[{"audio_id": "YoFxphDFhw4", "text": {"YoFxphDFhw4-00000-00000571-00002276": "Every week, I offer a glimpse of the kind of intelligence assessments that are likely to come across the desk of the President of the United States, modeled on the President's Daily Briefing, or PDB, which the director of national intelligence prepares for the President almost daily", "YoFxphDFhw4-00001-00002276-00004520": "Here's this week's briefing.President Trump's threats to close our border and his order to cut US assistance to Central American countries -- a pledge he has made before but hasn't followed through on -- will undoubtedly create a perfect storm of increased migration flows at our southern border, strained relationships with key partners, and new economic risks for everyday Americans", "YoFxphDFhw4-00002-00004520-00005330": "His actions are also likely perceived globally as a signal that he doesn't care what his own Cabinet members have to say", "YoFxphDFhw4-00003-00005330-00007822": "Their ability to protect us going forward is directly undermined.Self-reflection is not a look the President wears often, and instead of acknowledging that his current policies aren't working, his reactive move to punish the Northern Triangle countries of Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador will undoubtedly increase migration, rather than deter it, and will harm US interests in myriad ways", "YoFxphDFhw4-00004-00007822-00008911": "Groundhog -- and opposite-day.The President is a creature of habit, and routinely casts a wide net of blame for everything that isn't going his way", "YoFxphDFhw4-00005-00008911-00009849": "That has been especially true on border security -- Democrats, Mexico and Central American countries are his predictable punching bags", "YoFxphDFhw4-00006-00009849-00011631": "He checked all three boxes in the last two days when he blasted \"stupid Democrat inspired immigration laws,\" held Mexico responsible for not stopping all undocumented immigrants from entering the US, and said he was cutting aid to the Northern Triangle because \"they haven't done a thing for us", "YoFxphDFhw4-00007-00011631-00012257": "\".Foreign assistance to these countries is -- or was -- determined based on US interests", "YoFxphDFhw4-00008-00012257-00013052": "We have provided it because it benefited our own national security, including combating illegal immigration", "YoFxphDFhw4-00009-00013052-00013799": "We allocate resources for a reason, not because we like or dislike a particular country or leader", "YoFxphDFhw4-00010-00013799-00015084": "Just as he has blamed the same cast of characters for illegal immigration, the President has also habitually undercut his own team, and his decision to cut aid to the Northern Triangle was no different", "YoFxphDFhw4-00011-00015084-00016630": "His own State Department publicly states that its strategy is to provide foreign assistance to Central America and protect American citizens \"by addressing the security, governance, and economic drivers of illegal immigration and illicit trafficking", "YoFxphDFhw4-00012-00016630-00017881": "\" The aid -- again according to Trump's State Department -- \"goes toward fighting crime organizations, drug trafficking, gang violence and human trafficking, while strengthening borders and enhancing security", "YoFxphDFhw4-00013-00017881-00018691": "\" By stopping this aid, the President is directly contradicting his Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his State Department"}}, {"audio_id": "Ytqre3QzedU", "text": {"Ytqre3QzedU-00000-00000571-00002044": "Each year the most depraved of extremist conservatives gather at CPAC to congratulate each other on being the bottom rung of the human race, so naturally, the biggest event at CPAC this year was a speech from Donald Trump", "Ytqre3QzedU-00001-00002044-00002875": "He babbled on for more than two hours, mostly in incoherent fashion, but he gave something away in the process", "Ytqre3QzedU-00002-00002875-00004155": "At various points today, Donald Trump was rambling about everything from how great Tivo is, to how renewable energy will supposedly cause your electricity to get cut off when the wind stops blowing", "Ytqre3QzedU-00003-00004155-00005471": "Trump was sweaty, exasperated, and at times outright manic. He sounded like a guy who thought he was going to prison if he didn’t manage to use this one speech to turn the whole thing around", "Ytqre3QzedU-00004-00005471-00007156": "Some of his comments in particular were particularly revealing.For instance, Trump has now decided that when he got on stage at a 2016 debate and asked Russia to steal Hillary Clinton’s emails, he wasn’t committing treason, he was merely joking", "Ytqre3QzedU-00005-00007156-00008587": "What’s telling is that he’s addressing this at all. He clearly now fears that this moment and others like it will be used as supporting evidence in the criminal charges he’s going to face for having conspired with Russia to rig the election in his favor", "Ytqre3QzedU-00006-00008587-00010008": "Just how scared is Donald Trump of the criminal charges that are mounting against him? At one point today, in particularly exasperated fashion, Trump lashed out at the Robert Mueller investigation as being “bullshit", "Ytqre3QzedU-00007-00010008-00010803": "” This is all Trump has left: whining to his base about how he’s the real victim of his lifetime of crime", "Ytqre3QzedU-00008-00010803-00011636": "But his base alone has never been big enough to save him. Once Trump has no one left but his base, he’ll be done"}}, {"audio_id": "YxSO5qii8DQ", "text": {"YxSO5qii8DQ-00000-00000513-00001981": "The recent doubling down on House investigations into Donald Trump and his campaign’s alleged collusion with Russia, his businesses, his taxes, and his presidency yielded subpoenas for thousands of documents", "YxSO5qii8DQ-00001-00001981-00003070": "While some of Trump’s former associates have dug in their heels on giving those documents up, others are working directly with Democrats on the investigation", "YxSO5qii8DQ-00002-00003070-00003875": "One of those former Trump associates is his former communications director and confidante, Hope Hicks", "YxSO5qii8DQ-00003-00003875-00005546": "Hicks took over the post from Anthony Scaramucci, who took over for Sean Spicer, who took over for Michael Bubke, who took over for Sean Spicer when he was acting communications director after Jason Miller. It’s been quite the controversial position", "YxSO5qii8DQ-00004-00005546-00009078": "CNN reports that:.‘Rep. Jerry Nadler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, sent Hicks a detailed letter earlier this month, asking for documents on a wide-range of topics, including over former national security adviser Michael Flynn’s false statements to the FBI, the firing of then-FBI Director James Comey, Trump’s involvement in a hush-money scheme to silence stories about his alleged affairs and the drafting of a misleading 2017 statement to the media about Donald Trump Jr.’s 2016 meeting in Trump Tower with Russians.’", "YxSO5qii8DQ-00005-00009078-00010405": "Most famously, Hicks helped draft the statement written on Air Force One by Trump for his son, Donald, Jr., that the infamous 2016 Trump Tower meeting was in regards to Russian adoptions", "YxSO5qii8DQ-00006-00010405-00011601": "Within hours after releasing that statement, it was proven to be a lie when emails with the subject line directly referencing the exchange of dirt on Hillary Clinton were publicly released", "YxSO5qii8DQ-00007-00011601-00012432": "Hicks is far from the only associate involved in the probe, but she is one of the few following the law and cooperating", "YxSO5qii8DQ-00008-00012432-00014885": "‘The development comes amid a growing fight between House Democrats and the White House over a range of investigations — after the White House has ignored a number of deadlines set by Democratic chairmen, who now wield subpoena power. The White House has not yet provided information to Nadler, a Democrat from New York, as part of his investigation - despite a deadline this past Monday'", "YxSO5qii8DQ-00009-00014885-00016781": "Other associates have refused to do so. For instance, former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly has been notoriously closed-mouthed after requests for documents related to the security clearances for Trump’s son-in-law and daughter, Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump", "YxSO5qii8DQ-00010-00016781-00017716": "Kelly left a memo during his time as chief of staff that raised concerns about Trump pushing those clearances through despite issues with them", "YxSO5qii8DQ-00011-00017716-00020235": "‘Hicks’ cooperation comes in stark contrast to former White House chief of staff John Kelly, who is facing an array of questions from the House Oversight Committee over his role in the White House security clearance process. Kelly is allowing the White House counsel’s office to respond to the Democrats’ demands for information, but Hicks appears to be interacting directly with the House Judiciary Committee'", "YxSO5qii8DQ-00012-00020235-00021133": "Hicks was involved with Trump’s campaign since its very beginning and testified as to some of the activities she witnessed there", "YxSO5qii8DQ-00013-00021133-00022424": "She refused to answer questions in front of Congress once before about Trump’s activities in the White House, citing executive privilege after the Trump administration advised her to do so", "YxSO5qii8DQ-00014-00022424-00023944": "‘One of the Trump campaign’s earliest hires, Hicks in 2018 was willing to answer questions about the 2016 campaign and some questions about the Trump transition, but she would not address questions about her time in the White House", "YxSO5qii8DQ-00015-00023944-00025788": "Democrats on the committee had urged their Republican colleagues to subpoena Hicks to answer their questions.Now in the majority, House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff, a California Democrat, has indicated he also is interested in getting additional information from Hicks, too'"}}, {"audio_id": "YL4ZXi1I7BI", "text": {"YL4ZXi1I7BI-00000-00000000-00000200": "آپ نے کبھی نہیں دیکھا کہ کوئی پردیسی پاکستان کے لیے دعا کرتا ہے اللہ آپ کو سلامت رکھے عمران خان"}}, {"audio_id": "YOX7GdhFDig", "text": {"YOX7GdhFDig-00000-00000513-00001834": "A new report suggests that the main reason disgraced and disbarred former attorney Michael Cohen has turned on President Trump, is because Special Counsel Robert Mueller threatened his wife with 30-years in prison", "YOX7GdhFDig-00001-00001834-00002668": "Conservative Daily Post reported on a January Facebook post written by HUD official and former Trump employee Lynne Patton", "YOX7GdhFDig-00002-00002668-00003383": "Many of you may already know that I considered Michael Cohen to be one of my very best friends", "YOX7GdhFDig-00003-00003383-00004820": "Countless people can confirm that we were virtually inseparable during my employment at Trump – and that he is, single-handedly – responsible for introducing me to the Trump family and effectively changing my entire life", "YOX7GdhFDig-00004-00004820-00005727": "I would be lying if I didn’t admit that my heart still breaks for him and for his family, with whom I had grown extremely close", "YOX7GdhFDig-00005-00005727-00007200": "What many of you may not be aware of is the fact that I can personally confirm that the ONLY reason Michael Cohen “turned on” the President of the United States is because Mueller threatened to throw his wife in jail for up to 30 years", "YOX7GdhFDig-00006-00007200-00009261": "Period. She is the co-guarantor of a $20M personal loan that Mueller discovered Michael secured back in 2015 by falsely inflating the value of his taxi medallions – effectively making her part & parcel to the federal charge of “Making False Statements to a Financial Institution,” to which Cohen ultimately plead guilty", "YOX7GdhFDig-00007-00009261-00010125": "This is also the reason why Cohen’s longtime taxi medallion partner, Evgeny “Gene” Freidman, was granted immunity", "YOX7GdhFDig-00008-00010125-00012918": "Michael Cohen also told me (after they raided his apartment) that the reason why he elected to pay Stormy Daniels $130,000 by using his home equity loan – effectively committing bank fraud – instead of easily using the over $5M+ cash he has sitting in various stateside bank accounts is because his wife controls their finances and he simply did not want her to notice the missing money, as many husbands wouldn’t considering to whom it went", "YOX7GdhFDig-00009-00012918-00014997": "Period. Moreover, he confessed to me that he never imagined in a million years that Donald Trump would actually win the Presidency and that the misappropriation of his home equity loan would ever be exposed, since thousands of Americans misuse this type line of credit to pay for colleges, boats, cars and vacations every single day", "YOX7GdhFDig-00010-00014997-00015940": "By Cohen’s own admission, Trump ceased all interest and communication in constructing Trump Tower Moscow in June 2016", "YOX7GdhFDig-00011-00015940-00016598": "Over a month before officially being declared the Republican nominee for President", "YOX7GdhFDig-00012-00016598-00017740": "To that end, it is NOT ILLEGAL for him to explore – nor deny – any “for profit” construction projects during the campaign, as he was still a civilian global real estate mogul", "YOX7GdhFDig-00013-00017740-00018819": "BuzzFeed, themselves, officially admitted on CNN this morning that they have yet to independently confirm or see ANY evidence that corroborates their story", "YOX7GdhFDig-00014-00018819-00020281": "Most significantly, Mueller refused to recommend any leniency, nor lack of jail time (as he did for Michael Flynn), for Michael Cohen when he was sentenced to 3+ years in federal prison just last month", "YOX7GdhFDig-00015-00020281-00021324": "This would lead most legal experts to reasonably conclude that the Special Counsel deems information gleaned from Michael Cohen of little consequence or contribution"}}, {"audio_id": "Yf25n3mv2r0", "text": {"Yf25n3mv2r0-00000-00000513-00001302": "Fox News personality Juan Williams is spreading another baseless anti-Trump conspiracy theory", "Yf25n3mv2r0-00001-00001302-00002454": "Williams took to Twitter where he speculated “It is no longer outside the realm of possibility that Trump could refuse to leave if he loses the 2020 election", "Yf25n3mv2r0-00002-00002454-00003219": "And if he does not accept an election defeat — he will have a virtual army on social media to defend him", "Yf25n3mv2r0-00003-00003219-00004371": "Where does this stop?”.Meanwhile, Williams wrote a piece for The Hill, where he accused Trump supporters of pushing conspiracy theories, while pushing another conspiracy theory", "Yf25n3mv2r0-00004-00004371-00005371": "There are hundreds of alt-right social media accounts that pump inflammatory, conspiratorial nonsense into our politics on a daily basis", "Yf25n3mv2r0-00005-00005371-00006152": "They are aided by trolls, bots and all manner of digital malfeasance, especially by the Russians", "Yf25n3mv2r0-00006-00006152-00007100": "Last week, it was reported that U.S. Cyber Command disrupted a big push by Russian trolls on the day of the 2018 midterm elections", "Yf25n3mv2r0-00007-00007100-00008378": "Fox News contributor Juan Williams claimed Monday that President Donald Trump could refuse to leave office if he loses reelection in 2020, sparking backlash across Twitter", "Yf25n3mv2r0-00008-00008378-00009506": ".In an opinion piece for The Hill, Williams wrote, “It is no longer outside the realm of possibility that Trump could refuse to leave if he loses the 2020 election", "Yf25n3mv2r0-00009-00009506-00010559": "And if he does not accept an election defeat — a scenario he threatened in 2016 — he will have a virtual army on social media to defend him", "Yf25n3mv2r0-00010-00010559-00011854": "”.“Where does this stop?” Williams concluded.Williams tweeted out his opinion piece but was met with swift backlash from a variety of pundits accusing him of “scaremongering” and being “nuts", "Yf25n3mv2r0-00011-00011854-00011954": "”"}}, {"audio_id": "00U30HD0Zc8", "text": {"00U30HD0Zc8-00000-00000571-00002321": "Earlier this evening, Palmer Report pointed out how suspicious it was that Donald Trump’s personally loyal Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had just met with Trump’s equally loyal Attorney General William Barr, just as Barr’s press conference about the Mueller report was being announced", "00U30HD0Zc8-00001-00002321-00003462": "The Trump regime needed an international distraction to take attention away from tomorrow’s release of the redacted Mueller report, and sure enough, now it has one: Kim Jong Un", "00U30HD0Zc8-00002-00003462-00004351": ".This evening, North Korea test fired a new “tactical guided weapon,” according to a report from the Associated Press", "00U30HD0Zc8-00003-00004351-00006056": "How convenient for Donald Trump. Just as he desperately needs something to split the headlines tomorrow, Kim Jong Un does him a huge favor, even as the media would rather be putting 100% of its focus tomorrow on poring over the hundreds of pages in the redacted Mueller report", "00U30HD0Zc8-00004-00006056-00009097": ". .Is this supposed to be some kind of random coincidence? Or are we supposed to believe that Kim decided of his own accord to help Trump out with a perfectly timed missile test? If this was all Kim’s doing, why was Kim’s buddy Mike Pompeo meeting with William Barr this afternoon? Let’s be clear here: if it can be proven that Barr told Pompeo to create a distraction, and Pompeo then asked Kim to fire off a missile, Barr and Pompeo both risk going to prison for treason", "00U30HD0Zc8-00005-00009097-00010270": ".In any case, it’s becoming more clear by the hour that Donald Trump’s most loyal officials are in a frantic panic ahead of tomorrow’s release of the redacted Mueller report", "00U30HD0Zc8-00006-00010270-00010996": "It must be phenomenally damaging to Trump, even with Barr’s strategic pro-Trump redactions", "00U30HD0Zc8-00007-00010996-00011591": "Stay tuned, because tonight and tomorrow are going to be surreal"}}, {"audio_id": "03F4Y7GJ-Hk", "text": {"03F4Y7GJ-Hk-00000-00000571-00001344": "Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said Rep", "03F4Y7GJ-Hk-00001-00001344-00002049": "Adam Schiff (D-CA) couldn’t “get over the fact’ President Donald Trump was president", "03F4Y7GJ-Hk-00002-00002049-00002807": "Partial transcript as follows:.MULVANEY: I know Adam, I used to serve with him in Congress", "03F4Y7GJ-Hk-00003-00002807-00003637": "Everything he listed right there was available to Mr. Mueller, probably in greater detail than Adam goes into right there", "03F4Y7GJ-Hk-00004-00003637-00004356": "Yet, Mr. Mueller found no collusion and no obstruction.TAPPER: Right, not a crime", "03F4Y7GJ-Hk-00005-00004356-00005071": "What about the ethics or morality of those things?.MULVANEY: The issue is not whether it’s ethical", "03F4Y7GJ-Hk-00006-00005071-00006082": "Mr. Schiff runs the House Intelligence Committee. People don’t realize this. He gets to see stuff that a lot of members of Congress don’t get to see", "03F4Y7GJ-Hk-00007-00006082-00006897": "I didn’t get to see what he was seeing when I was in the House. That role takes with it a huge responsibility", "03F4Y7GJ-Hk-00008-00006897-00007976": "One of those responsibilities is to not be partisan. It’s why you saw so many Republicans this week called for Adam to resign his position", "03F4Y7GJ-Hk-00009-00007976-00009112": "That position is so critical that, if someone comes forward and they’re the House Intelligence Committee chairman and look at the other members and say, look, I’ve seen a bunch of stuff", "03F4Y7GJ-Hk-00010-00009112-00010076": "Trust me, it says x, y, z. They have to be able to trust that person implicitly. Adam has lost that ability to do it", "03F4Y7GJ-Hk-00011-00010076-00011254": "That’s why you heard so many Republicans call for his resignation this week. There are some Democrats who simply can’t get over the fact that President Trump is president", "03F4Y7GJ-Hk-00012-00011254-00012197": "I get that. Adam is apparently one of them. But we really do think enough is enough and it’s time to move on to other things", "03F4Y7GJ-Hk-00013-00012197-00012976": "TAPPER: All I’m saying here is you’re setting the bar on criminal charges or evidence of a conspiracy", "03F4Y7GJ-Hk-00014-00012976-00013707": "I agree with what you’re saying, that there is none there. He’s talking about ethics and morality", "03F4Y7GJ-Hk-00015-00013707-00014634": "You’re saying that’s not his job. Okay, fair enough. Forgetting Adam Schiff, what about the larger point about ethics and morality?", "03F4Y7GJ-Hk-00016-00014634-00015358": "MULVANEY: I think the voters will decide on the ethics and morality of the people they vote for on either side", "03F4Y7GJ-Hk-00017-00015358-00016006": "People liked Bill Clinton, but they might not have thought that he was so ethical", "03F4Y7GJ-Hk-00018-00016006-00016964": "That’s not the job of the House Intelligence Committee, it’s not the job of the House Judiciary Committee, it’s not the job of the House Oversight Committee", "03F4Y7GJ-Hk-00019-00016964-00018498": "They’re supposed to review the functioning of government. Voters make decisions about the candidates in other places, and importantly, members of Congress, even if they are the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, don’t get to substitute their judgment for the voters", "03F4Y7GJ-Hk-00020-00018498-00019151": "And that is what this is all about at the end of the day. That’s what the Mueller report was about", "03F4Y7GJ-Hk-00021-00019151-00019960": "That’s what you’re seeing now on the Hill. It’s about trying to figure out how to undo what the voters did in 2016", "03F4Y7GJ-Hk-00022-00019960-00020898": "That’s where I think people have just had enough. Look, we gave Mueller the time, we gave him all the resources in the world", "03F4Y7GJ-Hk-00023-00020898-00021888": "Millions of dollars, two years. A lot of folks, including this station, said give Mueller the time, let him do his job", "03F4Y7GJ-Hk-00024-00021888-00022727": "The decision is in. The president did not collude and did not obstruct. It’s time to move on"}}, {"audio_id": "06W_cSnORT4", "text": {"06W_cSnORT4-00000-00000513-00001168": "Donald Trump really, really, really wants you to pay attention to him and his antics today", "06W_cSnORT4-00001-00001168-00002030": "The trouble: he doesn’t have anything to say, and it’s becoming increasingly clear that he has no remaining ammunition", "06W_cSnORT4-00002-00002030-00002882": "Take, for instance, how he approached things today when he decided that he desperately needed to distract us from the real news", "06W_cSnORT4-00003-00002882-00004204": "First, Donald Trump had one of his House GOP allies release a rather old testimony transcript from Bruce Ohr, a Department of Justice official whom Trump has been dishonestly attacking for the past year", "06W_cSnORT4-00004-00004204-00005423": "Trump must have thought this was going to have a big impact, and finally get the public to come around to seeing Ohr as some kind of dark overlord who has managed to frame Trump for conspiring with Russia", "06W_cSnORT4-00005-00005423-00006351": "But by midday, it was clear that no one cared, even a little bit.We’ve all seen this one too many times before, of course", "06W_cSnORT4-00006-00006351-00007981": "Remember when Trump promised us that the Devin Nunes memo was somehow going to expose the big conspiracy against him? Trump hyped that one for weeks, and the mainstream media ate it up, only for the memo to predictably turn out to be a complete dud", "06W_cSnORT4-00007-00007981-00008759": "Now Trump is trying to spin Bruce Ohr’s harmless testimony as evidence that Ohr is the devil himself", "06W_cSnORT4-00008-00008759-00009464": "No one cares.By the afternoon, Donald Trump must have realized his Ohr gambit had failed", "06W_cSnORT4-00009-00009464-00010786": "He began frantically posting more than a dozen tweets and retweets in rapid fashion, including retweeting some guy named Paul Sperry six times for no apparent reason, all in an attempt at getting something to stick", "06W_cSnORT4-00010-00010786-00011891": "Nonetheless, the public’s focus today is still on Trump’s criminal scandals. Whatever impending bombshell he’s trying to distract us from, it clearly isn’t working", "06W_cSnORT4-00011-00011891-00012257": "Trump is firing blanks"}}, {"audio_id": "0smXz2u1tLY", "text": {"0smXz2u1tLY-00000-00000571-00002425": "America has just taken another shameful step backward. President Trump’s long-time dream of a transgender military ban became reality on Friday, which means we are in the first week of once again being a nation that officially discriminates against service members based on their gender identity", "0smXz2u1tLY-00001-00002425-00003661": "At the same time, however, elements in the military are stepping up to express support and offer inclusion to the blameless class of people whom this government treats as second-class citizens", "0smXz2u1tLY-00002-00003661-00004972": ".On Friday, Maj. Gen. Matthew Beevers of the California National Guard rebuffed the ban’s implementation, making clear that “gender identity is the least of our concerns,” according to The Hill", "0smXz2u1tLY-00003-00004972-00006082": "No matter what message the Trump administration may be sending, Beevers wants all individuals who are considering enlisting to feel confident that they will be welcome and valued", "0smXz2u1tLY-00004-00006082-00006704": "“As long as you’re willing to fight, you can serve, in our minds,” he asserted.", "0smXz2u1tLY-00005-00006704-00007825": ".Beevers admitted that “we’re compelled as military officers to follow the rules of the folks that are elected and appointed above us, and we’ll continue to do that", "0smXz2u1tLY-00006-00007825-00008935": "” But he also told The Hill that loopholes can allow for “the opportunity to continue to bring transgender service members in as long as they meet the requirements for service", "0smXz2u1tLY-00007-00008935-00010429": "” Together with the Department of the Air Force and the Department of the Army, Beevers said they “will explore every avenue to ensure that transgendered people who want to serve in the California National Guard are afforded every opportunity to serve", "0smXz2u1tLY-00008-00010429-00011683": "”. . .The U.S. Navy also chose to resist Trump’s hateful message through new guidelines, declaring: “All Service Members are expected to continue to treat each other with dignity and respect", "0smXz2u1tLY-00009-00011683-00012380": "There is zero tolerance for harassment, hazing or bullying of any Service Member in any form", "0smXz2u1tLY-00010-00012380-00013480": "” The guidelines also point out “there is no policy that prohibits the ability of a Service Member to express themselves off-duty in their preferred gender", "0smXz2u1tLY-00011-00013480-00014360": "Appropriate civilian attire, as outlined in the uniform regulations, will not be determined based on gender", "0smXz2u1tLY-00012-00014360-00015818": "” In other words, the Navy is saying that while their hands may be tied when it comes to how sailors present themselves while on active duty, sailors should feel encouraged to “live socially in their preferred gender while off-duty", "0smXz2u1tLY-00013-00015818-00017291": "”. . .A recent Reuters/Ipsos poll and The Hill-HarrisX survey both reveal that nearly 60 percent of Americans oppose the military transgender ban that was thrust upon us by the world’s most famous bone spurs patient", "0smXz2u1tLY-00014-00017291-00018164": "It is another offensive stain from an administration that relishes the chance to sow division and stoke fear in our society", "0smXz2u1tLY-00015-00018164-00019713": "But the ban’s days, as well as the administration’s, are numbered. Once this dark period of Trumpism ends, his transgender ban will no doubt be among the first of many medieval policies to be relegated to the dustbin of history"}}, {"audio_id": "0t5U36sWkIk", "text": {"0t5U36sWkIk-00000-00000571-00003167": "Victor Davis Hanson, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and professor of Classics Emeritus at California State University, spoke with host Rebecca Mansour and Red Pilled America co-founder Patrick Courrielche on Monday’s edition of Sirius XM’s Breitbart News Tonight and described Democrats’ push for “reparations” as a racial political strategy born from fear that President Trump is “making inroads” with black voters", "0t5U36sWkIk-00001-00003167-00004418": "Reparations poll “about 25 percent support,” said Hanson. “It doesn’t even poll a majority of support among African Americans, so it’s not so much a serious issue as a campaign issue", "0t5U36sWkIk-00002-00004418-00005113": "It’s sort of like the Green New Deal or the 90 percent income tax or the wealth tax", "0t5U36sWkIk-00003-00005113-00006613": "”.Hanson continued, “These are all talking points, but I think the people who are serious in the Democratic Party must know that if any candidate emerges from their convention with those albatrosses around their neck, they’re going to lose", "0t5U36sWkIk-00004-00006613-00007880": "Everybody knows it’s unworkable. The contradictions just jump out at you.”. .Hanson examined the arbitrary nature of defining parameters for who qualifies as “African American", "0t5U36sWkIk-00005-00007880-00009763": "”.“How do you define African American?” asked Hanson. “Is somebody 25 percent African American? Seventy percent? Ten percent? Do we prorate? Do we use the old Confederacy’s one-drop rule? Do you prorate reparations based on your DNA analysis?”", "0t5U36sWkIk-00006-00009763-00011260": "Hanson added, “What do you do with people like Barack Obama, who have no relatives directly in America [who were slaves]? Or what do you do with someone like Kamala Harris, whose own father said that as a Caribbean, his family owned slaves?”", "0t5U36sWkIk-00007-00011260-00012592": "“What do you do with other groups?” asked Hanson. “Do the Irish make claims? Do the Hispanics make claims? It would open up a tribal chaotic mess in the way that you see in the Balkans or Rwanda or Iraq", "0t5U36sWkIk-00008-00012592-00013582": "”. .Al Sharpton’s role in Democrats’ promotion of “reparations” is a testament to his power within the Democrat Party, said Hanson", "0t5U36sWkIk-00009-00013582-00014679": "“It’s being promoted by Al Sharpton — of all people — [who has a] record of racism, inciting a riot, antisemitism, [and] fraud,” stated Hanson", "0t5U36sWkIk-00010-00014679-00016845": "“It’s highly ironic. I never thought in my life I would live to see this faker — who in the eighties and nineties was directly responsible for violence, homophobic statements, racist statements, antisemitic statements, [and] inciting somebody in a riot situation which killed somebody — become the power-broker, maybe, of the Democratic Party", "0t5U36sWkIk-00011-00016845-00018775": "It’s very sad and pathetic.”.“If some white person, so-called, if we can even just adjudicate who’s white and who’s not, but if you could, if somebody who’s a welder over here in Fowler or Reedley, California, that makes $40,000 a year, you’re going to tax them to transfer money to Oprah or Beyonce?” asked Hanson", "0t5U36sWkIk-00012-00018775-00021115": "“It has no sensitivity to class.”. .Hanson went on. “Class is really the more important adjudicator of privilege in this country, and as part of this strange progressive phenomenon where people who have privilege — mostly white, but not always white — virtue signal by damning people who don’t have white privilege as if they’re uncouth or racist or xenophobic", "0t5U36sWkIk-00013-00021115-00022638": "”.Hanson added, “So we have all these Malibu and TV stars always talking about white privilege, but as we saw with the college admissions scandal, they exercise white privilege, and yet, in the public domain, they’re always accusing other people", "0t5U36sWkIk-00014-00022638-00022738": "”"}}, {"audio_id": "0wyGvCMje9I", "text": {"0wyGvCMje9I-00000-00000513-00001654": "Much of Trump’s 2020 budget proposal has made the news, including headlines related to his requests for defense spending, and other issues such as cutting Medicare and Medicaid", "0wyGvCMje9I-00001-00001654-00003446": "Prior to the budget report’s release, his administration also presented sweeping legislature that would make it next-to-impossible for women to receive information regarding family planning, including harsh policy against Planned Parenthood and for those who take part in the Title X program", "0wyGvCMje9I-00002-00003446-00004141": "Easily missed were all of the requested slashes that would be made to funding the arts", "0wyGvCMje9I-00003-00004141-00004773": "In the past, Trump attempted to eliminate arts programs which were ignored by Congress", "0wyGvCMje9I-00004-00004773-00005800": "Two groups that will be hit the hardest, in blows they may never recover from, are the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the National Endowment for the Arts", "0wyGvCMje9I-00005-00005800-00006805": "The requested cuts for funding ($435 billion) The Corporation for Public Broadcasting include PBS and NPR", "0wyGvCMje9I-00006-00006805-00007600": "The National Endowment for the Arts is looking at potentially losing $126 billion in funding", "0wyGvCMje9I-00007-00007600-00008853": "The cuts would only allow a few million dollars to manage an orderly shutdown.All together, the new budget would spend $4.7 trillion on discretionary and mandatory programs.", "0wyGvCMje9I-00008-00008853-00010496": "The administration, of course, deflects from the truth of the matter (Republicans notoriously dislike art and information) and has argued that this news is a no biggie because it only provides a fraction of the funds for popular stations like PBS and NPR", "0wyGvCMje9I-00009-00010496-00011510": "And hey, why spend money on TV when you can spend that money on war? Despite Trump’s lies, he and his administration love war and conflict", "0wyGvCMje9I-00010-00011510-00013730": "The Brookings Institute had this to say, regarding defense spending:.‘After initially announcing plans for continued growth from $716 billion in fiscal year 2019 to $733 billion in 2020, President Trump directed the Department of Defense (DoD) to plan instead for reductions to a $700 billion budget", "0wyGvCMje9I-00011-00013730-00015569": "In early December 2018, Trump went as far as to call current levels of U.S. defense spending “crazy,” only to announce plans for a $750 billion defense budget just a week later. (These figures include war expenses and nuclear-weapons activities in the Department of Energy).’"}}, {"audio_id": "0zzEba-x_Ek", "text": {"0zzEba-x_Ek-00000-00000571-00001864": "Donald Trump has nominated Kelly Knight Craft – a Republican businesswoman and now diplomat who donated $2m to his 2016 campaign – to represent America at the UN", "0zzEba-x_Ek-00001-00001864-00003559": "A week after state department spokeswoman Heather Nauert, Mr Trump’s first choice to replace Nikki Haley in the role of what is considered the country’s second most senior diplomat, withdraw from contention, the president said he was pleased to name Ms Craft for the role", "0zzEba-x_Ek-00002-00003559-00005218": ".A businesswoman who was also appointed by George W Bush as an alternate delegate to the UN, where she focussed on Africa, Ms Craft was in the summer of 2017 confirmed as the US’s ambassador to Canada, the first woman to hold that job", "0zzEba-x_Ek-00003-00005218-00006012": "In a recent interview when asked about climate change, she said she believed “both sides of the science”", "0zzEba-x_Ek-00004-00006012-00007263": "“Kelly has done an outstanding job representing our nation and I have no doubt that, under her leadership, our country will be represented at the highest level,” Mr Trump said in a tweet announcing his decision", "0zzEba-x_Ek-00005-00007263-00008360": "Not for the first time – either by Mr Trump or previous presidents – the job of representing the US’s interests internationally, has gone to a major political donor", "0zzEba-x_Ek-00006-00008360-00009361": ".Reuters reported that Ms Craft was known in Republican circles in Kentucky, where she and her husband donated to a number of candidates", "0zzEba-x_Ek-00007-00009361-00010544": "Before donating $2m to Mr Trump’s campaign, she had been a supporter of Marco Rubio, the Florida senator who had been among those seeking the Republican nomination that year", "0zzEba-x_Ek-00008-00010544-00011354": "It said she had been been recommended for the post based Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell, who is also from Kentucky", "0zzEba-x_Ek-00009-00011354-00012223": "The news agency said it was not immediately clear if Ms Craft would hold a cabinet-level position, as Ms Haley did", "0zzEba-x_Ek-00010-00012223-00013861": "She will still need to be confirmed for the job by the Senate.Ms Nauert, a former host of Fox & Friends, dropped out of the running because she had a nanny who was in the country legally but did not have the proper work visa, it was reported earlier the month", "0zzEba-x_Ek-00011-00013861-00015499": "She will still need to be confirmed for the job by the Senate.Ms Nauert, a former host of Fox & Friends, dropped out of the running because she had a nanny who was in the country legally but did not have the proper work visa, it was reported earlier the month"}}, {"audio_id": "0-zRWT1DI9g", "text": {"0-zRWT1DI9g-00000-00000571-00001302": "Today is April 15th, Tax Day, or as Trump and Co. like to call it, April Fool’s Day", "0-zRWT1DI9g-00001-00001302-00002287": "It’s also three days before the Mueller Lite report is revealed to us, redacted appropriately for our tender eyes and Trump’s tender feels", "0-zRWT1DI9g-00002-00002287-00003068": "Meanwhile, the cries for Congress to see the full, unredacted Mueller Report are going unanswered", "0-zRWT1DI9g-00003-00003068-00004941": ".Our dollar is being dragged down to the Aluminum Standard as Mitch McConnell sells his soul to sanctioned Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, and Kremlin oil oligarch, Len Blavatnik, for a Rusal aluminum plant to be built in, of all places, McConnell’s home state of Kentucky, according to CNN", "0-zRWT1DI9g-00004-00004941-00005996": "Trump is off on another US-paid promotional tour in Minnesota after we paid $100 million for his numerous for-profit vacations at his properties", "0-zRWT1DI9g-00005-00005996-00006884": "We haven’t seen his taxes yet, and his attorneys are threatening the accounting firm that agreed to comply with a subpoena to hand them over", "0-zRWT1DI9g-00006-00006884-00007600": "And over it all, Putin laughs in triumph at the Grand Guignol he’s made of our democracy", "0-zRWT1DI9g-00007-00007600-00008579": ". .The world treasure of Notre Dame is burning, the climate is changing, and the hearts of the GOP freeze a little bit harder", "0-zRWT1DI9g-00008-00008579-00009376": "Now they are threatening to kick veterans who suffer from PTSD off of disability if they appear, “too happy", "0-zRWT1DI9g-00009-00009376-00010353": "”. .But the day of judgment is coming. The levees are breaking and a flood of Biblical proportions is soon to be at our doorstep", "0-zRWT1DI9g-00010-00010353-00011006": "The tax returns will show Trump to be a crook; the Mueller Report will prove him a traitor", "0-zRWT1DI9g-00011-00011006-00011897": "Right now there are rumors across social media that his people are attempting to negotiate an exit for him before Thursday", "0-zRWT1DI9g-00012-00011897-00012610": "Don’t believe it. This guy has too much at stake, and there are too many villains watching his back", "0-zRWT1DI9g-00013-00012610-00013258": "He’s raking in the dough-nations for a second term, so he won’t go without a fight"}}, {"audio_id": "0_60tTTu7c8", "text": {"0_60tTTu7c8-00000-00000571-00002527": "Michael Cohen on Wednesday provided the House Intelligence Committee with new documents showing edits to the false written statement he delivered to Congress in 2017 about the Trump Organization's pursuit of the Trump Tower Moscow project into the 2016 campaign season, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter", "0_60tTTu7c8-00001-00002527-00004977": "The documents Cohen provided are intended to further explain his public testimony last week, in which Cohen said that President Donald Trump's then-personal lawyer Jay Sekulow made changes to his statement to the House and Senate Intelligence Committees, and that it was reviewed ahead of time by lawyers like Abbe Lowell, an attorney for Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, the President's daughter and son-in-law who are both White House advisers", "0_60tTTu7c8-00002-00004977-00005654": "It's unclear what Cohen's documents show was specifically changed in the statement", "0_60tTTu7c8-00003-00005654-00006276": "Cohen testified Wednesday behind closed doors at the House Intelligence Committee", "0_60tTTu7c8-00004-00006276-00006908": "\"There were changes made, additions -- Jay Sekulow, for one,\" Cohen said last week", "0_60tTTu7c8-00005-00006908-00008203": "\"There were several changes that were made including how we were going to handle that message, which was -- the message of course being -- the length of time that the Trump Tower Moscow project stayed and remained alive''", "0_60tTTu7c8-00006-00008203-00009964": "Sekulow pushed back on Cohen's allegations in a statement last week, saying that the \"testimony by Michael Cohen that attorneys for the President edited or changed his statement to Congress to alter the duration of the Trump Tower Moscow negotiations is completely false", "0_60tTTu7c8-00007-00009964-00011947": "\".As CNN previously reported, according to two of the sources familiar with the preparation, including one close to the Trump Organization and one close to the President's legal team, the lawyers had no indication that any of the information in the testimony of Trump's now-former longtime attorney and fixer was inaccurate", "0_60tTTu7c8-00008-00011947-00013237": "Lanny Davis, Cohen's attorney, told CNN that Cohen himself authored the false line in his 2017 testimony to Congress about the Trump Tower Moscow project timeline", "0_60tTTu7c8-00009-00013237-00015261": "Cohen wrote the initial draft of the testimony himself and then his attorney Stephen Ryan edited it, sharing it with other attorneys who were part of the joint defense agreement, to review for accuracy and potential privilege issues and those attorneys provided some suggested changes, a source familiar with the drafting of Cohen's testimony said", "0_60tTTu7c8-00010-00015261-00015807": "Cohen and his attorney approved all changes, according to the source"}}, {"audio_id": "0Ifgec7X7Sy", "text": {"0Ifgec7X7Sy-00000-00000571-00001310": "Supporters and opponents of President Donald Trump are rushing to defend Trump’s deputy at the U", "0Ifgec7X7Sy-00001-00001310-00002943": "S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Lee Francis Cissna.Sen. Chuck Grassley tweeted in support of Cissna, who is facing immediate firing as Trump cleans house at the Department of Homeland Security, according to a wide series of media reports", "0Ifgec7X7Sy-00002-00002943-00003979": "Trump has already fired Kirstjen Nielsen and replaced her with Kevin McAleenan, the commissioner of the Customs and Border Protection agency within DHS", "0Ifgec7X7Sy-00003-00003979-00005069": "Many media reports say Trump also plans to fire the DHS’s acting deputy leader Claire Grady, and DHS general counsel John Mitnick", "0Ifgec7X7Sy-00004-00005069-00005960": ".Cissna is also on the chopping block, even though Trump’s critics say Cissna has done a very good job for Trump", "0Ifgec7X7Sy-00005-00005960-00007613": "Cissna’s agency handles a vast amount of tasks — including curbing fraud by migrants, developing and implementing asylum reforms, overseeing the citizenship process, and tracking the visa worker programs, which keep a population of more than 1", "0Ifgec7X7Sy-00006-00007613-00008956": "5 million white-collar workers in U.S. jobs.