx455HWbBc-00008-00011372-00012372": "Even as Trump continues to falsely claim that the report exonerates him, he’s making a point of attacking his own favorite TV news outlet", "sgx455HWbBc-00009-00012372-00013383": "Perhaps he’s giving away that he knows even Fox is going to give him significant negative coverage once the dirt in the Mueller report starts to surface this week"}}, {"audio_id": "sjoMfxdV-h4", "text": {"sjoMfxdV-h4-00000-00000571-00001508": "Donald Trump’s about to wish that he never became involved with Russia, because we’re seeing this blow up in the president’s face in real time", "sjoMfxdV-h4-00001-00001508-00002431": ".A video has just resurfaced that has caught The Donald in a major lie regarding his relationship with Russian mob-linked felon Felix Sater", "sjoMfxdV-h4-00002-00002431-00003862": "As with all of his shady dealings with Russians, the president tried to hide it.The footage, which was taken two years ago, shows Trump fleeing a BBC interview when he is asked by the interviewer about his connection with Sater", "sjoMfxdV-h4-00003-00003862-00004505": "This old video was brought to light by The Democratic Coalition co-founder Scott Dworkin", "sjoMfxdV-h4-00004-00004505-00005743": "You can watch it below.Dworkin continued to call Trump out and even posted a video of the president confessing that he knew Sater (and lying under oath – no surprise at all!)", "sjoMfxdV-h4-00005-00005743-00006641": "And the plot thickens as Dworkin continued to expose the president. It turns out that Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr", "sjoMfxdV-h4-00006-00006641-00007436": "also has quite the history with Sater, and starting doing business with the felon over a decade ago!", "sjoMfxdV-h4-00007-00007436-00008493": "This is of great interest at the moment, because Michael Cohen will return to Congress on March 6th and could reveal some very damaging information about Trump", "sjoMfxdV-h4-00008-00008493-00009392": "Sater will publicly testify on March 14th, and this could very well be the destruction of Trump’s lies about Russia"}}, {"audio_id": "t8hVPom6Ej8", "text": {"t8hVPom6Ej8-00000-00000571-00002478": "Peter J. Boyer writes for Esquire magazine that, with the advent of Donald J. Trump in presidential politics, elite news media such as the New York Times were so triggered as to abandon the norms of traditional journalism – most significantly, the heralded posture of neutrality", "t8hVPom6Ej8-00001-00002478-00003899": "When the closing gavels came down on the 2016 political conventions, the news cycle did not ease into the usual midsummer lull but instead locked directly into a state of high alarm, with Donald J", "t8hVPom6Ej8-00002-00003899-00006101": "Trump at its center. In the days following Trump’s nomination, there came reports of senior Republican officials considering ways to replace him on the ballot (ABC News), of “suicidal” despair inside the Trump campaign (CNBC), and of a growing list of Republican leaders who planned to publicly support Hillary Clinton (Time)", "t8hVPom6Ej8-00003-00006101-00007117": "Fox News reported that friends of Trump’s were planning to stage an intervention, involving his family, in hopes of saving his candidacy", "t8hVPom6Ej8-00004-00007117-00007812": "But amid those passing controversies was one story that Trump himself remembers clearly still", "t8hVPom6Ej8-00005-00007812-00009658": "“Yep, very famous story,” he remarked to me in a recent interview. “It was a very important story…” Trump was referring to a front-page New York Timesarticle published on August 8, 2016, under the headline “The Challenge Trump Poses to Objectivity", "t8hVPom6Ej8-00006-00009658-00010473": "” The opening paragraph posed a provocative question:.“If you’re a working journalist and you believe that Donald J", "t8hVPom6Ej8-00007-00010473-00012114": "Trump is a demagogue playing to the nation’s worst racist and nationalistic tendencies, that he cozies up to anti-American dictators and that he would be dangerous with control of the United States nuclear codes, how the heck are you supposed to cover him?”"}}, {"audio_id": "tzHVMuctQ7y", "text": {"tzHVMuctQ7y-00000-00000513-00001701": "Bernie Sanders hit the campaign trail on Friday night, rallying a crowd of students at the University of Iowa with promises of “Medicare for all” and an end to the Trump administration", "tzHVMuctQ7y-00001-00001701-00003224": "“This is a campaign that not only is going to win the Democratic nomination … that is not only going to defeat Donald Trump -- the most dangerous president in modern American history -- but this campaign is about more than that,” Sanders, I-Vt", "tzHVMuctQ7y-00002-00003224-00004078": ", said to a cheering crowd.The campaign, the senator argued, is “about transforming this country” so that the U", "tzHVMuctQ7y-00003-00004078-00005742": "S. “works for all – not just the 1 percent.”.“We will no longer tolerate the greed of Wall Street, the greed of corporate America and the greed of the billionaire class,” Sanders went on to say before specifically calling out the health insurance and pharmaceutical industries", "tzHVMuctQ7y-00004-00005742-00006748": "“I know you have unlimited amounts of money,” Sanders said. “Whether you like it or not, this country will pass a Medicare-for-all, single-payer system", "tzHVMuctQ7y-00005-00006748-00008211": "Today we say to the partners in crime of the insurance company, the pharmaceutical industry: You will no longer continue to rip off the American people and charge us, by far, the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs", "tzHVMuctQ7y-00006-00008211-00009410": "”.The idea is not a new one for the candidate, who is currently seeking the Democratic nomination -- as he did unsuccessfully in 2016 -- despite being a longtime independent", "tzHVMuctQ7y-00007-00009410-00010123": "Last month, he told a told a CNN town hall that health care should be a “human right” and that the U", "tzHVMuctQ7y-00008-00010123-00010839": "S. “shamefully” was the only major country on Earth “not to guarantee health care to all people", "tzHVMuctQ7y-00009-00010839-00011774": "” He argued that the only “cost-effective” way to give all Americans health insurance would be with a “Medicare-for-all single-payer program", "tzHVMuctQ7y-00010-00011774-00012871": "”.He leaned into the idea on Friday night. “We say to the insurance companies and we say to the drug companies – a new day is coming to America for health care,” he said", "tzHVMuctQ7y-00011-00012871-00013871": "Sanders, not surprisingly, refrained from criticizing his fellow Democratic candidates and instead aimed his criticism at the president", "tzHVMuctQ7y-00012-00013871-00015193": "“Donald Trump embarrasses us every single day,” Sanders said. “President Trump, you don’t work for working people when you introduce legislation that would’ve overturned insurance for 32 million people", "tzHVMuctQ7y-00013-00015193-00016752": "”.The senator, who said the basics of his campaign will revolve around “justice, racial justice and environmental justice,” also criticized the role of major money in political campaigns before touting his own campaign’s financial roots", "tzHVMuctQ7y-00014-00016752-00017494": "“My friends, we are going to win this election, not because we have a super-PAC funded by billionaires", "tzHVMuctQ7y-00015-00017494-00018346": "We are going to win this election because we are going to put together the strongest grassroots coalition in the history of our country", "tzHVMuctQ7y-00016-00018346-00019310": "“There is an enormous amount of work to do – let us do it.”.Sanders, 77, announced his second run for president last month", "tzHVMuctQ7y-00017-00019310-00020159": "He lost the Democratic nomination in 2016 to Hillary Clinton, who in turn was defeated by Trump"}}, {"audio_id": "tCK8272KJ5U", "text": {"tCK8272KJ5U-00000-00000571-00001556": "As Special Counsel Robert Mueller zeroes in on Donald Trump and his corrupt family, the president’s lies are being exposed one by one", "tCK8272KJ5U-00001-00001556-00002587": "And that’s not even the only thing Trump has to worry about — even his closest confidants and those who know him best are turning on him, revealing the truth to America", "tCK8272KJ5U-00002-00002587-00004066": ".Trump biographer David Cay Johnston knows the president better than most, and in a report in the Daily Beast the biographer revealed a stunning reason why the president might be fighting so hard to keep his tax returns from becoming public", "tCK8272KJ5U-00003-00004066-00005351": "After Michael Cohen’s brutal testimony this week, the president’s finances were in question after the former Trump lawyer stated the president had inflated his net worth countless times over his career", "tCK8272KJ5U-00004-00005351-00007723": "This has inspired Johnston to back Cohen up, and deliver a bombshell that no one saw coming — Trump actually might be broke! In talking about Trump’s failed attempt to buy the Buffalo Bills, Johnston said:''Trump’s financial fakery is good enough to fool millions of Americans, but not the members of the most exclusive rich people’s club in America, the National Football League team owners", "tCK8272KJ5U-00005-00007723-00009045": "What Trump does is spend enough money to create the appearance of being a billionaire, something I’ve been reporting since I got hold of his financial statement in 1990, which showed he was no billionaire''", "tCK8272KJ5U-00006-00009045-00010552": "Johnston also stated that Trump isn’t even close to being a billionaire, even though the president continues to claim he is one:''Creating a lifestyle that lets him pose as a billionaire costs less than $12 million annually, I estimate", "tCK8272KJ5U-00007-00010552-00011584": "And he achieves that not through building wealth, but through his work as a financial locust who devours other people’s money through moving from one shady deal to the next", "tCK8272KJ5U-00008-00011584-00012258": "Along the way he cheats banks, investors, workers, and governments at all levels''", "tCK8272KJ5U-00009-00012258-00013015": "When Trump’s facade is finally broken, it’s going to be a SAD day for the president and his fans"}}, {"audio_id": "tEZ3dMlqZSQ", "text": {"tEZ3dMlqZSQ-00000-00000513-00002226": "Donald Trump is once again posing a possible threat to the country’s safety. Earlier today, it was reported by Mother Jones that Trump had connections to a prostitution-front Florida massage parlor after photos surfaced of Trump posing with its founder, Li “Cindy” Yang", "tEZ3dMlqZSQ-00001-00002226-00003543": "It was discovered that Yang had “an investment business that has offered to sell Chinese clients access to Trump and his family”, which is now being flagged as a national security risk by an intelligence expert", "tEZ3dMlqZSQ-00002-00003543-00004922": "David Rothkopf, a Carnegie-endowed intelligence and national security expert, has stated that if Yang’s massage parlor was actually giving the Chinese access to Trump, he could be putting the country in grave danger", "tEZ3dMlqZSQ-00003-00004922-00006607": "Rothkopf said:\"If the president of the United States is letting a Chinese madam sell access at Mar-a-Lago to Chinese business people while his friends are getting serviced at businesses she started, he is making himself and the country vulnerable to massive blackmail risk", "tEZ3dMlqZSQ-00004-00006607-00007482": "”.He also said that if it were true, it’d be “a textbook story of how foreign actors gain leverage over senior officials", "tEZ3dMlqZSQ-00005-00007482-00008166": "”.Rothkopf stressed just how important the details in the Mother Jones report were", "tEZ3dMlqZSQ-00006-00008166-00010180": "He said:\"If the Steele dossier had contained speculation that the president and his family were giving access to a Chinese woman who runs a string of sex spas where rich, powerful friends of the president were getting sexual services, would it have been any less shocking or disturbing than alleged stories about golden showers with Russian hookers?”", "tEZ3dMlqZSQ-00007-00010180-00010920": "This case deserves further investigation by the FBI and perhaps Congressional investigators", "tEZ3dMlqZSQ-00008-00010920-00012884": "But, the story of Cindy Yang and her profitable venture in Trumpworld, based on what we know today, without an additional fact coming to light, underscores yet again both how unfit the president is for office and how his business practices and associations have created a national security risk for the United States", "tEZ3dMlqZSQ-00009-00012884-00013506": "”.Once again, the president’s actions humiliate and endanger the country"}}, {"audio_id": "tp3spJ1o6ag", "text": {"tp3spJ1o6ag-00000-00000571-00001404": "President Donald Trump ridiculed establishment Democrats Tuesday for supporting the Green New Deal because they were afraid of Rep", "tp3spJ1o6ag-00001-00001404-00002546": "Alexandria-Ocasio Cortez.“The Green New Deal,” Trump said. “Done by a young bartender, 29-years-old, a young bartender, wonderful young woman", "tp3spJ1o6ag-00002-00002546-00003629": "”. .Trump discussed the proposal during an NRCC fundraising dinner and said it was “the craziest thing” that Democrats were flocking behind the proposal", "tp3spJ1o6ag-00003-00003629-00004823": "“It’s crazy … you have senators that are professionals that you guys know, that have been there for a long time, white hair, everything perfect, and they’re standing behind her", "tp3spJ1o6ag-00004-00004823-00006035": "They’re  shaking, they’re petrified,” he marveled.Trump said that he could not believe the ridiculous plan but said he was calling it a “wonderful thing” so he could run against it in 2020", "tp3spJ1o6ag-00005-00006035-00006678": "“If they beat me with the Green New Deal, I deserve to lose,” Trump concluded"}}, {"audio_id": "tROr2UhEoty", "text": {"tROr2UhEoty-00000-00000571-00001448": "Judge Jeanine Pirro’s show “Justice” was replaced Saturday night by Fox News without any explanation from the network", "tROr2UhEoty-00001-00001448-00002159": "“Justice with Judge Jeanine” has been the highest-rated program at the Saturday night time slot", "tROr2UhEoty-00002-00002159-00003094": "After the Judge questioned Rep. Ilhan Omar’s adherence to Sharia law, hardcore leftists have waged a war to remove her", "tROr2UhEoty-00003-00003094-00004152": "Well, now President Donald Trump just destroyed Fox News. Don’t miss this.Judge Jeanine Pirro’s show didn’t air on Saturday night", "tROr2UhEoty-00004-00004152-00005419": "Fox News ran a re-run of a show called “Scandalous” during its time slot. The former Westchester County DA came under fire from the usual suspects on the left for questioning Rep", "tROr2UhEoty-00005-00005419-00006508": "Omar’s recent anti-Semitic remarks and asking if the Congresswoman’s adherence to Sharia law was affecting her ability to be true to the Constitution", "tROr2UhEoty-00006-00006508-00007561": "“Pirro is facing criticism after appearing to suggest on her program last Saturday that Omar wears a hijab in defiance of the Constitution", "tROr2UhEoty-00007-00007561-00008224": "‘Think about this: She’s not getting this anti-Israel sentiment doctrine from the Democrat Party", "tROr2UhEoty-00008-00008224-00009105": "So if it’s not rooted in the party, where is she getting it from?’ Pirro asked during her opening segment,” Breitbart reported", "tROr2UhEoty-00009-00009105-00010230": "Judge Jeanine added, “Think about it. Omar wears a hijab, which according to the Quran 33:59, tells women to cover so they won’t get molested", "tROr2UhEoty-00010-00010230-00011236": "Is her adherence to this Islamic doctrine indicative of her adherence to Sharia law, which in itself is antithetical to the United States Constitution?”", "tROr2UhEoty-00011-00011236-00012589": "But that’s not all. Pirro’s remarks weren’t just about the “hijab.” They also included the ridiculous “Hate Resolution” that the Democrats signed as a response to Omar’s anti-Semitic statements", "tROr2UhEoty-00012-00012589-00013485": "“[Ilhan Omar] is clear and pointed in her hatred,” Judge Jeanine said. “Her comments are only critical of Jews and Israel", "tROr2UhEoty-00013-00013485-00014964": "Not Italy, not Morrocco, not North Korea, but Israel. The fact [Nancy Pelosi] didn’t have the backbone, grit, or gumption to draft a resolution that included her name tells me [Pelosi is] the stupid one''", "tROr2UhEoty-00014-00014964-00015768": "In a statement to Deadline, a Fox News spokesperson said the network would not comment on “internal scheduling matters", "tROr2UhEoty-00015-00015768-00016685": "” Fox News denounced Pirro’s comments last Sunday, saying in a statement: “We strongly condemn Jeanine Pirro’s comments about Rep", "tROr2UhEoty-00016-00016685-00017437": "Ilhan Omar. They do not reflect those of the network and we have addressed the matter with her directly''", "tROr2UhEoty-00017-00017437-00018284": "But the vast majority of Fox News viewers are outraged over the condemnation of Judge Jeanine by the Fox News network", "tROr2UhEoty-00018-00018284-00019658": "Now that the network felt the need to replace the airing of her show last Saturday, President Trump went on a Twitter rant decrying Fox News for alienating their viewers with PC garbage and excoriating the decision", "tROr2UhEoty-00019-00019658-00020969": "“Bring back @JudgeJeanine Pirro. The Radical Left Democrats, working closely with their beloved partner, the Fake News Media, is using every trick in the book to SILENCE a majority of our Country", "tROr2UhEoty-00020-00020969-00021912": "They have all out campaigns against @FoxNews hosts who are doing too well. Fox must stay strong and fight back with vigor", "tROr2UhEoty-00021-00021912-00022735": "Stop working soooo hard on being politically correct, which will only bring you down, and continue to fight for our Country", "tROr2UhEoty-00022-00022735-00023440": "The losers all want what you have, don’t give it to them. Be strong & prosper, be weak & die!”", "tROr2UhEoty-00023-00023440-00024292": "Trump added, “Stay true to the people that got you there. Keep fighting for Tucker, and fight hard for @JudgeJeanine", "tROr2UhEoty-00024-00024292-00025112": "Your competitors are jealous – they all want what you’ve got – NUMBER ONE. Don’t hand it to them on a silver platter", "tROr2UhEoty-00025-00025112-00025522": "They can’t beat you, you can only beat yourselves!”"}}, {"audio_id": "tUFDOcUAB1A", "text": {"tUFDOcUAB1A-00000-00000000-00001136": "Donald Trump spent Sunday tweeting things that were so over the top, even by his ludicrous standards, we had to check to make sure it wasn’t coming from a Twitter parody account", "tUFDOcUAB1A-00001-00001136-00002314": "By the time he was finished accusing Alec Baldwin of “collusion” and vowing “retaliation” against NBC, it was clear that Trump knew something was very, very wrong", "tUFDOcUAB1A-00002-00002314-00003226": "The big question, of course, is what Donald Trump is suddenly trying to distract us from and/or take out his frustrations over", "tUFDOcUAB1A-00003-00003226-00004056": "One of his tweets seemed to tip off that he thinks his kids are going to be indicted and arrested soon, but it’s more than that", "tUFDOcUAB1A-00004-00004056-00005088": "No one is necessarily expecting Trump’s kids to be arrested today, yet Trump seems to be trying to distract from something that could indeed land today or tomorrow", "tUFDOcUAB1A-00005-00005088-00006425": "The easiest way for someone like Trump to know what’s coming next is when a major media outlet is about to expose something big in one of his scandals, and asks him if he wants to provide comment for the story", "tUFDOcUAB1A-00006-00006425-00007820": "We’ve seen any number of instances of Trump lashing out in exceedingly over the top fashion, trying to create a distraction, so the bombshell story will have to compete for headline space with the controversy he’s created", "tUFDOcUAB1A-00007-00007820-00009064": "It never seems to work out in his favor, yet the pattern is nonetheless there.So here we are on Monday morning, and we’re left to wonder what Donald Trump knows is coming that we don’t", "tUFDOcUAB1A-00008-00009064-00009915": "His criminal scandals are expanding to the point that they’re overlapping with each other, so we could end up seeing anything surface today", "tUFDOcUAB1A-00009-00009915-00010492": "Stay tuned – this can’t possibly be good news for him"}}, {"audio_id": "tcote-EHGWg", "text": {"tcote-EHGWg-00000-00000571-00001420": "Two soap operas starring Donald Trump are airing live today, and the leader of the free world is the villain in both", "tcote-EHGWg-00001-00001420-00002151": "Each story is playing out live in two different parts of the world, with nonstop reporting and analysis", "tcote-EHGWg-00002-00002151-00002969": "No matter what happens, today is certain to feature jaw-dropping episodes, shocking revelations, and insane tweets", "tcote-EHGWg-00003-00002969-00003964": "By the time we put our phones down and go to sleep tonight, we will surely feel catapulted into a new chapter of understanding the real Donald Trump", "tcote-EHGWg-00004-00003964-00004917": "One story is playing out in Hanoi, where Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un are meeting before a second summit formally kicks off tomorrow", "tcote-EHGWg-00005-00004917-00005787": "Evidence of Kim’s credentials as an oppressive dictator is overwhelming, as is his history of antagonism toward the United States", "tcote-EHGWg-00006-00005787-00006942": "In a scathing December 2017 report, the International Bar Association War Crimes Committee urged prosecution against Kim for 10 out of 11 crimes against humanity", "tcote-EHGWg-00007-00006942-00007822": "But as with everything else, Trump trusts his gut and ignores any fact that interferes with his desired outcome", "tcote-EHGWg-00008-00007822-00008966": "Trump met Kim at the first summit in Singapore in June 2018 after being smitten by an oversized letter targeted at his ego and personally delivered by Kim’s envoy", "tcote-EHGWg-00009-00008966-00009630": "Trump claimed to have sized up Kim in a few seconds, professing his trust for the dictator", "tcote-EHGWg-00010-00009630-00011009": "Kim returned the sentiment and the two became besties. Their long-distance romance blossomed through more letter writing, with a dreamy-eyed Trump telling a West Virginia crowd a few months later that “we fell in love", "tcote-EHGWg-00011-00011009-00012067": "” The first summit failed to achieve its goal of denuclearization, so we now cringe as we wonder what Trump might give away in return for a “tremendous deal''"}}, {"audio_id": "tcYy49FmrrY", "text": {"tcYy49FmrrY-00000-00000513-00002111": "The US special representative for North Korea said that the United States will not accept a phased denuclearization by Pyongyang and maintained that the two nations remain closely engaged despite the collapse of the Hanoi summit in late February", "tcYy49FmrrY-00001-00002111-00003342": "\"Let me start by saying the obvious -- that diplomacy is still very much alive,\" Stephen Biegun said at the Carnegie International Nuclear Policy Conference in Washington, DC on Monday", "tcYy49FmrrY-00002-00003342-00004355": "\"While we haven't made as much progress in the six months as I would've hoped coming in on the first day, we stay closely engaged with our counterparts in North Korea", "tcYy49FmrrY-00003-00004355-00005902": "\".Biegun, speaking less than two weeks after President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un failed to reach any sort of agreement in Hanoi, suggested that the ball was in North Korea's court to negotiate in a meaningful way around the issue of denuclearization", "tcYy49FmrrY-00004-00005902-00006939": "\"We're just not there on denuclearization, and that was the issue at the summit that really challenged us to move forward with a more complete agreement,\" Biegun said", "tcYy49FmrrY-00005-00006939-00008161": "Biegun said the administration's unanimous position was to not accept incremental denuclearization from the North Koreans and denied the US had hardened its position during negotiations in Hanoi", "tcYy49FmrrY-00006-00008161-00008950": "\"There's absolutely been no difference or distinction in the US policy on denuclearization,\" he noted", "tcYy49FmrrY-00007-00008950-00009671": "However, comments from the special representative prior to the summit seemed to suggest otherwise", "tcYy49FmrrY-00008-00009671-00010940": "Speaking in late January at Stanford University, Biegun denied that the US policy was \"you do everything first and then we'll begin to think about whether or not we're going to do anything in response", "tcYy49FmrrY-00009-00010940-00012831": "\".\"That is not our policy and has not been our policy. What we're talking about is simultaneously looking at ways to improve relations, looking at ways to advance a more stable and peaceful, and ultimately, a more legal peace regime on the Korean Peninsula -- how we advance denuclearization,\" he said", "tcYy49FmrrY-00010-00012831-00013712": "Last week, a senior State Department official said that \"nobody in the administration advocates a step-by-step approach", "tcYy49FmrrY-00011-00013712-00014649": "\".Biegun, in multiple instances on Monday, failed to clarify the discrepancies in the pre- and post-summit negotiating stances", "tcYy49FmrrY-00012-00014649-00015318": "\"As is so often the case, nothing can be agreed until everything is agreed,\" he said", "tcYy49FmrrY-00013-00015318-00016099": "\"That's a clear principle that has permeated our negotiations on both sides with the North Koreans", "tcYy49FmrrY-00014-00016099-00017105": "\".\"That's not to say that we can't take steps to build confidence between the two countries, but the foundation of this policy is denuclearization", "tcYy49FmrrY-00015-00017105-00018241": "And until we can get to some point where we have the same traction on that issue that we have on the other issues, it makes it very difficult for us to move forward,\" he continued", "tcYy49FmrrY-00016-00018241-00019521": "Later when asked what those confidence building measures could be, Biegun confirmed that the US is looking to open a liaison office in North Korea in order to provide support to inspectors", "tcYy49FmrrY-00017-00019521-00020310": "Biegun noted that they \"are not there yet\" on that measure and said that it was \"just one that's been mentioned in public", "tcYy49FmrrY-00018-00020310-00022786": "\" CNN reported in mid-February that this was under consideration.The special representative also downplayed new satellite images that analysts say show activity at North Korean missile sites and urged against making any \"snap judgment\" on the significance of the images that appear to show that North Korea has begun rebuilding a portion of the Sohae facility previously used to test long-range missile engines", "tcYy49FmrrY-00019-00022786-00023944": "\"We don't know\" what Kim will decide to do in the future and that any decision to resume such testing may \"very much be his decision, and his decision alone,\" Biegun said", "tcYy49FmrrY-00020-00023944-00024664": "He also noted that Trump has \"made clear\" how disappointed he would be if testing resumed", "tcYy49FmrrY-00021-00024664-00025759": "A senior US defense official told CNN Monday that the commercial satellite imagery doesn't show anything that raises imminent alarm for the US at this time"}}, {"audio_id": "tfI_Tx5xlu8", "text": {"tfI_Tx5xlu8-00000-00000571-00001365": "Kirstjen Nielsen’s forced resignation as US secretary of homeland security is no reason to celebrate", "tfI_Tx5xlu8-00001-00001365-00002365": "Yes, she presided over the forced separation of families at the US border, notoriously housing young children in wire cages", "tfI_Tx5xlu8-00002-00002365-00003564": "But Nielsen’s departure is not likely to bring any improvement, as Donald Trump wants to replace her with someone who will carry out his anti-immigrant policies even more ruthlessly", "tfI_Tx5xlu8-00003-00003564-00004512": "The president’s immigration policies are appalling in almost every aspect. And yet they may not be the worst feature of his administration", "tfI_Tx5xlu8-00004-00004512-00005202": "Indeed, identifying its foullest aspects has become a popular American parlour game", "tfI_Tx5xlu8-00005-00005202-00007947": "Yes, he has called immigrants criminals, rapists and animals. But what about his deep misogyny or his boundless vulgarity and cruelty? Or his winking support of white supremacists? Or his withdrawal from the Paris climate accord, the Iran nuclear deal, and the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces treaty? And, of course, there is his war on the environment, on healthcare, and on the rules-based international system", "tfI_Tx5xlu8-00006-00007947-00008658": "This morbid game never ends, of course, because new contenders for the title emerge almost daily", "tfI_Tx5xlu8-00007-00008658-00009995": "Trump is a disrupting personality, and after he’s gone, we may well reflect on how such a deranged and morally challenged person could have been elected president of the world’s most powerful country in the first place", "tfI_Tx5xlu8-00008-00009995-00011006": "Advertisement.But what concerns me most is Trump’s disruption of the institutions that are necessary for the functioning of society", "tfI_Tx5xlu8-00009-00011006-00011983": "Trump’s “Maga” (Make America Great Again) agenda is, of course, not about restoring the moral leadership of the United States", "tfI_Tx5xlu8-00010-00011983-00012748": "It embodies and celebrates unbridled selfishness and self-absorption. Maga is about economics", "tfI_Tx5xlu8-00011-00012748-00013809": "But that forces us to ask: what is the basis of America’s wealth?.Adam Smith tried to provide an answer in his classic 1776 book The Wealth of Nations", "tfI_Tx5xlu8-00012-00013809-00014836": "For centuries, Smith noted, standards of living had been stagnant; then, toward the end of the 18th century, incomes start to soar", "tfI_Tx5xlu8-00013-00014836-00015554": "Why?.Smith himself was a leading light of the great intellectual movement known as the Scottish Enlightenment", "tfI_Tx5xlu8-00014-00015554-00017038": "The questioning of established authority that followed the earlier Reformation in Europe forced society to ask: how do we know the truth? How can we learn about the world around us? And how can and should we organise our society?", "tfI_Tx5xlu8-00015-00017038-00018414": "From the search for answers to these questions arose a new epistemology, based on the empiricism and scepticism of science, which came to prevail over the forces of religion, tradition and superstition", "tfI_Tx5xlu8-00016-00018414-00019394": "Over time, universities and other research institutions were established to help us to judge truth and discover the nature of our world", "tfI_Tx5xlu8-00017-00019394-00021011": "Much of what we take for granted today – from electricity, transistors and computers to lasers, modern medicine and smartphones – is the result of this new disposition, undergirded by basic scientific research (most of it financed by government)", "tfI_Tx5xlu8-00018-00021011-00022353": "The absence of royal or ecclesiastical authority to dictate how society should be organised to ensure that things worked out well, or as well as they could, meant that society had to figure it out for itself", "tfI_Tx5xlu8-00019-00022353-00023288": "But devising the institutions that would ensure society’s wellbeing was a more complicated matter than discovering the truths of nature", "tfI_Tx5xlu8-00020-00023288-00024205": "In general, one couldn’t conduct controlled experiments.A close study of past experience could, however, be informative", "tfI_Tx5xlu8-00021-00024205-00025177": "One had to rely on reasoning and discourse, recognising that no individual had a monopoly on our understandings of social organisation", "tfI_Tx5xlu8-00022-00025177-00026958": "Out of this process emerged an appreciation that governance institutions based on the rule of law, due process and checks and balances, and supported by foundational values like individual liberty and justice for all, are more likely to produce good and fair decisions", "tfI_Tx5xlu8-00023-00026958-00027943": "These institutions may not be perfect, but they have been designed so that it is more likely that flaws will be uncovered and eventually corrected", "tfI_Tx5xlu8-00024-00027943-00028842": "That process of experimentation, learning and adaptation, however, requires a commitment to ascertaining the truth", "tfI_Tx5xlu8-00025-00028842-00029758": "Americans owe much of their economic success to a rich set of truth-telling, truth-discovering and truth-verifying institutions", "tfI_Tx5xlu8-00026-00029758-00031422": "Central among them are freedom of expression and media independence. Like all people, journalists are fallible; but, as part of a robust system of checks and balances on those in positions of power, they have traditionally provided an essential public good", "tfI_Tx5xlu8-00027-00031422-00032802": "Since Smith’s day, it has been shown that a nation’s wealth depends on the creativity and productivity of its people, which can be advanced only by embracing the spirit of scientific discovery and technological innovation", "tfI_Tx5xlu8-00028-00032802-00033760": "And it depends on steady improvements in social, political and economic organisation, discovered through reasoned public discourse", "tfI_Tx5xlu8-00029-00033760-00035354": "The attack by Trump and his administration on every one of the pillars of American society, and his especially aggressive vilification of the country’s truth-seeking institutions, jeopardises its continued prosperity and very ability to function as a democracy", "tfI_Tx5xlu8-00030-00035354-00036910": "Nor do there appear to be checks on corporate giants’ efforts to capture the institutions – the courts, legislatures, regulatory agencies, and major media outlets – that are supposed to prevent them from exploiting workers and consumers", "tfI_Tx5xlu8-00031-00036910-00037600": "A dystopia previously imagined only by science fiction writers is emerging before our eyes", "tfI_Tx5xlu8-00032-00037600-00038480": "It should give us chills to think of who “wins” in this world, and who or what we might become, just in the struggle to survive"}}, {"audio_id": "u5cw6z2tPjg", "text": {"u5cw6z2tPjg-00000-00000571-00002018": "Donald Trump has become the guy who says “Tim Apple” while demanding to know the “oranges” of the Mueller probe, even as he insists that windmill noises somehow cause cancer, and his imaginary new border wall is “anti-climb", "u5cw6z2tPjg-00001-00002018-00003107": "” So it shouldn’t be particularly surprising, we suppose, that late on Monday night, Trump cryptically tweeted “Thank you Charles” before immediately deleting it", "u5cw6z2tPjg-00002-00003107-00004408": ".Even though our expectations couldn’t be much lower at this point when it comes to Donald Trump’s cognitive abilities and mental competence, the bizarre incident nonetheless left quite a few people scratching their heads", "u5cw6z2tPjg-00003-00004408-00005320": "Moments later, Trump retweeted political pundit Charles V Payne, thus giving away what his deleted “thank you” was presumably about", "u5cw6z2tPjg-00004-00005320-00006973": "But it nonetheless set off quite a bit of confusion. . .Some were left to ask if this might have anything to do with the fact that a Chinese operative was arrested at Mar-a-Lago last week after entering the property and bizarrely asking for someone named “Charles", "u5cw6z2tPjg-00005-00006973-00007992": "” Others jokingly quipped that Trump might have been referring to Charles in Charge (whose star Scott Baio is a notorious Trump supporter), or to Charles Manson", "u5cw6z2tPjg-00006-00007992-00008997": ".In any case, Donald Trump’s incoherent “Thank you Charles” moment served to underscore the argument that there is something increasingly wrong with this guy", "u5cw6z2tPjg-00007-00008997-00009961": "He just finished having a meltdown about his imaginary border wall having thirty-six doors in it, and he doesn’t want to pay for the doors", "u5cw6z2tPjg-00008-00009961-00011294": "He’s literally ranting about apples and oranges. The guy isn’t close to being mentally coherent, and as the investigations into his criminal scandals grow deeper, the cracks in his psyche appear to be widening"}}, {"audio_id": "uD9cDc14UDo", "text": {"uD9cDc14UDo-00000-00000513-00001944": "Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe said that he was “shocked” by the light sentence handed out to President Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort last week after he was found guilty of various financial crimes", "uD9cDc14UDo-00001-00001944-00003308": "\"I was really surprised by the sentence he was given. I think it’s an incredibly lenient sentence in light not just of the offenses he was convicted for, but the additional offenses that he has pled guilty to in D", "uD9cDc14UDo-00002-00003308-00004321": "C.,\" McCabe said during an appearance on CBS's \"Face the Nation.\".\"Like most people, I was shocked by how lenient the sentence was,” he added", "uD9cDc14UDo-00003-00004321-00005784": "Manafort was sentenced last week to nearly four years in prison for tax and bank fraud related to his work advising Ukrainian politicians – a sentence much less than what was called for under sentencing guidelines", "uD9cDc14UDo-00004-00005784-00006542": "Manafort has been jailed since June, so he will receive credit for the nine months he has already served", "uD9cDc14UDo-00005-00006542-00007325": "He still faces the possibility of additional time from his sentencing in a separate case in the District of Columbia", "uD9cDc14UDo-00006-00007325-00008299": "The sentence drew widespread criticism and opened up a conversation about whether the justice system treats different crimes and criminals fairly", "uD9cDc14UDo-00007-00008299-00010039": "Judge T.S. Ellis III's comment that Paul Manafort had lived an \"otherwise blameless life\" was particularly galling to those who pointed out that Manafort's past included work for people such as Philippine strongman Ferdinand Marcos and Congolese dictator Mobutu Sese Seko", "uD9cDc14UDo-00008-00010039-00012241": "Sen. Cory Booker, a Democratic presidential candidate, told \"The Late Show with Stephen Colbert\" Thursday night that the criminal justice system \"treats you better if you're rich and guilty than if you're poor and innocent\" and preys upon the most vulnerable such as \"poor folks, mentally ill folks, addicted folks and overwhelmingly black and brown folks", "uD9cDc14UDo-00009-00012241-00013140": "\".Asked if he was shocked, Booker replied, \"No, this criminal justice system can't surprise me anymore", "uD9cDc14UDo-00010-00013140-00014668": "\".Many observers raised the case of Crystal Mason, a black woman from Texas who was sentenced in state court last year to five years in prison for voting illegally in 2016, while she was on supervised release from a federal conviction", "uD9cDc14UDo-00011-00014668-00016564": "Mason said she didn't know she wasn't allowed to vote.Her lawyer, Alison Grinter, said Friday that the judge's comment about Manafort being \"blameless\" was infuriating, especially considering that he is awaiting sentencing on a different case in Washington, where he faces up to 10 more years", "uD9cDc14UDo-00012-00016564-00017369": "The Washington judge who will sentence him next week has the option to impose that sentence either concurrently or consecutively", "uD9cDc14UDo-00013-00017369-00018270": "McCabe added during his interview on Sunday that there’s “no question” Manafort will get additional time when he’s sentenced by a D", "uD9cDc14UDo-00014-00018270-00019213": "C. court judge this week, but made clear that it is not Judge Amy Berman Jackson's duty to take into account the Virginia sentencing", "uD9cDc14UDo-00015-00019213-00020712": "McCabe, who was fired from his post with the FBI last year after an internal report revealed he was not forthcoming with investigators, criticized Trump’s frequent attacks on the justice system in the country and his defense of Manafort", "uD9cDc14UDo-00016-00020712-00021629": "The former FBI deputy director, however, said that he does not believe that Trump’s comments influenced Manafort's sentencing last week", "uD9cDc14UDo-00017-00021629-00023364": "\"But the point that I try to make in [McCabe’s new book “The Threat] is to try to highlight how incredibly irresponsible and indeed corrosive statements like that from the chief executive are on the process and on the public's perception of the fairness and the effectiveness of the process", "uD9cDc14UDo-00018-00023364-00023464": "\""}}, {"audio_id": "uEyf5eSGneu", "text": {"uEyf5eSGneu-00000-00000513-00002135": "In recently released testimony, Bruce Ohr, a career Justice Department official, stated he informed the FBI that the infamous, largely discredited anti-Trump dossier authored by Christopher Steele was based on “hearsay” and not tangible evidence", "uEyf5eSGneu-00001-00002135-00003992": "Ohr said that he transmitted that information in the time period before the FBI under James Comey used the controversial dossier as central evidence in a successful FISA application to obtain a warrant to conduct surveillance on Carter Page, a former adviser to President Trump’s 2016 campaign", "uEyf5eSGneu-00002-00003992-00004987": "Comey signed the first or three FISA applications in late October 2016. All three applications reportedly cited the dossier", "uEyf5eSGneu-00003-00004987-00005831": "Ohr’s closed-door testimony was delivered last year before a joint Judiciary and Oversight Committee “task force", "uEyf5eSGneu-00004-00005831-00007090": "” A transcript of the testimony was released last week by Rep. Doug Collins of Georgia, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, and was reviewed in full by Breitbart News", "uEyf5eSGneu-00005-00007090-00008475": "In further testimony, Ohr said that he informed the FBI that the dossier material was based on hearsay: “It definitely is hearsay, and it was source information, which is what I was telling the FBI", "uEyf5eSGneu-00006-00008475-00009564": "”.As Breitbart News reported, Ohr also testified that he informed the FBI that Steele’s dossier was tied to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign", "uEyf5eSGneu-00007-00009564-00010813": ".Ohr testified that he further warned his FBI superiors that the dossier information was likely “biased” against Trump and that he thought Steele was “desperate that Trump not be elected", "uEyf5eSGneu-00008-00010813-00012140": "”.Ohr revealed that he spoke to the FBI about the role of Fusion GPS in producing the dossier, and informed the agency that his wife, Nellie Ohr, worked at the time for Fusion GPS", "uEyf5eSGneu-00009-00012140-00012819": "Ohr’s testimony raises numerous immediate issues for the FBI and separately for Comey", "uEyf5eSGneu-00010-00012819-00013879": "Comey’s FISA application to conduct surveillance did not specifically state that the FBI had information that Steele was being paid in connection with any U", "uEyf5eSGneu-00011-00013879-00014584": "S. political party, according to House documents and the redacted FISA application itself", "uEyf5eSGneu-00012-00014584-00015559": ".The application also did not say that the FBI was provided with any information that would raise issues of bias concerning Steele", "uEyf5eSGneu-00013-00015559-00017988": "Instead, Comey’s FISA application stated generally that “the FBI speculates” that Steele “was likely looking for information that could be used to discredit” Trump’s campaign — a far cry from informing the court that the dossier utilized as central evidence against Page in the FISA warrant was paid for by Trump’s primary political opponents, namely Clinton and the Democratic National Committee (DNC)", "uEyf5eSGneu-00014-00017988-00019527": "The phraseology that the FBI “speculates” on possible bias is at odds with Ohr’s testimony that he directly told the FBI about several possible avenues of bias and that he had reason to believe Steele himself was biased", "uEyf5eSGneu-00015-00019527-00020822": "In other words, Comey may have kept from the FISA court information that would at a minimum raise major questions about the dossier charges that were cited as key evidence against Page in the FISA applications", "uEyf5eSGneu-00016-00020822-00021969": "Ohr recounted maintaining direct contact with Steele even after the former British spy was terminated as an FBI source over reports that Steele was communicating with reporters", "uEyf5eSGneu-00017-00021969-00022985": "In doing so, Ohr lent credibility to the Republican House Intelligence Committee memo alleging that Ohr served as a back-channel between the FBI and Steele", "uEyf5eSGneu-00018-00022985-00025182": "In confirming that he told the FBI about his wife’s relationship with Fusion GPS prior to the first FISA application, Ohr also spotlights the GOP Intel memo’s assertion that Nellie Ohr’s connection to Fusion GPS, which produced the central piece of evidence in the FISA application, was “inexplicably concealed” from the FISA court", "uEyf5eSGneu-00019-00025182-00025984": ".Ohr also testified that he told the FBI about the connection between the Clinton campaign and the dossier", "uEyf5eSGneu-00020-00025984-00027522": "Those facts also were left out of the FISA applications. The dossier was financed by Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and the DNC via the Perkins Coie law firm, which in turn funded Fusion GPS", "uEyf5eSGneu-00021-00027522-00028996": "Here is the relevant portion of the testimony:.Mr. Gowdy.  So you specifically told the Bureau that the information you were passing on came from someone who was employed by the DNC, albeit in a somewhat triangulated way?", "uEyf5eSGneu-00022-00028996-00030414": "Mr. Ohr.  I don’t believe I used — I didn’t know they were employed by the DNC, but I certainly said, yes, that — that they were working for — you know, they were somehow working associated with the Clinton campaign", "uEyf5eSGneu-00023-00030414-00031357": "And I also told the FBI that my wife worked for Fusion GPS or was a contractor for GPS, Fusion GPS", "uEyf5eSGneu-00024-00031357-00032104": "Mr. Gowdy.  And, again, you thought it was important to tell the Bureau that for bias", "uEyf5eSGneu-00025-00032104-00033541": "Mr. Ohr.  Yes.Ohr said he told the FBI about his wife’s employment with Fusion GPS and issues with Steele’s information in an effort to inform the agency about possible bias related to Steele’s work", "uEyf5eSGneu-00026-00033541-00034554": "Ohr also confirmed that the information about credibility issues was provided to the FBI before Comey’s first FISA application citing the dossier in question:", "uEyf5eSGneu-00027-00034554-00035445": "Mr. Ratcliffe.  We’ve talked about the relevant facts that the FBI and the Department of Justice was aware of", "uEyf5eSGneu-00028-00035445-00036323": "Were they also — one that I didn’t ask you about — they were also aware of Mr. Steele’s bias against Donald Trump, were they not?", "uEyf5eSGneu-00029-00036323-00037375": "Mr. Ohr.  I provided information to the FBI when I thought Christopher Steele was, as I said, desperate that Trump not be elected", "uEyf5eSGneu-00030-00037375-00038854": "So, yes, of course, I provided that to the FBI. .Mr. Ratcliffe.  Yes. And so were the Department of Justice and the FBI also aware of Glenn Simpson’s bias against Donald Trump?", "uEyf5eSGneu-00031-00038854-00039792": "Mr. Ohr.  I certainly told the FBI that Fusion GPS was working with — doing opposition research on Donald Trump", "uEyf5eSGneu-00032-00039792-00041659": "Mr. Ratcliffe.  Okay. So, again, so the record is clear, what the Department of Justice and the FBI was aware of prior to the first FISA application was your relationship with Christopher Steele and Glenn Simpson, your wife’s relationship with Christopher Steele and Glenn Simpson, Mr", "uEyf5eSGneu-00033-00041659-00042785": "Steele’s bias against Donald Trump, Mr. Simpson’s bias against Donald Trump, your wife’s compensation for work for Glenn Simpson and Fusion GPS, correct?", "uEyf5eSGneu-00034-00042785-00043624": "Mr. Weinsheimer.  Can I have a second? [Discussion off the record.].Mr. Ohr.  Right", "uEyf5eSGneu-00035-00043624-00044483": "So just, again, to reiterate, when I spoke with the FBI, I told them my wife was working for Fusion GPS", "uEyf5eSGneu-00036-00044483-00045753": "I told them Fusion GPS was doing research on Donald Trump. You know, I don’t know if I used the term opposition research, but certainly that was my — what I tried to convey to them", "uEyf5eSGneu-00037-00045753-00047309": "I told them this is the information I had gotten from Chris Steele. At some point, and I don’t remember exactly when, I don’t think it was the first conversation, I told them that Chris Steele was desperate that Donald Trump not get elected", "uEyf5eSGneu-00038-00047309-00049671": "So those are all facts that I provided to the FBI.Mr. Ratcliffe.  And you provided — you said because you wanted to make sure — first you said you thought there might be a conflict of interest and then you changed that and said, well, I didn’t mean conflict of interest, I just wanted to make sure that they were aware of the possibility of bias as it related to those facts, correct?", "uEyf5eSGneu-00039-00049671-00050418": "Mr. Ohr.  In case there is any concern that there might be any kind of bias or anything like that", "uEyf5eSGneu-00040-00050418-00051917": "A House Intelligence Committee memo released last February documented that, as FBI director, Comey signed three FISA applications to spy on Page with the dossier serving as part of the basis for the warrant requests", "uEyf5eSGneu-00041-00051917-00053879": "“Neither the initial application in October 2016, nor any of the renewals, disclose or reference the role of the DNC, Clinton campaign, or any party/campaign in funding Steele’s efforts, even though the political origins of the Steele dossier were then known to senior and FBI officials,” the memo states", "uEyf5eSGneu-00042-00053879-00055940": ".Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee released a rebuttal of the House memo that confirms the key contention that the FBI and DOJ both failed to inform the FISA court that Steele’s dossier was funded by Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) via the Perkins Coie law firm", "uEyf5eSGneu-00043-00055940-00056551": "The Democratic memo quotes a footnote from the FISA application, which says that Steele:", "uEyf5eSGneu-00044-00056551-00057220": "was approached by an identified U.S. person who indicated to Source #1 [Steele] that a U", "uEyf5eSGneu-00045-00057220-00058066": "S.-based law firm had hired the identified U.S. person to conduct research regarding Candidate #1’s ties to Russia", "uEyf5eSGneu-00046-00058066-00058805": "(The identified U.S. person and Source #1 have a long-standing business relationship", "uEyf5eSGneu-00047-00058805-00059560": ") The identified U.S. person hired Source #1 to conduct this research. The identified U", "uEyf5eSGneu-00048-00059560-00060407": "S. person never advised Source #1 as to the motivation behind the research into candidate #1’s ties to Russia", "uEyf5eSGneu-00049-00060407-00061417": "The FBI speculates that the identified U.S. person was likely looking for information that could be used to discredit Candidate #1’s campaign", "uEyf5eSGneu-00050-00061417-00062953": "That footnote, which does not inform the court of the dossier’s ties to the DNC, Clinton campaign or Fusion GPS was further confirmed when the Trump administration released a redacted version of the FISA applications last July"}}, {"audio_id": "uGO7zZ0YCnc", "text": {"uGO7zZ0YCnc-00000-00000571-00001939": "President Donald Trump called the Democrats bluff and stated he was “strongly considering” busing migrants into sanctuary cities like San Francisco — where Nancy Pelosi resides — as a prime destination", "uGO7zZ0YCnc-00001-00001939-00002723": "Well, that caused the Speaker to become incensed, giving an incoherent answer about any migrants headed her way", "uGO7zZ0YCnc-00002-00002723-00003744": "Don’t miss this.President Trump was rattling the Democrats on Friday, making it crystal clear he won’t back down on fixing the border crisis", "uGO7zZ0YCnc-00003-00003744-00004805": "Trump said he is seriously considering funneling detained illegal migrants into the self-declared sanctuary cities that oppose his tough immigration policies", "uGO7zZ0YCnc-00004-00004805-00006357": "“Due to the fact that Democrats are unwilling to change our very dangerous immigration laws, we are indeed, as reported, giving strong considerations to placing Illegal Immigrants in Sanctuary Cities,” Trump said during an impromptu press conference", "uGO7zZ0YCnc-00005-00006357-00007347": "“The Radical Left always seems to have an Open Borders, Open Arms policy –- so this should make them very happy!” Trump said", "uGO7zZ0YCnc-00006-00007347-00008086": "However, early in the day, officials at Homeland Security and ICE had rejected the idea", "uGO7zZ0YCnc-00007-00008086-00009465": "“Homeland Security and ICE lawyers quickly rejected the proposal, according to the people, and it was dropped on the grounds that it was too expensive and misuse of funds, two of the people said,” Breitbart reported", "uGO7zZ0YCnc-00008-00009465-00010196": "“But not, apparently, by the president, who revived the idea in his tweets,” Breitbart added", "uGO7zZ0YCnc-00009-00010196-00011192": "“The plan, which was first reported by the Washington Post, is one of many ideas considered by an increasingly frustrated White House", "uGO7zZ0YCnc-00010-00011192-00012539": "”.The Washington Post quoted DHS officials as saying the administration sought to release detainees in the San Francisco-based district of House Speaker Pelosi and in other strongly Democratic districts", "uGO7zZ0YCnc-00011-00012539-00013451": "It said the White House told ICE that the plan was partly meant to conserve jail space but also partly to “send a message to Democrats", "uGO7zZ0YCnc-00012-00013451-00014198": "”.Well, Nancy Pelosi was taken aback when she was asked at a presser about Trump’s plan", "uGO7zZ0YCnc-00013-00014198-00014950": "The thought that she would return to San Francisco being overrun by migrants made the Speaker incensed", "uGO7zZ0YCnc-00014-00014950-00016277": "“Speaker Pelosi, we just ran a story saying that the White House is putting pressure on ICE to send undocumented migrants into Democratic districts including yours,” the reporter said, asking for a comment"}}, {"audio_id": "uKggb77aPVk", "text": {"uKggb77aPVk-00000-00000571-00001482": "President Donald Trump has an endless list of reasons why he is a truly terrible President of the United States and leader of the free world", "uKggb77aPVk-00001-00001482-00002700": "His critics never get bored because they never have to find themselves repeating things about him – the sheer volume of things he gets so badly wrong on a daily basis provides for ample material", "uKggb77aPVk-00002-00002700-00004591": "However, there is one thing that he really should not be getting wrong. He is a businessman, and supposedly a highly successful one, so if there is one area of policy he should actually be prettty good at, it is managing the finances of the country and ensuring that we are being economically productive", "uKggb77aPVk-00003-00004591-00005926": "The reality, of course, is a million miles away from that. .President Donald Trump has an endless list of reasons why he is a truly terrible President of the United States and leader of the free world", "uKggb77aPVk-00004-00005926-00007143": "His critics never get bored because they never have to find themselves repeating things about him – the sheer volume of things he gets so badly wrong on a daily basis provides for ample material", "uKggb77aPVk-00005-00007143-00009039": "However, there is one thing that he really should not be getting wrong. He is a businessman, and supposedly a highly successful one, so if there is one area of policy he should actually be pretty good at, it is managing the finances of the country and ensuring that we are being economically productive", "uKggb77aPVk-00006-00009039-00010596": "The reality, of course, is a million miles away from that.As it turns out, the adminsitration and White House of President Donald Trump is screwing over the economy just as badly as it is screwing over all the other aspects of American policies", "uKggb77aPVk-00007-00010596-00012064": "New data released by the US Treasury Department in what is known as the Daily Treasury Statement reveals just how poorly the economy is performing under Trump, and unveils the shocking scale of debt that he has got us spiralling into", "uKggb77aPVk-00008-00012064-00012986": "The national debt has surpassed $22 trillion. The national debt was $19.947 trillion on Jan", "uKggb77aPVk-00009-00012986-00014130": "20, 2017, the day President Donald Trump took the oath of office. It has climbed more than $2 trillion since then, to $22", "uKggb77aPVk-00010-00014130-00015084": "013 trillion. The share for every man, woman and child in the U.S. is more than $67,000", "uKggb77aPVk-00011-00015084-00015779": "The debt has risen more than $6,000 per person during the Trump presidency"}}, {"audio_id": "uQQ38jYdy70", "text": {"uQQ38jYdy70-00000-00000571-00001289": "As he circles the drain, Donald Trump just keeps finding ways to cause trouble for everyone in his life", "uQQ38jYdy70-00001-00001289-00002227": "This time around he opened his mouth and said something extraordinarily dumb that may have just gotten his wife Melania subpoenaed to testify", "uQQ38jYdy70-00002-00002227-00003705": "No, really.Donald Trump was giving a long and rambling speech at CPAC today when he admitted that he told Melania Trump in advance that he was going to fire FBI Director James Comey for being a “bad, bad guy", "uQQ38jYdy70-00003-00003705-00005202": "” The trouble: Donald committed felony obstruction of justice when he fired Comey, and he subsequently confirmed as much when he told Lester Holt during an interview that he had done it specifically to make the Russia investigation go away", "uQQ38jYdy70-00004-00005202-00006004": "Now, thanks to Donald Trump’s own words, we know that he discussed the illegal firing in advance with Melania", "uQQ38jYdy70-00005-00006004-00007015": "To be clear, Melania is not known to be under any sort of federal criminal investigation, and would not have directly benefited from Comey’s firing", "uQQ38jYdy70-00006-00007015-00007845": "So by having this conversation with Donald, she was not participating in a conspiracy to obstruct justice", "uQQ38jYdy70-00007-00007845-00009371": "However, this does make her a material witness to her husband’s crimes.After this admission from Donald Trump, it’s difficult to imagine that Melania Trump won’t be subpoenaed to testify by everyone from Robert Mueller to the House Democrats", "uQQ38jYdy70-00008-00009371-00010750": "She can try to invoke spousal privilege once she takes the stand, but it’s possible that Donald just waived that by publicly discussing her role in the Comey firing; the courts will have to decide that part"}}, {"audio_id": "uYkkXhr6zvQ", "text": {"uYkkXhr6zvQ-00000-00000571-00002049": "It’s difficult enough to try to match up Donald Trump’s recent words and what you might call coherent English, because it’s like comparing apples and oranges – and that’s before getting to the fact that Trump’s gibberish involves apples and oranges", "uYkkXhr6zvQ-00001-00002049-00002770": "There’s something profoundly wrong with this guy, and whatever it is, it’s getting worse by the hour", "uYkkXhr6zvQ-00002-00002770-00003645": ".Imagine for a moment if President Barack Obama, while he was still in office, simply stopped making any sense", "uYkkXhr6zvQ-00003-00003645-00004578": "Imagine if Obama said something about “Tim Apple” and then days later began repeatedly demanding to know the “oranges” of the Mueller investigation", "uYkkXhr6zvQ-00004-00004578-00005338": "Imagine if Obama became obsessed with windmills and claimed that they made noises that caused cancer", "uYkkXhr6zvQ-00005-00005338-00006519": "Imagine if Obama began rambling incoherently about an imaginary wall that had thirty-six doors in it, only to then claim in his next sentence that those doors didn’t exist", "uYkkXhr6zvQ-00006-00006519-00008125": ". .Even if you loved Obama, you’d have to conclude that something had gone extraordinarily wrong if he began acting like this, and you’d have to reluctantly conclude that he needed to be immediately examined by medical and psychological professionals", "uYkkXhr6zvQ-00007-00008125-00009664": "Yet here we are with “President” Donald Trump behaving in precisely the manner described above, and too few pundits are willing to state the obvious: everything else that’s objectionable about him aside, Trump isn’t mentally competent enough to do the job", "uYkkXhr6zvQ-00008-00009664-00010873": ".So where do we go from here? Donald Trump keeps shedding cabinet members and not replacing them, making the math particularly convoluted when it comes to the 25th Amendment", "uYkkXhr6zvQ-00009-00010873-00011921": "On the other hand, impeachment is inevitably coming once House Democrats have unearthed enough dirt to successfully kick Trump to the curb, but not this week or next", "uYkkXhr6zvQ-00010-00011921-00013083": "For now we’re stuck with a guy who, if he weren’t President of the United States, would quite possibly have been forcibly taken into medical care by now, by the appropriate authorities", "uYkkXhr6zvQ-00011-00013083-00013381": "Let that sink in"}}, {"audio_id": "ucpdzu35UEA", "text": {"ucpdzu35UEA-00000-00000571-00001801": "The film-maker, 61, won his first competitive Academy Award, best adapted screenplay, for his film BlacKkKlansman, which was also nominated for best picture", "ucpdzu35UEA-00001-00001801-00003319": "Lee received an honorary Oscar in 2015.In his acceptance speech, which he read from a sheet of notes, Lee referred to February being Black History Month and discussed slavery and its legacy, particularly within his own family", "ucpdzu35UEA-00002-00003319-00004708": "His great-grandmother, he said, was a slave.Lee said: “Before the world tonight I give praise to our ancestors who built this country into what it is today along with the genocide of its native people", "ucpdzu35UEA-00003-00004708-00005335": "If we all connect with our ancestors we will have love, wisdom and regain our humanity", "ucpdzu35UEA-00004-00005335-00005949": "It will be a powerful moment.“The 2020 presidential election is around the corner", "ucpdzu35UEA-00005-00005949-00006785": "Let’s all mobilise, let’s all be on the right side of history. Make the moral choice between love versus hate''", "ucpdzu35UEA-00006-00006785-00007600": "He concluded by referring to one of his most famous films: “Let’s do the right thing! You know I had to get that in there''", "ucpdzu35UEA-00007-00007600-00009596": "At a subsequent press conference, Lee was asked if his film had changed America. He responded by discussing the white nationalist rally and march in Charlottesville, Virginia in August 2017, during which Heather Heyer, a 32-year-old counterprotester, was killed by a car driven by an extremist", "ucpdzu35UEA-00008-00009596-00010628": "Lee included footage of the attack in BlacKkKlansman. Trump infamously said there had been “very fine people, on both sides” of the protests", "ucpdzu35UEA-00009-00010628-00011787": "“That car drove down that one street in Virginia,” Lee said, “and the president of the United States did not reject, refute [or] did not denounce the Klan, ‘alt-right’ and neo-Nazis", "ucpdzu35UEA-00010-00011787-00012592": "This film, whether we won best picture or not, this film will stand the test of time being on the right side of history''", "ucpdzu35UEA-00011-00012592-00013355": "Around dawn on Monday, from the White House, Trump duly responded with a nasty personal jab", "ucpdzu35UEA-00012-00013355-00014334": "He wrote: “Be nice if Spike Lee could read his notes or better yet not have to use notes at all when doing his racist hit on your president"}}, {"audio_id": "ueOQIVirICM", "text": {"ueOQIVirICM-00000-00000571-00001947": "Special Counsel Robert Mueller has just submitted a report about his Trump-Russia investigation to Attorney General William Barr, according to the New York Times, the Washington Post, and other major news outlets", "ueOQIVirICM-00001-00001947-00002713": "This of course raises more questions than answers, but suffice it to say that things are about to get very real", "ueOQIVirICM-00002-00002713-00003611": "As of this moment, there are no real details available about what Robert Mueller’s report says, or what it even covers", "ueOQIVirICM-00003-00003611-00005325": "Some major news outlets are characterizing the submission of this report as the “end” of Mueller’s investigation, but we’re not sure we buy that notion, considering that just a few hours ago evidence surfaced that Mueller’s grand jury is still ongoing in at least one criminal case", "ueOQIVirICM-00004-00005325-00006056": "Regardless, all heck is about to break loose in rapid fashion. Here’s what you can expect", "ueOQIVirICM-00005-00006056-00006699": "William Barr now has to decide how much of Robert Mueller’s report to give to Congress", "ueOQIVirICM-00006-00006699-00007472": "Keep in mind that whatever Barr gives to Congress, it’ll almost surely get promptly leaked to the public", "ueOQIVirICM-00007-00007472-00009042": "Barr knows this, so he could decide to make a simultaneous public release. In any case, if the Democrats in Congress believe that Barr’s version of the Mueller report is incomplete or inaccurate, they’ll quickly take steps to get their hands on the whole thing", "ueOQIVirICM-00008-00009042-00010978": "We’ll see what happens on the indictment front. Rudy Giuliani has spent all day insisting that Robert Mueller won’t bring any more indictments, but he’s consistently unreliable, and again, as of today Mueller is still trying to push a witness into appearing before a grand jury, whose sole purpose is to bring indictments", "ueOQIVirICM-00009-00010978-00011983": "If Mueller has built criminal cases against additional people, he can easily hand them off to the SDNY or other permanent federal prosecutors", "ueOQIVirICM-00010-00011983-00012610": "If there are sealed indictments in play, they could surface at any moment for all we know", "ueOQIVirICM-00011-00012610-00013966": "Of course the central question here is what Robert Mueller’s report reveals about Donald Trump’s crimes, the Trump 2016 campaign’s criminal connections to the Kremlin, and what the Trump-Russia scandal was really all about", "ueOQIVirICM-00012-00013966-00015303": "We’re about to officially find out soon. In the meantime, expect Trump’s allies to spin this report as inaccurately as possible, even as pundits everywhere are left to take mere guesses about what’s in it", "ueOQIVirICM-00013-00015303-00015763": "Take everything you hear today with a grain of salt"}}, {"audio_id": "uhE5dEi3aYy", "text": {"uhE5dEi3aYy-00000-00000571-00001806": "President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Tuesday directing the federal government to prepare a coordinated response plan in the event of an electromagnetic pulse attack (EMP)", "uhE5dEi3aYy-00001-00001806-00002470": "The order described the enormous damage such an attack could cause and noted the U", "uhE5dEi3aYy-00002-00002470-00004165": "S. government currently lacks a coherent plan of action for responding to one.The minimal media coverage given to Trump’s order was bizarrely contemptuous, as though he had just issued an order to prepare defenses against flying saucers or flesh-eating zombies", "uhE5dEi3aYy-00003-00004165-00004902": "The Washington Post headline was “Trump issued an executive order to prepare for an EMP attack", "uhE5dEi3aYy-00004-00004902-00005638": "What is it, and should you worry?”.The Post answered its own question with the subhead, “Nah", "uhE5dEi3aYy-00005-00005638-00008527": "But the U.S. should get ready for a very similar threat – from the sun.”.Other publications dismissed the EMP threat as “mythical” or mere science fiction, even though the phenomenon of electromagnetic energy from a nuclear detonation interfering with electronics and power transmission systems is far better established than “climate change,” which many of these same publications vehemently insist is not mythical at all and must be fought immediately at unlimited cost in money and human lives", "uhE5dEi3aYy-00006-00008527-00009700": "Perhaps some of those criticizing Trump for his executive order believe it will pave the way for recommendations as deranged and extreme as those frequently demanded for climate change", "uhE5dEi3aYy-00007-00009700-00010823": "Trump’s order is nothing like the “Green New Deal,” however. It simply instructs federal agencies to prepare evaluations and submit reports by certain fixed deadlines", "uhE5dEi3aYy-00008-00010823-00011581": "Telling federal bureaucrats to file some reports is hardly a stunning break with executive precedent", "uhE5dEi3aYy-00009-00011581-00013104": "It should be noted that some of the publications hammering Trump for issuing his EMP executive order found it quite charming when the Obama administration really did prepare response plans for flesh-eating zombie attacks, using multiple federal agencies", "uhE5dEi3aYy-00010-00013104-00014047": "This tomfoolery was justified on the grounds that it made training exercises fun and captured the imagination of the public", "uhE5dEi3aYy-00011-00014047-00015188": "Anti-Trump animus obviously drives much of the derogatory coverage, along with heavy media bias against the people and organizations who have been warning about EMP weapons for years", "uhE5dEi3aYy-00012-00015188-00016742": "It pleases critics to imagine the EMP threat is a mindless obsession of paranoids and doomsday preppers, even though the technology to generate electromagnetic pulses definitely exists and their effect on delicate electronic systems would be catastrophic", "uhE5dEi3aYy-00013-00016742-00018328": "The threat is “mythical” in the same sense that a massive Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor would have been mythical in November 1941, or terrorists flying hijacked planes into skyscrapers would have mythical in August 2001", "uhE5dEi3aYy-00014-00018328-00019843": "Comparing a targeted EMP strike to solar flares as the Washington Post does is dangerously absurd, but Trump’s executive order does mention natural disruptions in its very first paragraph, so environmental dangers are not overlooked", "uhE5dEi3aYy-00015-00019843-00020671": "The order defines electromagnetic pulses as follows:.“Electromagnetic pulse” is a burst of electromagnetic energy", "uhE5dEi3aYy-00016-00020671-00021366": "EMPs have the potential to negatively affect technology systems on Earth and in space", "uhE5dEi3aYy-00017-00021366-00022565": "A high-altitude EMP (HEMP) is a type of human-made EMP that occurs when a nuclear device is detonated at approximately 40 kilometers or more above the surface of Earth", "uhE5dEi3aYy-00018-00022565-00023759": "A geomagnetic disturbance (GMD) is a type of natural EMP driven by a temporary disturbance of Earth’s magnetic field resulting from interactions with solar eruptions", "uhE5dEi3aYy-00019-00023759-00025381": "Both HEMPs and GMDs can affect large geographic areas.The point of the order is that we currently lack a coordinated strategy to deal with any significant disruption of the sensitive equipment our society is almost entirely reliant upon", "uhE5dEi3aYy-00020-00025381-00026820": "That equipment has only existed for a few decades, so history offers little precedent for how to deal with a deliberate attack, and no reason to believe natural forces cannot cause disruption on a catastrophic scale", "uhE5dEi3aYy-00021-00026820-00028215": "It is particularly strange to see anyone mocking the White House for taking the matter seriously when Venezuela is currently showing the world a horrifying example of what happens to crowded cities when the lights go out", "uhE5dEi3aYy-00022-00028215-00029383": "As a matter of fact, the Venezuelan dictatorship has made laughable attempts at blaming the nationwide blackouts on an EMP attack perpetrated by dissidents with the aid of the U", "uhE5dEi3aYy-00023-00029383-00030341": "S. government. A real EMP strike would be orders of magnitude worse than the hardships imposed on Venezuela by socialism", "uhE5dEi3aYy-00024-00030341-00031848": "Trump’s executive order was not extravagant. The actions directed by the White House boil down to asking agency heads to seriously estimate the consequences of EMP attacks on various scales and prepare cogent response plans", "uhE5dEi3aYy-00025-00031848-00032666": "Maintaining communications between military units and emergency responders in the event of an EMP was given high priority", "uhE5dEi3aYy-00026-00032666-00033444": "Such considerations are essentially why the primordial Internet was created by the Defense Department decades ago", "uhE5dEi3aYy-00027-00033444-00034199": "Ironically, our dependence on the Internet makes us more vulnerable to electromagnetic attack than ever", "uhE5dEi3aYy-00028-00034199-00034852": "Concern about attacks on America’s communications and energy infrastructure are not new", "uhE5dEi3aYy-00029-00034852-00035968": "Analysts inside and outside the government have been warning about the vulnerability of the power grid to everything from cyber-espionage to brute-force vandalism for many years", "uhE5dEi3aYy-00030-00035968-00037120": "Criticizing the Trump administration for getting serious about those vulnerabilities, simply because it dares to imagine the worst-case scenario, is highly irresponsible", "uhE5dEi3aYy-00031-00037120-00038436": "Among those applauding President Trump’s executive order was Dr. Peter Vincent Pry, who noted in The Hill on Thursday that the Congressional EMP Commission has been advising better preparedness for almost 20 years", "uhE5dEi3aYy-00032-00038436-00039335": "Pry, formerly chief of staff for that commission, cited strong bipartisan support for getting serious about EMP defense:", "uhE5dEi3aYy-00033-00039335-00040189": "Republican leaders on EMP preparedness have included Sens. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Ted Cruz of Texas, Reps", "uhE5dEi3aYy-00034-00040189-00041375": "Doug Lamborn of Colorado and Michael McCaul of Texas, former Reps. Roscoe Bartlett of Maryland and Curt Weldon of Pennsylvania, and Texas state Sen", "uhE5dEi3aYy-00035-00041375-00042347": "Bob Hall.Democratic leaders have included former Sen. Jim Webb of Virginia, Sen. Edward Markey of Massachusetts, Reps", "uhE5dEi3aYy-00036-00042347-00043324": "Yvette Clarke of New York and Benny Thompson of Mississippi, former Rep. Henry Waxman of California, and former state Reps", "uhE5dEi3aYy-00037-00043324-00044076": "Andrea Boland of Maine, Joan Ginal of Colorado and Michelle Rehwinkel Vasilinda of Florida", "uhE5dEi3aYy-00038-00044076-00044812": "Aside from President Trump himself, the greatest credit for the EMP Executive Order goes to William R", "uhE5dEi3aYy-00039-00044812-00046513": "Graham, chairman of the Congressional EMP Commission since 2001 and former White House science adviser to President Reagan, who ran NASA and was on the defense science team that discovered the EMP phenomenon during the Starfish Prime nuclear test in 1962", "uhE5dEi3aYy-00040-00046513-00047344": "Dr. Graham has spent a professional lifetime trying to protect civilization from the existential threat that is EMP", "uhE5dEi3aYy-00041-00047344-00048754": "Pry framed EMP weapons as a subset of cyber warfare, which no one in the right minds would dismiss as a mythical or exaggerated threat, even though large-scale adversary-directed computer warfare hasn’t happened yet either", "uhE5dEi3aYy-00042-00048754-00050719": "As bad as some of the hacks have been over the past few decades, many of them directed by hostile state actors, the world has yet to see anything close to what will happen if a major military power unleashes an all-out cyber warfare campaign against an advanced industrial economy like the United States or Europe", "uhE5dEi3aYy-00043-00050719-00051492": "Pry noted the worst-case scenarios for cyber attacks on American infrastructure envision millions of deaths", "uhE5dEi3aYy-00044-00051492-00052604": "One problem with discussing EMP attacks is that worst-case scenarios, like a nuclear device detonated at high altitude above the American heartland, get all the attention", "uhE5dEi3aYy-00045-00052604-00054519": "It is easy to denigrate such scenarios as unthinkable, although we obviously have long-standing detailed plans to deal with even more unthinkable nuclear and biological attacks, and the EMP option would seem far more realistic to an assailant with very limited ability to deliver nuclear warheads over intercontinental distances", "uhE5dEi3aYy-00046-00054519-00056405": "Doomsday nationwide EMP attacks are not the only threat to consider, however. We like to think of the Internet as a vast amorphous blob of pulsing data, at once everywhere and nowhere, but in truth it has specific weak spots and hubs that could be hit with small weapons, perhaps well short of nuclear bombs", "uhE5dEi3aYy-00047-00056405-00057359": "The damage from a “small” EMP attack on Wall Street or the tech hubs of the West Coast would run into trillions of dollars and could throw the entire U", "uhE5dEi3aYy-00048-00057359-00058639": "S. economy into chaos. A glance at the latest grim urban traffic report suggests a small-scale EMP attack that affects just a portion of a single city could inflict thousands of casualties"}}, {"audio_id": "uhZoNEXEVho", "text": {"uhZoNEXEVho-00000-00000571-00001764": "As Democrats began a quest to get Trump's tax returns, Trump pushed Senate Republicans to confirm a new top lawyer at the IRS who once advised the Trump Organization", "uhZoNEXEVho-00001-00001764-00003627": "The New York Times reported late Thursday night that Trump urged Senate Republicans to confirm a new top lawyer at the IRS who would oversee a legal battle over his tax returns — just as Democrats began their quest to obtain the tax documents Trump has been hiding since announcing his candidacy", "uhZoNEXEVho-00002-00003627-00004907": "The nominee — Michael J. Desmond — has worked with Trump's company in the past, advising the Trump Organization on tax-related matters prior to Trump's presidency, Bloomberg News reported", "uhZoNEXEVho-00003-00004907-00005769": "Desmond also worked with two people who serve as tax counsels for Trump's company: William Nelson and Sheri Dillon", "uhZoNEXEVho-00004-00005769-00007365": "Dillon, as you may recall, is the lawyer who spoke at Trump's wild news conference shortly before he took office to discuss how Trump would handle his vast array of conflicts of interest — which he is currently not doing a very good job of handling", "uhZoNEXEVho-00005-00007365-00008407": "According to the New York Times report, Trump painted his request to install Desmond as a necessary personnel move to implement the GOP's tax scam law", "uhZoNEXEVho-00006-00008407-00009329": "However, the tax scam had passed in December 2017, more than a year before Trump pushed for Desmond's confirmation", "uhZoNEXEVho-00007-00009329-00010345": "Desmond was ultimately confirmed on Feb. 27, and now will play a role in the fight over a congressional request for Trump's tax returns", "uhZoNEXEVho-00008-00010345-00011040": "Desmond was confirmed a few weeks after Attorney General William Barr was confirmed", "uhZoNEXEVho-00009-00011040-00012325": "Barr is yet another crony, who is currently shielding Trump from being exposed by special counsel Robert Mueller's report — which appears to be much more damaging than Barr's lame summary made it out to be", "uhZoNEXEVho-00010-00012325-00013057": "Trump, for his part, is the first president since Richard Nixon to not release their tax returns", "uhZoNEXEVho-00011-00013057-00013778": "He's used a bogus argument that his taxes are under audit as the reason he won't make them public", "uhZoNEXEVho-00012-00013778-00014525": "However, it's extremely unlikely that 10 years of his tax returns remain under review", "uhZoNEXEVho-00013-00014525-00015546": "Not to mention, being under audit is not an adequate excuse to keep the returns private, as Nixon released his returns when they were being audited", "uhZoNEXEVho-00014-00015546-00016552": "The way Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal (D-MA) requested Trump's returns leaves little legal leeway for the IRS to keep the returns private", "uhZoNEXEVho-00015-00016552-00017179": "But that hasn't stopped Trump from claiming he will continue to hide his returns from view", "uhZoNEXEVho-00016-00017179-00018009": "During a press availability in the Oval Office on Wednesday, Trump said he was \"not inclined\" to release his tax returns", "uhZoNEXEVho-00017-00018009-00019498": "Unfortunately for Trump, the law is the law and it's no longer his decision. Yet, unfortunately for the rest of us, there's yet another Trump-installed pal in his administration who will jump through hoops to protect the president"}}, {"audio_id": "un0N5Y5LiCM", "text": {"un0N5Y5LiCM-00000-00000513-00001816": "Thais are invited to wear yellow to show support for the king starting in April and for nearly four months until his birthday in late July, Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam told reporters", "un0N5Y5LiCM-00001-00001816-00003005": "Vajiralongkorn, also known by the title King Rama X, became constitutional monarch following the death of his father, King Bhumibol Adulyadej, in 2016", "un0N5Y5LiCM-00002-00003005-00004023": "The coronation was delayed until after a mourning period for Bhumibol, who was cremated in October 2017 in a grand royal funeral in Bangkok", "un0N5Y5LiCM-00003-00004023-00005254": "\"April 6 will mark the beginning of the coronation ceremonies. It is Chakri Day, which fortune tellers say is an auspicious day to collect holy waters,\" Mr Wissanu said", "un0N5Y5LiCM-00004-00005254-00006270": "Chakri Day commemorates the 1782 founding of the Chakri Dynasty by King Rama I, whose descendents have since reigned over Thailand", "un0N5Y5LiCM-00005-00006270-00006959": "The official coronation will be a mix of Buddhist religious ceremonies and Hindu Brahmin rituals", "un0N5Y5LiCM-00006-00006959-00007628": ".The king will be crowned on May 4, followed the next day by a celebration procession", "un0N5Y5LiCM-00007-00007628-00008725": ".He will meet the public and foreign dignitaries on May 6.\"The king will be showered with holy waters and crowned before noon on May 4,\" Wissanu said", "un0N5Y5LiCM-00008-00008725-00009653": "Thailand has been a constitutional monarchy since 1932, but the king is regarded as the spiritual protector of its people and culture", "un0N5Y5LiCM-00009-00009653-00010332": "The coronation will be a first for most Thais, after King Bhumibol reigned for seventy years", "un0N5Y5LiCM-00010-00010332-00011457": "King Bhumibol was revered by Thais and the deep relationship between the monarchy and the military helped facilitate a smooth royal transition following his death", "un0N5Y5LiCM-00011-00011457-00012531": "Since then, Vajiralongkorn has overseen sweeping changes to royal affairs including the running of palace finances, which were formerly managed by the government", "un0N5Y5LiCM-00012-00012531-00013754": "Wissanu said the military-run government has set aside £24million (1 billion baht) for the coronation ceremomies, about one-third the cost of King Bhumibol's funeral", "un0N5Y5LiCM-00013-00013754-00015310": "The kingdom will hold elections on March 24 meant to restore democracy after a 2014 military coup ousted an elected prime minister, though changes to the constitution in the interim ensure the military will retain a great deal of control", "un0N5Y5LiCM-00014-00015310-00015861": "($1 = 31.6900 baht)"}}, {"audio_id": "vr8TPpCN-uu", "text": {"vr8TPpCN-uu-00000-00000571-00001498": "Anyone with more than a cursory knowledge of Cold War history and American foreign policy, in general, should know to take announcements from the U", "vr8TPpCN-uu-00001-00001498-00002514": "S. government with a heaping spoon full of salt, especially when it comes to South American countries where we are actively pursuing regime change", "vr8TPpCN-uu-00002-00002514-00004364": "The Trump administration found itself in a very uncomfortable position on Sunday when the New York Times reported that the highly publicized burning of a humanitarian aid convoy in Venezuela was not perpetrated by the government of Nicolas Maduro but was in fact committed by the US-backed opposition", "vr8TPpCN-uu-00003-00004364-00005696": "Newly released footage shows that the burning of the aid trucks on February 23rd occurred because an anti-government protester, in the words of the Times, “accidentally” threw a lit Molotov cocktail on to the truck", "vr8TPpCN-uu-00004-00005696-00007435": "When the story first broke, Vice President Mike Pence gleefully accused the “tyrant of Caracas” of committing heinous acts in a series of tweets and public statements in a shameless attempt to gin up outrage against one of the few nations that refuses to bow to American hegemony", "vr8TPpCN-uu-00005-00007435-00008358": "He was joined by National Security adviser John Bolton, a host of State Department spokespeople, and mewling lickspittle Sen", "vr8TPpCN-uu-00006-00008358-00009700": "Marco Rubio (R-FL) as they eagerly tried to spin the incident to justify the United States’ immoral and illegal efforts to replace the elected President of Venezuela with an illegitimate puppet leader", "vr8TPpCN-uu-00007-00009700-00012451": "There has been no word on whether the Trump administration will retract any of its false accusations against the Venezuelan government or roll back the fresh round of sanctions that they are planning to level against a nation already crippled by the punishing effects of America’s deliberate efforts to exacerbate the economic crisis — the oil sanctions could shrink the economy by 26% by the end of the year — and weaponize public suffering for their own selfish agenda", "vr8TPpCN-uu-00008-00012451-00014687": "It is extremely on-brand for the Trump administration to use a flagrant lie in order to heap pain and suffering on people of color, but this one is particularly egregious and is yet another example of how we can’t trust the word of this administration on anything, especially when it comes to their ham-fisted attempt to create another major international crisis in our own back yard"}}, {"audio_id": "vwR5shbSggu", "text": {"vwR5shbSggu-00000-00000513-00001398": "Samantha Markle will speak out about Meghan’s long-running feud with her family in the Channel 5 programme which airs tomorrow", "vwR5shbSggu-00001-00001398-00002237": "In the bombshell interview, Samantha accuses Meghan of being “heartless” for her treatment of their father Thomas Markle", "vwR5shbSggu-00002-00002237-00003543": "Speaking in the documentary, Samantha says: “She doesn’t have a heart or she would been doing everything she could to make him comfortable and reciprocate and be loving and gracious and make sure he’s comfortable in his old age", "vwR5shbSggu-00003-00003543-00004324": "“So broken heart? No, his heart is broken. She can’t turn herself into the victim here", "vwR5shbSggu-00004-00004324-00005640": "”.She also tells the show: “I pointed out that humanitarians don't treat their father coldly, was that a lie, no, because the world watched it happen to my dad and the world watched her do it", "vwR5shbSggu-00005-00005640-00006636": "\".In the note, Meghan added she “crumbled inside” when her father sided with Samantha as she “silently suffered at the hand of her vicious lies”", "vwR5shbSggu-00006-00006636-00007388": "But Thomas said the letter from his estranged daughter, penned last year, left him feeling “devastated”", "vwR5shbSggu-00007-00007388-00008148": "He told the Daily Mail: “I thought it would be an olive branch. Instead, it was a dagger to the heart", "vwR5shbSggu-00008-00008148-00009096": "”.Samantha - who is releasing a tell-all book about the Duchess - will speak for the first time about the letter in tomorrow’s documentary", "vwR5shbSggu-00009-00009096-00009765": "And she will explain why she has repeatedly attacked Meghan on social media and in interviews", "vwR5shbSggu-00010-00009765-00010413": "Meghan has been involved in a very public row with the Markles since her royal wedding last May", "vwR5shbSggu-00011-00010413-00011246": "Samantha, 54, was not invited to the Windsor wedding and Thomas pulled out at the last minute due to health reasons", "vwR5shbSggu-00012-00011246-00012118": "It had emerged shortly before that he staged paparazzi pictures in an attempt to improve his media image", "vwR5shbSggu-00013-00012118-00013320": "Meghan’s mother Doria Ragland was her only family member to attend the big day.Since then, Thomas, who lives in Mexico, has said Meghan has “ghosted” him in a string of interviews", "vwR5shbSggu-00014-00013320-00014339": "The 74-year-old retired lighting director even appealed to the Queen to intervene to heal the bitter rift during an appearance on ITV’s Good Morning Britain"}}, {"audio_id": "vAn23toBduA", "text": {"vAn23toBduA-00000-00000513-00002024": "Is the love affair between the Fox News channel and the Trump administration cooling off? We’ve seen numerous indicators lately that both sides in this twisted partnership are feeling somewhat slighted, causing a strain on the relationship", "vAn23toBduA-00001-00002024-00003336": "Early March saw Bill Shine, former Fox News executive and protégé to former Fox CEO Roger Ailes, “resign” from his post as Trump White House Communications Director", "vAn23toBduA-00002-00003336-00004449": "Shine’s formal reason for leaving was that he was a “distraction” for Trump, but reports were rampant that Trump was unhappy Shine hadn’t done enough to improve Trump’s image in the media", "vAn23toBduA-00003-00004449-00006269": "On the Fox News end of the partnership, a recent New Yorker article by Jane Meyer about the unnatural relationship between the White House and the cable channel led to the Democratic National Committee decision to exclude Fox News from televising any debates in the upcoming season", "vAn23toBduA-00004-00006269-00007182": "Whether this was a smart decision on the part of the Democrats is debatable, but it is certain to be a financial blow to Fox", "vAn23toBduA-00005-00007182-00008294": "More recently two of Trump’s biggest Fox cheerleaders, Tucker Carlson and Jeanine Pirro, have come under fire for past and present remarks they’ve made", "vAn23toBduA-00006-00008294-00009706": "Media Matters recently published an article which provided transcripts of Carlson calling in to a radio program where he made numerous racist, misogynist, and just plain gross and disgusting statements", "vAn23toBduA-00007-00009706-00010619": "Jeanine Pirro made waves with several anti-Muslim comments with regards to Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar", "vAn23toBduA-00008-00010619-00011431": "This led to anti-Fox protests and caused several companies to pull their advertising from the offending shows", "vAn23toBduA-00009-00011431-00012244": "Fox News claimed to be “addressing” the matter, and this past weekend Pirro’s show was not broadcast", "vAn23toBduA-00010-00012244-00013057": "It’s currently unknown how long the show will be off the air, but “President” Trump was clearly upset by the show’s absence", "vAn23toBduA-00011-00013057-00014777": "At least three vitriolic tweets from Trump this weekend attacked “The Radical Left Democrats” and the “Fake News Media”, and encouraged Fox to “stay strong” and “fight” for Pirro and Tucker, and to stop “working soooo hard on being politically correct”", "vAn23toBduA-00012-00014777-00016498": "Donald Trump is obviously frustrated by Fox’s reaction to the controversies. He expects his supporters, including Fox News, to stand by him no matter what and to do whatever is necessary to support his cause, regardless of the cost", "vAn23toBduA-00013-00016498-00017311": "As a business, Fox News has to be concerned with profits, a majority of which come from advertisers", "vAn23toBduA-00014-00017311-00018931": "While Fox will always remain a conservative-leaning media organization, it remains to be seen if they can continue to play their role as the channel of faithful Trump apologists without sustaining serious reputational and/or financial damage", "vAn23toBduA-00015-00018931-00019844": "It’s unlikely that the opposing goals of profits vs. unquestioning support will both be able to withstand the tests of time"}}, {"audio_id": "vNSx4Afm2No", "text": {"vNSx4Afm2No-00000-00000571-00001882": "Hollywood celebrities spent nearly two years incessantly fantasizing about special counsel Robert Mueller indicting President Donald Trump over so-called Russian collusion during the 2016 presidential election", "vNSx4Afm2No-00001-00001882-00003021": "But on Friday, Mueller produced his report on possible collusion to Attorney General William Barr and recommended no further indictments against Trump campaign associates", "vNSx4Afm2No-00002-00003021-00003731": "“I WILL Watch When MUELLER Makes Him Grovel In Dirt Of [rose] Garden,” wrote Cher in a bizarre January tweet", "vNSx4Afm2No-00003-00003731-00004732": "“When He Is Proven 2 Be PAWN Of PUTIN, When GOP Are Shown 2 Be ass Kissing Castrati They Are, When Ppl See Pence 4 Who He Is", "vNSx4Afm2No-00004-00004732-00005717": "A Pitch Man 4 Big TOBACCO, & dark force.”.“Not even a low-level volunteer,” added Greenwald, “The number is zero", "vNSx4Afm2No-00005-00005717-00007271": "”.What’s next for #TheResistance now that Robert Mueller has delivered his report? How soon before Hollywood celebrities turn on the now former Special Counsel and begin fantasizing about indicting him, instead? They can join Rep", "vNSx4Afm2No-00006-00007271-00007955": "Adam Schiff (D-CA), who’s already talking about subpoenaing Mueller"}}, {"audio_id": "vprijEDJrQI", "text": {"vprijEDJrQI-00000-00000513-00001929": "Sarah Kendzior, an author and regular guest on MSNBC’s AM Joy, railed against President Donald Trump‘s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner as a “massive national security risk” who should be indicted", "vprijEDJrQI-00001-00001929-00003444": "An AM Joy panel Saturday discussed latest reporting that Trump ordered former chief of staff John Kelly to give Kushner a top secret clearance last year, despite protests from intelligence officials and a top White House lawyer", "vprijEDJrQI-00002-00003444-00004575": "Both Trump and his daughter Ivanka — a White House adviser and Kushner’s wife — denied on the record that the president had anything to do with their security clearances", "vprijEDJrQI-00003-00004575-00005327": "“Basically, Trump has been grooming those two for a dynastic kleptocracy,” Kendzior claimed", "vprijEDJrQI-00004-00005327-00007022": "“This is very common. This is something you see in autocracies, this is something you see in mafia states, where the leader will put his children or relatives into office in order to keep the corruption going, keep the money flowing, not get caught, override prosecution", "vprijEDJrQI-00005-00007022-00008699": "”.“This is like the 12th time I’ve been on your show talking about Jared Kushner,” Kendzior continued, “and the fact that he lied on his clearance forms, that he’s done illicit dealings, that he’s giving away state secrets and that he’s a massive national security risk", "vprijEDJrQI-00006-00008699-00009979": "And so is Ivanka Trump. The only way that we would be able to finally stop having this conversation on national TV is if he is indicted! That is is what needs to be done", "vprijEDJrQI-00007-00009979-00011210": "Because this problem is enormous. It’s going to persevere. Even if he is gone, he is carrying around this information, other people are carrying around classified information", "vprijEDJrQI-00008-00011210-00011915": "They do not have loyalty to the country. They have debt. They have financial interests", "vprijEDJrQI-00009-00011915-00013132": "They have personal interests.”.“This problem needs to be handled now,” she said. “Just indict Jared Kushner! Indict Ivanka Trump and get this crime family out of the white House!”"}}, {"audio_id": "w3MGu82YczQ", "text": {"w3MGu82YczQ-00000-00000513-00001665": "Kate Middleton and Prince William married in their spectacular royal wedding in 2011, after they met in 2001 while they were both studying at the University of St Andrews", "w3MGu82YczQ-00001-00001665-00002469": "Previously, Kate studied at the prestigious boarding school Marlborough College, which Princess Eugenie also attended", "w3MGu82YczQ-00002-00002469-00003190": "Kate joined the school mid-way through the academic year after an unhappy spell at Downe House in Berkshire", "w3MGu82YczQ-00003-00003190-00004128": "Royal author Marcia Moody, in her 2013 book “Kate: A Biography”, writes how the future Duchess of Cambridge was bullied at the school", "w3MGu82YczQ-00004-00004128-00005071": "She says: “It was a huge shock for Kate.“They called her names, stole her books and when she sat down for lunch they would get up and move", "w3MGu82YczQ-00005-00005071-00005839": "”.Friend Emma Sayle told Ms Moody: “Downe House is a great school but it is a fighting school", "w3MGu82YczQ-00006-00005839-00006928": "Kate was bullied.”.Ms Moody also reveals how the unhappy experience has led the Duchess of Cambridge to focus on anti-bullying charities in her royal role", "w3MGu82YczQ-00007-00006928-00008224": ".She explains: “She lent her support to those who have been through similar experiences when she and William selected the charity Beatbullying to be one of the organisations their wedding donations would benefit from", "w3MGu82YczQ-00008-00008224-00009219": "“Kate and William has chosen each charity because it had resonance with them and reflected issues in which they were both particularly interested", "w3MGu82YczQ-00009-00009219-00010167": "”.Free from the stresses of bullying, Marlborough gave Kate a new-found confidence, which led the Duchess to develop something of a “mischievous streak”", "w3MGu82YczQ-00010-00010167-00011121": "2001 documentary “Kate Middleton: Biography” revealed that Kate even allowed herself to indulge in some “juvenile” behaviour", "w3MGu82YczQ-00011-00011121-00012322": "Royal author Christopher Andersen claimed “she had a mischievous streak” and Claudia Joseph went one step further, claiming that her antics included \"flashing her bottom at the boys out of the window\"", "w3MGu82YczQ-00012-00012322-00013043": "Mr Andersen added: “She was so famous for this at the school she became known as Kate Middlebum", "w3MGu82YczQ-00013-00013043-00014467": "”.Last December, sources close to the royal couple told the Daily Mail they are considering Marlborough college for Prince George in order to give him a \"less traditional\" education, as opposed to Prince William’s former school, Eton", "w3MGu82YczQ-00014-00014467-00015478": "They said: “Eton hasn’t been ruled out but they have talked at length about Marlborough as an option and the smart money is on George going there instead", "w3MGu82YczQ-00015-00015478-00016457": "“They are very keen to allow George to spread his wings as a child and won’t ever do what people expect them to do when it comes to their children", "w3MGu82YczQ-00016-00016457-00017306": "”.Yesterday, the 36-year-old Duchess caused a stir as she dropped a major hint about a fourth royal baby", "w3MGu82YczQ-00017-00017306-00018359": "On a trip to Northern Ireland, she came face-to-face with a baby in Ballymena.Clearly smitten with five-year-old James, she told his father: “He’s gorgeous!", "w3MGu82YczQ-00018-00018359-00019161": "“It makes me feel broody.” .Stunned, the child’s father, Alan, asked: “Baby number four?”", "w3MGu82YczQ-00019-00019161-00020472": "With a laugh, the Duchess replied: “I think William will be a little worried.”