“Cissna is the best thing that has happened to that agency since was created,” said Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform", "0Ifgec7X7Sy-00007-00008956-00010003": "Under President Barack Obama, “it was taken over by people who thought it was their job to rubber-stamp [work] visa applications, to [always] ‘Get to Yes’", "0Ifgec7X7Sy-00008-00010003-00011317": ", [but now] Cissna is applying the law,” said Stein. . .Cissna is also backed by Mark Krikorian, the director of the Center for Immigration Studies, which favors Trump’s “Hire American” policy", "0Ifgec7X7Sy-00009-00011317-00012686": "Moreover, Krikorian’s argument in favor of Cissna is backed by an advocate for cheap labor immigration, Alex Nowrasteh at the Cato Institute, who bitterly opposes Trump’s pro-American immigration policies"}}, {"audio_id": "0LO2RcoT69u", "text": {"0LO2RcoT69u-00000-00000000-00000200": "hi this shane cohen my first vedio", "0LO2RcoT69u-00001-00000200-00000400": "yeah im late in the commtry tary", "0LO2RcoT69u-00002-00000400-00000480": "thats sussy baka", "0LO2RcoT69u-00003-00000480-00001375": "hiiiii"}}, {"audio_id": "0NWBenWnJxU", "text": {"0NWBenWnJxU-00000-00000571-00001749": "A bipartisan group of 58 former national security officials on Monday issued a blistering critique of President Donald Trump’s efforts to build a barrier along the U", "0NWBenWnJxU-00001-00001749-00002472": "S.-Mexico border, saying there was “no plausible” justification for declaring a national emergency", "0NWBenWnJxU-00002-00002472-00004238": "“We have lived and worked through national emergencies, and we support the President’s power to mobilize the Executive Branch to respond quickly in genuine national emergencies,” reads the letter from the group, which includes former Secretaries of State Madeleine Albright and John Kerry", "0NWBenWnJxU-00003-00004238-00005544": "“But 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''", "0NWBenWnJxU-00004-00005544-00006508": "The 13-page statement, which was first reported by The Washington Post, is expected to be entered into the Congressional Record on Monday", "0NWBenWnJxU-00005-00006508-00007582": "The president declared a national emergency earlier this month in an effort to unilaterally build his wall after Congress stonewalled his demand for $5", "0NWBenWnJxU-00006-00007582-00008449": "7 billion to do so. Many have accused him of manufacturing a crisis in the absence of a genuine emergency", "0NWBenWnJxU-00007-00008449-00010489": "The group of officials on Monday echoed those sentiments. Signatories include former CIA Director John Brennan, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, former Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and former Ambassadors to the United Nations Thomas Pickering, Samantha Power and Susan Rice", "0NWBenWnJxU-00008-00010489-00011427": "“The President’s actions are at odds with the overwhelming evidence in the public record, including the administration’s own data and estimates,” the group wrote", "0NWBenWnJxU-00009-00011427-00012495": "A Cato Institute analysis showed that undocumented immigrants in Texas are 44 percent less likely to be incarcerated than native-born U", "0NWBenWnJxU-00010-00012495-00014052": "S. citizens, according to the letter. The declaration also stated that a border wall will not reduce human and drug trafficking because most opioids are brought in through ports of entry and because most victims of human trafficking arrive in the U", "0NWBenWnJxU-00011-00014052-00014433": "S. with valid visas"}}, {"audio_id": "0pWuk6BC6su", "text": {"0pWuk6BC6su-00000-00000571-00002300": "President Trump is decrying federal judges who have routinely blocked his immigration reform agenda, as former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach is considered for the top position at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) precisely for his longtime legal expertise", "0pWuk6BC6su-00001-00002300-00002984": "During conversations with the media on Tuesday, Trump slammed a recent decision by U", "0pWuk6BC6su-00002-00002984-00004614": "S. District Judge Richard Seeborg in San Francisco, California that blocks the administration’s implementation of the “Remain in Mexico” policy whereby border crossers and illegal aliens seeking asylum in the country are returned to Mexico until their court hearings", "0pWuk6BC6su-00003-00004614-00005474": ".“We have a judge that just ruled, incredibly, that he doesn’t want people staying in Mexico,” Trump said in the Oval Office", "0pWuk6BC6su-00004-00005474-00006163": "“Figure that one out. Nobody can believe these decisions we’re getting from the 9th Circuit", "0pWuk6BC6su-00005-00006163-00008078": "It’s a disgrace.”.Those frustrations with pro-migration attorneys and activist judges, insiders tell Breitbart News, are precisely the reason Kobach is uniquely fit to lead DHS considering his background of legal expertise on immigration dating back to the early days of President George W", "0pWuk6BC6su-00006-00008078-00009332": "Bush’s administration.Currently, insiders say, Trump’s immigration reforms are stifled by career attorneys and bureaucrats opposed to changes to the immigration system", "0pWuk6BC6su-00007-00009332-00010680": "Kobach, they assert, can carry out the president’s initiatives, as he has championed mainstream immigration reforms like E-Verify, an Entry/Exit system, and a sustainable immigration court process", "0pWuk6BC6su-00008-00010680-00012002": ".Kobach graduated summa cum laude and top of his class at Harvard University in 1988 before earning his doctorate in political science at the University of Oxford in 1992", "0pWuk6BC6su-00009-00012002-00012819": "Afterward, Kobach earned a law degree from Yale University in 1995, which kick-started his legal career", "0pWuk6BC6su-00010-00012819-00014120": "While serving as a judicial clerk in the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals for Judge Deanell Tacha, Kobach was hired as a constitutional law professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law", "0pWuk6BC6su-00011-00014120-00015515": "In 2001, Kobach won one of 12 coveted White House Fellowships — a selective program started in 1964 i8n which fellows are assigned to members of a president’s cabinet or leadership team", "0pWuk6BC6su-00012-00015515-00017095": ".Kobach was assigned to work for then-Attorney General John Ashcroft, just a week before the September 11 terrorist attacks, soon becoming Ashcroft’s chief adviser on immigration law and border security and Counselor to the Attorney General", "0pWuk6BC6su-00013-00017095-00018877": "Following the September 11 terrorist attacks, Kobach was tasked with overseeing the Immigration and Naturalization Service’s (INS) response to the attacks, addressing the core gaps in the country’s legal immigration system that allowed all of the 9/11 hijackers to arrive in the U", "0pWuk6BC6su-00014-00018877-00020776": "S. legally and five to remain in the country illegally.While overseeing the Justice Department’s efforts to close loopholes in the legal immigration system after 9/11, Kobach created the National Security Entry/Exit Registration System (NSEERS) — the first Entry/Exit system in U", "0pWuk6BC6su-00015-00020776-00022398": "S. history.Kobach’s NSEERS system provided U.S. officials with a streamlined process for registering, fingerprinting, and tracking legal immigrants deemed to be “high-risk” due to their ties to foreign countries labeled as state sponsors of terrorism", "0pWuk6BC6su-00016-00022398-00023809": "In 2002, while at the Justice Department, Kobach overhauled the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) to streamline the appellate court system in order to fast-track cases where outcomes were easily determined", "0pWuk6BC6su-00017-00023809-00025130": "Kobach’s BIA reform effort decreased the bottleneck in the system.Years later, in 2009, Kobach co-authored Arizona’s mandatory E-Verify law, which was taken all the way to the U", "0pWuk6BC6su-00018-00025130-00026794": "S. Supreme Court ,where it was ultimately ruled constitutional. The reform, led by Kobach, resulted in not only mandatory E-Verify laws being adopted in Arizona, a border state, but also in non-border states like Mississippi and Alabama", "0pWuk6BC6su-00019-00026794-00028127": ".New York magazine writer Andrew Sullivan, a moderate-minded liberal, has called mandatory E-Verify “a completely humane way to enforce immigration law in the interior of the country via employment", "0pWuk6BC6su-00020-00028127-00029642": "”.Mandatory E-Verify is likewise supported by many lawmakers associated with the Republican establishment, including Senators Mitt Romney (R-UT) and Rob Portman (R-OH), and has gained support from the U", "0pWuk6BC6su-00021-00029642-00031598": "S. Chamber of Commerce.Conservative ranks in the Senate, insiders tell Breitbart News, have said perceived objections to Kobach are largely a charade and have no bearing on actual votes that the former Kansas Secretary of State would need to be confirmed to enact the president’s reforms at DHS", "0pWuk6BC6su-00022-00031598-00032630": "Insiders say Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Sen. Doug Jones (D-AL) could swing in Kobach’s favor, should he be nominated", "0pWuk6BC6su-00023-00032630-00033484": "Conservative ranks also believe Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) is more likely than not to support a Kobach confirmation"}}, {"audio_id": "0UHXJ2Gi46g", "text": {"0UHXJ2Gi46g-00000-00000571-00001806": "Remember the awkward situation below, when Melania refused to hold her husband’s hand in public?  This has been happening more obviously since the Stormy Daniels affair became public", "0UHXJ2Gi46g-00001-00001806-00002854": "Melania doesn’t say anything publicly, but it’s evident what she’s thinking.Not to mention, apparently she’s not being so silent behind the scenes", "0UHXJ2Gi46g-00002-00002854-00003734": "It is being reported that Vanessa Trump sought advice from her mother-in-law before filing for divorce from Donald Trump Jr", "0UHXJ2Gi46g-00003-00003734-00004486": "US Weekly is reporting that Melania said “The Trump men are one and the same — vain and ­power-hungry", "0UHXJ2Gi46g-00004-00004486-00005602": "” Melania told her,“she could do nothing to change that and offering her husband an ultimatum would be a huge mistake because he would choose his thirst for power like his dad", "0UHXJ2Gi46g-00005-00005602-00006845": "” While it’s not clear which camp leaked this interesting detail, it really could have been either Melania’s or Vanessa’s in an effort to tell the public why she finally decided to file for divorce", "0UHXJ2Gi46g-00006-00006845-00007634": "Regardless of the reason, this is the first real glimpse we are getting of how Melania feels about her husband", "0UHXJ2Gi46g-00007-00007634-00008431": "Turns out, she sees him the same way America sees him.He’s vain, power hungry and will never change"}}, {"audio_id": "0Xg4-QfRZLy", "text": {"0Xg4-QfRZLy-00000-00000513-00001819": "For the past year, the worst of the TV pundits have tried to scare you into staying tuned in by pushing the frightening narrative that Donald Trump could just pardon everyone at any moment and magically get away with it all", "0Xg4-QfRZLy-00001-00001819-00002592": "If you’ve been reading Palmer Report, or if you’re familiar with pardons at all, you know they don’t work that way", "0Xg4-QfRZLy-00002-00002592-00003969": "Yesterday, when New York brought its entirely expected state level charges against Manafort in order to ensure there would be no point in pardoning him, these same pundits treated it like shocking breaking news", "0Xg4-QfRZLy-00003-00003969-00004695": "At least the most breathless of pundits have finally moved past the nonsensical pardon narrative", "0Xg4-QfRZLy-00004-00004695-00005896": "After all, they can’t keep credibly claiming that Donald Trump is going to pardon his way out of this, now that they’ve just had to acknowledge to their audiences that pardons are out the window", "0Xg4-QfRZLy-00005-00005896-00006824": "But now they need something new to scare people into staying tuned in, and it appears the worst of the lot have already settled on it: double jeopardy", "0Xg4-QfRZLy-00006-00006824-00008130": "For the past year, the worst of the TV pundits have tried to scare you into staying tuned in by pushing the frightening narrative that Donald Trump could just pardon everyone at any moment and magically get away with it all", "0Xg4-QfRZLy-00007-00008130-00008903": "If you’ve been reading Palmer Report, or if you’re familiar with pardons at all, you know they don’t work that way", "0Xg4-QfRZLy-00008-00008903-00010280": "Yesterday, when New York brought its entirely expected state level charges against Manafort in order to ensure there would be no point in pardoning him, these same pundits treated it like shocking breaking news", "0Xg4-QfRZLy-00009-00010280-00011006": "At least the most breathless of pundits have finally moved past the nonsensical pardon narrative", "0Xg4-QfRZLy-00010-00011006-00012207": "After all, they can’t keep credibly claiming that Donald Trump is going to pardon his way out of this, now that they’ve just had to acknowledge to their audiences that pardons are out the window", "0Xg4-QfRZLy-00011-00012207-00013135": "But now they need something new to scare people into staying tuned in, and it appears the worst of the lot have already settled on it: double jeopardy", "0Xg4-QfRZLy-00012-00013135-00015018": "The Manhattan District Attorney isn’t some complete idiot who was born yesterday. He’s clearly choreographed this with Robert Mueller from the start, which is to say that Mueller didn’t bring federal charges on these sixteen specific counts, because he was always going to let the state handle them as an insurance policy", "0Xg4-QfRZLy-00013-00015018-00016071": "Donald Trump and Paul Manafort cannot simply wave a “double jeopardy” magic wand and ride off into the sunset, because nothing comes even close to working that way", "0Xg4-QfRZLy-00014-00016071-00017366": "Those facts about double jeopardy don’t matter, of course, for the same reason it didn’t matter that Donald Trump was never going to be able to pardon the state level charges that were always going to be a part of this", "0Xg4-QfRZLy-00015-00017366-00017946": "Manafort will try to use a double jeopardy defense, but it won’t get him anywhere", "0Xg4-QfRZLy-00016-00017946-00018746": "Let’s not forget he just went down on ten federal charges. His attorneys don’t have superpowers", "0Xg4-QfRZLy-00017-00018746-00019866": "So here’s my advice: ignore the double jeopardy narrative. Any legal expert (who’s not hyping it up for the cameras) will tell you that this isn’t even an issue", "0Xg4-QfRZLy-00018-00019866-00021026": "Further, ignore any TV pundits who try to spend the next few weeks trying to keep you tuned in by insisting that the double jeopardy magic wand is about to be waved at any moment", "0Xg4-QfRZLy-00019-00021026-00021622": "It’s an easy litmus test for figuring out who’s worth watching and who isn’t"}}, {"audio_id": "10GQaRhaIpu", "text": {"10GQaRhaIpu-00000-00000571-00001401": "Tom Steyer is a wealthy businessman who is funding multiple campaigns to impeach popular vote loser Donald Trump", "10GQaRhaIpu-00001-00001401-00002096": "Steyer’s team has now lit up Times Square in New York City with a message for the American people", "10GQaRhaIpu-00002-00002096-00002733": "Tom Steyer sent out the following email to petition signers explaining the billboard", "10GQaRhaIpu-00003-00002733-00003595": "If you happened to be walking around Times Square today, like countless Americans do every day, you may have noticed something:", "10GQaRhaIpu-00004-00003595-00004301": "A brand new Need To Impeach digital billboard, featuring a map and a running count of the 2", "10GQaRhaIpu-00005-00004301-00005074": "5 million Americans (and growing by the second) who have already signed the petition to impeach Donald Trump", "10GQaRhaIpu-00006-00005074-00006226": "We launched this billboard in Times Square for a simple reason: The American people, Congress, and President Trump himself need to see the nationwide strength of our movement", "10GQaRhaIpu-00007-00006226-00007273": "So we’re making a splash that millions of people will see — and we hope you’ll share it far and wide, so folks who aren’t walking around Times Square can see it, too", "10GQaRhaIpu-00008-00007273-00008316": "Donald Trump continues to taunt rogue nuclear powers, attempt to cut taxes for wealthy corporations, and undermine our nation’s healthcare system", "10GQaRhaIpu-00009-00008316-00009583": "He’s a clear and present danger to the United States.Enough is enough. Americans across the country are declaring that this president is unfit for office and must be removed", "10GQaRhaIpu-00010-00009583-00010554": "Thanks,.Tom Steyer.Tom Steyer is a wealthy businessman who is funding multiple campaigns to impeach President Donald Trump", "10GQaRhaIpu-00011-00010554-00011249": "Steyer’s team has now lit up Times Square in New York City with a message for the American people"}}, {"audio_id": "1qqU_p30Z0M", "text": {"1qqU_p30Z0M-00000-00000571-00001597": "It was a moment of diplomatic stagecraft months in the making. But it didn’t take long for President Donald Trump’s domestic troubles to get in the way", "1qqU_p30Z0M-00001-00001597-00003358": "As Trump sat alongside the North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un, at a luxury hotel here, he was immediately confronted by the explosive allegations that his former longtime lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, planned to deliver to lawmakers in Washington later Wednesday", "1qqU_p30Z0M-00002-00003358-00004027": "“Mr. President, any reaction to Michael Cohen and his testimony?” a reporter asked", "1qqU_p30Z0M-00003-00004027-00004865": "Trump simply shook his head. “Thank you,” he said, dismissing the reporters and photographers gathered before him", "1qqU_p30Z0M-00004-00004865-00005970": "Later Wednesday, the White House announced that it was limiting the number of reporters who would be permitted to attend a portion of Trump’s dinner with Kim “due to the sensitive nature of the meetings''", "1qqU_p30Z0M-00005-00005970-00008026": "As he has worked to turn President Vladimir Putin of Russia and Kim of North Korea from foes into friends, and to rebalance the United States’ relationship with China, scandals at home have repeatedly intruded on Trump, creating dueling headlines and distracting a president who pays inordinate attention to the news coverage of his presidency", "1qqU_p30Z0M-00006-00008026-00010001": "This time was no different.While the president was dining on grilled cod fish and roasted Wagyu beef medallions alongside Vietnamese leaders earlier Wednesday, Cohen released a copy of his prepared testimony, undercutting the president’s self-styled image as a dealmaker by labeling him a “conman” and a “cheat", "1qqU_p30Z0M-00007-00010001-00011315": "”.Cohen, who has cooperated extensively with special counsel Robert Mueller as well as federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York, said in written testimony that he had proof of the president’s “illicit” acts", "1qqU_p30Z0M-00008-00011315-00012694": "This includes a check Trump purportedly wrote after he became president to reimburse Cohen for a pre-election hush-money payment to the adult-film actress Stormy Daniels, who alleges she had an affair with Trump", "1qqU_p30Z0M-00009-00012694-00014433": "The Cohen drama appeared to grate on some in the White House. “I only hope that they focus on the issues at hand and didn’t fly halfway around the world to ask questions they could have asked here,\" senior Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway told Fox News on Wednesday morning", "1qqU_p30Z0M-00010-00014433-00015507": "Asked for comment about the Cohen testimony, the White House referred POLITICO to White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders' statement from Tuesday", "1qqU_p30Z0M-00011-00015507-00016609": "\"It’s laughable that anyone would take a convicted liar like Cohen at his word, and pathetic to see him given yet another opportunity to spread his lies,\" Sanders said", "1qqU_p30Z0M-00012-00016609-00017858": "The Cohen revelations created another surreal split-screen moment as cable news channels dissected the testimony even as Trump and Kim arrived for the first face-to-face meeting of the summit", "1qqU_p30Z0M-00013-00017858-00018989": "The two leaders shook hands in front of North Korean and American flags, with Kim briefly smiling and Trump declaring that he believed the summit would be a “great success''", "1qqU_p30Z0M-00014-00018989-00019885": "Asked by a reporter whether the summit would result in a formal declaration ending the Korean War, Trump said, “We’ll see", "1qqU_p30Z0M-00015-00019885-00021013": "” The president repeatedly praised Kim, who has been credibly accused of overseeing mass murders and widespread human rights violations, saying it was an “honor” to be with him", "1qqU_p30Z0M-00016-00021013-00021740": "“Our relationship is a very special relationship,” Trump said later, ahead of a dinner with Kim"}}, {"audio_id": "1rzdD77rwok", "text": {"1rzdD77rwok-00000-00000000-00001196": "Donald Trump has a habit of selecting unusual people for positions of power. He gave power over the Veterans Administration (VA) to two members of his Mar-a-Lago club", "1rzdD77rwok-00001-00001196-00002061": "POTUS has chosen people for cabinet positions who have a history of condemning all that would fall beneath the scope of their new influence", "1rzdD77rwok-00002-00002061-00003581": "Still, his latest choice was the strangest of all.Former Fox News host and State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert released a statement withdrawing from any consideration for the United Nations (UN) ambassadorship position", "1rzdD77rwok-00003-00003581-00004443": "Although the president had announced that he had chosen her for the job, his formal nomination had not yet arrived at the Senate", "1rzdD77rwok-00004-00004443-00005341": "Trump tweeted that he had chosen Nauert on December 7, which was well before the White House career people could thoroughly vet her", "1rzdD77rwok-00005-00005341-00006089": "In fact, the Office of Government Ethics’ paperwork she filled out had not even been reviewed prior to that tweet", "1rzdD77rwok-00006-00006089-00006773": "In her withdrawal statement from the State Department, Nauert wrote, according to CNN:", "1rzdD77rwok-00007-00006773-00007815": "‘I am grateful to President Trump and Secretary Pompeo for the trust they placed in me for considering me for the position of US Ambassador to the United Nations", "1rzdD77rwok-00008-00007815-00008826": "However, the past two months have been grueling for my family and therefore it is in the best interest of my family that I withdraw my name from consideration", "1rzdD77rwok-00009-00008826-00009469": "’Nauert continued, noting that serving in this administration was one of her “highest honors:”", "1rzdD77rwok-00010-00009469-00010743": "‘Serving in the Administration for the past two years has been one of the highest honors of my life and I will always be grateful to the President, the Secretary, and my colleagues at the State Department for their support", "1rzdD77rwok-00011-00010743-00011449": "’Nauert was the State Department spokesperson for nearly two years, beginning in April 2017", "1rzdD77rwok-00012-00011449-00012243": "During that time, she hired a nanny who was in the U.S. “legally but not legally allowed to work", "1rzdD77rwok-00013-00012243-00013779": "” In addition, the nanny did not pay taxes while she worked for Nauert. Apparently, the State Department spokesperson did not report this information until she was selected for the UN ambassadorship, according to CNN’s source", "1rzdD77rwok-00014-00013779-00014847": "The source, who was helping Nauert prepare for the Senate hearing on her nomination, said the spokesperson did disclose the nanny in the UN position’s paperwork", "1rzdD77rwok-00015-00014847-00016004": "The nanny paid her back taxes, so White House staff believe they could weather the situation at first, but later Nauert agreed with them that she should not accept the nomination", "1rzdD77rwok-00016-00016004-00016751": "Her withdrawal was a surprise to some of the White House officials, but they assumed it was a bureaucratic holdup", "1rzdD77rwok-00017-00016751-00017590": "Indeed, Nauert had been answering emails in her official State Department spokesperson role until very recently", "1rzdD77rwok-00018-00017590-00018953": "She is not expected to return to her spokesperson job.CNN had reported earlier that the White House, Capitol Hill, and the United Nations felt a lack of urgency on quickly confirming Nauert", "1rzdD77rwok-00019-00018953-00020037": "At first, White House officials blamed the government shutdown. After the government re-opened, no one would admit that nominating her was a priority", "1rzdD77rwok-00020-00020037-00022493": "A senior diplomatic source told CNN:.‘There have been predictions of a stormy ride in confirmation, with many on the Hill saying this was a job done‎ by Henry Cabot Lodge, Madeleine Albright, Daniel Moynihan, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Richard Holbrooke, Bill Richardson … and now a Fox News presenter?’Secretary of State Mike Pompeo released a statement from the State Department about Nauert:", "1rzdD77rwok-00021-00022493-00023120": "‘Heather Nauert has performed her duties as a senior member of my team with unequalled excellence", "1rzdD77rwok-00022-00023120-00024374": "Her personal decision today to withdraw her name from consideration to become the nominee for United States Ambassador to the United Nations is a decision for which I have great respect", "1rzdD77rwok-00023-00024374-00025471": "I wish Heather nothing but the best in all of her future endeavors and know that she will continue to be a great representative of this nation in whatever role she finds herself", "1rzdD77rwok-00024-00025471-00025571": "’"}}, {"audio_id": "1-qA5RciFiQ", "text": {"1-qA5RciFiQ-00000-00000513-00001424": "President Donald Trump ridiculed 2020 Democratic Presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke for wanting to take down border walls", "1-qA5RciFiQ-00001-00001424-00002373": "Without specifically naming O’Rourke, Trump scoffed at his proposal.“I see a new candidate in the mix, he wants to take down the walls", "1-qA5RciFiQ-00002-00002373-00003146": "Try that sometime, you’ll see what will happen,” he said. “You’d have tens of millions of people coming in”", "1-qA5RciFiQ-00003-00003146-00003940": "Trump also pointed to the walls that were working in Tijuana, keeping thousands of illegal immigrants from getting in", "1-qA5RciFiQ-00004-00003940-00004572": "“You want to see a mess? Take down that wall, you’ll see what will happen,” he said", "1-qA5RciFiQ-00005-00004572-00005510": "Trump cited progress on the wall, despite Democrat attempts to block it.“As we build it, it gets better and better,” Trump said", "1-qA5RciFiQ-00006-00005510-00006975": "“This is serious stuff. We’re able to do it cheaper, better, it’s better wall, it’s different from what you’ve been watching growing up … It’s a beautiful looking structure, it’s much stronger, and you can build it faster and cheaper\""}}, {"audio_id": "1__P5Y5A0ro", "text": {"1__P5Y5A0ro-00000-00000571-00001318": "Donald Trump is making the most of the last days before the Mueller report catches up to him once and for all", "1__P5Y5A0ro-00001-00001318-00002185": "Everyone’s wondering how he will spend these last few days before the dark cloud swallows his administration completely", "1__P5Y5A0ro-00002-00002185-00003005": "Trump has tried to go after health care again, “protected” the Special Olympics, and has had a few fits of rage", "1__P5Y5A0ro-00003-00003005-00003886": "Regardless of how he spends these days, the real question is what comes after that? What is his long term game plan?", "1__P5Y5A0ro-00004-00003886-00004849": "In a recent New York Times article, tucked away in the last paragraph we got a glimpse of what the administration seems to be planning for", "1__P5Y5A0ro-00005-00004849-00006691": "It says “After two years in office, Mr. Trump, 72, is tired, aides said. The unstoppable campaigner, so far, will commit to participating in only one campaign event a day, and recently balked at a possible rally out West during a fund-raising swing", "1__P5Y5A0ro-00006-00006691-00007349": "”.This should not be surprising given that Trump’s poor health is more than obvious", "1__P5Y5A0ro-00007-00007349-00008883": "His physical health is a mess and his cognitive abilities are dropping with each passing day, but why would his own people mention this to the New York Times? Perhaps they are trying to set the stage for a candidate to step aside when the chance presents itself", "1__P5Y5A0ro-00008-00008883-00009656": "At the very least, a few members of Trump’s inner circle are preparing for him to be a one-term president", "1__P5Y5A0ro-00009-00009656-00010523": "This seems interesting given that he’s currently claiming he was just exonerated and the most “successful President ever", "1__P5Y5A0ro-00010-00010523-00011560": "” Maybe he plans to hide behind Barr and push the scandals off as much as he can before announcing he’s had enough and he doesn’t plan to run for re-election", "1__P5Y5A0ro-00011-00011560-00012375": "It will be interesting to see if this surfaces again and if his team continues to work like this is a possibility"}}, {"audio_id": "1MUW1Jtw0rQ", "text": {"1MUW1Jtw0rQ-00000-00000571-00001966": "President Donald Trump said Democrats may vote to curb Central American migration into the United States — but did not show evidence that Democrats want to reform the laws that are encouraging the migration", "1MUW1Jtw0rQ-00001-00001966-00003870": "The United States has “the worst, dumbest immigration system in the world,” Trump said April 2, amid agency predictions that one million Central Americans will use Democrat-defended border loopholes as they join the migration into Americans’ workplaces, schools, housing market, and neighborhoods by October", "1MUW1Jtw0rQ-00002-00003870-00004567": "He continued:. .The Democrats could change it with one meeting.  Everybody would agree", "1MUW1Jtw0rQ-00003-00004567-00005205": "But they don’t want to change it because they don’t want to give the Republicans a victory", "1MUW1Jtw0rQ-00004-00005205-00006169": "They don’t want to change it because they want open borders, which means crimes — and lots of other things coming in, including drugs", "1MUW1Jtw0rQ-00005-00006169-00007331": "So we’ll see what happens.  I think the Democrats — today, I spoke to a couple of them and they — all of a sudden, they’re changing because they’re seeing it really is a crisis", "1MUW1Jtw0rQ-00006-00007331-00009186": "It is a national emergency on the border.  And let’s see if they can do it.On Tucker Carlson’s April 2 Fox TV show, homeland security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen declared, “I remain optimistic in the sense that I refuse to believe that the United States Congress will not act", "1MUW1Jtw0rQ-00007-00009186-00009946": "It’s not a partisan issue.”.But Nielsen also said she does not think the Democrats want to help, adding:", "1MUW1Jtw0rQ-00008-00009946-00011568": "I mean, look, at this point, I’ll be blunt. I think they’re blinded by politics. Unfortunately, they are blinded for what they see as a request from this administration, instead of looking at the requests and the way in which it is directly affecting Americans", "1MUW1Jtw0rQ-00009-00011568-00012200": "So I don’t believe that they don’t see [the drug smuggling], or they don’t understand it", "1MUW1Jtw0rQ-00010-00012200-00013057": "They are just willfully choosing to ignore it. But the more Americans who suffer, they are going to have to look at this", "1MUW1Jtw0rQ-00011-00013057-00014467": "I hope they do it sooner than later.There is little chance that Democrats are reversing their deep-rooted opposition to curbs on migration, said Rosemary Jenks, policy director at the Center for Immigraiton Studies", "1MUW1Jtw0rQ-00012-00014467-00015899": "“I have serious doubts, but hope springs eternal,” she said. .In the meantime, Trump should use his powers and pressure Nielsen to take unilateral action, even if the action angers Democrats, she said", "1MUW1Jtw0rQ-00013-00015899-00016672": "“Congress needs to act, but it is not the case that the only answer is for Congress to act,” she said", "1MUW1Jtw0rQ-00014-00016672-00017445": "“I don’t now know if the President is getting the information he needs about what powers he has,” she said", "1MUW1Jtw0rQ-00015-00017445-00018723": "“Secretary Nielsen and some of the attorneys in DHS are blocking the information because they are afraid of implementing some of the things they can do,” partly because they are afraid of lawsuits, she said", "1MUW1Jtw0rQ-00016-00018723-00020259": "For example, many so-called “Unaccompanied Alien Children” are being smuggled up the border because Trump’s agencies will pass them to their illegal immigrant parents living throughout the United States, under policies set by former President Barack Obama", "1MUW1Jtw0rQ-00017-00020259-00021787": "Those youths and children should be sent home, said Jenks, because the 2008 law only protects trafficked victims, such as forced prostitutes, not youths and children who have parents in the United States, or who are willingly smuggled up to the border", "1MUW1Jtw0rQ-00018-00021787-00023385": "Nielsen told Carlson that judges are not paying close enough attention to the migration, saying, “We have a lot of, in my opinion, court decisions that do not understand the full situation, the operational realities that we face every day", "1MUW1Jtw0rQ-00019-00023385-00024966": "”.Top Democrats continue to describe the inflow of economic migrants from Central American as a “humanitarian crisis,” and continue to urge DHS officials to provide more aid, welfare, and support to the migrants as they head up to U", "1MUW1Jtw0rQ-00020-00024966-00026836": "S. cities to accept jobs at wages far below the wages sought by Americans.“Democrats reject any effort to let the Administration deport little children, and we reject all anti-immigrant and anti-family attacks from this President,” House SpeakerNancy Pelosi said March 29", "1MUW1Jtw0rQ-00021-00026836-00028173": "Her statement said:. .The Administration’s failed policies have created senseless heartbreak and horror at the border, which must be addressed with effective, humane solutions that protect our borders and honor our values", "1MUW1Jtw0rQ-00022-00028173-00029641": "We cannot support the implementation of policies that we know will hurt traumatized children, rip apart vulnerable families, dishonor our values – and do absolutely nothing to solve the situation at the border", "1MUW1Jtw0rQ-00023-00029641-00030642": "We also call on the Administration to immediately cease sabotaging Congress’s efforts to address the root causes of the situation", "1MUW1Jtw0rQ-00024-00030642-00031394": "Threatening to withhold humanitarian assistance to Central America is not a solution and makes matters worse", "1MUW1Jtw0rQ-00025-00031394-00032091": "On CNN, Democratic presidential candidate Julian Castro dismissed the border rush", "1MUW1Jtw0rQ-00026-00032091-00033384": "“I don’t believe [the administration’s] narrative, I don’t believe the B.S. that women and children who are fleeing dangerous circumstances present a national security threat to this country,” he said April 3", "1MUW1Jtw0rQ-00027-00033384-00034343": "California Democratic Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard wants Congress to increase aid to help migrants get into the United States", "1MUW1Jtw0rQ-00028-00034343-00035061": "His district is reportedly the most Latino district in the nation, and likely includes many illegals", "1MUW1Jtw0rQ-00029-00035061-00036634": "In a March 29 statement, she said:.I ask you to imagine having no choice but to flee your home country – leaving behind everyone and everything you know – because it’s your only chance to stay alive, or the only way to protect your children", "1MUW1Jtw0rQ-00030-00036634-00037504": "Imagine enduring danger and abuse on the journey to our border, because you literally have no other choice if you want to survive", "1MUW1Jtw0rQ-00031-00037504-00038329": "Then, imagine finally getting to America’s border, only to be caged behind chain-linked fencing under a bridge", "1MUW1Jtw0rQ-00032-00038329-00039510": "Imagine the hopelessness and helplessness that these migrant families must feel, as the cries of caged children and the screams of captive babies echo through the holding pen", "1MUW1Jtw0rQ-00033-00039510-00040249": "This administration’s treatment of migrants is totally beneath all standards of American decency", "1MUW1Jtw0rQ-00034-00040249-00041051": "I will use every means at my disposal to make sure migrants in U.S. custody are kept safe and treated properly", "1MUW1Jtw0rQ-00035-00041051-00042503": "That includes preservation of their legal right to seek asylum in the U.S.  And I emphatically oppose Secretary Nielsen’s call to expedite the deportation of innocent children for whom America is their best hope for a better future", "1MUW1Jtw0rQ-00036-00042503-00044295": "Our laws should protect children, not threaten their safety.“Congress recently added extra humanitarian resources to DHS in its recently enacted funding bill for fiscal year 2019, and it looks like we will need further funding to address this humanitarian crisis", "1MUW1Jtw0rQ-00037-00044295-00045068": "I stand ready to quickly review and respond to any emergency supplemental appropriations request", "1MUW1Jtw0rQ-00038-00045068-00045899": "That request should include resources to help our non-profit partners provide migrants with shelter and support", "1MUW1Jtw0rQ-00039-00045899-00046962": ".The declared hope of aid from House Democrats does help Nielsen and other top officials to avoid pushing policies that might anger business groups", "1MUW1Jtw0rQ-00040-00046962-00048297": "For example, Nielsen rebuffed a suggestion from Carlson that the White House should require employers to use the E-Verify system to bar migrants from getting jobs which they need to pay their smuggling debts", "1MUW1Jtw0rQ-00041-00048297-00049128": "She said:.There is just a debate with Congress as to whether the Executive Branch has the authority to do that", "1MUW1Jtw0rQ-00042-00049128-00049961": "We can expand the program, but right now, it is only authorized in a voluntary way, not a mandatory way", "1MUW1Jtw0rQ-00043-00049961-00050697": "So we can do it, but as you know, what happens when we do is we get enjoined by the Courts", "1MUW1Jtw0rQ-00044-00050697-00051497": "So it is one of many issues we are looking to work with Congress on and we will continue to drive that", "1MUW1Jtw0rQ-00045-00051497-00052382": "Each year, roughly four million young Americans join the workforce after graduating from high school or university", "1MUW1Jtw0rQ-00046-00052382-00053289": "But the federal government then imports approximately 1.1 million legal immigrants, refreshes a resident population of roughly 1", "1MUW1Jtw0rQ-00047-00053289-00054362": "5 million white-collar guest workers and roughly 500,000 blue-collar visa workers, and also tolerates about eight million illegal workers", "1MUW1Jtw0rQ-00048-00054362-00055425": "This federal policy of flooding the market with cheap white-collar graduates and blue-collar foreign labor is intended to boost economic growth for investors", "1MUW1Jtw0rQ-00049-00055425-00057740": "This policy shifts enormous wealth from young employees towards older investors, widens wealth gaps, reduces high-tech investment, increases state and local tax burdens, hurts children’s schools and college education, pushes Americans away from high-tech careers, and sidelines millions of marginalized Americans, including many who are now struggling with fentanyl addictions"}}, {"audio_id": "1SCG3aLU9j0", "text": {"1SCG3aLU9j0-00000-00000571-00001634": "It’s hard to tell where the most corruption lies in the world of Donald Trump, between his businesses, his presidential campaign or his presidential administration", "1SCG3aLU9j0-00001-00001634-00002412": "The latest news suggests that his campaign and his business were working together to hold that distinction", "1SCG3aLU9j0-00002-00002412-00004189": "That’s right. Trump basically paid Trump for legal advice.  It’s the kind of blatant and obvious corruption that only Donald Trump could get away with, because clearly the world has given up on caring if this man is allowed to be a criminal in plain, public sight", "1SCG3aLU9j0-00003-00004189-00005372": "The Trump Campaign filed reports with the Federal Election Commission showing that The Trump Corporation repeatedly engaged in the illegal practice of law in 2017 and 2018", "1SCG3aLU9j0-00004-00005372-00006942": "It is a crime under N.Y. Jud. L. § 495 for a corporation to engage in the practice law and for officers, trustees, agents and employees of a corporation to directly or indirectly assist it to practice law", "1SCG3aLU9j0-00005-00006942-00007655": "Trump is the owner of The Trump Corporation, Don, Jr. is one of two Trustees and Eric is the CEO", "1SCG3aLU9j0-00006-00007655-00009118": "By allowing his campaign to pay The Trump Corporation $178,300 in 11 payments for legal consulting, Trump could face charges for assisting the corporation in the illegal practice of law", "1SCG3aLU9j0-00007-00009118-00010108": "Eric and Don, Jr. could also be charged with assisting in the crimes by allowing the corporation to engage in the illegal practice of law", "1SCG3aLU9j0-00008-00010108-00010855": "The Trumps are facing up to a year in jail for each violation if they are charged and convicted"}}, {"audio_id": "1VFCunwYZ7I", "text": {"1VFCunwYZ7I-00000-00000571-00002679": "Lies, braggadocio over dubious accomplishments, false accusations against enemies, taking credit for the work of his predecessor — this morning’s tweets from President Trump had all the ingredients to be considered a near perfect example of the president’s defensive posturing against the storm of controversy and corruption surrounding his administration", "1VFCunwYZ7I-00001-00002679-00005244": "Trump apparently felt that the best way to respond to the events of the week — a week where his overruling of intelligence agencies recommendations to deny security clearances to his daughter and son-in-law was revealed, New York State regulators subpoenaed the Trump Organization’s insurance broker, North Korea restarted its nuclear missile program, and a myriad of other damning events took place — was to attack and distract", "1VFCunwYZ7I-00002-00005244-00007214": "The attack was aimed at his usual shibboleth — the media — which he described in his typically hyperbolic and histrionic manner as “the most hostile and corrupt media in the history of American politics,” implying that his supposed accomplishments were achieved in some sort of battle with the press reporting on his administration’s actions", "1VFCunwYZ7I-00003-00007214-00008561": "Trump likely considers the media “hostile and corrupt” because it continues to perform its role in pointing out the truth behind Trump’s exaggerations and lies — lies like the ones contained in his tweet’s first sentence", "1VFCunwYZ7I-00004-00008561-00010406": "For the record, there is no indication in reality that the current state of American political media is any more unfriendly to Trump than it has been to other presidents, and, in fact, he has an entire cable news network dedicated to praising his every word, something that no other president has ever benefited from", "1VFCunwYZ7I-00005-00010406-00012106": "Trump’s claim that “the Trump Administration has accomplished more in its first two years than any other Administration” is such a blatantly false boast that it garnered a wave of laughter at the UN when he tried to peddle that load of horse manure in a speech before the General Assembly", "1VFCunwYZ7I-00006-00012106-00013945": "The list of “accomplishments” that the president then proceeds to cite, seems more like an outline of issues that any eventual Democratic opponent for the presidency (assuming that Trump evades indictment and/or impeachment long enough to run again) can utilize as a cudgel to bash Trump with during the campaign"}}, {"audio_id": "1WI8uRGi8OM", "text": {"1WI8uRGi8OM-00000-00000571-00001603": "Those who refuse to work cost YOU a lot of money every year.That’s why President Donald Trump’s “America First” policy is great for the country:", "1WI8uRGi8OM-00001-00001603-00002394": "Not only does it put more people to work, it lessens the burden on those who contribute on a daily basis", "1WI8uRGi8OM-00002-00002394-00003525": "And the results speak for themselves.Welfare has been steadily falling ever since Trump took office, and now this administration has achieved another major victory", "1WI8uRGi8OM-00003-00003525-00004486": "This time, it involves the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), also known as food stamps", "1WI8uRGi8OM-00004-00004486-00006085": "From Breitbart (citing stats from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA):“Overall participation in America’s food stamp program fell to 37 million for the first time since October 2009''", "1WI8uRGi8OM-00005-00006085-00008415": "The most recent USDA data revealed that 37,911,631 people received food stamps through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in December 2018 marking the lowest level of overall participation in the nation’s food stamp program in nearly ten years''", "1WI8uRGi8OM-00006-00008415-00009873": "The last time food stamp usage was this low? October 2009.Food stamp participation has actually been declining since 2013, when it hit its highest peak in American history", "1WI8uRGi8OM-00007-00009873-00011174": "And who was president in 2013 again?.Oh right, the same guy who also said the US economy couldn’t go much higher without him, but then Trump walked in and it DID go higher", "1WI8uRGi8OM-00008-00011174-00012036": "However, to Obama’s credit, food stamp usage starting dropping after several important laws were passed:", "1WI8uRGi8OM-00009-00012036-00013054": "These new laws required welfare recipients to work, volunteer, go to school, or attend job training for a certain number of hours each week", "1WI8uRGi8OM-00010-00013054-00014491": "But we only hit new lows when Trump pushed even harder.This administration has changed welfare programs like SNAP at federal and state levels of government, and Trump’s tax reform package has helped, too", "1WI8uRGi8OM-00011-00014491-00015379": "All told, a whopping 4.2 million people have stopped using food stamps during Trump’s presidency!", "1WI8uRGi8OM-00012-00015379-00016427": "I wonder what the total will be after four years or eight years?.It’s a major win, no matter how you look at it: America is working again!"}}, {"audio_id": "1iRKGi7_B0u", "text": {"1iRKGi7_B0u-00000-00000571-00002091": "Donald Trump Biographer and award-winning reporter David Cay Johnston called Trump a “useful idiot” while arguing that the US president is still a Russian asset, regardless of whether the special counsel could find a direct conspiracy", "1iRKGi7_B0u-00001-00002091-00003107": "“In the meaning, in the intelligence world, of the word ‘asset,’ Donald Trump is an asset,” Johnston said during an interview with Al Jazeera English", "1iRKGi7_B0u-00002-00003107-00004134": "“He is what the old Soviet Union called a ‘useful idiot.’ He has carried the water for the Kremlin repeatedly on things like attacking NATO and other positions", "1iRKGi7_B0u-00003-00004134-00004829": "”.“Regardless of what the Attorney General Bill Bar wrote in his summary, it’s clear, ” he added", "1iRKGi7_B0u-00004-00004829-00005960": "Johnston went on to say that the world has a lot of grey area when it comes to things like this, but for some reason, all roads seem to lead back to Russia for Trump", "1iRKGi7_B0u-00005-00005960-00006722": "“But the underlying important point here is we only know what Bill Barr’s spin is,” Johnston continued", "1iRKGi7_B0u-00006-00006722-00007699": "“Bill Barr without being dishonest can put a spin on this that helps the person who put him in office after he auditioned for that job", "1iRKGi7_B0u-00007-00007699-00008457": "”.“The world is not black and white,” Johnston said in response to criticism from his other panelist", "1iRKGi7_B0u-00008-00008457-00009246": "“Donald Trump will do things that are contradictory — all people do. The world isn’t black and white", "1iRKGi7_B0u-00009-00009246-00010061": "And keep in mind, Donald Trump is totally incompetent to be president. So, when you look at his actions…”", "1iRKGi7_B0u-00010-00010061-00010954": "At the end of the interview, Johnston said that the president has all of the power in the world to make the report public today or tomorrow", "1iRKGi7_B0u-00011-00010954-00011421": "He demanded to know why Trump is refusing to do so"}}, {"audio_id": "1jKPFHsCSHQ", "text": {"1jKPFHsCSHQ-00000-00000000-00000200": "три кошака", "1jKPFHsCSHQ-00001-00000200-00000400": "доктор ливси", "1jKPFHsCSHQ-00002-00000400-00000600": "идут"}}, {"audio_id": "20cgEKQHXWo", "text": {"20cgEKQHXWo-00000-00000571-00001691": "Democrats will request copies of President Donald Trump’s tax returns in a matter of weeks, according to one senior member of the tax committee in the House of Representatives", "20cgEKQHXWo-00001-00001691-00002650": ".Federal law says the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee can request any American’s personal tax information from the Treasury Department", "20cgEKQHXWo-00002-00002650-00003277": "Democrats will use that power in about two weeks, according to committee member Rep", "20cgEKQHXWo-00003-00003277-00004557": "Bill Pascrell (D-NJ).  .The Trump administration is “feeling the heat, there’s no question about it, because everybody’s talking about the tax returns now,” Pascrell said", "20cgEKQHXWo-00004-00004557-00005526": ".Committee Chairman Richard Neal (D-Mass) has said it is necessary to build a public case for the need to obtain Trump’s tax information", "20cgEKQHXWo-00005-00005526-00006822": "But he has declined to commit to a deadline. .“I don’t think that we have a definitive timeline right now, but that could change based on the information as it’s provided,” Neal told HuffPost on Wednesday", "20cgEKQHXWo-00006-00006822-00007848": ".Obtaining Trump’s tax returns is part of Democrats’ broader oversight of the Trump administration, which they began when they took control of the House this year", "20cgEKQHXWo-00007-00007848-00009144": "The House Judiciary Committee on Monday sent dozens of document requests to Trump affiliates who might have information about corruption within the Trump administration or Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign", "20cgEKQHXWo-00008-00009144-00010087": ".Past presidential candidates have disclosed tax info while campaigning and divested from their businesses once taking office", "20cgEKQHXWo-00009-00010087-00011040": "Trump did neither.Tax documents could show how much money Trump makes, where it comes from and how much he pays in taxes", "20cgEKQHXWo-00010-00011040-00012307": "Trump’s former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, testified last week before the House oversight committee that Trump manipulated the value of his assets to get a break on his tax bill", "20cgEKQHXWo-00011-00012307-00013318": ".For Ways and Means, Trump’s tax returns could show whether the IRS is doing a good job of enforcing the tax laws written by members of Congress", "20cgEKQHXWo-00012-00013318-00014527": "The IRS has already reported that individuals who underreport business income are the biggest contributors to the gap between what Americans collectively owe and what the IRS ultimately collects", "20cgEKQHXWo-00013-00014527-00015554": "In separate interviews over the past week, Pascrell and Neal have both said the other man supports his public statements, even though they seem to contradict each other", "20cgEKQHXWo-00014-00015554-00016633": "Pascrell complained last week that Neal was taking too long to request Trump’s tax info; Neal said Pascrell told him privately he was doing a good job", "20cgEKQHXWo-00015-00016633-00017523": "And Pascrell said Wednesday that Neal has had no complaint about his two-week prediction, which he first made on Tuesday", "20cgEKQHXWo-00016-00017523-00018892": "“I’m sticking with it,” Pascrell said.Neal has previously said he would wait until special counsel Robert Mueller had finished his investigation into the Trump campaign’s collusion with the Russian government in 2016", "20cgEKQHXWo-00017-00018892-00020757": "He has only ever committed to making the request sometime this year. .The law says the chairs of congressional tax committees can ask for private citizens’ tax information and the treasury secretary “shall furnish such committee with any return or return information specified in such request", "20cgEKQHXWo-00018-00020757-00021481": "” Congress created the law in the 1920s specifically as a check on corruption in the executive branch", "20cgEKQHXWo-00019-00021481-00022387": ".Neal has said his staff has been drafting the request carefully because the Trump administration will probably not comply with the law", "20cgEKQHXWo-00020-00022387-00023205": "A spokesperson for Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin has said only that Mnuchin will review any requests “for legality", "20cgEKQHXWo-00021-00023205-00024717": "” Democrats expect to wind up in court once they do request Trump’s taxes. .Ways and Means Republicans, for their part, say Democrats should just trust the IRS to audit the president, which the agency does every year by law"}}, {"audio_id": "242VL51oB4k", "text": {"242VL51oB4k-00000-00000513-00001976": "Even as Jerry Nadler’s House Judiciary Committee pushes forward with its broad investigation into numerous Donald Trump-related scandals, Elijah Cummings’ House Oversight Committee is focusing in on more specific scandals", "242VL51oB4k-00001-00001976-00003206": "Today, Cummings is targeting Jared Kushner over allegations that Kushner has been using personal email and an encrypted messaging service to communicate with foreign leaders", "242VL51oB4k-00002-00003206-00004206": ".Elijah Cummings is citing a meeting that he had with Kushner attorney Abbe Lowell back in December, which up to now wasn’t public knowledge", "242VL51oB4k-00003-00004206-00005549": "According to Cummings, Lowell admitted during the meeting that Jared Kushner uses the encrypted social media platform WhatsApp to communicate with world leaders, as reported by USA Today", "242VL51oB4k-00004-00005549-00006581": "This raises concerns on three levels. First, there is the question of whether this practice violates federal record keeping laws", "242VL51oB4k-00005-00006581-00007354": "Kushner claims he screen-shots all of his WhatsApp messages and submits them for collection", "242VL51oB4k-00006-00007354-00008349": "If this proves true, it would probably be compliant with the law.Second, there is the question of whether this practice is safe", "242VL51oB4k-00007-00008349-00009506": "According to Cummings, Kushner’s attorney said in December that he didn’t know whether or not Kushner was transmitting classified information via WhatsApp", "242VL51oB4k-00008-00009506-00010946": "This would raise various security issues. It’s also worth pointing out that Donald Trump routinely vilified his opponent Hillary Clinton for allegedly transmitting classified information via a private email server", "242VL51oB4k-00009-00010946-00011993": "Third, according to a new report from Politico, Jared Kushner “reportedly has communicated with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman via WhatsApp", "242VL51oB4k-00010-00011993-00013495": "” Considering that the Crown Price is widely believed to have been behind the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, we expect Elijah Cummings to ask a whole lot of questions going forward about those WhatsApp conversations", "242VL51oB4k-00011-00013495-00013793": "Stay tuned"}}, {"audio_id": "24SbojnvPpU", "text": {"24SbojnvPpU-00000-00000571-00001511": "After top national security officials testified at an annual hearing recently, President Trump took to Twitter to publicly insult them", "24SbojnvPpU-00001-00001511-00002974": "Trump’s outrage came after FBI director Chris Wray, CIA director Gina Haspel, and Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats gave testimonies on global security threats facing the United States at this time", "24SbojnvPpU-00002-00002974-00004714": "Trump became enraged when the officials testified, among other things, that even though Iran does still pose a threat, they are actually cooperating with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) that was put forth to keep Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons", "24SbojnvPpU-00003-00004714-00005544": "Since this goes against Trump’s claim that Iran is in direct violation of the deal, he immediately lashed out", "24SbojnvPpU-00004-00005544-00006722": "Of course, Trump wasn’t finished with just one tweet (is he ever?) and added, “They are testing Rockets (last week) and more, and are coming very close to the edge", "24SbojnvPpU-00005-00006722-00007485": "There economy is now crashing, which is the only thing holding them back. Be careful of Iran", "24SbojnvPpU-00006-00007485-00009157": "Perhaps Intelligence should go back to school!”.The tweets prompted one FBI agent, who wished to remain anonymous to respond, telling Business Insider, “He’s doing the enemy’s job for them,” referring to the daft comments made by the Commander in Chief", "24SbojnvPpU-00007-00009157-00010567": "In an interview with TIME, two intelligence officers lamented about when they had to deliver any news to Trump that might contradict his own beliefs, one comparing him to a toddler, and saying they TRY to avoid such run-ins", "24SbojnvPpU-00008-00010567-00012156": "“This isn’t unusual… It’s like when my son threw temper tantrums when I told him he couldn’t do something or if I said something he didn’t like… Of course, my son was three years old at the time and wasn’t sitting in the Oval Office with the nuclear", "24SbojnvPpU-00009-00012156-00013650": "Trump has spent much of his time in office seemingly trying to discredit the US Intelligence community in one form or another, from constant questioning of top professionals to twitter tirades which could threaten an entire nation’s security", "24SbojnvPpU-00010-00013650-00014556": "Glenn Carle, a former CIA covert operative who has spent his career sees it is a much bigger problem for the country and beyond", "24SbojnvPpU-00011-00014556-00015646": "“The US intelligence community’s job is to speak truth to power… It’s not to tell the executive what he wants to hear and what supports his positions", "24SbojnvPpU-00012-00015646-00016241": "But there’s never been a man in the Oval Office who has zero regard for the truth", "24SbojnvPpU-00013-00016241-00016931": "He is only interested in his own self-aggrandizement. There is nothing else. Nothing''", "24SbojnvPpU-00014-00016931-00018443": "Security experts have added that this type of behavior from a sitting President is a “goldmine” for those wishing to undermine our US intelligence, pointing out that our own President is doing exactly what foreign intelligence systems have been trying to do for decades"}}, {"audio_id": "25ObuXGeFtu", "text": {"25ObuXGeFtu-00000-00000571-00001323": "‘It was about sanctions,’ said the president in explaining what went wrong at the high-profile meeting in Vietnam", "25ObuXGeFtu-00001-00001323-00002292": "The two sides appeared on the cusp of signing an agreement on some incremental nuclear disarmament vows, but scuttled those plans at the last minute", "25ObuXGeFtu-00002-00002292-00003199": "\"It was about sanctions,\" Trump said in a press conference shortly after the White House announced the summit with North Korea would be cut short", "25ObuXGeFtu-00003-00003199-00004437": "\"Basically, they wanted the sanctions lifted in their entirety,\" he added. \"They were willing to denuke a large portion of the areas that we wanted, but we couldn't give up all of the sanctions for that''", "25ObuXGeFtu-00004-00004437-00005910": "It was an unexpected 180 degree turn at a summit that seemed to be moving toward a deal that Trump would portray as a major victory — another stump speech line for his rallies as the 2020 presidential race heats up", "25ObuXGeFtu-00005-00005910-00006837": "Instead, he found himself having to explain to the media at a hurried up press conference why the two sides had come away empty handed", "25ObuXGeFtu-00006-00006837-00008347": "It's a result likely to complicate the positive narrative Trump has been promoting about his overtures to North Korea, a country the international community has long isolated over Pyongyang's repeated military provocations and repression of its own population", "25ObuXGeFtu-00007-00008347-00009146": "\"Sometimes you have to walk,\" Trump said, noting later, \"We actually had papers ready to be signed", "25ObuXGeFtu-00008-00009146-00010601": "But it just wasn't appropriat''.Trump even seemed to concede that North Korea may not want to give up its nuclear program, echoing the regional analysts and national security leaders that Trump has long dismissed on the subject", "25ObuXGeFtu-00009-00010601-00011490": "North Korea, he told Fox News's Sean Hannity, is \"not ready for that and I understand that fully, I really do", "25ObuXGeFtu-00010-00011490-00011939": "I mean they spent a lot of time building it''"}}, {"audio_id": "2vvozeA-330", "text": {"2vvozeA-330-00000-00000000-00020400": "Гэта адзін з арыянтаў рабленьня прыгожых дэкаратыўных шляхоў. У дадзеным варыянце я выкарыстоўвываю блокі паліраванага граніта і каменнай цэглы."}}, {"audio_id": "2JzqBDsUIR4", "text": {"2JzqBDsUIR4-00000-00000513-00002124": "As the United States continues to grapple with the end of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) want his full final report released publicly", "2JzqBDsUIR4-00001-00002124-00002984": "Discussing William Barr’s Sunday letter to Congress summarizing the report, Pelosi and Schumer asserted in a joint statement:", "2JzqBDsUIR4-00002-00002984-00004966": "‘Attorney General Barr’s letter raises as many questions as it answers.  The fact that Special Counsel Mueller’s report does not exonerate the president on a charge as serious as obstruction of justice demonstrates how urgent it is that the full report and underlying documentation be made public without any further delay'", "2JzqBDsUIR4-00003-00004966-00006792": "Barr said in his letter that more material would be forthcoming after his team reviewed the Mueller report’s contents for anything covered by the federal legislation protecting grand jury proceedings.In the meantime, as Pelosi and Schumer note, a couple of key, troubling questions remain clear", "2JzqBDsUIR4-00004-00006792-00008287": "Barr shared that Mueller’s report specifically asserts it does not exonerate the president over allegations of obstruction of justice that have stemmed from his many public and private efforts to impede the progress of the Russia investigation", "2JzqBDsUIR4-00005-00008287-00009439": "Unsurprisingly, once Barr released his summary, Trump claimed the Mueller report concluded with “Total EXONERATION,” although it specifically says otherwise", "2JzqBDsUIR4-00006-00009439-00010481": "The president and his associates have desperately tenuous ground on which to base that claim because of a key part in Barr’s summary of Mueller’s report", "2JzqBDsUIR4-00007-00010481-00011928": "He shares that he and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein took it upon themselves to determine whether or not the president should be considered guilty of obstruction of justice, and they claim there’s ultimately no distinguishable offense", "2JzqBDsUIR4-00008-00011928-00012777": "That’s obviously strikingly different from the Mueller report’s conclusion, and House Democrats want answers", "2JzqBDsUIR4-00009-00012777-00013762": "House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) has already said he hopes to bring Barr in for questioning over the discrepancy", "2JzqBDsUIR4-00010-00013762-00015415": "Pelosi and Schumer added a jab straight at the Attorney General, offering:.‘Given Mr. Barr’s public record of bias against the Special Counsel’s inquiry, he is not a neutral observer and is not in a position to make objective determinations about the report'", "2JzqBDsUIR4-00011-00015415-00017207": "As discussed during his confirmation hearings, Barr specifically criticized Mueller’s probe into possible presidential obstruction of justice before even being nominated — and now he’s in office and we’re here, with him deciding to close up the key investigative question of his own accord", "2JzqBDsUIR4-00012-00017207-00019310": "House Democrats have made their intent to pick up the slack abundantly clear. Pelosi and Schumer asserted that Congress “requires the full report and the underlying documents so that the Committees can proceed with their independent work,” which includes investigations across the House Judiciary, Intelligence, and Oversight committees", "2JzqBDsUIR4-00013-00019310-00020673": "Nadler’s panel has been examining possible obstruction of justice, the Intelligence Committee’s Adam Schiff (D-Calif) has targeted possible corrupt foreign ties on the Trump team’s part, and Rep", "2JzqBDsUIR4-00014-00020673-00022175": "Elijah Cummings (D-Md) and the Oversight panel have looked at issues like why Michael Flynn got a pass to work inside the Trump administration while holding onto secrets about his relationships with Turkish and Russian governments"}}, {"audio_id": "32jzwtooLtI", "text": {"32jzwtooLtI-00000-00000513-00002098": "House Democrats who have pushed impeachment appear undeterred by the fact that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi threw cold water on the possibility in a recent interview by saying she's \"not for impeachment\" and President Donald Trump is \"just not worth it", "32jzwtooLtI-00001-00002098-00003214": "\".Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib, who announced last week that she plans to file an impeachment resolution later this month, vowed Tuesday to press ahead", "32jzwtooLtI-00002-00003214-00004094": "\"I'm going to move forward, obviously,\" she told reporters. \"It's important that there is a transparent process", "32jzwtooLtI-00003-00004094-00005849": "No one, not even the President, should be above the law.\".The Michigan lawmaker -- who sparked controversy when she told activists just hours after her swearing in that \"we're going to impeach the motherf****r\" -- insisted that she is not disappointed by Pelosi's comments", "32jzwtooLtI-00004-00005849-00007072": "\"No, absolutely not,\" Tlaib said. \"Speaker Pelosi has always encouraged me to represent my district, has never told me to stop, has never told me to do anything differently ever", "32jzwtooLtI-00005-00007072-00008185": "\".Democratic Rep. Al Green of Texas, who has previously attempted to force votes on impeachment, said Tuesday that he plans to push for another vote on the House floor", "32jzwtooLtI-00006-00008185-00009128": "\"There will be another vote on impeachment,\" he said during an interview on C-SPAN, adding, \"I'm going to bring it to the floor of the House again", "32jzwtooLtI-00007-00009128-00009749": "\" Green has not yet outlined a timeline however for when he expects that to happen", "32jzwtooLtI-00008-00009749-00010666": "In a reference to Pelosi saying that Trump is \"not worth it,\" Green said, \"This is not something new, whether the President is worth it", "32jzwtooLtI-00009-00010666-00011740": "But it's really not about him. It's not about Democrats. It's about democracy . the question we really have to ask ourselves is whether the country is worth it", "32jzwtooLtI-00010-00011740-00014091": "\".For now at least, most congressional Democrats are not pushing impeachment. The vast majority of the House Democratic caucus, including House Democratic leaders, have stressed that it is too early to be seriously talking about the possibility and have emphasized instead that they are focused on conducting rigorous oversight and investigations of the administration by the House Democratic majority", "32jzwtooLtI-00011-00014091-00015687": "That's not a new position for House Democratic leaders. \"I've said from day one that I think impeachment is divisive,\" Pelosi told CNN on Tuesday when pressed on why she's raising this prior to the release of special counsel Robert Mueller's report", "32jzwtooLtI-00012-00015687-00016760": "But the handful of House Democrats who have not shied away from talking about impeachment don't appear to be striking a different tone in the wake of Pelosi's recent comments", "32jzwtooLtI-00013-00016760-00017907": "It's an indication that at least some members of the caucus will continue trying to spotlight the issue even if House Democratic leaders would rather direct attention elsewhere", "32jzwtooLtI-00014-00017907-00019602": "Democratic Rep. Brad Sherman of California, who reintroduced articles of impeachment at the start of the 116th Congress, said on Tuesday that \"when public opinion is in support of removal, I am confident that the impeachment will go forward", "32jzwtooLtI-00015-00019602-00020909": "\".\"As to when to move forward with impeachment hearings: If you call them investigatory hearings, if you call them impeachment hearings, either way, we're showing the American people what this President has done", "32jzwtooLtI-00016-00020909-00021747": "We're changing public opinion and when public opinion is in support of removal, I'm confident that the impeachment will go forward", "32jzwtooLtI-00017-00021747-00022779": "\".Sherman added, however, \"to get public opinion on our side . frankly, I think it's going to take new facts as damning as the old facts are", "32jzwtooLtI-00018-00022779-00024247": "\".Freshman Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, who has said in the past that she would support impeachment, broke with Pelosi over the speaker's assessment that impeaching Trump wouldn't be \"worth it", "32jzwtooLtI-00019-00024247-00025145": "\".Asked by CNN if she has a different opinion, Ocasio-Cortez said, \"I happen to, yes", "32jzwtooLtI-00020-00025145-00026762": "\".Democratic Rep. Steve Cohen of Tennessee, who has also previously introduced articles of impeachment, said on Tuesday that he believes the President has \"done things that are certainly worthy of looking into impeachment,\" when asked if Trump should be impeached", "32jzwtooLtI-00021-00026762-00028034": "\"My personal position is he is a blight on American society, American government, the American nation and humanity,\" Cohen said, though he added that he trusted Pelosi's political judgment", "32jzwtooLtI-00022-00028034-00029139": "Tlaib said on Tuesday that the resolution she has said she plans to introduce \"is just one of the first steps\" and described it as a \"resolution to begin the investigation", "32jzwtooLtI-00023-00029139-00029941": "\".House Democrats have already seized the opportunity they now have as the majority party in the launch investigations", "32jzwtooLtI-00024-00029941-00031516": "Earlier this month, the House Judiciary Committee announced a sweeping investigation into the President's campaign, businesses, transition and administration, a probe that would lay the groundwork for Democrats if they choose to pursue impeachment proceedings", "32jzwtooLtI-00025-00031516-00033170": "House Judiciary Chair Jerry Nadler told CNN on Tuesday that he's \"not shutting the door\" on the possibility of impeachment, but cautioned, \"we're a long way from that\" and that it's the job of Congress \"to get the facts so that we can make an intelligent judgment", "32jzwtooLtI-00026-00033170-00033982": "\".\"Certainly, I'm not shutting the door,\" Nadler said. \"With regard to impeachment, we're a long way from that", "32jzwtooLtI-00027-00033982-00035236": ". Once we know all the facts then we'll have to make judgments. It's our job as Congress to get the facts so that we can make an intelligent judgment and I think we're not nearly there yet", "32jzwtooLtI-00028-00035236-00035973": "\".For now, prominent House Democrats are continuing to downplay the potential for impeachment", "32jzwtooLtI-00029-00035973-00037610": "House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said on Tuesday that he agreed with Pelosi on impeachment, saying \"the probability of success is low and the distraction would be major\" and that Congress needs to take public sentiment into account once the investigations are complete", "32jzwtooLtI-00030-00037610-00038789": "\"The American people are going to have to weigh what their thoughts are, because they made the decision as to who the President of the United States was going to be,\" Hoyer told reporters", "32jzwtooLtI-00031-00038789-00039520": "\"While we have impeachment authority, we need to be very cognizant of what the American people believe", "32jzwtooLtI-00032-00039520-00040288": "\".House Majority Whip James Clyburn said on Tuesday that he supports Pelosi's stance", "32jzwtooLtI-00033-00040288-00041445": "\"I support her position,\" Clyburn said. \"That we ought to let this work itself out and we'll make a decision at a time when the public has been brought along into the process", "32jzwtooLtI-00034-00041445-00042456": "This is a political question.\".Pelosi hasn't completely shut the door on impeachment, but has effectively outlined a high bar to clear for its pursuit", "32jzwtooLtI-00035-00042456-00044042": "\"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,\" she said in her recent comments to The Washington Post magazine", "32jzwtooLtI-00036-00044042-00045267": "Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz said on Tuesday that she thinks Pelosi has the right approach and that at this point she believes it is important to wait for Mueller's report", "32jzwtooLtI-00037-00045267-00046144": "\"I think we need to continue to go through a deliberative process,\" she said, including \"oversight conducted\" by Congress", "32jzwtooLtI-00038-00046144-00047181": "The congresswoman added, \"I think the speaker is doing exactly what she should be doing, which is focusing on making sure we can propose and implement our agenda", "32jzwtooLtI-00039-00047181-00047281": "\""}}, {"audio_id": "333jokUKMIo", "text": {"333jokUKMIo-00000-00000571-00001224": "President Trump believes the situation at America’s southern border has gotten out of hand", "333jokUKMIo-00001-00001224-00002318": "Up to one MILLION may cross the border in 2019.But Democrats continue to do all they can to stop Trump, including capping how many ICE can detain", "333jokUKMIo-00002-00002318-00003055": "But now Donald is blowing past those numbers, using ICE as an “icy hammer” to clean up the border swamp", "333jokUKMIo-00003-00003055-00004293": "From The Daily Beast:''For the first time in its history, the US government is detaining more than 50,000 people it says are undocumented immigrants in jails and prisons around the country''", "333jokUKMIo-00004-00004293-00005171": "Trump will not just let them all go free within our borders – but it turns out, that’s exactly what Democrats wanted", "333jokUKMIo-00005-00005171-00006396": "A year ago, when passing ICE’s most recent budget, legislators explicitly instructed the interior-immigration agency to cap detentions at 40,520", "333jokUKMIo-00006-00006396-00007240": "Trump was ordered to cap detentions around 40,000. Where would the rest go? Free to roam America", "333jokUKMIo-00007-00007240-00008156": "Instead, when ICE ran out of money for beds and detention centers, they got permission to take extra funds from other groups like FEMA", "333jokUKMIo-00008-00008156-00009162": "It’s the same game Trump has to play now for border wall funding. He’s moving billions from groups flush with cash to fix our broken border system", "333jokUKMIo-00009-00009162-00009899": "Democrats are not happy that the numbers of detained are increasing, but it just proves Trump’s point", "333jokUKMIo-00010-00009899-00010390": "There’s a big border problem, and it needs fixing now"}}, {"audio_id": "35CI9Bbr_yy", "text": {"35CI9Bbr_yy-00000-00000513-00001720": "Hollywood director and left-wing activist Rob Reiner targeted President Donald Trump’s supporters in a new social media post, calling them an “insidious cult” who condone white supremacy", "35CI9Bbr_yy-00001-00001720-00002725": "“The President of the United States is a racist. He supports and promotes white supremacy & white nationalism,” Rob Reiner declared", "35CI9Bbr_yy-00002-00002725-00004162": "“If you are part of this insidious cult, you condone that. Period.”.Reiner, like other Hollywood stars, piled on Trump in the wake of a mass shooting targeting Muslims in Christchurch, New Zealand", "35CI9Bbr_yy-00003-00004162-00004995": "“What happened in New Zealand is horrifying. The rise of white supremacy & white nationalism is frightening", "35CI9Bbr_yy-00004-00004995-00005868": "World leaders play a role in stoking this hatred. If you are not condemning white supremacy you are condoning it", "35CI9Bbr_yy-00005-00005868-00007127": "If POTUS doesn’t condemn, he condones,” Reiner said.Actor Jeffrey Wright even compared Trump to Osama Bin Laden in reaction to the president offering a message of condolences", "35CI9Bbr_yy-00006-00007127-00007743": "The Wolf of Wall Street actor routinely goes on angry rants against the president", "35CI9Bbr_yy-00007-00007743-00008404": "In December, he accused Trump of committing treason and helping the Islamic State", "35CI9Bbr_yy-00008-00008404-00009070": "“Donald Trump is committing Treason against The United States of America,” Reiner said", "35CI9Bbr_yy-00009-00009070-00009728": "“He is aiding and abetting the enemy in The War against Isis and The Cyberwar against Russia", "35CI9Bbr_yy-00010-00009728-00010530": "He has turned the world’s oldest Democracy into a wholly owned subsidiary of Vladimir Putin", "35CI9Bbr_yy-00011-00010530-00010880": "GOP, WAKE UP!”"}}, {"audio_id": "3s4Zv-HYHlI", "text": {"3s4Zv-HYHlI-00000-00000571-00001814": "The White House may try to use an executive privilege to block portions of the report from Special Counsel Robert Mueller from making it to Congress or to the public, reports Bloomberg News", "3s4Zv-HYHlI-00001-00001814-00003162": "President Trump‘s lawyer Rudy Giuliani told Bloomberg News that Trump’s legal team “will look at it and see if the president thinks there is a valid claim” of executive privilege and added “We reserve the right", "3s4Zv-HYHlI-00002-00003162-00004967": "We don’t know if we have to, but we haven’t waived it.Mueller has been investigating Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and the possibility of collusion between the Trump campaign and Moscow and is expected to release his findings in a report as soon as next month", "3s4Zv-HYHlI-00003-00004967-00006869": "The breakdown is this: Mueller will have to release his findings to the Department of Justice and Democrats who have just gained control of the House intend to make those findings public while the White House is expected to counter that by invoking a special executive privilege to stop key aspects from being released", "3s4Zv-HYHlI-00004-00006869-00008752": "Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, has said the Democrats will subpoena the report if President Trump tries to hide it, stating, “I’m prepared to make sure we do everything possible so that the public has the advantage of as much of the information as it can", "3s4Zv-HYHlI-00005-00008752-00008852": "”"}}, {"audio_id": "3FJ7xujLcLQ", "text": {"3FJ7xujLcLQ-00000-00000513-00002401": "House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, who would oversee any impeachment proceedings against President Trump, announced that he will submit more than 60 document requests to the White House and Justice Department on Monday -- a barrage that Nadler called the opening salvo in new and wide-ranging investigations", "3FJ7xujLcLQ-00001-00002401-00003971": "Without naming Nadler, Trump tweeted late Sunday morning that he was being \"persecuted by some very bad, conflicted & corrupt people in a Witch Hunt that is illegal & should never have been allowed to start - And only because I won the Election!\"", "3FJ7xujLcLQ-00002-00003971-00005191": "Congressional Democrats have repeatedly promised to exercise tight oversight of the Trump administration since securing a majority in the House of Representatives in last November's midterms", "3FJ7xujLcLQ-00003-00005191-00006659": "But Nadler's comments signaled clearly that Democratic leaders are no longer counting on Special Counsel Robert Mueller's forthcoming report on possible Russia collusion to contain damning evidence against the Trump administration", "3FJ7xujLcLQ-00004-00006659-00007761": "“Tomorrow, we will be issuing document requests to over 60 different people and individuals from the White House to the Department of Justice, Donald Trump, Jr", "3FJ7xujLcLQ-00005-00007761-00009083": ", [Trump Organization CFO] Allen Weisselberg, to begin the investigations to present the case to the American people about obstruction of justice, corruption and abuse of power,” Nadler, D-NY", "3FJ7xujLcLQ-00006-00009083-00010290": ", said on ABC News' \"This Week.\".He added that the goal of the probe was \"to present the case to the American people about obstruction of justice, corruption and abuse of power", "3FJ7xujLcLQ-00007-00010290-00011374": "\".Asked by anchor George Stephanopoulos whether he thinks Trump obstructed justice in the Russia investigation, Nadler replied: \"Yes, I do", "3FJ7xujLcLQ-00008-00011374-00013767": ". It's very clear that the president obstructed justice.\".The evidence, Nadler maintained, was that Trump called the Mueller probe a \"witch hunt,\" allegedly \"tried to protect [fired national security adviser Michael] Flynn from being investigated by the FBI,\" and supposedly admitted that he had fired FBI Director James Comey \"to stop the Russian thing\" in an NBC interview", "3FJ7xujLcLQ-00009-00013767-00015109": "In the NBC interview, contrary to Nadler's claim, Trump did not say that he had fired Comey to \"stop the Russia thing,\" and instead insisted he had fired Comey for incompetence", "3FJ7xujLcLQ-00010-00015109-00016261": "But he acknowledged that the Russia probe was on his .“But regardless of recommendation [from the Justice Department], I was going to fire Comey knowing there was no good time to do it", "3FJ7xujLcLQ-00011-00016261-00017246": "And in fact, when I decided to just do it, I said to myself — I said, you know, this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made-up story", "3FJ7xujLcLQ-00012-00017246-00018126": "It’s an excuse by the Democrats for having lost an election that they should’ve won,\" Trump told anchor Lester Holt", "3FJ7xujLcLQ-00013-00018126-00018842": "Trump added: \"As far as I’m concerned, I want that thing to be absolutely done properly", "3FJ7xujLcLQ-00014-00018842-00019895": "When I did this now, I said I probably maybe will confuse people. Maybe I’ll expand that — you know, I’ll lengthen the time because it should be over with", "3FJ7xujLcLQ-00015-00019895-00020626": "It should — in my opinion, should’ve been over with a long time ago because it — all it is an excuse", "3FJ7xujLcLQ-00016-00020626-00021517": "But I said to myself I might even lengthen out the investigation. But I have to do the right thing for the American people", "3FJ7xujLcLQ-00017-00021517-00023014": "He’s the wrong man for that position.”.And the White House has denied that Trump ever told Comey to curtail its investigation into Flynn, who later pleaded guilty in Mueller's probe to making a false statement to two FBI agents", "3FJ7xujLcLQ-00018-00023014-00023931": "In a memo, Comey wrote that Trump had told him in the White House, “I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go", "3FJ7xujLcLQ-00019-00023931-00025986": ". He is a good guy. I hope you can let this go.\".When pressed by Stephanopoulos as to whether Nadler would accept a possible report by Mueller finding no improper or illegal collusion by the Trump campaign with Russia, Nadler suggested he would not -- and then proceeded to unload a litany of unrelated complaints against the White House", "3FJ7xujLcLQ-00020-00025986-00026770": "\"We’d want to see the evidence behind that and see the validity of that, and we can agree to disagree,\" Nadler began", "3FJ7xujLcLQ-00021-00026770-00027872": "\"But this investigation goes far beyond collusion. We’ve seen all the democratic norms that we depend on for democratic government attacked by the administration", "3FJ7xujLcLQ-00022-00027872-00028588": "\".Among those attacks, Nadler said, were Trump's purported assault on the \"freedom of the press", "3FJ7xujLcLQ-00023-00028588-00029361": ". we’ve seen attacks on the Department of Justice, attacks on the FBI, attacks on judges", "3FJ7xujLcLQ-00024-00029361-00030113": ". He’s intimidated witnesses in public.\".Nadler added that \"the Mueller investigation, No", "3FJ7xujLcLQ-00025-00030113-00030918": "1, we don’t know when it’s ending, despite lots of rumors. No. 2 --  it’s focused on specific crimes", "3FJ7xujLcLQ-00026-00030918-00031830": "And we have to focus much more broadly on abuses of power.\".In response, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif", "3FJ7xujLcLQ-00027-00031830-00032598": ", said on \"This Week\" that Nadler had \"decided to impeach the president the day the president won the election", "3FJ7xujLcLQ-00028-00032598-00033776": "\".\"Listen to exactly what he said. He talks about impeachment before he even became chairman and then he says, 'you've got to persuade people to get there,'\" McCarthy said", "3FJ7xujLcLQ-00029-00033776-00035134": "\"There's nothing that the president did wrong.\".Nadler, in recent weeks, hired two veteran lawyers and Trump critics as the committee gears up to investigate the department and review Mueller's final conclusions", "3FJ7xujLcLQ-00030-00035134-00035771": "The lawyers, Barry Berke and Norman Eisen, have been retained on a consulting basis", "3FJ7xujLcLQ-00031-00035771-00036868": "Republican representatives immediately cried foul, saying the lawyers are political operatives who have no business conducting a supposedly fair and impartial investigation", "3FJ7xujLcLQ-00032-00036868-00037563": "The GOP also raised questions as to who was paying for the lawyers, and how much", "3FJ7xujLcLQ-00033-00037563-00038517": "Nadler's committee has also called in the former acting attorney general, Matthew Whitaker, and plans to question him again in the coming weeks", "3FJ7xujLcLQ-00034-00038517-00039201": "Whitaker is a close Trump ally who had criticized the Mueller report before he was appointed", "3FJ7xujLcLQ-00035-00039201-00040196": "William Barr has since been confirmed as attorney general.The Judiciary Committee isn't the only House panel planning to look into Trump aggressively", "3FJ7xujLcLQ-00036-00040196-00041565": "Massachusetts Democratic Rep. Richard Neal, the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, is expected to eventually try to obtain Trump's tax returns, which the president has refused to release", "3FJ7xujLcLQ-00037-00041565-00042712": "But for now, Neal is taking it slow.The law says the treasury chief \"shall furnish\" the requested information to members of the committee for them to examine behind closed doors", "3FJ7xujLcLQ-00038-00042712-00043563": "But reality is more complicated, and the request could end up in a lengthy court battle between Congress and the administration", "3FJ7xujLcLQ-00039-00043563-00044647": "Last month, Neal held a hearing in which experts discussed the authority under current law for Neal to make a request for any tax returns to the treasury secretary", "3FJ7xujLcLQ-00040-00044647-00045470": "The hearing also examined proposals to compel presidents and presidential candidates to make years of their tax returns public", "3FJ7xujLcLQ-00041-00045470-00046995": "Meanwhile, the head of the House Financial Services Committee, California Rep. Maxine Waters, has focused on Deutsche Bank, the German asset management firm that has loaned Trump's real estate organization millions of dollars over the years", "3FJ7xujLcLQ-00042-00046995-00047680": "She said this past week that the bank is cooperating with requests for documents", "3FJ7xujLcLQ-00043-00047680-00048808": "And the House Intelligence Committee is reopening and expanding an investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election that the Republican majority closed last year", "3FJ7xujLcLQ-00044-00048808-00049903": "At that time, Republicans said, over Democratic objections, that there was no evidence to show that Trump's campaign colluded or conspired with Russia", "3FJ7xujLcLQ-00045-00049903-00051115": "The top Democrat on the committee then, California Rep. Adam Schiff, said Republicans had prematurely closed the matter without interviewing key witnesses and demanding important documents", "3FJ7xujLcLQ-00046-00051115-00052259": "Schiff is now chairman, and last month he announced a broad new investigation looking not only at Russian interference, but also at Trump's foreign financial interests", "3FJ7xujLcLQ-00047-00052259-00054380": "Schiff said the investigation will include \"the scope and scale\" of Russian intervention in the 2016 presidential election, the \"extent of any links and/or coordination\" between Russians and Trump's associates, whether foreign actors have sought to hold leverage over Trump or his family and associates, and whether anyone has sought to obstruct any of the relevant investigations", "3FJ7xujLcLQ-00048-00054380-00055276": "The committee interviewed former Trump personal attorney Michael Cohen in private on Thursday and will finish the interview this coming Wednesday", "3FJ7xujLcLQ-00049-00055276-00056590": "After Cohen left, Schiff announced that the committee will hold an open hearing later this month with Felix Sater, a Russia-born executive who worked with Cohen on an ultimately unsuccessful deal to build a Trump Tower in Moscow", "3FJ7xujLcLQ-00050-00056590-00057465": "Speaking on CBS' \"Face the Nation\" on Sunday, Schiff asserted that there is \"direct evidence\" of improper collusion", "3FJ7xujLcLQ-00051-00057465-00058387": "\"I think there is direct evidence through emails from Russians offering dirt on Hillary for Russian effort to help elect Donald Trump,\" Schiff said", "3FJ7xujLcLQ-00052-00058387-00059071": "\"Trump Tower -- all the lies to cover up that meeting. There is circumstantial evidence", "3FJ7xujLcLQ-00053-00059071-00060338": "\".But, Schiff said, it's too early to talk about impeachment.