.The video soon went viral and, in response, bookmakers were quick to slash their odds of a 2019 pregnancy announcement", "w3MGu82YczQ-00020-00020472-00021600": ".A Ladbrokes spokesman said: “Royal fans are already going into overdrive for Harry and Meghan’s baby, let alone William and Kate announcing their brood is expanding once again", "w3MGu82YczQ-00021-00021600-00021700": "”"}}, {"audio_id": "wuBJAIlTm4y", "text": {"wuBJAIlTm4y-00000-00000571-00001681": "President Donald Trump is on the verge of a bipartisan rejection of his emergency declaration at the border in what would be an embarrassing rebuke by a Congress opposed to his immigration agenda", "wuBJAIlTm4y-00001-00001681-00003572": "Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) on Monday night said he would join Republican Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine, along with 47 Senate Democrats to block Trump’s attempts to secure billions for his border wall after lawmakers effectively stiffed him", "wuBJAIlTm4y-00002-00003572-00004549": "Now just one more GOP senator’s support for a resolution to block Trump's bid would send the measure to Trump’s desk and force a veto", "wuBJAIlTm4y-00003-00004549-00005714": "“Conservatives rightfully cried foul when President Barack Obama used executive action to completely bypass Congress,” Tillis said in a Washington Post op-ed on Monday night", "wuBJAIlTm4y-00004-00005714-00006950": "“There is no intellectual honesty in now turning around and arguing that there’s an imaginary asterisk attached to executive overreach — that it’s acceptable for my party but not thy part''", "wuBJAIlTm4y-00005-00006950-00008418": "Still, there is clear reluctance in the GOP to bucking Trump.Numerous Senate Republicans say that, like Tillis, they despise Trump’s decision to declare a national emergency to get additional funding for his wall", "wuBJAIlTm4y-00006-00008418-00010293": "But most aren’t ready to say they will vote to block him from doing so.Interviews on Monday with more than a dozen GOP senators who have been publicly critical of Trump’s unilateral maneuver or warned him not to deploy it were cagey about their intentions for what would be a crucial vote in coming weeks on the Senate floor", "wuBJAIlTm4y-00007-00010293-00011223": "Many said they were undecided and still studying Trump’s move to circumvent Congress and score billions more for the border barrier", "wuBJAIlTm4y-00008-00011223-00011954": "That suggests the resolution to block him remains just short of the simple majority needed for passage", "wuBJAIlTm4y-00009-00011954-00013208": "“It’s unnecessary, unwise and inconsistent with the Constitution,” said Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn), one of the most vocal critics of Trump’s emergency declaration", "wuBJAIlTm4y-00010-00013208-00013898": "As to how he will vote, he said: “I’m going to wait to see what the resolution says", "wuBJAIlTm4y-00011-00013898-00013998": "”"}}, {"audio_id": "wp2yLFfh938", "text": {"wp2yLFfh938-00000-00000571-00002044": "Several media outlets got their way today when they successfully forced the SDNY to publicly release a partially redacted copy of the search warrant that was used for the year-ago raid of Michael Cohen’s residence and office", "wp2yLFfh938-00001-00002044-00003018": "Various parts of the document seem to spell out bad news for Donald Trump. But one part in particular should truly scare him", "wp2yLFfh938-00002-00003018-00004181": "It’s not the revelation that Robert Mueller appears to have been investigating everyone in Donald Trump’s inner circle a year before the Michael Cohen raid, though that’s pretty ugly", "wp2yLFfh938-00003-00004181-00005301": "It’s not even that during the election, foreign money was paid into the hush money account that Trump and Cohen were using to pay off Trump’s mistresses, though that’s really ugly", "wp2yLFfh938-00004-00005301-00006775": "Instead, it’s a different stretch of the documentation entirely.CNBC pointed out that when it comes to the documents that were used to obtain the search warrant, it’s a big deal that nineteen pages are blacked out", "wp2yLFfh938-00005-00006775-00007420": "We agree that it’s a big deal, and not simply due to the generic fear of the unknown", "wp2yLFfh938-00006-00007420-00008804": "These pages are blacked out because they relate to an ongoing SDNY criminal investigation, a year after the Cohen raid, and several months after the case against Cohen was fully put to bed", "wp2yLFfh938-00007-00008804-00009504": "Multi-tier criminal investigations like this tend to only progress sideways and/or upward", "wp2yLFfh938-00008-00009504-00010486": "So those nineteen blacked out pages are almost certainly evidence against a fish who is equal to, or bigger than, Michael Cohen", "wp2yLFfh938-00009-00010486-00011508": "Some of it could theoretically be about the likes of Elliott Broidy, as we just learned this week that his office was raided a couple months after the Cohen raid", "wp2yLFfh938-00010-00011508-00012587": "But really, the blacked out parts are most likely about Donald Trump – and that would mean that the SDNY is building a massive criminal case against him"}}, {"audio_id": "wp82ueWj0-0", "text": {"wp82ueWj0-0-00000-00000513-00001309": "As Special Counsel Robert Mueller has pursued his investigation into Moscow’s role in the 2016 U", "wp82ueWj0-0-00001-00001309-00002258": "S. election, legal experts have debated what sort of contacts between President Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia may have violated U", "wp82ueWj0-0-00002-00002258-00003558": "S. criminal law.U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that Russia used a scheme of hacking and propaganda to cause discord in the United States and harm Trump’s Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton", "wp82ueWj0-0-00003-00003558-00004682": "Mueller’s probe, with several Trump campaign figures already pleading guilty or being convicted, has documented numerous contacts between Russians and people close to the president", "wp82ueWj0-0-00004-00004682-00005713": "Mueller, who has sought to determine whether Trump’s campaign coordinated with Moscow, is preparing to submit a report on his investigation to U", "wp82ueWj0-0-00005-00005713-00006526": "S. Attorney General William Barr. Trump and Russia have denied collusion and Moscow has denied election interference", "wp82ueWj0-0-00006-00006526-00007181": "Here is a look at potential crimes Mueller may examine relating to these contacts and other matters", "wp82ueWj0-0-00007-00007181-00008412": "IS THERE A U.S. FEDERAL CRIME CALLED COLLUSION?.Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani in July 2018 said, “I have been sitting here looking in the federal code trying to find collusion as a crime", "wp82ueWj0-0-00008-00008412-00009412": "Collusion is not a crime.” Trump wrote on Twitter the next day, “Collusion is not a crime, but that doesn’t matter because there was No Collusion", "wp82ueWj0-0-00009-00009412-00010575": "”.There indeed is no federal crime called “collusion.” But collusion is a non-legal way of saying conspiracy, which is one of the most commonly asserted crimes in U", "wp82ueWj0-0-00010-00010575-00011348": "S. federal courts. Conspiracy is an agreement between two or more people to commit an unlawful act", "wp82ueWj0-0-00011-00011348-00012150": "A conspiracy does not need to have been successful, but the individuals must have taken some action to further it", "wp82ueWj0-0-00012-00012150-00013607": "Because computer hacking is clearly a federal crime, any Trump campaign official who assented to and encouraged the hacking of Democratic National Committee computers in 2016 could be liable for the crime of conspiracy", "wp82ueWj0-0-00013-00013607-00014608": "U.S. officials have said Russia hacked the Democratic computers to steal emails that were later released by the WikiLeaks website to hurt Clinton", "wp82ueWj0-0-00014-00014608-00015736": "“Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing,” Trump said during a June 2016 news conference, referring to Clinton emails", "wp82ueWj0-0-00015-00015736-00017316": "“I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.”.The federal conspiracy statute also prohibits agreements aimed at “impairing, obstructing, or defeating the lawful function of any department of government,” under a 1910 U", "wp82ueWj0-0-00016-00017316-00018892": "S. Supreme Court precedent.This notion of criminal liability, known as conspiracy to defraud the United States, was raised by Mueller in a February 2018 indictment of 13 Russian individuals and three Russian companies, including St", "wp82ueWj0-0-00017-00018892-00019560": "Petersburg-based Internet Research Agency, known for its trolling on social media", "wp82ueWj0-0-00018-00019560-00020391": "According to the special counsel, their “information warfare against the United States” impaired the functioning of the U", "wp82ueWj0-0-00019-00020391-00021616": "S. Federal Election Commission and other government agencies.Mueller in July 2018 also indicted 12 Russian intelligence officers accused of hacking the Democratic computers", "wp82ueWj0-0-00020-00021616-00022559": "COULD TRUMP CAMPAIGN LINKS TO RUSSIA VIOLATE OTHER LAWS?.Yes. Campaign finance laws prohibit foreigners from influencing U", "wp82ueWj0-0-00021-00022559-00023426": "S. elections, and presidential candidates cannot legally solicit campaign contributions from foreign nationals", "wp82ueWj0-0-00022-00023426-00024199": "Campaign contributions are defined broadly as anything of value intended to influence the election", "wp82ueWj0-0-00023-00024199-00025116": "The hacked Democratic emails potentially could fall into that category, if Mueller finds coordination between the Russians and Trump’s campaign", "wp82ueWj0-0-00024-00025116-00026153": "If Trump campaign officials knowingly solicited valuable information from Russians, they may be liable under campaign finance laws, legal experts said", "wp82ueWj0-0-00025-00026153-00027185": "But Trump campaign officials would have a strong defense if they could show they did not know soliciting such help violated campaign finance laws", "wp82ueWj0-0-00026-00027185-00028501": "While ignorance of the law often is not an excuse, criminal violations of campaign finance law are unusual in that they require a showing of willfulness, or knowledge of the law being broken", "wp82ueWj0-0-00027-00028501-00030317": "WHAT OTHER CHARGES MIGHT MUELLER CONSIDER?.Mueller also is looking into whether Trump engaged in obstruction of justice by trying to impede or shut down the Russia investigation, first when it was conducted by the FBI and later after the special counsel was appointed in May 2017", "wp82ueWj0-0-00028-00030317-00031048": "There are several federal laws that make it a crime to interfere with a court case or government proceeding", "wp82ueWj0-0-00029-00031048-00031871": "One broadly worded federal law prohibits efforts to “influence, obstruct, or impede the due administration of justice", "wp82ueWj0-0-00030-00031871-00032973": "” The effort can be unsuccessful and still be obstruction. Obstruction of justice cases are often difficult to prove because they hinge on an individual’s mental state", "wp82ueWj0-0-00031-00032973-00033822": "Prosecutors would need to show that Trump acted with a “corrupt” intent, or an intent to impede an investigation", "wp82ueWj0-0-00032-00033822-00035102": "According to some lawyers, Trump engaged in obstruction of justice by asking former FBI director James Comey in February 2017 to back off an investigation into U", "wp82ueWj0-0-00033-00035102-00036056": "S. national security adviser Michael Flynn over Flynn’s contacts with Russia. Trump eventually fired Comey in May 2017", "wp82ueWj0-0-00034-00036056-00037414": "Other lawyers have said the obstruction of justice case against Trump is weak because the president could credibly argue he did not actually pressure Comey and that he fired him for reasons unrelated to the Flynn investigation", "wp82ueWj0-0-00035-00037414-00038216": "Trump himself has given differing explanations for the firing, including citing “this Russia thing” as the reason", "wp82ueWj0-0-00036-00038216-00039253": "Some legal scholars have also argued that the president cannot obstruct of justice by exercising his constitutional authority to fire a subordinate", "wp82ueWj0-0-00037-00039253-00040543": "Under current Justice Department policy first devised in 1973 and reaffirmed in 2000, a sitting president cannot face criminal charges, a view some legal experts dispute", "wp82ueWj0-0-00038-00040543-00041431": "But any accusation against Trump of conspiracy, obstruction or justice or other crime could prompt an impeachment effort in the U", "wp82ueWj0-0-00039-00041431-00043145": "S. Congress to remove him from office. The U.S. Constitution states, “The president, vice president and all civil officers of the United States shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors", "wp82ueWj0-0-00040-00043145-00043245": "”"}}, {"audio_id": "wgdVcDFoIzy", "text": {"wgdVcDFoIzy-00000-00000571-00001482": "Time to drop the impeachment hammer on Donald Trump.Once again the President of the United States has undermined the Constitution", "wgdVcDFoIzy-00001-00001482-00002441": "He is spinning a false conservative narrative into a national emergency, just to be able to allocate funds to build his unnecessary wall", "wgdVcDFoIzy-00002-00002441-00003379": "Enough is enough; he is disgracing the Oval Office.Donald Trump has lied more than 8,000 times since taking office and counting", "wgdVcDFoIzy-00003-00003379-00004144": "While calling for “unity,” he has at the same time taken a vile attitude towards members of the Democratic Party", "wgdVcDFoIzy-00004-00004144-00005118": "When he doesn’t get his way, he throws temper tantrums on Twitter, kicks journalists out of press briefings and calls them the enemy of the people", "wgdVcDFoIzy-00005-00005118-00006597": "These scandals are only getting worse under his watch. This is not even including his private meetings with Putin, or praising North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, along with the top people of his campaign team have having been indicted", "wgdVcDFoIzy-00006-00006597-00007250": "This lack of leadership continues with his treatment of veterans, including war heroes", "wgdVcDFoIzy-00007-00007250-00008368": "It took Trump more than two years to finally visit troops in a combat zone, and when he did, he lied to them, saying he was the only one in office who gave them a pay raise", "wgdVcDFoIzy-00008-00008368-00009170": "His policies are cruel and inhumane, locking children in cages because immigrants want a better life", "wgdVcDFoIzy-00009-00009170-00010915": "He bans transgender people from joining the United States Military.Trump constantly violates the Constitution, for example encouraging punitive actions against black NFL players who were exercising free speech to raise awarenessduring football games of police brutality", "wgdVcDFoIzy-00010-00010915-00011941": "He has done so much harm to our country, and the list goes on. He’s praised dictators, and he’s called neo-Nazis “very fine people", "wgdVcDFoIzy-00011-00011941-00012931": "” He does not hold anyone in the Republican Party accountable for racism or other wrongful acts, but will condemn anything a Democrat is accused of", "wgdVcDFoIzy-00012-00012931-00014156": "He has caused the United States to be a joke to the world, in the United Nations General Assembly and most recently in Munich, Germany, with no applause after the greeting from Mike Pence", "wgdVcDFoIzy-00013-00014156-00015374": "Trump has called various countries unfortunate derogatory words. .These past few months have been the worst because of the toll the American people have suffered under his leadership, or lack thereof", "wgdVcDFoIzy-00014-00015374-00016110": "Instead of listening to experts on immigration, he buys into what his favorite pundits say about it", "wgdVcDFoIzy-00015-00016110-00017380": "They ignore facts like MS-13 having been created in the United States, facts like immigrants coming through legal points of entry, and they forget to mention that seeking asylum is legal and human right", "wgdVcDFoIzy-00016-00017380-00018500": "Because Trump fell for the conservative propaganda on Fox, he shut down the U.S. government in a way that disingenuously put many people in a financial burden", "wgdVcDFoIzy-00017-00018500-00019127": "So many Americans were unable to provide for their families, including people in the U", "wgdVcDFoIzy-00018-00019127-00020347": "S. Coast Guard. This disaster has even put our country’s safety at national risk. And now, he has declared national emergency when there isn’t any emergency at the border", "wgdVcDFoIzy-00019-00020347-00021575": "This act is unconstitutional and compromises the office of the President of the United States, which is supposed to be a position of honor and integrity, and Trump hasn’t displayed any of these values", "wgdVcDFoIzy-00020-00021575-00022356": "I am a United States military veteran, and I took an oath to defend our country and Constitution", "wgdVcDFoIzy-00021-00022356-00023769": "I am requesting that all lawmakers, Republican, Democrat, Senate, House, and anyone else with the authority, to come together and save our country and begin the process of impeachment and removal of Donald Trump", "wgdVcDFoIzy-00022-00023769-00024396": "I believe this may be the only way our country can heal and unite once again"}}, {"audio_id": "wn5keyM5mpA", "text": {"wn5keyM5mpA-00000-00000000-00000196": "Сёння я прашу вашай дапамогі.", "wn5keyM5mpA-00001-00000196-00000358": "Я заклікаю вас да дзеянняў,", "wn5keyM5mpA-00002-00000408-00000560": "салідарнасці і суперажывання", "wn5keyM5mpA-00003-00000657-00000977": "сямі праваабаронцам з Праваабарончага цэнтра \"Вясна\",", "wn5keyM5mpA-00004-00001027-00001330": "вядучай праваабарончай арганізацыі Беларусі,", "wn5keyM5mpA-00005-00001360-00001675": "удзельніцы глабальнай сеткі SOS-Torture OMCT.", "wn5keyM5mpA-00006-00001754-00001869": "Яны затрыманыя за тое,", "wn5keyM5mpA-00007-00001883-00002348": "што далі магчымасць выказацца ахвярам парушэнняў правоў чалавека і катаванняў.", "wn5keyM5mpA-00008-00002348-00002878": "Сёння наш абавязак даць ім магчымасць выказацца пра іх лёс", "wn5keyM5mpA-00009-00002878-00003126": "і іх становішча ў зняволенні ў Беларусі.", "wn5keyM5mpA-00010-00003182-00003568": "Роўна год таму Марфу Рабкову затрымалі толькі за тое,", "wn5keyM5mpA-00011-00003568-00003808": "што яна займалася праваабарончай дзейнасцю.", "wn5keyM5mpA-00012-00003861-00004000": "Якраз у той дзень,", "wn5keyM5mpA-00013-00004000-00004520": "калі ў вядучым праваабарончым органе Арганізацыі Аб'яднаных Нацый мусілі абмяркоўваць катаванні,", "wn5keyM5mpA-00014-00004520-00005058": "злоўжыванні, міліцэйскі гвалт, адвольныя затрыманні і ўсе іншыя парушэнні, якія не прывялі да пакарання.", "wn5keyM5mpA-00015-00005162-00005340": "З тых часоў мы назіраем", "wn5keyM5mpA-00016-00005373-00005921": "сістэматычныя і беспрэцэдэнтныя, нават па беларускіх мерках, рэпрэсіі супраць праваабарончай дзейнасці.", "wn5keyM5mpA-00017-00005977-00006474": "Здаецца, існуе меркаванне, што калі няма праваабаронцаў,", "wn5keyM5mpA-00018-00006474-00006697": "калі няма людзей, якія дакументуюць парушэнні правоў чалавека,", "wn5keyM5mpA-00019-00006697-00007099": "якія не маўчаць, якія працуюць з ахвярамі, якія прапануюць ім рэабілітацыю, якія дапамагаюць ім,", "wn5keyM5mpA-00020-00007099-00007497": "то няма больш ахвяр, няма больш ні гвалту, ні праблем у Беларусі.", "wn5keyM5mpA-00021-00007557-00007741": "Мы павінны даказаць, што гэта няпраўда.", "wn5keyM5mpA-00022-00007813-00008113": "Мы павінны выказацца, назваць іх імёны.", "wn5keyM5mpA-00023-00008145-00008345": "Мы павінны заклікаць нашы ўрады дзейнічаць.", "wn5keyM5mpA-00024-00008401-00008795": "Мы павінны зрабіць усё, каб міжнародная супольнасць не забывала гэтыя імёны.", "wn5keyM5mpA-00025-00008818-00009174": "І цынічны разлік беларускага ўрада аб тым,", "wn5keyM5mpA-00026-00009174-00009575": "што без праваабаронцаў няма ахвяраў, не спраўдзіцца.", "wn5keyM5mpA-00027-00009679-00010238": "Я лічу важным, каб мы ўсе памяталі і ўсе вымаўлялі іх імёны:", "wn5keyM5mpA-00028-00010351-00010524": "Алесь Бяляцкі,", "wn5keyM5mpA-00029-00010564-00011281": "дырэктар арганізацыі, узнагароджаны рознымі ўзнагародамі за сваю смелую працу на працягу многіх гадоў,", "wn5keyM5mpA-00030-00011357-00011557": "Валянцін Стэфановіч,", "wn5keyM5mpA-00031-00011653-00011885": "выдатны чалавек і праваабаронца,", "wn5keyM5mpA-00032-00011933-00012245": "а таксама Уладзімір Лабковіч,", "wn5keyM5mpA-00033-00012333-00012567": "Леанід Судаленка,", "wn5keyM5mpA-00034-00012635-00012835": "Таццяна Ласіца,", "wn5keyM5mpA-00035-00012899-00013063": "Андрэй Чапюк", "wn5keyM5mpA-00036-00013087-00013271": "і Марфа Рабкова.", "wn5keyM5mpA-00037-00013335-00013666": "Яны з'яўляюцца сімваламі тых шматлікіх людзей,", "wn5keyM5mpA-00038-00013666-00014066": "якія смела спрабуюць патрабаваць адказнасці для ўладаў і падтрымкі для ахвяраў.", "wn5keyM5mpA-00039-00014104-00014242": "Давайце падтрымаем іх,", "wn5keyM5mpA-00040-00014242-00014571": "выкарыстайце ваш уплыў, каб ваш голас быў пачуты,", "wn5keyM5mpA-00041-00014595-00014725": "каб іх голас быў пачуты.", "wn5keyM5mpA-00042-00014783-00015018": "Я ад усяго сэрца ўдзячны вам за ўсё,", "wn5keyM5mpA-00043-00015018-00015298": "што вы можаце зрабіць, каб дапамагчы ў гэтай справе."}}, {"audio_id": "x0ma8t7v2zM", "text": {"x0ma8t7v2zM-00000-00000513-00002143": "As President Donald Trump continues to rage about who’s not nice enough to him for his liking, his team keeps trying to reshape American policy to be more in line with their far right agenda — but for now, at least part of those efforts face a new roadblock", "x0ma8t7v2zM-00001-00002143-00003261": "Federal Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly asserted this week that an earlier injunction she handed down blocking the implementation of a planned ban on transgender members of the U", "x0ma8t7v2zM-00002-00003261-00003974": "S. Armed Forces remains in place despite the Trump administration’s claims otherwise", "x0ma8t7v2zM-00003-00003974-00005463": "After a lengthy legal battle, acting Deputy Defense Secretary David Norquist moved to implement the ban last week with a memo that made the policy effective come April 12 — but in reality, the legal battle is not over", "x0ma8t7v2zM-00004-00005463-00006233": "Although three other injunctions blocking the policy have been lifted, including two that the U", "x0ma8t7v2zM-00005-00006233-00007986": "S. Supreme Court handled, Kollar-Kotelly’s is still in place. Although a D.C. appeals court offered a ruling lifting the injunction, until at least March 29, that ruling is only preliminary while the plantiffs decide whether to pursue the matter further", "x0ma8t7v2zM-00006-00007986-00009120": "The transgender rights project director with GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders Jennifer Levi praised Kollar-Kotelly’s newest assertion, offering:", "x0ma8t7v2zM-00007-00009120-00010188": "‘The Trump administration cannot circumvent the judicial process just to fast track its baseless, unfair ban on transgender service members", "x0ma8t7v2zM-00008-00010188-00011573": "The dedicated transgender troops who show up every day to do their duty and serve their country deserve justice, and that includes requiring this administration to follow the ordinary rules of judicial process", "x0ma8t7v2zM-00009-00011573-00012573": "’.President Trump first unveiled his plans to ban transgender troops from serving in the military with a set of tweets back in 2017", "x0ma8t7v2zM-00010-00012573-00013759": "Legal battles immediately ensued — and the administration ended up ordered to start accepting openly transgender soldiers in 2018, a long-awaited U", "x0ma8t7v2zM-00011-00013759-00014801": "S. policy change which had been incoming until the Trump team moved to stop it. After the beginning of 2018 came and went, however, the U", "x0ma8t7v2zM-00012-00014801-00015880": "S. Armed Forces lagged significantly in their actual acceptance of transgender recruits — and eventually, the newly Republican-majority U", "x0ma8t7v2zM-00013-00015880-00016896": "S. Supreme Court lifted the aforementioned temporary injunctions blocking the formal policy while litigation proceeded through lower-level courts", "x0ma8t7v2zM-00014-00016896-00018043": "After the Supreme Court lifted two injunctions, a federal judge in Maryland ruled he felt he must lift a third, leaving just the one that Kollar-Kotelly handed down", "x0ma8t7v2zM-00015-00018043-00020033": "The entire premise of the ban was based on a lie in the first place. It’s false that providing healthcare specific to transgender service members’ identities would pose some kind of insurmountable burden to the military — they spend more on Viagra than they’ve been projected to spend on transgender health services", "x0ma8t7v2zM-00016-00020033-00021906": "The lie mirrors others that the Trump administration has put forward as the basis for major policy decisions, such as the claim that there is an undocumented immigration “crisis” at the southern border necessitating spending billions upon billions on a border wall that criminals can just go around", "x0ma8t7v2zM-00017-00021906-00022995": "The issues are among the many paving the way to the 2020 elections. Just this week, presidential candidate and Senator Cory Booker (D-N", "x0ma8t7v2zM-00018-00022995-00023646": "J.) explicitly pledged to undo the ban on transgender service members if elected"}}, {"audio_id": "x8U3pMWt5Nu", "text": {"x8U3pMWt5Nu-00000-00000571-00001801": "Special Counsel Robert Mueller is finished with his investigation into whether or not the Trump campaign and Russia colluded to get him elected, but that doesn’t mean the story is over by any means", "x8U3pMWt5Nu-00001-00001801-00002974": "Politico reports that Assistant US Attorney David Goodhand claimed this week that the grand jury will continue to investigate even though Mueller’s part in the probe is over", "x8U3pMWt5Nu-00002-00002974-00004118": "When US District Court Chief Judge Beryl Howell was asked about whether or not the grand jury was still active, Goodhand said it was in fact “continuing robustly", "x8U3pMWt5Nu-00003-00004118-00005704": "”.Of course, the grand jury is in the process of sorting through several things related to the Russia probe, which just happens to include a case involving an unnamed foreign company that was held in contempt for defying a subpoena by Robert Mueller", "x8U3pMWt5Nu-00004-00005704-00007156": "This is a big question mark in the case.It’s also important to note that before submitting his report, Robert Mueller’s office was trying to secure the testimony of Andrew Miller, an aide to Trump ally Roger Stone", "x8U3pMWt5Nu-00005-00007156-00007955": "Stone, of course, was indicted for perjury, witness tampering and obstruction of justice", "x8U3pMWt5Nu-00006-00007955-00009468": "It is not clear what more the grand jury could discover that isn’t already included in Mueller’s final report, but Politico suggests that it “adds a new layer of uncertainty” to the Mueller investigation, which has now finished after 21 months", "x8U3pMWt5Nu-00007-00009468-00010173": "Regardless of what Trump, his administration and Fox News may be claiming, this is far from over", "x8U3pMWt5Nu-00008-00010173-00011142": "More indictments could be coming from the grand jury, and even if not, there are at least 16 other investigations into Trump’s alleged corruption", "x8U3pMWt5Nu-00009-00011142-00011837": "All that to say, it may be a little early for Trump to be taking a victory lap"}}, {"audio_id": "x_JbdSDUXDA", "text": {"x_JbdSDUXDA-00000-00000571-00001987": "On Monday, a group of former National Security officials are expected to release a joint, bipartisan statement declaring there is no factual basis for President Donald Trump’s National Emergency at the southern border", "x_JbdSDUXDA-00001-00001987-00003716": "The group is made up of 58 former senior national security officials and includes former Secretaries of State Madeleine Albright and John Kerry, former Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, former State Department counselor Eliot Cohen and former Ambassador to the U", "x_JbdSDUXDA-00002-00003716-00004789": "N. Thomas Pickering. They are set to release the statement a day before the House of Representatives is expected to vote on a bill that would block Trump’s declaration", "x_JbdSDUXDA-00003-00004789-00006268": "“Under no plausible assessment of the evidence is there a national emergency today that entitles the president to tap into funds appropriated for other purposes to build a wall at the southern border,” they told the Washington Post", "x_JbdSDUXDA-00004-00006268-00007221": "They pointed out that illegal border crossings are at a near 40-year low, citing statistics from the Department of Homeland Security", "x_JbdSDUXDA-00005-00007221-00008102": "The group also says that “the overwhelming majority of opioids” that cross the border are brought in through legal ports of entry", "x_JbdSDUXDA-00006-00008102-00008982": "They will reportedly argue that the declaration “will undermine U.S. national security and foreign policy interests", "x_JbdSDUXDA-00007-00008982-00009831": "” And, they assert, “a wall is unnecessary to support the use of the armed forces,” as the administration has said"}}, {"audio_id": "xARRAb_uda0", "text": {"xARRAb_uda0-00000-00000571-00001576": "The president showed the audience a printout of the New York Times article during a roundtable discussion in Minnesota to promote its success in boosting the economy", "xARRAb_uda0-00001-00001576-00002384": ".“I have an article here from one of the newspapers … the very fake New York Times,” he said as the audience laughed", "xARRAb_uda0-00002-00002384-00003078": "“And they must have made a mistake, I’m sure these writers will be fired very shortly", "xARRAb_uda0-00003-00003078-00003799": "”.The article Trump referred to was headlined: “Face It: You (Probably) Got a Tax Cut", "xARRAb_uda0-00004-00003799-00004552": "”.Trump said he did not read the full article because he could not believe the positive headline", "xARRAb_uda0-00005-00004552-00005894": "“I didn’t read the rest of the article. frankly. I read the headline … you don’t want to delve too much into the New York Times, because nothing good comes from the New York Times,” he said as the audience applauded", "xARRAb_uda0-00006-00005894-00006717": ".“We promised that these tax cuts would be rocket fuel for the American economy and we were absolutely right,” Trump said"}}, {"audio_id": "xHGzRyzarVU", "text": {"xHGzRyzarVU-00000-00000571-00002261": "The decision by President Donald Trump to walk away from his summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un without a deal sent a clear message to China’s President Xi Jinping: the US will stand its ground and reject deals that do not live up to its expectations", "xHGzRyzarVU-00001-00002261-00003345": "Beijing is Pyongyang’s closest ally and accounts for an overwhelming 90 percent of North Korea’s trade, according to data from the International Monetary Fund", "xHGzRyzarVU-00002-00003345-00004194": "That gives China a lot of influence over North Korea–and a big stake in the outcome of the now failed summit in Vietnam", "xHGzRyzarVU-00003-00004194-00005432": "Some in the leadership of China’s Communist Party viewed the North Korea summit as a testing ground for US resolve, according to a high ranking US official who spoke on the condition of anonymity", "xHGzRyzarVU-00004-00005432-00006968": "If the US gave a significant amount of ground to the North Koreans in order to score a “win” and strike a deal, it would likely have emboldened China’s negotiators to hold out against what many Chinese officials regard as unreasonable US demands", "xHGzRyzarVU-00005-00006968-00008264": "The North Korean leader visited Beijing in January, meeting with China’s Xi Jinping even while lower-level US officials were holding trade talks with Chinese counterparts nearby", "xHGzRyzarVU-00006-00008264-00009316": "This was widely seen as an attempt to send a message to Washington that the trade war could interfere with plans to strike a denuclearization with North Korea", "xHGzRyzarVU-00007-00009316-00010343": "Many American officials believe that Kim’s stance in the Hanoi negotiations was heavily influenced by Xi, which would mean North Korea’s resistance to U", "xHGzRyzarVU-00008-00010343-00011696": "S. demands may have been authorized by China.Until Trump’s surprise decision to walk away from a deal with Kim, the North Korea negotiations had been seen as giving China leverage in the trade talks", "xHGzRyzarVU-00009-00011696-00013467": ".“If we expect China to cooperate on that important issue, we can’t punch them in the nose on trade issues,” David Dollar, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution who was the US Treasury’s economic emissary to China during the Obama administration, told Bloomberg News last year", "xHGzRyzarVU-00010-00013467-00014245": "“When you bring in the North Korea factor, it becomes overwhelmingly sensible to make a trade deal with China''", "xHGzRyzarVU-00011-00014245-00014961": "But with a North Korea deal off the table, at least for now, China has lost that leverage", "xHGzRyzarVU-00012-00014961-00016108": "And the U.S. has shown that it does indeed have the resolve to resist the temptation to settle for halfway measures or commitments that cannot be adequately enforced or monitored"}}, {"audio_id": "xHK4VnKGEQM", "text": {"xHK4VnKGEQM-00000-00000571-00001297": "A gloom has settled over the American elite on trade and foreign policy.  This is good news", "xHK4VnKGEQM-00001-00001297-00002013": "Here's why.The dark clouds started forming during the presidency of Barack Obama", "xHK4VnKGEQM-00002-00002013-00003256": "Even though, in a number of ways, Obama was anti-American, forever apologizing for this country and its achievements, his foreign policy was not exactly a globalist's delight", "xHK4VnKGEQM-00003-00003256-00003993": "Obama's appointment of the ineffectual Hillary Clinton as secretary of state was a raw political move", "xHK4VnKGEQM-00004-00003993-00006064": "When she left, Obama offered John F. Kerry as a sop to the foreign policy blob.  Even though Obama was behind international initiatives like the Iran nuclear weapons deal, the Paris Climate Accord, and the overthrow of Gaddafi, overall, he oversaw a retreat, albeit slowly, from the post-WWII consensus", "xHK4VnKGEQM-00005-00006064-00006824": "The 2016 election was a shock to the foreign service community.  Hillary was their ideal candidate", "xHK4VnKGEQM-00006-00006824-00007788": "In her, the boys from Foggy Bottom knew they could lead the \"world's smartest woman\" around by the nose with flattery and faux bowing and scraping", "xHK4VnKGEQM-00007-00007788-00008700": "Donald Trump, however, was their worst nightmare.  This barbarian was uncontrollable and threatened to upend the world as they know it", "xHK4VnKGEQM-00008-00008700-00009810": "And worse still, on a personal note, since winning the presidency, Trump has frozen out a great many of his pre-election critics from the plumb government positions they crave", "xHK4VnKGEQM-00009-00009810-00010722": ".The inbred blob is infected with groupthink.  It acts as if America's destiny were to lead the world forever, no matter the cost", "xHK4VnKGEQM-00010-00010722-00011960": "If the American people refuse to shoulder their assigned responsibility to self-sacrifice for the world community, we are lectured that global chaos of biblical proportions will ensue", "xHK4VnKGEQM-00011-00011960-00012683": "Part of the reason for the mentality of the foreign service crowd is that since the end of World War II, the U", "xHK4VnKGEQM-00012-00012683-00013618": "S. has basically protected and bankrolled much of the world.  This is the only environment these people know and are comfortable with", "xHK4VnKGEQM-00013-00013618-00014540": "For all of their supposed education and credentials, thinking out of the box is not their forte, even when that box is knee-deep with their failures", "xHK4VnKGEQM-00014-00014540-00015395": "Yes, naked self-interest motivates many in the blob.  To think otherwise is to deny human nature to its members", "xHK4VnKGEQM-00015-00015395-00016233": "So why the gloom in the foreign policy community?  It's because those people know that President Trump has changed the dynamics", "xHK4VnKGEQM-00016-00016233-00016870": "Under him, America's interests will now be put ahead of the interests of foreign countries", "xHK4VnKGEQM-00017-00016870-00017576": "There will be no going back when he leaves office.  I offer the thoughts of Eliot Cohen in this regard", "xHK4VnKGEQM-00018-00017576-00018401": "If you can get past his overbearing presumptuous attitude and his wrong-headed analysis, savor his pessimism"}}, {"audio_id": "xMCxFixOk9g", "text": {"xMCxFixOk9g-00000-00000571-00001391": "Some months ago a bumptious, anonymous troll decided to “take me to school” about what constituted “good journalism", "xMCxFixOk9g-00001-00001391-00002193": "” In the course of this self-indulgent didactic the troll misspelled the word “journalism” twice in two different ways", "xMCxFixOk9g-00002-00002193-00004131": "I brought this to his attention before blocking him. I’m told by a friend that I’m still being stalked by this same troll months later, and that his invective has escalated – in length, in hysteria, and in the deeply personal nature of his insults – as befits an ego too weak to recover from a self-inflicted wound", "xMCxFixOk9g-00003-00004131-00004993": "Yet for all this, my troll cannot touch Donald Trump when it comes to good old-fashioned, butthurt vindictiveness", "xMCxFixOk9g-00004-00004993-00006636": "Donald Trump never forgets a sling nor an arrow, no matter how inconsequential. Not even becoming President of the United States is sufficient to assuage his endless, bottomless need to be respected, praised and, above all, taken seriously", "xMCxFixOk9g-00005-00006636-00008000": "We are fortunate that we do not live in a world where failure to perform adequate obeisance to the “Dear Leader” is mandated by law, but that day would be inevitable if Donald Trump had anything to say about it", "xMCxFixOk9g-00006-00008000-00009220": "Nowhere is Trump’s vindictiveness more in evidence than in his tweets. I point this out because it occurs to me that we of the left have been barking up the wrong tree for some time now", "xMCxFixOk9g-00007-00009220-00010703": "The narrative that Trump supporters are embarrassed by Donald Trump’s tweets, by their illiteracy, their simplistic take on border defense and climate science and, above all, their vituperative vindictiveness – may simply be wrong", "xMCxFixOk9g-00008-00010703-00011633": "Maybe someone else out there has said the same, but that voice has not been loud enough to penetrate the collective conventional wisdom", "xMCxFixOk9g-00009-00011633-00012670": "When Barack Obama gently rebuked an angry crowd for disrespecting an elderly veteran who was heckling his speech, one wonders how Trump supporters saw that", "xMCxFixOk9g-00010-00012670-00013671": "As weakness? Did they think Obama should have encouraged the mob to throw the old man out, and, like Trump, offer to pay their legal fees?"}}, {"audio_id": "xU5f1jHGQ_o", "text": {"xU5f1jHGQ_o-00000-00000513-00001210": "Donald Trump installed his son-in-law Jared Kushner to be responsible for the Middle East", "xU5f1jHGQ_o-00001-00001210-00002224": "The Kushner family is friends with the current prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, so Trump has a has supported whatever the prime minister desires", "xU5f1jHGQ_o-00002-00002224-00003726": "Trump moved the U.S. Israeli embassy to Jerusalem. Now, Netanyahu is just three weeks out from his elections, so Trump decided to invite the prime minister to Washington creating a definite leg up for prime minister", "xU5f1jHGQ_o-00003-00003726-00004593": "The commander-in-chief just trashed over 50 years of U.S. policy about the Israeli’s occupation of Golan Heights", "xU5f1jHGQ_o-00004-00004593-00006061": "‘After 52 years it is time for the United States to fully recognize Israel’s Sovereignty over the Golan Heights, which is of critical strategic and security importance to the State of Israel and Regional Stability!’", "xU5f1jHGQ_o-00005-00006061-00006996": "In the Six-Day War of 1967, Israel captured the Golan Heights from Syria and annexed it in 1981", "xU5f1jHGQ_o-00006-00006996-00008109": "However internationally, the move was never recognized. Instead, other countries consider Golan Heights occupied territory and the Israeli settlements illegal", "xU5f1jHGQ_o-00007-00008109-00009232": "Former U.S. defense secretary Leon Panetta worked for President Barack Obama and said this looked like a move to increase Netanyahu’s votes and this “raises a lot of concern:”", "xU5f1jHGQ_o-00008-00009232-00009997": "‘It’s hard not to put two and two together. The President has made clear his support for Netanyahu’", "xU5f1jHGQ_o-00009-00009997-00011737": "Netanyahu tweeted Trump his thanks:.‘At a time when Iran seeks to use Syria as a platform to destroy Israel, President Trump boldly recognizes Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights. Thank you President Trump! @realDonaldTrump.’"}}, {"audio_id": "xgNUjJ-XWpM", "text": {"xgNUjJ-XWpM-00000-00000571-00001459": "President Trump indicated some time ago that he might buck the Republican party and their NRA masters on gun legislation", "xgNUjJ-XWpM-00001-00001459-00003071": "That sentiment didn’t last long – he almost immediately backtracked and inexplicably echoed the NRA School Shooting Talking Points that school shootings can be reduced by introducing more guns into schools — particularly by arming teachers", "xgNUjJ-XWpM-00002-00003071-00004883": "The school attends Barron Trump, St Andrew’s Episcopal School in Potomac, Maryland, is one of more than 100 schools in the Greater Washington, DC and Maryland area whose principals signed an open letter demanding that the president and Congress  do tackle the scourge of gun violence without arming of teachers", "xgNUjJ-XWpM-00003-00004883-00006500": "The letter, which was initially published by The Baltimore Sun reads, in part:.“We urge our president, our Congress, and our state leaders to enact specific, rigorous measures to reduce gun violence in our society, particularly in our schools", "xgNUjJ-XWpM-00004-00006500-00007584": "”.“We need a robust system of registration and background checks, with a particular eye toward weapons capable of rapidly firing a vast number of deadly shots", "xgNUjJ-XWpM-00005-00007584-00008606": "We need stronger mental health services and more effective communication among agencies responsible for the well-being of children, adults and families", "xgNUjJ-XWpM-00006-00008606-00009418": "What we do not need is to arm our teachers with guns, which is dangerous and antithetical to our profession as educators''", "xgNUjJ-XWpM-00007-00009418-00010640": "The letter was published on the same day of the national school walkout, during which thousands of students across the country demonstrated and rallied for new gun laws, including outside the White House", "xgNUjJ-XWpM-00008-00010640-00011293": "Trump’s youngest son began attending the school last year, after relocating from New York"}}, {"audio_id": "xj41Oc2Fudo", "text": {"xj41Oc2Fudo-00000-00000513-00002380": "Several Democratic 2020 presidential hopefuls -- including Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris and now Kirsten Gillibrand -- are defending their self-professed commitment to the ideals of the #MeToo movement against a series of accusations they recently mismanaged sexual-misconduct claims against their subordinates", "xj41Oc2Fudo-00001-00002380-00004246": "As the three prominent senators each have sought to draw a sharp contrast with President Trump, who has faced his own misconduct allegations, the claims highlighted vulnerabilities that could become major liabilities not only in a heated Democrat Party primary, but also in the general election", "xj41Oc2Fudo-00002-00004246-00005100": "Back in 2017, Gillibrand and others ramped up the pressure for then-Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn", "xj41Oc2Fudo-00003-00005100-00006999": ", to resign amid sexual misconduct allegations. He ultimately stepped down.Gillibrand, who has been described by GQ Magazine as \"the face of the MeToo movement,\" said at the time that Franken's alleged conduct had \"shocked and disappointed her\" and that he should \"step aside\" because \"enough is enough", "xj41Oc2Fudo-00004-00006999-00008739": "\" But, it emerged on Monday that last summer, an aide in her mid-20’s who was working in Gillibrand’s Senate office also apparently decided that enough was enough, as she resigned in protest over the office’s handling of her sexual-harassment complaint against a senior male adviser to Gillibrand", "xj41Oc2Fudo-00005-00008739-00010227": "“I have offered my resignation because of how poorly the investigation and post-investigation was handled,” the woman, who resigned less than three weeks after reporting the purported harassment, wrote to Gillibrand in a letter obtained by Politico", "xj41Oc2Fudo-00006-00010227-00011596": "Gillibrand, responding to the allegations on Monday, said an appropriate investigation was launched -- and her office later said the male staffer had been fired after other unreported, \"deeply disturbing\" comments surfaced", "xj41Oc2Fudo-00007-00011596-00013963": "The woman was granted anonymity because of fears of retaliation.Gillibrand faced immediate friendly fire after calling for Franken's resignation -- in 2018, liberal billionaire megadonor George Soros argued that Gillibrand turned on Franken to \"improve her chances\" in the 2020 presidential race -- and some of those hard feelings among her fellow progressives have not subsided", "xj41Oc2Fudo-00008-00013963-00014969": "For Sanders, the Vermont Independent who caucuses with Democrats, looming resentment from establishment progressives also has posed a major challenge", "xj41Oc2Fudo-00009-00014969-00017035": "A January report in The New York Times outlining what one former Sanders delegate called an \"entire wave of rotten sexual harassment that seemingly was never dealt with\" during his 2016 presidential run seemed only to bolster on-the-record claims from Democrats that Sanders was too impersonal and arrogant to lead the party", "xj41Oc2Fudo-00010-00017035-00018046": "Asked by CNN anchor Anderson Cooper earlier this year whether he was unaware of the sexual harassment allegations, Sanders replied: \"Uh, yes", "xj41Oc2Fudo-00011-00018046-00018764": "I was a little bit busy running around the country, trying to make the case.\" He then appeared to smile", "xj41Oc2Fudo-00012-00018764-00019981": "The next week, after reports surfaced that a top aide was accused of sexually assaulting a female subordinate during Sanders' campaign, he issued a strong apology and a vow to change", "xj41Oc2Fudo-00013-00019981-00020728": "\"To the women in that campaign who were harassed or mistreated I apologize,\" Sanders said in a statement", "xj41Oc2Fudo-00014-00020728-00022810": "\"Our standards and safeguards were inadequate.\".Allegations of sexism also briefly surfaced contemporaneously during Sanders’ 2016 bid, as some of his young, white male supporters -- known as \"Bernie Bros\" -- attacked Hillary Clinton and her followers online, contributing to a hostile atmosphere between the campaigns", "xj41Oc2Fudo-00015-00022810-00024485": "In her book, the election retrospective \"What Happened,\" Clinton slammed Sanders for using “innuendo and impugning my character” such that she suffered “lasting damage\" into the general election, although Clinton did not accuse Sanders of orchestrating the gender-based attacks", "xj41Oc2Fudo-00016-00024485-00026462": "The back-and-forth has continued into 2019. Late last month, after former members of Clinton's team leaked details concerning Sanders' expensive travel on behalf of the Clinton campaign after she secured the Democratic nomination, Sanders 2016 campaign spokesman Michael Briggs returned fire", "xj41Oc2Fudo-00017-00026462-00027193": "\"You can see why she’s one of the most disliked politicians in America,\" Briggs said, referring to Clinton", "xj41Oc2Fudo-00018-00027193-00028178": "\"She’s not nice. Her people are not nice.