\"That is something that we will have to await Bob Mueller's report and the underlying evidence to determine,\" Schiff said", "3FJ7xujLcLQ-00054-00060338-00061540": "\"We will also have to look at the whole body of improper and criminal actions by the president including those campaign finance crimes to determine whether they rise to the level of removal from office", "3FJ7xujLcLQ-00055-00061540-00062342": "\".Trump has called Schiff \"little Adam Sh--\" and maintains that the new probes he is leading are politically motivated", "3FJ7xujLcLQ-00056-00062342-00064157": "Additionally, the House oversight committee has set a Monday deadline for the White House to turn over documents related to security clearances after The New York Times reported that the president ordered officials to grant his son-in-law Jared Kushner's clearance over the objections of national security officials", "3FJ7xujLcLQ-00057-00064157-00064951": "Speaking to \"Fox News Sunday,\" National Security Adviser John Bolton said he wasn't worried about the issue", "3FJ7xujLcLQ-00058-00064951-00065894": "\"I don’t have any concerns,\" Bolton said. \"I deal with Jared all the time on the Middle East peace process and a number of other issues", "3FJ7xujLcLQ-00059-00065894-00067289": "I trust him. I have no idea what the story is on the security clearance – it’s not something that falls within my area of responsibility – but if asked ‘Do I trust Jared Kushner?’ The answer is yes", "3FJ7xujLcLQ-00060-00067289-00067389": "\""}}, {"audio_id": "3pD_4Zo_S8M", "text": {"3pD_4Zo_S8M-00000-00000571-00001924": "If you’ve followed the news consistently over the last 48 hours, you probably fall into one of three camps: 1) you’re a Trumper ecstatic that your guy has finally been “exonerated” in his own words", "3pD_4Zo_S8M-00001-00001924-00003768": "2) you’re in the resistance and in despair, thinking Donald Trump used a “Get out of jail free” card and now he’s off to invade Iran or something else horrifying, and we’re all doomed, or 3) you’re in the middle of the road and feel it’s about time the Democrats did something besides investigate Donald Trump", "3pD_4Zo_S8M-00002-00003768-00004640": "Whatever your views may be, what’s coming next from the Trump White House is sure to affect you, and likely not for the better", "3pD_4Zo_S8M-00003-00004640-00006391": "Until the picture is clearer on what the Mueller Report says or doesn’t say, Donald Trump and the usual gang of right-wing pundits are still on their “exoneration” victory lap, and it’s probably better that the resistance find another issue to unite voters against Donald Trump and the GOP", "3pD_4Zo_S8M-00004-00006391-00007106": "Today, a bit of worrisome news dropped that may have just given us the issue to rally around", "3pD_4Zo_S8M-00005-00007106-00008018": "Not to be outdone by obstruction, Trump’s DOJ has revealed its plot to repeal the Affordable Care Act by way of a filing on Monday", "3pD_4Zo_S8M-00006-00008018-00008940": "Everyone who was against Trump in 2016 knew he was lying when he talked about repealing and replacing Obamacare with something cheaper and better", "3pD_4Zo_S8M-00007-00008940-00010473": "He didn’t have that cheaper and better plan in 2017 when the Republicans went ahead and tried to repeal it, not in 2018 when Republicans campaigned on protecting pre-existing conditions, and they certainly don’t have it now", "3pD_4Zo_S8M-00008-00010473-00011450": "The new plan is to strike the entire law down as unconstitutional and replace it with nothing, leaving millions of people uninsured", "3pD_4Zo_S8M-00009-00011450-00012728": "The Republicans were absolutely planning to try repeal it again if they kept their majorities in Congress – and Donald Trump’s plans to try this after 2020 haven’t been so secret either", "3pD_4Zo_S8M-00010-00012728-00014122": "A question we should ask ourselves is, why now? It’s probably because they’re taking advantage of the popularity they’re expecting Donald Trump to have, and think they may not have this shot again under a Trump presidency", "3pD_4Zo_S8M-00011-00014122-00015429": "Either way, we don’t have to wait around – it’s time for us to double down on the fervor we had in 2017 when we rallied to defend the ACA – this is a Donald Trump promise that must stay unfulfilled"}}, {"audio_id": "3WEufhbAkaA", "text": {"3WEufhbAkaA-00000-00000513-00002268": "On Sunday, Attorney General William Barr delivered a summary of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report summarizing his Russia investigation, but prominent Senator (and presidential candidate) Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) is among those demanding the whole thing", "3WEufhbAkaA-00001-00002268-00004029": "She posted on Twitter as the nation grappled with the report’s implications:‘Congress voted 420-0 to release the full Mueller report. Not a “summary” from his handpicked Attorney General.AG Barr, make the full report public. Immediately.’", "3WEufhbAkaA-00002-00004029-00005910": "She’s right — the House voted unanimously to make the full Mueller report public, but Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) blocked that resolution from proceeding in his chamber, demanding that it get an outlandish call for a second special counsel to investigate the first one tacked on", "3WEufhbAkaA-00003-00005910-00006821": "President Donald Trump and his allies continue to deride Muller and his associates as essentially cracked up, rogue prosecutors", "3WEufhbAkaA-00004-00006821-00008268": "Barr’s summary hit only the most top-level key points of Mueller’s probe, although he noted that more would be forthcoming as soon as his team determined what could not be released under federal law protecting grand jury proceedings", "3WEufhbAkaA-00005-00008268-00010624": "In the meantime, we know two things — Mueller concluded that no one in the Trump camp conspired or coordinated with Russian efforts to influence the 2016 elections, which proceeded along two main fronts, including the email hack targeting Democrats and the misinformation campaigns run by the “Internet Research Agency,” which Mueller’s team already unveiled criminal charges over", "3WEufhbAkaA-00006-00010624-00012025": "He also declined to make a “traditional prosecutorial determination” as to the question of whether Trump is guilty of obstruction of justice, instead simply presenting the collected evidence for both sides", "3WEufhbAkaA-00007-00012025-00013098": "Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein took it upon themselves to draw conclusions there, asserting that the president should be considered not guilty", "3WEufhbAkaA-00008-00013098-00015055": "The Trump team nearly immediately jumped on the development as “complete vindication” — although in his discussion of the obstruction allegation, Barr’s letter explicitly notes that Mueller’s report asserts that “while this report does not conclude the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him\"", "3WEufhbAkaA-00009-00015055-00015671": "The full report becoming public could no doubt help resolve the discrepancy"}}, {"audio_id": "3X4c-515LWg", "text": {"3X4c-515LWg-00000-00000571-00001947": "Even as various House committees simultaneously investigate various Donald Trump scandals, the House Oversight Committee has taken up the lead on the security clearance scandal involving Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner", "3X4c-515LWg-00001-00001947-00002812": "This has left Chairman Elijah Cummings in charge of the matter. Naturally, the Trump regime is trying to stonewall him", "3X4c-515LWg-00002-00002812-00004526": "So he’s found a way to work around that.One of the goals in the security clearance investigation is to find out precisely why former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and former White House Counsel Don McGahn felt that Ivanka and Jared were security risks against the United States", "3X4c-515LWg-00003-00004526-00005320": "The two key pieces of evidence: the memos that Kelly and McGahn each wrote, documenting their concerns", "3X4c-515LWg-00004-00005320-00006236": "Elijah Cummings knows the White House will fight tooth and nail to avoid having to turn over those memos, because Trump wants to protect his family", "3X4c-515LWg-00005-00006236-00007908": "Palmer Report pointed out earlier this month that if Kelly and McGahn felt strongly enough that they needed to write and file these memos in order to insulate themselves from what Donald Trump was doing, then they certainly would have kept copies of their own", "3X4c-515LWg-00006-00007908-00008956": "We also pointed out that because Kelly and McGahn have both reportedly been cooperating with Robert Mueller, they’re likely to cooperate with Congress as well", "3X4c-515LWg-00007-00008956-00009998": "Sure enough, Elijah Cummings has taken the unorthodox step of having his staff reach out directly to John Kelly, as opposed to going through the White House", "3X4c-515LWg-00008-00009998-00010737": "This is according to CNN, which doesn’t spell out whether Kelly turned over the memo to Cummings", "3X4c-515LWg-00009-00010737-00011795": "But considering the apoplectic response from the Trump regime when it learned that Cummings had contacted Kelly, we’re guessing Cummings now has the memo", "3X4c-515LWg-00010-00011795-00012265": "We told you that Cummings knows what he’s doing"}}, {"audio_id": "3cpNk_RQLgo", "text": {"3cpNk_RQLgo-00000-00000571-00002128": "Even as the 2020 race begins in earnest, President Donald Trump is already suggesting that Democrats cannot beat him fairly -- raising the specter that if he loses next November, he will suggest that the election was not legitimate", "3cpNk_RQLgo-00001-00002128-00003350": "\"The Democrats in Congress yesterday were vicious and totally showed their cards for everyone to see,\" Trump tweeted Tuesday, referring to House Democrats' launching of a broad-scale investigation into him", "3cpNk_RQLgo-00002-00003350-00004515": "\"When the Republicans had the Majority they never acted with such hatred and scorn! The Dems are trying to win an election in 2020 that they know they cannot legitimately win!\"", "3cpNk_RQLgo-00003-00004515-00005421": "Trump 2020 campaign press secretary Kayleigh McEnany echoed that sentiment in a statement on the Democratic investigations", "3cpNk_RQLgo-00004-00005421-00007049": "\"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,\" she said", "3cpNk_RQLgo-00005-00007049-00008984": "And asked Wednesday about the Democratic investigations, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said this: \"They continue to be a group totally taken by small radical leftist fringe of their party and they're completely controlled by it, they know that's not enough to beat this President so they're going to look for other ways to do that", "3cpNk_RQLgo-00006-00008984-00010095": "All of that rhetoric fits into a very clear pattern: Convince the Trump base that it is not possible for him to lose a fair and legitimate election in 2020", "3cpNk_RQLgo-00007-00010095-00011800": "Thus, if he loses, it must be, by definition, illegitimate.None of this should be surprising, given Trump's oft-stated view of the 2016 election -- in which he won the Electoral College but lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton by nearly 3 million votes", "3cpNk_RQLgo-00008-00011800-00013294": "Less than three weeks after winning the White House in 2016, Trump sent out this tweet: \"In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally''"}}, {"audio_id": "43XKpPwri4c", "text": {"43XKpPwri4c-00000-00000571-00001898": "Donald Trump’s fragile ego and narcissistic underpinnings have long motivated him to seek out praise for himself, no matter the respectability of the source, and then trumpet that praise as if it were legitimate", "43XKpPwri4c-00001-00001898-00002577": "For instance, Trump will quote pretty much anyone on Fox News who says nice things about him", "43XKpPwri4c-00002-00002577-00003219": "But even some of Trump’s longtime pundit cheerleaders have started to sour on him", "43XKpPwri4c-00003-00003219-00005108": "If you want evidence of just how desperate Donald Trump has grown and how far he’s fallen when it comes to finding sycophants he can quote, he ended up posting this tweet on Saturday night: “‘There’s not one shred of evidence that this president’s done anything Constitutionally (or anything else) wrong", "43XKpPwri4c-00004-00005108-00006346": "’ Graham Ledger. Thank you Graham, so true!”This prompted just about everyone on Twitter to cry out at once: Who is Graham Ledger? That doesn’t even sound like a real name", "43XKpPwri4c-00005-00006346-00008209": "Has Lindsey Graham gone into the witness protection program? Is the “Graham Ledger” the name of a fake small town newspaper? To give you an idea of how thoroughly the internet ended up laughing at Donald Trump for quoting this guy, the name “Graham Ledger” ended up trending on Twitter, simply from everyone piling on", "43XKpPwri4c-00006-00008209-00009786": "If you’re wondering, Graham Ledger is the host of the “The Daily Ledger” on the One America News Network, a comparatively obscure cable news channel that’s so embarrassingly and dishonestly pro-Trump, it makes Fox News look legitimate in comparison", "43XKpPwri4c-00007-00009786-00010844": "That’s right, Donald Trump has now sunk to watching positive coverage of himself on the OANN channel, because it’s the only place he can reliably still find it"}}, {"audio_id": "4rcgPqtdE00", "text": {"4rcgPqtdE00-00000-00000571-00001749": "Many thought that meant the report was bad news for Trump. They were wrong again – the report totally vindicated Trump and now he is breaking his silence and Hillary is nervous", "4rcgPqtdE00-00001-00001749-00002546": "President Trump said: “It was just announced there was no collusion with Russia, the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard", "4rcgPqtdE00-00002-00002546-00003489": "“There was no collusion with Russia, there was no obstruction… Hopefully someone is going to look at the other side, this was an illegal takedown that failed”", "4rcgPqtdE00-00003-00003489-00006615": "Correct. It is time. From Fox News:.Attorney General William Barr on Sunday released the “principal conclusions” of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s completed Russia probe in a bombshell four-page letter to Capitol Hill lawmakers, which stated definitively that Mueller did not establish evidence that President Trump’s team or any associates of the Trump campaign had conspired with Russia to sway the 2016 election — “despite multiple offers from Russian-affiliated individuals to assist the Trump campaign", "4rcgPqtdE00-00004-00006615-00007979": "”.For Trump, who has tweeted more than 230 times that he did not collude with Russians amid a torrent of allegations from media and political figures, the moment amounted to a near-total vindication", "4rcgPqtdE00-00005-00007979-00009444": "Although Mueller noted that his report did not “exonerate” Trump on obstruction, Barr wrote, the “report does not recommend any further indictments, nor did the Special Counsel obtain any sealed indictments that have yet to be made public", "4rcgPqtdE00-00006-00009444-00010291": "”.“No Collusion, No Obstruction, Complete and Total EXONERATION,” Trump wrote on Twitter Sunday afternoon", "4rcgPqtdE00-00007-00010291-00011291": "“KEEP AMERICA GREAT!”.Later, he told reporters, “It was just announced there was no collusion with Russia, the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard", "4rcgPqtdE00-00008-00011291-00012811": "There was no collusion with Russia, there was no obstruction. …  It’s a shame that our country had to go through this, to be honest, it’s a shame that your president has had to go through this — since before I even got elected, it began", "4rcgPqtdE00-00009-00012811-00013621": "And it began illegally. Hopefully someone is going to look at the other side. This was an illegal takedown that failed", "4rcgPqtdE00-00010-00013621-00015434": "”.Mueller’s team specifically looked into two Russian efforts to interfere with the 2016 election — first, the work by a Russian organization, the Internet Research Agency (IRA), to “conduct disinformation and social media operations” designed to “sow discord” in the United States", "4rcgPqtdE00-00011-00015434-00017414": "According to Barr’s letter, “the Special Counsel did not find that any U.S. person or Trump campaign official or associate conspired or knowingly coordinated with the IRA in its efforts, although the Special Counsel brought criminal charges against a number of Russian nationals and entities in connection with these activities", "4rcgPqtdE00-00012-00017414-00017514": "”"}}, {"audio_id": "4wX4eAgSjku", "text": {"4wX4eAgSjku-00000-00000571-00001302": "Robert Mueller has submitted his report about Donald Trump, but we know hardly anything about what’s in it", "4wX4eAgSjku-00001-00001302-00001971": "There’s only one person who knows even less than we do about what’s in the report: Donald Trump", "4wX4eAgSjku-00002-00001971-00002671": "He only gets his news from the worst of TV pundits, who tell him what he wants to hear", "4wX4eAgSjku-00003-00002671-00004066": "His own people try to shield him from real news, for fear he’ll implode. So not only does he not know what’s in the report, he doesn’t know about half of what’s transpired in the Mueller probe in plain sight up to this point", "4wX4eAgSjku-00004-00004066-00005419": "For instance, Robert Mueller gave a free pass to Donald Trump’s former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn despite his serious crimes, and then Mueller redacted nearly all of Flynn’s obviously crucial cooperation", "4wX4eAgSjku-00005-00005419-00006592": "It’s fairly easy for us to parse that the redacted stuff is about Trump or other fish bigger than Flynn, and that the “stuff” in question is surely in Mueller’s report", "4wX4eAgSjku-00006-00006592-00007613": "But does Trump even know that any of the above happened? I can’t recall if any of Trump’s favorite Fox News hosts bothered to cover any of it", "4wX4eAgSjku-00007-00007613-00009149": "There are numerous other examples of this kind of thing. Trump’s former campaign vice chairman Rick Gates was still cooperating as recently as last week, which means he’s sold out people bigger than his longtime partner in crime Paul Manafort", "4wX4eAgSjku-00008-00009149-00011330": "What did Gates give up on Trump? For that matter, what did the likes of Don McGahn and Steve Bannon give up about Trump during their reported tens of hours of testimony? What all did Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg give up in exchange for his immunity? We don’t know the answers to these questions, but we do know the answer isn’t “nothing''", "4wX4eAgSjku-00009-00011330-00012448": "So if Donald Trump is feeling good right about now, it’s based on a false sense of security emanating from his own blissful ignorance about everything that’s been happening in plain sight", "4wX4eAgSjku-00010-00012448-00013180": "On some level we’ve all been in the Twilight Zone since the day Trump was named the winner of the election", "4wX4eAgSjku-00011-00013180-00014002": "But now Trump in particular is in a Twilight Zone of his own making, because he doesn’t even know what all he doesn’t know"}}, {"audio_id": "4XZGtF8V7ju", "text": {"4XZGtF8V7ju-00000-00000513-00001592": "Trump believes that thanks to this weeks testimony from disgraced and disbarred former attorney Michael Cohen, the “Russia collision” story has fallen completely apart", "4XZGtF8V7ju-00001-00001592-00003459": "Trump took to Twitter to voice his point of view.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", "4XZGtF8V7ju-00002-00003459-00004206": "Let’s follow discredited Michael Cohen….…and the fraudulent and dishonest statements he made on Wednesday", "4XZGtF8V7ju-00003-00004206-00005202": "No way, it’s time to stop this corrupt and illegally brought Witch Hunt. Time to start looking at the other side where real crimes were committed", "4XZGtF8V7ju-00004-00005202-00006192": "Republicans have been abused long enough. Must end now!.During his testimony, Cohen admitted he had no knowledge of any Russia collusion", "4XZGtF8V7ju-00005-00006192-00007088": ".NBC News reported that Cohen addressed the question on everyone’s mind: Was there collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia?", "4XZGtF8V7ju-00006-00007088-00007944": "“Questions have been raised about whether I know of direct evidence that Mr. Trump or his campaign colluded with Russia", "4XZGtF8V7ju-00007-00007944-00009499": "I do not. I want to be clear. But, I have my suspicions,” Cohen said.President Trump said Friday that Democrats have placed their focus on Michael Cohen this week because the investigation into Russian collusion are “falling apart", "4XZGtF8V7ju-00008-00009499-00010303": "”.The president lashed out on social media after Cohen gave three straight days of testimony to three different committees", "4XZGtF8V7ju-00009-00010303-00011716": "“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", "4XZGtF8V7ju-00010-00011716-00012573": "Let’s follow discredited Michael Cohen and the fraudulent and dishonest statements he made on Wednesday,” Trump tweeted", "4XZGtF8V7ju-00011-00012573-00014075": "Mueller’s probe is expected to be coming to an end in the coming weeks with no known indictments related to Russia collusion so far, and the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee recently said his panel’s inquiry has found no evidence of collusion", "4XZGtF8V7ju-00012-00014075-00015418": "However, with Democrats taking control of the House this term, congressional investigations are ramping up in the intelligence, finance, and judiciary committees looking at the president’s finances and ties to Russia", "4XZGtF8V7ju-00013-00015418-00016870": "In public testimony before the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday, Cohen testified about his work to protect Trump as his so-called fixer, including his involvement in making hush-money payments to women claiming to have had affairs with Trump"}}, {"audio_id": "50am0VB8HvE", "text": {"50am0VB8HvE-00000-00000513-00001931": "The investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller into President Donald Trump, his Organization, his White House, his administration, his close circle and his White House seems now like it has been going on for many lifetimes", "50am0VB8HvE-00001-00001931-00005708": "It certainly feels like much longer than two years ago at this point that the Justice Department (specifically, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein) found itself forced to commission the former Director of the FBI to set up a probe to investigate the claims that the campaign to elect then Republican candidate Donald Trump as President of the United States and leader of the free world during the 2016 presidential election colluded with Russian state actors in order to steal the result of the election and the White House from rival Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, and then committed obstruction of justice afterwards in a desperate attempt to cover it up", "50am0VB8HvE-00002-00005708-00008339": "The latest significant development in this ongoing saga, which of course threatens the very fabric of democracy and the Constitution of the United States, was when former Trump attorney and close confidant Michael Cohen cooperated fully with the Mueller inquiry and delivered a blistering testimony, which was publicly broadcast, in which he attacked the President and the White House in every way imaginable and in the most brutal and merciless fashion possible", "50am0VB8HvE-00003-00008339-00009961": "Since then, President Trump has been extremely distracted by all of this chaos, and reportedly messed up several key aspects of a trade summit with China because he was so preoccupied with what his former lawyer was doing and saying in public to tarnish his name", "50am0VB8HvE-00004-00009961-00011479": ".Well, things just got even more horrid for him, because his own son and senior adviser and close aid, Donald Trump Jr , has just publicly taken Cohen’s side against his father, in a totally extraordinary move that no one sae coming", "50am0VB8HvE-00005-00011479-00012597": "The way he made the incredible public statement was by retweeting a tweet from Garrett M  Graff, a journalist reporting on the Cohen testimony, which suggested that Cohen was telling the truth:", "50am0VB8HvE-00006-00012597-00013610": "Incredible to see all the hubris drained from Cohen. I’ve been personally screamed at by Cohen on the phone before and know how much bravado he once had", "50am0VB8HvE-00007-00013610-00014459": "This is a man with nothing left, with no reason to lie or obfuscate at all. Humbling, in its way", "50am0VB8HvE-00008-00014459-00016097": "The retweet flies directly in the face of his own family and puts himself, Donald Trump, and the entire clan at risk, mainly becuase Jr’s father has mad it so that Twitter musings and retweets can be used against you in any way conceivable in a court room", "50am0VB8HvE-00009-00016097-00017111": "This is essentially a public admission.A scvil war has been raging in the White House for some time at this point, but as of yet has not split the Trump family", "50am0VB8HvE-00010-00017111-00018453": "Could this finally be the end? Is this what we’ve all been waiting for? Is this even more damning than anything Mueller could possibly dig up? However it transpires, on my end, I truly hope so"}}, {"audio_id": "53UkECOjCGE", "text": {"53UkECOjCGE-00000-00000513-00001709": "Early warning signs are flashing for President Donald Trump on some of his core arguments on immigration, the economy and North Korea that are central to his 2020 re-election message", "53UkECOjCGE-00001-00001709-00003248": "Complications on each of those policy areas threaten to undermine the narrative of unprecedented success that the President has weaved around his first two years in office and are driving political debate as the administration unveils its budget on Monday", "53UkECOjCGE-00002-00003248-00004705": "A poorer than expected monthly jobs report Friday fed concern that strong economic growth that anchors Trump's best argument for a second term is ebbing -- something that should worry the President since it's a critical reelection metric", "53UkECOjCGE-00003-00004705-00005416": "Trump has often claimed that he is presiding over the \"greatest economy in the history of our country", "53UkECOjCGE-00004-00005416-00007639": "\" But his foundational political promise to eliminate the US trade deficit suffered a blow with new figures showing that the gap between imports and the amount of goods and services that the US sells abroad has grown $100 billion since Trump took office, despite two years of his \"America First\" tariff policies intended to reinvigorate American manufacturing", "53UkECOjCGE-00005-00007639-00009107": "Signs that North Korea could be preparing a missile or satellite launch and its continued expansion of an atomic arsenal undercut the President's claims that his daring outreach to the isolated state has ended its nuclear threat", "53UkECOjCGE-00006-00009107-00010964": "And a rise in crossings across the southern border — while playing into Trump's claims of a crisis in the short term, contradict his wider argument that hardline enforcement policies are the best way to manage immigration and suggest his totemic political plan for a border wall may be ignoring the real problem", "53UkECOjCGE-00007-00010964-00012422": "Trump appears sensitive to the weak points of his political pitch, and spent the weekend tweeting out glowing testimonials about the economy from allies and accusing journalists of distorting the successes of his presidency", "53UkECOjCGE-00008-00012422-00013482": "\"Despite the most hostile and corrupt media in the history of American politics, the Trump Administration has accomplished more in its first two years than any other Administration", "53UkECOjCGE-00009-00013482-00014420": "Judges, biggest Tax & Regulation Cuts, V.A. Choice, Best Economy, Lowest Unemployment & much more!\" Trump wrote", "53UkECOjCGE-00010-00014420-00015300": "\"More people are working today in the United States, 158,000,000, than at any time in our Country's history", "53UkECOjCGE-00011-00015300-00016828": "That is a Big Deal!\".The good news for Trump is that the election — though it seems increasingly to be on his mind — is 20 months away, and none of the emerging complications are certain to cement themselves in the unpredictable political period ahead", "53UkECOjCGE-00012-00016828-00017991": "And at their root, presidential elections unfold as a clash between two competing political visions and personalities as much as a contest between rival policy platforms", "53UkECOjCGE-00013-00017991-00019054": "One of the big questions of the Democratic presidential race is how the eventual nominee will handle the President's willingness to embrace scorched earth campaigning", "53UkECOjCGE-00014-00019054-00020867": "Yet the challenges to Trump's re-election message are not happening in a vacuum. He has plenty of other looming political problems as well as he faces an unprecedented multi-front battle with House Democrats who have launched investigations into almost every aspect of Trump's life, political career and business", "53UkECOjCGE-00015-00020867-00022314": "The pros and cons of solidifying the base.The way Trump has positioned his presidency — premising his political viability on the fervent support of his base -- means he is insulated to some extent from reversals of fortune", "53UkECOjCGE-00016-00022314-00023445": "But an eroding re-election argument could also threaten his efforts to win back more moderate voters in swing districts who helped Democrats win the midterm elections last year", "53UkECOjCGE-00017-00023445-00025130": "Potential road bumps for Trump's re-election message also help to explain the relish with which Republicans have seized on the growing pains of the new House Democratic majority — giving a glimpse of the searing attacks that will complement the 2020 narrative of Trump success", "53UkECOjCGE-00018-00025130-00026255": "Many Republican strategists believe that a perceived race to the left by Democrats could give the GOP the best chance of keeping the White House in 2020", "53UkECOjCGE-00019-00026255-00027261": "That argument was exemplified by Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, the chair of the House Republican conference, on NBC's \"Meet the Press\" on Sunday", "53UkECOjCGE-00020-00027261-00028034": "\"They've become the party of anti-Semitism, the party of infanticide, the party of socialism", "53UkECOjCGE-00021-00028034-00028787": "They've passed legislation that's violated the First Amendment, the Second Amendment,\" Cheney said", "53UkECOjCGE-00022-00028787-00029884": "\"It's really time for the Democrats -- the leadership in that party to stop it, to stand up and to act worthy, frankly, of the trust the American people have placed in them", "53UkECOjCGE-00023-00029884-00031117": "\".All first term presidents face the conundrum of how to reconcile the expansive promises they made to win office with an accounting of their wins and losses that comes with the quest to keep their jobs", "53UkECOjCGE-00024-00031117-00031830": "More Presidents than not have made that leap in the modern era and won the historical validation of a second term", "53UkECOjCGE-00025-00031830-00032684": "But few candidates made such extravagant claims to win the Oval Office in the first place as Trump did in 2016", "53UkECOjCGE-00026-00032684-00033794": "If today's warning signs turn into significant reversals for the President, Republican plans to run in 2020 on a \"Peace and Prosperity\" message will be compromised", "53UkECOjCGE-00027-00033794-00034758": "That could lead the President to put the inflammatory rhetoric that he used in the 2018 midterms at the center of his reelection bid", "53UkECOjCGE-00028-00034758-00036626": "Economic numbers cause concern.A long run of staggering jobs data that helped take the unemployment rate to the lowest level in half a century got a jolt on Friday with the release of latest monthly jobs figures showing only 20,000 positions were created in February, far below expectations", "53UkECOjCGE-00029-00036626-00038154": "Any one bad jobs report could be an anomaly. And the economy is largely healthy following a strong run since the Great Recession more than a decade or so across the Obama and Trump presidencies and wages have recently been rising at last", "53UkECOjCGE-00030-00038154-00039254": "But any sign that the economic engine has peaked could be spell bad news for a President running for reelection, even if any slowing of the pace is relative", "53UkECOjCGE-00031-00039254-00040228": "There have been other recent warning signs for the economy. The Atlanta Federal Reserve Board estimate for first quarter growth is just 0", "53UkECOjCGE-00032-00040228-00041100": "5%. The Conference Board is estimating growth of 2.2% for the second half of 2019", "53UkECOjCGE-00033-00041100-00042754": "Annual growth for 2018 fell just short of Trump's 3% target and according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis quarterly growth figures have been on the decline for the last three quarters, possibly reflecting the fading stimulatory influence of the GOP tax cuts", "53UkECOjCGE-00034-00042754-00043686": "Figures released by the Census Bureau last week showed the trade deficit at a 10-year high in 2018, up $69 billion", "53UkECOjCGE-00035-00043686-00044843": "The jump came despite Trump's crusade to revive American manufacturing and reduce dependence on imports which formed a crucial part of his winning 2016 election message", "53UkECOjCGE-00036-00044843-00046884": "The data put even more pressure on the President to extract a victory from trade talks with China that are currently believed to be in the final stages - though Beijing has in recent days signaled that there's no rush to hold a signing summit at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida by the end of this month, as the President himself suggested", "53UkECOjCGE-00037-00046884-00047594": "The White House's own budget estimates are far more rosy than those of independent forecasters", "53UkECOjCGE-00038-00047594-00048537": "In Trump's new budget to be unveiled on Monday, the administration predicts 3.2% annual growth his year, 3", "53UkECOjCGE-00039-00048537-00049425": "1% growth in 2020, and 3% GDP expansion the following year, the Wall Street Journal reported", "53UkECOjCGE-00040-00049425-00050598": "Trump's failure to reach a deal with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at their second summit in Vietnam last month dealt a blow to the President's most important foreign policy venture", "53UkECOjCGE-00041-00050598-00051828": "The White House has rejected criticism of the lack of progress at the two meetings by arguing that the halt to North Korean nuclear and missile tests has been an important victory in itself", "53UkECOjCGE-00042-00051828-00053056": "But warnings by analysts based on satellite images that Pyongyang could be preparing to launch a missile or space rocket soon, threatened to undermine even that narrative of limited success", "53UkECOjCGE-00043-00053056-00053986": "Trump said last week that he would be \"very disappointed if that were happening,\" while stressing the report was very early assessment", "53UkECOjCGE-00044-00053986-00055198": "The restoration work at the launch site could be just a negotiating ploy by Kim after the failure of the summit and just the latest round of decades-long brinkmanship by the North Koreans", "53UkECOjCGE-00045-00055198-00056162": "But it does show the perils in investing so much political and electoral capital in a diplomatic initiative with the unpredictable North Koreans", "53UkECOjCGE-00046-00056162-00056799": "There are also challenges looming for Trump on another signature issue -- immigration", "53UkECOjCGE-00047-00056799-00058330": "Customs and Border Protection warned last week that more than 76,000 people were caught crossing the southern border illegally or without proper papers in February -- the highest such number for any February in the last 12 years", "53UkECOjCGE-00048-00058330-00059372": "The administration used the figures to argue that the immigration crisis that Trump has proclaimed in an effort to win support for his border wall is getting worse", "53UkECOjCGE-00049-00059372-00060430": "But critics argue that his fixation on a wall misses the point that the real problem is in a system overwhelmed by asylum claims made at ports of entry", "53UkECOjCGE-00050-00060430-00061924": "Trump, however, signaled that his border wall will be a pillar of his political strategy going forward, despite his failure to wring funding for the barrier out of Congress -- an impasse that prompted him to declare a national emergency on immigration", "53UkECOjCGE-00051-00061924-00063525": "The White House will ask Congress for $8.6 billion for the wall in the new budget, sources told CNN, prompting a quick response from Democrats at the start of a new showdown over immigration, following last year's government shutdown drama", "53UkECOjCGE-00052-00063525-00064288": "\"Congress refused to fund his wall and he was forced to admit defeat and reopen the government", "53UkECOjCGE-00053-00064288-00065589": "The same thing will repeat itself if he tries this again. We hope he learned his lesson,\" House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Democratic Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer said in a joint statement Sunday"}}, {"audio_id": "57ZVom8Z5vU", "text": {"57ZVom8Z5vU-00000-00000513-00001448": "Princess Beatrice has been seen with property millionaire Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi when they holidayed in Lamu, an island close to Kenya", "57ZVom8Z5vU-00001-00001448-00002158": "Mr Mozzi and Princess Beatrice reportedly met at Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding in May last year", "57ZVom8Z5vU-00002-00002158-00002989": "The reports of their relationship were abuzz in November 2018, when a source revealed they had had a few dates", "57ZVom8Z5vU-00003-00002989-00003874": ".Beatrice, 30, recently attended her younger sister Princess Eugenie’s wedding to wine-merchant Jack Brooksbank", "57ZVom8Z5vU-00004-00003874-00004729": ".The Princess was maid of honour for her sister and was seen arriving at St George’s Chapel with their mother Sarah Ferguson", "57ZVom8Z5vU-00005-00004729-00006129": "Eugenie and now husband Jack had announced their engagement in January 2018. .The news of Beatrice and Mr Mozzi comes two years after she split from her boyfriend of 10 years, Dave Clark", "57ZVom8Z5vU-00006-00006129-00006980": ".Beatrice and Mr Clark had split in July 2016, and the MailOnline reported he has now married someone else", "57ZVom8Z5vU-00007-00006980-00007824": ".Whilst Beatrice’s relationship with Mr Mozzi is not official, a source told The Sun they “hit it off instantly”", "57ZVom8Z5vU-00008-00007824-00009140": "Mr Mozzi, also known by his nickname Edo, is a divorcee with a two-year-old son.He is believed to have founded the real estate firm Banda in 2007 and today is its CEO", "57ZVom8Z5vU-00009-00009140-00010052": "Speaking to The Sun in November, the insider said: “Beatrice and Edo have the same circle of friends and were introduced through a mutual chum", "57ZVom8Z5vU-00010-00010052-00011032": "“They hit it off instantly and have a real laugh together. .“They’ve been on holiday together and Beatrice introduced him to Fergie and her dad", "57ZVom8Z5vU-00011-00011032-00011888": "“Things are moving very quickly and it wouldn’t surprise anyone if they can be engaged within a short period of time", "57ZVom8Z5vU-00012-00011888-00012502": "“They could even be tying the knot in 2019 - it’s already been discussed by her friends", "57ZVom8Z5vU-00013-00012502-00013921": "“Everyone is thrilled that Bea is so happy and in such a good place right now.”.Bookmakers Ladbrokes make it 5/1 Eugenie and Mr Mozzi will get engaged in 2019, slicing odds in half from 10/1", "57ZVom8Z5vU-00014-00013921-00015164": "Ladbrokes spokeswoman Jessica Bridge said: ”Royal fans are hopeful Princess Beatrice has found her Prince Charming in Edo, and it may not be that long before he gets down on one knee", "57ZVom8Z5vU-00015-00015164-00015264": "\""}}, {"audio_id": "5AsS_6IK0zU", "text": {"5AsS_6IK0zU-00000-00000571-00003329": "The Trump family is notorious for using their name and status to take advantage of any opportunity they possibly can, regardless of rules or protocol, right? In a new tell-all book about the Trump family due out later this month, we are learning that White House Senior Adviser and First Daughter Ivanka Trump even thought she could scam her way on to United States Air Force planes even after she was repeatedly told no", "5AsS_6IK0zU-00001-00003329-00004230": "The New York Times reviewed the new book, “Kushner Inc: Greed. Ambition. Corruption", "5AsS_6IK0zU-00002-00004230-00005840": "The Extraordinary Story of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump.” by journalist Vicky Ward and like most books that have been published about Trump and the White House in his first term, the common themes seem to be chaos, corruption, and contempt", "5AsS_6IK0zU-00003-00005840-00007070": "As expected, members of both the Trump and Kushner camp have voiced their dismay at the book but the public can ultimately decide for itself when it comes out officially on March 19th", "5AsS_6IK0zU-00004-00007070-00007929": "Peter Mirijanian, a spokesman for Mr. Kushner’s lawyer, Abbe Lowell, released the following statement", "5AsS_6IK0zU-00005-00007929-00008739": "“It seems she [Ms. Ward] has written a book of fiction rather than any serious attempt to get the facts", "5AsS_6IK0zU-00006-00008739-00009392": "Correcting everything wrong would take too long and be pointless.”.Peter Mirijanian", "5AsS_6IK0zU-00007-00009392-00010583": "The book cites frequent instances where Ivanka asked to travel, even when it was not warranted, on Air Force planes but was denied by then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson", "5AsS_6IK0zU-00008-00010583-00011309": "Obviously, Ivanka isn’t accustomed to being told “no” and she quickly found a way around the rules", "5AsS_6IK0zU-00009-00011309-00012250": "She learned that she could get the requested access by inviting along a Cabinet level official to travel with her, so that is just what she did", "5AsS_6IK0zU-00010-00012250-00014044": "Repeatedly.Ms. Trump’s frequent go-to for this scheme was Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, who as the Times reported, was also involved in his own travel scandal for allegedly trying to use a $25,000 per hour Air Force plane for his honeymoon"}}, {"audio_id": "5GdRZWMnzSu", "text": {"5GdRZWMnzSu-00000-00000571-00001482": "President Donald Trump delivered remarks at a Prison Reform Summit and First Step Act celebration on Monday at the White House", "5GdRZWMnzSu-00001-00001482-00002762": "Brooke Rollins, assistant to the president in the Office of American Innovation, told Breitbart News that the First Step Act would improve public safety and lessen recidivism among ex-convicts", "5GdRZWMnzSu-00002-00002762-00003815": ".According to the Texas Public Policy Foundation, Rollins is a ‘visionary leader of the conservative movement with a proven record of turning ideas into action", "5GdRZWMnzSu-00003-00003815-00004593": "Mrs. Rollins is considered one of the transformative liberty leaders of twenty-first century America", "5GdRZWMnzSu-00004-00004593-00005790": "Studying agriculture at Texas A&M, she was named the top 1994 graduate and also served as the first female student body president of her beloved alma mater", "5GdRZWMnzSu-00005-00005790-00006555": "’.She joined Monday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily for an interview with host Alex Marlow", "5GdRZWMnzSu-00006-00006555-00007566": "Talk Media News listed some of the First Step Act’s components:.Limiting the use of restraints on federal prisoners who are pregnant or in postpartum recovery;", "5GdRZWMnzSu-00007-00007566-00008198": "Reducing mandatory minimum prison terms for certain nonviolent repeat drug offenders;", "5GdRZWMnzSu-00008-00008198-00008940": "Permitting reduced sentences for certain nonviolent, cooperative drug offenders with limited criminal histories;", "5GdRZWMnzSu-00009-00008940-00009831": "Requiring prisoners to be placed within 500 miles of their primary residence so that their relatives can visit them;", "5GdRZWMnzSu-00010-00009831-00010619": "Requiring low-risk prisoners to be placed in home confinement for the maximum amount of time permitted;", "5GdRZWMnzSu-00011-00010619-00011792": "Requiring the Bureau of Prisons to help prisoners obtain identification documents prior to release, so they can incorporate de-escalation procedures into training programs;", "5GdRZWMnzSu-00012-00011792-00012503": "Providing tampons and sanitary napkins to prisoners;.Limiting juvenile solitary confinement", "5GdRZWMnzSu-00013-00012503-00013482": ".“The First Step Act is, really, in my opinion, going to go down as one of [Donald Trump’s] greatest accomplishments,” said Rollins", "5GdRZWMnzSu-00014-00013482-00014109": "“It was really a transformative bill. It took about a year to move through Congress", "5GdRZWMnzSu-00015-00014109-00014778": "It ultimately was passed in December, and signed by the president a few days before Christmas", "5GdRZWMnzSu-00016-00014778-00016141": "”.Rollins added, “It is a wholesale look at who is coming back into society from prison, and what can we do to make sure that their re-entry is successful, that they have a real chance at the American Dream", "5GdRZWMnzSu-00017-00016141-00017737": "Ultimately, what it does is improve public safety.”.Rollins stated, “A lot of people don’t know this, but four percent is what America has of the world’s population — four percent — but we have 25 percent of the world’s incarcerated", "5GdRZWMnzSu-00018-00017737-00019260": "About ten years ago in Texas, we really started to look at this, and we asked why we have so many more people in prison than the rest of the world, and what it came down to was we were putting in prison a lot of our low-level non-violent drug offenders", "5GdRZWMnzSu-00019-00019260-00020049": "”. .Conservatives have been broadly absent from pushing for criminal justice reform, assessed Rollins", "5GdRZWMnzSu-00020-00020049-00021245": "“Conservatives have really taken a pass on this issue,” Rollins remarked. “We’ve really just been for building more prisons when in fact what we should be for is making our communities safer", "5GdRZWMnzSu-00021-00021245-00022463": "”.Rollins shared some of the First Step Act’s changes to federal law.“The federal system [didn’t] even allow faith-based groups into the prisons, unlike all the state prisons,” noted Rollins", "5GdRZWMnzSu-00022-00022463-00023411": "“This law changed that. … Women who are giving birth under federal law had to be shackled, and there were some pretty monstrous stories coming out of that", "5GdRZWMnzSu-00023-00023411-00025172": "”.Rollins continued, “[The First Step Act] changed the law so that — under most circumstances, non-violent [criminals] — you would have to be placed in a prison that was closer to you family because being closer to your family has been proven to decrease recidivism numbers", "5GdRZWMnzSu-00024-00025172-00026548": "[It includes] a major drug treatment program.”.Rollins described the First Step Act’s goal as “making a difference in the lives” of prisoners slated for release, noting that “95 percent are coming out", "5GdRZWMnzSu-00025-00026548-00028155": "”.Recruiting “the private sector [and] faith community” in “properly preparing” inmates for reintegration into civil society has “proven itself out across the country in states like Texas, Georgia, Kentucky, Indiana, [and] Utah,” added Rollins", "5GdRZWMnzSu-00026-00028155-00029066": ".“[These states] have all done and changed their approach to criminal justice and their crime rates have all plummeted,” claimed Rollins", "5GdRZWMnzSu-00027-00029066-00029782": "“It’s been an amazing thing to see. One of the greatest policy wins of our generation", "5GdRZWMnzSu-00028-00029782-00031472": "”.Rollins concluded, “Ultimately, this is such a righteous and moral fight, and I think because red states led the way on this for more than a decade, it was not as difficult as it might seem to be able to convince people on the left and the right why this makes so much sense", "5GdRZWMnzSu-00029-00031472-00031572": "”"}}, {"audio_id": "5L6ozXfazUk", "text": {"5L6ozXfazUk-00000-00000513-00001490": "Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have just returned from Morocco, and are busily preparing for the imminent arrival of their royal baby this spring", "5L6ozXfazUk-00001-00001490-00002793": "The Duke and Duchess received celebrity well-wishes for their new arrival from superstars Beyoncé and Jay-Z, who posted on Instagram: “Congrats on your pregnancy, we wish you so much joy", "5L6ozXfazUk-00002-00002793-00003835": "\" Last week, the duo won a BRIT Award for Best International Group, and accepted the gong in a video that featured a stunning portrait of Meghan Markle", "5L6ozXfazUk-00003-00003835-00004977": "Podcast “Royally Obsessed” hears from royal correspondents Lisa Ryan and Kaitlin Menza, who analyse the video and the subsequent Instagram post that went viral last week", "5L6ozXfazUk-00004-00004977-00005794": ".Ms Menza said: “Just, wow. I do wonder if Meghan knew that was coming?.“It was so great", "5L6ozXfazUk-00005-00005794-00006670": "”.Ms Ryan added: “I believe it was Lainey Gossip who said, it was like Beyoncé was taking Meghan into her protection", "5L6ozXfazUk-00006-00006670-00008143": "”.Ms Menza agreed: “I love Beyoncé standing [up] for Meghan.”.Media and celebrity commentator Lainey Gossip wrote shortly after the BRITS win that the Duchess of Sussex was “under the protection” of the Queen of Pop", "5L6ozXfazUk-00007-00008143-00009049": "Beyonce and her husband Jay-Z  won the award for their video for ApeSh*t, which featured the duo standing in front of the Mona Lisa", "5L6ozXfazUk-00008-00009049-00010287": "She explained: “In the video, Beyoncé and Jay-Z pull off a black excellence takeover of the Louvre and highlight the black excellence that’s been overlooked in an institutionally white establishment", "5L6ozXfazUk-00009-00010287-00011614": ".“Which also applies to Meghan Markle’s position in the British royal family. .“What that means then, is that Meghan Markle is now covered by the Beygency, with all the privileges and protections that affords", "5L6ozXfazUk-00010-00011614-00013140": "She’s making that declaration.”.After Beyoncé’s Instagram post, she posted another tribute to the Duchess of Sussex on her website, including a collage of Meghan and a longer post that commended both the Duchess and Duke of Sussex", "5L6ozXfazUk-00011-00013140-00014310": "She wrote: “She became the Duchess of Sussex following her marriage to Prince Harry of the British royal family in May 2018, becoming one of the few black women to join a royal family", "5L6ozXfazUk-00012-00014310-00015363": "“Meghan brought many black traditions to her royal wedding including a Chicago-based black pastor, an amazing gospel choir, and a young black cellist", "5L6ozXfazUk-00013-00015363-00016395": "“At the wedding her culture was front and centre, and she and Prince Harry have continued to push the race relations dialogue forward both near and far", "5L6ozXfazUk-00014-00016395-00017612": "”.The podcast hosts also point out that the Duchess of Sussex and the Queen of Pop have a friend in common – tennis star Serena Williams, who hosted Meghan’s recent New York baby shower", "5L6ozXfazUk-00015-00017612-00018471": "Ms Ryan commented: “Beyoncé and Serena have worked together on the incredible video “Sorry” on the (album) Lemonade", "5L6ozXfazUk-00016-00018471-00019584": "“I wonder, could those three be at tea together?”.The presenters also reveal where the regal image of Meghan in a tiara, pearls and Victorian-style gown originally came from", "5L6ozXfazUk-00017-00019584-00020590": "Illustrator Tim O'Brien created the image for “The Key”, which is the magazine of Meghan’s former university sorority house, to celebrate her royal wedding"}}, {"audio_id": "5lByGwZ8QDy", "text": {"5lByGwZ8QDy-00000-00000571-00002410": "The United Auto Workers (UAW) — which represents thousands of American workers at General Motors (GM) — is standing with President Trump in his recent call for GM CEO Mary Barra to reopen the corporation’s idled Lordstown, Ohio assembly plant", "5lByGwZ8QDy-00001-00002410-00003131": "This week, Trump called on Barra to reopen the recently closed GM Lordstown assembly plant", "5lByGwZ8QDy-00002-00003131-00004622": "The closing of the plant resulted in the immediate layoff of about 1,600 American workers and since 2017, about 4,500 American workers in Ohio have lost their jobs at GM", "5lByGwZ8QDy-00003-00004622-00005536": ".“Just spoke to Mary Barra, CEO of General Motors about the Lordstown Ohio plant,” Trump said in a tweet this week", "5lByGwZ8QDy-00004-00005536-00006085": "“I am not happy that it is closed when everything else in our Country is BOOMING", "5lByGwZ8QDy-00005-00006085-00007088": "I asked her to sell it or do something quickly. She blamed the UAW Union — I don’t care, I just want it open!”", "5lByGwZ8QDy-00006-00007088-00009055": "In response, the UAW is standing with Trump, asking that the populist president be involved in negotiations between GM executives and the union workers to get the assembly plant reopened — a move that would save the Lordstown area and surrounding communities from economic decline", "5lByGwZ8QDy-00007-00009055-00010643": "UAW officials wrote on Twitter a “Thank you” to Trump for standing with the laid-off American workers in Lordstown, and wrote that “Corporations close plants, workers don’t” in response to claims from Barra that the plant was idled because of union workers", "5lByGwZ8QDy-00008-00010643-00012163": "So-called “industry experts” have blasted Trump and the UAW’s effort to include the president in negotiations to reopen the Lordstown plant, arguing to the Detroit Free Press that GM executives will not be pushed into a decision", "5lByGwZ8QDy-00009-00012163-00013809": "“This is an industry with very long planning horizons at huge scales of investment and production,” said Kristin Dziczek, vice president of Industry, Labor & Economics at the Center for Automotive Research (CAR) in Ann Arbor", "5lByGwZ8QDy-00010-00013809-00014836": "“It’s economically significant and important to the country. But GM can’t be bullied into making decisions that aren’t good business decision", "5lByGwZ8QDy-00011-00014836-00016356": "“Neither one of the parties negotiates in public or in the press. This is a two-party negotiation and even the investments, which do involve states and local incentives, they’re not at the bargaining table,” said Dziczek", "5lByGwZ8QDy-00012-00016356-00018268": "“This is all about what the union and GM agree on.” [Emphasis added].GM executives and the UAW are supposed to begin negotiations on possibilities for the Lordstown plant this September, but Trump wrote online that he wants immediate action from GM", "5lByGwZ8QDy-00013-00018268-00019841": "This year, GM announced it would stop production at four of its U.S. plants, including Detroit-Hamtramck and Warren Transmission in Michigan, Lordstown Assembly in Ohio, and Baltimore Operations in Maryland", "5lByGwZ8QDy-00014-00019841-00020577": "Trump initially blasted the decision, saying, “This country has done a lot for General Motors", "5lByGwZ8QDy-00015-00020577-00022056": "They better get back to Ohio and soon''.While GM closed its Lordstown plant this month, the multinational corporation’s Mexico production has remained unaffected by layoffs, and production in China has ramped up", "5lByGwZ8QDy-00016-00022056-00023216": "The Lordstown plant closure, a new analysis finds, will have a devastating impact on the working and middle-class communities in the small, Ohio region", "5lByGwZ8QDy-00017-00023216-00024025": "Between the plant closure and American jobs in supporting industries around the area, about 8,000 U", "5lByGwZ8QDy-00018-00024025-00024751": "S. workers in the Lordstown area are expected to lose their jobs because of GM’s decision", "5lByGwZ8QDy-00019-00024751-00026172": "Lordstown’s economic downturn from the plant closure would come as Barra continues raking in an annual salary of about $22 million and GM profits about $11 billion before taxes"}}, {"audio_id": "6o-MRCsCclc", "text": {"6o-MRCsCclc-00000-00000571-00001548": "Everyone on the Left is hoping former VP Joe Biden will run in 2020 after Hillary bowed out, but he’s not willing to commit yet", "6o-MRCsCclc-00001-00001548-00002412": "During a recent speech, Biden kept talking as if he was already running, and he only barely caught himself", "6o-MRCsCclc-00002-00002412-00003165": "Even the media gave him a hard time about the gaffe –  so Trump stepped up and gave Joe the perfect nickname", "6o-MRCsCclc-00003-00003165-00004478": ".From Fox New:''Trump on Monday blasted Joe Biden as “another low I.Q. individual” as he taunted the former vice president for getting “tongue tied” about whether he will launch a 2020 White House bid''", "6o-MRCsCclc-00004-00004478-00005340": "Doesn’t “low-IQ Joe” has a nice ring to it? Or is “tongue-tied Joe” better?.Donald, that’s just amazing!", "6o-MRCsCclc-00005-00005340-00006069": "Trump roasted Biden for getting tongue-tied over a very simple question about running for president", "6o-MRCsCclc-00006-00006069-00007132": "Joe, how hard is it to answer a yes or no question? Are you running or not?.Liberals like to joke that Trump has a low IQ", "6o-MRCsCclc-00007-00007132-00008211": "Really?  The president has an IQ in the 150s, some reports say, one of the smartest presidents in our nation’s history", "6o-MRCsCclc-00008-00008211-00009392": "Trump isn’t sitting on the sidelines while his Democrat opponents prepare. He just reminded America that, in his opinion, Biden is not very presidential", "6o-MRCsCclc-00009-00009392-00010306": "Given his gaffes and frequent, inappropriate moments with the ladies, Joe’s will probably have a hard time against Trump", "6o-MRCsCclc-00010-00010306-00011014": "Not to mention this latest fact: “Middle-Class Joe” is now a multi-millionaire.From Politico:", "6o-MRCsCclc-00011-00011014-00012372": "“Middle-Class Joe” Biden has a $2.7 million vacation home. He charges more than $100,000 per speaking gig and has inked a book deal likely worth seven figures", "6o-MRCsCclc-00012-00012372-00013266": "Since leaving office, Biden’s only gotten richer. Pretty amazing how often that happens for Washington politicians", "6o-MRCsCclc-00013-00013266-00014128": "Seems like “serving the public” leads to big bucks.Maybe Joe should just enjoy his millions and leave the leading to men like Trump?"}}, {"audio_id": "62zAmJmeGWQ", "text": {"62zAmJmeGWQ-00000-00000513-00001701": "The National Enquirer, its parent company AMI, and its boss David Pecker just keep finding their way in and out of legal trouble in relation to Donald Trump’s scandals", "62zAmJmeGWQ-00001-00001701-00002477": "Now the Enquirer gang has decided to sell Trump out in the hope of keeping itself out of even more legal trouble", "62zAmJmeGWQ-00002-00002477-00003397": "We already saw Pecker and the National Enquirer sell Donald Trump and Michael Cohen out to the SDNY in return for immunity", "62zAmJmeGWQ-00003-00003397-00004705": "But then Pecker blew his immunity when he got caught trying to blackmail Trump’s longtime nemesis Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, and now Pecker is in real danger of facing serious criminal charges", "62zAmJmeGWQ-00004-00004705-00005907": "So he’s selling Trump out yet again.Pecker and AMI have agreed to turn over Trump-related documents to the House Judiciary Committee, according to CBS News", "62zAmJmeGWQ-00005-00005907-00006821": "Based on the nature of the document request, these are ostensibly the same documents that they’ve already turned over to the SDNY", "62zAmJmeGWQ-00006-00006821-00008221": "So this won’t necessarily further incriminate Trump, but it will serve to publicly incriminate Trump, as the committee will turn around and use these documents as part of its public hearings on Trump’s crimes", "62zAmJmeGWQ-00007-00008221-00009316": "The National Enquirer gang keeps playing games, of course, so it’s possible they could be disingenuous in their announcement that they’re going to cooperate", "62zAmJmeGWQ-00008-00009316-00010316": "But in this instance, they have nothing further to lose by turning over documents to the House Democrats that they’ve already turned over to prosecutors", "62zAmJmeGWQ-00009-00010316-00011332": "So we’re about to see more of Trump’s dirt. In any case, this cooperation won’t keep Pecker out of prison, if that’s where he’s headed"}}, {"audio_id": "62Y9Laf4bHE", "text": {"62Y9Laf4bHE-00000-00000571-00001856": "On this weekend’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday,” Rep. Ben Ray Lujan (D-NM) accused President Donald Trump of creating a “humanitarian crisis” at the U", "62Y9Laf4bHE-00001-00001856-00002794": "S.-Mexico border.Lujan said, “Look, this is not the national security crisis that the president continues to describe", "62Y9Laf4bHE-00002-00002794-00004865": "There is a humanitarian crisis, but it’s created by President Donald Trump. When you go back to the threats even during the midterms, the president was suggesting that there was an immediate national security crisis and he sent troops to the border just to try to distract the American people with the gains that we were going to see in the midterms", "62Y9Laf4bHE-00003-00004865-00005944": "”. .He added, “So again, I think the president continues to use immigration as a distraction as opposed to trying to work together in a bipartisan basis", "62Y9Laf4bHE-00004-00005944-00006618": "Whether it’s immigration reform or other important measures that we could be adopting together", "62Y9Laf4bHE-00005-00006618-00007893": "”.When asked about the surge of illegal immigrants, Lujan said, “There are a number of people who have been turning themselves in to border patrol agents as the law allows in the United States for asylum-seekers", "62Y9Laf4bHE-00006-00007893-00009332": "And so when the Department of Homeland Security is reporting these numbers, I don’t believe that they are accurately describing the numbers with a number of people that are turning themselves in the versus those that are being apprehended", "62Y9Laf4bHE-00007-00009332-00010985": "”.He concluded, “Well, again, I would say there is a humanitarian crisis at the border but one that was created by President Donald Trump with his policies, whether it’s his metering initiatives or other policies that have been put in place by Secretary Nielsen", "62Y9Laf4bHE-00008-00010985-00011085": "”"}}, {"audio_id": "66LvLKa_3Ek", "text": {"66LvLKa_3Ek-00000-00000571-00001284": "Donald Trump is now sinking so badly, the rats are fleeing the sinking ship at an accelerating pace", "66LvLKa_3Ek-00001-00001284-00002096": "Trump’s FEMA Director Brock Long is set to resign this Friday. Trump’s FDA Commissioner just announced he’s leaving", "66LvLKa_3Ek-00002-00002096-00003376": "Matthew Whitaker just quit the brand new job Trump gave him at the DOJ. Now Ben Carson is in on the action, but true to form, he’s doing it in a way that no one even understands", "66LvLKa_3Ek-00003-00003376-00004220": "Ben Carson now says that he’s resigning as Donald Trump’s HUD Secretary, effective at the end of the current term", "66LvLKa_3Ek-00004-00004220-00005038": "That’s right, Carson announced his resignation nearly two years in advance. Why? No one knows, really", "66LvLKa_3Ek-00005-00005038-00006323": "Does Carson really think Trump needs twenty-two months advance notice to find a new HUD Secretary who’s equally unqualified for the job? Does Carson think this gets him off the hook for Trump’s crimes?", "66LvLKa_3Ek-00006-00006323-00007501": "Ben Carson is a guy who once falsely claimed that he stabbed his friend with a knife, and who once asserted that Joseph from the Bible built the Egyptian Pyramids to store grain", "66LvLKa_3Ek-00007-00007501-00008708": "This is not a man whose words or actions make sense. But even Carson, in his own weird and incomprehensible way, seems to be trying to join the rats who are fleeing Trump’s ship", "66LvLKa_3Ek-00008-00008708-00010019": "There’s still one big unanswered question. Back when Donald Trump was first illegitimately named the winner of the election, he publicly and repeatedly insisted that Ben Carson become his HUD Secretary", "66LvLKa_3Ek-00009-00010019-00011377": "Carson kept saying “no” for obvious reasons: it would have been far easier for Carson to continue his grifting ways out on the book and lecture circuit if he didn’t have the restraints of holding a cabinet position", "66LvLKa_3Ek-00010-00011377-00012642": "But in the end, Carson took the job. Just how did Trump “convince” him to do it? Perhaps Carson will fess up one day about whatever blackmail material Trump must be holding over him"}}, {"audio_id": "6uBb8atQUdY", "text": {"6uBb8atQUdY-00000-00000571-00001707": "Democrats misbehaved – so ‘The Donald’ just dropped his swamp hammer on them.With the Mueller report officially out there, the 2+ year investigation is finally over", "6uBb8atQUdY-00001-00001707-00002577": "But Democrats aren’t happy. Mueller’s findings clear Trump of collusion. And now they’re saying Mueller is wrong", "6uBb8atQUdY-00002-00002577-00003277": "Many still want him to be impeached.Could the Washington swamp really be this bad?", "6uBb8atQUdY-00003-00003277-00004640": "I’m sick and tired of it. I know every Trump supporter stands with me.And President Trump clearly does too, because he only waited a matter of hours before turning the tables on the Democrats", "6uBb8atQUdY-00004-00004640-00005325": "From Fox News:.President Trump… [renewed his] calls to investigate the investigators", "6uBb8atQUdY-00005-00005325-00006404": "“Hopefully somebody is going to look at the other side,” Trump said. “This was an illegal takedown that failed and hopefully somebody is going to be looking at the other side", "6uBb8atQUdY-00006-00006404-00007347": "”.Joke’s on you, Democrat deep state!.The real story was never about the man being investigated—it’s about the investigators", "6uBb8atQUdY-00007-00007347-00008107": "It seems like the Washington swamp was using the deep state to try to end a presidency on “trumped-up” charges", "6uBb8atQUdY-00008-00008107-00009034": "Using nothing but a flimsy dossier.And now Trump has endured 2 years of people questioning the legitimacy of his presidency", "6uBb8atQUdY-00009-00009034-00009739": "His opponent said the election was stolen from her. He was under constant threat of impeachment", "6uBb8atQUdY-00010-00009739-00010518": "Now all the Democrats’ political ammo is gone for 2020. Is that enough of a punishment for what they did?", "6uBb8atQUdY-00011-00010518-00011936": "Some say the president should just let it go. But I’m not one of them.Donald Trump needs to hold these the Washington swamp accountable, doesn’t he? They wasted millions of tax dollars and lied about the president for TWO YEARS", "6uBb8atQUdY-00012-00011936-00012811": "Trump is saying it needs to happen, but playing the politics game, it may need to come from Congress and not directly from him", "6uBb8atQUdY-00013-00012811-00013579": "Do you think Trump should just let them get away with it, or should they bring every last one of them to justice?"}}, {"audio_id": "6xr3PxE6ywA", "text": {"6xr3PxE6ywA-00000-00000571-00001307": "Ronald Reagan said the border was in crisis. Bill Clinton said the border was in crisis", "6xr3PxE6ywA-00001-00001307-00002146": "George Bush Sr. AND George Bush Jr. said the border was in crisis.Even liberal Obama said the border was in crisis", "6xr3PxE6ywA-00002-00002146-00002825": "But when Trump says, “Let’s fix the border crisis”, liberals lose their collective minds", "6xr3PxE6ywA-00003-00002825-00003752": "The Democrats in Congress aren’t done being the party of “No”, and are doing everything in their power to block Trump’s national emergency declaration", "6xr3PxE6ywA-00004-00003752-00004531": "But Donald’s is going to smash through the Democrat obstruction with a tool he’s never used before: his veto power", "6xr3PxE6ywA-00005-00004531-00005928": "From The Hill.The White House on Tuesday formally threatened to veto a resolution making its way through Congress that would terminate President Trump’s emergency declaration to secure funding for a wall along the southern border", "6xr3PxE6ywA-00006-00005928-00006788": "Trump knows that the Democrats’ plan to stop the wall from being built is nothing but another attempt to undermine his authority", "6xr3PxE6ywA-00007-00006788-00007467": "They’re willing to put American lives at risk if it means making sure Trump doesn’t get his way", "6xr3PxE6ywA-00008-00007467-00008177": "But the border wall has nothing to do with Trump “getting his way”. He made his argument perfectly clear", "6xr3PxE6ywA-00009-00008177-00009656": "“The problem of large-scale unlawful migration through the Southern Border is enduring, and, despite the Administration’s use of existing statutory authorities, in recent years the situation has worsened in certain respects,” it said", "6xr3PxE6ywA-00010-00009656-00010826": "The Democrats are limiting the Trump administration’s “ability to respond effectively to the ongoing crisis at the Southern Border,” which is the exact reason Americans voted him into office", "6xr3PxE6ywA-00011-00010826-00012090": "Unfortunately, it looks like three Republican Senators are in cahoots with the Democrats, and they have already said they plan to vote for the Democrats’ resolution to stop the emergency declaration"}}, {"audio_id": "6yowNX53cig", "text": {"6yowNX53cig-00000-00000513-00001798": "President Trump lashed out at conservative pundit Ann Coulter on Saturday, labeling her a “Wacky Nut Job” and insisting he was “winning on the Border” despite opposition from a hostile Democratic Party", "6yowNX53cig-00001-00001798-00003031": "Coulter, one of Trump’s earliest supporters, has evolved into a persistent critic the president in recent months over his struggles to secure funding from Congress for his long-promised wall along the U", "6yowNX53cig-00002-00003031-00004716": "S.-Mexico border.“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", "6yowNX53cig-00003-00004716-00005554": "Major sections of Wall are being built.,” Trump tweeted.and renovated, with MUCH MORE to follow shortly", "6yowNX53cig-00004-00005554-00006319": "Tens of thousands of illegals are being apprehended (captured) at the Border and NOT allowed into our Country", "6yowNX53cig-00005-00006319-00007098": "With another President, millions would be pouring in. I am stopping an invasion as the Wall gets built", "6yowNX53cig-00006-00007098-00008451": "#MAGA,” he continued.Coulter, whose books include “In Trump We Trust,” and \"Resistance is Futile,\" did not reply to the president via Twitter on Saturday, but has been relentless in her criticism", "6yowNX53cig-00007-00008451-00009679": "In January, after lawmakers reached an agreement to end the 35-day partial government shutdown, she called Trump the \"the biggest wimp ever to serve as President of the United States", "6yowNX53cig-00008-00009679-00010891": "\".During an appearance on “Real Time With Bill Maher,” she said Trump backed down on his demands for the wall in order to reopen the government without securing funding from House Democrats", "6yowNX53cig-00009-00010891-00011659": "“I promise you the country would be run much better if I had a veto over what Donald Trump is doing", "6yowNX53cig-00010-00011659-00012628": "It’s crazy that I expect a president to keep the promise he made every day for 18 months,” Coulter told Maher over Trump's border wall promise", "6yowNX53cig-00011-00012628-00013725": "During Trump’s State of the Union address to Congress in February, Coulter labeled the speech as “the lamest, sappiest, most intentionally tear-jerking SOTU ever", "6yowNX53cig-00012-00013725-00014822": "”.Coulter is scheduled to speak Monday at the Forum Club of the Palm Beaches in Florida, not far from Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort, the Palm Beach Post reported"}}, {"audio_id": "6FoRlg2oQjk", "text": {"6FoRlg2oQjk-00000-00000000-00005000": "Гэта адзін з арыянтаў рабленьня прыгожых вялікіх дрэў. У дадзеным выпадзе - гэта Елкі."}}, {"audio_id": "6Jd04Je0lsg", "text": {"6Jd04Je0lsg-00000-00000513-00002633": "President Trump is scheduled to speak Saturday at the 2019 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) near Washington, capping off a whirlwind week for the president that included a summit in Hanoi with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and explosive testimony on Capitol Hill by his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, on Wednesday", "6Jd04Je0lsg-00001-00002633-00004353": "CPAC’s organizers confirmed the president’s Saturday appearance earlier this week, writing: “We are honored to have @realDonaldTrump join us again for #CPAC2019 where he’ll share his vision for #WhatMakesAmericaGreat", "6Jd04Je0lsg-00002-00004353-00005765": "Thank you, Mr. President!”.Saturday, the event's final day, will mark Trump’s third consecutive appearance at CPAC while in office, though he has made multiple appearances since 2011", "6Jd04Je0lsg-00003-00005765-00006877": "This year's CPAC, which began Wednesday in National Harbor, Md., has seen appearances from a range of speakers, including former Wisconsin Gov", "6Jd04Je0lsg-00004-00006877-00008389": "Scott Walker and Benghazi hero Mark Geist.Vice President Mike Pence addressed the crowd Friday, denouncing Democrats for seeming to embrace socialism with far-left policies such as \"Medicare-for-all\" and the Green New Deal"}}, {"audio_id": "6QCixcr15yI", "text": {"6QCixcr15yI-00000-00000513-00001555": "Rep. Justin Amash, R-Mich., said Sunday that he has not ruled out running for the White House in 2020 as a third party candidate", "6QCixcr15yI-00001-00001555-00002866": "Arguing that the country needs a president who is \"presenting a vision for America that is different from what these two parties are presenting,” Amash said he is considering running as a Libertarian in the next presidential election", "6QCixcr15yI-00002-00002866-00004546": "“I never rule out anything. That’s not on my radar right now, but I think that it is important that we have someone in there that is presenting a vision for America that is different from what these two parties are presenting,\" Amash said on CNN’s “State of the Union", "6QCixcr15yI-00003-00004546-00005424": "”.Amash added: \"Right now we have a wild amount of partisan rhetoric on both sides and Congress is totally broken", "6QCixcr15yI-00004-00005424-00006387": "We can’t debate things in a clear way anymore.”.Amash has been one of the most vocal Republican critics of President Trump in the House", "6QCixcr15yI-00005-00006387-00007451": "Just last month, he was one of 13 Republicans to vote in support of a measure to block the president’s declaration of a national emergency at the U", "6QCixcr15yI-00006-00007451-00009694": "S.-Mexico border – calling the move by Trump unconstitutional.The Michigan lawmaker joins a growing list of possible third party candidates mulling over a 2020 presidential bid, with the most high profile possible White House challengers from a third party currently being former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg", "6QCixcr15yI-00007-00009694-00010392": "Amash did not give a time frame for when he would make a final decision about a 2020 run"}}, {"audio_id": "6U0DFO3s3G8", "text": {"6U0DFO3s3G8-00000-00000513-00002326": "In the hours since Donald Trump’s DOJ mouthpiece William Barr released a laughably misleading “summary” of Robert Mueller’s report, we’ve been fortunate that numerous major media outlets have been willing to poke holes in Barr’s fish story, as opposed to merely repeating it as if it were fact", "6U0DFO3s3G8-00001-00002326-00003506": "That said, a different narrative has developed tonight – particularly among TV pundits – about how Congress blew it by putting all its eggs in Mueller’s basket", "6U0DFO3s3G8-00002-00003506-00004501": "But the facts suggest something rather different.Let’s hypothetically say that there never was a Robert Mueller investigation to begin with", "6U0DFO3s3G8-00003-00004501-00005544": "The Democrats didn’t take control of the House until two and a half months ago, and the first month of it was dominated by necessary procedural matters", "6U0DFO3s3G8-00004-00005544-00006575": "So if the House Democrats were the only people investigating Trump’s crimes and scandals, the earliest they could have gotten started with it would have been in February", "6U0DFO3s3G8-00005-00006575-00007445": "It turns out they did get started with it in February, when Michael Cohen publicly testified about various Trump crimes", "6U0DFO3s3G8-00006-00007445-00008224": "So the House Democrats didn’t actually lose any time at all by “waiting” for Robert Mueller to finish", "6U0DFO3s3G8-00007-00008224-00008903": "They’re on just about the same timeframe they would have been if Mueller’s probe never existed", "6U0DFO3s3G8-00008-00008903-00010023": "The difference is that, because Mueller did what he did, people like Cohen got busted, and ended up being willing to testify against Trump in front of Congress and the public", "6U0DFO3s3G8-00009-00010023-00011201": "There’s certainly reason to argue that House Democrats would have been better off today if the (real) Mueller report became public, as opposed to Barr’s nonsensical “summary", "6U0DFO3s3G8-00010-00011201-00011980": "” We’ll see how quickly the Democrats can use their subpoena power to get their hands on the report", "6U0DFO3s3G8-00011-00011980-00012797": "In the meantime, it’s difficult to argue that the House Democrats have lost any opportunities as a result of the Mueller probe", "6U0DFO3s3G8-00012-00012797-00013393": "It’s just going to be a matter of how much or little they’ve gained from it"}}, {"audio_id": "6WibecS5c2E", "text": {"6WibecS5c2E-00000-00000513-00002394": "When former FBI lawyer Lisa Page and former FBI agent Peter Strzok discussed a so-called \"insurance policy\" involving then-candidate Donald Trump and the Russia investigation in 2016, they were discussing how quickly to proceed with the probe, Page told lawmakers last year", "6WibecS5c2E-00001-00002394-00004993": "Page told House lawmakers in a closed-door interview that the text message about an \"insurance policy\" if Trump won the 2016 election — which Republicans have cited to point to the anti-Trump bias the investigators exhibited — was a reference to the fact that the FBI's counterintelligence investigation into whether members of Trump's team were colluding with Russia would take on a greater significance if he was in the White House", "6WibecS5c2E-00002-00004993-00006753": "\"If he is not elected, then, to the extent that the Russians were colluding with members of his team, we're still going to investigate that even without him being President, because any time the Russians do anything with a US person, we care, and it's very serious to us,\" Page said", "6WibecS5c2E-00003-00006753-00007581": "\"But if he becomes President, that totally changes the game because now he is the President of the United States,\" she continued", "6WibecS5c2E-00004-00007581-00008519": "\"He's going to immediately start receiving classified briefings. He's going to be exposed to the most sensitive secrets imaginable", "6WibecS5c2E-00005-00008519-00009237": "And if there is somebody on his team who wittingly or unwittingly is working with the Russians, that is super serious", "6WibecS5c2E-00006-00009237-00010580": "\".Page was speaking to the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees as part of last year's Republican-led investigation into the FBI and Justice Department's handling of the investigations into Hillary Clinton and Trump and Russia", "6WibecS5c2E-00007-00010580-00011680": "The transcript of Page's two-part interview in July 2018 was released publicly Tuesday by the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, Rep", "6WibecS5c2E-00008-00011680-00012939": "Doug Collins of Georgia. Last week he released Justice Department official Bruce Ohr's interview transcript, and has said he plans to continue to release more of the panel's interviews conducted last year", "6WibecS5c2E-00009-00012939-00014561": "Page's text messages exchanged with Strzok while the FBI officials had an affair cut to the heart of the Republican probe, in which GOP lawmakers argued that key officials tasked with investigating Clinton and Trump had displayed a clear political bias", "6WibecS5c2E-00010-00014561-00015804": "Page's interview took place just after the raucous, public hearing with Strzok, in which he acknowledged his personal political biases but argued they did not affect his professional work", "6WibecS5c2E-00011-00015804-00016998": "Page made a similar argument in her closed-door interview with the panels, saying that her and Strzok's professional decisions were unconnected to the personal text messages they exchanged", "6WibecS5c2E-00012-00016998-00018294": "In the interview, Page noted there was also an anti-Clinton bias at the FBI. She said that Strzok told her about senior FBI officials expressing a sentiment that \"you have to get her", "6WibecS5c2E-00013-00018294-00019014": "\" But she said the comments weren't instructions to investigators, and rather amounted to \"smack talk", "6WibecS5c2E-00014-00019014-00019793": "\".\"That's the point I keep trying to make, which is, like, we don't like a lot of the people we investigate", "6WibecS5c2E-00015-00019793-00022039": "In fact, we mostly don't like the people we investigate,\" Page said.CNN previously reported that Page explained another controversial text message in her interview — \"We need to open the case we've been waiting on now while Andy is acting,\" Strzok had texted her in the hours after FBI Director Jim Comey's firing — was not about who was the FBI director", "6WibecS5c2E-00016-00022039-00023413": "\"This case had been a topic of discussion for some time,\" Page said. \"The 'waiting on' was an indecision and a cautiousness on the part of the Bureau with respect to what to do, whether there was sufficient predication to open", "6WibecS5c2E-00017-00023413-00023513": "\""}}, {"audio_id": "6W_0FL3k0P4", "text": {"6W_0FL3k0P4-00000-00000571-00002418": "President Donald Trump’s son, Donald Junior, has said British Prime Minister Theresa May should have listened to his father’s advice on how to conduct Brexit negotiations as the process to extricate the United Kingdom from the European Union bounces from one crisis to the next", "6W_0FL3k0P4-00001-00002418-00004656": "The comments from Donald Junior came in an opinion column published in British right of centre, formerly conservative, newspaper the Daily Telegraph, where Mr Trump echoed previous comments by the President and Brexit leader Nigel Farage by linking the Brexit referendum to the 2016 Presidential election, and the forthcoming 2020 race", "6W_0FL3k0P4-00002-00004656-00006328": "It has now been 1,000 days since the people of the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union, but despite nearly three years of ‘negotiations’ between the government and the European Union, the country seems as far as ever from actually leaving", "6W_0FL3k0P4-00003-00006328-00007469": "Prime Minister May has even gone so far as threatening the country with no Brexit at all if politicians don’t line up to support her unpopular and controversial Brexit deal", "6W_0FL3k0P4-00004-00007469-00008496": "Mr Trump compared the no-holds-barred tactics by the British and European establishment to stop Brexit from going ahead to attacks on his father in the U", "6W_0FL3k0P4-00005-00008496-00009894": "S., stating that the fight for independence was not yet over and that “the people of both the UK and the US must reaffirm the decisions they made in 2016 to stand up for themselves against the global elite", "6W_0FL3k0P4-00006-00009894-00011868": "”. .Noting the “desperate, last-gasp attempt by those previously in power” to overturn the 2016 revolutions, Mr Trump was particularly scornful of UK Prime Minister Theresa May, who has led the United Kingdom through the bulk of the Brexit process, while achieving little for the British people", "6W_0FL3k0P4-00007-00011868-00013180": "Rhetorically asking whether the promises of May and other top UK political figures to honour the result of the referendum was just a ruse, Mr Trump called on the UK establishment to respect democracy:", "6W_0FL3k0P4-00008-00013180-00014292": "Since 2016, Prime Minister Theresa May has promised on more than 50 separate occasions that Britain would leave the EU on March 29 2019", "6W_0FL3k0P4-00009-00014292-00015698": "She needs to honour that promise.But Mrs May ignored advice from my father, and ultimately, a process that should have taken only a few short months has become a years-long stalemate, leaving the British people in limbo", "6W_0FL3k0P4-00010-00015698-00016531": "Now, the clock has virtually run out and almost all is lost – exactly as the European elites were hoping", "6W_0FL3k0P4-00011-00016531-00017837": "Some pro-Brexit politicians even suggest that Mrs May herself is trying to sabotage Brexit, by insisting that Parliament agree to a deal that essentially keeps Britain bound to the EU indefinitely", "6W_0FL3k0P4-00012-00017837-00019700": "Mr Trump noted that the fast approaching Brexit deadline, due next Friday, March 29th, was almost certainly to be cancelled to give the political class even more time than the nearly three years they have already had, and wrote with apparent regret that democracy in the UK was “all but dead", "6W_0FL3k0P4-00013-00019700-00021055": "”.The comments by the high-profile son of the United States President seem to reflect a broad scepticism among British voters about the intentions of key individuals at the top of UK and EU politics", "6W_0FL3k0P4-00014-00021055-00022529": "Breitbart London reported today on polling that found 44 per cent of UK respondents believed the government had set out to frustrate Brexit from day one, with just 27 per cent not believing that was the case", "6W_0FL3k0P4-00015-00022529-00023576": "Perhaps even more damning was the finding that 68 per cent did not even trust Members of Parliament to “do the right thing by the country over Brexit”", "6W_0FL3k0P4-00016-00023576-00024872": "Sixty-one per cent said they thought Brussels, the home of the European Union’s institutions, was working to punish Britain by being as inflexible as possible during the Brexit process", "6W_0FL3k0P4-00017-00024872-00026434": "Trump Jr’s comments on Mrs May ignoring advice from the President comes just days after President Trump, a long-standing supporter of Britain leaving the European Union, lamented the poor progress the Prime Minister had made to date", "6W_0FL3k0P4-00018-00026434-00028231": "Speaking at the White House, Trump said: “I’m surprised at how badly it has all gone from a standpoint of negotiations, but I gave the Prime Minister my ideas of how to negotiate it, she didn’t listen to that and that’s fine but it could have been negotiated in a different manner''", "6W_0FL3k0P4-00019-00028231-00029595": ".He concluded it was not looking possible for the UK to leave the EU on the March 29th date repeatedly promised to the British people, and remarked to the cameras: “It’s very sad to see what’s happening there''"}}, {"audio_id": "6Xs_zEAVVEo", "text": {"6Xs_zEAVVEo-00000-00000216-00000695": "Amnesty International з гонарам далучаецца да глабальнай кампаніі", "6Xs_zEAVVEo-00001-00000695-00001230": "з патрабаваннем аб вызваленні сямі супрацоўнікаў і валанцёраў \"Вясны\",", "6Xs_zEAVVEo-00002-00001230-00001625": "якія былі затрыманыя і абвінавачаныя выключна за сваю праваабарончую дзейнасць.", "6Xs_zEAVVEo-00003-00001651-00002000": "Спрабуючы выкараніць усе крытычныя галасы,", "6Xs_zEAVVEo-00004-00002000-00002570": "беларускія ўлады топчуць правы чалавека і пераследуць тых,", "6Xs_zEAVVEo-00005-00002570-00003055": "хто адважваецца выступіць у абарону ахвяраў парушэнняў правоў чалавека.", "6Xs_zEAVVEo-00006-00003114-00003428": "17 верасня спаўняецца год", "6Xs_zEAVVEo-00007-00003428-00004073": "з дня арышту Марфы Рабковай, каардынатаркі моладзі \"Вясны\".", "6Xs_zEAVVEo-00008-00004112-00004371": "З таго часу яна знаходзіцца пад вартай", "6Xs_zEAVVEo-00009-00004371-00004761": "і ёй можа пагражаць да 12 гадоў пазбаўлення волі", "6Xs_zEAVVEo-00010-00004761-00005286": "па сфабрыкаваным абвінавачванні ў падрыхтоўцы удзельнікаў масавых беспарадкаў,", "6Xs_zEAVVEo-00011-00005298-00005758": "у прыналежнасці да злачыннай арганізацыі і распальванні сацыяльнай варожасці.", "6Xs_zEAVVEo-00012-00005819-00005978": "Але дайце сябе падмануць!", "6Xs_zEAVVEo-00013-00005989-00006390": "Адзінае яе злачынства, калі гэта слова тут пасуе, -", "6Xs_zEAVVEo-00014-00006397-00006692": "гэта тое, што яна выкрывала жорсткасць", "6Xs_zEAVVEo-00015-00006692-00007266": "беларускіх праваахоўнікаў у дачыненні да мірных дэманстрантаў.", "6Xs_zEAVVEo-00016-00007350-00007651": "А статнія шэсць зняволеных, якія ўтрымліваюцца акрамя яе, -", "6Xs_zEAVVEo-00017-00007664-00008433": "гэта Алесь Бяляцкі, заснавальнік \"Вясны\" і ўладальнік прэміі імя Вацлава Гавела,", "6Xs_zEAVVEo-00018-00008478-00008678": "Леанід Судаленка,", "6Xs_zEAVVEo-00019-00008777-00009021": "Валянцін Стэфановіч,", "6Xs_zEAVVEo-00020-00009086-00009287": "Андрэй Чапюк,", "6Xs_zEAVVEo-00021-00009364-00009564": "Таццяна Ласіца", "6Xs_zEAVVEo-00022-00009666-00010006": "і Уладзімір Лабковіч.", "6Xs_zEAVVEo-00023-00010142-00010506": "Праваабарончы цэнтр \"Вясна\" шмат гадоў з'яўляецца каштоўным", "6Xs_zEAVVEo-00024-00010506-00010880": "праваабарончым партнёрам Amnesty International.", "6Xs_zEAVVEo-00025-00010937-00011171": "Мы падтрымліваем іх", "6Xs_zEAVVEo-00026-00011171-00011366": "і працягваем заклікаць", "6Xs_zEAVVEo-00027-00011366-00011676": "да неадкладнага і безумоўнага вызвалення", "6Xs_zEAVVEo-00028-00011676-00012122": "супрацоўнікаў і валанцёраў \"Вясны\".", "6Xs_zEAVVEo-00029-00012155-00012286": "Вялікі дзякуй!"