\" Briggs went on to call Clinton and her team among the \"biggest a--holes in American politics", "xj41Oc2Fudo-00019-00028178-00029126": "\".But, although Gillibrand and Sanders have made public overtures to the alleged victims who worked for them, California Democratic Sen", "xj41Oc2Fudo-00020-00029126-00030315": "Kamala Harris acknowledged earlier this month that she still had not spoken to a woman who sued her former top adviser for sexual harassment, leading to a $400,000 settlement", "xj41Oc2Fudo-00021-00030315-00032235": "A spokeswoman for Harris insisted last December the team was “unaware” of the harassment allegations while Harris was California’s attorney general, but the agency that she oversaw, California's Department of Justice, reportedly was informed about the complaint three months before she exited in early 2017", "xj41Oc2Fudo-00022-00032235-00033188": "The lawsuit, filed by Danielle Hartley, accused Larry Wallace of demeaning her based on her gender while she worked for him as his assistant", "xj41Oc2Fudo-00023-00033188-00034372": "Hartley said Wallace placed his computer printer under his desk and often asked her to crawl under and refill it with paper as he sat and watched, sometimes with other men in the room", "xj41Oc2Fudo-00024-00034372-00035850": "\"In this specific case, I have not talked to the victim,\" Harris told Univision. \"That case is being handled by the Attorney General's Office and I've left it up to that office to handle the case as they've seen fit, which included a settlement", "xj41Oc2Fudo-00025-00035850-00037219": "\".In an uncomfortable twist, Harris' autobiography, “The Truths We Hold: An American Journey,” which was released in January, praised Wallace's \"leadership\" in orchestrating a bias training program", "xj41Oc2Fudo-00026-00037219-00037966": "Wallace, the former director of the Division of Law Enforcement in California, resigned last December", "xj41Oc2Fudo-00027-00037966-00038846": "Republicans, meanwhile, have previewed a possible line of attack against Harris on the episode as primary season approaches", "xj41Oc2Fudo-00028-00038846-00040210": "“No one is buying Kamala Harris’s claim she didn’t know her top aide of 14 yrs was accused of sexual harassment, resulting in a $400K settlement,” GOP Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel tweeted"}}, {"audio_id": "y2pQ_fbzO_k", "text": {"y2pQ_fbzO_k-00000-00000571-00001686": "A video has surfaced that shows Trump signing a deal with Aras Agalarov, from the same family that set up the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting with Trump Jr", "y2pQ_fbzO_k-00001-00001686-00002765": "and Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya. Specifically, Aras Agalarov is the father of the Russian who setup the infamous meeting with Trump Jr", "y2pQ_fbzO_k-00002-00002765-00004076": "in Trump tower.Scott Dworkin says, “Whatever you do this morning don’t retweet this video I found of Trump saying he has “the best Russian partners” before he signs a $20 million deal with them", "y2pQ_fbzO_k-00003-00004076-00005155": "Same Russians who set up Don Jr Russian lawyer meeting: Aras & Emin Agalarov''.But no, he doesn’t have ties to Russian oligarchs, right?", "y2pQ_fbzO_k-00004-00005155-00006294": "Josh Schwerin‏, the Communications Director for Priorities USA, discovered that Rob Goldstone, the man who has been discovered setting up the meeting between Trump Jr", "y2pQ_fbzO_k-00005-00006294-00007383": "and the Russian lawyer, “checked in to Trump Organization” via Facebook on June 9th, 2016 (the day of the meeting between Donald Trump Jr", "y2pQ_fbzO_k-00006-00007383-00007775": "and the Kremlin representative)."}}, {"audio_id": "yusqyQQCB8c", "text": {"yusqyQQCB8c-00000-00000571-00001472": "Sooner or later, many of the President's subordinates face the same dilemma.They can respect the law or they can work for Donald Trump", "yusqyQQCB8c-00001-00001472-00003094": "It's often just not possible to do both.Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen became the latest Cabinet member to pay the price for not letting Trump do what he wants -- and on the issue he cares about more than any other -- when she was forced to resign on Sunday", "yusqyQQCB8c-00002-00003094-00004860": "It was a case of the Trump revolution eating one of its own, since Nielsen, an immigration hardliner, was seen as insufficiently doctrinaire despite becoming the face of the zero-tolerance immigration policy that led to child separations and caused outrage last year", "yusqyQQCB8c-00003-00004860-00006631": "But CNN reporting makes clear that Nielsen also lost her job because she ultimately came to believe that Trump's wilder impulses on immigration -- an issue that he sees as critical to his reelection in 2020 -- threatened America's security and may have run contrary to the law", "yusqyQQCB8c-00004-00006631-00008355": "Nielsen is not the first senior Cabinet official to lose their career after coming up against Trump's vision of his own authority -- or his instinct to elevate largely unaccountable appointees, such as domestic policy adviser Stephen Miller or his son-in-law, Jared Kushner", "yusqyQQCB8c-00005-00008355-00009904": "In their own ways, former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, former FBI Director James Comey and even former Attorney General Jeff Sessions -- the spiritual father of much of the administration's immigration policy -- suffered a similar fate", "yusqyQQCB8c-00006-00009904-00011111": "Unlike the President, these public servants eventually concluded that the Constitution, the rule of law and the norms of democratic governance rendered some of Trump's behavior unacceptable", "yusqyQQCB8c-00007-00011111-00013287": "Nielsen's departure, which was accompanied by a White House sweep against her department that also accounted for the director of the Secret Service, sends a signal that Trump is ready to do whatever it takes to stem the crisis on the US-Mexico border, which is threatening to expose his vows to stem the flows of migrants from Central America as hollow", "yusqyQQCB8c-00008-00013287-00014710": "That will be welcome news for Trump's supporters, who relish his bypassing of the Washington establishment and overwhelmingly back his hard line on immigration and warnings that the US is under siege by an invading tide of criminals", "yusqyQQCB8c-00009-00014710-00015531": "But the President's desire to honor the faith of his base on immigration eventually made Nielsen's position untenable"}}, {"audio_id": "yvdPKbPa2Uc", "text": {"yvdPKbPa2Uc-00000-00000571-00002384": "Senator Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) recently released documents which revealed the Trump administration quietly transferred $200 million from government agencies — including almost $10 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency — in order to pad the the budget of U", "yvdPKbPa2Uc-00001-00002384-00003149": "S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.Merkley said in a statement to Huffington Post, “This is a scandal", "yvdPKbPa2Uc-00002-00003149-00003755": "” At the start of hurricane season — when American citizens in Puerto Rico and the U", "yvdPKbPa2Uc-00003-00003755-00005215": "S. Virgin Islands are still suffering from FEMA’s inadequate recovery efforts — the administration transferred millions of dollars away from FEMA … And for what? To implement their profoundly misguided ‘zero tolerance’ policy", "yvdPKbPa2Uc-00004-00005215-00007401": "”.Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY), ranking member on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, rebuked Trump’s new $20 million plan, and said the the foreign assistance funds had been earmarked by Congress to “lift up communities dealing with crime, corruption and so many other challenges,” as opposed to bankrolling an immigration crackdown", "yvdPKbPa2Uc-00005-00007401-00008465": "Engel told the New York Times, “I want answers about why the State Department thinks it can ignore Congress and dump more cash into deportation efforts", "yvdPKbPa2Uc-00006-00008465-00009961": "Until then, I’ll do whatever I can to stop this.Trump’s proposal to build a wall on the US-Mexico border was a prominent pillar of his 2016 election platform, as was the ridiculous claim that Mexico would pay for it", "yvdPKbPa2Uc-00007-00009961-00011226": "He frequently repeats the claim, though his budget proposals have included funding for the wall with money from American taxpayers, not Mexico, which has repeatedly insisted that it won’t pay", "yvdPKbPa2Uc-00008-00011226-00012385": "So it is indeed a strange turn of events that the Trump administration wants to pay the Mexican government to deport those who enter Mexico with the intention of entering the US illegally"}}, {"audio_id": "yvnxf48cHJA", "text": {"yvnxf48cHJA-00000-00000513-00001435": "Princess Diana, who was the first wife of Prince Charles, met Michael Jackson at Wembley Arena in 1988 during his “Bad” tour", "yvnxf48cHJA-00001-00001435-00002446": "During an exchange before his performance, the King of Pop made a £300,000 donation to the Prince of Wales’ charity – The Prince’s Trust", "yvnxf48cHJA-00002-00002446-00003300": "However, it was just the start of a lifetime friendship, in which the Thriller singer fell in love, according to a close source", "yvnxf48cHJA-00003-00003300-00004159": ".Matt Fiddes helped run security for Mr Jackson for more than 10 years and revealed how the Princess’ death had haunted him", "yvnxf48cHJA-00004-00004159-00005494": ".He told Daily Star Online in 2017: “He felt she was the only person in the world who could understand his life in terms of not being able to go anywhere, and the media stories that got out of hand", "yvnxf48cHJA-00005-00005494-00006327": "“The intrusion into the private life, having no privacy whatsoever.“He felt an immediate bond with her as soon as they met", "yvnxf48cHJA-00006-00006327-00007043": "\"They were both very shy individuals and he loved her, he wanted to marry her truth be told", "yvnxf48cHJA-00007-00007043-00007701": "“Michael told me he loved her, and he was in love with her, and he wanted to marry her", "yvnxf48cHJA-00008-00007701-00008929": "He told me she was his ideal wife.\".Mr Fiddes went on to detail how the pop star felt a connection with the People’s Princess and was absolutely devastated over the news of her death", "yvnxf48cHJA-00009-00008929-00009572": "He added: “They both had this tremendous amount of pain they suffered due to the role they were in", "yvnxf48cHJA-00010-00009572-00010418": "He said: “He was completely devastated when she died – Michael would always talk about her and he learnt a lot from her death", "yvnxf48cHJA-00011-00010418-00011397": "\".Mr Fiddes added that they would talk “all hours of the night” and their one connection was “the phone between Neverland and Kensington Palace\"", "yvnxf48cHJA-00012-00011397-00012197": "Her death also inspired Mr Jackson to up his security, fearing he would be “the next one to go”", "yvnxf48cHJA-00013-00012197-00013375": "The King of Pop also passed away at an early age too. .The singer was just 50 when he suffered a cardiac arrest at his home in Holmby Hills, Los Angeles", "yvnxf48cHJA-00014-00013375-00014169": ".He has failed to stay out of headlines since, as claims over alleged sexual abuse do not go away", "yvnxf48cHJA-00015-00014169-00015966": ".Next week, controversial documentary “Leaving Neverland” will air on Channel 4.The two-part series focuses on alleged sexual abuse by Mr Jackson with two men – Wade Robson and James Safechuck –  will hit screens on Wednesday, March 6 and Thursday, March 7", "yvnxf48cHJA-00016-00015966-00017035": ".The documentary has been met with fury by the Michael Jackson Estate, who have sued HBO – the original producers – for £85million", "yvnxf48cHJA-00017-00017035-00017964": "They claim it is \"an outrageous and pathetic attempt to exploit and cash in”, something Janet Jackson has previously backed", "yvnxf48cHJA-00018-00017964-00019338": "Like Mr Jackson, Princess Diana is still at the centre of worldwide attention.This weekend, a highly controversial musical titled “Diana” is being performed in La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego, California", "yvnxf48cHJA-00019-00019338-00020057": "It features scenes where James Hewitt strokes his bare chest and caresses Princess Diana in Bed", "yvnxf48cHJA-00020-00020057-00020668": ".Prince Charles is also seen undoing Camilla Parker Bowles’ purple dressing gown", "yvnxf48cHJA-00021-00020668-00021606": "Royal commentators have slammed the musical, with Ingrid Seward, editor-in-chief of Majesty magazine, branding it “tasteless”"}}, {"audio_id": "yx5GVN56i60", "text": {"yx5GVN56i60-00000-00000513-00001748": "House Democrats grilled T-Mobile CEO John Legere on Tuesday for staying at the Trump International Hotel while his company seeks government approval for a merger with Sprint", "yx5GVN56i60-00001-00001748-00003608": "Legere and Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure testified before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law to answer questions on the deal, appearing before lawmakers for the first time since T-Mobile's spending at the Washington hotel came to light", "yx5GVN56i60-00002-00003608-00004251": "The Washington Post was first to report on T-Mobile's spending at the Trump hotel", "yx5GVN56i60-00003-00004251-00005450": "Legere and a handful of other company executives checked in at the Trump hotel the day after the deal was announced in April 2018 and some have returned repeatedly since then", "yx5GVN56i60-00004-00005450-00006377": "T-Mobile has spent $195,000 on stays and meetings at the hotel over the past 11 months, the company has said", "yx5GVN56i60-00005-00006377-00007414": "\"Do you understand the optics of that? What it looks like? It looks like what's happening is that T-Mobile is trying to curry favor with the White House,\" said Rep", "yx5GVN56i60-00006-00007414-00008161": "Hank Johnson, a Georgia Democrat.Legere replied that he's a \"longtime Trump hotel stayer", "yx5GVN56i60-00007-00008161-00008804": "\".\"The optics of me staying at the Trump hotel hasn't changed in 10 years,\" he said", "yx5GVN56i60-00008-00008804-00010097": "In a letter sent to two Democratic lawmakers last month, he explained that he chose to stay there based on \"availability, security, meeting facilities and proximity to the activities scheduled in that city", "yx5GVN56i60-00009-00010097-00011330": "\".The amount spent at the Trump International Hotel accounted for 14% of the $1.4 million spent at DC hotels by T-Mobile during that period, the company has said", "yx5GVN56i60-00010-00011330-00013307": "But that didn't satisfy all members of the Democrat-controlled House panel.\"I only raise this because we unfortunately have a situation where the President has not disclosed his business interests and it appears you might be trying to influence the President to get involved in something he really should not be involved in,\" said Rep", "yx5GVN56i60-00011-00013307-00014838": "Pramila Jayapal, a Washington state Democrat.It was no secret that President Donald Trump opposed the merger between AT&T and Time Warner (CNN is a division of WarnerMedia, which was created as a result of that merger)", "yx5GVN56i60-00012-00014838-00016376": "The Justice Department unsuccessfully sued to block the acquisition.Chairman David Cicilline, a Rhode Island Democrat, called the proposed merger between T-Mobile and Sprint a \"critical test\" for the antitrust division of the Justice Department", "yx5GVN56i60-00013-00016376-00017408": "Is it \"genuinely dedicated to promoting competition, or does it only oppose mergers when the White House tells it to do so?\" he asked during his opening statement", "yx5GVN56i60-00014-00017408-00018367": "The Justice Department did not seek to block a similar merger between Disney and 21st Century Fox, which owns Fox News", "yx5GVN56i60-00015-00018367-00019521": "The White House did not respond to a request for comment for this story.Republicans on the Judiciary Committee criticized Democrats for asking Legere about his hotel stays", "yx5GVN56i60-00016-00019521-00020632": "\"Where Mr. Legere stays when he comes to Washington really has no relationship whatsoever to whether this proposed merger is in the public interest or not,\" said Rep", "yx5GVN56i60-00017-00020632-00022316": "Jim Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin, the Republican ranking member.Legere and Claure argued that their merger is necessary to make them competitive at creating a 5G wireless network, particularly since China has already aggressively moved into that space", "yx5GVN56i60-00018-00022316-00023113": "They've also vowed to lower prices if they are allowed to merge, and that the deal would create thousands of jobs", "yx5GVN56i60-00019-00023113-00024725": "But critics find those claims hard to believe. Christopher Shelton, president of the Communication Workers of America union, said during his testimony at Tuesday's hearing that he expects the opposite -- that the merger would kill jobs and lower wages", "yx5GVN56i60-00020-00024725-00025772": "Congress doesn't have a say in the approval of the merger, but some concerned lawmakers have urged the Federal Communications Commission and Department of Justice to block the deal", "yx5GVN56i60-00021-00025772-00026457": "In December, the proposal cleared a key hurdle, but it still needs final approval", "yx5GVN56i60-00022-00026457-00027021": "The companies expect to merge as planned in the first half of this year"}}, {"audio_id": "yxUTne70WMM", "text": {"yxUTne70WMM-00000-00000513-00002234": "When it comes to fashion, the royals are the new caped crusaders. Sisters-in-law and Duchesses, both Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle have worn been spotted sporting cape-dress or cape-jacket hybrids, marking a comeback of the simple cut in a very un-Little Red Riding Hood way", "yxUTne70WMM-00001-00002234-00004026": "Both the Duchess of Cambridge and the Duchess of Sussex have worn the cape in different styles, whether it's in full-on formal attire, like the chic Mulberry coat Middleton recently donned on her trip to Northern Ireland, or as a simple sheath-cape combo as Markle did at the Queen's 92nd birthday party", "yxUTne70WMM-00002-00004026-00004705": "The takeaway: a cape embellishment is versatile, stylish, and we should all get on board", "yxUTne70WMM-00003-00004705-00005332": "See how both Kate and Meghan have worn the trend and shop similar styles for yourself!", "yxUTne70WMM-00004-00005332-00006591": "Shortly before her wedding to Prince Harry in 2018, Meghan attended the Queen's 92nd birthday in a sleek navy blue Stella McCartney sheath dress whose sole embellishment was the cape cut", "yxUTne70WMM-00005-00006591-00007385": "It was understated, yet feminine—par for the course when it comes to the now-Duchess of Sussex's aesthetic", "yxUTne70WMM-00006-00007385-00008083": "Proof that you don't need tons of bells and whistles to elevate a dress for a fancier setting", "yxUTne70WMM-00007-00008083-00009606": "Kate's Mulberry cape coat, which she donned while visiting Northern Ireland, is testament to the fact that a simple addition of fastened embellishment at the shoulders can update a classic A-line coat dress silhouette, freshening it for 2019", "yxUTne70WMM-00008-00009606-00010549": "Plus, the looser sleeves can prove ultra-flattering to anyone, but especially for those who don't care to show off their upper arms", "yxUTne70WMM-00009-00010549-00011479": "Fashion-forward and functional styling, imagine that.Both Duchesses have modeled how to bring the cape into a super formal setting", "yxUTne70WMM-00010-00011479-00012516": "With Kate, her blush chiffon Alexander McQueen gown with crystal detailing at the collar was delicate and fluttery, but also not overly busy", "yxUTne70WMM-00011-00012516-00013451": "Instead the flowing cape not only flattered her burgeoning baby bump, but also but added interest to the look without any busy-ness", "yxUTne70WMM-00012-00013451-00014383": "Meghan, on the other hand wore a bone-hued Christian Dior cape dress on her official visit to Morocco, but the cut was more structured", "yxUTne70WMM-00013-00014383-00015115": "Even so, it provided elegant detailing to an otherwise simple and modestly cut gown", "yxUTne70WMM-00014-00015115-00015950": "For your next formal event, the message is clear: ditch the bows and the long trains and wear a cape gown instead"}}, {"audio_id": "yAKN7NzaWq4", "text": {"yAKN7NzaWq4-00000-00000571-00002347": "Turning Point USA founder and Executive Director Charlie Kirk told Breitbart News that President Donald Trump “recognizes the importance of the culture war” and that when the president sees his supporters — as well as constitutional liberties — under attack, he “has an obligation to have their backs", "yAKN7NzaWq4-00001-00002347-00003120": "” Kirk offered his remarks in a Saturday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Matt Boyle", "yAKN7NzaWq4-00002-00003120-00004664": "“What the president did this week is so historic,” said Charlie Kirk, “The signing of an executive order that any institution of higher learning that does not protect the First Amendment rights of their students will — have their federal funding in jeopardy", "yAKN7NzaWq4-00003-00004664-00006239": "This is long overdue.”. .Kirk had also noted that while the president may have had a “great week,” his successes had not been efficiently reported on by the mainstream media — a mainstream press that seemed to only be focused on the Mueller report", "yAKN7NzaWq4-00004-00006239-00008143": "With regards to the president’s executive order, Kirk believes “the straw that broke the camel’s back” on prompting the president to take action was after conservative activist Hayden Williams was punched in the face at the University of California Berkeley while recruiting students for the school’s Turning Point USA student group", "yAKN7NzaWq4-00005-00008143-00008710": "Kirk added that president Trump “recognizes the importance of the culture war.”.", "yAKN7NzaWq4-00006-00008710-00010502": "“The president takes this seriously,” said Kirk, “and he understands that his movement is actually growing, and that when it’s under attack by the left, he has an obligation to have their backs, and God bless this president for engaging in that cultural conversation and backing it up real policies", "yAKN7NzaWq4-00007-00010502-00011176": "”.The Turning Point USA founder offered additional remarks on the culture war of today", "yAKN7NzaWq4-00008-00011176-00011840": "As the great Andrew Breitbart used to say, ‘politics flows downstream from culture", "yAKN7NzaWq4-00009-00011840-00012845": "’ Everyone involved in conservative politics should say that every day, because we should be involved in conservative culture, not conservative politics", "yAKN7NzaWq4-00010-00012845-00013974": "Politics is just a byproduct of the winners and losers of the culture war. How is culture determined? Through media, family, church, and college campuses", "yAKN7NzaWq4-00011-00013974-00016314": "That’s how culture is determined. At Turning Point USA, we really hyper-focus on the college campuses — and something that Breitbart has done such a good job of covering is the suppression of free speech, the suppression of expression on college campuses, where these intellectual tyrants have created these islands of totalitarianism on these college campuses to suppress different opinions", "yAKN7NzaWq4-00012-00016314-00017067": "In another interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily, Kirk had mentioned “the cartel of the colleges", "yAKN7NzaWq4-00013-00017067-00018268": "” Boyle asked him to elaborate on what he meant by that.It’s no different than an inside-out relationship with any crony deal that we see between supposed private industry and government", "yAKN7NzaWq4-00014-00018268-00019726": "It’s this, really, festered union between big government and “big universities,” and so, what you have is a handful of colleges that hide behind their — phony certification that was given by the Department of Education", "yAKN7NzaWq4-00015-00019726-00021264": "They receive ridiculous amounts of money in subsidized student loans, they receive billions of dollars in grants from the federal government, and they continue to raise their tuition rates, they continue to raise their fees, with no recourse whatsoever", "yAKN7NzaWq4-00016-00021264-00024062": "Not to mention, they’re teaching ideology and they’re teaching philosophy that is fundamentally destructive to our country — Essentially, we’re having a generation borrow money they don’t have to study things that don’t matter to find jobs that don’t exist — it empowers this cartel to be able to advance anti-Western, anti-capitalistic, and anti-conservative values and causes — Where do you think AOC got all of her ideology from? She got it from the universities", "yAKN7NzaWq4-00017-00024062-00025190": "“This cartel only gets more and more powerful thanks to this ridiculous construct of funding that we have designed,” added Kirk, “And so this executive order challenges that cartel", "yAKN7NzaWq4-00018-00025190-00026123": "I love seeing that.”.Kirk also noted that the next executive order he would like to see would be one that goes after “big tech", "yAKN7NzaWq4-00019-00026123-00027544": "”. .“People don’t realize the power that Google has over our country,” said Kirk, referencing a report on Friday by Breitbart News, which covered new research from psychologist and search engine expert Dr", "yAKN7NzaWq4-00020-00027544-00028471": "Robert Epstein that shows biased Google searches had a measurable impact on the 2018 midterm elections in favor of Democrat candidates"}}, {"audio_id": "yJTzXZKKNky", "text": {"yJTzXZKKNky-00000-00000571-00002206": "President Donald Trump said Friday that there was no need for a summit with the Presidents of Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador because \"they understand\" the implications of his recent move to cut stabilizing aid to the Central American countries", "yJTzXZKKNky-00001-00002206-00003201": "Trump's dismissal of a summit comes in light of a recent uptick in Mexico's apprehensions of migrants at its southern border, shared with Central America", "yJTzXZKKNky-00002-00003201-00004680": "It remains unclear whether the increase was spurred by Trump's threat to shut down the US-Mexico border if Mexico didn't stop migrants from illegally crossing the US border or simply from greater immigration traffic", "yJTzXZKKNky-00003-00004680-00005808": "When asked by Fox News' Griff Jenkins in an interview set to air Saturday whether he should arrange a summit with the four Presidents, Trump said such a meeting was unnecessary", "yJTzXZKKNky-00004-00005808-00006725": "\"No, no, I don't need a summit. I think we've done very well without the summit,\" the President said on \"Fox and Friends Weekend", "yJTzXZKKNky-00005-00006725-00007987": "\".\"They understand we stopped. We're saving $550 million. And I respectfully told -- and I thank him very much because for the last four days it's been great", "yJTzXZKKNky-00006-00007987-00009413": "\".The vast majority of about $1.3 billion allocated to the region since 2018 has gone to the three central American countries known as the Northern Triangle, according to a Congressional Research Service study", "yJTzXZKKNky-00007-00009413-00010149": "In the interview, Trump pointed to the number of apprehensions following his new policy announcements", "yJTzXZKKNky-00008-00010149-00010943": "\"You see, that whole stream is drying up. They could stop them at the southern border, their southern border", "yJTzXZKKNky-00009-00010943-00012124": "And you look at what's happening now,\" he said, seemingly referencing Mexican efforts to stop Northern Triangle migrants from making their way through the country to the United States", "yJTzXZKKNky-00010-00012124-00013310": "\"They pulled in 1,500, 1,500, yesterday. They brought them back,\" he added. \"They pulled in over 1,000 the day before", "yJTzXZKKNky-00011-00013310-00014049": "Over 1,000 the day before that; today, I haven't gotten the number, but I mean it's a lot", "yJTzXZKKNky-00012-00014049-00014956": "\".The President had previously said that aid to Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador would stop because \"they haven't done a thing for us", "yJTzXZKKNky-00013-00014956-00016100": "\" But experts have said have said that cutting violence-prevention and security-focused aid to the region would likely increase the number of migrants seeking to reach the United States"}}, {"audio_id": "yX4uurfPmWu", "text": {"yX4uurfPmWu-00000-00000571-00003551": "If President Trump’s behavior has ever qualified him for the immediate application of the 25th Amendment — an option seriously and rightfully discussed by intelligence officials from the start of his presidency — his actions and statements this week — after he convinced himself and his followers that the Mueller report has exonerated him of all claims of collusion and obstruction of justice charges despite having never read a word of it — should be setting off a rush to call the nice young men in their clean white coats to come to take him away", "yX4uurfPmWu-00001-00003551-00004648": "Trump has gone completely off the rails since last Sunday as his seeming vindication, albeit temporary, unleashed a sense of renewed power in the unhinged president", "yX4uurfPmWu-00002-00004648-00007031": "To the delight of Democrats who managed to regain control of the House of Representatives in the midterms by pointing to Trump’s attempts to take away their healthcare, Trump renewed his efforts to not only remove coverage of pre-existing conditions from Obamacare but to nullify the law altogether, much to the dismay of Republicans who see their chances for a 2020 victory being flushed down the toilet", "yX4uurfPmWu-00003-00007031-00008611": "His rambling, nonsense-filled speeches at his rallies full of like-minded bigots have been festivals of self-aggrandizement, attacks on his opponents, and a more bountiful than usual cornucopia of lies, falsehoods, and malevolent mendacity", "yX4uurfPmWu-00004-00008611-00010043": "It is his obsession with immigration and his border wall solution — an answer that only the feeblest of ignoramuses would consider an intelligent idea — that Trump has returned to again and again as he contemplates his future of unobstructed power", "yX4uurfPmWu-00005-00010043-00011767": "He took to Twitter after lining his pockets through today’s taxpayer-funded golf excursion at his Florida course with another attack on Democrats that threatened the same type of violence that his earlier tweets claiming support from the police, the military, and Bikers for Trump", "yX4uurfPmWu-00006-00011767-00014149": "While families separated at the border and their children who were detained in cages might not agree with the president’s assessment of the supposedly kind behavior exhibited by Homeland Security’s ICE agents to date as they were forced apart, Trump’s threat of unleashing a policy of intentional abuse, as he seems to suggest, should inspire immediate action to remove him from office rather than mere condemnation", "yX4uurfPmWu-00007-00014149-00015160": "We’ve all seen enough evidence of Trump’s allegiance to white nationalist beliefs and his hatred for anyone whose skin color is darker than his own fake orange hue", "yX4uurfPmWu-00008-00015160-00016207": "Only a nation of insane people would tolerate the deeply disturbing misanthropy of a man so obviously psychologically and sociopathically disturbed"}}, {"audio_id": "yZhn_GLQbx4", "text": {"yZhn_GLQbx4-00000-00000571-00001882": "In an unearthed New York Times transcript from 2009, art critic Deborah Solomon asked Donald Trump about the phrase “all men are created equal” – usually considered the cornerstone of American democracy", "yZhn_GLQbx4-00001-00001882-00003052": "Trump suggests he didn’t care for it. Instead, Trump expresses the theory that there are superior genetics that enable certain people to succeed and others to fail", "yZhn_GLQbx4-00002-00003052-00003870": "TRUMP: It’s not just wanting to be a champion, you need certain ingredients. They say all men are created equal", "yZhn_GLQbx4-00003-00003870-00005205": "It doesn’t get any more famous but, is it true?.If “all men are created equal” is indeed the cornerstone of American democracy, then Genetic Superiority is the cornerstone of Nazi fascism", "yZhn_GLQbx4-00004-00005205-00006127": "Something that, as Brian Buetler points out on Twitter, creates issues for the President when paired with his history of racist statements and actions:", "yZhn_GLQbx4-00005-00006127-00006936": "But back to the 2009 interview for a minute…it got worse with a follow up question about “all men are created equal”", "yZhn_GLQbx4-00006-00006936-00007691": "In short, Donald Trump does not accept the basic tenet of democracy that all men are created equal", "yZhn_GLQbx4-00007-00007691-00008313": "Our founding fathers are spinning in their graves because this man is president"}}, {"audio_id": "yZKODYRee0U", "text": {"yZKODYRee0U-00000-00000198-00000401": "(б'е гонг)", "yZKODYRee0U-00001-00000401-00000708": "- [Расказчык] Вось пустэльня-планета,", "yZKODYRee0U-00002-00000708-00000940": "там у замку страшным,", "yZKODYRee0U-00003-00000940-00001116": "(грымоты)", "yZKODYRee0U-00004-00001116-00001398": "жыло грознае нешта,", "yZKODYRee0U-00005-00001557-00001890": "і з намерам сваім.", "yZKODYRee0U-00006-00002007-00002507": "Бараніла свой скарб, што так цешыў і ззяў.", "yZKODYRee0U-00007-00002556-00002868": "Надзвычайную моц,", "yZKODYRee0U-00008-00002868-00003162": "гэты скарб дараваў.", "yZKODYRee0U-00009-00003324-00003824": "Ды, о, скарбам тым выхваляцца любіў.", "yZKODYRee0U-00010-00003984-00004482": "І магутнасць бярог і сілу хваліў.", "yZKODYRee0U-00011-00004690-00004774": "(гукі полымя)", "yZKODYRee0U-00012-00004774-00005245": "Меўся скарбу таемнаму свой вартавы,", "yZKODYRee0U-00013-00005352-00005700": "толькі ўзяць паспрабуй,", "yZKODYRee0U-00014-00005700-00006150": "не знасіць галавы.", "yZKODYRee0U-00015-00006150-00006425": "(драматычная музыка)", "yZKODYRee0U-00016-00006923-00007223": "Аповесць пра вартаўніка", "yZKODYRee0U-00017-00008204-00008571": "(сігнал камп'ютара)", "yZKODYRee0U-00018-00008571-00008676": "(дзверы адчыняюцца)", "yZKODYRee0U-00019-00008676-00008776": "(сігнал камп'ютара)", "yZKODYRee0U-00020-00008776-00008863": "- [Член экіпажа] Чакай, ча-", "yZKODYRee0U-00021-00008863-00009052": "(гук удару)", "yZKODYRee0U-00022-00009052-00009215": "(гук крокаў)", "yZKODYRee0U-00023-00009215-00009524": "(паветра свішча)", "yZKODYRee0U-00024-00009524-00009655": "(гук клавіятуры)", "yZKODYRee0U-00025-00009655-00009970": "(гук сігналізацыі)", "yZKODYRee0U-00026-00009970-00010125": "(рухавік раве)", "yZKODYRee0U-00027-00010125-00010281": "(драматычная музыка)", "yZKODYRee0U-00028-00010281-00010413": "- [Расказчык] Як стала змяркацца,", "yZKODYRee0U-00029-00010413-00010575": "адным махам,", "yZKODYRee0U-00030-00010776-00010974": "грымнуў наведнік,", "yZKODYRee0U-00031-00010974-00011187": "дзіўным шляхам.", "yZKODYRee0U-00032-00011334-00011834": "Як дым разляцеўся, фігура паўстала", "yZKODYRee0U-00033-00011865-00012354": "жорсткай пасадкай кранутая мала.", "yZKODYRee0U-00034-00012698-00013019": "Меў адно ў галаве", "yZKODYRee0U-00035-00013019-00013519": "вартавы, у пагоню хутчэй, каб прыхадня злодзея", "yZKODYRee0U-00036-00013563-00013836": "прэч з вачэй.", "yZKODYRee0U-00037-00014124-00014544": "Высочваў здабычу як усе ў яго родзе.", "yZKODYRee0U-00038-00014751-00014937": "Але не чакаў,", "yZKODYRee0U-00039-00015049-00015222": "што такое ён знойдзе.", "yZKODYRee0U-00040-00015222-00015326": "(вясёлая музыка)", "yZKODYRee0U-00041-00015326-00015559": "(дзяўчынка напявае)", "yZKODYRee0U-00042-00016002-00016176": "Дзяўчынка малая.", "yZKODYRee0U-00043-00016176-00016317": "Чароўнай прыроды,", "yZKODYRee0U-00044-00016425-00016671": "што мабыць згубілася", "yZKODYRee0U-00045-00016671-00016925": "з нейкай нагоды.", "yZKODYRee0U-00046-00016925-00017127": "(крык птушкі)", "yZKODYRee0U-00047-00017127-00017376": "Цікаўная дзеўка,", "yZKODYRee0U-00048-00017376-00017652": "з прыгодніцкім духам.", "yZKODYRee0U-00049-00017652-00017973": "Вакол ўсё глядзела", "yZKODYRee0U-00050-00017973-00018198": "дапытлівым вокам.", "yZKODYRee0U-00051-00018198-00018482": "(драматычная музыка)", "yZKODYRee0U-00052-00018482-00018715": "(гук крокаў)", "yZKODYRee0U-00053-00019035-00019326": "Ого-го...", "yZKODYRee0U-00054-00019473-00019710": "(гук крокаў)", "yZKODYRee0U-00055-00019710-00020201": "- [Расказчык] Замак быў велічэзны, а дзеўка - малой,", "yZKODYRee0U-00056-00020328-00020828": "абышла ўсё нагамі адной ды другой.", "yZKODYRee0U-00057-00020880-00021155": "(драматычная музыка)", "yZKODYRee0U-00058-00022049-00022549": "І так аж да змрочнага месца хадзіла,", "yZKODYRee0U-00059-00022638-00022860": "дзе рэшткі ўсюды,", "yZKODYRee0U-00060-00022860-00023087": "быццам магіла.", "yZKODYRee0U-00061-00023087-00023371": "(гук крокаў)", "yZKODYRee0U-00062-00023371-00023454": "(дзяўчынка ўздыхае)", "yZKODYRee0U-00063-00023454-00023754": "(напружаная музыка)", "yZKODYRee0U-00064-00023904-00024404": "Вось у месцы для смерці збылося спатканне", "yZKODYRee0U-00065-00024459-00024714": "Вакол цішыня.", "yZKODYRee0U-00066-00024714-00025040": "Чутна толькі дыханне.", "yZKODYRee0U-00067-00025040-00025324": "(вартаўнік рыкае)", "yZKODYRee0U-00068-00025488-00025988": "Вартаўнік спрабаваў, але сэрца растала.", "yZKODYRee0U-00069-00026073-00026156": "(вартаўнік рыкае)", "yZKODYRee0U-00070-00026156-00026389": "(дзяўчынка напявае)", "yZKODYRee0U-00071-00026556-00027056": "Яна так пяшчотна яго абдымала.", "yZKODYRee0U-00072-00027148-00027379": "(пяшчотная музыка)", "yZKODYRee0U-00073-00027379-00027662": "(вартаўнік рыкае)", "yZKODYRee0U-00074-00028041-00028338": "Звер нешта адчуў,", "yZKODYRee0U-00075-00028338-00028617": "на поўны сур'ёз.", "yZKODYRee0U-00076-00028770-00029008": "Марыў ён пра сяброўства,", "yZKODYRee0U-00077-00029097-00029331": "сярод боек ды слёз.", "yZKODYRee0U-00078-00029775-00030081": "Вось так атрымала дзяўчынка давер.", "yZKODYRee0U-00079-00030081-00030483": "І вырашыў звер паказаць ёй цяпер", "yZKODYRee0U-00080-00030483-00030806": "свой сэнс у жыцці, ды аховы намер.", "yZKODYRee0U-00081-00030806-00030951": "(драматычная музыка)", "yZKODYRee0U-00082-00030951-00031109": "(гук крокаў)", "yZKODYRee0U-00083-00031109-00031423": "(драматычная музыка)", "yZKODYRee0U-00084-00031423-00031603": "(гук крокаў)", "yZKODYRee0U-00085-00031603-00031925": "(драматычная музыка)", "yZKODYRee0U-00086-00031925-00032121": "(гук крокаў)", "yZKODYRee0U-00087-00032121-00032396": "(драматычная музыка)", "yZKODYRee0U-00088-00033600-00034005": "Агледзела скарб, раз патрэсла і ўвесь", "yZKODYRee0U-00089-00034148-00034548": "Раптам пакінуў яе інтарэс.", "yZKODYRee0U-00090-00034801-00035049": "(вартаўнік дыхае)", "yZKODYRee0U-00091-00035049-00035200": "(гук крокаў)", "yZKODYRee0U-00092-00035200-00035484": "(вартаўнік рыкае)", "yZKODYRee0U-00093-00035835-00036335": "Звер, задаволены спраўным сяброўствам,", "yZKODYRee0U-00094-00036384-00036884": "Лёг у адпачынак з зыходзячым сонцам.", "yZKODYRee0U-00095-00037447-00037584": "(драматычная музыка)", "yZKODYRee0U-00096-00037584-00037999": "Як толькі заснуў, а дзяўчынка над ім", "yZKODYRee0U-00097-00037999-00038085": "(драматычная музыка)", "yZKODYRee0U-00098-00038085-00038385": "(вартаўнік дыхае)", "yZKODYRee0U-00099-00038568-00038779": "Кінжалам бліснула, ды і на тым", "yZKODYRee0U-00100-00038779-00039054": "(драматычная музыка)", "yZKODYRee0U-00101-00039054-00039345": "скончыла звера ўдарам адным.", "yZKODYRee0U-00102-00039498-00039735": "(вясёлая музыка)", "yZKODYRee0U-00103-00039735-00040235": "Цяпер звер забіты і скарб у руках,", "yZKODYRee0U-00104-00040347-00040613": "і дзеўка знікае на свой тайны шлях.", "yZKODYRee0U-00105-00040891-00041141": "(дзверы зачыняюцца)", "yZKODYRee0U-00106-00041249-00041541": "(таямнічая музыка)", "yZKODYRee0U-00107-00041650-00041925": "(драматычная музыка)"}}, {"audio_id": "zFQpfW_W7iU", "text": {"zFQpfW_W7iU-00000-00000571-00001292": "The government recently found itself in the midst of the longest partial federal shutdown in history", "zFQpfW_W7iU-00001-00001292-00002075": "It went one for weeks because President Trump and Congress simply could not seem to come together to make a deal", "zFQpfW_W7iU-00002-00002075-00003277": "While a partial shutdown implies that part of the government is still functioning, 9 of 15 federal agencies were affected, and after nearly a month, many problems were created", "zFQpfW_W7iU-00003-00003277-00004444": "While some essential services such as Medicare payments and public safety were operating, over 800,000 federal employees were going to work each day with no paychck", "zFQpfW_W7iU-00004-00004444-00005693": "The Social Security Administration has a shutdown protocol for situations like this and it is not expected that during a shutdown checks would stop or that core programs would be halted", "zFQpfW_W7iU-00005-00005693-00006821": "The plan states, “Funding for the programs under Titles II, XVI, and XVIII of the Social Security Act will continue, even in the event of a lapse in appropriations,”", "zFQpfW_W7iU-00006-00006821-00008159": "The Social Security Administration, VA disability payments, Survivor Benefits, and retiree benefits were all part of programs funded this September which will protected them from the most recent furlough", "zFQpfW_W7iU-00007-00008159-00008961": "The president repeatedly stated that any agreement with Democrats had to include funding for a border wall", "zFQpfW_W7iU-00008-00008961-00010058": "Originally Trump agreed to a modified budget plan which didn’t include wall money but at the last minute changed his mind which propelled the government into a shutdown"}}, {"audio_id": "zXbD5e4zb_Q", "text": {"zXbD5e4zb_Q-00000-00000571-00002326": "For as long as the potential criminal indictment of Donald Trump has been a foreseeable possibility, the mainstream media has insisted that DOJ policy prevented it from happening while Trump is still in office, even as Palmer Report pointed out that there was no such policy", "zXbD5e4zb_Q-00001-00002326-00003285": "It was only ever a stray opinion written in a DOJ memo which was never tried or tested on any level, and therefore carries no legal weight", "zXbD5e4zb_Q-00002-00003285-00004523": "It turns out we were more right than we knew.This evening Rachel Maddow unearthed new historical evidence which helps spell out just how much of a non-policy that old DOJ memo is", "zXbD5e4zb_Q-00003-00004523-00005934": "It was written solely to try to explain why the DOJ could indict then-Vice President Spiro Agnew, arguing that he wouldn’t be nearly as busy as the President, and would therefore be in a better position to deal with being indicted", "zXbD5e4zb_Q-00004-00005934-00007206": "In other words, there really truly is no DOJ policy that would stand in the way of Robert Mueller, SDNY, or anyone else from indicting Donald Trump while he’s still in office", "zXbD5e4zb_Q-00005-00007206-00008253": "The question is what happens if anyone decides to try it. Trump would likely make an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court in the hope of getting it struck down", "zXbD5e4zb_Q-00006-00008253-00009102": "But while Trump has five conservative votes, we keep seeing that he doesn’t seem to have five pro-Trump votes", "zXbD5e4zb_Q-00007-00009102-00009854": "So let’s say the Supreme Court tells Donald Trump that the indictment against him is indeed valid", "zXbD5e4zb_Q-00008-00009854-00011126": "From there, the court would have to spell out what would happen next. Normally, when someone is indicted and charged, they’re arrested and brought before a judge for arraignment and decisions about bail", "zXbD5e4zb_Q-00009-00011126-00011826": "We’re not sure the courts would allow Trump to be arrested while he’s still the “President", "zXbD5e4zb_Q-00010-00011826-00012869": "” But the mere specter of an indictment could utterly destroy him, leaving him with no choice but to trade his resignation in exchange for reduced charges"}}, {"audio_id": "zl0v7T--gWu", "text": {"zl0v7T--gWu-00000-00000571-00001582": "Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee Adam Schiff made a glaring claim Sunday that there is “direct evidence” of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia", "zl0v7T--gWu-00001-00001582-00002459": "The chairman went on to say he refuses to let up on looking into Trump’s finances despite the president’s extreme objections", "zl0v7T--gWu-00002-00002459-00003739": "''I think there is direct evidence in the e-mails from the Russians through their intermediary offering dirt on Hillary Clinton as part of what is described in writing as the Russian government effort to help elect Donald Trump", "zl0v7T--gWu-00003-00003739-00004528": "They offer that dirt. There is an acceptance of that offer in writing from the president’s son Don Jr", "zl0v7T--gWu-00004-00004528-00005876": "and there’s overt acts in furtherance of that''.Schiff says circumstantial evidence of Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort sharing internal polling data with someone linked to Russian intelligence services played a part in his claim", "zl0v7T--gWu-00005-00005876-00007065": "The chairman confirmed his committee is currently looking into allegations that Russian operatives have been laundering money through the Trump Organization — though he admitted those claims aren’t currently proven", "zl0v7T--gWu-00006-00007065-00008475": "The House Intelligence Committee’s probe will include speaking with banks who have worked with Trump, accountants and chief financial officers who’ve worked with the Trump Organization any others with knowledge of the Moscow Trump Tower deal", "zl0v7T--gWu-00007-00008475-00009807": "The attitude shift among many House Democrats comes after an explosive testimony from Donald Trump’s former personal attorney and fixer Michael Cohen where details about numerous financial crimes were aired out", "zl0v7T--gWu-00008-00009807-00010761": "Republicans have downplayed Cohen’s testimony repeatedly, claiming he is continuing to lie after being charged for lying to Congress", "zl0v7T--gWu-00009-00010761-00011918": "GOP leader Kevin McCarthy went on to call for Schiff to recuse himself from the investigation for contacting Cohen, a claim Schiff said was “pretty frivolous", "zl0v7T--gWu-00010-00011918-00013245": "” Jim Jordan, the top Republican on the House Oversight Committee, also claimed there is still zero evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia despite evidence provided during Cohen’s testimony", "zl0v7T--gWu-00011-00013245-00014055": "Trump attacked Schiff on Saturday during a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference, calling him “little shifty Schiff", "zl0v7T--gWu-00012-00014055-00015008": "” He went on to deny there was collusion between him and Russia, saying investigators are morphing the probe to “inspect every deal he’s ever done''"}}, {"audio_id": "zlOb4CLR604", "text": {"zlOb4CLR604-00000-00000000-00000200": "into", "zlOb4CLR604-00001-00000200-00000400": "chaptes"}}, {"audio_id": "Zq8BiVzFY94", "text": {"Zq8BiVzFY94-00000-00000513-00001346": "The president has done a lot of crappy things in his life, and one of them was disrespecting John McCain as he lie on his deathbed", "Zq8BiVzFY94-00001-00001346-00002477": "Now, in a step even further into the abyss that separates humankind and wild animals, Trump has tweeted out more hatefulness for the McCain family to deal with", "Zq8BiVzFY94-00002-00002477-00003995": "And despite how utterly awful the family is, a war hero deserves respect.Check out what the useless lump just tweeted about McCain:\"Spreading the fake and totally discredited Dossier “is unfortunately a very dark stain against John McCain”", "Zq8BiVzFY94-00003-00003995-00005173": "Ken Starr, Former Independent Counsel. He had far worse “stains” than this, including thumbs down on repeal and replace after years of campaigning to repeal and replace!\"", "Zq8BiVzFY94-00004-00005173-00005996": "Who the hell does he think he is and to what lengths will he go to make himself look slightly less guilty? The man is sunk", "Zq8BiVzFY94-00005-00005996-00007299": "There’s no way out of all the investigations into his lifetime of crime, but apparently, he’s going to villainize as many people/groups as he can before he’s finally hauled out of the White House in handcuffs", "Zq8BiVzFY94-00006-00007299-00008689": "People responding to the tweet on Twitter were not very amused either. The backlash Trump received is only a fraction of the karma he has coming his way, but we still saved the best comments for your viewing pleasure"}}, {"audio_id": "ZItoW-1zcj4", "text": {"ZItoW-1zcj4-00000-00000513-00002631": "As both men grappled with the fallout from major political scandals on their home turfs, President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met in D.C. this Monday, where they appeared side-by-side for a press conference and Trump signed an official proclamation recognizing Israeli control of the globally contested Golan Heights", "ZItoW-1zcj4-00001-00002631-00003412": "Trump tweeted a link to the pair’s press conference, at which they propped up each other’s public images", "ZItoW-1zcj4-00002-00003412-00005703": "At one point, Netanyahu shared, addressing the president directly:.