}}, {"audio_id": "6b-lubU4zrE", "text": {"6b-lubU4zrE-00000-00000571-00001182": "For the fourth time in about a month, Trump suggested increasing legal immigration levels", "6b-lubU4zrE-00001-00001182-00002488": "With Apple CEO Tim Cook sitting next to him at the White House on Wednesday, Trump said he not only wanted more legal immigration but that companies needed an expansion of new arrivals to grow their business", "6b-lubU4zrE-00002-00002488-00003144": "“We’re going to have a lot of people coming into the country. We want a lot of people coming in", "6b-lubU4zrE-00003-00003144-00004108": "And we need it,” Trump said.''It’s not a question of do we want [more immigration], these folks are going to have to sort of not expand too much", "6b-lubU4zrE-00004-00004108-00004925": "And if we tell them.these are very ambitious people around this table. They don’t like the concept of not expanding", "6b-lubU4zrE-00005-00004925-00006056": "We want to have the companies grow and the only way they’re going to grow is if we give them the workers and the only way we’re going to have the workers is to do exactly what we’re doing", "6b-lubU4zrE-00006-00006056-00007435": "The comments are a direct rebuttal of the president’s commitments in 2015, 2016, and 2017, where he vowed to reduce overall legal immigration levels to boost the wages of U", "6b-lubU4zrE-00007-00007435-00008371": "S. workers and reduce the displacement of America’s working and middle class.In 2017, for instance, Trump touted Sen", "6b-lubU4zrE-00008-00008371-00010296": "Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Sen. David Perdue’s (R-GA) RAISE Act legislation, which would have cut legal immigration down to about 500,000 arrivals a year rather than the current admission of more than one million legal immigrants annually who compete against working-class Americans for jobs", "6b-lubU4zrE-00009-00010296-00012378": "Trump, at the time, said legal immigration levels needed to be trimmed to “reduce poverty, increase wages, and save taxpayers billions and billions of dollars,” arguing that the current importation of more than a million legal immigrants every year “has placed substantial pressure on American workers, taxpayers, and community resources''", "6b-lubU4zrE-00010-00012378-00013733": "“Among those hit the hardest in recent years have been immigrants, and very importantly, minority workers competing for jobs against brand new arrivals,” Trump said in 2017 of current legal immigration levels", "6b-lubU4zrE-00011-00013733-00014334": "“And it has not been fair to our people, to our citizens, to our workers''"}}, {"audio_id": "6dDwNi5yScc", "text": {"6dDwNi5yScc-00000-00000513-00001665": "Judge Drops Orders Related To FBI Raid On Michael Cohen.At issue with the multiple investigations behind Trump and his cohorts is the question of transparency", "6dDwNi5yScc-00001-00001665-00002723": "Will the public get to see the reports? If they will, will parts of the reports be redacted? What exactly will the federal government allow the public to see?", "6dDwNi5yScc-00002-00002723-00003734": "On Monday, a judge ruled the public will get to see at least some information in regards to Trump’s former personal lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen", "6dDwNi5yScc-00003-00003734-00005311": "The Washington Post reported:.‘A judge has directed prosecutors to publicly release documents related to the search warrant that authorized last year’s FBI raids on the home and office of President Donald Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen’", "6dDwNi5yScc-00004-00005311-00006711": "The documents will be released publicly on Tuesday. The judge ordered:.‘The Government is directed to file redacted copies of the search warrant materials on the public docket on March 19, 2019’", "6dDwNi5yScc-00005-00006711-00007422": "This isn’t the first time U.S. District Judge William Pauley III ordered the release of the documents", "6dDwNi5yScc-00006-00007422-00008558": "However, this time around the judge approved the release of the documents with redactions including the censoring of Cohen’s phone number, apartment number, and other personal information", "6dDwNi5yScc-00007-00008558-00009269": "Back in February, Pauley ruled that the public interest in the documents was enough to warrant the release", "6dDwNi5yScc-00008-00009269-00010363": "‘The public interest in the underlying subject matter of the Materials – which implicates the integrity of the 2016 presidential election – is substantial’", "6dDwNi5yScc-00009-00010363-00011492": "Of course, the public interest is substantial! The public wants to know if Trump and his campaign colluded with Russians to win the 2016 presidential election", "6dDwNi5yScc-00010-00011492-00012202": "It’s important to be sure of these things especially when you have an idiot like Trump as president", "6dDwNi5yScc-00011-00012202-00013440": "What kind of information could these documents reveal? MSNBC reported the affidavits would show what lead to a judge believing there was probable cause for the approval of the search warrant", "6dDwNi5yScc-00012-00013440-00015533": "‘In the Cohen case, it is possible the search warrant discloses how investigators became aware of two payments to women that Cohen admitted were violations of campaign finance law, what crimes or information investigators had established early in their probe, and what items they sought to search and gather when they executed the warrant last April’", "6dDwNi5yScc-00013-00015533-00016449": "Part of what will be released will be audio tapes, one of which includes a recording of Trump talking about an affair with a Playboy model", "6dDwNi5yScc-00014-00016449-00017251": "This all comes after Cohen testified on Capitol Hill back in February regarding his relationship with Trump", "6dDwNi5yScc-00015-00017251-00018599": "He testified under oath that Trump did know about the secret payments made to adult film actress Stephanie Clifford (Stormy Daniels) and others to keep them from going public about their affairs with Trump", "6dDwNi5yScc-00016-00018599-00019516": "During that testimony, Cohen also called Trump a racist and a conman.‘I am ashamed that I chose to take part in concealing Mr", "6dDwNi5yScc-00017-00019516-00020313": "Trump’s illicit acts rather than listening to my own conscience. I am ashamed because I know what Mr", "6dDwNi5yScc-00018-00020313-00021277": "Trump is. He is a racist. He is a conman. He is a cheat.’.He didn’t really tell us anything we didn’t already know", "6dDwNi5yScc-00019-00021277-00022794": "However, we heard it straight from Trump’s personal fixer. Now, with the release of the search warrant of Cohen’s properties, we will possibly be able to see indications that Trump did know about the payments and other unsavory acts he has been accused of", "6dDwNi5yScc-00020-00022794-00024129": "How Trump will react to this news, we’re not sure of. Trump already spent an unhinged weekend on Twitter attacking anyone who will not support him or fall in line behind his bigoted attacks and policies", "6dDwNi5yScc-00021-00024129-00025226": "However, we expect he will become even more unhinged (if that is even possible). By 1 p.m. EST, Trump had already tweeted eight times"}}, {"audio_id": "6eT23VH4nDA", "text": {"6eT23VH4nDA-00000-00000513-00002017": "Today we learned that House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings, who has been demanding that the White House turn over documents relating to Jared Kushner’s security clearance, has already secretly been sitting on some of the documents for the past month", "6eT23VH4nDA-00001-00002017-00002955": "This is a reminder that Cummings is playing chess while Donald Trump is playing checkers – but it also tells us something else", "6eT23VH4nDA-00002-00002955-00003773": "It’s not just that someone in the White House leaked the Jared Kushner security clearance documents to Elijah Cummings a month ago", "6eT23VH4nDA-00003-00003773-00004653": "It’s that this same person also leaked documents about Ivanka Trump’s security clearance to Cummings, according to Axios", "6eT23VH4nDA-00004-00004653-00005502": "Until it surfaced in the media a few days ago, no one even knew there was an Ivanka Trump security clearance scandal", "6eT23VH4nDA-00005-00005502-00006424": "This means that the White House leaker made a point of bringing the existence of Ivanka’s security clearance scandal to the attention of House Democrats", "6eT23VH4nDA-00006-00006424-00007537": "This is something that might well never have surfaced, if not for this leaker.In other words, there is someone in Donald Trump’s White House who really wants to take Ivanka Trump down", "6eT23VH4nDA-00007-00007537-00008443": "Maybe this leaker has a personal beef with Ivanka. Maybe the leaker is merely using Ivanka as a way of trying to get to Donald", "6eT23VH4nDA-00008-00008443-00009517": "Or maybe the leaker thinks that Ivanka is the real threat to American democracy. One way or the other, the Trump White House is now eating itself alive"}}, {"audio_id": "7yx2CSrA3gg", "text": {"7yx2CSrA3gg-00000-00000571-00002007": "Democrats are in hot pursuit of Trump’s missing (but known) communications with Russian President Vladimir Putin and as of Monday, three different committees in the House have now joined forces to try to retrieve them", "7yx2CSrA3gg-00001-00002007-00003219": "News reports have indicated that there are records of conversations between President Trump and President Putin that Trump has purposefully had concealed or possibly even destroyed", "7yx2CSrA3gg-00002-00003219-00004081": "House Democrats maintain that if those records do exist, then they would be protected under a Watergate-era law", "7yx2CSrA3gg-00003-00004081-00004847": "Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff of California (Chair of the House Intelligence Committee) joined with Rep", "7yx2CSrA3gg-00004-00004847-00005489": "Eliot Engel of New York (Chair of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs) and Rep", "7yx2CSrA3gg-00005-00005489-00006686": "Elijah Cummings (Chair of the House Oversight Committee) have sent letters formally requesting any internal documents that have information about meetings and phone calls between Trump and Putin", "7yx2CSrA3gg-00006-00006686-00007780": "The letters, which requested that the information be given to them by March 15th, were sent to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney", "7yx2CSrA3gg-00007-00007780-00009186": "The Washington Post dropped a bombshell with a January report stating that Donald Trump had gone to great lengths to conceal notes of a 2017 meeting with Putin in Germany and House Democrats have been on the trail ever since", "7yx2CSrA3gg-00008-00009186-00010264": "Democrats claim that those records should have been protected by something called The Presidential Records Act and destroying them would be in direct violation of such"}}, {"audio_id": "7EZBgDl-e4g", "text": {"7EZBgDl-e4g-00000-00000513-00001270": "The impeachment of President Donald Trump suddenly looks like much more than just a theoretical possibility", "7EZBgDl-e4g-00001-00001270-00002822": "Democrats on Monday will launch an \"abuse of power\" investigation that could be easily transformed into an even more serious process, with an expansive demand for documents from Trump's government, his family and even his real estate empire", "7EZBgDl-e4g-00002-00002822-00004376": "The President reacted to his worsening plight with a vehement defense on Sunday, after a week in which testimony from his ex-lawyer Michael Cohen deepened his political vulnerability and ahead of the expected filing soon of special counsel Robert Mueller's report", "7EZBgDl-e4g-00003-00004376-00005029": "\"Presidential Harassment by 'crazed' Democrats at the highest level in the history of our Country", "7EZBgDl-e4g-00004-00005029-00005972": "Likewise, the most vicious and corrupt Mainstream Media that any president has ever had to endure,\" Trump tweeted Sunday night", "7EZBgDl-e4g-00005-00005972-00007192": "House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, who would eventually lead any impeachment proceedings, on Sunday signaled a significant escalation into congressional inquiries into the President", "7EZBgDl-e4g-00006-00007192-00008362": "The New York Democrat plans on Monday to request documents from 60 people and entities close to Trump, including from the Department of Justice, the White House and the Trump Organization", "7EZBgDl-e4g-00007-00008362-00009653": "The document trawl will be used \"to present the case to the American people about obstruction of justice, about corruption and abuse of power,\" Nadler said on ABC News' \"This Week\" on Sunday", "7EZBgDl-e4g-00008-00009653-00010990": "Nadler stuck to the House Democratic position that impeachment \"is a long way down the road,\" apparently in order to avoid Republican arguments that the decision has already been made to try to oust Trump", "7EZBgDl-e4g-00009-00010990-00011771": "The document requests are not taking place under the auspices of an official impeachment investigation", "7EZBgDl-e4g-00010-00011771-00012651": "But Nadler said nevertheless that he believes the President had obstructed justice, a potentially impeachable offense", "7EZBgDl-e4g-00011-00012651-00014007": "And given his responsibilities and powers, the warning from Nadler took the President's political and legal nightmare to a new plane, and opened a new, more serious stage of the showdown between House Democrats and Trump", "7EZBgDl-e4g-00012-00014007-00015449": "It was the latest sign that investigations sparked by accusations that Trump's campaign team cooperated with Russian election meddling has mushroomed into a relentless examination of Trump's political, personal and business life", "7EZBgDl-e4g-00013-00015449-00016692": "The latest blow to the President further intensified pressure on the White House as Washington waits for another shoe to drop — with Mueller expected to file his long awaited report from Monday onward", "7EZBgDl-e4g-00014-00016692-00018685": "The Nadler investigation, along with parallel probes into Trump's presidency by the House Oversight and Intelligence committees means that the structure of a political investigation into the President based in Congress is now in place, alongside the legal inquiries led by Mueller and prosecutors in New York and other jurisdictions", "7EZBgDl-e4g-00015-00018685-00020360": "Trump showing signs of stress.In the last week, partly through Cohen's testimony, it has become clear that even if the special counsel does not find direct wrongdoing by the President, Trump's legal troubles will linger deep into his presidency and probably beyond", "7EZBgDl-e4g-00016-00020360-00022457": "Trump is showing increasing signs of stress at being surrounded.He spent much of the weekend laying out a likely defense should any of the multiple probes find him guilty of wrongdoing and bolstering his stranglehold on the Republican Party that could eventually be key to saving his presidency in a Senate trial if House Democrats opt for impeachment", "7EZBgDl-e4g-00017-00022457-00023925": "\"I am an innocent man being persecuted by some very bad, conflicted & corrupt people in a Witch Hunt that is illegal & should never have been allowed to start - And only because I won the Election!\" Trump tweeted Sunday", "7EZBgDl-e4g-00018-00023925-00025362": "In a mostly unscripted two-hour speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference on Saturday — one of the most demagogic and inflammatory appearances of his presidency, Trump lacerated Mueller and his investigation", "7EZBgDl-e4g-00019-00025362-00026399": "\"So now we're waiting for a report, and we'll find out . who we're dealing with . We're waiting for a report by people that weren't elected,\" Trump said at CPAC", "7EZBgDl-e4g-00020-00026399-00027666": "\"You put the wrong people in a couple of positions and they leave people for a long time that shouldn't be there, and all of a sudden, they're trying to take you out with bullshit, OK,\" Trump said", "7EZBgDl-e4g-00021-00027666-00029244": "Trump also sketched a defense for two potential areas of vulnerability: his call for Russia to find Hillary Clinton's missing emails during the 2016 campaign and his firing of former FBI Director James Comey in 2017", "7EZBgDl-e4g-00022-00029244-00030074": "He said he was being \"sarcastic\" when he asked Russia to find Clinton's emails and was having fun with his audience", "7EZBgDl-e4g-00023-00030074-00031529": "Mueller's team has already filed an indictment against 12 Russian intelligence operatives, accusing them of hacking into Clinton's personal emails for the first time on the same day — July 27, 2016 — as Trump's appeal", "7EZBgDl-e4g-00024-00031529-00032488": "Trump's comment is often cited by his critics as an instance in which his campaign colluded in plain sight with the Russian election meddling effort", "7EZBgDl-e4g-00025-00032488-00033820": "The President also used his speech at CPAC to knock back accusations that his firing of Comey was an attempt to shut down the Russia investigation and therefore fits the definition of obstruction of justice", "7EZBgDl-e4g-00026-00033820-00034609": "\"I said, 'Melania, I'm doing something today, I'm doing it because it really has to be done", "7EZBgDl-e4g-00027-00034609-00035709": "he's a bad, bad guy,'\" Trump said, arguing that he thought Democrats would welcome the move given their anger at Comey's handling of the Clinton email investigation", "7EZBgDl-e4g-00028-00035709-00036819": "\"I said to the first lady, I said, 'but you know the good news, the good news is that this is going to be so bipartisan, everyone's going to love it' — so we fired Comey", "7EZBgDl-e4g-00029-00036819-00037717": "\".In May 2017, Trump told NBC News that he was thinking of the \"Russia thing\" when he dismissed Comey", "7EZBgDl-e4g-00030-00037717-00039055": "His lawyers have argued that since he is the titular head of the US government and legal system, the President has the right to dismiss anyone in the executive branch and therefore cannot be guilty of obstruction", "7EZBgDl-e4g-00031-00039055-00040293": "It may soon be Mueller time.Mueller has not so far produced any evidence that Trump is guilty of cooperating with the Russian election interference effort, or of obstructing justice", "7EZBgDl-e4g-00032-00040293-00041636": "He has however sprinkled tantalizing clues in indictments of a handful of Trump associates that have sparked intrigue about what his eventual findings — that will be presented to Attorney General William Barr — will show", "7EZBgDl-e4g-00033-00041636-00043015": "In a moment that will have dramatic overtones given the timing, Barr is due to deliver brief remarks on Monday at an event at the White House hosted by the President for state attorneys general, a Justice Department spokesman said", "7EZBgDl-e4g-00034-00043015-00044321": "Trump's fierce political campaign against what he calls Mueller's \"Witch Hunt\" and \"hoax\" investigation is apparently aimed at discrediting any conclusions that Barr choses to share with Congress and the public", "7EZBgDl-e4g-00035-00044321-00046175": "But his increasingly emotional denunciation of the various legal and political investigations — that are now focusing on his business, his campaign, his transition, his inauguration and his presidency is not giving the impression that he is a President who is confident there will be no charges to answer", "7EZBgDl-e4g-00036-00046175-00047482": "Nadler is expected to give further details of his document request on Monday.But he said on ABC that it would stretch from the White House, to the Department of Justice to Trump's son, Donald Jr", "7EZBgDl-e4g-00037-00047482-00049195": ", and Allen Weisselberg, the chief financial officer of the Trump Organization.Given that he believes that Trump obstructed justice, Nadler was asked on \"This Week\" whether the decision not to pursue a formal impeachment investigation at this point was merely a political distinction", "7EZBgDl-e4g-00038-00049195-00050279": "\"We do not now have the evidence sorted out and everything to do an impeachment. Before you impeach somebody you have to persuade the American public that it ought to happen", "7EZBgDl-e4g-00039-00050279-00050935": "You have to persuade enough of the opposition party voters, the Trump voters,\" Nadler said", "7EZBgDl-e4g-00040-00050935-00052136": "Republicans accused Nadler and fellow Democrats of lining up a fall back investigation to pursue the President in case Mueller does not find offenses that rise to the level of impeachment", "7EZBgDl-e4g-00041-00052136-00053111": "\"I think Congressman Nadler decided to impeach the President the day the President won the election,\" House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said on \"This Week", "7EZBgDl-e4g-00042-00053111-00053944": "\".\"He talks about impeachment before he even became chairman and then he says, you've got to persuade people to get there", "7EZBgDl-e4g-00043-00053944-00055049": "\".McCarthy also argued that the hush money payments made by Trump to two women who accused him of affairs before the election did not amount to the standard of impeachable offenses", "7EZBgDl-e4g-00044-00055049-00056425": "Cohen last week produced a check for $35,000 which he said was proof that Trump was reimbursing him for what may amount to an infringement of campaign finance laws even while he was in office", "7EZBgDl-e4g-00045-00056425-00057363": "But McCarthy argued that campaign finance violations merit a fine, not the ultimate sanction Congress can take against a President", "7EZBgDl-e4g-00046-00057363-00057846": "\"Those aren't impeachable in the process,\" he said"}}, {"audio_id": "7FEPxLt4T8Q", "text": {"7FEPxLt4T8Q-00000-00000571-00001561": "“President” Donald Trump had signaled that he intended to sign an executive order that was designed to guarantee free speech on college campuses", "7FEPxLt4T8Q-00001-00001561-00002846": "On Thursday, Trump followed through on his promise, executing his latest Executive Order, “Improving Free Inquiry, Transparency, and Accountability At Colleges and Universities", "7FEPxLt4T8Q-00002-00002846-00004842": "” Like much that comes from Trump, his “winning,” it is an empty bag of gas.The Executive Order directs twelve federal grant-making agencies to ensure that the higher education schools that receive federal research funds are complying with the laws and regulations that already exist at the federal level", "7FEPxLt4T8Q-00003-00004842-00006163": "As Vox noted, Trump’s EO “is more symbolism than substance.” Trump had promised such action at the annual Cult 45 convention, aka the Conservative Political Action Conference", "7FEPxLt4T8Q-00004-00006163-00007341": "Violence is never the answer, and physical assaults on individuals such as Hayden Williams, who was allegedly attacked at the University of California Berkley, must be condemned", "7FEPxLt4T8Q-00005-00007341-00008553": "The same goes for physical damage and violence against property or individuals. But Trump’s EO is especially addressed to the perceived suppression against conservative speakers and students", "7FEPxLt4T8Q-00006-00008553-00009779": "Trump’s EO provides:.“Free inquiry is an essential feature of our Nation’s democracy, and it promotes learning, scientific discovery, and economic prosperity", "7FEPxLt4T8Q-00007-00009779-00011456": "We must encourage institutions to appropriately account for this bedrock principle in their administration of student life and to avoid creating environments that stifle competing perspectives, thereby potentially impeding beneficial research and undermining learning", "7FEPxLt4T8Q-00008-00011456-00012584": "”.It will be interesting to see how the conservative institutions (yes, there are many such places of higher learning) implement this order not to “stifle competing perspectives", "7FEPxLt4T8Q-00009-00012584-00014096": "” This new executive order does not address federal financial aid programs. However, the EO does require a report by January 2020 addressing the risk-sharing proposals for colleges, something that Trump has indicated would be coming", "7FEPxLt4T8Q-00010-00014096-00015079": "The report could address caps on student loans available and put more emphasis on the institutions sharing in the financial burdens", "7FEPxLt4T8Q-00011-00015079-00015948": "The outcome likely will have little impact, as the cost of a college education is not likely to decrease in any meaningful way", "7FEPxLt4T8Q-00012-00015948-00016769": "As per the normal, Trump and his Education Secretary Betsy DeVos don’t know much about education, or anything", "7FEPxLt4T8Q-00013-00016769-00017197": "Trump does know executive orders, though"}}, {"audio_id": "7RZPPBYqNj4", "text": {"7RZPPBYqNj4-00000-00000513-00002252": "The House Judiciary Committee announced Monday that it is sending letters seeking information and documents from more than 80 groups, organizations and individuals, as part of its sweeping investigation into President Donald Trump's campaign, businesses, transition and administration", "7RZPPBYqNj4-00001-00002252-00003762": "In an interview with ABC News' \"This Week,\" Rep. Jerry Nadler said Sunday the requests for documents are to \"begin investigations, to present the case to the American people about obstruction of justice, about corruption and abuse of power", "7RZPPBYqNj4-00002-00003762-00004632": "\".Here's who and what are receiving letters Monday:.1. Alan Garten.2. Alexander Nix", "7RZPPBYqNj4-00003-00004632-00005680": "3. Allen Weisselberg.4. American Media Inc.5. Anatoli Samochornov.6. Andrew Intrater", "7RZPPBYqNj4-00004-00005680-00006774": "7. Annie Donaldson.8. Brad Parscale.9. Brittany Kaiser.10. Cambridge Analytica.11", "7RZPPBYqNj4-00005-00006774-00007785": "Carter Page.12. Columbus Nova.13. Concord Management and Consulting.14. Corey Lewandowski", "7RZPPBYqNj4-00006-00007785-00008908": "15. David Pecker.16. Department of Justice.17. Don McGahn.18. Donald J Trump Revocable Trust", "7RZPPBYqNj4-00007-00008908-00010219": "19. Donald Trump Jr.20. Dylan Howard.21. Eric Trump.22. Erik Prince.23. The Federal Bureau of Investigation", "7RZPPBYqNj4-00008-00010219-00011413": "24. Felix Sater.25. Flynn Intel Group.26. General Services Administration.27. George Nader", "7RZPPBYqNj4-00009-00011413-00012706": "28. George Papadopoulos.29. Hope Hicks.30. Irakly Kaveladze.31. Jared Kushner.32. Jason Maloni", "7RZPPBYqNj4-00010-00012706-00014028": "33. Jay Sekulow.34. Jeff Sessions.35. Jerome Corsi.36. John Szobocsan.37. Julian Assange", "7RZPPBYqNj4-00011-00014028-00015300": "38. Julian David Wheatland.39. Keith Davidson.40. KT McFarland.41. Mark Corallo.42", "7RZPPBYqNj4-00012-00015300-00016530": "Matt Tait.43. Matthew Calamari.44. Michael Caputo.45. Michael Cohen.46. Michael Flynn", "7RZPPBYqNj4-00013-00016530-00017653": "47. Michael Flynn Jr.48. Paul Erickson.49. Paul Manafort.50. Peter Smith (Estate)", "7RZPPBYqNj4-00014-00017653-00018991": "51. Randy Credico.52. Reince Priebus.53. Rhona Graff.54. Rinat Akhmetshin.55. Rob Goldstone", "7RZPPBYqNj4-00015-00018991-00020354": "56. Roger Stone.57. Ronald Lieberman.58. Sam Nunberg.59. SCL Group Limited.60. Sean Spicer", "7RZPPBYqNj4-00016-00020354-00021598": "61. Sheri Dillon.62. Stefan Passantino.63. Steve Bannon.64. Ted Malloch.65. The White House", "7RZPPBYqNj4-00017-00021598-00022708": "66. The Trump Campaign.67. Trump Foundation.68. Trump Organization.69. Trump Transition", "7RZPPBYqNj4-00018-00022708-00023975": "70. Viktor Vekselberg.71. WikiLeaks.72. The Presidential Inaugural Committee.73. Christopher Bancroft Burnham", "7RZPPBYqNj4-00019-00023975-00025218": "74. Frontier Services Group.75. J.D. Gordon.76. Kushner Companies.77. National Rifle Association", "7RZPPBYqNj4-00020-00025218-00026245": "78. Rick Gates.79. Tom Barrack.80. Tom Bossert.81. Tony Fabrizio"}}, {"audio_id": "7lHF_3UrckY", "text": {"7lHF_3UrckY-00000-00000571-00001561": "Yesterday we all learned that Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance has prepared a state-level criminal case against Paul Manafort", "7lHF_3UrckY-00001-00001561-00002365": "The clear implication was that if Donald Trump tried to pardon Manafort, New York would simply lock Manafort right back up", "7lHF_3UrckY-00002-00002365-00003345": "But last night we learned that New York is preparing to file criminal charges against Manafort even if Trump doesn’t try to pardon him", "7lHF_3UrckY-00003-00003345-00004656": "So what’s going on.Think about what we’re really looking at here. If Donald Trump were going to try to pardon an associate like Paul Manafort, he’d have done it by now, right? This isn’t about Manafort", "7lHF_3UrckY-00004-00004656-00005573": "If Trump is going to try to pardon anyone, he’s surely saving those pardons for himself and his kids as a very last resort", "7lHF_3UrckY-00005-00005573-00006782": ".The thing about Donald Trump is he’s a bit slow on these matters. He’s fairly well cut off from real news, preferring to watch the largely fictional broadcasts on Fox News instead", "7lHF_3UrckY-00006-00006782-00007736": "We can see from the timing of his Twitter explosions that he often doesn’t hear about developing stories until weeks or months after they’ve happened", "7lHF_3UrckY-00007-00007736-00008794": "So it’s not enough for New York State to simply put it out there that it’ll charge Paul Manafort if he’s pardoned; that news might not reach Trump’s ears", "7lHF_3UrckY-00008-00008794-00009405": "Instead it has to actually put Manafort on trial, to make sure Trump hears about it", "7lHF_3UrckY-00009-00009405-00010928": "That way Donald Trump will fully understand that New York truly is willing and able to bring state-level criminal cases that he can’t do anything to sabotage – not just against a dead man walking like Paul Manafort, but also against Trump’s kids", "7lHF_3UrckY-00010-00010928-00011824": "And while New York State might have a hard time putting Trump on trial while he’s still in office, it can arrest his kids at any time", "7lHF_3UrckY-00011-00011824-00013558": "That’s checkmate. Even if Donald Trump doesn’t care about the fate of his kids, the criminal cases against them can be used to rip apart the Trump Organization, seize the Trump family’s assets, and build a bulletproof state level case against Trump which can be brought against him the minute he leaves office", "7lHF_3UrckY-00012-00013558-00014752": "Thanks to the state level criminal case against Paul Manafort in New York, Donald Trump is about to see very clearly that pardons won’t get him or his family off the hook", "7lHF_3UrckY-00013-00014752-00016024": "He can’t simply cut and run. He’s going to have to pay the piper. He’s in a position where he’ll be arrested the minute he’s no longer president, and his assets will be gone by then anyway", "7lHF_3UrckY-00014-00016024-00016857": "He’s about to learn that he has no option left but to trade away his resignation in exchange for reduced criminal charges", "7lHF_3UrckY-00015-00016857-00017145": "That’s checkmate"}}, {"audio_id": "7mCTHZ1bbLo", "text": {"7mCTHZ1bbLo-00000-00000571-00001608": "Donald Trump and his people are facing criminal repercussions from all sides this week, thanks to Robert Mueller’s upcoming report, growing buzz out of the U", "7mCTHZ1bbLo-00001-00001608-00002893": "S. Attorney’s office for SDNY, and even the New York District Attorney. Now it turns out another key member of the Trump administration is facing criminal repercussions from yet another angle", "7mCTHZ1bbLo-00002-00002893-00003967": "We suppose we should say a former key member of the Trump administration, considering that Ryan Zinke just finished resigning as Donald Trump’s Secretary of the Interior", "7mCTHZ1bbLo-00003-00003967-00005766": "When Zinke resigned, Palmer Report pointed out that something seemed off. Although there had long been buzz about Zinke facing potential legal trouble, something seemed to spook him so badly that he resigned in such abrupt fashion, Trump didn’t even seem to have anyone to replace him", "7mCTHZ1bbLo-00004-00005766-00006443": "Now we’re learning why Zinke might have wanted to hurry up and get out of the spotlight", "7mCTHZ1bbLo-00005-00006443-00007506": "There is a grand jury going in Washington DC against Ryan Zinke for lying to federal investigators, according to a new report today from the Washington Post", "7mCTHZ1bbLo-00006-00007506-00008739": "To be clear, grand juries essentially always return indictments for these kinds of matters, so it’s fair to expect Zinke to be indicted, charged with one or more felony counts, and arrested", "7mCTHZ1bbLo-00007-00008739-00010371": "Sure, Ryan Zinke will be let out on bail after his arrest. And sure, Donald Trump could theoretically try to pardon Zinke, though Trump has shown no inclination to pardon any of his henchmen to date, and state level charges could nullify pardons anyway", "7mCTHZ1bbLo-00008-00010371-00011244": "But we’re now on the verge of one of Trump’s (recently resigned) cabinet members being arrested on felony charges", "7mCTHZ1bbLo-00009-00011244-00011704": "Zinke won’t be the only one, of course"}}, {"audio_id": "8z4aUaofk0c", "text": {"8z4aUaofk0c-00000-00000571-00001772": "Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) told President Donald Trump that the Affordable Care Act will not be repealed or replaced until after the 2020 election", "8z4aUaofk0c-00001-00001772-00003094": "Trump’s surprise at the assertion could not have outmatched Senate Republicans’ own when the POTUS surprised them with a demand for comprehensive healthcare reform with little more than a series of tweets as warning", "8z4aUaofk0c-00002-00003094-00005108": "“Everybody agrees that ObamaCare doesn’t work,” Trump began. According to the president, the GOP is creating “a really great HealthCare Plan with far lower premiums (cost) & deductibles,” which would also be “far less expensive & much more usable” than the 2010 Affordable Care Act, colloquially known as Obamacare", "8z4aUaofk0c-00003-00005108-00006046": "Of course, Trump was clear that the vote would not be taken until “after the Election when Republicans hold the Senate & win back the House", "8z4aUaofk0c-00004-00006046-00006764": "” Trump concluded with the assertion that “the Republican Party will be known as the Party of Great HealtCare [sic]", "8z4aUaofk0c-00005-00006764-00008504": "”. .But on Tuesday, McConnell told reporters that he had told Trump just that. “We had a good conversation yesterday afternoon,” McConnell said, “and I pointed out to him the Senate Republicans’ view on dealing with comprehensive health care reform with a Democratic House of Representatives", "8z4aUaofk0c-00006-00008504-00009682": "”.McConnell said he “was fine with Sen. Alexander and Sen. Grassley working on prescription drug pricing and other issues” that are not part of a “comprehensive effort", "8z4aUaofk0c-00007-00009682-00011239": "”.Trump reiterated his position on Twitter this morning, saying, “I was never planning a vote prior to the 2020 Election on the wonderful HealthCare package that some very talented people are now developing for me & the Republican Party", "8z4aUaofk0c-00008-00011239-00011957": "It will be on full display during the Election as a much better & less expensive alternative to ObamaCare", "8z4aUaofk0c-00009-00011957-00013415": "”. .