‘It was so kind of you to invite me to come here.It was so important for me to come here to the White House and to thank you. Mr. President. over the years, Israel has been blessed to have many friends who have sat in the Oval Office, but Israel has never had a better friend than you'", "ZItoW-1zcj4-00003-00005703-00007699": "Besides the Golan Heights proclamation — which flies in the face of established global standards — Netanyahu also cited Trump’s decision to formally recognize Israel’s capital as Jerusalem and his withdrawal from the controversial Iran nuclear deal as evidence for him being the greatest friend Israel ever had", "ZItoW-1zcj4-00004-00007699-00008853": "Despite Netanyahu’s comments feeling pulled from some kind of handbook on how to offer the most hyperbolic nonsense fluff possible, Trump stood back and grinned while he spoke", "ZItoW-1zcj4-00005-00008853-00010418": "The long allied leaders fit together nicely. Recently, Netanyahu has faced allegations of corruption back in Israel that culminated in their Attorney General announcing indictments on multiple charges including breach of trust and bribery", "ZItoW-1zcj4-00006-00010418-00011479": "Repeatedly, he pushed policy changes in the Israeli government that would benefit his friends in exchange for favors from them, like favorable media coverage", "ZItoW-1zcj4-00007-00011479-00012432": "He’s facing an election just within the next couple of weeks, which CNN calls the “toughest” re-election battle he’s ever faced", "ZItoW-1zcj4-00008-00012432-00013404": "Trump boosting Netanyahu with a visit to the White House breaks with past precedent of keeping American hands out of Israeli elections", "ZItoW-1zcj4-00009-00013404-00014493": "Netanyahu’s primary opponent Benny Gantz was also in D.C. this week, where he addressed the annual conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee", "ZItoW-1zcj4-00010-00014493-00015797": "Netanyahu had been scheduled to stay in the U.S. longer and also address the conference, but he cut his trip short in light of a rocket attack from Gazan militants targeting central Israel"}}, {"audio_id": "ZZtVblav9Ak", "text": {"ZZtVblav9Ak-00000-00000571-00001571": "Roseanne Barr showed up on ABC's 20/20 to advance the recovery of her sitcom, which is debuting one month from now", "ZZtVblav9Ak-00001-00001571-00002566": "While reporting in real time, she tended to her help of President Donald Trump.Barr has been open about her master Trump sees since right off the bat", "ZZtVblav9Ak-00002-00002566-00003520": "She went on multi-day-long Twitter tirade toward the finish of a year ago, .which incited her to erase almost all that she'd at any point posted", "ZZtVblav9Ak-00003-00003520-00004329": "On 20/20, she clarified why she, however, Roseanne fans likely voted in favor of President Trump", "ZZtVblav9Ak-00004-00004329-00005314": "\"He talked about occupations, with the goal that's what you have to do on the off chance that you need working individuals to vote in favor of you,\" she said", "ZZtVblav9Ak-00005-00005314-00006341": ".\"Not Syrian airspace. I don't assume Hillary discussed occupations much, she was in every case simply discussing Syrian airspace", "ZZtVblav9Ak-00006-00006341-00007072": "I'm similar to, 'do you think individuals in America– ?' Or possibly they do, I didn't, however''", "ZZtVblav9Ak-00007-00007072-00007683": "\"Trump annoyed a portion of America, and she insulted the other half,\" she went on", "ZZtVblav9Ak-00008-00007683-00008736": "\"With the goal that's incredible for sitcoms, extraordinary for parody. We're fortunate to have him as a president, it's extraordinary for parody''"}}, {"audio_id": "ZZPhAjb-s9c", "text": {"ZZPhAjb-s9c-00000-00000000-00000200": "музыка", "ZZPhAjb-s9c-00001-00000200-00000400": "музыка", "ZZPhAjb-s9c-00002-00000400-00000600": "подпишись", "ZZPhAjb-s9c-00003-00000600-00000800": "музыка", "ZZPhAjb-s9c-00004-00000800-00001000": "музыка", "ZZPhAjb-s9c-00005-00001000-00001200": "подпишись", "ZZPhAjb-s9c-00006-00001200-00001400": "музыка", "ZZPhAjb-s9c-00007-00001400-00001600": "музыка", "ZZPhAjb-s9c-00008-00001600-00001800": "подпишись", "ZZPhAjb-s9c-00009-00001800-00002000": "музыка", "ZZPhAjb-s9c-00010-00002000-00002200": "музыка", "ZZPhAjb-s9c-00011-00002200-00002400": "музыка", "ZZPhAjb-s9c-00012-00002400-00002600": "подпишись", "ZZPhAjb-s9c-00013-00002600-00002800": "музыка", "ZZPhAjb-s9c-00014-00002800-00003000": "подпишись"}}, {"audio_id": "ZcV_8erL6Hc", "text": {"ZcV_8erL6Hc-00000-00000571-00002133": "If there is one very big policy failure of the White House and administration of President Donald Trump that it is easy to point to as an illustration of just how terrible he is as President of the United States and leader of the free world, it is healthcare", "ZcV_8erL6Hc-00001-00002133-00003371": "The American healthcare system was revolutionized and updated for the modern age under President Barack Obama when he introduced the incredible Affordable Care Act, which came to be known as Obamacare", "ZcV_8erL6Hc-00002-00003371-00004810": "Naturally, Trump hates all of his predecessor’s achievements, so he very publicly made it one of his biggest missions when he took office to try to overhaul Obamacare and replace it with some Republican alternative", "ZcV_8erL6Hc-00003-00004810-00006200": "As we at Blue Side Nation have taken great pleasure in reporting in the past, he and his cronies failed miserably in their attempts to do this, so Obamacare still stands, despite all the best efforts of the White House", "ZcV_8erL6Hc-00004-00006200-00007046": "However, Trump being Trump, he was not going to admit defeat, leave it alone and move on to a different issue", "ZcV_8erL6Hc-00005-00007046-00009162": "Oh, no.Trump simply decided that if he could not get rid of Obamacare the legitimate and democratic way, then he would just have to try to slowly and quietly take it apart in a much more covert and extremely dodgy way, essentially by making small and frequent changes behind the scenes to slowly but surely undermine Obamacare as a whole", "ZcV_8erL6Hc-00006-00009162-00011085": "Thankfully, it looks like his efforts are going to be in vain.Ever since the Democrats won the midterm elections in November of last year and took back control of the House of Representatives from the GOP, they have been in an excellent position to provide true checks and balances on the power and intentions of the President", "ZcV_8erL6Hc-00007-00011085-00011832": "And led by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, they are doing just that when it comes to healthcare", "ZcV_8erL6Hc-00008-00011832-00013062": "The Energy and Commerce Committee has revealed that it is planning to hold hearings to essentially undo several actions taken by the Trump administration which have aimed to undermine existing healthcare law", "ZcV_8erL6Hc-00009-00013062-00013804": "Quite simply, Trump tried to ruin Obamacare, and the Democrats are swooping in to put a stop to it", "ZcV_8erL6Hc-00010-00013804-00014964": "This will ensure that Obamacare and the existing, vital legislation and systems in place around healthcare stay exactly as they are, for the sake of the people who rely on them most of all", "ZcV_8erL6Hc-00011-00014964-00015617": "These are the true patriots.Not the ones Trump talks about who are ruining the country", "ZcV_8erL6Hc-00012-00015617-00016270": "Chalk up a big win for democracy, sanity, and the wellbeing of the American people!"}}, {"audio_id": "ZkWMni6A4i0", "text": {"ZkWMni6A4i0-00000-00000571-00001582": "What we were witness to today was a masterclass in malfeasance and a disdain for democracy by the head law enforcement officer in the nation and the President himself", "ZkWMni6A4i0-00001-00001582-00003731": "It didn’t go unnoticed, as the New York Times promptly exposed it. .Attorney General William Barr has been in communication with the White House regarding the Mueller Report for days now, which has given Team Trump time to coordinate a defense strategy, and the Republican National Committee (RNC) to assemble a “war room” to compose a “counter-report", "ZkWMni6A4i0-00002-00003731-00005294": "” No, really. I would say that with this step we’ve descended into banana republic-levels of corruption, but I fear that the actual findings of the Mueller Report will indicate that we already did that sometime around 2016", "ZkWMni6A4i0-00003-00005294-00006378": ". .Rather amazingly, this development has some serious implications for Barr and Trump, namely unabashed and very public obstruction of justice", "ZkWMni6A4i0-00004-00006378-00007456": "Seeing the news that Barr had been prematurely consulting with the White House on the Mueller Report made me seriously wonder if Barr has absolutely lost his mind", "ZkWMni6A4i0-00005-00007456-00008956": "It would make some sense that he would risk his already brittle reputation if he had considerable assurance that the existence of the meetings would forever remain secret, but it doesn’t appear that that was even a strong concern of his", "ZkWMni6A4i0-00006-00008956-00009878": ".Said plainly, with this achingly stupid stunt, Barr and Trump have teed up unmistakable obstruction charges for congress", "ZkWMni6A4i0-00007-00009878-00011717": "If the AG and President have been holding meetings regarding the disclosure of evidence of Trump’s shady dealings with the express intent of giving Trump’s team an opportunity to form an optics strategy, that’s corrupt intent and a crime whether or not the report delineates any underlying Trump crimes", "ZkWMni6A4i0-00008-00011717-00012440": "Imagine now if the White House had any say in what was redacted? Executive privilege? My ass", "ZkWMni6A4i0-00009-00012440-00014021": "Prepare yourselves for the Barr-Trump Report, not the Mueller Report. . .What’s so staggering about this shitbrained charade is this: the actual, unredacted, full-fat Mueller Report is coming at some point regardless of the roadblocks", "ZkWMni6A4i0-00010-00014021-00014752": "Barr and Trump are biding futile time and they’re only making their lives after this respite all the worse"}}, {"audio_id": "-z6vq2DerUU", "text": {"-z6vq2DerUU-00000-00000513-00001508": "President Donald Trump vetoed a bill designed to block his emergency declaration at the Southern Border on Friday, in a ceremony at the White House", "-z6vq2DerUU-00001-00001508-00002493": "“Today, I am vetoing this resolution,” Trump said. “Congress has the freedom to pass this resolution and I have the duty to veto it", "-z6vq2DerUU-00002-00002493-00003956": "And I’m very proud to veto it.”.The president defied Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Congressional Democrats, and the “dirty dozen” Senate Republicans who joined them by signing his veto in a public ceremony at the White House", "-z6vq2DerUU-00003-00003956-00004812": "He described the Congressional attempt to stop him as a “dangerous” and “reckless” resolution that was “a vote against reality”", "-z6vq2DerUU-00004-00004812-00005917": "Trump said that over a million illegal aliens were set to rush the Southern border, including a 2000 percent increase of migrants from Central America trying to claim asylum", "-z6vq2DerUU-00005-00005917-00007153": "“The vast majority are rejected, but smuggling operations making a tremendous amount of money, like they’ve never made before, are using these people to crash the system,” Trump said", "-z6vq2DerUU-00006-00007153-00008349": "“Our immigration system is stretched beyond the breaking point.”.He also noted that despite record numbers of apprehensions at the border, there was not enough space to detain them all", "-z6vq2DerUU-00007-00008349-00009101": "“There’s absolutely nothing we can do. We’re bursting at the seams, you can only hold so much,” he said", "-z6vq2DerUU-00008-00009101-00010280": "“The only option then is to release them, and you can’t do that either because when you release them they come into our society and in many cases, they are stone cold criminals”", "-z6vq2DerUU-00009-00010280-00011233": "Trump noted 59 different national emergency previous declarations by past presidents that were frequently used to assist foreign countries", "-z6vq2DerUU-00010-00011233-00012983": "“That’s why I say, America First, if that’s ok, America First,” he said. “The only emergency Congress voted to revoke was the one to protect our own country so think of that … This is the one that they don’t want to do and this is the one perhaps they should most do”", "-z6vq2DerUU-00011-00012983-00014232": "Trump was joined by Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen, and Attorney General William Barr, as well as members of law enforcement and Angel parents", "-z6vq2DerUU-00012-00014232-00015107": "“I don’t know that I’ve ever been more proud than to be standing next to your desk than I am today,” Pence said, praising the president’s decision", "-z6vq2DerUU-00013-00015107-00015817": "Barr described Trump’s declaration as “clearly authorized under that law and consistent with past precedent”", "-z6vq2DerUU-00014-00015817-00016901": "“The humanitarian and security crisis is exactly the kind of emergency that presidents are permitted to address under the national emergencies act,” he said", "-z6vq2DerUU-00015-00016901-00017675": "Barr is tasked with defending the declaration in court, and he publicly defended his decision in the Oval Office", "-z6vq2DerUU-00016-00017675-00018670": "“The crisis that we’re dealing with today is right on our doorstep and presents a real clear and present danger to the American people,” Barr said", "-z6vq2DerUU-00017-00018670-00019349": "The president defended his decision to declare a national emergency at the border", "-z6vq2DerUU-00018-00019349-00020117": "“I think actually, national emergency was designed for a specific purpose like this,” Trump said", "-z6vq2DerUU-00019-00020117-00021206": "“Absolutely,” Barr replied.The president said he did not hold it against the twelve Senate Republicans who voted with Democrats to block his declaration", "-z6vq2DerUU-00020-00021206-00023184": "He said:.Look, we’re doing what they have to do, and look, I put no pressure on anybody, I actually said, I could have gotten some of them to come along, I said, ‘I want you to vote your heart, do what you want to do, I’m not putting any pressure,’ I’ll let them know when there’s pressure OK? And I told them that", "-z6vq2DerUU-00021-00023184-00024262": "I said when I need your vote I’ll let you know. I didn’t need their vote because we all knew it was going to be a veto and they’re not going to be able to override", "-z6vq2DerUU-00022-00024262-00024973": "Trump said that the funds repurposed for border defense would include 30-foot bollards and 18-foot wall", "-z6vq2DerUU-00023-00024973-00026041": "“We have many miles under construction right now and we’re going be signing contracts in the next couple days for literally hundreds of miles of wall,” he said", "-z6vq2DerUU-00024-00026041-00026778": "He also promised more canine units on the border to help catch drug smuggling across the Southern border", "-z6vq2DerUU-00025-00026778-00027872": "“We’re getting dogs, more dogs, believe it or not … I still say, is that still true? There’s nothing that replaces a good dog,” Trump said", "-z6vq2DerUU-00026-00027872-00028849": "“We haven’t been able to match the dog.”.Trump denounced Democrats for refusing to work with him to change the immigration and asylum laws", "-z6vq2DerUU-00027-00028849-00030654": "“There’s a point at which if the Democrats would, we’d be able to make a deal literally in 15 minutes, we could make a deal in changing catch and release, changing the horrible asylum laws that are so unfair, changing visa lottery, chain migration, these laws are horrendous,” he said"}}, {"audio_id": "-CxgoUHfmOy", "text": {"-CxgoUHfmOy-00000-00000571-00001825": "President Donald Trump on Saturday referred to prominent conservative author Ann Coulter as a “Wacky Nut Job” following months of criticism she has directed at him regarding the lack of progress building a U", "-CxgoUHfmOy-00001-00001825-00003726": "S.-Mexico border wall.“Wacky Nut Job @AnnCoulter, who still hasn’t figured out that, despite all odds and an entire Democrat Party of Far Left Radicals against me (not to mention certain Republicans who are sadly unwilling to fight), I am winning on the Border,” the president tweeted", "-CxgoUHfmOy-00002-00003726-00004332": "President Trump wrote in a second tweet: “….and renovated, with MUCH MORE to follow shortly", "-CxgoUHfmOy-00003-00004332-00005098": "Tens of thousands of illegals are being apprehended (captured) at the Border and NOT allowed into our Country", "-CxgoUHfmOy-00004-00005098-00005876": "With another President, millions would be pouring in. I am stopping an invasion as the Wall gets built''", "-CxgoUHfmOy-00005-00005876-00007759": "Coulter, author of the New York Times best-selling book In Trump We Trust: E Pluribus Awesome, has emerged as one of President Trump’s most vocal critics over his border security policies, and she objected loudly in February to a bi-partisan agreement to appropriate nearly $1", "-CxgoUHfmOy-00006-00007759-00008608": "4 billion toward border security measures as part of a funding deal to avert a second partial government shutdown", "-CxgoUHfmOy-00007-00008608-00009619": "Upon announcing the agreement, the president pledged to declare a national emergency to obtain billions more in funding to build portions of the Southern barrier", "-CxgoUHfmOy-00008-00009619-00010578": "In response to the move, Coulter told KABC Radio in Los Angeles: “The only national emergency is that our president is an idiot''", "-CxgoUHfmOy-00009-00010578-00011343": ".“This is the worst open borders the country has ever had under the president who ran against open borders,” she added", "-CxgoUHfmOy-00010-00011343-00012391": "During a Rose Garden press conference on the agreement, President Trump was asked whether his policy decisions were influenced by conservative media figures’ opinions", "-CxgoUHfmOy-00011-00012391-00013169": "On Coulter, the president said he hardly knew her, despite having had her introduce him at a rally in Dubuque, Iowa", "-CxgoUHfmOy-00012-00013169-00013879": "“Ann Coulter, I hardly know her,” the president said. “The press loved saying ‘Ann Coulter", "-CxgoUHfmOy-00013-00013879-00015671": "’ She is probably really nice. I just don’t have the time to speak to her.”.In an interview on iriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily this week, Coulter detailed to host Alex Marlow how then-President-elect Trump personally intervened to have her unbanned from the Fox News Channel", "-CxgoUHfmOy-00014-00015671-00017738": "“I was begging — the president to hire Kris Kobach at HHS,” Coulter recalled. “He said, “Murdoch is calling me every day,” — I’m only saying this because it’s out now, anyway — “Murdoch’s calling me every day,” and I said, “Yeah, he opposed you during the campaign and got me banned from Fox when I supported you", "-CxgoUHfmOy-00015-00017738-00018709": "Look, I’m giving up my career to get you in the White House. Please, just hire Kris Kobach,” and he said, “Oh, wait", "-CxgoUHfmOy-00016-00018709-00019621": "You’re not allowed on Fox? Want me to call Murdoch?” And as a point of pride, I’d like to say that I said, “No", "-CxgoUHfmOy-00017-00019621-00020543": "No, Mr. President-elect. All I care about is that you hire Kris Kobach. We’re trying to save the country, here''"}}, {"audio_id": "-Hv1GcjUiAU", "text": {"-Hv1GcjUiAU-00000-00000000-00000200": "Subscrib"}}, {"audio_id": "-N7STk6iFk8", "text": {"-N7STk6iFk8-00000-00000087-00000350": "Дарагі Уладзімір, дарагі калега!", "-N7STk6iFk8-00001-00000350-00000509": "Сёння ваш Дзень нараджэння,", "-N7STk6iFk8-00002-00000509-00000978": "і я зрабіў гэтае відэа, каб сказаць вам: Вы не адзін.", "-N7STk6iFk8-00003-00000978-00001712": "Як і я, вы юрыст, той, хто сапраўды абараняе правы палітычных вязняў", "-N7STk6iFk8-00004-00001712-00002297": "Каб ператварыць іх з аб'ектаў несправядлівай прававой сістэмы ў людзей.", "-N7STk6iFk8-00005-00002297-00002737": "Вы і шэсць вашых сяброў цяпер у зняволенні, і мы не забываем пра гэта тут.", "-N7STk6iFk8-00006-00002737-00003045": "Мы памятаем пра гэта і мы бачым вас.", "-N7STk6iFk8-00007-00003082-00003630": "Хаця вы зараз за кратамі, сёння ваш Дзень нараджэння і ніхто не можа яго ў вас забраць.", "-N7STk6iFk8-00008-00003686-00003830": "Мы разам з вамі!"}}, {"audio_id": "-SXmfsaPMN8", "text": {"-SXmfsaPMN8-00000-00000571-00002470": "President Donald Trump has made it his mission to repeal Obamacare. He absolutely hates the idea of socialized medicine, since it means poor people might be able to get access to a service for free without having to fork out huge wads of cash for it, and that doesn’t compute in his Draconian capitalist brain", "-SXmfsaPMN8-00001-00002470-00003259": "Also, Trump despises everything his predecessor former President Barack Obama did by default", "-SXmfsaPMN8-00002-00003259-00004358": "When he said he would Make America Great Again, that apprently just meant undoing all the reforms put in place by our country’s first ever non-white President", "-SXmfsaPMN8-00003-00004358-00006064": "Since he first took up the office of President of the United States and leader of the free world two and a bit years ago, Donald Trump has launched multiple attempts to take Obamacare down, all of which have failed dramatically, usually thanks to opposition from people on his own side", "-SXmfsaPMN8-00004-00006064-00006970": "When lifelong Republicans are telling you that your health care policy is way too right wing, you know you have gone badly off the rails", "-SXmfsaPMN8-00005-00006970-00008381": "Perhaps unsurprisingly, his latest attempt to take Obamacare down by skipping the entire legislative branch and somehow attacking it through the courts failed even more miserably than the ones that came before", "-SXmfsaPMN8-00006-00008381-00010019": ".What must hurt for President Trump most of all is that even those within the GOP are now becoming so used to defeating him on his key campaign pledges that they are becoming really, really good at owning him publicly, which is extremely humiliating for a sitting President", "-SXmfsaPMN8-00007-00010019-00010998": "For instance, here, two senior Republican legal minds took apart Trump’s entire argument against Obamacare in a surprisingly brief and simple way:", "-SXmfsaPMN8-00008-00010998-00012077": "The District Court erred in coming out the other way. It failed to ask whether the now-inoperative mandate is essential to the Affordable Care Act as currentlycodified", "-SXmfsaPMN8-00009-00012077-00013425": "(How could it be?) Instead, it asked whether the original version of theindividual mandate—the one that Congress made enforceable with a penalty—was central to the original version of the Affordable Care Act", "-SXmfsaPMN8-00010-00013425-00014493": "The Court thus invalidated the current version of the Affordable Care Act by assessing the importance of an earlier version of the mandate to an earlier version of the Act", "-SXmfsaPMN8-00011-00014493-00014893": "To describe the approach is to refute it"}}, {"audio_id": "-TZozbcOcAy", "text": {"-TZozbcOcAy-00000-00000571-00001224": "House Democrats and Michael Cohen have something big up their sleeve for next week", "-TZozbcOcAy-00001-00001224-00002081": "Michael Cohen testified about Donald Trump’s life of crime three times last week to three different congressional committees", "-TZozbcOcAy-00002-00002081-00002875": "Only one of those three hearings was in public, and thus far it’s had the most immediate impact on observers", "-TZozbcOcAy-00003-00002875-00003849": "But it now looks like one of Cohen’s private hearings will end up being more impactful before long, and in fact something big is planned for next week", "-TZozbcOcAy-00004-00003849-00004562": "|.The Democratic Party-controlled House Intelligence Committee questioned Michael Cohen in private on Thursday", "-TZozbcOcAy-00005-00004562-00005434": "That kind of setting allows for a more free discussion of evidence that’s a part of ongoing investigations and criminal cases", "-TZozbcOcAy-00006-00005434-00006735": "It also apparently led to something big and unexpected. When Cohen finished his testimony, he told reporters that he’ll be returning this Wednesday to provide more testimony to the House Intel Committee", "-TZozbcOcAy-00007-00006735-00007357": "At the time this sounded like perhaps they had simply run out of time and needed another day", "-TZozbcOcAy-00008-00007357-00008611": "Then Congressman Eric Swalwell, who sits on the House Intel Committee, appeared on MSNBC on Friday night and revealed the real reason Michael Cohen is being brought back for another round", "-TZozbcOcAy-00009-00008611-00009481": "Cohen said something during his testimony which he hadn’t previously mentioned, and it turned out to be far more relevant than he thought it was", "-TZozbcOcAy-00010-00009481-00010217": "Swalwell said that he and his colleagues were “at the edge of our seats” while Cohen was revealing this", "-TZozbcOcAy-00011-00010217-00011116": "So now we know that House Democrats are bringing Michael Cohen back next week because they have something big up their sleeve", "-TZozbcOcAy-00012-00011116-00012006": "This hearing will presumably once again be behind closed doors, and we don’t know when the Democrats will reveal what it is", "-TZozbcOcAy-00013-00012006-00012649": "But if you want a clue, watch for who and what the House Intel Committee subpoenas next", "-TZozbcOcAy-00014-00012649-00013185": "They’re onto something big, and they’re clearly looking to move quickly on it"}}, {"audio_id": "-Z53mswJ5PM", "text": {"-Z53mswJ5PM-00000-00000571-00002049": "Donald Trump’s hardline immigration policies are discouraging migrants seeking HIV treatment, a leading expert has claimed, as a new report showed infection rates among some Latino communities soaring by as much as 30 per cent", "-Z53mswJ5PM-00001-00002049-00003329": "A report published by the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) claimed the battle against HIV in the US has “stalled” in recent years, after a period of steady decline", "-Z53mswJ5PM-00002-00003329-00005205": "Latest figures show there are 39,000 new infections every year.The report, published three weeks after Mr Trump announced a plan to end the HIV epidemic by 2030, showed that among white gay and bisexual men, infection rates decreased by 16 per cent", "-Z53mswJ5PM-00003-00005205-00006383": "Among black gay and bisexual men, they remained stable. However, among Latino gay and bisexual men, infection rates increased by more than 30 per cent", "-Z53mswJ5PM-00004-00006383-00007673": "“Now is the time for our nation to take bold action. We strongly support President Trump’s plan to end the HIV epidemic in America,” said CDC director Robert Redfield", "-Z53mswJ5PM-00005-00007673-00008462": ".At least one prominent expert believes Mr Trump’s policies are making the situation worse", "-Z53mswJ5PM-00006-00008462-00010084": "While the data contained in the CDC report was collected from 2010-16, before Mr Trump became president, there is said to be evidence his hardline policies on immigration are discouraging some of the most vulnerable groups from getting treatment", "-Z53mswJ5PM-00007-00010084-00011659": ".Carlos del Rio, professor of global health at Atlanta’s Emory University, told The Independent he had seen persuasive evidence that HIV outreach among migrant and Latino communities had become more difficult since the president took office", "-Z53mswJ5PM-00008-00011659-00013634": "He said it appeared many people were “keeping their heads low''.“That is why, while I welcome the president’s proposal [to tackle HIV], his other policies are impacting people,” said Mr Del Rio, a member of the leadership team of Fast-Track Cities, a global, United Nations-backed initiative to tackle HIV", "-Z53mswJ5PM-00009-00013634-00014303": "“It is good to have lofty goals, but those other policies are impacting that effort''", "-Z53mswJ5PM-00010-00014303-00015350": "The CDC data showed that after falling for a number of years, the total number of infection rates leveled off from 2013-2016", "-Z53mswJ5PM-00011-00015350-00016218": "“We are not making any progress since 2013,” said Mr Del Rio. “And that report is the big picture", "-Z53mswJ5PM-00012-00016218-00017380": "When you look locally, you see there are big increases in some areas''.The report showed that of the new infections, around 20,000 were recorded in the southern US"}}, {"audio_id": "-mFD49refqY", "text": {"-mFD49refqY-00000-00000571-00001529": "Democrats thought they could beat Donald, but he was ready for them.Congress did not believe Trump had the gall to defy them on the border wall", "-mFD49refqY-00001-00001529-00002540": "After a painful shutdown and a terrible budget deal, Trump declared a national emergency as the last, best resort in securing funding for the border wall", "-mFD49refqY-00002-00002540-00003402": "Yet Congress tried to deny him by voting to overrule him. Then Trump used his first veto to stop them", "-mFD49refqY-00003-00003402-00004296": "But it wasn’t over yet – Congress voted again, this time to override his veto and bulldoze his chances of building the wall", "-mFD49refqY-00004-00004296-00006200": "Unfortunately,  they were sorely disappointed. From Fox News:.House Democrats on Tuesday failed to override President Trump’s first veto as part of their battle over border security, representing a victory for the administration that allows the president’s declaration of a national emergency at the U", "-mFD49refqY-00005-00006200-00007111": "S.-Mexico border to stand.Go Trump!.You’d better believe he made sure he had Republicans band together to protect the wall", "-mFD49refqY-00006-00007111-00008229": "In order to overrule a president’s veto, it takes 2/3 majority by Congress. Sadly, for the Left, they got 248-181 votes", "-mFD49refqY-00007-00008229-00009256": "They fell short a crucial 38 votes to steal Trump’s plan.I’m so glad Republicans finally had the guts to stand up for our nation’s security!", "-mFD49refqY-00008-00009256-00010246": "If they had succeeded, Democrats wouldn’t have stopped there. Leaders like Beto O’Rourke have even said they want to tear down all the border walls!", "-mFD49refqY-00009-00010246-00010962": "But hanks to the Democrats’ failure, Trump is free to use funds from the military to build the wall", "-mFD49refqY-00010-00010962-00011915": "Democrats might be mad (or depressed!), but millions of Americans are cheering.Now developments at the border will move very quickly", "-mFD49refqY-00011-00011915-00013017": "Trump will be able to, unhindered, finally get much of the wall built. And just in time, too, as thousands are crossing each day according to Border Patrol", "-mFD49refqY-00012-00013017-00013783": "Democrats will be weeping in the streets, but we will finally have the border security we so desperately need"}}, {"audio_id": "_tgzaAeMbaI", "text": {"_tgzaAeMbaI-00000-00000571-00001493": "UK authorities arrested WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange today, based on an extradition request from the United States", "_tgzaAeMbaI-00001-00001493-00003128": "We still don’t know if this means William Barr is trying to silence Assange about Trump-Russia, or if the DOJ is trying to work around Barr to get Trump-Russia answers from Assange – but we do know that Donald Trump is already quickly changing his story", "_tgzaAeMbaI-00002-00003128-00003961": ".Here’s what Donald Trump told a pool of reporters just now about the Assange arrest: “I know nothing about WikiLeaks", "_tgzaAeMbaI-00003-00003961-00004578": "It’s not my thing, and I know there is something having to do with Julian Assange", "_tgzaAeMbaI-00004-00004578-00006425": "I’ve been seeing what’s happened with Assange.” Really? Trump now knows nothing about WikiLeaks? Did he forget that his unofficial campaign adviser Roger Stone was reportedly commutating with WikiLeaks during the 2016 election? Did Trump also forget his own past words?", "_tgzaAeMbaI-00005-00006425-00007940": ". .Three weeks before the 2016 election, Donald Trump posted this tweet, asserting that WikiLeaks was a legitimate intel source: “Very little pick-up by the dishonest media of incredible information provided by WikiLeaks", "_tgzaAeMbaI-00006-00007940-00009810": "So dishonest! Rigged system!” Days later, he tweeted this: “WikiLeaks proves even the Clinton campaign knew Crooked mishandled classified info, but no one gets charged? RIGGED!” Around that same time, at a political rally, Trump said “we love WikiLeaks", "_tgzaAeMbaI-00007-00009810-00010737": "” Wait, now he knows “nothing” about WikiLeaks or Assange?. .In fairness to Donald Trump, his cognitive abilities are clearly fading", "_tgzaAeMbaI-00008-00010737-00012239": "Just ask “Tim Apple” about the “oranges” of the investigation. But even with his current brain freeze taking hold, there’s just no way that Trump can legitimately claims that he knows nothing about WikiLeaks because it’s not his thing", "_tgzaAeMbaI-00009-00012239-00013146": "Back when Julian Assange and WikiLeaks were stealing the election for him in 2016, he couldn’t stop talking about how much he loved them", "_tgzaAeMbaI-00010-00013146-00013914": "Now that his own DOJ has branded Assange a criminal, Trump suddenly has no idea who the guy even is"}}, {"audio_id": "_vNg2oJC_HE", "text": {"_vNg2oJC_HE-00000-00000571-00001759": "For some time now, Donald Trump has been trying to eschew a lawsuit brought forth by Summer Zervos, a former Apprentice contestant who has accused Trump of serious misconduct", "_vNg2oJC_HE-00001-00001759-00002872": "She alleges that two separate incidents occurred: that Trump kissed her on the mouth in New York, and that he kissed and manually assaulted her in a California hotel room during a business meeting", "_vNg2oJC_HE-00002-00002872-00004115": "Zervos maintains that she did not consent to any of the contact in question.After Trump ridiculed her serious misconduct allegations and suggested she’d fabricated her whole story, Ms", "_vNg2oJC_HE-00003-00004115-00005126": "Zervos  filed a defamation suit against him. Donald Trump’s lawyer, however, has argued in legal filings that the president is immune to lawsuits", "_vNg2oJC_HE-00004-00005126-00005910": "But thanks to the husband of presidential adviser Kellyanne Conway, Trump is probably going to lose that argument", "_vNg2oJC_HE-00005-00005910-00007258": "Twenty years ago, the Supreme Court handed down a 9-0 decision that a sitting president could be sued, by allowing Paula Jones to pursue her highly-visible harassment lawsuit against President Bill Clinton", "_vNg2oJC_HE-00006-00007258-00009016": "George T. Conway III, Kellyanne’s husband, can claim considerable credit for that Supreme Court victory as the Republican lawyer drew scrutiny to the case by penning a blistering op-ed for the Los Angeles Times in which he argued that President Clinton was relying on dubious legal arguments", "_vNg2oJC_HE-00007-00009016-00009768": "“In a case involving his private conduct, a President should be treated like any private citizen,” he wrote", "_vNg2oJC_HE-00008-00009768-00010993": "“The rule of law requires no more—and no less.”.Mr. Conway went on to cite an argument used during the Nixon case:“No man in this country is so high that he is above the law", "_vNg2oJC_HE-00009-00010993-00012271": "No officer of the law may set that law at defiance with impunity. All officers of the government, from the highest to the lowest, are creatures of the law and are bound to obey it", "_vNg2oJC_HE-00010-00012271-00013119": ". . . Incumbency does not relieve the President of the routine legal obligations that confine all citizens", "_vNg2oJC_HE-00011-00013119-00014073": "” .That is really going to sting Trump as it seems he thought himself so high that he was above the law… way before he even became president"}}, {"audio_id": "_x4x6Hi0k2E", "text": {"_x4x6Hi0k2E-00000-00000513-00002077": "Congressional Democrats are debating whether to expand the scope of their inquiry into President Donald Trump’s taxes to include his business tax returns along with his personal returns, a risky step seen by some as crucial to effective oversight", "_x4x6Hi0k2E-00001-00002077-00003694": "The debate has intensified, aides and lawmakers said, since last week’s testimony by former Trump personal attorney Michael Cohen, who alleged to lawmakers that Trump altered his business asset values and slashed employee salaries to lower his taxes", "_x4x6Hi0k2E-00002-00003694-00005108": "The testimony suggested that investigators in the House of Representatives will need both his personal and business returns to fully assess Trump’s compliance with tax laws and understand the network of businesses he owns, lawmakers said", "_x4x6Hi0k2E-00003-00005108-00006340": "The White House declined to comment on Thursday.House Democrats have spent months laying the groundwork for an unprecedented request to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin for Trump’s personal tax filings", "_x4x6Hi0k2E-00004-00006340-00007114": "Adding Trump’s business returns could complicate an already legally delicate effort, aides and lawmakers said", "_x4x6Hi0k2E-00005-00007114-00008078": "Trump owns more than 550 companies and business entities, including the Trump Organization, his financial disclosure reports show", "_x4x6Hi0k2E-00006-00008078-00009384": "“There’s conflicting advice on this,” said Representative Richard Neal, chairman of the House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee and the only House lawmaker authorized by law to ask Mnuchin for Trump’s returns", "_x4x6Hi0k2E-00007-00009384-00010152": "“Tax policy is pretty complicated. There are times when individual returns can instruct you", "_x4x6Hi0k2E-00008-00010152-00010758": "Other times, you might seek a business return,” Neal told Reuters in an interview", "_x4x6Hi0k2E-00009-00010758-00012333": "“It has to conform to the principle of a pretty narrow law.”.Neal is trying to formulate his request to Mnuchin so that it can withstand a likely court fight with Trump, who has refused to release his returns, defying decades of presidential practice", "_x4x6Hi0k2E-00010-00012333-00013380": "Unlike predecessors, Trump has also retained extensive business interests while serving as president, raising questions about conflicts of interest", "_x4x6Hi0k2E-00011-00013380-00014349": "Interest in Trump’s business returns is coming from at least four other House panels, including Oversight and Judiciary, according to aides and lawmakers", "_x4x6Hi0k2E-00012-00014349-00015266": "House Oversight wants to depose long-time Trump tax attorney Sheri Dillon, who likely has a deep understanding of Trump’s tax returns", "_x4x6Hi0k2E-00013-00015266-00016141": "Committee officials said this week that no final decision has been made on whether to pursue the business returns in the initial request", "_x4x6Hi0k2E-00014-00016141-00017505": "‘A LOT OF DOORS’.Cohen’s testimony “opened a lot of doors for investigatory bodies,” Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a member of the House Oversight Committee, told Reuters", "_x4x6Hi0k2E-00015-00017505-00018573": "“It’s about comparing his financial statements with his tax reports. What Cohen named particularly were the Trump Organization taxes,” she said", "_x4x6Hi0k2E-00016-00018573-00019647": "Democrats, who won control of the House in the November 2018 U.S. elections, say Trump’s personal returns would reveal whether he has complied with U", "_x4x6Hi0k2E-00017-00019647-00020579": "S. tax laws and any IRS audits, as well as his effective tax rate, business and investment income and charitable contributions", "_x4x6Hi0k2E-00018-00020579-00022115": "But Democrats could blunder by focusing solely on Trump’s personal returns, if their aim is to identify conflicts of interest between his sprawling business investments and the policies he advocates from the Oval Office, tax experts say", "_x4x6Hi0k2E-00019-00022115-00023178": "“Personal returns alone fall short,” said Steve Rosenthal, a senior fellow at the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center, a think tank in Washington", "_x4x6Hi0k2E-00020-00023178-00024364": "Success against legal resistance to disclosure by Trump would greatly depend on the ability of Democrats to demonstrate a legitimate legislative purpose for their request", "_x4x6Hi0k2E-00021-00024364-00025542": "Rosenthal said including business returns would strengthen the House argument because the documents are geared strongly to legitimate oversight questions such as conflicts of interest", "_x4x6Hi0k2E-00022-00025542-00027010": "But House Democrats are talking about simplify their request by targeting a limited number of Trump companies tied to investments of interest, rather than the entire business network, and possibly making further requests later", "_x4x6Hi0k2E-00023-00027010-00027778": "“It’s going to be a combination of both personal and business, because he goes back and forth between both", "_x4x6Hi0k2E-00024-00027778-00028680": "To get the full picture, I don’t think you can just pick one or the other,” said Representative Gerry Connolly, an Oversight member"}}, {"audio_id": "_yhdJ231XQI", "text": {"_yhdJ231XQI-00000-00000571-00001281": "The Barr Report is out, and we now see we’ll have to fight like never before to make sure the truth comes to light", "_yhdJ231XQI-00001-00001281-00002593": "Guilty or not guilty is up to a jury of his peers, but the facts about Trump’s strange behavior, particularly with regard to Vladimir Putin, must absolutely be presented to the American people", "_yhdJ231XQI-00002-00002593-00004071": "Unfortunately the news is not good. Trump appointee Attorney General Barr is going to allow Trump to edit the Mueller Report at will, according to Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, though the DOJ is now disputing Graham’s assertion", "_yhdJ231XQI-00003-00004071-00004983": "If it does happen, prepare for a lot of black lines. In fact, Trump’s version probably won’t be worth the paper it’s printed on", "_yhdJ231XQI-00004-00004983-00006103": "The good news is Democrats are ready to pounce like never before. At this moment, we have Deutsche Bank handing over Trump’s financial records to the Democratic House", "_yhdJ231XQI-00005-00006103-00006887": "Correspondence regarding intelligence briefings to Donald Trump is still an ongoing FOIA matter at vault", "_yhdJ231XQI-00006-00006887-00007704": "fbi.gov. We have an unusually high number of sealed indictments on the docket at the Eastern District of Virginia", "_yhdJ231XQI-00007-00007704-00008807": "We don’t know what we don’t know. But our winning card is the truth – and leaks.The real Mueller Report will leak like the Trumptanic after hitting five icebergs", "_yhdJ231XQI-00008-00008807-00009677": "No one will be able to stop it. Eventually we will see for ourselves what Mueller investigated and what the results were", "_yhdJ231XQI-00009-00009677-00010865": "Was Mueller involved in a coverup? His history seems to make this unlikely. Is he willing to go along with the spin for other reasons? Perhaps for the stability of the country", "_yhdJ231XQI-00010-00010865-00011570": "Perhaps for the loyalty to his party. We will see if he’s a white hat or black hat eventually", "_yhdJ231XQI-00011-00011570-00011923": "This is far, far from over"}}, {"audio_id": "_yNC6FK-GcY", "text": {"_yNC6FK-GcY-00000-00000571-00001545": "This evening Michael Flynn took the surprise step of asking the judge for yet another ninety days to continue cooperating with prosecutors", "_yNC6FK-GcY-00001-00001545-00002488": "For its part, Robert Mueller’s office stated that it had no opinion on the matter, while confirming that its cooperation with Flynn is complete", "_yNC6FK-GcY-00002-00002488-00003731": "So where does this get us?.Mueller is essentially taking the same position that he took ninety days ago, which is that Michael Flynn has been such a big help, he doesn’t even need to go to prison", "_yNC6FK-GcY-00003-00003731-00004902": "Of course the judge didn’t like that idea at all last time around, asking aloud if Flynn had committed “treason,” and encouraged Flynn to go back and find more ways to cooperate", "_yNC6FK-GcY-00004-00004902-00005960": "If Flynn had found a way to provide any additional cooperation during these past ninety days, Mueller would surely be saying so, instead of leaving him hanging", "_yNC6FK-GcY-00005-00005960-00007613": "Flynn is ostensibly asking for another ninety days because he fears the judge will throw him in prison if the sentencing happens this week, and he’s hoping something will come up along the way, where he can help some prosecutor on some case, even if it’s not Mueller", "_yNC6FK-GcY-00006-00007613-00008687": "But there’s no looking past the underlying point here: despite his hugely serious crimes, Flynn helped Mueller so much, Mueller doesn’t think he should go to prison", "_yNC6FK-GcY-00007-00008687-00009666": "Contrast this with Mueller’s ongoing quest to find a way to put Paul Manafort in prison for life, and to bankrupt Manafort in the process", "_yNC6FK-GcY-00008-00009666-00010554": "In other words, Robert Mueller is no pushover. He doesn’t believe in leniency for anyone, without a darn good reason", "_yNC6FK-GcY-00009-00010554-00011380": "Yet even after pushback from the judge, Mueller thinks Michael Flynn’s punishment should be to go to Disney World", "_yNC6FK-GcY-00010-00011380-00012328": "There’s no way Mueller sees it this way unless Flynn gave up enough evidence to take down Donald Trump and all the other biggest of fish", "_yNC6FK-GcY-00011-00012328-00012997": "We may have to wait longer to learn Flynn’s fate, but I think we just learned Trump’s fate"}}, {"audio_id": "_-dTsHQf0Pg", "text": {"_-dTsHQf0Pg-00000-00000051-00000250": "Bond hupre mJala"}}, {"audio_id": "_QjnZny_0gQ", "text": {"_QjnZny_0gQ-00000-00000571-00001508": "So we’re finally headed to Tax Day. And we’re not talking about April 15th. No, we’re talking about Congressman Richard E", "_QjnZny_0gQ-00001-00001508-00002261": "Neal, Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, requesting six years of Donald Trump’s tax returns", "_QjnZny_0gQ-00002-00002261-00003658": "As we know, Trump says he’s not “inclined” to release them, and now he has his latest henchman Mick Mulvaney, acting White House Chief of Staff, waving the red cape at the bull by saying that the Democrats will never see them", "_QjnZny_0gQ-00003-00003658-00004617": "They vow to fight all the way to the Supreme Court. .Let them. For too long Trump has proclaimed a special path for him and his family", "_QjnZny_0gQ-00004-00004617-00005385": "Rules and laws are for other people. But Neal has given his request directly to the IRS", "_QjnZny_0gQ-00005-00005385-00006182": "And the statute and precedent holds that the IRS shall supply such tax documents upon such a request", "_QjnZny_0gQ-00006-00006182-00007558": "There are two pathways to look at this. First we all know that debt-laden Donald Trump is no billionaire, and maybe not even a millionaire, which is why he is so beholden to his real master, Vladimir Putin", "_QjnZny_0gQ-00007-00007558-00008248": "His entire life and ego are wound up in the notion that everyone must see he is rich", "_QjnZny_0gQ-00008-00008248-00009060": "The idea of the public knowing all his crappy financials is utterly terrifying to him, and he will fight it to his last breath", "_QjnZny_0gQ-00009-00009060-00010847": ". .So path one: fight! Which is fabulous! Because while he is using his last resources to wage a battle to keep his taxes private, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler will be firing subpoenas at Attorney General William Barr over the Mueller report", "_QjnZny_0gQ-00010-00010847-00012072": "We’ve just now increased the war to a two-pronged battlefront. .What is path two? It is that the IRS follows its statutes and hands over the requested documents", "_QjnZny_0gQ-00011-00012072-00012929": "It can do this, ignoring Trump’s foot stomping. Remember, the IRS is not a private concern", "_QjnZny_0gQ-00012-00012929-00013592": "It has no liability here and will act according to law until the law is changed.", "_QjnZny_0gQ-00013-00013592-00014619": ".If and when it provides Neal with the tax documents, we will get to see any and all shady financial dealings the Trumps have with Deutsche Bank and Russian oligarchs", "_QjnZny_0gQ-00014-00014619-00015332": "This, of course, will put more pressure on Bill Barr to come clean about the traitor in the White House", "_QjnZny_0gQ-00015-00015332-00016160": "In his ubiquitous The Art of War, author Sun Tzu recommends against his enemy, “Anger his general and confuse him", "_QjnZny_0gQ-00016-00016160-00016938": "Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.” The Democrats have clearly gotten the memo on this"}}, {"audio_id": "_REDi8hQiKQ", "text": {"_REDi8hQiKQ-00000-00000571-00001488": "President Donald Trump is insisting that his declaration of a National Emergency to fund his racist Border Wall is legitimate", "_REDi8hQiKQ-00001-00001488-00002289": "Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi had a very strong message for her Republican colleagues in Congress on the matter", "_REDi8hQiKQ-00002-00002289-00003232": "“Is your oath of office to Donald Trump or is it to the Constitution of the United States? You cannot let him undermine your pledge to the Constitution''", "_REDi8hQiKQ-00003-00003232-00005037": "She, of course, scored an enormous victory when the House itself passed a resolution of disapproval (essentially, an official political statement that very formally sticks two fingers up to the White House) by a large majority of 245 votes to 182", "_REDi8hQiKQ-00004-00005037-00006080": "However, that now has to make its way to the Senate, where the ruling figure is not a Democrat like Pelosi but a GOP face, Senate Majority Leader Sen", "_REDi8hQiKQ-00005-00006080-00007639": "Mitch McConnell.McConnell has always been a staunch Trump ally. He has always been one figure that the White House could count on to defend the President’s policy line at basically all costs, no matter how insane it seemed to straight thinking people", "_REDi8hQiKQ-00006-00007639-00009742": "Now, a huge burden rests on his shoulders as to maintain that reputation of being Trump’s man in the Senate, he would effectively have to express his strong support for the National Emergency declaration and for the pursued building of the Border Wall with seized funds by blocking Pelosi’s disapproval motion and ensuring a favorable Senate majority", "_REDi8hQiKQ-00007-00009742-00010821": "However, when questioned on the matter, he was extremely ambivalent, which is uncharacteristic and will have sent alarm bells ringing right across Washington", "_REDi8hQiKQ-00008-00010821-00011931": "That’s right. When asked whether he would actually back President Trump on the Wall, McConnell essentially said that he was unsure and would have to think about it some more", "_REDi8hQiKQ-00009-00011931-00013631": "For Trump, this must be absolutely petrifying. Not only has the entire Washington establishment turned its back on him, but even those key allies he always thought he could rely on are starting to ask questions about how viable what he continues to propose actually is", "_REDi8hQiKQ-00010-00013631-00015361": "Donald Trump is barely halfway through his term as President of the United States and leader of the free world, but if things continue the way they are going right now, he cannot possibly have much time left in the Oval Office, since it seems that absolutely no one actually wants to keep him there"}}, {"audio_id": "_TMyxzCSpBg", "text": {"_TMyxzCSpBg-00000-00000571-00001699": "Donald Trump announced this afternoon through his lawyers that he’s going to fight the House Ways and Means Committee’s decision to formally seek his tax returns from the Treasury Department", "_TMyxzCSpBg-00001-00001699-00002762": "That’s all well and good, but Trump has absolutely no legal standing on this matter, not as a private citizen, and not as the President of the United States", "_TMyxzCSpBg-00002-00002762-00003564": "He will, automatically, lose this fight. It’s far from the only losing battle he’s waging right now", "_TMyxzCSpBg-00003-00003564-00004418": ".Trump and his newly handpicked Attorney General William Barr are also trying to fight against the Mueller report becoming public", "_TMyxzCSpBg-00004-00004418-00006218": "But while the law isn’t 100% clear cut against Trump in this instance, there is overwhelming public support for the report to surface, and even Mueller’s own team is beginning to reveal what’s really in the report – so Trump will lose this battle, eventually if not necessarily immediately", "_TMyxzCSpBg-00005-00006218-00007341": ". .Michael Cohen has sent a twelve page letter to Congress, asserting that Donald Trump did in fact conspire with Russia to alter the outcome of the 2016 election", "_TMyxzCSpBg-00006-00007341-00008384": "To that end, Cohen says he’s found a hard drive full of records that implicate Trump in this conspiracy, and that he’s going to turn it all over to Congress", "_TMyxzCSpBg-00007-00008384-00009583": "Trump is trying to fight back against this by merely invoking delusion, insisting that whatever Cohen has, it must be “old news,” even though Trump has no way of knowing this", "_TMyxzCSpBg-00008-00009583-00010776": ".Last night it was revealed that Capital One has been secretly working with House Democrats since early March with regard to Donald Trump’s apparently incriminating financial records", "_TMyxzCSpBg-00009-00010776-00011879": "Trump has no idea how to fight that. Nor can he derail the whistleblower who has exposed his security clearance scandal, which just set off an array of subpoenas", "_TMyxzCSpBg-00010-00011879-00012534": "If Trump were fighting one losing battle, he might be able to simply kick it down the road", "_TMyxzCSpBg-00011-00012534-00013171": "But he’s now fighting losing battles on all sides – and no one ever wins that way"}}, {"audio_id": "AzdvtzTtVoI", "text": {"AzdvtzTtVoI-00000-00000069-00000252": "Беларускі дыктатар", "AzdvtzTtVoI-00001-00000252-00000616": "не толькі падтрымлівае злачынную наступальную вайну", "AzdvtzTtVoI-00002-00000616-00000777": "Расіі супраць Украіны", "AzdvtzTtVoI-00003-00000777-00000965": "але і спрабуе цалкам знішчыць", "AzdvtzTtVoI-00004-00000965-00001299": "дэмакратычную апазіцыю ва ўласнай краіне", "AzdvtzTtVoI-00005-00001327-00001579": "Больш за год таму ён распарадзіўся арыштаваць", "AzdvtzTtVoI-00006-00001579-00002157": "дэмакратычнага актывіста Валянціна Стэфановіча і яго калег.", "AzdvtzTtVoI-00007-00002197-00002500": "З тых часоў яны несправядліва знаходзяцца ў зняволенні.", "AzdvtzTtVoI-00008-00002543-00002796": "Я патрабую неадкладнага вызвалення", "AzdvtzTtVoI-00009-00002796-00003199": "ўсіх беларускіх дэмакратычных актывістаў з турмаў."}}, {"audio_id": "AIlknGdmURy", "text": {"AIlknGdmURy-00000-00000513-00001398": "Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, wed Prince Charles in 2005, after the pair first met in 1970", "AIlknGdmURy-00001-00001398-00002459": "However, Prince William and Prince Harry had a “naughty” surprise in store for the newlywed royal couple after their wedding ceremony and blessing, which took place in Windsor", "AIlknGdmURy-00002-00002459-00003313": "2012 Amazon Prince documentary “The Queen's Diamond Decades” shows footage from the happy day in 2005", "AIlknGdmURy-00003-00003313-00004292": "Narrator Patricia Hodge says: “It was a different sort of royal wedding.“Prince William and Prince Harry welcomed their stepmother into the family", "AIlknGdmURy-00004-00004292-00005120": "“Having decorated their car in style, the young prince gave the newlyweds a send-off to remember as they departed for their honeymoon", "AIlknGdmURy-00005-00005120-00006126": "”.Alongside red, white and blue balloons, the princes decorated the car with “Just married”, “C + C”, heart symbols and smiley faces", "AIlknGdmURy-00006-00006126-00007014": "The documentary also showed how Prince Harry cheekily made faces into the window of the Bentley and shouted: “Thanks for coming!”", "AIlknGdmURy-00007-00007014-00008252": "Friend of Charles and Camilla, William Shawcross, told People Magazine at the time: “They were milling around the crowd, extremely cheerful, looking naughty and having fun decorating that car", "AIlknGdmURy-00008-00008252-00008989": "”.William and Harry were joined by Camilla's children Laura and Tom Parker Bowles on their parents' big day", "AIlknGdmURy-00009-00008989-00010149": "Although their relationship got off to a rocky start, with William having \"terrible fights\" with Laura, they put their early differences behind them and went onto have a warm relationship", "AIlknGdmURy-00010-00010149-00011155": "The surprise for their father and step-mother was echoed by Harry when he “had a surprise in store” for his brother on his royal wedding day to Kate Middleton", "AIlknGdmURy-00011-00011155-00012670": "Royal author Katie Nicholl, in her 2017 biography “Harry: Life, Loss, and Love”, explains how Meghan Markle’s husband surprised his brother and sister-in-law after their famous Buckingham Palace balcony kiss", "AIlknGdmURy-00012-00012670-00013707": "Ms Nicholl writes: “Harry had arranged for the newly-weds to make the short drive back to Clarence House in his father’s beloved open-topped Aston Martin Volante", "AIlknGdmURy-00013-00013707-00015044": "“He had warned his brother he had a surprise in store.“When William and Kate saw that the car had been decked out in balloons, red white and blue streamers, and a JU5T WED number plate, they were delighted", "AIlknGdmURy-00014-00015044-00015144": "”"}}, {"audio_id": "AK711hhXUfM", "text": {"AK711hhXUfM-00000-00000571-00001284": "Sometimes it’s a grand coincidence that finally brings two long-related storylines onto the same page", "AK711hhXUfM-00001-00001284-00002211": "That’s the point when you start to realize just how much those two storylines overlap, and sometimes you realize they’re one big story", "AK711hhXUfM-00002-00002211-00003238": "That brings us to Donald Trump’s long running Michael Cohen scandal and Donald Trump’s long running Elliott Broidy scandal, which are both suddenly coming to a head", "AK711hhXUfM-00003-00003238-00004460": "Today we learned that the original search warrant for the FBI raid on Michael Cohen’s office, along with partially redacted evidence seized during the raid, will be abruptly made public tomorrow", "AK711hhXUfM-00004-00004460-00005267": "Today we also learned that the FBI raided Elliott Broidy’s office not long after it raided Cohen’s office", "AK711hhXUfM-00005-00005267-00006532": "Remarkably, neither of these storylines is a result of any official action taken by prosectors, and is instead a result of the media scratching and clawing its way to getting its hands on the story", "AK711hhXUfM-00006-00006532-00007584": "In fact the same media outlets were not involved in these two stories. This is, by all appearances, coincidentally coming to a head all at once", "AK711hhXUfM-00007-00007584-00008470": "But if you’ve been following these two scandals, you know that these two scandals don’t have a coincidental relationship with each other", "AK711hhXUfM-00008-00008470-00009713": "For instance, Michael Cohen and Elliott Broidy both worked for Donald Trump during the 2016 campaign, and afterward, he gave them each cushy senior jobs with the Republican National Committee", "AK711hhXUfM-00009-00009713-00010750": "Trump and Broidy both had affairs with women and then paid them to keep quiet. Cohen claimed last year that Trump and Broidy were both his clients", "AK711hhXUfM-00010-00010750-00011482": "And now we know that not long after the Feds raided Cohen’s office, they raided Broidy’s office", "AK711hhXUfM-00011-00011482-00013010": "Over the past nine months we’ve seen the results of the Michael Cohen raid play out in public, from his plea deal, to his congressional testimony, to the SDNY naming “Individual-1” Donald Trump as a co-conspirator in court filings against Cohen", "AK711hhXUfM-00012-00013010-00013838": "We haven’t seen results of the Elliott Broidy raid play out in public at all; we’re just now learning that it even happened", "AK711hhXUfM-00013-00013838-00014506": "But these two raids have to be connected, and all roads lead back to Donald Trump", "AK711hhXUfM-00014-00014506-00014940": "No wonder he’s so agitated lately"}}, {"audio_id": "AYOmRsxEa_I", "text": {"AYOmRsxEa_I-00000-00000571-00001266": "President Trump is known for taking his grievances to Twitter and this weekend was no different", "AYOmRsxEa_I-00001-00001266-00002504": "On Sunday, he was so fired up about the late night sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live, he even posted about the possibility of a federal regulation of the wildly popular show", "AYOmRsxEa_I-00002-00002504-00003922": "It’s truly incredible that shows like Saturday Night Live, not funny/no talent, can spend all of their time knocking the same person (me), over & over, without so much of a mention of “the other side", "AYOmRsxEa_I-00003-00003922-00005056": "” Like an advertisement without consequences. Same with Late Night Donald J Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 17, 2019", "AYOmRsxEa_I-00004-00005056-00006430": "Should Federal Election Commission and/or FCC look into this? There must be Collusion with the Democrats and, of course, Russia! Such one sided media coverage, most of it Fake News", "AYOmRsxEa_I-00005-00006430-00007655": "Hard to believe I won and am winning. Approval Rating 52%, 93% with Republicans. Sorry! #MAGA— Donald J", "AYOmRsxEa_I-00006-00007655-00009191": "Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 17, 2019.SNL’s political sketches have been some of its most popular skits through the years and the Trump presidency has certainly lent itself nicely to SNL’s brand of humor", "AYOmRsxEa_I-00007-00009191-00010210": "This weekend was a rerun of a previously aired skit featuring Alec Baldwin as Trump and imagining what life would be like if he had never been elected President", "AYOmRsxEa_I-00008-00010210-00012122": "Trump whined that “SNL” and other late-night shows – likely referring to The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, and others that use Trump’s own actions and words as hilarious material – “can spend all of their time knocking the same person (me), over & over, without so much of a mention of ‘the other side", "AYOmRsxEa_I-00009-00012122-00013603": "’ Like an advertisement without consequences.”. In a giant stretch, Trump also suggested that the FCC should look into the matter because it “must be Collusion with the Democrats and, of course, Russia!”", "AYOmRsxEa_I-00010-00013603-00014368": "When SNL originally aired the sketch back in December, it triggered President Trump then, as well", "AYOmRsxEa_I-00011-00014368-00015178": "Trump went straight to Twitter then, too, and called SNL a “Democratic spin machine” that needed to be “tested in court”", "AYOmRsxEa_I-00012-00015178-00016228": "A REAL scandal is the one sided coverage, hour by hour, of networks like NBC & Democrat spin machines like Saturday Night Live", "AYOmRsxEa_I-00013-00016228-00017364": "It is all nothing less than unfair news coverage and Dem commercials. Should be tested in courts, can’t be legal? Only defame & belittle! Collusion?", "AYOmRsxEa_I-00014-00017364-00018649": "The sketch causing this Trump meltdown uses the movie “It’s a Wonderful Life” as a template for the parody, starring Alec Baldwin as Trump and Matt Damon as Supreme Court appointee Brett Kavanaugh", "AYOmRsxEa_I-00015-00018649-00019710": "The episode aired several months after Kavanaugh’s wild ride to the bench through controversial testimonies and hearings, which eventually led to his confirmation", "AYOmRsxEa_I-00016-00019710-00020525": "In the skit, Baldwin’s Trump asks Damon’s Kavanaugh if he ever made it to the Supreme Court to which Damon replies", "AYOmRsxEa_I-00017-00020525-00022252": "“Me on the Supreme Court? With my temperament? Are you insane? Nah, nah… They went with that nerd, Merrick Garland… But on the plus side, when I tell people I like beer, they find it charming and not like I’m threatening violence''"}}, {"audio_id": "AeibMw-cfQU", "text": {"AeibMw-cfQU-00000-00000513-00001767": "Earlier today, the Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee announced that just eight people and entities, out of eighty-one in total, had met yesterday’s document request deadline", "AeibMw-cfQU-00001-00001767-00002919": "This number sounded low to us, and we pointed out that based on their track record, we had no reason whatsoever to take the Republicans on this committee at their word", "AeibMw-cfQU-00002-00002919-00003559": "Now it turns out they were indeed fibbing the numbers – and we suspect we know why", "AeibMw-cfQU-00003-00003559-00004457": "This evening Rachel Maddow revealed during her MSNBC show that the number of people who met the deadline is actually much higher", "AeibMw-cfQU-00004-00004457-00005630": "While eight people submitted their documents electronically, an unstated number of additional people sent paper documents to the House, which take longer to process", "AeibMw-cfQU-00005-00005630-00006612": "The Republicans on the committee know full well how this kind of thing works. So why would they pretend the number is so much lower than it is?", "AeibMw-cfQU-00006-00006612-00008101": "The thing about a massive document request operation is that while some people will definitely cooperate and others will never voluntarily cooperate, there are those on the fence who will be looking around to see what everyone else does", "AeibMw-cfQU-00007-00008101-00008819": "Let’s say that you and another person on the document request list had a crucial email exchange", "AeibMw-cfQU-00008-00008819-00010199": "If the other person is cooperating, that means the committee already has those emails, so there’s no reason for you to risk being held in contempt of Congress just to avoid having to turn those emails in", "AeibMw-cfQU-00009-00010199-00011421": "If you’re tempted to fight the document request, and you find out that only a small handful of the other people on the list have cooperated, you’re going to feel more confident about standing your ground", "AeibMw-cfQU-00010-00011421-00012419": "This is surely why Donald Trump’s Republican allies tried to create the false appearance today that almost no one was cooperating", "AeibMw-cfQU-00011-00012419-00013297": "Now we wait for the real number. Once that surfaces, we expect to see more people give in and cooperate"}}, {"audio_id": "AeQ2NZTGDdu", "text": {"AeQ2NZTGDdu-00000-00000571-00001503": "Several Senate Republicans, who have been at odds with President Donald Trump, won't say if they'd consider backing his new primary opponent, Bill Weld", "AeQ2NZTGDdu-00001-00001503-00002587": "Utah Sen. Mitt Romney, like Weld, was once governor of Massachusetts and has been openly critical of Trump at times during his presidency", "AeQ2NZTGDdu-00002-00002587-00003475": "But a Romney spokeswoman declined to comment Tuesday when asked if the freshman Republican would be open to backing Weld over Trump", "AeQ2NZTGDdu-00003-00003475-00004954": "Similarly, Sen. Susan Collins, the Maine Republican who is up for re-election in 2020 and did not back Trump in 2016, would not say earlier this year if she would support Trump's bid for a second term", "AeQ2NZTGDdu-00004-00004954-00005871": "And on Tuesday, a spokesperson did not respond to multiple inquiries seeking comment about her view on Weld's primary bid", "AeQ2NZTGDdu-00005-00005871-00006949": "Other GOP senators, too, who have sparred with Trump in the past were mum when asked by CNN on Tuesday about Weld's new campaign, including Sen", "AeQ2NZTGDdu-00006-00006949-00007822": "Ben Sasse of Nebraska, whose spokesman didn't respond to multiple emails about whether his boss is open to Weld", "AeQ2NZTGDdu-00007-00007822-00008491": "Two of the more vulnerable Senate Republicans up in 2020 also were quiet on Tuesday", "AeQ2NZTGDdu-00008-00008491-00009674": "A spokesperson for Sen. Thom Tillis, the North Carolina Republican, did not respond to multiple requests for comment about Weld's candidacy, while Arizona Sen", "AeQ2NZTGDdu-00009-00009674-00010512": "Martha McSally, who faces a difficult election bid in 2020, declined to comment through a spokesperson", "AeQ2NZTGDdu-00010-00010512-00011761": "And Sen. Lisa Murkowski, an Alaska Republican who has periodically broken with Trump on key votes, was not available for comment due to her travel schedule, according to a spokesperson", "AeQ2NZTGDdu-00011-00011761-00013433": "Not all Republicans were quiet about Weld. One of the most vulnerable Republicans, Cory Gardner of Colorado, had said previously he backed Trump for president, and on Tuesday a Gardner spokesperson noted that the senator is still backing the President", "AeQ2NZTGDdu-00012-00013433-00014086": "\"That's who he is supporting,\" said Gardner spokesperson Casey Contres, referring to Trump", "AeQ2NZTGDdu-00013-00014086-00015159": "Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst, who also is up for re-election in 2020, said through a spokesperson late Tuesday that she supports Trump's re-election bid", "AeQ2NZTGDdu-00014-00015159-00016539": "Trump has been effectively running for a second term since coming into office in January 2017, quickly declaring himself as a candidate and raising tons of money to prepare for a bruising reelection campaign", "AeQ2NZTGDdu-00015-00016539-00017510": "But for the better part of the last two years, a number of House and Senate Republicans have sidestepped questions about whether they'd support him", "AeQ2NZTGDdu-00016-00017510-00018411": "While most Republicans will ultimately fall in line, the hesitance underscores the unusual relationship between Trump and his party", "AeQ2NZTGDdu-00017-00018411-00019767": "Typically, senators quickly back the sitting president of their party. But the polarizing nature of Trump's presidency, and the swirl of controversies consuming the White House, often put his party in a tough spot", "AeQ2NZTGDdu-00018-00019767-00020420": "And they're often silent when asked about Trump for fear of angering his loyal supporters", "AeQ2NZTGDdu-00019-00020420-00021374": "It is doubtful Senate Republicans will openly embrace Weld's long-shot candidacy, but he's billing himself as a candidate with crossover appeal", "AeQ2NZTGDdu-00020-00021374-00022912": "\"I really think if we have six more years of the same stuff we've had out of the White House the last two years, that would be a political tragedy and I would fear for the Republic,\" Weld told CNN's Jake Tapper on Monday when he declared his candidacy"}}, {"audio_id": "AffCTqYSYJ8", "text": {"AffCTqYSYJ8-00000-00000571-00002007": "Donald Trump’s summit in Vietnam last week with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un appeared from the start to have been little more than an elaborate excuse for Trump to meet with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov while he was there", "AffCTqYSYJ8-00001-00002007-00003068": "After Michael Cohen’s devastating testimony, Trump was in such a foul mood, he packed up and left without even going through the motions of finishing his sham summit", "AffCTqYSYJ8-00002-00003068-00004737": "Now it turns out to have been far more of a disaster than we knew.Just forty-eight hours after Donald Trump bailed on the summit, Kim Jong-Un and North Korea immediately began rebuilding a long range missile site, according to an ugly new report tonight from NBC News", "AffCTqYSYJ8-00003-00004737-00005800": "In other words, not only is Kim flouting the restrictions that the United States has tried to place on him, he’s flaunting the fact that he’s flouting it", "AffCTqYSYJ8-00004-00005800-00007501": "In other words, Kim Jong-Un is rubbing it all in Donald Trump’s face. Our educated guess has always been that Kim was only willing to participate in this sham of a summit as a courtesy to his boss Vladimir Putin, and that Donald Trump went along with it for the same reason", "AffCTqYSYJ8-00005-00007501-00008687": "Kim Jong-Un was clearly never willing to even consider giving anything away to Donald Trump, and now we can see that Kim is intent on flexing his muscles on the world stage", "AffCTqYSYJ8-00006-00008687-00009739": "Trump is just that weak and impotent, and everyone knows it. Now Kim is racing to try to complete his long range nuclear program, and there will be nothing the U", "AffCTqYSYJ8-00007-00009739-00010191": "S. can do to stop it until after Trump has been ousted"}}, {"audio_id": "AmkzPyMDuNo", "text": {"AmkzPyMDuNo-00000-00000571-00001804": "North Korea has disputed Donald Trump’s explanation for the breakdown of talks in Hanoi, saying it only wanted a partial lifting of sanctions in exchange for the dismantlement of its main nuclear facility", "AmkzPyMDuNo-00001-00001804-00003251": "A day after the US president left Vietnam empty-handed, having claimed Pyongyang had demanded the lifting of all US and international sanctions in exchange for moving forward, North Korea hit back with its own version of events", "AmkzPyMDuNo-00002-00003251-00004230": "Foreign minister Ri Yong Ho told an impromptu news conference at the Hanoi hotel that North Korea’s offer had been entirely “reasonable”", "AmkzPyMDuNo-00003-00004230-00005231": "He said Pyongyang has been prepared to begin the dismantling of the main nuclear facility in Yongbyon, if there was a partial lifting of sanctions", "AmkzPyMDuNo-00004-00005231-00006231": "He said the US had insisted the North go “one more” step beyond the dismantlement of its main nuclear facility, and that as a result the talks broke down", "AmkzPyMDuNo-00005-00006231-00007190": "He added that North Korea’s position would not change even if the US sought further talks, the Sonhap news agency reported", "AmkzPyMDuNo-00006-00007190-00008389": "Choe Son Hui, North Korea’s vice minister of foreign affairs and a senior diplomat, added: “I cannot guarantee that this opportunity will be offered to the US once more''", "AmkzPyMDuNo-00007-00008389-00009473": "The battle to control the narrative of what happened in Vietnam is hardly surprising given that both sides were hoping to reach some sort of agreement, however modest", "AmkzPyMDuNo-00008-00009473-00010625": "A day after last June’s first summit in Singapore, North Korean state media claimed the US had agreed to the lifting of sanctions – something that had not been signed off on", "AmkzPyMDuNo-00009-00010625-00012613": "Three weeks later, it accused Washington of “mobster like” behaviour.In his own press conference, Mr Trump claimed Mr Kim had asked for the lifting of all sanctions, something the US was both not capable of doing – some sanctions against the North are UN sanctions – and unwilling to do, even if it could", "AmkzPyMDuNo-00010-00012613-00013509": "“Sometimes you have to walk,” said Mr Trump. “Basically they wanted the sanctions lifted in their entirety, and we couldn’t do that''"}}, {"audio_id": "B0kJ-OTdsLg", "text": {"B0kJ-OTdsLg-00000-00000571-00002169": "Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos told senators on Thursday morning that she was not personally involved in the decision to propose eliminating funding for the Special Olympics, but continued to defend the cut included in her department's budget", "B0kJ-OTdsLg-00001-00002169-00003154": "Hours later, as the controversy continued to escalate, President Donald Trump himself stepped in, saying that he had \"overridden\" DeVos' plans", "B0kJ-OTdsLg-00002-00003154-00004677": "\"The Special Olympics will be funded. I just told my people, I want to fund the Special Olympics and I just authorized a funding of the Special Olympics,\" Trump told reporters at the White House before departing for a rally in Michigan", "B0kJ-OTdsLg-00003-00004677-00005516": "He continued, \"I've been to the Special Olympics. I think it's incredible and I just authorized a funding", "B0kJ-OTdsLg-00004-00005516-00006297": "I heard about it this morning. I have overridden my people. We're funding the Special Olympics", "B0kJ-OTdsLg-00005-00006297-00007049": "\".Shortly after Trump's comments, DeVos issued a statement saying that she and the President agree", "B0kJ-OTdsLg-00006-00007049-00007984": "\"I am pleased and grateful the President and I see eye-to-eye on this issue and that he has decided to fund our Special Olympics grant", "B0kJ-OTdsLg-00007-00007984-00008621": "This is funding I have fought for behind the scenes over the last several years,\" DeVos said", "B0kJ-OTdsLg-00008-00008621-00009460": "The reversal capped three days of public outcry aimed at DeVos, who had proposed similar cuts in previous years", "B0kJ-OTdsLg-00009-00009460-00010690": "Congress has rejected the proposals and preserved funding in each budget cycle.The Special Olympics released a statement later in the day to express gratitude to Trump for the change", "B0kJ-OTdsLg-00010-00010690-00012142": "\"He joins a long history of over 50 years of United States Presidents and members of Congress on both sides of the aisle in their support of Special Olympics and the work we do in communities throughout the country,\" the Special Olympics said", "B0kJ-OTdsLg-00011-00012142-00012939": "While the program has enjoyed bipartisan support, Democrats led the charge against cuts in hearings this week", "B0kJ-OTdsLg-00012-00012939-00014334": "Illinois Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin raised the issue at Thursday's budget hearing, saying that if DeVos hadn't come up with the cut, the person who did should get \"a Special Olympic gold medal for insensitivity", "B0kJ-OTdsLg-00013-00014334-00015478": "\".As she did earlier in the week, DeVos argued that the Special Olympics doesn't need federal backing because it's a private organization that raises money from donations", "B0kJ-OTdsLg-00014-00015478-00016217": "\"I love Special Olympics myself, I have given a portion of my salary to Special Olympics", "B0kJ-OTdsLg-00015-00016217-00017053": "I hope all of this debate encourages lots of private contributions to Special Olympics,\" DeVos said Thursday", "B0kJ-OTdsLg-00016-00017053-00017732": "She continued, \"Let's not use disabled children in a twisted way for your political narrative", "B0kJ-OTdsLg-00017-00017732-00018338": "That is just disgusting and it's shameful, and I think we should move on from that", "B0kJ-OTdsLg-00018-00018338-00019563": "\".Durbin fired back: \"Well Madam Secretary, let me tell you, eliminating $18 million from a $70 or $80 billion budget, I think is shameful, too", "B0kJ-OTdsLg-00019-00019563-00020582": "I am not twisting it.\".However, DeVos has proposed the elimination twice before and lawmakers have rejected it, appropriating $17", "B0kJ-OTdsLg-00020-00020582-00021287": "6 million for the Special Olympics last year as part of an overall funding increase for the department", "B0kJ-OTdsLg-00021-00021287-00022620": "The secretary has pointed to the fact that she's requesting $13.2 billion for grants to states under the department's Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and another $225", "B0kJ-OTdsLg-00022-00022620-00023427": "6 million for teacher preparation, research and technical assistance to support children with disabilities", "B0kJ-OTdsLg-00023-00023427-00024142": "These requests would maintain level funding for the department's core special education programs", "B0kJ-OTdsLg-00024-00024142-00024981": "Overall, DeVos' proposed budget would eliminate 29 programs for an annual savings of $6", "B0kJ-OTdsLg-00025-00024981-00026203": "7 billion. Some are duplicative, have achieved their original purpose, are narrowly focused, or unable to demonstrate their effectiveness, according to a department budget document", "B0kJ-OTdsLg-00026-00026203-00027880": "Trump publicly challenged his Cabinet heads last year to make 5% budget cuts.At the hearing, DeVos repeated what she told the House committee earlier in the week, saying that Congress has rejected her previous requests to reduce her department's budget", "B0kJ-OTdsLg-00027-00027880-00028959": "\"I also acknowledge that it's easier to keep spending, to keep saying yes, and to keep saddling tomorrow's generations with today's growing debts,\" she said", "B0kJ-OTdsLg-00028-00028959-00030007": "Democrats also criticized the secretary for not doing more to help defrauded student borrowers who are waiting for their loan forgiveness applications to be processed", "B0kJ-OTdsLg-00029-00030007-00031039": "About 140,000 people have applications pending. Many have been waiting for years as DeVos fought to block the Obama-era rule from going into effect", "B0kJ-OTdsLg-00030-00031039-00031935": "She wants to rewrite it to ensure taxpayers aren't paying to cancel loans for students who weren't actually harmed by their colleges", "B0kJ-OTdsLg-00031-00031935-00032650": "But a court ordered the department to implement the rule, known as \"borrower defense,\" in October", "B0kJ-OTdsLg-00032-00032650-00033583": "People can apply if they believe their school inflated job placement numbers, for example, or misled them about a program's accreditation", "B0kJ-OTdsLg-00033-00033583-00034278": "\"There's nothing stopping you from providing full relief to struggling borrowers today", "B0kJ-OTdsLg-00034-00034278-00035126": "Surely there must be some of those borrowers who you feel deserve a full discharge,\" said Washington Democratic Sen", "B0kJ-OTdsLg-00035-00035126-00036406": "Patty Murray.When the senator asked DeVos how many claims had been processed since the court order, the secretary said she did not know -- though she said that the department is \"reviewing them regularly", "B0kJ-OTdsLg-00036-00036406-00037190": "\".Murray, who has previously asked for the number in writing, was not satisfied with that response", "B0kJ-OTdsLg-00037-00037190-00038143": "\"It appears to me we haven't moved forward at all on this and that's not fair to the students or their families or their future,\" Murray said", "B0kJ-OTdsLg-00038-00038143-00039032": "DeVos also took heat over problems that borrowers have experienced when applying for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program", "B0kJ-OTdsLg-00039-00039032-00040978": "Many say they were misled by their student loan servicing companies about whether they qualified for the program, which is designed to encourage workers with student debt to remain in jobs that may be low-paid but serve the public, including teachers, primary care doctors, public defenders and social workers", "B0kJ-OTdsLg-00040-00040978-00042326": "When asked by Oregon Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley what she is doing to hold loan servicers accountable to improve the process, DeVos blamed Congress for making it difficult for students to qualify", "B0kJ-OTdsLg-00041-00042326-00043088": "\"The rules that you set up, the legislation you passed, make it difficult,\" the secretary said", "B0kJ-OTdsLg-00042-00043088-00044042": "Students must have a certain kind of federal loan, work in the public sector, and pay for 10 years before qualifying for loan forgiveness", "B0kJ-OTdsLg-00043-00044042-00044823": "Merkley disagreed that the law was totally to blame, calling DeVos' response \"unsatisfactory", "B0kJ-OTdsLg-00044-00044823-00046003": "\".\"It appears that what's going on is that you are working in partnership with these for-profit servicers rather than fighting for these public servants who were promised forgiveness,\" he added", "B0kJ-OTdsLg-00045-00046003-00046850": "DeVos has proposed eliminating the program for future students in her past three budgets, but Congress has not approved that"}}, {"audio_id": "B72GEU2o69A", "text": {"B72GEU2o69A-00000-00000513-00001785": "Representative Steve King (R-IA) has been outed as a white supremacist supporter, and Donald Trump has been actively supporting their beliefs, especially during his rallies", "B72GEU2o69A-00001-00001785-00002639": "The president continues his racist speech, creating an atmosphere for others to follow in such ugly activities", "B72GEU2o69A-00002-00002639-00003449": "After years of racist speech, the House finally came down on King, rebuking him for his words and actions", "B72GEU2o69A-00003-00003449-00005719": "A Colorado man, though, took the situation in hand himself.The Iowa representative asked a journalist during an earlier interview, when did “white supremacist” and “white nationalist” become offensive? The House passed a resolution condemning white supremacy after his and others’ offensive remarks, and the Republicans stripped King of his committee assignments", "B72GEU2o69A-00004-00005719-00006766": "A Lafayette, Colorado man Blake Gibbins, 26, approached King’s restaurant table and threw a glass of water on the representative", "B72GEU2o69A-00005-00006766-00008657": "King was at a restaurant in Fort Dodge, IA. .What may have set Gibbins off was that during a town hall, King said that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) told him that people in New Orleans requested aide during Hurricane Katrina and the flooding aftermath when the levy broke", "B72GEU2o69A-00006-00008657-00009491": "Then, the representative said the people of Iowa helped one another out during the current significant floods in the area", "B72GEU2o69A-00007-00009491-00010293": "The implication was clear. People in Iowa pulled themselves up while those in New Orleans would not", "B72GEU2o69A-00008-00010293-00011455": "King posted a video on his Facebook page.‘Here’s what FEMA tells me: We go to a place like New Orleans and everybody’s looking around saying, “Who’s gonna help me?”‘", "B72GEU2o69A-00009-00011455-00012408": "As a result of making his comments, Representative Cedric Richmond (D-LA) said that King was a “white supremacist\"", "B72GEU2o69A-00010-00012408-00013299": "King said he was only talking about “Western civilization,” even though he travels the globe supporting white supremacy", "B72GEU2o69A-00011-00013299-00014020": "The police arrested Gibbons, and he was charged with disorderly conduct and simple assault"}}, {"audio_id": "BBld59B5uZY", "text": {"BBld59B5uZY-00000-00000571-00002838": "When Special Counsel Robert Mueller announced on Friday that his work was complete and that he wasn’t recommending any more indictments, Palmer Report pointed out what we thought was obvious: if Mueller was stepping off the stage, he was handing off (or already did hand off) his ongoing investigations to permanent federal prosecutors in order to ensure that justice would be served", "BBld59B5uZY-00001-00002838-00004544": "It turns out we’re already getting confirmation of some of this.For instance, Law & Crime has pieced together the details of two different New York Times stories, and figured out that federal prosecutors based in Los Angeles are currently investigating the Donald Trump inauguration scandal", "BBld59B5uZY-00002-00004544-00006469": "Best anyone can tell, the inauguration probe – which allegedly involves numerous illegal foreign donations, and an alleged attempt by Trump at steering the money back into his own business – began when federal prosecutors in New York raided Michael Cohen’s office and found a tape recorded conversation about inauguration funds", "BBld59B5uZY-00003-00006469-00007874": "The recently released search warrant from the Cohen raid revealed that Robert Mueller initiated the Cohen investigation, only to find that Cohen didn’t conspire with Russia, but that Cohen did commit other Trump-related crimes", "BBld59B5uZY-00004-00007874-00008864": "Mueller then handed off the Cohen case to the Feds in New York, and their raid has since led to the Feds in Los Angeles investigating the Trump inauguration", "BBld59B5uZY-00005-00008864-00009828": "This thread alone makes clear that Robert Mueller’s investigation has set off other federal investigations into alleged Trump-related crimes", "BBld59B5uZY-00006-00009828-00010492": "So the idea that Mueller’s investigation is “complete” or “wrapped up” is nonsense", "BBld59B5uZY-00007-00010492-00011155": "It’s just that Mueller is no longer in charge of any of the ongoing investigations", "BBld59B5uZY-00008-00011155-00012336": "Notably, the existence of these investigations only tends to become public knowledge once they reach the point where something such as a raid causes it to become public knowledge", "BBld59B5uZY-00009-00012336-00013294": "So we don’t know just how many Mueller-spawned criminal investigations into Trump scandals are ongoing – but the number isn’t zero"}}, {"audio_id": "BL57b1VSxqy", "text": {"BL57b1VSxqy-00000-00000168-00000268": "1"}}, {"audio_id": "BQdK7VEwpdI", "text": {"BQdK7VEwpdI-00000-00000571-00001736": "Since the Southern District of New York has upped their investigation and possible charges against many involved in the Donald Trump inauguration committee, the event has been back in the news", "BQdK7VEwpdI-00001-00001736-00002551": "The inauguration has long been under scrutiny for many reasons, most of which involve shady financial dealings", "BQdK7VEwpdI-00002-00002551-00003781": "New reports claim that a friend of Melania Trump who planned the inauguration tried to report multiple red flags involving the alleged corruption and shady dealings, and was ignored", "BQdK7VEwpdI-00003-00003781-00004977": "Emily Jane Fox with Vanity Fair reports that Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, a former Vogue staffer and New York City event planner, was hired to plan Donald Trump’s inauguration", "BQdK7VEwpdI-00004-00004977-00006362": "People familiar with the recordings made by former Trump “fixer” Michael Cohen say that Wolkoff is captured telling Cohen last summer that she had many concerns with the process that unfolded with the inauguration", "BQdK7VEwpdI-00005-00006362-00007655": "According to Cohen, those recordings were seized by the FBI, which led (at least in part) to the SDNY’s investigation into Trump’s inauguration that Wolkoff is now involved in", "BQdK7VEwpdI-00006-00007655-00008493": "Wolkoff raised concerns about conflicts of interest coming from the Trump family businesses’ involvement in the inauguration planning", "BQdK7VEwpdI-00007-00008493-00009671": "Fox wrote, “Gates approached a couple individuals working on the inauguration and asked if they would be willing to be paid directly for their work by a donor, rather than by the inaugural committee''", "BQdK7VEwpdI-00008-00009671-00010468": "“They had received more donations than they’d initially anticipated, Gates told these people,” the report noted", "BQdK7VEwpdI-00009-00010468-00011283": "“Skirting the usual payment route could allow the inaugural committee to avoid reporting the full amount raised from donors''", "BQdK7VEwpdI-00010-00011283-00012302": "Wolkoff raised concerns about the deputy chair with Melania Trump, saying that “he exacerbated a situation already fraught with potential conflicts of interest", "BQdK7VEwpdI-00011-00012302-00014102": "” After questioning things, Wolkoff was left out of meetings soon after.“Because part of her responsibilities included reviewing all budgets from her vendors and presenting them to other members of the inaugural committee, she studied the line items in order to be able to explain them,” Fox wrote", "BQdK7VEwpdI-00012-00014102-00015653": "“At points, she could not justify the numbers coming in. After circulation of a quote from one of their largest event-production vendors, Hargrove LLC, Wolkoff was shocked that no one in the organization appeared willing to question the figure''"}}, {"audio_id": "BjY3Csfs9OA", "text": {"BjY3Csfs9OA-00000-00000571-00001333": "This might be the surprise of the YEAR!.President Donald Trump and Cher are like oil and water", "BjY3Csfs9OA-00001-00001333-00002723": "These two just don’t go together. They don’t agree on anything.The highly liberal entertainer has frequently attacked the President in recent years, over a variety of issues ranging from healthcare to immigration", "BjY3Csfs9OA-00002-00002723-00003379": "So, if you’re Trump, you always expect to see some nasty message from Cher on Twitter", "BjY3Csfs9OA-00003-00003379-00004152": "…but last week, the impossible happened.Cher actually said something the President could agree with", "BjY3Csfs9OA-00004-00004152-00005288": "And I’m betting nobody was more surprised than Donald!.See, it all happened after Trump threatened to ship our massive influx of illegal immigrants to sanctuary cities", "BjY3Csfs9OA-00005-00005288-00006299": "Many Democrats like Cory Booker hypocritically flipped out, saying it would be “dangerous” (after years of screaming that illegals AREN’T dangerous)", "BjY3Csfs9OA-00006-00006299-00007119": "But Cher took another path … she put American citizens first.WOW. Who saw that coming?", "BjY3Csfs9OA-00007-00007119-00008478": "“I finally agree with Cher!”.And amazingly, so does most of America.Most citizens want stability and safety; they want their leader to be thinking of them, and protecting them at all costs", "BjY3Csfs9OA-00008-00008478-00009157": "Immigrants – especially illegal immigrants – are WAY down the priority totem pole", "BjY3Csfs9OA-00009-00009157-00009899": "And of course, Trump understands this. It’s just shocking to see Cher figuring it out, too!", "BjY3Csfs9OA-00010-00009899-00010727": "Well, she lives in a sanctuary city and it’s obviously so bad that she can’t ignore the issues any longer", "BjY3Csfs9OA-00011-00010727-00011406": "Trump, on the other hand, coyly suggested that he’s managed to “weaponize” Twitter", "BjY3Csfs9OA-00012-00011406-00012422": "Okay, that’s pretty funny.But who knows? Maybe he really IS having a significant impact on people … even ultra-liberals like Cher!", "BjY3Csfs9OA-00013-00012422-00013393": "Either way, though, remember this moment, because Trump agreeing with one of Hollywood’s most notorious leftists may never happen again", "BjY3Csfs9OA-00014-00013393-00014316": "Not Trump, that’s for sure. He was so stunned, he could only respond on Twitter with 5 words he probably NEVER thought he’d say:"}}, {"audio_id": "Bk421k9YELY", "text": {"Bk421k9YELY-00000-00000513-00000918": "Donald Trump is having a TERRIBLE week, and it’s only getting worse! After several days of nonstop backlash thanks to Michael Cohen’s testimony, the president has just received another bombshell — the U", "Bk421k9YELY-00001-00000918-00001560": "S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence is investigating the president’s trips to Russia!", "Bk421k9YELY-00002-00001560-00001563": "According to the Atlantic‘s Natasha Bertrand, the Senate Intelligence Committee has a new series of leads on Trump and his Russian contacts and is going to look into at least three of the president’s trips to Russia over the last three decades", "Bk421k9YELY-00003-00001563-00002569": "Considering that Trump’s career of being a shady, corrupt businessman has spanned over a long time, they’re bound to find something questionable about his past", "Bk421k9YELY-00004-00002569-00003522": "Just looking at Trump’s tweets, he’s NOT happy about the way Cohen’s testimony has opened more doors for investigations into his dealings with Russia", "Bk421k9YELY-00005-00003522-00005262": "Yesterday, Trump tweeted:\"Oh’ I see! Now that the 2 year Russian Collusion case has fallen apart, there was no Collusion except bye Crooked Hillary and the Democrats, they say, ‘gee, I have an idea, let’s look at Trump’s finances and every deal he has ever done", "Bk421k9YELY-00006-00005262-00006552": "Let’s follow discredited Michael Cohen…'”.\"Meanwhile, the Senate has kept up a steady pace of questioning witnesses with knowledge of Trump’s trips to Russia to scope out real-estate deals", "Bk421k9YELY-00007-00006552-00008433": "”.Introducing new names into Trump’s Russia fiasco, she wrote:\"The Senate Intelligence Committee recently interviewed architect Ted Liebman, who sketched a proposed Trump International Hotel for Trump to present to Moscow city officials during his 1996 trip, according to two sources familiar with the matter", "Bk421k9YELY-00008-00008433-00009943": "Senate investigators have also been particularly interested in David Geovanis, an American businessman who reportedly helped organize the 1996 Russia trip and worked for Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska in the early 2000s", "Bk421k9YELY-00009-00009943-00012014": "”.Trump’s relationship with Liebman goes way back, as it was reported about in a 1996 article in The Moscow Times:The project architect, Theodore Liebman of the New York-based Liebman Melting Partnership, said the residential high-rise on the Ducat site will include a members’ club, a health club and “will house the finest residences in Moscow", "Bk421k9YELY-00010-00012014-00012719": "” An ice-skating rink and an office building with shops and restaurants will front the tower, he added", "Bk421k9YELY-00011-00012719-00014096": "That article also reported on the relationship between Trump and Geovanis:\"David Geovanis, Liggett-Ducat’s director of real estate, said Trump is also pursuing plans to develop a hotel in Moscow", "Bk421k9YELY-00012-00014096-00015627": "During his visit, Trump met with two of Moscow’s vice mayors, including Vladimir Resin, the vice mayor in charge of construction and “one of the key people in charge of attracting foreign invest to the Moscow real estate market,” Geovanis said", "Bk421k9YELY-00013-00015627-00016269": "He added that the city was “very receptive” to the idea of Trump’s developments in Moscow", "Bk421k9YELY-00014-00016269-00017259": "We don’t know how these investigations are going to turn out, but the more connections Trump has to Russia, the worse this situation will look for him"}}, {"audio_id": "CUj4xLzYTgI", "text": {"CUj4xLzYTgI-00000-00000513-00002252": "Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said on Wednesday that even if Robert Mueller’s report does not contain enough evidence for impeachment, Congress could still find evidence to indict President Donald Trump after he leaves office", "CUj4xLzYTgI-00001-00002252-00003263": "Schiff said his committee is particularly interested in whether Russia was laundering money for the Trump Organization, leading to Trump being compromised", "CUj4xLzYTgI-00002-00003263-00004076": "“And should it be the end of the — you think it should be the end of the conversation about impeachment,” MSNBC’s Kaise Hunt asked", "CUj4xLzYTgI-00003-00004076-00005220": "“Well, if there’s insufficient evidence in the Mueller report and we’re not able to produce sufficient evidence in our own investigation, that ends the inquiry,” Schiff explained", "CUj4xLzYTgI-00004-00005220-00006150": "“There may be grounds for removal from office or there may be grounds for indictment after he leaves office that the Congress discovers", "CUj4xLzYTgI-00005-00006150-00007129": "”.