“This will be a great campaign issue,” Trump continued. He also maintained that he had “never asked Mitch McConnell for a vote before the Election as has been incorrectly reported (as usual) in the @nytimes", "8z4aUaofk0c-00010-00013415-00014188": "”.Senate Republican Whip John Thune (R-SD) is a little more skeptical of their chances", "8z4aUaofk0c-00011-00014188-00015266": "“It’s going to be a really heavy lift to get anything through Congress this year given the political dynamics that we’re dealing with in the House and the Senate,” he said", "8z4aUaofk0c-00012-00015266-00016703": "“The best-laid plans and best of intentions with regard to an overhaul of the health care system in this country run into the wall of reality that it’s going to be very hard to get a Democrat House and a Republican Senate to agree on something", "8z4aUaofk0c-00013-00016703-00016803": "”"}}, {"audio_id": "8IT5mMLrJuI", "text": {"8IT5mMLrJuI-00000-00000571-00001524": "It is painfully obvious that “President” Donald Trump dreams of being a dictator. He admires dictators, and he wants to be like them", "8IT5mMLrJuI-00001-00001524-00002305": "The only problem for him is that he is president of a free country that neither has nor allows dictatorships", "8IT5mMLrJuI-00002-00002305-00003374": "Is that stopping Trump? Not if he can help it. His recent firings and nominations point to just how low Trump is willing to go to get what he wants", "8IT5mMLrJuI-00003-00003374-00004196": "Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and virtually everyone who reported to her are Trump’s most recent casualties", "8IT5mMLrJuI-00004-00004196-00005265": "According to CNN, Nielsen believed that some of Trump’s more outlandish moves “threatened America’s security” and that those moves did not comport with federal law", "8IT5mMLrJuI-00005-00005265-00005918": "Instead, Trump’s lackey Stephen Miller is running things when it comes to immigration", "8IT5mMLrJuI-00006-00005918-00007012": "Miller is a well-known Trump loyalist and racist, so we know how he’s going to handle things, as he is even more racist than Trump (if that’s even possible)", "8IT5mMLrJuI-00007-00007012-00008190": "According to The New Republic, Miller is responsible for Nielsen’s ouster and was also behind Trump pulling Ronald Vitello from consideration as head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement", "8IT5mMLrJuI-00008-00008190-00009128": ". .While most of us could easily figure out Trump’s game plan, some Republicans are finally beginning to question Trump’s motives", "8IT5mMLrJuI-00009-00009128-00010337": "He is not choosing the most qualified to fill positions. He is instead choosing those whom he believes have undying loyalty to him, including a willingness to cross legal and ethical lines", "8IT5mMLrJuI-00010-00010337-00011090": "While Trump denied to NBC News that he is “cleaning house,” that is exactly what he’s doing", "8IT5mMLrJuI-00011-00011090-00012597": ".Even old mossback Grassley is up in arms and told The Washington Post that he is “very, very concerned” and points out that Trump “has to have some stability… particularly with the No 1 issue that he’s made for his campaign", "8IT5mMLrJuI-00012-00012597-00013851": "” Other Republicans speaking out include John Cornyn and Joni Ernst. Grassley even criticized Stephen Miller, who he has said is hard-pressed to “demonstrate he’s accomplished anything for the president", "8IT5mMLrJuI-00013-00013851-00014974": "” For Trump, results don’t matter. People doing his bidding does.Just think how much easier his life will be for Donald Trump if he’s surrounded by “yes” men and women", "8IT5mMLrJuI-00014-00014974-00015713": "Such a setting would likely be utopia for Trump, though it promises to be a living hell for the rest of us", "8IT5mMLrJuI-00015-00015713-00017019": "As stated by The Hill, Trump is attempting to “assert greater control over the federal government” but not in the sense a normal person would “control” through stability and allowing all branches of government to work as they should", "8IT5mMLrJuI-00016-00017019-00018250": "He wants to have the entire government at his feet. He’s getting closer and closer to becoming a dictator, and his actions stand to seriously threaten our institutions and way of life"}}, {"audio_id": "8NVqbHUs1pA", "text": {"8NVqbHUs1pA-00000-00000513-00002247": "President Trump and his anti-immigration rhetoric were cited as an inspiration by the white supremacist shooter who killed nearly fifty people last night at mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, and he made it clear why that was the case this afternoon in an appalling series of statements to media", "8NVqbHUs1pA-00001-00002247-00004345": "Unapologetic and unfazed by the senseless slaughter that was committed by one of his supporters, Trump offered some insincere words of condolences before immediately pivoting right back into the kind of white nationalist anti-immigrant rhetoric that inspired the attack in the first place, calling immigrants coming across the southern border an “invasion”", "8NVqbHUs1pA-00002-00004345-00005539": "When he was asked if white nationalism was a serious problem, he said replied with “not really” and dismissed it as a “small group of people” — who all happen to support him", "8NVqbHUs1pA-00003-00005539-00006549": "He could not have made it more clear that he doesn’t care about the effects of his racist rhetoric, which were featured prominently in the manifesto of the Christchurch murderer", "8NVqbHUs1pA-00004-00006549-00007908": "The killer literally wrote the words “an invasion never before seen in history, millions of people pouring across our borders” and said he committed the attack to show the “invaders” that “our lands will never be their lands”", "8NVqbHUs1pA-00005-00007908-00008736": "It is terrifying and repulsive to see the President of the United States repeating the same toxic ideas the very next day", "8NVqbHUs1pA-00006-00008736-00009621": "He bears a great deal of blame for this horrifying tragedy but doesn’t even have the decency to even appear contrite"}}, {"audio_id": "8XTT-1A-lZg", "text": {"8XTT-1A-lZg-00000-00000571-00001425": "President Donald Trump was able to win the White House in 2016 despite being the least liked major party nominee in history", "8XTT-1A-lZg-00001-00001425-00002546": "Today, more people continue to dislike than like Trump.If Trump's popularity ratings remain low, the question is whether he can repeat his 2016 feat", "8XTT-1A-lZg-00002-00002546-00003593": "New polling suggests that Trump will have difficulty doing that because, for now, the 2020 election looks like it will be a referendum on him", "8XTT-1A-lZg-00003-00003593-00004695": "An NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll out this weekend found that Trump trailed a generic Democratic candidate by 7 points in a hypothetical 2020 matchup", "8XTT-1A-lZg-00004-00004695-00005497": "The important statistic here isn't so much that Trump was losing (it's still early 2019, after all)", "8XTT-1A-lZg-00005-00005497-00006592": "It's why Trump was losing. Trump trailed because among the same voters gave Trump a -6 point net approval rating (approval rating - disapproval rating)", "8XTT-1A-lZg-00006-00006592-00007347": "This was not the first NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll to show Trump losing to a generic Democrat", "8XTT-1A-lZg-00007-00007347-00008253": "Back in December, Trump trailed a generic Democrat by 14 points. His net approval rating in that poll was -11 points", "8XTT-1A-lZg-00008-00008253-00009301": "(The average poll shows Trump is about this popular currently.) Again, the key statistic here is Trump's margin is directly related to his own popularity", "8XTT-1A-lZg-00009-00009301-00010223": "In limited polling, the well known Democratic candidates seem to doing as well against Trump by what you'd expect given his popularity", "8XTT-1A-lZg-00010-00010223-00011218": "In a January Glengariff Group poll of Michigan voters, Trump trailed Joe Biden by 13 points and Bernie Sanders by 11 points", "8XTT-1A-lZg-00011-00011218-00013198": "The same poll put Trump's net approval rating among Michiganders at -9 points. A poll from Quinnipiac University of Texas voters out last week showed something similar: Trump's position against the most well-known Democrats in Texas (Biden, Beto O'Rourke and Bernie Sanders) matched his approval rating", "8XTT-1A-lZg-00012-00013198-00014363": "This 2020 data does not look at all like what happened in 2016. In the election, Trump had a -22 net favorability rating (favorable - unfavorable)", "8XTT-1A-lZg-00013-00014363-00015591": "Yet, he only lost the popular vote by 2 points and won the electoral college.Trump was able to win in 2016 because that election came down to a choice between him and Hillary Clinton", "8XTT-1A-lZg-00014-00015591-00016560": "Clinton was the second-least-liked major party nominee of all time, and there was 18% of the electorate that liked neither Clinton nor Trump", "8XTT-1A-lZg-00015-00016560-00017565": "Trump won this 18% of the electorate by 17 points and with it the election. In other words, Trump was seen as the lesser of two evils"}}, {"audio_id": "8c361ZzBQuQ", "text": {"8c361ZzBQuQ-00000-00000513-00002508": "This weekend is the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, this year being held in National Harbor, Maryland, and it looks an awful lot like previous years’ conferences: Populated by guests and speakers from the extreme right, and featuring speeches full of some of the most ridiculous hyperbole anyone has ever heard", "8c361ZzBQuQ-00001-00002508-00004734": "It’s like a Fox News bender without all the pretty blonde anchors. .But along with the conservatives at CPAC, there have to be those there covering the event, and for some, it’s almost a “shortest straw” type of endeavor — they’re guaranteed to be harassed if anyone knows they’re from the “liberal media” and even moreso in the age of Fake News as decreed by Donald Trump", "8c361ZzBQuQ-00002-00004734-00005452": "One faithful reporter who covers literally everything that Trump does, Daniel Dale of the Toronto Star", "8c361ZzBQuQ-00003-00005452-00006374": "By all accounts, Trump spoke at CPAC today for the longest time since he actually began running for President in 2015", "8c361ZzBQuQ-00004-00006374-00008665": "And boy, did the President have a lot to say. He went through his greatest hits about trade with China, global warming being a hoax, a demonstration of his inability to understand how tariffs work, some made-up stories and statistics about the US-Mexico border, and of course fake news, but it was when he got to the Russia probe that his desperation really started to show", "8c361ZzBQuQ-00005-00008665-00010055": "\"Unfortunately, you put the wrong people in a couple of positions, and they leave people for a long time that shouldn’t be there, and all of a sudden, they’re trying to take you out with bullshit, okay? With bullshit", "8c361ZzBQuQ-00006-00010055-00011076": "Now Robert Mueller never received a vote, and neither did the person that appointed him, and as you know, the Attorney General says ‘I’m gonna recuse myself", "8c361ZzBQuQ-00007-00011076-00011740": "’ Gonna recuse. And I said, ‘why the hell didn’t he tell me that before I put him in?'”", "8c361ZzBQuQ-00008-00011740-00013051": "The southern accent with which Trump mocked former Attorney General Jeff Sessions was icing on the cake for a speech that was truly indicative of a man who is desperate to get out from under the scrutiny of the special counsel"}}, {"audio_id": "8hw80YbYmM0", "text": {"8hw80YbYmM0-00000-00000571-00001984": "“I feel that—I feel it very strongly,” Trump replied when asked by Breitbart News’s Washington Political Editor Matthew Boyle about his pledge in the State of the Union address that the United States would never become a socialist country", "8hw80YbYmM0-00001-00001984-00003058": "Trump continued by explaining that many Democrats are campaigning on socialism, however, because it is “easy” to campaign on but difficult “to govern on''", "8hw80YbYmM0-00002-00003058-00004277": "“Now with that being said, you always have to be very careful, because socialism is easy to campaign on but tough to govern on, because the country goes down the tubes,” Trump said", "8hw80YbYmM0-00003-00004277-00005584": "“But when you tell people free medical, free education, no more student loans—all of the different things that you say—it’s a great thing to campaign on, but then ten years later the country is down the tubes", "8hw80YbYmM0-00004-00005584-00006926": "It’s gone. So, you always have to be careful with it, because you know you talk about single-payer, it sounds very seductive—single-payer—say what you want, but it’s a very seductive thing", "8hw80YbYmM0-00005-00006926-00007673": "But it means you’re not going to have good healthcare, it means the country is not going to be able to afford it", "8hw80YbYmM0-00006-00007673-00008843": "Not only is the country not going to be able to afford it, but it’s more than the entire revenue stream taken in for the entire—it’s like not even close right? But nobody thinks about that", "8hw80YbYmM0-00007-00008843-00010588": "They think, free healthcare isn’t that wonderful? But the truth is when you’re up on the debate stage, and they say we’re giving you free education, we’re giving you free healthcare, we’re giving you everything you want and a Rolls-Royce in everyone’s pocket, it’s not an easy situation", "8hw80YbYmM0-00008-00010588-00011414": "But what happens is ten years later the country is gone. Okay, whether it’s this country or any other country''", "8hw80YbYmM0-00009-00011414-00012466": "In response to a follow-up question from Breitbart News senior White House correspondent Charlie Spiering, Trump said that the pendulum swings in politics frequently", "8hw80YbYmM0-00010-00012466-00013451": "Trump said that if the left somehow took control down the road, the voters would eventually course correct and choose a Republican next", "8hw80YbYmM0-00011-00013451-00014052": "“Then what happens is you take a violent turn to the other direction,” Trump said", "8hw80YbYmM0-00012-00014052-00015100": "When Spiering asked if Trump is worried about a “violent turn” toward socialism after two years of his administration’s policies, Trump said he is not", "8hw80YbYmM0-00013-00015100-00016048": "He pointed to his rising approval rating poll numbers, which he pointed out he has achieved despite overwhelmingly negative media coverage", "8hw80YbYmM0-00014-00016048-00016965": "“I don’t think so,f because we’ve had our best poll numbers,” Trump said. “You saw them—we’ve had our best poll numbers", "8hw80YbYmM0-00015-00016965-00017842": "We had nothing but fake news. Fox treats me well—and when I say well, I define well as fairly", "8hw80YbYmM0-00016-00017842-00018942": "It’s not—some of it’s not so good at all. But at least it’s fair. I do really well with local—you know, the local stuff is shockingly good", "8hw80YbYmM0-00017-00018942-00020104": "It’s almost like not even to be believed. But CNN and MSNBC and NBC, ABC, and yeah CBS, they’re all extraordinarily bad", "8hw80YbYmM0-00018-00020104-00020932": "I would say NBC is maybe the worst and very dishonest. It’s not even like bad, like bad reporting", "8hw80YbYmM0-00019-00020932-00021685": "It’s totally dishonest reporting. It’s really pretty incredible what they can get away with''", "8hw80YbYmM0-00020-00021685-00022787": "Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alexander Marlow noted that many on the left are now coming “out” as socialists, publicly revealing themselves as such for the first time", "8hw80YbYmM0-00021-00022787-00023772": "When asked by Marlow whether he thinks there is a rise in support for socialism in the country, Trump questioned whether there actually is one happening", "8hw80YbYmM0-00022-00023772-00024715": "In his response, he pointed to how different Democrat presidential candidates have handled the question of supporting capitalism or socialism", "8hw80YbYmM0-00023-00024715-00025399": "Trump said the next election may very well be a referendum on socialism versus capitalism", "8hw80YbYmM0-00024-00025399-00026457": "Trump specifically cited one candidate whom he mockingly said he would not name (he later whispered “Hickenlooper”) for dodging a question on capitalism", "8hw80YbYmM0-00025-00026457-00027643": "Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, a Democrat running for president in 2020, dodged when asked whether or not he is a capitalist on MSNBC", "8hw80YbYmM0-00026-00027643-00028505": "“Well I don’t know if there will be a rise, we have to see that—and that we will only know in an election,” Trump said", "8hw80YbYmM0-00027-00028505-00029633": "“So far, if you add it all up, you know, I watched a certain gentleman—I won’t mention his name, but he made a couple of bucks, he refuses to acknowledge capitalism", "8hw80YbYmM0-00028-00029633-00030597": "You saw that over the weekend—Hickenlooper. He was ashamed of the word, and yet I’ve seen others maybe going in the other direction", "8hw80YbYmM0-00029-00030597-00031477": "''. .Trump’s comments came during a more-than-40-minute exclusive interview in the Oval Office in the White House on Monday afternoon"}}, {"audio_id": "9xfF9uMde-4", "text": {"9xfF9uMde-4-00000-00000571-00001472": "The president’s already claiming his overtures to North Korea’s dictator merit another term and maybe a Nobel Peace Prize, too", "9xfF9uMde-4-00001-00001472-00003110": "HANOI – While experts debate whether next week’s meeting between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un will be the “Denuclearization Summit” or the “Waste of Time Summit,” the president already seems to be operating with a different name in mind: the “Trump 2020 Summit", "9xfF9uMde-4-00002-00003110-00004881": "”.Just days before Air Force One is set to travel halfway around the world to let Trump meet with the North Korean dictator a second time in just over eight months, the White House has still not finalized the framework of a possible deal, a meeting schedule or even a venue", "9xfF9uMde-4-00003-00004881-00005774": "“Nothing will be agreed to until everything is agreed to,” a senior administration official told reporters Thursday on condition of anonymity", "9xfF9uMde-4-00004-00005774-00006605": "“But we are working hard toward a joint statement which will advance each of the initiatives that came out of the Singapore statement", "9xfF9uMde-4-00005-00006605-00007840": "”.Trump, nevertheless, has taken to claiming that his “great” relationship with Kim is yet another success for which he deserves re-election, if not the Nobel Peace Prize", "9xfF9uMde-4-00006-00007840-00008483": "“When I came in, North Korea was — it looks like it was going to war. You know that", "9xfF9uMde-4-00007-00008483-00009867": "It was going to happen, bad things,” he told a rally audience in El Paso, Texas, earlier this month, days before claiming at a White House news conference that predecessor Barack Obama “was ready to go to war", "9xfF9uMde-4-00008-00009867-00010836": "In fact, he told me he was so close to starting a big war with North Korea.”.John Weaver, a top aide to former Ohio Gov", "9xfF9uMde-4-00009-00010836-00011855": "John Kasich, a once and possibly future presidential primary rival to Trump, said the country should fear the summit, given Trump’s track record with Kim", "9xfF9uMde-4-00010-00011855-00013106": "“Who knows what he’s going to declare as a victory this time?” Weaver said, pointing to Trump’s announcement after the first summit last year that he was canceling a joint military exercise with U", "9xfF9uMde-4-00011-00013106-00014054": "S. ally South Korea. “Kim knows how to play him. All these foreign despots have figured out how to flatter this useful idiot of ours", "9xfF9uMde-4-00012-00014054-00014872": "”.Trump’s White House did not respond to HuffPost queries as to the basis of Trump’s claims about an averted war", "9xfF9uMde-4-00013-00014872-00016097": "Critics, meanwhile, had a simple explanation for it.“That’s bullshit,” said Joshua Pollack, a senior research associate at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies", "9xfF9uMde-4-00014-00016097-00016876": "“The risk of war was something that Trump himself created in 2017. He was the one threatening war", "9xfF9uMde-4-00015-00016876-00018338": "Not Obama. He is both the fireman and the arsonist.”.Ned Price, a spokesman for the National Security Council under Obama, said Trump’s description of his conversation with Obama bordered on complete fiction", "9xfF9uMde-4-00016-00018338-00020462": "“Never did Obama say he was on the verge of war,” Price said. “The Obama administration was consistently of the belief ― informed by the best thinking and analysis from our intelligence community, war fighters, and diplomats ― that diplomacy was the only viable option given what we knew would be catastrophic implications of a conflict on the peninsula", "9xfF9uMde-4-00017-00020462-00020562": "”"}}, {"audio_id": "9ztDQq3jqbc", "text": {"9ztDQq3jqbc-00000-00000571-00002284": "Aftershocks from Michael Cohen’s testimony before the House Oversight Committee continue to rattle the Trump presidency, as last night Rachel Maddow dug into Donald Trump’s extreme overvaluation of a Trump property in Bedford, NY based on documents Cohen presented to Congress", "9ztDQq3jqbc-00001-00002284-00003381": "In short, Trump tried to secure a cash loan from Deutsche Bank in 2012 by claiming the value of the property to be $291 million", "9ztDQq3jqbc-00002-00003381-00004735": "That’s the same property he claimed was worth $18 million in 2013, and in the range of $25 million to $50 million according to a 2018 financial disclosure", "9ztDQq3jqbc-00003-00004735-00006602": "Trump originally purchased the Bedford property for $7.5 million in 1995.The $291 million Bedford property value inflation story is one of many examples of Trump’s fraud or attempted fraud, and the barrage of similar stories tends to have a numbing effect", "9ztDQq3jqbc-00004-00006602-00007796": "But this is huge, because what the story does is remove any reasonable doubt that Trump, Cohen, and Paul Manafort are all guilty of the exact same type of simpleminded fraud", "9ztDQq3jqbc-00005-00007796-00009016": "It’s not a complex idea to hype value to secure loans; for example, it was a big factor in the mortgage lending crisis that led to the Great Recession a decade ago", "9ztDQq3jqbc-00006-00009016-00010750": "The obvious difference is the conspiratorial nature and much higher stakes of Trump’s fraudulent deceit that the same property valued at $18 million 2013 was worth $291 million in 2012 on loan application papers sent to Deutsche Bank", "9ztDQq3jqbc-00007-00010750-00011960": "That’s why Manafort and Cohen were caught: it doesn’t take a genius criminal mind to pretend that something you have is worth more than it is on a loan application, and these people are no geniuses", "9ztDQq3jqbc-00008-00011960-00013112": "In the pre-2008 housing world, lenders were flush with cash and practically giving it away, mitigating the fraudulent behavior of people who inflated their incomes, etc", "9ztDQq3jqbc-00009-00013112-00013976": "to become homeowners. That’s irresponsible on the part of those who got loans they ultimately couldn’t afford, but understandable", "9ztDQq3jqbc-00010-00013976-00015314": "What Cohen and Manafort are going to prison for, and Donald Trump, along with at least one of his clueless sons, will certainly be prosecuted for, is all about intent to defraud on an enormous scale"}}, {"audio_id": "9FYe-fAGpxI", "text": {"9FYe-fAGpxI-00000-00000571-00002036": "Didn’t things could worse for Donald Trump, his administration, and the entire Republican party? You thought wrong…Another Trump-family insider recently spoke out to tell a story that will surely chill you to the bone, folks", "9FYe-fAGpxI-00001-00002036-00003021": "Trump biographer David Cay Johnston appeared on CNN recently, where he revealed damning information about Donald Trump’s shady business past", "9FYe-fAGpxI-00002-00003021-00003901": "In the interview, Johnston said he wrote the book “to tell people things about his background that he won’t tell them himself", "9FYe-fAGpxI-00003-00003901-00004727": "”.According to Johnston, Trump received his personal helicopters from a convicted felon (drug trafficking)", "9FYe-fAGpxI-00004-00004727-00005675": "Rather than washing his hands of this man, Trump allegedly sets him up in an apartment, in what Johnston calls “very unusual circumstances", "9FYe-fAGpxI-00005-00005675-00006803": "” After Trump wrote a letter to the courts asking for mercy for this man, his drug dealers were sitting in jail with twenty-year sentences, while trafficker got only 18 months", "9FYe-fAGpxI-00006-00006803-00007778": "If you think that is disgusting, wait till you hear this: the case was at one point presided over by Maryann Trump Barry, Donald Trump’s sister", "9FYe-fAGpxI-00007-00007778-00009199": "Johnston says there must be more investigation into Trump’s past business relationships, with people the likes of “Russian mobsters, con artists, violent felons, swindlers, and this big-time cocaine trafficker", "9FYe-fAGpxI-00008-00009199-00010492": "”.In an attempt to shed light onto the kind of leader Trump would be, he outlines a career mired by terrible management and leadership, cheating workers of pay, thousands of law suits, etc"}}, {"audio_id": "9INwN6l5w2c", "text": {"9INwN6l5w2c-00000-00000513-00001586": "Per Sonoran Alliance,.  AZ Family Reporter Cameron Ridle was caught on a hot microphone joking that a crowd of protesters are probably racist", "9INwN6l5w2c-00001-00001586-00002858": "In this video clip captured from the AZFamily Facebook video page, reporter Cameron Ridle is heard preparing for his coverage of a gathering across the street from Chandler’s Perry High School", "9INwN6l5w2c-00002-00002858-00003942": "Parents and pro-Trump supporters were gathered to protest the school principal’s decision to suspend a student over her MAGA attire during a sprit day event", "9INwN6l5w2c-00003-00003942-00004938": "The reporter, in conversation with his cameraman colleague, speculates that if he walked down the sidewalk, the protesters would call him the N-word", "9INwN6l5w2c-00004-00004938-00005551": "He then laughs and continues to refer to the Trump supporters using racist language", "9INwN6l5w2c-00005-00005551-00006272": "].Trump supporters took to the comment sections to voice their disapproval.  Comments included:", "9INwN6l5w2c-00006-00006272-00007309": "He walked in front of and then behind the group of people and when he got back to the camera man he looked really disappointed that nobody has said anything wrong to him", "9INwN6l5w2c-00007-00007309-00008205": "He was really hoping somebody would say something to him that was racist.  Racist went trolling for hate and only found himself", "9INwN6l5w2c-00008-00008205-00008540": "Racism is ALL from the left"}}, {"audio_id": "9pbDK1Lv694", "text": {"9pbDK1Lv694-00000-00000277-00000477": "🎶Um🎶", "9pbDK1Lv694-00001-00000570-00000872": "🎶Miss my🎶", "9pbDK1Lv694-00002-00001162-00001212": "🎶WHY🎶", "9pbDK1Lv694-00003-00002207-00002529": "🎶Why you miss me🎶", "9pbDK1Lv694-00004-00002684-00003115": "🎶When I done forgot about you🎶", "9pbDK1Lv694-00005-00003276-00003657": "🎶 Why you say you miss me🎶.", "9pbDK1Lv694-00006-00003782-00004170": "🎶When I do forgot about you🎶.", "9pbDK1Lv694-00007-00004340-00004912": "🎶Why do you say that you forgot about me you don't care about me oh my god you broke my heart🎶", "9pbDK1Lv694-00008-00004971-00005194": "🎶in two pieces🎶.", "9pbDK1Lv694-00009-00005391-00005711": "🎶why you done say you forgot about me🎶", "9pbDK1Lv694-00010-00005944-00006197": "🎶When you told me that you don't miss me🎶.", "9pbDK1Lv694-00011-00006479-00006760": "🎶Now you miss me You said you didn't need me But every time I see you🎶.", "9pbDK1Lv694-00012-00007012-00007427": "🎶I get understand why you told me you hate me🎶.", "9pbDK1Lv694-00013-00007550-00007851": "🎶I knew for the first weekend🎶", "9pbDK1Lv694-00014-00007963-00008426": "🎶Cus when you told me you miss me Now you don't want me Now you want to miss me🎶", "9pbDK1Lv694-00015-00008611-00008971": "🎶you done told me that you hate me So why do you keep on saying you miss me🎶", "9pbDK1Lv694-00016-00009151-00009445": "🎶Now I get sad every single time I see you🎶.", "9pbDK1Lv694-00017-00009632-00009941": "🎶Cus I remember all the pain you gave me🎶.", "9pbDK1Lv694-00018-00010100-00010609": "🎶I remember you hate me when I wouldn't do all you ass🎶", "9pbDK1Lv694-00019-00010746-00010927": "🎶Now you want me🎶.", "9pbDK1Lv694-00020-00011169-00011523": "🎶When I done forgot about you🎶", "9pbDK1Lv694-00021-00011790-00012119": "🎶Now you want to miss me Now you want to kiss me🎶", "9pbDK1Lv694-00022-00012327-00012766": "🎶When I done forgot about every single time that we had fun🎶", "9pbDK1Lv694-00023-00012891-00013047": "🎶I'm down low🎶", "9pbDK1Lv694-00024-00013392-00013836": "🎶Why you keep saying you miss me And I no it wasn't true🎶", "9pbDK1Lv694-00025-00013953-00014071": "🎶Why you keep on🎶.", "9pbDK1Lv694-00026-00014116-00014210": "🎶Saying that you🎶", "9pbDK1Lv694-00027-00014294-00014415": "🎶Miss me🎶", "9pbDK1Lv694-00028-00014539-00014663": "🎶Why you keep on🎶", "9pbDK1Lv694-00029-00014679-00014762": "🎶Saying that you🎶", "9pbDK1Lv694-00030-00014792-00014932": "🎶Miss me🎶"}}, {"audio_id": "9WDDJEXs2pu", "text": {"9WDDJEXs2pu-00000-00000571-00002075": "Kirstjen Nielsen may be gone, resigning shortly after she humiliated herself by trying to defend the White House’s abominable family separation policy yet again, but the dark cloud of the Trump administration’s bigotry is more visible than ever", "9WDDJEXs2pu-00001-00002075-00003272": "It’s beyond despicable that the current administration not only locked children in cages and defended it, but that it plans to do it again, even if it means openly defying the law", "9WDDJEXs2pu-00002-00003272-00005134": ".Were Donald Trump anything resembling the strong leader he imagines himself to be, he would have at least taken the time to visit one of the camps where the migrant children are being detained, or where several have also died, when he traveled to the southern border last week for a plaque dedication to his racist wall", "9WDDJEXs2pu-00003-00005134-00006532": "Nope, he was too worried about the optics, according to Nielsen. Perhaps to put it better would be to say that he’s worried too much about his strongman image, and his standing among racists, to act human for once", "9WDDJEXs2pu-00004-00006532-00007584": ". .Now that this sickening scandal has been brought to the forefront once again, largely by his own doing, Donald Trump is only growing angrier", "9WDDJEXs2pu-00005-00007584-00008802": "You have to ask: what did he expect if all this time, he’s been encouraging officials to ignore the law? Perhaps he was expecting people to blame his predecessor, and that would be the end of it", "9WDDJEXs2pu-00006-00008802-00010076": ".At a White House meeting with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Trump once again brought up the claim that “President Obama separated the children,” ignoring how often this claim has been debunked", "9WDDJEXs2pu-00007-00010076-00011040": "He claims to have changed the law with his executive order – another example of him saving the less fortunate from a crisis of his own design", "9WDDJEXs2pu-00008-00011040-00012088": ". .We’re talking about lives permanently altered because of this administration – and Donald Trump can only view the problem in terms of how others will see it", "9WDDJEXs2pu-00009-00012088-00012757": "He can frighten his base by reinforcing their own bigotry against asylum seekers", "9WDDJEXs2pu-00010-00012757-00014146": "He can pretend to solve the problem he created by signing an order. But when pressed on what his actual plans are, the times when he needs to present an idea and not perform, we see a much less secure side of him", "9WDDJEXs2pu-00011-00014146-00015708": "It’s not enough for the media to heavily report on this crisis. Every day from now until the end of his time in office, people must ask Donald Trump publicly why he supports family separation – until he has no lies to hide behind"}}, {"audio_id": "9aeIipP3bUk", "text": {"9aeIipP3bUk-00000-00000513-00001850": "President Donald Trump is not happy that former House Speaker Paul Ryan blocked subpoenas of people and entities Trump thinks the House GOP should have been investigating during the first two years of his administration", "9aeIipP3bUk-00001-00001850-00003943": "Trump told Breitbart News in an exclusive lengthy Oval Office interview that Ryan blocked issuance of subpoenas to people he thinks should have been investigated on the political left, and now that the Republicans no longer have the majority in the House, people Trump says Ryan protected may have gotten away with whatever they did that warranted investigation", "9aeIipP3bUk-00002-00003943-00004901": "Trump said that House Freedom Caucus Chairman Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) and his predecessor and fellow conservative Rep", "9aeIipP3bUk-00003-00004901-00005674": "Jim Jordan (R-OH) wanted to be tougher with the left, but that Ryan would not let them", "9aeIipP3bUk-00004-00005674-00006327": "“Paul Ryan wouldn’t give the right to have any subpoenas,” Trump told Breitbart News", "9aeIipP3bUk-00005-00006327-00007328": "“Okay? Now in all fairness, Meadows and Jordan and all these guys, they wanted to go tougher, but they weren’t allowed to by leadership", "9aeIipP3bUk-00006-00007328-00008401": "”.Trump’s comments came in a wider part of the conversation about how the left is more “vicious” than the right—and that the left in American politics plays “cuter and tougher", "9aeIipP3bUk-00007-00008401-00009522": "”.“So here’s the thing—it’s so terrible what’s happening,” Trump said when asked by Breitbart News Washington Political Editor Matthew Boyle about how the left is fighting hard", "9aeIipP3bUk-00008-00009522-00010543": "“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", "9aeIipP3bUk-00009-00010543-00012160": "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", "9aeIipP3bUk-00010-00012160-00013495": "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", "9aeIipP3bUk-00011-00013495-00014430": "Republicans never played this.”. .Trump’s relationship with Ryan during Ryan’s tenure was fraught with peril from the get-go", "9aeIipP3bUk-00012-00014430-00015825": "Ryan only hesitantly backed Trump’s 2016 campaign in 2016 once Trump won the GOP nomination, but then backed off from supporting Trump after the release of the infamous Access Hollywood tape", "9aeIipP3bUk-00013-00015825-00017758": "Ryan ditched on a campaign event he had scheduled with Trump that weekend, and the following week held a conference call with House GOP members in early October 2016 in which he told members it would be acceptable to him if they abandoned the GOP nominee for president just weeks before the 2016 election", "9aeIipP3bUk-00014-00017758-00019033": "“I am not going to defend Donald Trump—not now, not in the future,” Ryan said on the private call, audio of which was obtained by Breitbart News and published in early 2017", "9aeIipP3bUk-00015-00019033-00020989": ".Ryan followed through on that and never campaigned with Trump. When Breitbart News published this audio in the spring of 2017, his then-spokesman Brendan Buck claimed that “a lot has happened since then” and argued that Ryan was working with Trump on the president’s agenda in the first couple years of his administration", "9aeIipP3bUk-00016-00020989-00022421": "With the exception of tax cuts, however, which the president led the way on, Ryan did not deliver much in the way of helping Trump achieve any of his agenda during the time Ryan served as Speaker while Trump served as president", "9aeIipP3bUk-00017-00022421-00023463": "Ryan became speaker in 2015, when then-Speaker John Boehner—facing a revolt from within his own GOP ranks—was forced to step aside", "9aeIipP3bUk-00018-00023463-00024158": "Others had sought the job and failed before Ryan eventually ended up running for the position", "9aeIipP3bUk-00019-00024158-00025257": "Prior to being Speaker, Ryan was the failed 2012 vice presidential nominee for the GOP presidential ticket of former Massachusetts Gov", "9aeIipP3bUk-00020-00025257-00026268": "Mitt Romney. With Ryan at his side, Romney, who has since left Massachusetts behind to move to Utah and now represents Utah in the U", "9aeIipP3bUk-00021-00026268-00027457": "S. Senate, lost the 2012 presidential election to then-President Barack Obama.Then in early 2018, Ryan announced he would not be seeking re-election in the midterms", "9aeIipP3bUk-00022-00027457-00028157": "Critics argued that his not stepping aside hurt the GOP in the midterm elections", "9aeIipP3bUk-00023-00028157-00028825": "Now that Ryan is gone from public life, he took a sharp shot at Trump earlier this week", "9aeIipP3bUk-00024-00028825-00029847": "“The person who defines that race is going to win the race,” Ryan said about the 2020 presidential race at a lecture in Florida per a local news account", "9aeIipP3bUk-00025-00029847-00030448": "“If this is about Donald Trump and his personality, he isn’t going to win it.”.", "9aeIipP3bUk-00026-00030448-00032255": "Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump, Jr., fired back at Ryan on Twitter earlier in the week, saying the former speaker “failed” in 2012, “lied to us,” did not deliver border wall funding he promised previously, and then went on to lose the House GOP its majority in the midterms", "9aeIipP3bUk-00027-00032255-00033094": "Ryan has since walked back his criticisms of Trump’s 2020 prospects, saying that he meant to blame the media"}}, {"audio_id": "9mMxv9Sm7pE", "text": {"9mMxv9Sm7pE-00000-00000513-00002072": "President Donald Trump pressured his then-chief of staff John Kelly and White House counsel Don McGahn to grant his daughter and senior adviser Ivanka Trump a security clearance against their recommendations, three people familiar with the matter told CNN", "9mMxv9Sm7pE-00001-00002072-00002971": "The President's crusade to grant clearances to his daughter and her husband, Jared Kushner, rankled West Wing officials", "9mMxv9Sm7pE-00002-00002971-00004465": "While Trump has the legal authority to grant clearances, most instances are left up to the White House personnel security office, which determines whether a staffer should be granted one after the FBI has conducted a background check", "9mMxv9Sm7pE-00003-00004465-00006045": "But after concerns were raised by the personnel office, Trump pushed Kelly and McGahn to make the decision on his daughter and son-in-law's clearances so it did not appear as if he was tainting the process to favor his family, sources told CNN", "9mMxv9Sm7pE-00004-00006045-00007759": "After both refused, Trump granted them their security clearances.The development comes on the heels of Thursday's New York Times report that President Trump ordered Kelly to grant Kushner a top secret security clearance despite concerns raised by intelligence officials", "9mMxv9Sm7pE-00005-00007759-00009277": "The President has denied he had any role in Kushner receiving a clearance.The latest revelation also contradicts Ivanka Trump's denial to ABC News three weeks ago, when she said her father had \"no involvement\" regarding her or Kushner's clearances", "9mMxv9Sm7pE-00006-00009277-00010439": "Several sources told CNN it is feasible that she was unaware of the red flags raised during her background check process, as well as the President's involvement in it", "9mMxv9Sm7pE-00007-00010439-00011453": "According to a source familiar with her process, she \"did not seek, nor have, outside counsel involved in her process as no issues were ever raised", "9mMxv9Sm7pE-00008-00011453-00012200": "\" A separate person added that she was notified by career officials that her clearance had been granted", "9mMxv9Sm7pE-00009-00012200-00013715": "Kushner's clearance was downgraded in February 2018 after Kelly stipulated new changes to the security clearance system because a senior West Wing staffer with a temporary clearance was accused of domestic abuse by his ex-wife", "9mMxv9Sm7pE-00010-00013715-00014935": "Aides who previously operated on \"top secret/sensitive compartmentalized information\" interim clearances saw their access changed to \"secret,\" a classification for less sensitive material", "9mMxv9Sm7pE-00011-00014935-00016481": "In the months after Kushner's clearance was downgraded, Trump badgered aides about the hold up with his daughter and son-in-law, remarking that he didn't see what the issue was in granting them clearances because they would likely move back to New York in the coming months", "9mMxv9Sm7pE-00012-00016481-00017150": "Sources tell CNN that, for now, neither of them are expected to leave the West Wing", "9mMxv9Sm7pE-00013-00017150-00018012": "Asked for comment, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said, \"We don't comment on security clearances", "9mMxv9Sm7pE-00014-00018012-00018717": "\".\"We cannot respond to every anonymous source,\" she added.Kelly could not be reached for comment", "9mMxv9Sm7pE-00015-00018717-00020102": "McGahn declined to comment for this story.Because they are a married couple, concerns that surfaced during one person's security clearance investigation could stall or block both of them from receiving a full clearance", "9mMxv9Sm7pE-00016-00020102-00021340": "But officials had concerns about granting Trump a clearance that were separate from those raised about her husband, according to one of the sources, though it's unclear what the concerns regarding her were", "9mMxv9Sm7pE-00017-00021340-00022361": "At the time, the couple told associates they believed Kelly was blocking them from getting clearances because he did not feel like they belonged in the West Wing", "9mMxv9Sm7pE-00018-00022361-00023910": "The President pushed harder for his son-in-law to get a clearance because of his wide-ranging portfolio, which includes a Middle East peace proposal, and because of heightened scrutiny on Kushner's inability to secure a clearance, sources said", "9mMxv9Sm7pE-00019-00023910-00025080": "His daughter's portfolio did not require a high level security clearance, though as a senior adviser who sits in meetings with other senior officials, she is privy to sensitive information", "9mMxv9Sm7pE-00020-00025080-00026277": "On Tuesday, the White House rebuffed a request from House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings, D-Maryland, who asked for documents pertaining to the security clearance process", "9mMxv9Sm7pE-00021-00026277-00027661": "White House counsel Pat Cipollone said the committee's request for the information was \"without legal support, clearly premature, and suggests a breach of the constitutionally required accommodation process", "9mMxv9Sm7pE-00022-00027661-00028309": "\".The White House's rejection increases the chances of a subpoena from the House"}}, {"audio_id": "a4mDa2weeJc", "text": {"a4mDa2weeJc-00000-00000513-00002396": "President Donald Trump on Monday will ask the U.S. Congress for an additional $8.6 billion to help pay for the wall he promised to build on the southern border with Mexico to combat illegal immigration and drug trafficking, officials familiar with his 2020 budget request told Reuters", "a4mDa2weeJc-00001-00002396-00003676": "The demand is more than six times what Congress allocated for border projects in each of the past two fiscal years, and 6 percent more than Trump has corralled by invoking emergency powers this year", "a4mDa2weeJc-00002-00003676-00004920": "Democrats, who oppose the wall as unnecessary and immoral, control the U.S. House of Representatives, making it unlikely the Republican president’s request will win congressional passage", "a4mDa2weeJc-00003-00004920-00006743": "Republicans control the Senate.The proposal comes on the heels of a bruising battle with Congress over wall funding that resulted in a five-week partial federal government shutdown that ended in January, and could touch off a sequel just ahead of a trifecta of ominous fiscal deadlines looming this fall", "a4mDa2weeJc-00004-00006743-00008112": "Regardless of whether Congress passes it, the budget request could help Trump frame his argument on border security as the 2020 presidential race begins to take shape, with the president seeking re-election", "a4mDa2weeJc-00005-00008112-00008848": "“Build the wall” was one of his signature campaign pledges in his first run for office in 2016", "a4mDa2weeJc-00006-00008848-00009849": "“Finish the wall” is already a feature of his re-election campaign, a rallying cry plastered across banners and signs at his campaign rallies", "a4mDa2weeJc-00007-00009849-00011191": "“It gives the president the ability to say he has fulfilled his commitment to gain operational control of the southwest border,” an administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said of the budget request", "a4mDa2weeJc-00008-00011191-00011870": "“We have provided the course of action, the strategy and the request to finish the job", "a4mDa2weeJc-00009-00011870-00012628": "It’s a question of, will Congress allow us to finish the job,” a second administration official said", "a4mDa2weeJc-00010-00012628-00013602": "Funding legislation needs to be passed before Oct. 1 - the start of the 2020 federal fiscal year - or the government could shut down again", "a4mDa2weeJc-00011-00013602-00014681": "If Congress and the White House fail to agree to lift mandatory spending caps set in a 2011 law, steep automatic cuts in many programs would kick in", "a4mDa2weeJc-00012-00014681-00015718": "Around the same time, Trump and lawmakers must agree to lift the debt ceiling, or risk a default, which would have chaotic economic fallout", "a4mDa2weeJc-00013-00015718-00017852": "722 MILES OF WALL.Trump’s wall request is based off a 2017 plan put forward by Customs and Border Protection officials to build or replace 722 miles (1,162 km) of barrier along the border, which in total is estimated to cost about $18 billion", "a4mDa2weeJc-00014-00017852-00019903": "So far, only 111 miles (179 km) have been built or are underway, officials said. In fiscal 2017, $341 million in funding was allocated for 40 miles (64 km) of wall, and in 2018, another $1", "a4mDa2weeJc-00015-00019903-00021475": "375 billion was directed to 82 miles (132 km).For fiscal 2019, Trump demanded $5.7 billion in wall funds, but Congress appropriated only $1", "a4mDa2weeJc-00016-00021475-00023390": "375 billion for border fencing projects.Following the rejection of his wall funding demand, Trump declared the border was a national emergency - a move opposed by Democrats and some Republicans - and redirected $601 million in Treasury Department forfeiture funds, $2", "a4mDa2weeJc-00017-00023390-00024492": "5 billion in Defense Department drug interdiction funds and $3.6 billion from a military construction budget, for total spending of $8", "a4mDa2weeJc-00018-00024492-00025804": "1 billion for the wall.The administration has not estimated how far the 2019 funds will go, but officials said average costs are about $25 million per mile (1", "a4mDa2weeJc-00019-00025804-00027073": "6 km).Trump’s $8.6 billion in proposed wall funding for fiscal 2020 would include $5 billion from the Department of Homeland Security budget and $3", "a4mDa2weeJc-00020-00027073-00027932": "6 billion from the Pentagon’s military construction budget. The budget proposal will also include another $3", "a4mDa2weeJc-00021-00027932-00028727": "6 million in military construction funding to make up for any projects delayed by the wall, officials said", "a4mDa2weeJc-00022-00028727-00029855": "The Department of Homeland Security is one of a few priority areas to get a boost in Trump’s budget plan, which seeks to slash funding to many non-defense programs", "a4mDa2weeJc-00023-00029855-00030887": "Trump will propose an overall 5 percent increase to the Department of Homeland Security budget over fiscal 2019 appropriations, including $3", "a4mDa2weeJc-00024-00030887-00032141": "3 billion, or 22 percent more, for Customs and Border Protection, and $1.2 billion more for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a 16 percent hike, officials said", "a4mDa2weeJc-00025-00032141-00033353": "The budget proposal includes a plan to hire more than 2,800 law enforcement and support personnel for the agencies, and 100 immigration judge teams, officials said", "a4mDa2weeJc-00026-00033353-00034152": "Trump faces both political and court battles to free up the money he wants for the current fiscal year", "a4mDa2weeJc-00027-00034152-00035069": "Many lawmakers accused Trump of overstepping his constitutional powers by declaring an emergency to free up the funds", "a4mDa2weeJc-00028-00035069-00035826": "The House has already voted to revoke the emergency, and the Senate is likely to do the same this week", "a4mDa2weeJc-00029-00035826-00037216": "Trump is expected to veto the resolution.A coalition of state governments led by California has sued Trump to block the emergency move, though legal experts have said the lawsuits face a difficult road"}}, {"audio_id": "atEY1ONn4ZU", "text": {"atEY1ONn4ZU-00000-00000571-00001213": "The vote to block “President” Trump’s fake emergency declaration looms over the Senate", "atEY1ONn4ZU-00001-00001213-00002049": "As Palmer Report noted earlier, the Democrats have been joined by enough Republicans to block Trump’s declaration", "atEY1ONn4ZU-00002-00002049-00003366": "However, Trump will veto the resolution as soon as it hits his desk. The Democrats have rallied together to weather this storm, but the remaining Republicans just can’t seem to figure out what to do", "atEY1ONn4ZU-00003-00003366-00004667": "Most Republicans don’t want to openly defy Trump by voting against the declaration, even though many of them seem to agree that the declaration violates the Constitution and usurps Congress’ power", "atEY1ONn4ZU-00004-00004667-00005798": "Instead of manning up and doing the right thing, The Hill reports that one group of Republicans wants to give Trump a one-time “pass” in order to avoid going against him", "atEY1ONn4ZU-00005-00005798-00006819": "Their idea of doing that is ludicrous. There’s no such thing as “one time” when considering the powers bestowed upon the separate branches of government", "atEY1ONn4ZU-00006-00006819-00007872": "Pardon the cliché, but one inch will lead to a mile and fiascos of this type would be fought in future administrations, instead of our country being governed", "atEY1ONn4ZU-00007-00007872-00009381": "According to Reuters, Senator Mike Lee of Utah presented a proposal to “reform” the National Emergencies Act of 1976 which would require that emergency declarations automatically expire if not passed by Congress in 30 days", "atEY1ONn4ZU-00008-00009381-00010335": "Trump indicated to Lee that he would not support the proposal, and Lee will join the other four Republicans in voting to end the declaration", "atEY1ONn4ZU-00009-00010335-00011414": "At the same time, Ted Cruz and Lamar Alexander are pushing an alternative that would allow Trump to take the money from elsewhere such as an asset forfeiture fund", "atEY1ONn4ZU-00010-00011414-00013422": "This proposal is ridiculous. Trump had no right to declare the emergency. Why in the world should his bad behavior be rewarded by “finding” money for him? Why can’t the Republicans just admit that they don’t want the wall any more than the Democrats do? They had two years to give him this funding when they controlled both Houses", "atEY1ONn4ZU-00011-00013422-00014002": "This proverbial walking on eggshells is no way to run our government"}}, {"audio_id": "avWhxi-kPn0", "text": {"avWhxi-kPn0-00000-00000571-00001566": "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", "avWhxi-kPn0-00001-00001566-00002551": "“Today, I am vetoing this resolution,” Trump said. “Congress has the freedom to pass this resolution and I have the duty to veto it", "avWhxi-kPn0-00002-00002551-00004014": "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", "avWhxi-kPn0-00003-00004014-00004870": "He described the Congressional attempt to stop him as a “dangerous” and “reckless” resolution that was “a vote against reality", "avWhxi-kPn0-00004-00004870-00006022": "”.