“One of the issues that we are looking at, which the Mueller report may not cover, is whether the Russians were laundering money for the Trump Organization", "CUj4xLzYTgI-00006-00007129-00008015": "Our predominant concern to my committee is was this president — is this president compromised by a foreign power,” he said", "CUj4xLzYTgI-00007-00008015-00009637": "Schiff pointed to when Trump “was trying to negotiate the most lucrative business deal of his life during his presidential campaign, concealing it from the public, trying to get the Kremlin’s help and knowing that if he crossed Putin he would never get that money, hundreds of millions of dollars", "CUj4xLzYTgI-00008-00009637-00009737": "”"}}, {"audio_id": "CmPx5gzKEbU", "text": {"CmPx5gzKEbU-00000-00000571-00001508": "Welcome to Trumpland, where the norm is “another day, another scandal.” This time, it involves Ivanka Trump and her security clearance", "CmPx5gzKEbU-00001-00001508-00002381": "Ivanka recently denied that her father had anything whatsoever to do with her husband Jared’s security clearance", "CmPx5gzKEbU-00002-00002381-00003198": "As information continues to come to light, not only did Trump demand clearance for Jared, but he did the same for Ivanka", "CmPx5gzKEbU-00003-00003198-00003930": "Et tu, Ivanka?.Ivanka was adamant in her denials during an interview with Abby Huntsman of The View", "CmPx5gzKEbU-00004-00003930-00004920": "“There were anonymous leaks about there being issues. But the president had no involvement pertaining to my clearance or my husband’s clearance—zero", "CmPx5gzKEbU-00005-00004920-00005792": "” Ivanka took things one step further, claiming that there were no problems with either of their clearances “other than a backlog", "CmPx5gzKEbU-00006-00005792-00006889": "” Sure, Ivanka. Memos from both John Kelly and Don McGahn paint a different picture: red flags were found by intelligence personnel on both of them", "CmPx5gzKEbU-00007-00006889-00007780": "According to CNN, while Trump can grant clearances, that task is usually left to those who better know the process", "CmPx5gzKEbU-00008-00007780-00009117": "Despite this, after Kelly and McGahn declined to grant the clearances, Trump apparently took things into his own (little) hands and granted the clearances, despite the misgivings of the intelligence community", "CmPx5gzKEbU-00009-00009117-00009977": "Of course, we all know how Trump feels about our intelligence community. I’m sure he’s much smarter than all of them combined", "CmPx5gzKEbU-00010-00009977-00012453": "Interestingly, even though Ivanka’s rejection could have been triggered by issues from her husband Jared’s rejection, a source tells CNN that officials “had concerns about granting Trump a cleInterestingly, even though Ivanka’s rejection could have been triggered by issues from her husband Jared’s rejection, a source tells CNN that officials “had concerns about granting Trump a clearance that were separate from those raised about her husband", "CmPx5gzKEbU-00011-00012453-00013253": "” This family is looking more and more like some type of crime syndicate, and John Kelly apparently knew it", "CmPx5gzKEbU-00012-00013253-00014243": "The couple allegedly told others that Kelly “was blocking them” because “he did not feel like they belonged in the West Wing,” according to CNN", "CmPx5gzKEbU-00013-00014243-00015233": "John Kelly has been doing this for a very long time. I daresay his experience tells him what constitutes a danger to the U", "CmPx5gzKEbU-00014-00015233-00016316": "S. as opposed to some petty reason put forth by Kushner and Trump. But, I keep forgetting that the Trumps believe themselves to be above reproach and the law", "CmPx5gzKEbU-00015-00016316-00017327": "arance that were separate from those raised about her husband.” This family is looking more and more like some type of crime syndicate, and John Kelly apparently knew it", "CmPx5gzKEbU-00016-00017327-00018317": "The couple allegedly told others that Kelly “was blocking them” because “he did not feel like they belonged in the West Wing,” according to CNN", "CmPx5gzKEbU-00017-00018317-00019307": "John Kelly has been doing this for a very long time. I daresay his experience tells him what constitutes a danger to the U", "CmPx5gzKEbU-00018-00019307-00020391": "S. as opposed to some petty reason put forth by Kushner and Trump. But, I keep forgetting that the Trumps believe themselves to be above reproach and the law"}}, {"audio_id": "D7x7K-ioAfU", "text": {"D7x7K-ioAfU-00000-00000513-00001565": "The Trump administration has been internally discussing how to get countries that host US troops in times of peace to pay more of the cost of keeping those troops stationed there", "D7x7K-ioAfU-00001-00001565-00002318": "The term used to sum up one specific formula under consideration is \"cost plus 50", "D7x7K-ioAfU-00002-00002318-00003470": "\" That means that the United States would work to get countries to cover the full cost of the US military presence in their country, then also pay an additional 50% of that cost", "D7x7K-ioAfU-00003-00003470-00004418": "The idea is that the host country gets a certain value with having a US military presence inside their own borders, and they should pay up", "D7x7K-ioAfU-00004-00004418-00005870": "Bloomberg was the first to report on the discussions.A central pillar of the the Trump administration's foreign policy has been burden sharing, which has meant encouraging allies to pay a greater share of investment in collective defense", "D7x7K-ioAfU-00005-00005870-00007124": "The administration views this policy as a fairer approach than allowing the burden to weigh so heavily on the US government's shoulders, according to US officials familiar with the idea", "D7x7K-ioAfU-00006-00007124-00007913": "The US currently has a troop presence -- in some way, shape or form -- in more than 100 countries around the world", "D7x7K-ioAfU-00007-00007913-00008960": "Some of the countries that host the highest number of US troops include Japan, South Korea, Germany, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates", "D7x7K-ioAfU-00008-00008960-00010752": "Trump has already pushed NATO allies to put more money on the table to meet the alliance's 2% of GDP on defense spending guideline, which resulted in $100 billion in new defense spending commitments, said National Security Council spokesman Garrett Marquis", "D7x7K-ioAfU-00009-00010752-00011742": "\"Getting allies to increase their investment in our collective defense and ensure fairer burden-sharing has been a long-standing US goal,\" Marquis said", "D7x7K-ioAfU-00010-00011742-00012923": "\"The Administration is committed to getting the best deal for the American people elsewhere too, but will not comment on any ongoing deliberations regarding specific ideas", "D7x7K-ioAfU-00011-00012923-00014033": "\".The NSC has asked the Pentagon for some cost estimates on the US troop and military equipment presence in these countries, according to a US official familiar with the matter", "D7x7K-ioAfU-00012-00014033-00015180": "But the legality of \"cost plus 50\" is dubious, the official explained, given that it would include asking the countries to cover the bill for everything from salaries to equipment", "D7x7K-ioAfU-00013-00015180-00016308": "With these details and technicalities in mind, it is clear that even if the idea morphed into actual policy, it would take a long time to sort out the specifics", "D7x7K-ioAfU-00014-00016308-00017092": "The exact term has not been used in negotiations with allies, an administration official tells CNN", "D7x7K-ioAfU-00015-00017092-00018328": "At this point, they said, it is more of an internal marker or motivator. The negotiations to get allies to pay more for hosting US troops will be handled on a \"case by case\" basis", "D7x7K-ioAfU-00016-00018328-00019197": "In recent weeks, the US and South Korea reached an agreement on the cost of keeping nearly 30,000 troops in South Korea", "D7x7K-ioAfU-00017-00019197-00020611": "The deal, dubbed the \"Korea-US Special Measures Agreement,\" was signed this week and resulted in the South Koreans paying the US more than $900 million for the next year, an increase of about 8% from what they had been paying", "D7x7K-ioAfU-00018-00020611-00021507": "Those US-South Korea negotiations, however, were strenuous due to Trump's demands that the South Koreans pay more than before", "D7x7K-ioAfU-00019-00021507-00022507": "The negotiators missed the deadline and ultimately, when they came to an agreement, it fell short of the goal that Trump had laid out by hundreds of millions", "D7x7K-ioAfU-00020-00022507-00023155": "That back and forth demonstrates the challenge of getting countries to cough up more money", "D7x7K-ioAfU-00021-00023155-00024053": "In some cases, a \"cost plus 50\" model would amount to more than five times what some countries are currently paying", "D7x7K-ioAfU-00022-00024053-00024842": "It could also unleash conversations about whether those countries really want the US troops in their country at all", "D7x7K-ioAfU-00023-00024842-00025498": "Diplomats who have heard the idea through news reports have been stunned, but not surprised", "D7x7K-ioAfU-00024-00025498-00026678": "A European diplomat described the idea as a \"big deal\" and called it politically \"incredible\" as it would further erode the Trump administration's relations with US allies"}}, {"audio_id": "DIL0YNkDfrM", "text": {"DIL0YNkDfrM-00000-00000513-00001793": "In light of Dem Rep. Ilhan Omar’s anti-semitic remarks and Pelosi’s refusal to reprimand her, a new movement has started for young Jewish people to leave the Democratic party", "DIL0YNkDfrM-00001-00001793-00002503": "President Trump tweeted support for the movement today, by quoting Jexodus spokesperson Elizabeth Pipko", "DIL0YNkDfrM-00002-00002503-00003530": "“Jewish people are leaving the Democratic Party. We saw a lot of anti Israel policies start under the Obama Administration, and it got worsts & worse", "DIL0YNkDfrM-00003-00003530-00004329": "There is anti-Semitism in the Democratic Party. They don’t care about Israel or the Jewish people", "DIL0YNkDfrM-00004-00004329-00005267": "” Elizabeth Pipko, Jexodus.Per SaraSCarter Young Jewish Americans are leading a mass exodus out of the Democratic Party", "DIL0YNkDfrM-00005-00005267-00006205": "The new movement, called ‘JEXODUS’ calls itself a group of ” proud Jewish Millennials tired of living in bondage to leftist politics", "DIL0YNkDfrM-00006-00006205-00007683": "”.On Monday, JEXODUS Spokeswoman and Former Trump Campaign Staffer Elizabeth Pipko told “Fox & Friends” that it was a shift in policy under the Obama administration that sparked anti-Israel sentiments in the Democratic Party", "DIL0YNkDfrM-00007-00007683-00008827": "Pipko discussed the strong U.S. Israel relationship under the Trump Administration and the Embassy move to Jerusalem as obvious successes for the Jewish community in America", "DIL0YNkDfrM-00008-00008827-00009532": "However, Pipko said the Jewish left fails to recognize these achievements.Jexodus", "DIL0YNkDfrM-00009-00009532-00010627": "org, a site for “Jewish Millennials tired of living in bondage to leftist politics,” launched earlier this month at the Conservative Political Action Conference", "DIL0YNkDfrM-00010-00010627-00011557": "“We reject the hypocrisy, anti-Americanism, and anti-Semitism of the rising far-left,” a message on the site reads", "DIL0YNkDfrM-00011-00011557-00012346": "“Progressives, Democrats, and far too many old-school Jewish organizations take our support for granted", "DIL0YNkDfrM-00012-00012346-00014396": "After all, we’re Jewish, and Jews vote for Democrats. Until today.”.American Jews supported Hillary Clinton over Trump by 71-24, the largest margin of any of the denominations (including “unaffiliated”) surveyed by Pew Research and consistent with the results of the last five presidential elections", "DIL0YNkDfrM-00013-00014396-00015632": "“We’re done standing with supposed Jewish leaders and allegedly supportive Democrats who rationalize, mainstream, and promote our enemies,” said a press release announcing the site’s launch", "DIL0YNkDfrM-00014-00015632-00016786": "“We’d rather spend forty years wandering in the desert than belong to a party that welcomes Jew-haters like Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez", "DIL0YNkDfrM-00015-00016786-00016886": "”"}}, {"audio_id": "DOm-dhzGAD4", "text": {"DOm-dhzGAD4-00000-00000571-00002219": "The White House and House Democrats are preparing for an all-out war over a sprawling set of demands made by a host of powerful chairmen, as senior lawmakers say the Trump administration is already engaging in unprecedented stonewalling in just the third month of the new Congress", "DOm-dhzGAD4-00001-00002219-00004377": "Just weeks after launching an aggressive oversight campaign into the Trump administration on every topic from separation of immigrant families on the southern border to connections between Russia and the 2016 campaign, Democrats say they are facing obstacles in getting answers from the federal government with the White House set on protecting the President and defying their requests", "DOm-dhzGAD4-00002-00004377-00005320": "\"We can't hold him accountable unless we have information,\" said Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings of documents his committee has requested", "DOm-dhzGAD4-00003-00005320-00006080": "\"Every single thing that has been (requested to) the White House, in most instances we have gotten zero", "DOm-dhzGAD4-00004-00006080-00007023": "That is unprecedented''.But the White House and federal agencies strongly dispute Democrats' characterization in interviews with CNN", "DOm-dhzGAD4-00005-00007023-00008877": "Aides from agencies including EPA, the Department of Homeland Security, Department of Education and Department of Interior paint a picture of a Trump administration that they say has been working in good faith to respond to an onslaught of document requests in the first weeks of Congress", "DOm-dhzGAD4-00006-00008877-00010335": "\"Claims that DHS is not fully cooperating with Congress on oversight, are untrue and frankly minimize the good faith efforts put forth by the Department so far this year,\" a DHS spokesperson told CNN", "DOm-dhzGAD4-00007-00010335-00011194": "\"The truth is, the federal government has only been open for five and a half weeks this Congress due to a lapse in appropriations", "DOm-dhzGAD4-00008-00011194-00012780": "Since then, DHS has produced thousands of pages of documents to requesters in various committees in the House of Representatives in the last two weeks alone, including: House Oversight, House Judiciary, and to House Homeland\" Security", "DOm-dhzGAD4-00009-00012780-00013932": "The increase in oversight from House Democrats is especially noteworthy in that it contrasts with the way Republicans exercised that responsibility when they controlled the chamber", "DOm-dhzGAD4-00010-00013932-00015356": "Democrats are also combing through many aspects of President Donald Trump's life, from his business dealings to his campaign to his alleged affairs, a culmination that has left Trump venting to allies like South Carolina Republican Sen", "DOm-dhzGAD4-00011-00015356-00016215": "Lindsey Graham on Capitol Hill.\"He just believes they are out to take a wrecking ball to his life,\" Graham said of Democrats", "DOm-dhzGAD4-00012-00016215-00017532": "\"They'll go nuts''.In interviews with CNN, Democratic committee aides and members say the administration is dragging its feet with document requests and withholding information under the guise of executive privilege", "DOm-dhzGAD4-00013-00017532-00019138": "One Democratic leadership aide identified more than 30 document requests that haven't been fulfilled, six incidents of officials refusing to testify before committees and two examples of officials who've refused to come to Capitol Hill to grant interviews", "DOm-dhzGAD4-00014-00019138-00020415": "White House and federal agency officials dismiss Democrats' claims they aren't cooperating and argue that no amount of information would ever be enough to satisfy Democrats' political motives"}}, {"audio_id": "DXJ5jZs7cqY", "text": {"DXJ5jZs7cqY-00000-00000571-00003400": "CBS live TV broadcast of it’s March Madness NCAA basketball championship was interrupted for millions of viewers on Sunday with a live news update that Donald Trump did not, nor did members of the Trump Campaign conspire or coordinate “with the Russian government in its election interference activities,” according to a letter Attorney General William Barr sent to Congress Sunday summarizing the findings of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report into the 2016 presidential election", "DXJ5jZs7cqY-00001-00003400-00004178": "For millions of March Madness viewers, the clip below played during the annual basketball extravaganza", "DXJ5jZs7cqY-00002-00004178-00005735": "In part, the letter from Attorney General Barr reads:.The Special Counsel’s investigation did not find that the Trump campaign or anyone associated with it conspired or coordinated with Russia in its efforts to in?uence the 2016 US", "DXJ5jZs7cqY-00003-00005735-00007067": "presidential election. As the report states: “[T]he investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities", "DXJ5jZs7cqY-00004-00007067-00008901": "”.….The Special Counsel found that Russian government actors successfully hacked into computers and obtained emails from persons affiliated with the Clinton campaign and Democratic Party organizations, and publicly disseminated those materials through various intermediaries, including WikiLeaks", "DXJ5jZs7cqY-00005-00008901-00010270": "Based on these activities, the Special Counsel brought criminal charges against a number of Russian military officers for conspiring to hack into computers in the United States for purposes of influencing the election", "DXJ5jZs7cqY-00006-00010270-00011897": "But as noted above, the Special Counsel did not find that the Trump campaign, or anyone associated with it, conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in these efforts, despite multiple offers from Russian-affiliated individuals to assist the Trump campaign", "DXJ5jZs7cqY-00007-00011897-00012618": "The White House said Sunday that the Justice Department issued an “exoneration” of President Trump", "DXJ5jZs7cqY-00008-00012618-00013757": "“The findings of the Department of Justice are a total and complete exoneration of the President of the United States,” White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders wrote in a statement"}}, {"audio_id": "Dg2cXP-qkmQ", "text": {"Dg2cXP-qkmQ-00000-00000513-00001226": "Speaker Nancy Pelosi—and the old guard Democrats at large—are in a very difficult position", "Dg2cXP-qkmQ-00001-00001226-00002354": "The radical young voters the Democrats have been courting for years have finally elected like-minded radical young representatives—and Pelosi and her leadership team has no control over them", "Dg2cXP-qkmQ-00002-00002354-00003828": "A big reason why, as I mentioned on Hannity this week, is that there is a wide generational gap between Democratic House leadership and freshmen Democrats, such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, and others", "Dg2cXP-qkmQ-00003-00003828-00004590": "The median year of birth for the 59 Democrats who assumed office this year is 1973", "Dg2cXP-qkmQ-00004-00004590-00005384": "Sixteen of these members were born on or after 1980. Nancy Pelosi was born in 1940", "Dg2cXP-qkmQ-00005-00005384-00006306": "The average age of Democratic leadership as a whole is 71. To the new Democrats, the members of leadership are like the grandparents", "Dg2cXP-qkmQ-00006-00006306-00007054": "I don’t mean this in a positive way that could foster an opportunity for maternal or paternal mentorships", "Dg2cXP-qkmQ-00007-00007054-00007861": "To the new Democrats, Pelosi’s team represents an outdated, backward way of thinking about government", "Dg2cXP-qkmQ-00008-00007861-00008613": "How many 30-somethings do you know who share the same point of view as their 80-year-old grandparents?", "Dg2cXP-qkmQ-00009-00008613-00009329": "The result is, these new Democrats are throwing a party—and the grandparents aren’t invited", "Dg2cXP-qkmQ-00010-00009329-00010091": "Pelosi and members of Democratic leadership are simply trapped in a cycle of responding to headlines", "Dg2cXP-qkmQ-00011-00010091-00011013": "This is how you end up with the so-called Green New Deal, which is a work of complete legislative fantasy that would utterly bankrupt the country", "Dg2cXP-qkmQ-00012-00011013-00011852": "It’s also how the House got to a second forced public condemnation of the new Democrats’ flagrant anti-Semitism", "Dg2cXP-qkmQ-00013-00011852-00012884": "Pelosi simply can’t control the young, radical, progressive wing, which is ardently socialist, anti-Israel, and contemptuous of America and its history", "Dg2cXP-qkmQ-00014-00012884-00014253": "This gap will continue to create massive cross-pressure in the party. For the Democrats who represent moderate districts—perhaps districts that voted for President Trump—the radical left-wing of the party is terrifying", "Dg2cXP-qkmQ-00015-00014253-00015201": "Meanwhile, those who represent radical districts are going to continue having their party and continue to ignore the old guard", "Dg2cXP-qkmQ-00016-00015201-00015982": "This is not at aberration. The new class of Democrats despise Pelosi and the grandparents", "Dg2cXP-qkmQ-00017-00015982-00016781": "The old guard has failed to create the radically progressive, socialist America that the new guard wants", "Dg2cXP-qkmQ-00018-00016781-00018061": "This phenomenon has some similarities with conservative voters who widely rejected establishment Republicans and the liberal voters who rejected Hillary Clinton in the 2016 primary", "Dg2cXP-qkmQ-00019-00018061-00018834": "Already, because of Pelosi’s inability to control her caucus, the Democrats can’t do anything positive", "Dg2cXP-qkmQ-00020-00018834-00019835": "It’s making them desperate. The most they can do is focus their efforts on their shared vendetta against President Trump and everyone in his orbit", "Dg2cXP-qkmQ-00021-00019835-00021324": "The 81 subpoenas that House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler levied against Trump allies—many of whom are private citizens who never intended or wanted to become public figures—is a perfect example of this desperation", "Dg2cXP-qkmQ-00022-00021324-00023236": "Democrats are slowly realizing—with dawning horror—that Robert Mueller is not likely to provide them anything close to a smoking gun in their crusade against the President, so they are resorting to punishing his political campaign, family members, and longtime private sector employees in a vindictive public display", "Dg2cXP-qkmQ-00023-00023236-00023829": "They are seeking to hurt anyone and everyone who has helped President Trump in any way", "Dg2cXP-qkmQ-00024-00023829-00025103": "At best, it’s a gross political circus. At worst, it’s callous abuse of power.These divides in the Democratic Party are only going to become more pronounced as Pelosi’s grip slips further", "Dg2cXP-qkmQ-00025-00025103-00025905": "The new Democrats’ private party will become increasingly raucous until it has lost all touch with normal Americans", "Dg2cXP-qkmQ-00026-00025905-00026532": "Moderate Democrats will have to continue answering for their colleague’s radicalism", "Dg2cXP-qkmQ-00027-00026532-00027271": "Pelosi and the grandparents will not be invited along, but they will still be left cleaning up the mess"}}, {"audio_id": "DjIX6yfhAHc", "text": {"DjIX6yfhAHc-00000-00000571-00001939": "For a while now, curiosity has left many of us wandering what role New York State would play in Donald Trump’s eventual demise, but based on subpoenas it just issued, it appears we may finally have our answer", "DjIX6yfhAHc-00001-00001939-00003684": "According to the New York Times, late in the day on Monday, the New York attorney general’s office took Michael Cohen’s testimony and issued subpoenas to Deutsche Bank and Investors Bank for records regarding several specific transactions involving Donald Trump and the Trump Organization", "DjIX6yfhAHc-00002-00003684-00004797": "Considering Trump’s rumored fraudulent relationship with Deutsche Bank was already a focus of the investigation, the news of the subpoena is sure to get the president’s blood boiling", "DjIX6yfhAHc-00003-00004797-00005429": "However, the most interesting thing about this news is how tactfully it was deployed", "DjIX6yfhAHc-00004-00005429-00006519": "Rather than trying to seize all of the records in order to decipher the crimes within them, it’s clear that New York State is already staring those crimes directly in the face", "DjIX6yfhAHc-00005-00006519-00007867": "Take Cohen’s publicly testimony, for example. In it, he let it be known that Trump falsified his financial situation while attempting to secure a loan to buy the Buffalo Bills football team", "DjIX6yfhAHc-00006-00007867-00008587": "Ironically, that just so happens to be one of the transactions subpoenaed by New York State", "DjIX6yfhAHc-00007-00008587-00009711": "If there is any uncertainty as to how telling and damning this move by New York State is, perhaps these words from the New York Times article will alleviate it:“The inquiry by Ms", "DjIX6yfhAHc-00008-00009711-00010499": "James’s office is a civil investigation, not a criminal one, although its focus and scope were unclear", "DjIX6yfhAHc-00009-00010499-00011894": "The attorney general has broad authority under state law to investigate fraud and can fine — or in extreme cases, go to court to try to dissolve — a business that is found to have engaged in repeated illegality''", "DjIX6yfhAHc-00010-00011894-00012430": "Lookout, Trump. New York State is coming for you"}}, {"audio_id": "EqBffGj5qGy", "text": {"EqBffGj5qGy-00000-00000513-00002394": "Donald Trump has just gotten some VERY bad news! Earlier today, former prosecutor Glenn Kirschner dropped a bombshell on the president, warning him that Special Counsel Robert Mueller hasn’t forgotten about him – in fact, he said Mueller was going to drop a “collusion bomb” on the White House very soon!", "EqBffGj5qGy-00001-00002394-00003741": "During an interview on MSNBC, Kirschner stated that based on his background in prosecution and the large amounts of public reporting on this topic, he believes that karma is about to come bite Trump in the ass", "EqBffGj5qGy-00002-00003741-00004690": "He said:\"Everybody has confused Mueller’s silence on the question of conspiracy and collusion with an absence of evidence of conspiracy", "EqBffGj5qGy-00003-00004690-00006032": "The collusion bomb is coming.”.Kirschner said:\"After spending 30 years as a prosecutor, the evidence that I have seen, even in the public reporting, tells me that there was a conspiracy between the campaign and Russia", "EqBffGj5qGy-00004-00006032-00007153": "We’ve seen it over and over again, then there were all sorts of acts undertaken that obstructed justice, that tried to prevent the evidence of that conspiracy coming to light", "EqBffGj5qGy-00005-00007153-00008059": "So everybody has confused Mueller’s silence on the question of conspiracy and collusion with an absence of evidence of conspiracy", "EqBffGj5qGy-00006-00008059-00009091": "… The collusion bomb is coming and you know what? Mueller is so strategic in what he’s doing, I don’t think he wanted to tip his hands on collusion", "EqBffGj5qGy-00007-00009091-00010230": "I don’t think he wanted to, for example, indict one of the president’s children for some of the crimes they committed because that may have resulted in Trump trying to shut things down", "EqBffGj5qGy-00008-00010230-00011823": "”.That’s certainly enough to make Trump nervous! Earlier this week on Twitter, Kirschner also said America could “bank on” Mueller going after Trump soon:\"No report has ever been wanted more than this one, and Americans have grown impatient and tired of waiting", "EqBffGj5qGy-00009-00011823-00013325": "However, Kirschner stated that the silence from Mueller’s office doesn’t mean there’s nothing to report – the Special Counsel is likely holding all major bombshells until the very end so that Trump doesn’t have time to shut down the investigation"}}, {"audio_id": "EF9nfY7VDAc", "text": {"EF9nfY7VDAc-00000-00000513-00001317": "CNN’s Chris Cuomo pushed back on Sean Hannity‘s claim about Michael Cohen and the hush money payments Friday night", "EF9nfY7VDAc-00001-00001317-00002629": "Hannity, in his post-Hanoi summit interview with President Donald Trump, said, “I can tell you personally he said to me at least a dozen times that he made the decision on the payments, and he didn’t tell you", "EF9nfY7VDAc-00002-00002629-00003242": "”.Cuomo showed the clip of Hannity last night before bringing up proof of Trump’s involvement:", "EF9nfY7VDAc-00003-00003242-00004258": "“Let me one-up Sean Hannity. Michael Cohen told me many many times that he had everything to do with it and the president had nothing to do with it", "EF9nfY7VDAc-00004-00004258-00005954": "You know what that’s called? A lie. You know what doesn’t lie? Proof. Remember what we played for you on this show? A recording of the president and Cohen talking about the payments, and you can see very much the president wasn’t just following legal advice", "EF9nfY7VDAc-00005-00005954-00007077": "He was part of directing the situation.”.Cuomo was referring to the tape that his show obtained back in July featuring Trump and Cohen talking about the Karen McDougal payment"}}, {"audio_id": "EFYFPNvFDDc", "text": {"EFYFPNvFDDc-00000-00000571-00001623": "In an attempt to portray his former personal attorney and fixer Michael Cohen as a liar, President Donald Trump ended up identifying himself a “key witness” in the federal case", "EFYFPNvFDDc-00001-00001623-00002666": ".Trump has been attacking Cohen again, tweeting on Friday morning that his former lawyer “lied” to Congress when he said he never asked for a presidential pardon", "EFYFPNvFDDc-00002-00002666-00003559": "According to legal expert Ross Garber, tweeting on this matter was “beyond ill-advised” for the president, Law & Crime reported", "EFYFPNvFDDc-00003-00003559-00005455": "When Cohen (who is set to begin serving a three-year prison sentence in May) publicly testified before the House Oversight Committee on February 27, he stated that he had no interest in a presidential pardon from Trump for any of the crimes he has pleaded guilty to and had not asked him for one", "EFYFPNvFDDc-00004-00005455-00006419": "Trump’s tweet targeted this claim directly:“Bad lawyer and fraudster Michael Cohen said under sworn testimony that he never asked for a Pardon", "EFYFPNvFDDc-00005-00006419-00007357": "His lawyers totally contradicted him. He lied! Additionally, he directly asked me for a pardon,” Trump tweeted", "EFYFPNvFDDc-00006-00007357-00008342": "“I said NO. He lied again! He also badly wanted to work at the White House. He lied!” the president added", "EFYFPNvFDDc-00007-00008342-00009321": "But in an official statement on Thursday, Cohen’s attorney, Lanny Davis, tried to make clear that he is not contradicting his client", "EFYFPNvFDDc-00008-00009321-00010233": "Davis stated that “after July 2, 2018, Mr. Cohen authorized me as a new lawyer to say publicly Mr", "EFYFPNvFDDc-00009-00010233-00010969": "Cohen would never accept a pardon from President Trump even if offered. That continues to be the case", "EFYFPNvFDDc-00010-00010969-00011829": "And his statement at the Oversight Hearing was true — and consistent with his post-joint defense agreement commitment to tell the truth", "EFYFPNvFDDc-00011-00011829-00012808": "”.Davis told ABC News Cohen’s claim to Congress was “literally true,’” because his client “never asked President Trump for a pardon", "EFYFPNvFDDc-00012-00012808-00013762": "His lawyer explored the disingenuous ‘dangle’ repeatedly floated by Rudy [Giuliani] and Trump in one meeting and never followed up''"}}, {"audio_id": "EIjzyj_Bcy0", "text": {"EIjzyj_Bcy0-00000-00000571-00002018": "Donald Trump’s disappearing and reappearing criminal defense mascot Rudy Giuliani has been missing in action for the past few weeks, and most of us just assumed he’d spent the whole time getting lost in Home Depot while trying to buy a toaster", "EIjzyj_Bcy0-00001-00002018-00003050": "But it turns out Rudy was missing for good reason. Now he’s back, and – stop us if you’ve heard this one before – he may have just given something away", "EIjzyj_Bcy0-00002-00003050-00004173": ".It turns out Donald Trump and the rest of his legal team decided to banish Rudy Giuliani from doing any television appearances, because he’d screwed up one too many times", "EIjzyj_Bcy0-00003-00004173-00004883": "This is according to an inside report from Axios, which then interviewed Rudy about the matter", "EIjzyj_Bcy0-00004-00004883-00005701": "Rudy is insisting that he wasn’t actually banned from doing TV, and instead he went quiet for a different reason", "EIjzyj_Bcy0-00005-00005701-00007028": "Giuliani claims that he went silent last month because he and Team Trump thought Robert Mueller’s report could surface at any minute, and he was waiting to see it before heading back onto TV so he could dispute it", "EIjzyj_Bcy0-00006-00007028-00007861": "This is nonsense, of course. But when Rudy runs his mouth like this, what he says usually ends up being half true", "EIjzyj_Bcy0-00007-00007861-00009225": "We think Rudy Giuliani just gave away that Team Trump has no idea when the Mueller report will be filed, and that Donald Trump has spent the past month living in constant fear that the day could be upon him", "EIjzyj_Bcy0-00008-00009225-00010196": "If so, no wonder Trump has been acting increasingly frantic over the past month in general, and over the past few days in particular"}}, {"audio_id": "EInEmcOm1JE", "text": {}}, {"audio_id": "EM8Id9pkGtk", "text": {"EM8Id9pkGtk-00000-00000571-00001529": "Karen Speziale, who voted for Donald Trump in 2016, spoke with MSNBC on Wednesday over the Republican tax reform", "EM8Id9pkGtk-00001-00001529-00002488": "Karen Speziale, who voted for Donald Trump in 2016, spoke with MSNBC on Wednesday over the Republican tax reform", "EM8Id9pkGtk-00002-00002488-00003755": ".The Trump voter told the network that she believes Trump’s tax returns will show that the president doesn’t pay taxes at the expense of the rest of America, but that she still supports him", "EM8Id9pkGtk-00003-00003755-00004627": "“I believe he isn’t showing his income tax returns because he didn’t pay anything, and we are paying in money,” she said", "EM8Id9pkGtk-00004-00004627-00005400": "“He’s paying nothing when he’s making billions or wherever he’s at. So maybe he doesn’t understand", "EM8Id9pkGtk-00005-00005400-00006153": "”.Speziale also admitted that she had received fewer tax refunds this year than in years past", "EM8Id9pkGtk-00006-00006153-00007195": "“My refund was about half of what it normally is,” Speziale said. “It used to be like $4000, And then I got about $2,000", "EM8Id9pkGtk-00007-00007195-00008255": "”.“I got less money because I was getting more back in my paycheck but that is not a tax break in my opinion,” she told MSNBC’s Jake Ward angrily", "EM8Id9pkGtk-00008-00008255-00008882": "“All you did was shift the money from getting your return to getting it in your paycheck", "EM8Id9pkGtk-00009-00008882-00009888": "”.“I’m on dialysis, I’m waiting for a transplant, and I actually work full time, but I was planning on paying off some bills,” Speziale went on", "EM8Id9pkGtk-00010-00009888-00010599": "“I want to believe he didn’t know that was going to happen to people, that he was hurting the middle class", "EM8Id9pkGtk-00011-00010599-00010699": "”"}}, {"audio_id": "ENdWf4Hr2jI", "text": {"ENdWf4Hr2jI-00000-00000571-00001545": "“President” Donald Trump has an idea, a novel idea- let’s have a big celebration on the Fourth of July to celebrate our nation and our troops", "ENdWf4Hr2jI-00001-00001545-00002922": "Oh wait, that has been happening since, well, the 1700s. Perhaps this is Trump’s attempt or end-around at getting his military parade, his previous idea which was dismissed as a waste of money", "ENdWf4Hr2jI-00002-00002922-00004275": "Trump tweeted: “HOLD THE DATE! We will be having one of the biggest gatherings in the history of Washington, DC., on July 4th. It will be called “A Salute To America” and will be held at the Lincoln Memorial", "ENdWf4Hr2jI-00003-00004275-00005064": "Major fireworks display, entertainment and an address by your favorite President, me!”No ego there at all", "ENdWf4Hr2jI-00004-00005064-00005860": "Most of us are old enough to remember big events out of D.C. and the rest of the nation on the 4th of July", "ENdWf4Hr2jI-00005-00005860-00007292": "In fact, one of the Founding Fathers, who was in Philadelphia on July 2, 1776, when the independence resolution was passed by the Continental Congress, predicted how this budding nation would celebrate", "ENdWf4Hr2jI-00006-00007292-00008470": "John Adams wrote his wife, Abigail, a prediction: “The Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America", "ENdWf4Hr2jI-00007-00008470-00009319": "—I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival", "ENdWf4Hr2jI-00008-00009319-00010087": "It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty", "ENdWf4Hr2jI-00009-00010087-00011471": "It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more", "ENdWf4Hr2jI-00010-00011471-00012560": "”Adams was wrong on the date, but otherwise, his letter sure sounds like Trump’s tweet: “Pomp and Parade” and “Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other", "ENdWf4Hr2jI-00011-00012560-00013616": "” So much for this being a new idea.Donald Trump continues to be delusional. His “HOLD THE DATE” nonsense is just one more sign that he is not well", "ENdWf4Hr2jI-00012-00013616-00014405": "In addition, hope remains that by Independence Day, Trump will be in the Big House and not the White House", "ENdWf4Hr2jI-00013-00014405-00015144": "As Americans, true patriots, we don’t need a reminder of the significance of July 4th", "ENdWf4Hr2jI-00014-00015144-00015820": "We have been celebrating it for 243 years as of this July"}}, {"audio_id": "EO3-K4fv9bM", "text": {"EO3-K4fv9bM-00000-00000513-00001503": "The establishment media are deliberately spreading fake news about President Trump, saying he called for violence during his interview with Breitbart News", "EO3-K4fv9bM-00001-00001503-00003807": "Outside of the usual-usual fake news to damage Trump and to distract from their failing Russia Collusion Hoax, the media’s propaganda effort here is to make Trump pay a political price for daring to sit down with an alternative news outlet like Breitbart News and to warn other politicians not to violate the rules about who is “supposed” to be allowed to hold high-profile interviews", "EO3-K4fv9bM-00002-00003807-00004677": "In this particular case, because the president said nothing wrong in his interview with us, the media have been forced to invent something", "EO3-K4fv9bM-00003-00004677-00005439": "Case in point: all this nonsense about Trump calling for violence. Here’s what Trump actually said:", "EO3-K4fv9bM-00004-00005439-00006693": "“So here’s the thing—it’s so terrible what’s happening,” Trump said when asked by Breitbart News Deputy Political Editor Amanda House about his anticipated executive order on campus free speech", "EO3-K4fv9bM-00005-00006693-00007714": "“You know, the left plays a tougher game, it’s very funny. I actually think that the people on the right are tougher, but they don’t play it tougher", "EO3-K4fv9bM-00006-00007714-00009331": "Okay? I can tell you I have the support of the police, the support of the military, the support of the Bikers for Trump – I have the tough people, but they don’t play it tough — until they go to a certain point, and then it would be very bad, very bad", "EO3-K4fv9bM-00007-00009331-00010710": "But the left plays it cuter and tougher. Like with all the nonsense that they do in Congress … with all this invest[igations] — that’s all they want to do is — you know, they do things that are nasty", "EO3-K4fv9bM-00008-00010710-00013048": "Republicans never played this.”.I don’t care how many times you read that, there is nothing there — not a word, not a peep, not anything that has anything to do with violence of any kind, nothing even close to Barack Obama’s actual calls to violence with his rhetoric about bringing a gun to a knife fight or punching back twice as hard, which everyone in the media wrote off as political rhetoric", "EO3-K4fv9bM-00009-00013048-00013991": "Obviously, Trump is talking about getting politically tough, about organizations and people who do not back down from a political fight", "EO3-K4fv9bM-00010-00013991-00015757": "To see violence in that statement, you either have to be an idiot or a bald-faced liar deliberately acting in bad faith–and what we have in the media are herds and herds of bald-faced liars deliberately acting in bad faith, deliberately attempting to deceive the American public"}}, {"audio_id": "EgtAC2Ktg8I", "text": {"EgtAC2Ktg8I-00000-00000571-00002034": "President Donald Trump's second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was floundering from the start -- and it ended with a last-ditch effort by the North Koreans to keep the US at the negotiating table and stop Trump from walking away", "EgtAC2Ktg8I-00001-00002034-00003596": "As Air Force One made its way toward Hanoi, Vietnam, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was already on the ground, expecting to meet once more before the summit with North Korea's lead envoy on the nuclear negotiations, Kim Yong Chol", "EgtAC2Ktg8I-00002-00003596-00004959": "After weeks of negotiations that yielded less progress than US officials had hoped for, Pompeo was eager to gauge North Korea's willingness to strike a deal before Trump sat down with Kim Jong Un", "EgtAC2Ktg8I-00003-00004959-00006022": "But Kim Yong Chol, North Korea's vice chairman, wouldn't meet with Pompeo, three US officials and a source familiar with the matter told CNN", "EgtAC2Ktg8I-00004-00006022-00006939": "The US secretary of state waited several hours hoping Kim would agree to meet, but ultimately turned in for the night, frustrated", "EgtAC2Ktg8I-00005-00006939-00008694": "It was not the first time North Korean officials had stood up their US counterparts, but the high-level snub just a day before Trump and Kim were scheduled to sit down was a worrying and ultimately portentous signal that the second summit would not be the triumph Trump had hoped for", "EgtAC2Ktg8I-00006-00008694-00010306": "Two days later, after a final Hail Mary effort from the North Koreans, it ended without any new agreements and what Trump has come to call \"the walk\" after North Korea demanded significant sanctions relief in exchange for shutting down one of its major nuclear facilities", "EgtAC2Ktg8I-00007-00010306-00011017": "A State Department official told CNN that \"There was no expectation, and nothing had been scheduled", "EgtAC2Ktg8I-00008-00011017-00012584": "\".The snub was also indicative of the North Koreans' approach to diplomacy -- a capricious negotiating style that reared its head once again at the end of the summit in the form of a last-ditch attempt from the North Koreans to draw Trump back to the negotiating table"}}, {"audio_id": "F6l4LDwx-AI", "text": {"F6l4LDwx-AI-00000-00000571-00001934": "Donald Trump is having a TERRIBLE week, and it’s only getting worse! After several days of nonstop backlash thanks to Michael Cohen’s testimony, the president has just received another bombshell — the U", "F6l4LDwx-AI-00001-00001934-00002572": "S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence is investigating the president’s trips to Russia", "F6l4LDwx-AI-00002-00002572-00004034": "According to the Atlantic‘s Natasha Bertrand, the Senate Intelligence Committee has a new series of leads on Trump and his Russian contacts and is going to look into at least three of the president’s trips to Russia over the last three decades", "F6l4LDwx-AI-00003-00004034-00005040": "Considering that Trump’s career of being a shady, corrupt businessman has spanned over a long time, they’re bound to find something questionable about his past", "F6l4LDwx-AI-00004-00005040-00005993": "Just looking at Trump’s tweets, he’s NOT happy about the way Cohen’s testimony has opened more doors for investigations into his dealings with Russia", "F6l4LDwx-AI-00005-00005993-00007712": "Yesterday, Trump tweeted:''Oh’ I see! Now that the 2 year Russian Collusion case has fallen apart, there was no Collusion except bye Crooked Hillary and the Democrats, they say, ‘gee, I have an idea, let’s look at Trump’s finances and every deal he has ever done", "F6l4LDwx-AI-00006-00007712-00008148": "Let’s follow discredited Michael Cohen''"}}, {"audio_id": "FzEs-q-py2A", "text": {"FzEs-q-py2A-00000-00000571-00002715": "Even amid growing buzz that the federal prosecutors for the SDNY could be gearing up to criminally indict Donald Trump while he’s still in office, one of the SDNY’s star witnesses – Trump’s former longtime fixer Michael Cohen – has finally been cleared by prosecutors to publicly testify about Trump’s crimes this upcoming Wednesday", "FzEs-q-py2A-00001-00002715-00004661": "Now we’re learning about the dirt that Cohen has given the SNDY on Trump. .In what appears to be an attempt at laying the groundwork through the media for Michael Cohen’s upcoming public testimony, someone (read: the SDNY itself) has given the New York Times the lowdown on what Cohen has given the SNDY", "FzEs-q-py2A-00002-00004661-00005526": "It turns out Cohen has blabbed about “irregularities” in the Trump Organization, including something involving “insurance claims", "FzEs-q-py2A-00003-00005526-00006526": "” This comes shortly after the House Oversight Committee announced that Cohen will be testifying about, among other things, Trump Organization financial fraud", "FzEs-q-py2A-00004-00006526-00007736": "But there’s more.Michael Cohen has also dished to SDNY about payments made to Donald Trump’s inauguration fund, which are widely suspected to have been thinly disguised personal bribes", "FzEs-q-py2A-00005-00007736-00008888": "In other words, this NY Times expose confirms the specifics of what we already knew in general terms: Cohen has given the SDNY everything he knows about Trump’s crimes", "FzEs-q-py2A-00006-00008888-00010168": "But here’s the interesting part.As of right now there are no publicly visible court filings, indictments, or legal documents of any kind to support what’s being reported by the NY Times", "FzEs-q-py2A-00007-00010168-00011440": "It’s difficult to imagine that the SDNY has cleared Michael Cohen to publicly testify about these matters next week, unless it plans to file something somewhere to support it", "FzEs-q-py2A-00008-00011440-00012278": "Are we looking at more SDNY indictments between now and Wednesday? Something has to give here, and soon"}}, {"audio_id": "FCwjwgnPtiQ", "text": {"FCwjwgnPtiQ-00000-00000513-00001827": "The question of whether former Trump attorney Michael Cohen ever sought a pardon from the president is difficult to answer due to a lack of reliable sources, Washington Post opinion writer Charles Lane argued Friday", "FCwjwgnPtiQ-00001-00001827-00002733": "During his testimony to Congress, Cohen claimed he never asked President Trump for a pardon, something the president asserts was a lie", "FCwjwgnPtiQ-00002-00002733-00003535": "Trump even took to Twitter and insisted that Cohen asked him directly about a pardon, and that Trump responded “no", "FCwjwgnPtiQ-00003-00003535-00004998": "”.On Friday's \"Special Report\" All-Star panel, Lane -- along with Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Riley and The Federalist co-founder Ben Domenech -- weighed in on the pardon matter as it factors into the ongoing Russia probe", "FCwjwgnPtiQ-00004-00004998-00006463": "Lane began by suggesting that former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was still “holding out hope” that the president would pardon him after he was sentenced this week to 47 months in prison on tax and bank fraud charges", "FCwjwgnPtiQ-00005-00006463-00007683": "But regarding Cohen's pardon testimony, Lane said he could “see it either way” on whether Trump or Cohen was being truthful, adding that Cohen could have gone to “intermediaries” instead of the president", "FCwjwgnPtiQ-00006-00007683-00008864": "“I personally would like to know what the real story is about this pardon. I want to know, was it dangled? I want to know, was it sought?” Lane told the panel", "FCwjwgnPtiQ-00007-00008864-00009812": "“The problem is, of course, is that we have these two guys who aren’t exactly on good terms with the truth who are our best witnesses to it", "FCwjwgnPtiQ-00008-00009812-00011042": "”.Lane added that Trump is taking a risk for depicting Cohen as a “liar,” particularly because Cohen testified that he saw no proof of collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign", "FCwjwgnPtiQ-00009-00011042-00011959": "Domenech said Trump “loves dunking” on his political enemies and that their “attitude” toward the president “dictates his attitude” toward them", "FCwjwgnPtiQ-00010-00011959-00013111": "He added that if House Republicans want to pursue a perjury charge against Cohen, the White House may be forced to prove that Cohen lied about not seeking a pardon", "FCwjwgnPtiQ-00011-00013111-00014017": "Meanwhile, Riley noted that Manafort “isn’t out of the woods” just yet as he faces another sentencing next week for criminal behavior"}}, {"audio_id": "FFaz-FBqP5c", "text": {"FFaz-FBqP5c-00000-00000513-00002124": "Bruce Ohr, a career Justice Department official, admitted in recently released testimony that he informed the FBI that the infamous, largely discredited anti-Trump dossier authored by Christopher Steele was tied to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign", "FFaz-FBqP5c-00001-00002124-00003284": "Ohr testified that he further warned his FBI superiors that the dossier information was likely “biased” against Trump and that he thought Steele was “desperate that Trump not be elected", "FFaz-FBqP5c-00002-00003284-00004611": "”.Ohr revealed that he spoke to the FBI about the role of Fusion GPS in producing the dossier, and informed the agency that his wife, Nellie Ohr, worked at the time for Fusion GPS", "FFaz-FBqP5c-00003-00004611-00006341": "Critically, Ohr said that he transmitted all of that information in the time period before the FBI under James Comey certified the FISA application to obtain a warrant to conduct surveillance on Carter Page, a former adviser to President Trump’s 2016 campaign", "FFaz-FBqP5c-00004-00006341-00007409": "Comey signed the first FISA application in late October 2016.Ohr’s testimony raises numerous immediate issues for the FBI and separately for Comey", "FFaz-FBqP5c-00005-00007409-00008469": "Comey’s FISA application to conduct surveillance did not specifically state that the FBI had information that Steele was being paid in connection with any U", "FFaz-FBqP5c-00006-00008469-00009175": "S. political party, according to House documents and the redacted FISA application itself", "FFaz-FBqP5c-00007-00009175-00010123": "The application also did not say that the FBI was provided with any information that would raise issues of bias concerning Steele", "FFaz-FBqP5c-00008-00010123-00012552": "Instead, Comey’s FISA application stated generally that “the FBI speculates” that Steele “was likely looking for information that could be used to discredit” Trump’s campaign — a far cry from informing the court that the dossier utilized as central evidence against Page in the FISA warrant was paid for by Trump’s primary political opponents, namely Clinton and the Democratic National Committee (DNC)", "FFaz-FBqP5c-00009-00012552-00014080": ".The phraseology that the FBI “speculates” on possible bias is at odds with Ohr’s testimony that he directly told the FBI about several possible avenues of bias and that he had reason to believe Steele himself was biased", "FFaz-FBqP5c-00010-00014080-00015376": "In other words, Comey may have kept from the FISA court information that would at a minimum raise major questions about the dossier charges that were cited as key evidence against Page in the FISA applications", "FFaz-FBqP5c-00011-00015376-00016220": "Ohr’s closed-door testimony was delivered last year before a joint Judiciary and Oversight Committee “task force", "FFaz-FBqP5c-00012-00016220-00017479": "” A transcript of the testimony was released last week by Rep. Doug Collins of Georgia, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, and was reviewed in full by Breitbart News", "FFaz-FBqP5c-00013-00017479-00018821": ".Collins said he made the transcript public in an effort to raise awareness about what he referred to as a “very disturbing pattern of behavior at the Department of Justice” regarding probes of President Trump and alleged Russia collusion", "FFaz-FBqP5c-00014-00018821-00020086": "In the testimony, Ohr recounted maintaining direct contact with Steele even after the former British spy was terminated as an FBI source over reports that Steele was communicating with reporters", "FFaz-FBqP5c-00015-00020086-00021102": "In doing so, Ohr lent credibility to the Republican House Intelligence Committee memo alleging that Ohr served as a back-channel between the FBI and Steele", "FFaz-FBqP5c-00016-00021102-00023299": "In confirming that he told the FBI about his wife’s relationship with Fusion GPS prior to the first FISA application, Ohr also spotlights the GOP Intel memo’s assertion that Nellie Ohr’s connection to Fusion GPS, which produced the central piece of evidence in the FISA application, was “inexplicably concealed” from the FISA court", "FFaz-FBqP5c-00017-00023299-00024040": "Ohr also testified that he told the FBI about the connection between the Clinton campaign and the dossier", "FFaz-FBqP5c-00018-00024040-00025579": "Those facts also were left out of the FISA applications. The dossier was financed by Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and the DNC via the Perkins Coie law firm, which in turn funded Fusion GPS", "FFaz-FBqP5c-00019-00025579-00027052": "Here is the relevant portion of the testimony:.Mr. Gowdy.  So you specifically told the Bureau that the information you were passing on came from someone who was employed by the DNC, albeit in a somewhat triangulated way?", "FFaz-FBqP5c-00020-00027052-00028471": "Mr. Ohr.  I don’t believe I used — I didn’t know they were employed by the DNC, but I certainly said, yes, that — that they were working for — you know, they were somehow working associated with the Clinton campaign", "FFaz-FBqP5c-00021-00028471-00029414": "And I also told the FBI that my wife worked for Fusion GPS or was a contractor for GPS, Fusion GPS", "FFaz-FBqP5c-00022-00029414-00030187": ".Mr. Gowdy.  And, again, you thought it was important to tell the Bureau that for bias —", "FFaz-FBqP5c-00023-00030187-00031624": "Mr. Ohr.  Yes.Ohr said he told the FBI about his wife’s employment with Fusion GPS and issues with Steele’s information in an effort to inform the agency about possible bias related to Steele’s work", "FFaz-FBqP5c-00024-00031624-00032637": "Ohr also confirmed that the information about credibility issues was provided to the FBI before Comey’s first FISA application citing the dossier in question:", "FFaz-FBqP5c-00025-00032637-00033528": "Mr. Ratcliffe.  We’ve talked about the relevant facts that the FBI and the Department of Justice was aware of", "FFaz-FBqP5c-00026-00033528-00034405": "Were they also — one that I didn’t ask you about — they were also aware of Mr. Steele’s bias against Donald Trump, were they not?", "FFaz-FBqP5c-00027-00034405-00035458": "Mr. Ohr.  I provided information to the FBI when I thought Christopher Steele was, as I said, desperate that Trump not be elected", "FFaz-FBqP5c-00028-00035458-00036884": "So, yes, of course, I provided that to the FBI.Mr. Ratcliffe.  Yes. And so were the Department of Justice and the FBI also aware of Glenn Simpson’s bias against Donald Trump?", "FFaz-FBqP5c-00029-00036884-00037822": "Mr. Ohr.  I certainly told the FBI that Fusion GPS was working with — doing opposition research on Donald Trump", "FFaz-FBqP5c-00030-00037822-00039755": ".Mr. Ratcliffe.  Okay. So, again, so the record is clear, what the Department of Justice and the FBI was aware of prior to the first FISA application was your relationship with Christopher Steele and Glenn Simpson, your wife’s relationship with Christopher Steele and Glenn Simpson, Mr", "FFaz-FBqP5c-00031-00039755-00040881": "Steele’s bias against Donald Trump, Mr. Simpson’s bias against Donald Trump, your wife’s compensation for work for Glenn Simpson and Fusion GPS, correct?", "FFaz-FBqP5c-00032-00040881-00041719": "Mr. Weinsheimer.  Can I have a second? [Discussion off the record.].Mr. Ohr.  Right", "FFaz-FBqP5c-00033-00041719-00042579": "So just, again, to reiterate, when I spoke with the FBI, I told them my wife was working for Fusion GPS", "FFaz-FBqP5c-00034-00042579-00043848": "I told them Fusion GPS was doing research on Donald Trump. You know, I don’t know if I used the term opposition research, but certainly that was my — what I tried to convey to them", "FFaz-FBqP5c-00035-00043848-00045405": "I told them this is the information I had gotten from Chris Steele. At some point, and I don’t remember exactly when, I don’t think it was the first conversation, I told them that Chris Steele was desperate that Donald Trump not get elected", "FFaz-FBqP5c-00036-00045405-00047766": "So those are all facts that I provided to the FBI.Mr. Ratcliffe.  And you provided — you said because you wanted to make sure — first you said you thought there might be a conflict of interest and then you changed that and said, well, I didn’t mean conflict of interest, I just wanted to make sure that they were aware of the possibility of bias as it related to those facts, correct?", "FFaz-FBqP5c-00037-00047766-00048514": "Mr. Ohr.  In case there is any concern that there might be any kind of bias or anything like that", "FFaz-FBqP5c-00038-00048514-00050013": "A House Intelligence Committee memo released last February documented that, as FBI director, Comey signed three FISA applications to spy on Page with the dossier serving as part of the basis for the warrant requests", "FFaz-FBqP5c-00039-00050013-00051975": "“Neither the initial application in October 2016, nor any of the renewals, disclose or reference the role of the DNC, Clinton campaign, or any party/campaign in funding Steele’s efforts, even though the political origins of the Steele dossier were then known to senior and FBI officials,” the memo states", "FFaz-FBqP5c-00040-00051975-00053989": "Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee released a rebuttal of the House memo that confirms the key contention that the FBI and DOJ both failed to inform the FISA court that Steele’s dossier was funded by Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) via the Perkins Coie law firm", "FFaz-FBqP5c-00041-00053989-00054600": "The Democratic memo quotes a footnote from the FISA application, which says that Steele:", "FFaz-FBqP5c-00042-00054600-00055269": "was approached by an identified U.S. person who indicated to Source #1 [Steele] that a U", "FFaz-FBqP5c-00043-00055269-00056115": "S.-based law firm had hired the identified U.S. person to conduct research regarding Candidate #1’s ties to Russia", "FFaz-FBqP5c-00044-00056115-00056854": "(The identified U.S. person and Source #1 have a long-standing business relationship", "FFaz-FBqP5c-00045-00056854-00057609": ") The identified U.S. person hired Source #1 to conduct this research. The identified U", "FFaz-FBqP5c-00046-00057609-00058455": "S. person never advised Source #1 as to the motivation behind the research into candidate #1’s ties to Russia", "FFaz-FBqP5c-00047-00058455-00059466": "The FBI speculates that the identified U.S. person was likely looking for information that could be used to discredit Candidate #1’s campaign", "FFaz-FBqP5c-00048-00059466-00061002": "That footnote, which does not inform the court of the dossier’s ties to the DNC, Clinton campaign or Fusion GPS was further confirmed when the Trump administration released a redacted version of the FISA applications last July"}}, {"audio_id": "FTwM2-sFQJk", "text": {"FTwM2-sFQJk-00000-00000513-00002171": "The right-wing media machine has kicked into overdrive to try to conceal and distract from the fact that President Donald Trump’s name and racist rhetoric are featured prominently in the manifest of the white supremacist who slaughtered nearly fifty Muslims last night in Christchurch, New Zealand", "FTwM2-sFQJk-00001-00002171-00004298": "FOX’s Jesse Watters showed the extreme lengths they were willing to go to protect Trump when he accused the media of “lying” about Trump’s role in the massacre and instead tried to blame China and “climate change” for inspiring the killings, rather than the racist anti-immigration rhetoric which the President of the United States was again promoting just this very afternoon", "FTwM2-sFQJk-00002-00004298-00007006": "“The manifesto, if you read it, does not attribute this guy’s philosophy to Donald Trump” sneered the insufferable Watters… “this guy was an eco-nationalist, meaning he was a racist…he said he’s not a conservative, he’s not a Nazi and like Greg said, he was celebrating these whacko European mass shooters more than anything, so for the media to link Donald Trump and frame Donald Trump is so irresponsible and is in fact what the guy wanted!”", "FTwM2-sFQJk-00003-00007006-00008665": "What is actually irresponsible is the right-wing’s insistence on whitewashing and obfuscating the bloody consequences of their propaganda when the blame largely lies with them for inciting this kind of hate and driving people to commit these kinds of heinous acts"}}, {"audio_id": "FbpL4XkReDE", "text": {"FbpL4XkReDE-00000-00000571-00001401": "\"This guy thinks he's CEO of America and it's a family-owned company. He doesn't have to answer to anybody", "FbpL4XkReDE-00001-00001401-00002112": "\".That's Maine Sen. Angus King on Donald Trump during an interview on CNN's \"New Day\" on Tuesday", "FbpL4XkReDE-00002-00002112-00003102": "And, man, did the Mainer nail it.Trump runs his White House -- and the broader government -- much in the same way he ran his eponymous company", "FbpL4XkReDE-00003-00003102-00004037": "He has surrounded himself with a small inner circle filled with a combination of family members and people willing to tell him he is always right", "FbpL4XkReDE-00004-00004037-00005205": "He demands total loyalty from those who work for him and, as is the case with the traditionally independent Justice Department, fumes when they refuse to follow his orders to a \"T", "FbpL4XkReDE-00005-00005205-00006093": "\" He purposely -- and publicly -- contradicts people within his own administration as a way to assert his dominance and keep them on their toes", "FbpL4XkReDE-00006-00006093-00007077": "Put another way: All you need to know about how Donald Trump views the presidency you can learn by watching a single episode of \"The Apprentice", "FbpL4XkReDE-00007-00007077-00007942": "\".What has become abundantly clear in Trump's two-plus years on the job is that Washington and the presidency isn't changing him", "FbpL4XkReDE-00008-00007942-00009010": "In fact, it's the other way around. (Remember those golden days when the political world debated whether Trump would act more \"presidential\" once in office??)", "FbpL4XkReDE-00009-00009010-00009943": "Trump, more so than any other modern president, has reshaped the norms governing what a president can -- and should -- do with the power conveyed by the office", "FbpL4XkReDE-00010-00009943-00011980": "He has, among other things, sought to discredit the idea of an independent media, devalued the idea of truth, threatened to close the US's southern border, said that there was blame on both sides for white supremacist violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, attacked a cable TV host for her alleged facelift and on and on and on", "FbpL4XkReDE-00011-00011980-00012874": "He's also repeatedly expressed disdain for the role of the legislative and judicial branches in the system of checks and balances", "FbpL4XkReDE-00012-00012874-00013595": "And expressed his admiration for the power exerted by authoritarian dictators around the world", "FbpL4XkReDE-00013-00013595-00014391": "Through it all, Trump has never understood -- or cared to understand -- why what he says (and wants) doesn't just happen", "FbpL4XkReDE-00014-00014391-00015677": "The Point: Whether Trump wins a second term in 2020 or not, his legacy will be the way in which he changed how people think about a) who should be president and b) how a president should act in office", "FbpL4XkReDE-00015-00015677-00016520": "Trump acts as though he has unlimited power to do whatever he wants in office -- and attacks those who question that view", "FbpL4XkReDE-00016-00016520-00017147": "He might be the first to see the office that way, but he has ensured he won't be the last"}}, {"audio_id": "FbFrQNVvDZE", "text": {"FbFrQNVvDZE-00000-00000571-00001556": "Today is the deadline for eighty-one people and entities to turn over all relevant documents in Donald Trump’s scandals to the House Judiciary Committee", "FbFrQNVvDZE-00001-00001556-00002182": "Trump and his lawyers seem to think they’ve landed on a clever response to the document request", "FbFrQNVvDZE-00002-00002182-00003990": "The trouble for them: that’s not how any of this works.Donald Trump and his lawyers have announced that they don’t have to turn over any documents, because the House Judiciary Committee merely asked for the same documents they perviously turned over to Robert Mueller, and they didn’t turn over any documents to Robert Mueller", "FbFrQNVvDZE-00003-00003990-00004857": "Nice try, but this isn’t a legal defense, and it won’t help at all when this becomes a subpoena battle in court", "FbFrQNVvDZE-00004-00004857-00005630": "Not that it matters anyway. Here’s the thing about a wide-scale document request effort like this", "FbFrQNVvDZE-00005-00005630-00007226": "No one is expecting Donald Trump and his team to cooperate. But nearly every document they’re sitting on is likely also in the possession of other people on the list of eighty-one names, and plenty of those people are going to turn over their copies of those documents", "FbFrQNVvDZE-00006-00007226-00008358": "For instance, if two people have a conversation over email or text messaging, they both have a full record of the conversation, and only one of them has to turn it over", "FbFrQNVvDZE-00007-00008358-00009159": "Donald Trump and his team can pat themselves on the back all they like for what they think is a clever response here", "FbFrQNVvDZE-00008-00009159-00010298": "But they don’t appear to understand what’s going on here. In order to “win” this round, they would have had to convince every last one of those eighty-one recipients not to cooperate", "FbFrQNVvDZE-00009-00010298-00010792": "There’s no chance that happened. Trump lost this round"}}, {"audio_id": "FfleG9C1eZY", "text": {"FfleG9C1eZY-00000-00000571-00001386": "Micheal Cohen testified yesterday in front of the House Oversight Committee and immediately he was in hot water", "FfleG9C1eZY-00001-00001386-00002647": "“I have lied, but I am not a liar,” declared the disgraced attorney. If that wasn’t bad enough, Cohen claimed he was the one who had the initial idea to start Donald Trump’s presidential campaign", "FfleG9C1eZY-00002-00002647-00003316": "That was met with muffled laughter, and then he got utterly destroyed. You’ll love this", "FfleG9C1eZY-00003-00003316-00004353": "Micheal Cohen’s testimony yesterday was filled with lies and falsehoods, but the one that most people are ignoring says so much about his character", "FfleG9C1eZY-00004-00004353-00005312": "The disbarred and disgraced attorney exclaimed he’s not a liar, but he has lied. He blames these arrogant outbursts on President Donald Trump", "FfleG9C1eZY-00005-00005312-00006171": "Everything Cohen has done wrong, every criminal action he took which benefitted himself and not the president, is Trump’s fault", "FfleG9C1eZY-00006-00006171-00006976": "But when he took credit for starting Trump’s presidential election, it was downright ridiculous, and people laughed out loud", "FfleG9C1eZY-00007-00006976-00007117": "Yet, Cohen missed the laughs and kept up on going.“Cohen, who’s set to serve three years behind bars for charges including fraud and campaign finance violations, told the committee that he ‘certainly did’ start Trump’s presidential campaign in 2011", "FfleG9C1eZY-00008-00007117-00008470": "The disbarred attorney claimed he triggered the run by starting a website called ShouldTrumpRun[dot]com,” the Daily Wire reports", "FfleG9C1eZY-00009-00008470-00009522": "Oversight Committee member Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) found this hilarious.“Now that’s news,” Jordan said to Cohen sarcastically", "FfleG9C1eZY-00010-00009522-00011092": "“Wow''.“That’s correct, 2011. It was my idea,” Cohen continued confidently. “I saw a document in the newspaper that said, ‘Who would you vote for in 2012?’ Six percent of the people said they’d vote for Donald Trump''", "FfleG9C1eZY-00011-00011092-00011866": "“Michael Cohen: the reason why Donald Trump is president is because of Michael Cohen,” said Jordan mockingly", "FfleG9C1eZY-00012-00011866-00012576": "Cohen, undeterred, said: “So I put it into his office and I said to him, ‘Mr. Trump", "FfleG9C1eZY-00013-00012576-00013540": "’ And he said, ‘Well wouldn’t this be great.’ And that is where it all started''.“Yeah, okay,” Jordan continued to mock Cohen", "FfleG9C1eZY-00014-00013540-00014183": "“I’m sure, I’m sure, he had never thought about anything like that until you came along", "FfleG9C1eZY-00015-00014183-00014681": "” No one bought Cohen’s lies, especially this one"}}, {"audio_id": "FhIKjnD2mvc", "text": {"FhIKjnD2mvc-00000-00000571-00001467": "America’s ever-deepening college debt problem is really a symptom of a worse malady: our societal addiction to college itself", "FhIKjnD2mvc-00001-00001467-00002148": "Any sober assessment of the facts would indicate that too many Americans are going to college", "FhIKjnD2mvc-00002-00002148-00002922": "As a result, college costs—and debt—have skyrocketed while the rewards for college have plunged", "FhIKjnD2mvc-00003-00002922-00004110": "Yet this is something that has escaped the attention of our political elites. And, as it turns out, our financial and cultural elites—as the recent college admissions scandal indicates", "FhIKjnD2mvc-00004-00004110-00005045": "Many Democrats want to double-down, promising “free college” to young people—a euphemism for college funded by taxpayers", "FhIKjnD2mvc-00005-00005045-00006004": "Perhaps surprisingly, Ivy-league educated Ivanka Trump has recently come out as a skeptic about America’s love affair with college", "FhIKjnD2mvc-00006-00006004-00007117": "The first daughter has taken up a leadership role in the Trump administration’s workforce development efforts—and shown a remarkable candidness when it comes to our college problem", "FhIKjnD2mvc-00007-00007117-00008391": "“I think culturally, for a long time we have created and perpetuated the narrative that there is one pathway to achieving the American dream and its four-year university,” Ms Trump said in a recent interview", "FhIKjnD2mvc-00008-00008391-00009321": "Trump goes on:.That has been instilled into American students, it’s often American parents that feel that is the only viable path", "FhIKjnD2mvc-00009-00009321-00010546": "So you have kids going into school racking up enormous amounts of student debt that they’ll often take decades if there ever able to pay it off without a skill, if they ultimately graduate", "FhIKjnD2mvc-00010-00010546-00011965": "So I think opening up the prism and saying there are many different pathways. It depends what you want in your life and taking the stigma away from those who choose alternative pathways who choose technical schools, vocational education", "FhIKjnD2mvc-00011-00011965-00012592": "At the end of the day, it’s about connecting workers with their passion, with their jobs", "FhIKjnD2mvc-00012-00012592-00013665": "There’s very little opportunity for somebody who wants to the vocational route, the technical route because all the money pushes you into a four-year college system", "FhIKjnD2mvc-00013-00013665-00014697": "Just as her father drew attention to the incredibly bad hand American industrial workers had been dealt by decades of anti-American trade deals, Ms", "FhIKjnD2mvc-00014-00014697-00015481": "Trump is drawing attention to the bad hand the US has dealt our young people.The facts are stark", "FhIKjnD2mvc-00015-00015481-00016322": "Over the past 40 years, the U.S. has doubled the share of high school graduates who go on to get college degrees", "FhIKjnD2mvc-00016-00016322-00017359": "Forty-six percent of high school graduates receive degrees from four-year colleges, and another 24 percent get degrees from two-year colleges", "FhIKjnD2mvc-00017-00017359-00018586": "This increase in college education, however, has come at a steep cost. The relative benefits of a college degree have been declining for nearly two decades, while costs have been escalating", "FhIKjnD2mvc-00018-00018586-00019498": "College graduates still earn more than high school graduates and are less likely to be unemployed—but the gap has been contracting", "FhIKjnD2mvc-00019-00019498-00020180": "And the income and employment benefits may overstate the lifetime effects of college degrees", "FhIKjnD2mvc-00020-00020180-00021590": "The college wealth premium—the amount of extra wealth college graduates have accumulate the course of their lifetime—has declined even more rapidly than the income and employment premium, according to a recent study by the Federal Reserve", "FhIKjnD2mvc-00021-00021590-00022518": "And among blacks, Hispanics, Asians—that is, everyone except whites—there is no wealth premium at all, the study found", "FhIKjnD2mvc-00022-00022518-00023612": "After ten years, nearly one-third of college graduates wind up in a job that does not require a college degree, the Wall Street Journal reports", "FhIKjnD2mvc-00023-00023612-00025208": "That should not be surprising. It demonstrates that the supply of college graduates has outpaced demand, which is exactly what you would expect would happen when ample subsidies and societal pressure are applied to increase college attendance", "FhIKjnD2mvc-00024-00025208-00025864": "When, as Ms. Trump put it, “all the money pushes you into a four-year college system", "FhIKjnD2mvc-00025-00025864-00026697": "”.The average sticker-price of a four-year college, including room and board, is now $50,000 per year", "FhIKjnD2mvc-00026-00026697-00028257": "As Barron’s Jack Hough recently pointed out, $200,000 in cash invested in the name of a 22 year old would produce a $3 million retirement nest egg by the age of 68, if the money is invested at about a 6% year return", "FhIKjnD2mvc-00027-00028257-00029510": "This high price is being financed by debt. On average, a college graduate owes twice as much debt as she did twenty years ago, according to the Wall Street Journal", "FhIKjnD2mvc-00028-00029510-00030673": "Educational loans now amount to more than $1.5 trillion. More than one out of ten student loan borrowers will default on their loans", "FhIKjnD2mvc-00029-00030673-00031532": "Federal Reserve economists recently studied the impact all that debt is having on those aged 24 to 32", "FhIKjnD2mvc-00030-00031532-00032689": "They found that while it plays a significant role in keeping young people from buying homes, although other factors—including the high price of homes—were more important", "FhIKjnD2mvc-00031-00032689-00034042": "“In surveys, young adults commonly report that their student loan debts are preventing them from buying a home,” Fed researchers Alvaro Mezza, Daniel Ringo, and Kamila Sommer found", "FhIKjnD2mvc-00032-00034042-00035126": "“Our estimates suggest that increases in student loan debt are an important factor in explaining their lowered homeownership rates, but not the central cause of the decline", "FhIKjnD2mvc-00033-00035126-00036080": "”.This is having a profound effect on American society. People are getting married later, which reduces the number of children they have", "FhIKjnD2mvc-00034-00036080-00037250": "Women, in particular, delay marriage when they bear lots of student debt. And a significant number of people who say they do not want children cited student debt as the reason", "FhIKjnD2mvc-00035-00037250-00038676": "Twenty-two percent of college graduates were delayed by at least two years in moving out of a family member’s home due to their student loans, a survey of millennials by the National Association of Realtors found", "FhIKjnD2mvc-00036-00038676-00039530": "More than half of respondents said they were delayed in continuing their education or starting a family due to student loan debt", "FhIKjnD2mvc-00037-00039530-00040442": "Bernie Sanders and others who have endorsed the idea of relieving students of the burden of paying for college address the debt side of the problem only", "FhIKjnD2mvc-00038-00040442-00041458": "And it’s not clear that this is really much progress at all since professors will still have to be paid, buildings maintained, textbooks purchased", "FhIKjnD2mvc-00039-00041458-00042563": "So while a student might not have to foot the bill, that debt will need to be borne by workers—which is really just a transformation of individual debt into higher taxes", "FhIKjnD2mvc-00040-00042563-00043287": "And if history is any experience, the government will not effectively be able to contain the burgeoning costs", "FhIKjnD2mvc-00041-00043287-00044094": "If anything, quite the opposite: cost increases will accelerate once individuals no longer see the bills", "FhIKjnD2mvc-00042-00044094-00045058": "There’s no such thing as a free lunch, even if in a college cafeteria.The first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem", "FhIKjnD2mvc-00043-00045058-00045765": "We have a problem, as Ms Trump has indicated. Others in Washington, DC, should take note"}}, {"audio_id": "FkySCEc6ksg", "text": {"FkySCEc6ksg-00000-00000571-00001498": "“Donald Trump said on Friday,” the British newspaper the Guardian reported, “that he would not necessarily accept the results of the presidential election", "FkySCEc6ksg-00001-00001498-00002525": "” If those words sound oddly familiar it’s because they are. It’s a quote from the Saturday, October first, 2016 edition of the Guardian", "FkySCEc6ksg-00002-00002525-00003441": "When it comes to figuring out what creepy, underhanded, criminal ploy Donald Trump is up to, nothing quite projects like projection", "FkySCEc6ksg-00003-00003441-00005604": "And he’s at it again. This time the claim from the Donald Trump camp is, as Trump put it in a recent tweet, “The Dems are trying to win an election in 2020 that they know they cannot legitimately win!” In other words, if a Democratic candidate wins the presidential election in 2020 it is, by definition according to Trump, an illegitimate win", "FkySCEc6ksg-00004-00005604-00008034": "Trump 2020 campaign press secretary Kayleigh McEnany dutifully parroted Trump’s tweet in a statement about the investigations into Trump’s crimes: “These desperate Democrats know they cannot beat President Trump in 2020, so instead they have embarked on a disgraceful witch hunt with one singular aim: topple the will of the American people and seize the power that they have zero chance at winning legitimately''", "FkySCEc6ksg-00005-00008034-00009230": "As indicated, Trump has done this before. Had he lost the 2016 election, he was prepared to drag the American people through a long and tedious demand for a recount", "FkySCEc6ksg-00006-00009230-00010837": "We now know, thanks in part to Michael Cohen’s recent testimony, that this would have been simply a ploy to promote and advertize the Donald Trump “brand,” and Trump would have pursued it as far as the relatively inconsequential power of a failed candidate would have permitted", "FkySCEc6ksg-00007-00010837-00011774": "This time around the stakes are higher and Trump’s power to contest the election and disrupt the will of the American people will be considerable", "FkySCEc6ksg-00008-00011774-00012775": "Trump will have the full power of the Presidency in a lame duck period, and, as Michael Cohen ominously warned, “… given my experience working for Mr", "FkySCEc6ksg-00009-00012775-00013655": "Trump, I fear that if he loses the election in 2020 that there will never be a peaceful transition of power''"}}, {"audio_id": "FnvJZ82V8_I", "text": {"FnvJZ82V8_I-00000-00000571-00001433": "Social Security may have plenty of critics, but one thing is for sure: millions of retired Americans depend on it", "FnvJZ82V8_I-00001-00001433-00002626": "Sadly, it’s also true that con artists work tirelessly to steal that money from senior citizens, and there’s a new scam in town everyone needs to beware", "FnvJZ82V8_I-00002-00002626-00003744": "President Trump is concerned, so he’s commissioning the SSA to take action.The SSA is announcing a major scam that’s in the works aimed at robbing Americans blind", "FnvJZ82V8_I-00003-00003744-00004656": "The PSA discussing this scam will be aired on TV and the radio.Crooks are calling Americans, claiming to be from the SSA", "FnvJZ82V8_I-00004-00004656-00005299": "They are tricking citizens into divulging their Social Security numbers over the phone", "FnvJZ82V8_I-00005-00005299-00006030": "These crooks then use their SSN to steal what rightfully belongs to retired Americans", "FnvJZ82V8_I-00006-00006030-00006754": "In some cases, they’ll use an SSN from children or young adults, who won’t collect checks for years", "FnvJZ82V8_I-00007-00006754-00007754": "By the time the fraud is found out, it’s much too late.So Trump’s Social Security is getting out the word with a nationwide Public Service Announcement", "FnvJZ82V8_I-00008-00007754-00009165": "From WNEM:.“We urge you to always be cautious and to avoid providing sensitive information such as your Social Security number or bank account information to unknown people over the phone or internet,” Nancy A", "FnvJZ82V8_I-00009-00009165-00010019": "Berryhill, Acting Commissioner of Social Security said.The good news is you can avoid this scam by being prepared", "FnvJZ82V8_I-00010-00010019-00010755": "The SSA urges you to never give out your SSN (or anyone else’s) to someone over the phone", "FnvJZ82V8_I-00011-00010755-00011476": "Real agents will never ask for your number. Rarely do they even contact you over the phone", "FnvJZ82V8_I-00012-00011476-00011967": "Don’t let your friends or family get hoodwinked by these guys"}}, {"audio_id": "G0gLoyvZE0u", "text": {"G0gLoyvZE0u-00000-00000571-00001702": "President Donald Trump mocked Empire’s Jussie Smollett as “the actor that nobody ever heard of” in a Tuesday evening speech before the National Republican Congressional Committee", "G0gLoyvZE0u-00001-00001702-00003097": "During his remarks, the president launched into a riff about Smollett for alleging he was the target of a racist and anti-gay attack by two masked men, who the actor claimed shouted “This is MAGA Country!” before fleeing", "G0gLoyvZE0u-00002-00003097-00003752": "“How about the guy from Chicago? The actor that nobody ever heard of,” said Trump", "G0gLoyvZE0u-00003-00003752-00004654": "“He said he got taken out by ‘MAGA country.’ I said, ‘What the Hell was that?’ I guess that’s a hate crime, right?”", "G0gLoyvZE0u-00004-00004654-00006085": "Earlier this month, the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office dropped all 16 charges against the Empire star, who the Chicago police Department charge staged a hate crime against himself on January 29th to boost his career", "G0gLoyvZE0u-00005-00006085-00007245": "He is accused of filing a false police report about the ordeal. .Last Thursday, President Trump ripped the handling of Smollett’s case at his rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan", "G0gLoyvZE0u-00006-00007245-00008230": "“And it’s getting to be that time. Very important–MAGA country–you heard the other day? How about in Chicago?” the president asked his supporters", "G0gLoyvZE0u-00007-00008230-00009235": "“He said, he said, he was attacked by ‘MAGA country.’ Ever hear that one? Maybe the only time I’ve ever agreed with the mayor of Chicago right there", "G0gLoyvZE0u-00008-00009235-00010215": "That’s a terrible situation. That’s an embarrassment not only to Chicago, that is an embarrassment to our country, what took place there", "G0gLoyvZE0u-00009-00010215-00011516": "Remember that.”.On Monday, the Fraternal Order of Police in Chicago protested outside the office of top prosecutor Kim Foxx, demanding the George Soros-funded official resign", "G0gLoyvZE0u-00010-00011516-00012978": "Chicago officials warned Smollett that he could be prosecuted for lying if he fails to repay the roughly $130,000 cost of the police’s investigation into his alleged hate hoax in the next seven days"}}, {"audio_id": "Gs2ornJdpDM", "text": {"Gs2ornJdpDM-00000-00000571-00001681": "The complex subpoena process has been underway for quite some time, and cooperation has been unofficially ongoing for weeks if not months, but today it finally became official", "Gs2ornJdpDM-00001-00001681-00003214": "House Democrats from multiple committees fired off subpoenas today for Donald Trump’s records from various financial institutions, with a primary focus on his financial dealings with Russia – and it’s very likely these records will soon be turned over", "Gs2ornJdpDM-00002-00003214-00004293": ".We can say this because these financial institutions have already been cooperating with House Democrats when it comes to Donald Trump’s financial records", "Gs2ornJdpDM-00003-00004293-00005487": "For instance House Financial Services Committee Chair Maxine Waters revealed in an MSNBC on-air interview weeks ago that Deutsche Bank had already begun giving her Trump’s records", "Gs2ornJdpDM-00004-00005487-00006897": "So today’s New York Times report, which reveals that Waters’ committee and Adam Schiff’s House Intel Committee have both subpoenaed Deutsche Bank for Trump’s records, can be taken as a sign that this is what’s called a “friendly” subpoena", "Gs2ornJdpDM-00005-00006897-00007866": ". .It’s commonplace for financial institutions to ask to be subpoenaed in these situations, so they have a legal basis for cooperating", "Gs2ornJdpDM-00006-00007866-00009368": "In fact last week accounting firm Mazars asked to be subpoenaed so it could turn over Donald Trump’s records, and sure enough, Politico is reporting this evening that House Oversight Committee Chair Elijah Cummings just did precisely that", "Gs2ornJdpDM-00007-00009368-00010628": "This comes after last week’s revelation that Capital One has been secretly cooperating with House Democrats since early March, and has also asked to be subpoenaed so it can continue cooperating", "Gs2ornJdpDM-00008-00010628-00011696": ". .Today’s news may help explain why Donald Trump spent the weekend tweeting in a manner that was voluminous and frantic even by his usual standards", "Gs2ornJdpDM-00009-00011696-00012670": "The fight to get Trump’s tax returns will take longer, because Trump’s Treasury Department may run interference for him for as long as it can", "Gs2ornJdpDM-00010-00012670-00013676": "But the fight to get Trump’s financial records from outside financial institutions is a battle that House Democrats can – and will – quickly win"}}, {"audio_id": "GsPLra5toYc", "text": {"GsPLra5toYc-00000-00000513-00002289": "House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler on Monday announced a sweeping investigation into President Donald Trump's campaign, businesses, transition and administration, a probe that would lay the groundwork for Democrats if they choose to pursue impeachment proceedings against the President", "GsPLra5toYc-00001-00002289-00005019": "The Judiciary Committee on Monday sent letters to 81 people and entities -- including the White House, the Justice Department, senior campaign officials, Trump Organization officials and the President's sons — marking the start of a broad investigation that will tackle questions including possible corruption, obstruction of justice, hush-money payments to women, collusion with Russia and allegations of the President abusing his office and using it for personal gain", "GsPLra5toYc-00002-00005019-00008018": "They are demanding responses within two weeks.The requests outline a sprawling investigation, seeking documents and communications on issues that include FBI Director James Comey's firing, possible pardons offered to Trump officials, Trump's finances and foreign governments, \"catch-and-kill\" payments involving the National Enquirer's parent company and Trump, Trump campaign contacts with Russians and WikiLeaks and communications between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin", "GsPLra5toYc-00003-00008018-00009587": "The committee's investigation comes amid the anticipated conclusion of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into possible collusion and obstruction of justice, signaling the committee is likely to retread ground that federal prosecutors have already pursued", "GsPLra5toYc-00004-00009587-00010546": "Many of the same witnesses that the Judiciary Committee is now requesting information from have already spoken to Mueller's prosecutors and the grand jury", "GsPLra5toYc-00005-00010546-00012113": "The wide net cast by the committee also signals that the Democratic-led investigations are likely to stretch on for months, with multiple committees seeking information from senior officials in the White House, the Trump campaign and the Trump Organization", "GsPLra5toYc-00006-00012113-00013404": "The evidence gathered in the investigation would be the basis of a possible impeachment proceeding, which the Judiciary Committee would lead, though Nadler has said it's too soon to be discussing impeachment", "GsPLra5toYc-00007-00013404-00014383": "\"We do not now have the evidence all sorted out and everything to do an impeachment,\" Nadler said in an interview on ABC's \"This Week\" on Sunday", "GsPLra5toYc-00008-00014383-00015039": "\"Before you impeach somebody, you have to persuade the American public that it ought to happen", "GsPLra5toYc-00009-00015039-00015760": "\".But Nadler also said that it was \"very clear\" the President had obstructed justice", "GsPLra5toYc-00010-00015760-00017335": "\"It's very clear — 1,100 times he referred to the Mueller investigation as a witch hunt, he tried to -- he fired -- he tried to protect (former national security adviser Michael) Flynn from being investigated by the FBI,\" Nadler said", "GsPLra5toYc-00011-00017335-00018189": "\"He fired (former FBI Director James) Comey in order to stop the Russian thing, as he told NBC News", "GsPLra5toYc-00012-00018189-00019244": ". He's intimidated witnesses, in public.\".Republicans responded to the new investigation by accusing Democrats of launching a fishing expedition", "GsPLra5toYc-00013-00019244-00020033": "\"We don't even know what the Mueller report says, but Democrats are already hedging their bets\" Georgia Rep", "GsPLra5toYc-00014-00020033-00020660": "Doug Collins, the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee, said in a statement", "GsPLra5toYc-00015-00020660-00021788": "\"After recklessly prejudging the president for obstruction, Chairman Nadler is pursuing evidence to back up his conclusion because, as he admits, 'we don't have the facts yet", "GsPLra5toYc-00016-00021788-00022473": "'\".White House press secretary Sarah Sanders echoed that criticism in a statement Monday night", "GsPLra5toYc-00017-00022473-00023821": "\"Today, Chairman Nadler opened up a disgraceful and abusive investigation into tired, false allegations already investigated by the Special Counsel and committees in both Chambers of Congress,\" Sanders said", "GsPLra5toYc-00018-00023821-00024923": "\"Chairman Nadler and his fellow Democrats have embarked on this fishing expedition because they are terrified that their two-year false narrative of 'Russia collusion' is crumbling", "GsPLra5toYc-00019-00024923-00026791": "Their intimidation and abuse of American citizens is shameful.\".She added, \"Democrats are harassing the President to distract from their radical agenda of making America a socialist country, killing babies after they're born, and pushing a 'green new deal' that would destroy jobs and bankrupt America", "GsPLra5toYc-00020-00026791-00027744": "The American people deserve a Congress that works with the President to address serious issues like immigration, healthcare, and infrastructure", "GsPLra5toYc-00021-00027744-00028703": "The Democrats are more interested in pathetic political games and catering to a radical, leftist base than on producing results for our citizens", "GsPLra5toYc-00022-00028703-00029497": "The Democrats are not after the truth, they are after the President.\".Letters first step in broad probe", "GsPLra5toYc-00023-00029497-00030685": "A Judiciary Committee counsel said that the letters are intended to begin collecting a large trove of evidence that the committee would comb through and then decide who they should bring in to testify", "GsPLra5toYc-00024-00030685-00031965": "The counsel said that the committee had spoken about its request with Mueller's team and the US Attorney's office for the Southern District of New York, which has probed the Trump Organization and the Trump Inaugural Committee", "GsPLra5toYc-00025-00031965-00032608": "Both signed off on the committee's document request, according to the committee's counsel", "GsPLra5toYc-00026-00032608-00033556": "Some of the witnesses, particularly those in the White House, could also fight the committee's request for information, citing executive privilege", "GsPLra5toYc-00027-00033556-00034256": "The committee counsel acknowledged a subpoena fight could be possible with some requests", "GsPLra5toYc-00028-00034256-00035413": "Subpoenas might follow, the counsel said, but they will try to negotiate first. Hearings could follow the document requests with some of the officials in the coming weeks", "GsPLra5toYc-00029-00035413-00036051": "The White House and the Justice Department acknowledged the letters they received on Monday", "GsPLra5toYc-00030-00036051-00037482": "\"The House Judiciary Committee's letter has been received by the White House. The Counsel's Office and relevant White House officials will review it and respond at the appropriate time,\" White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said in a statement", "GsPLra5toYc-00031-00037482-00038271": "Asked about the request on Monday, Trump told reporters, \"I cooperate all the time with everybody", "GsPLra5toYc-00032-00038271-00039230": "\".\"You know the beautiful thing: no collusion,\" Trump said during a photo opportunity with the champion North Dakota State Bison football team", "GsPLra5toYc-00033-00039230-00039982": "\"It is all a hoax. You're going to learn about that as you grow older. It's a political hoax", "GsPLra5toYc-00034-00039982-00041014": "There's no collusion.\".House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters at an event in Fort Worth, Texas, that \"to do anything less would be delinquent in our duties", "GsPLra5toYc-00035-00041014-00041808": "\".\"I think what they're doing is exercising their constitutional responsibility for oversight,\" said Pelosi", "GsPLra5toYc-00036-00041808-00043406": "From foreign contacts to hush-money payments.The Democratic-led committee is seeking a range of documents that span the gamut -- from details about contacts with foreign contacts to hush-money payments to silence affairs, which Trump had denied", "GsPLra5toYc-00037-00043406-00044569": "Among the people listed in the request for documents include some of Trump's closest associates and family members, including his two sons -- Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr", "GsPLra5toYc-00038-00044569-00046217": ", son-in-law Jared Kushner, his campaign manager Brad Parscale, former aides Hope Hicks and Don McGahn and longtime employees of the Trump Organization like chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg, and Rhona Graff, a longtime gatekeeper to Trump", "GsPLra5toYc-00039-00046217-00047792": "In addition, Nadler is sending letters and demanding documents from David Pecker, the head of the parent company of the National Enquirer, which engaged in a \"catch-and-kill\" scheme to keep a story quiet about Trump's alleged affair with model Karen McDougal", "GsPLra5toYc-00040-00047792-00048928": "Nadler wants all documents tied to \"any narrative, personal account, documentation, recording, or photograph\" tied to Trump from Pecker's company since 2015", "GsPLra5toYc-00041-00048928-00050240": "The committee is seeking information about Trump's businesses and foreign governments potentially violating the constitutional ban on presidents accepting payments from government entities, known as the emoluments clause", "GsPLra5toYc-00042-00050240-00051768": "They are asking the Trump Organization to provide information on \"any foreign government discussing, offering, or providing, or being solicited to discuss, offer, or provide, any present or emolument of any kind\" after Trump was elected President", "GsPLra5toYc-00043-00051768-00052491": "The panel wants documents from a number of officials tied to questions concerning obstruction of justice", "GsPLra5toYc-00044-00052491-00054516": "For example, Nadler has asked for any documents related to conversations between Trump and McGahn about Flynn's talks with during the transition with then-Russian ambassador to the US Sergey Kislyak, in which Flynn lied to the FBI about discussing sanctions, as well as communications about Flynn's dismissal from the White House", "GsPLra5toYc-00045-00054516-00056206": "The committee is also seeking from administration officials communications about Comey's firing, then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions' recusal and the \"actual or possible resignation or termination\" of Sessions, Mueller and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein", "GsPLra5toYc-00046-00056206-00057794": "The letters to two former White House officials, Hicks and Sean Spicer, included a request for personal notes: Hicks was asked about \"any personal or work diary, journal or other book,\" and Spicer was queried about a \"personal or work notebook", "GsPLra5toYc-00047-00057794-00059003": "\".Multiple committees seek same Trump officials.The document requests also appear to cover ground already under investigation by other congressional committees and by federal prosecutors", "GsPLra5toYc-00048-00059003-00060500": "One example: the committee is demanding a wide range of documents from former Trump attorney Michael Cohen tied to the Trump Organization's efforts to build a Trump Tower Moscow project, a matter that is a part of several investigations", "GsPLra5toYc-00049-00060500-00062138": "But it also asks Cohen to disclose any discussions he had about pardons with the Trump administration -- something Democrats have asked several witnesses, seeking details about any pardon discussions involving former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and Flynn", "GsPLra5toYc-00050-00062138-00063008": "And the committee is asking questions about the preparation of Cohen's 2017 congressional testimony in which he admitted to lying", "GsPLra5toYc-00051-00063008-00064468": "The committee is also seeking information tied to questions surrounding collusion, including the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting with Russian lawyer promising \"dirt,\" contacts with Russians during the campaign and contacts with WikiLeaks", "GsPLra5toYc-00052-00064468-00065693": "Other congressional committees are interested in the same officials, too, creating a possible environment where Democratic-led panels are fighting a turf war to get witnesses before them", "GsPLra5toYc-00053-00065693-00066929": "For instance, after Cohen's testimony last week, both the House Oversight and Intelligence committees indicated they wanted to speak to Weisselberg, who is on the Judiciary Committee's list as well", "GsPLra5toYc-00054-00066929-00069543": "The Department of Justice and the White House also face scrutiny from Nadler. From the White House, Nadler wants a swath of information tied to Russia demanding the White House provide information about contacts with Comey before he was fired as FBI director, details about the firing of Jeff Sessions as attorney general and documents about misleading statements given to the press in 2017 when it was first revealed that Trump Jr", "GsPLra5toYc-00055-00069543-00070001": "met with Russians during the 2016 campaign"}}]