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", "avWhxi-kPn0-00005-00006022-00007258": "“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", "avWhxi-kPn0-00006-00007258-00008454": "“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", "avWhxi-kPn0-00007-00008454-00009248": ".“There’s absolutely nothing we can do. We’re bursting at the seams, you can only hold so much,” he said", "avWhxi-kPn0-00008-00009248-00010426": "“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", "avWhxi-kPn0-00009-00010426-00011443": "”.Trump noted 59 different national emergency previous declarations by past presidents that were frequently used to assist foreign countries", "avWhxi-kPn0-00010-00011443-00012670": "“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", "avWhxi-kPn0-00011-00012670-00013302": "… This is the one that they don’t want to do and this is the one perhaps they should most do", "avWhxi-kPn0-00012-00013302-00014546": "”. .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", "avWhxi-kPn0-00013-00014546-00015421": "“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", "avWhxi-kPn0-00014-00015421-00016131": "Barr described Trump’s declaration as “clearly authorized under that law and consistent with past precedent", "avWhxi-kPn0-00015-00016131-00017179": "”.“The humanitarian and security crisis is exactly the kind of emergency that presidents are permitted to address under the national emergencies act,” he said", "avWhxi-kPn0-00016-00017179-00017952": "Barr is tasked with defending the declaration in court, and he publicly defended his decision in the Oval Office", "avWhxi-kPn0-00017-00017952-00018947": "“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", "avWhxi-kPn0-00018-00018947-00019626": "The president defended his decision to declare a national emergency at the border", "avWhxi-kPn0-00019-00019626-00020394": "“I think actually, national emergency was designed for a specific purpose like this,” Trump said", "avWhxi-kPn0-00020-00020394-00021484": "“Absolutely,” Barr replied.The president said he did not hold it against the twelve Senate Republicans who voted with Democrats to block his declaration", "avWhxi-kPn0-00021-00021484-00023451": "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", "avWhxi-kPn0-00022-00023451-00024529": "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", "avWhxi-kPn0-00023-00024529-00025240": "Trump said that the funds repurposed for border defense would include 30-foot bollards and 18-foot wall", "avWhxi-kPn0-00024-00025240-00026308": "“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", "avWhxi-kPn0-00025-00026308-00027087": ".He also promised more canine units on the border to help catch drug smuggling across the Southern border", "avWhxi-kPn0-00026-00027087-00028181": "“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", "avWhxi-kPn0-00027-00028181-00029158": "“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", "avWhxi-kPn0-00028-00029158-00030963": "“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": "axkhxZ2skgg", "text": {"axkhxZ2skgg-00000-00000513-00001406": "Special Counsel Robert Mueller is finished with Donald Trump’s short-lived national security adviser Michael Flynn", "axkhxZ2skgg-00001-00001406-00002213": "The man who was temporarily at the top of the nation’s security is now waiting to be sentenced after lying to the FBI", "axkhxZ2skgg-00002-00002213-00003096": "Before going to prison, he took one right action.Flynn pled guilty to his federal crimes in 2017", "axkhxZ2skgg-00003-00003096-00004219": "Since then, he has been cooperating with the Mueller investigation into Russia’s attack on the U. S. presidential election and Trump campaign’s conspiracy with Moscow", "axkhxZ2skgg-00004-00004219-00005431": "POLITICO contacted almost all of the “81 individuals, entities, or their attorneys” that the House Judiciary committee asked to provide documents and other materials", "axkhxZ2skgg-00005-00005431-00006594": "One of them was Flynn and he provided “several thousand pages of documents.” The committee has been investigating POTUS’s obstruction of justice among other acts", "axkhxZ2skgg-00006-00006594-00007889": "Flynn’s sent information via his company, Flynn Intel Group, and those materials were the same as he gave to the FBI and the House Intelligence and Senate Intelligence committees", "axkhxZ2skgg-00007-00007889-00008926": "The Judiciary committee had also requested materials from Flynn’s son, Michael Flynn Jr., who worked for his father’s company and on the Trump campaign", "axkhxZ2skgg-00008-00008926-00009754": "Thus far, the committee has not determined whether Flynn Jr.’s documents were included in those from his father", "axkhxZ2skgg-00009-00009754-00010405": "Monday was the deadline for these 81 people and entities to submit their materials", "axkhxZ2skgg-00010-00010405-00011525": "The committee is chaired by Representative Jerrold (Jerry) Nadler (D-NY). He said that he would be willing to make arrangements for people to submit them later", "axkhxZ2skgg-00011-00011525-00012991": "Nadler said that his committee and other House committees have had to make up for the two years when the Republicans were in the majority and failed to do their jobs.  Trump has called the investigations, including Mueller’s, “witch hunts.”", "axkhxZ2skgg-00012-00012991-00014743": "The New York representative also requested documents from the Trump Organization and Trump’s two elder sons, Donald Jr.  and Eric. Thus far, their attorneys have not responded, and the White House has blocked all requests for materials", "axkhxZ2skgg-00013-00014743-00015626": "According to POLITICO, the presidential campaign has responded, but there was no word whether it planned on complying", "axkhxZ2skgg-00014-00015626-00016985": "A campaign official said:.‘We have communicated our response to the committee.’.The Judiciary committee also requested materials from the parent company of The National Enquirer, AMI", "axkhxZ2skgg-00015-00016985-00018434": "The company intends to cooperate fully. These documents would include data about any monies paid to two women who said they had affairs with the leader of the free world at the time Melanie was giving birth to their son and afterward", "axkhxZ2skgg-00016-00018434-00019518": "Brad Parscale was the man who managed the computer data for Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and manages the 2020 Trump campaign", "axkhxZ2skgg-00017-00019518-00020263": "Parscale refused to answer POLITICO’s questions regarding a request for supplemental materials", "axkhxZ2skgg-00018-00020263-00022000": "Spokesperson for the Trump campaign Kayleigh McEnany said:.‘They will stop at nothing, including destroying the lives and reputations of many innocent Americans who only have sought to serve their country honorably, but who hold different political views than their own", "axkhxZ2skgg-00019-00022000-00022820": "This is abuse of power in the extreme and a reckless use of the solemn authority granted to Congress by the people of this nation’", "axkhxZ2skgg-00020-00022820-00023666": "So far, the committee confirmed it had obtained over 8,000 pages from a minimum of eight participants", "axkhxZ2skgg-00021-00023666-00024325": "These included former campaign manager Steve Bannon and the president’s friend Tom Barrack", "axkhxZ2skgg-00022-00024325-00025719": "Former communications manager Sean Spicer, former adviser Hope Hicks, former chief of staff Reince Priebus, and another former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski said no to POLITICO", "axkhxZ2skgg-00023-00025719-00026644": "Earlier, they said they would cooperate with the committee.Trump campaign data firm Cambridge Analytica’s attorney said it had complied"}}, {"audio_id": "aCVwhCY8kL0", "text": {"aCVwhCY8kL0-00000-00000571-00001926": "Back in early 2018, one major media report after another revealed that Donald Trump ordered White House Counsel Don McGahn to commit felony obstruction of justice and McGahn heroically refused to do it", "aCVwhCY8kL0-00001-00001926-00002632": "By the end of 2018 we learned that McGahn had been selling Trump out to Robert Mueller all along", "aCVwhCY8kL0-00002-00002632-00003509": "In hindsight, McGahn was rather clearly feeding these stories to the media in order to try to absolve himself", "aCVwhCY8kL0-00003-00003509-00005087": "Now suddenly we’re seeing it again today, but with a bunch more names.Today’s stunning New York Times expose about Donald Trump’s obstruction of justice antics spans two years and covers several stages of Trump’s revolving door of senior advisers", "aCVwhCY8kL0-00004-00005087-00006398": "The one thing that stands out is that, according to the story, every one of these advisers either heroically refused to carry out Trump’s obstruction orders, or at least earnestly tried to talk Trump out of it", "aCVwhCY8kL0-00005-00006398-00008190": "How convenient for them, we suppose.It’s not too difficult to parse that Matt Whitaker, Sean Spicer, and familiar face Don McGahn, who are all depicted in the NYT story as heroically standing up to Donald Trump’s crime spree, were direct or indirect sources for the story", "aCVwhCY8kL0-00006-00008190-00009144": "Someone is going down for Trump’s obstruction, and they’re trying to use the media to ensure that it’s Trump, and not them, who goes down", "aCVwhCY8kL0-00007-00009144-00011174": "What’s interesting is the timing. Why would these three guys all decide that right now is a good time to make sure the world knows that they weren’t cool with Trump’s obstruction of justice? Makes you wonder if they all know that Robert Mueller is about to drop the hammer on obstruction of justice, and they’re trying to get out in front of it", "aCVwhCY8kL0-00008-00011174-00012278": "After all, Mueller just interviewed Trump’s last remaining obstruction loyalist, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, which would suggest that Mueller’s obstruction probe is ready to go"}}, {"audio_id": "ahR8pJ6kf8I", "text": {"ahR8pJ6kf8I-00000-00000571-00001344": "Newsweek reported that Ralph Shortey was charged with and pleaded guilty to a charge of trafficking of children", "ahR8pJ6kf8I-00001-00001344-00002802": "This charge stems from Shortey soliciting a 17 year old boy in March 2017. Shortey pleaded guilty in order to avoid further charges, in accordance with a deal he made with prosecutors from the U", "ahR8pJ6kf8I-00002-00002802-00004233": "S. Government. .“Trafficking of a minor carries a minimum sentence of 10 years in prison, but Shortey faces the possibility of being sent to life in prison for the offense at a sentencing hearing in early 2018", "ahR8pJ6kf8I-00003-00004233-00004910": "“.The former state Senator believes that his plea of guilty is the right thing to do", "ahR8pJ6kf8I-00004-00004910-00005889": "He feels his acceptance of guilt for his wrong doings will allow his family the ability to heal and avoid further humiliation due to his actions", "ahR8pJ6kf8I-00005-00005889-00006874": "Shortey is married and has four children.To make this situation even more strange, just take a look into Shortey’s past political background", "ahR8pJ6kf8I-00006-00006874-00007812": "“The two-term former Oklahoma Republican state senator was first elected in 2010 on a ‘family values’ conservative platform", "ahR8pJ6kf8I-00007-00007812-00009259": "According to the Associated Press, Shortey ‘routinely voted with his Republican colleagues on bills targeting gay and transgender people, including a measure passed earlier this year that would allow business owners to discriminate against gay people", "ahR8pJ6kf8I-00008-00009259-00010040": "’ “.As Donald Trump entered the 2016 Presidential race, Shortey was quick to offer his support", "ahR8pJ6kf8I-00009-00010040-00010667": "In October 2015 the Trump administration named Shortey as part of its leadership team"}}, {"audio_id": "ajZKS88YQRM", "text": {"ajZKS88YQRM-00000-00000571-00001566": "“This is the only Bush that likes me!” Trump said. “This is the only one. … Truly, this is the Bush that got it right", "ajZKS88YQRM-00001-00001566-00002420": "”. .Trump called Bush forth to shake his hand and meet him, acknowledging that he was a friend of his son Donald Trump, Jr", "ajZKS88YQRM-00002-00002420-00003227": "Good guy, I like him. He’s going far, he’s going places,” Trump said. “Thank you, George", "ajZKS88YQRM-00003-00003227-00004554": "”.George P  Bush, 42, is the oldest son of former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, whom Trump beat in the 2016 Republican primary, and the nephew of former President George W", "ajZKS88YQRM-00004-00004554-00005492": "Bush.Trump welcomed the younger Bush at an event in Crosby, TX, where he signed an executive order on energy and infrastructure", "ajZKS88YQRM-00005-00005492-00006503": "Former President George H.W. Bush voted for Hillary Clinton, while George W. Bush did not vote for Trump or Hillary, according to reports", "ajZKS88YQRM-00006-00006503-00007297": "Jeb Bush also wrote an op-ed saying he would not support Trump. .In 2016, George P", "ajZKS88YQRM-00007-00007297-00008198": "Bush publicly supported Trump, joking with Texas Republicans that he was the only Bush supporting the entire Republican ticket"}}, {"audio_id": "b10Kb7NX9yM", "text": {"b10Kb7NX9yM-00000-00000571-00002075": "Tuesday on CNN during an interview with chief international anchor Christiane Amanpour, former FBI Director James Comey said President Donald Trump supporters should be concerned that Trump “tried to burn down the Department of Justice and the FBI", "b10Kb7NX9yM-00001-00002075-00003815": "”.When asked about the president referring to the Mueller probe as a witch-hunt, Comey said, “First, take a look in the mirror and ask what happened to Bob Mueller and the mean being corrupt and evil and a nest of deep state traitors that they reached a conclusion that the president is happy with", "b10Kb7NX9yM-00002-00003815-00004654": "Just don’t move in front of that. Your president tried to burn down the Department of Justice and the FBI and that matters", "b10Kb7NX9yM-00003-00004654-00006338": "Take a look in the mirror and ask what you have learned from that experience. Second, you have fired all of us if we didn’t investigate what we learned in the summer of 2016 when we got smoke, not fire, but smoke that Americans might have assisted the Russian effort", "b10Kb7NX9yM-00004-00006338-00007577": "We had to investigate, that and no serious person could think otherwise, and it was done in a serious way, and it reached a serious result, and now we all ought to get transparency on", "b10Kb7NX9yM-00005-00007577-00007677": "”"}}, {"audio_id": "b7qSBy6YcnE", "text": {"b7qSBy6YcnE-00000-00000571-00001764": "It seems like Russian President Vladimir Putin may be deciding that Donald Trump is more trouble than he’s worth, after he failed to lift US sanctions against Russia multiple times", "b7qSBy6YcnE-00001-00001764-00002694": "Russian officials are speaking out against Trump, mocking him, taunting, and now, talking about releasing blackmail material", "b7qSBy6YcnE-00002-00002694-00003517": "A Russian debate took place on Russian state-run television where several Russian officials discussed various political issues", "b7qSBy6YcnE-00003-00003517-00004269": "One of which was was Nikita Isaev, the Director of the Russian Institute of Contemporary Economics", "b7qSBy6YcnE-00004-00004269-00005625": "He said, “Let’s hit Trump with our Kompromat!”, which certainly looks like a reference to the infamous Pee Pee Tape or, at the very least, some type of other blackmail material the Kremlin is holding over Trump’s head", "b7qSBy6YcnE-00005-00005625-00007044": "(NOTE: In Russian politics, kompromat, short for “compromising material” is damaging information about a politician or other public figure used to create negative publicity, for blackmail, or for ensuring loyalty", "b7qSBy6YcnE-00006-00007044-00008028": ").The host asked, “Do we have it?” Isaev responded “Of course we have it!”.You can watch the hour-long Russian-language video can be watched here", "b7qSBy6YcnE-00007-00008028-00008849": "Julia Davis brought this to our attention when she pointed out Nikita Isaev’s call for the release of Kompromat", "b7qSBy6YcnE-00008-00008849-00009969": "The interested part here is that someone in Isaev’s position wouldn’t have said something like this on Kremlin-controlled TV unless Vladimir Putin gave him permission to say it", "b7qSBy6YcnE-00009-00009969-00011422": "Could it be that Putin has grown tired of Trump and wants to do everything he can to finish him off quickly and stop the bleeding?  And why not? Putin wanted Trump in the White House, he should be the one to push him out", "b7qSBy6YcnE-00010-00011422-00012132": "We will be eagerly awaiting the release of this thing, as it will be explosive, without question"}}, {"audio_id": "bFIgmg168IU", "text": {"bFIgmg168IU-00000-00000571-00001331": "Democrats have refused to work with President Trump to fix our border crisis, and they’re about to regret it", "bFIgmg168IU-00001-00001331-00002020": "Honestly, it seems like they just want us to open the floodgates and let everyone in", "bFIgmg168IU-00002-00002020-00002697": "They let the crisis balloon out of control and won’t let Trump shut down the border", "bFIgmg168IU-00003-00002697-00003674": "So Trump has a plan to let the border jumpers in—but wait! Where he’s going to put them has Democrats showing their true colors", "bFIgmg168IU-00004-00003674-00005163": "Here’s Trump’s text: “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 only…", "bFIgmg168IU-00005-00005163-00005905": "”.Oh boy! Let’s see these two-faced Democrats reject this offer—prove they are utter hypocrites!", "bFIgmg168IU-00006-00005905-00007043": "Then he followed it up with this devastating jab:.“….The Radical Left always seems to have an Open Borders, Open Arms policy – so this should make them very happy!”", "bFIgmg168IU-00007-00007043-00007806": "Because so many border jumpers are being detained by DHS, we have reached a breaking point", "bFIgmg168IU-00008-00007806-00008676": "There are simply not enough places to house these migrants. Because we can’t just deport them, they get to stick around", "bFIgmg168IU-00009-00008676-00009475": "Democrats bragged about how their sanctuary cities protect border jumpers from federal authorities", "bFIgmg168IU-00010-00009475-00010476": "But most of those cities are faaaaar away from the border. They don’t have to deal with the daily challenges border towns struggle with", "bFIgmg168IU-00011-00010476-00011103": "Democrats are happy to keep our border weak—as long as they don’t have to deal with it", "bFIgmg168IU-00012-00011103-00011902": "President Trump’s solution? Transport these detained border jumpers into sanctuary cities", "bFIgmg168IU-00013-00011902-00012675": "Force Democrats to deal with the problem they created.Already, Democrats are protesting", "bFIgmg168IU-00014-00012675-00013563": "Pelosi is fit to be tied.Really? Here’s an idea, Democrats: how about you stand behind a single thing you say?", "bFIgmg168IU-00015-00013563-00014684": "Democrats are toying with human lives, all to play their political games. They only care about opposing Trump, not the prosperity or success of our country"}}, {"audio_id": "bHx1PMOFX10", "text": {"bHx1PMOFX10-00000-00000513-00001814": "It is impossible for Donald Trump to simply tell the truth. Even when he has the best day of his presidency, he cannot help but lie and try to make it sound significantly better than it was", "bHx1PMOFX10-00001-00001814-00002420": "The hypocrisy of his Sunday lie about the Mueller report made it absolutely laughable", "bHx1PMOFX10-00002-00002420-00003177": "The Mueller report, according to Attorney General William Barr’s letter, did not exonerate Trump", "bHx1PMOFX10-00003-00003177-00004204": "It said that he would not make a “traditional prosecutorial decision” and that he would neither determine that Trump committed a crime nor would he exonerate him", "bHx1PMOFX10-00004-00004204-00005215": "Trump and his supporters will crow today and for some time to come about the conclusions of the Mueller report, but the truth is that we have not seen that report yet", "bHx1PMOFX10-00005-00005215-00006730": "We saw a summary of it from Trump’s hand-picked AG. Imagine if Eric Holder and not GOP-led committees in ten separate investigations into Benghazi had determined that Obama and Hillary Clinton had done nothing wrong", "bHx1PMOFX10-00006-00006730-00007406": "Trump and the Republicans would totally have considered that concrete evidence, right?", "bHx1PMOFX10-00007-00007406-00009830": "Many questions remain now that the four-page summary has been made public. If there was no collusion, why did Trump’s campaign officials lie about their contacts with Kremlin officials? If Trump knew he would be exonerated because he had done nothing wrong, why did he spend two years trying to discredit Robert Mueller, Rod Rosenstein, James Comey, and everyone else involved in the investigation?"}}, {"audio_id": "bL-uJuGv7ao", "text": {"bL-uJuGv7ao-00000-00000513-00001466": "This past September, in a move intended to frighten the International Criminal Court out of investigating allegations of war crimes against the U.S.", "bL-uJuGv7ao-00001-00001466-00003195": "and its allies in Afghanistan, Trump’s National Security Adviser John Bolton, a longtime critic of the ICC, threatened to ban ICC judges and prosecutors from entering the country, along with the additional threat of sanctioning any funds they may have in the U.S.", "bL-uJuGv7ao-00002-00003195-00005465": "and even possibly prosecuting them in U.S. Federal courts.This threat was in direct response to the November 2017 request by the ICC investigator for judges to authorize the opening of an investigation into “alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in Afghanistan since May 1, 2003, including in states where the CIA held prisoners”", "bL-uJuGv7ao-00003-00005465-00006549": "The material submitted by the prosecutor is currently under review by ICC judges, who have the legal authority to authorize an investigation", "bL-uJuGv7ao-00004-00006549-00007247": "Friday, Secretary of State Michael Pompeo took that threat one step further, saying:", "bL-uJuGv7ao-00005-00007247-00008258": "‘I’m announcing a policy of U.S. visa restrictions on those individuals directly responsible for any ICC investigation of U.S.  personnel", "bL-uJuGv7ao-00006-00008258-00009047": "This includes persons who take or have taken action to request or further such an investigation", "bL-uJuGv7ao-00007-00009047-00010057": "These visa restrictions may also be used to deter ICC efforts to pursue allied personnel, including Israelis, without allies’ consent ‘", "bL-uJuGv7ao-00008-00010057-00011280": "The Trump administration is so unconcerned about the legal consequences of their criminal acts that they are not even bothering to try to hide their attempted bullying of a court of law, as Pompeo continued:", "bL-uJuGv7ao-00009-00011280-00012779": "‘If you are responsible for the proposed ICC investigation of U.S. personnel in connection with the situation in Afghanistan, you should not assume that you still have or will get a visa or will be permitted to enter the United States ‘", "bL-uJuGv7ao-00010-00012779-00014240": "The court said it was “undeterred” by the U.S.’ threats, according to AP News.Andrea Prasow, a director at international watchdog group Human Rights Watch, called the threats “a thuggish attempt to penalize investigators,” adding:", "bL-uJuGv7ao-00011-00014240-00015230": "‘Taking action against those who work for the ICC sends a clear message to torturers and murderers alike: Their crimes may continue unchecked’"}}, {"audio_id": "bOE3YugyCBk", "text": {"bOE3YugyCBk-00000-00000571-00001281": "On Tuesday, “President” Donald Trump was asked a question about the zero-tolerance immigration policy", "bOE3YugyCBk-00001-00001281-00002020": "Trump did not directly address the question, other than to deny he was looking to do any such thing", "bOE3YugyCBk-00002-00002020-00002859": "Trump then went on the attack, making more false claims about President Obama’s separation of migrant families", "bOE3YugyCBk-00003-00002859-00003896": "It was more “opposite day” from Donnie Delusional. .Trump went on a rant during a televised event, stating: “Obama separated the children, by the way", "bOE3YugyCBk-00004-00003896-00005244": "Just so you understand. President Obama separated the children … Those cages that were shown, I think they were very inappropriate, they were built by President Obama’s administration, not by Trump", "bOE3YugyCBk-00005-00005244-00006234": "President Obama had child separation. Take a look. The press knows it, you know it, we all know it, I’m the one that stopped it", "bOE3YugyCBk-00006-00006234-00007362": "”. .Trump then turned to actually still having family separation and why it was effective, comparing not having it to Disneyland, ranting: “Now I’ll tell you something", "bOE3YugyCBk-00007-00007362-00008094": "Once you don’t have it, that’s why you see many more people coming. They’re coming like it’s a picnic", "bOE3YugyCBk-00008-00008094-00008924": "Because, let’s go to Disneyland. President Obama separated children. They had child separation", "bOE3YugyCBk-00009-00008924-00009760": "I was the one that changed it.”. .Trump is frantic. Trump is unhinged. You can hear it in his voice", "bOE3YugyCBk-00010-00009760-00010484": "And rest assured, the migrants fleeing their countries are not experiencing anything close to Disneyland", "bOE3YugyCBk-00011-00010484-00011879": "We must carefully watch what Trump does, despite his denials, as reports are, he wants a tougher border stance than what now exists, and reports are that he wants separation even for legal asylum seekers"}}, {"audio_id": "bmyTZ__6MV4", "text": {"bmyTZ__6MV4-00000-00000571-00001814": "The leading Marine general has reportedly allowed internal emails to leak in hopes of protecting military families from President Trump’s plans to build a border wall along the US/Mexican border", "bmyTZ__6MV4-00001-00001814-00003820": "Sources in the Pentagon told Newsweek that Gen. Robert Neller let the internal memos, both of which criticized the Trump’s plans to deploy troops to build the wall, leak to the Los Angeles Times and NBC News over the past several weeks “because he didn’t want the Marines and families at Camp Lejeune to get f***ed", "bmyTZ__6MV4-00002-00003820-00004560": "”.Neller argued via the leaked memos that Trump’s “unplanned/unbudgeted” additions to the U", "bmyTZ__6MV4-00003-00004560-00005497": "S. military budget made his job more difficult, as well as pose an “unacceptable risk to Marine Corps combat readiness and solvency", "bmyTZ__6MV4-00004-00005497-00006944": "”.“The combat readiness of II Marine Expeditionary Force—1/3 the combat power of the Marine Corps—is degraded and will continue to degrade given current conditions,” Neller wrote in a letter obtained by the LA Times", "bmyTZ__6MV4-00005-00006944-00007934": "Neller will retire later in 2019 and will be replaced by Lieutenant General David Berger, whose confirmation is currently before the Senate"}}, {"audio_id": "c0k1Ln9qXBy", "text": {"c0k1Ln9qXBy-00000-00000513-00001482": "Recently on Fox News, Chris Wallace interviewed far-right talk show host Rush Limbaugh to discuss the influence Limbaugh has over Donald Trump", "c0k1Ln9qXBy-00001-00001482-00003125": "While Limbaugh denied that he has the ability to affect policy, Wallace commented on Trump’s own statements where he said, “Rush Limbaugh, I think he’s a great guy … He’s got one of the biggest audiences in the history of the world, I mean this guy is unbelievable", "c0k1Ln9qXBy-00002-00003125-00004290": "”.As if trying to confirm that he considers Limbaugh a top advisor, Trump tweeted Limbaugh verbatim a few hours later, “These guys, the investigators, ought to be in jail", "c0k1Ln9qXBy-00003-00004290-00004974": "What they have done, working with the Obama intelligence agencies, is simply unprecedented", "c0k1Ln9qXBy-00004-00004974-00005734": "This is one of the greatest political hoaxes ever perpetrated on the people of this Country, and Mueller is a coverup", "c0k1Ln9qXBy-00005-00005734-00006973": "”.During the interview, Wallace pushed Limbaugh on whether his recent statements promoting Trump’s power grab were indeed hypocritical, given his past statements criticizing President Obama", "c0k1Ln9qXBy-00006-00006973-00008140": "“I want to ask you about the game you say we play in Washington,” Wallace said. “Because the fact is when President Obama took executive actions, you were outraged", "c0k1Ln9qXBy-00007-00008140-00009436": "And as you would expect, I’ve got a couple of examples.”.Wallace went on to point out that Limbaugh claimed Obama flushed the Constitution “down the toilet” when he created protections for DACA children", "c0k1Ln9qXBy-00008-00009436-00010679": "Instead of accepting the criticism and admitting the hypocrisy, Limbaugh doubled down on his inherent racism by saying what Trump is doing is acceptable stating “You may look at it that way", "c0k1Ln9qXBy-00009-00010679-00011912": "I don’t. I look at it, right and wrong. And what Obama was doing was furthering this existing problem and politicizing this using whatever executive powers he wanted to use", "c0k1Ln9qXBy-00010-00011912-00013827": "”.It is beyond clear that people like Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and others of that ilk will continue to spew racist and hateful rhetoric in an attempt to convince Donald Trump’s dwindling base that any hateful and illegal actions are somehow justified if it prevents people of color from gaining any human rights", "c0k1Ln9qXBy-00011-00013827-00014780": "This despicable, yet unsurprising, narrative will only continue and get worse as long as hateful people like Trump are in power", "c0k1Ln9qXBy-00012-00014780-00015438": "This is just another reason why the resistance to such hate is so necessary"}}, {"audio_id": "c-y_DCVt74Y", "text": {"c-y_DCVt74Y-00000-00000571-00001467": "A North Dakota State University football player had a game plan for his team’s visit Monday to the White House: make a quiet statement", "c-y_DCVt74Y-00001-00001467-00003016": "So while backup offensive lineman Jack Albrecht was celebrating the school’s Football Championship Subdivision title with his teammates and President Donald Trump, he wore a Democratic Socialists of America pin on his jacket, The Hill reported", "c-y_DCVt74Y-00002-00003016-00004468": "Albrecht, a computer engineering major and member of the Red River Valley chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America, shared several photos of himself wearing the pin on his lapel during the university’s visit to Washington", "c-y_DCVt74Y-00003-00004468-00005597": "One image shows him standing near the president, who’s in the background.Given Trump’s recent railing against socialism, the pin could have attracted some unwanted attention during the visit", "c-y_DCVt74Y-00004-00005597-00006495": ".Championship teams are traditionally invited to the White House, but that has become a thorny issue since Trump took office", "c-y_DCVt74Y-00005-00006495-00007548": "Last year, after several members of the Super Bowl-winning Philadelphia Eagles made clear they wouldn’t be going to the White House, Trump disinvited the whole team", "c-y_DCVt74Y-00006-00007548-00008715": "He also pre-emptively declared that the winner of the 2018 NBA Finals between the Cleveland Cavaliers and eventual champ Golden State Warriors would not be welcome", "c-y_DCVt74Y-00007-00008715-00009700": "A similar scenario occurred after the Warriors won the 2017 NBA title.“Democratic socialism is for every worker on earth", "c-y_DCVt74Y-00008-00009700-00010816": "You, me and 6-5, 275lb champion offensive linemen invited to the White House,” read a Facebook post from Albrecht’s chapter that night", "c-y_DCVt74Y-00009-00010816-00011594": "Albrecht “wanted to make a quiet statement,” chapter treasurer Zac Echola told The Washington Post", "c-y_DCVt74Y-00010-00011594-00012318": "“We had a football player, and [he] wanted to quietly protest and wear a pin. We gave him one''"}}, {"audio_id": "cABpuuf8bc4", "text": {"cABpuuf8bc4-00000-00000571-00002101": "Last night we all learned that the State of New York has subpoenaed banking records relating to several specific instances of Donald Trump’s financial fraud, including the bank fraud he committed while trying and failing to buy the Buffalo Bills", "cABpuuf8bc4-00001-00002101-00003222": "Palmer Report explained that this is New York’s way of targeting his assets, which can be seized after he fails to pay the massive financial fines they’re going to hit him with", "cABpuuf8bc4-00002-00003222-00003886": "Now it looks like Donald Trump is interpreting New York State’s actions in the same way we are", "cABpuuf8bc4-00003-00003886-00004708": "Rather than merely shaking the whole thing off, Trump revealed this evening that he’s very much scared about what’s being done to him", "cABpuuf8bc4-00004-00004708-00005508": "Not only that, Trump went so bonkers about it, he ended up attacking his home state in the process", "cABpuuf8bc4-00005-00005508-00006456": "Here’s what Trump tweeted: “New York State and its Governor, Andrew Cuomo, are now proud members of the group of PRESIDENTIAL HARASSERS", "cABpuuf8bc4-00006-00006456-00007600": "No wonder people are fleeing the State in record numbers. The Witch Hunt continues!” Wait a minute here, because this doesn’t even make sense by Trumpian standards", "cABpuuf8bc4-00007-00007600-00009021": "For the record, Trump is wrong about people fleeing the state. New York did see its statewide population decrease by about one percent from 2017 to 2018, but that’s almost a rounding error", "cABpuuf8bc4-00008-00009021-00009938": "According to census estimates, New York City’s population continues to climb. So what’s Trump talking about here? Nothing at all", "cABpuuf8bc4-00009-00009938-00010664": "He just couldn’t think of a better insult about his home state, even as it moves in on bankrupting him"}}, {"audio_id": "cKtbYZqF-KM", "text": {"cKtbYZqF-KM-00000-00000513-00002080": "The issue of reparations for African-Americans has come front and center among the nascent Democratic presidential field, with candidates supporting ideas on everything from free college tuitions to handing out checks for the family members of former slaves", "cKtbYZqF-KM-00001-00002080-00003872": "Julián Castro, the former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under President Barack Obama, said on Sunday that he was not ruling out direct payments to African-Americans for the legacy of slavery – in a move that separates him from his fellow Democratic challengers", "cKtbYZqF-KM-00002-00003872-00005719": "Speaking on CNN’s “State of the Union” from his home state of Texas – where the former San Antonio mayor is attending the South By Southwest Festival along with a number of other Democratic candidates – Castro questioned why there is opposition to paying African-Americans for the enslavement of their ancestors", "cKtbYZqF-KM-00003-00005719-00006756": "\"If under the Constitution we compensate people because we take their property, why wouldn't you compensate people who actually were property?\" Castro said", "cKtbYZqF-KM-00004-00006756-00007793": "Other candidates are discussing tax credits and other subsidies, rather than direct payments for the labor and legal oppression of slaves and their descendants", "cKtbYZqF-KM-00005-00007793-00008736": "Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders would put resources such as \"Medicare-for-all\" and tuition-free college into distressed communities", "cKtbYZqF-KM-00006-00008736-00009731": "Castro balked at this and said he doesn't think that's the proper argument for reparations if \"a big check needs to be written for a whole bunch of other stuff", "cKtbYZqF-KM-00007-00009731-00010444": "\".Later Sunday, Castro was joining Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and former Colorado Gov", "cKtbYZqF-KM-00008-00010444-00011324": "John Hickenlooper at the South by Southwest Festival for appearances before their party's ascendant young and liberal wing", "cKtbYZqF-KM-00009-00011324-00012077": "The festival has grown from obscure roots into a weeklong juggernaut of tech, politics and entertainment", "cKtbYZqF-KM-00010-00012077-00012983": "Inslee told CNN that while in office, \"I have been very, very committed to making this a more just and open and tolerant society", "cKtbYZqF-KM-00011-00012983-00013780": "And that's one of the reasons Washington is so successful.\".Sanders was in New Hampshire, while Sens", "cKtbYZqF-KM-00012-00013780-00014686": "Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts was in Dallas, Kamala Harris of California was in Miami and Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota was in Tampa"}}, {"audio_id": "cpYlyLzFXSo", "text": {"cpYlyLzFXSo-00000-00000571-00001318": "Felix Sater is a convicted Russian mafia money launderer, and he is also a dear friend of the Trump family", "cpYlyLzFXSo-00001-00001318-00002303": "The Trump Organization and Sater partnered together on many deals over the years, but most notably the shady Trump Soho real estate project", "cpYlyLzFXSo-00002-00002303-00003784": "In an unexpected twist during that deal, Sater became a government informant.Sater’s name has come up several times in the Trump-Russia investigation, but no one has figured out his exact role in the criminal activity, until now", "cpYlyLzFXSo-00003-00003784-00004664": "The House Intel Committee Chairman Adam Schiff announced that Felix Sater will testify publicly on March 14th in front of the committee", "cpYlyLzFXSo-00004-00004664-00005636": "This is big development.Sater’s testimony will be public and share an inside look into the relationship he has with the Trump family", "cpYlyLzFXSo-00005-00005636-00006310": "As a government informant he will have to tell the truth out of fear of harming himself in the process", "cpYlyLzFXSo-00006-00006310-00007020": "Trump likes to say he has no idea who Sater is, but we can fully expect Sater to prove otherwise", "cpYlyLzFXSo-00007-00007020-00008120": "“If he [Sater] were sitting in the room right now, I really wouldn’t know what he looked like,” Trump testified in a video deposition for a civil lawsuit two years ago", "cpYlyLzFXSo-00008-00008120-00009530": "Scott Dworkin, Senior Advisor with the Democratic Coalition, discovered a Russian language interview with Felix Sater, which was published in November, 2016, that explains the relationship between Trump and Sater", "cpYlyLzFXSo-00009-00009530-00010228": "Donald Trump claims he doesn’t know the guy, but as you are about to learn, that is not true", "cpYlyLzFXSo-00010-00010228-00010917": "In fact, Sater was actively involved in Trump’s presidential campaign, according to Sater", "cpYlyLzFXSo-00011-00010917-00011996": "In the snob.ru interview, Sater tells the story of meeting Donald Trump and his ten years of regular contact with him — sometimes as much as twice a day", "cpYlyLzFXSo-00012-00011996-00013710": "The interview also reveals that Sater “openly moonlighted in the Trump Organization as US secret agent for the FBI and CIA, after he was convicted racketeering with the New York mafia in 1998 — which took a Supreme Court ruling to reveal”, Stern reports", "cpYlyLzFXSo-00013-00013710-00014386": "However, Trump claims he wouldn’t know the guy “if he were sitting in the room right now”", "cpYlyLzFXSo-00014-00014386-00014731": "Oh, Really, Trump?"}}, {"audio_id": "d1t2SAwht18", "text": {"d1t2SAwht18-00000-00000571-00001117": "The Matt Whitaker perjury case takes an even stranger turn", "d1t2SAwht18-00001-00001117-00002342": "On Thursday, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler publicly informed Matt Whitaker that the committee had found proof that Whitaker had lied about his communications with Donald Trump", "d1t2SAwht18-00002-00002342-00003530": "Nadler demanded that Whitaker come back and tell the truth. The clear implication: we have you nailed on felony perjury, and you can sell Trump out, or you can go to prison", "d1t2SAwht18-00003-00003530-00004755": "Tellingly, the next day, the Donald Trump regime announced that Whitaker – whose time as Acting Attorney General was ending – had been given a pointless new job at the Department of Justice", "d1t2SAwht18-00004-00004755-00005536": "Trump was clearly attempting to keep Whitaker in the fold, and prevent him from cutting any sort of plea deal", "d1t2SAwht18-00005-00005536-00006432": "But just because Whitaker (apparently) accepted the job, it doesn’t mean he’s still playing for Team Trump at his own expense", "d1t2SAwht18-00006-00006432-00007375": "By now we would have expected Matt Whitaker to publicly respond to the House Judiciary Committee, if only to tell them to buzz off", "d1t2SAwht18-00007-00007375-00008650": "Yet Whitaker has publicly said nothing. It’s been four days, so one would think that if Whitaker were simply ignoring the committee’s demand letter, we’d have seen Nadler making even more noise about it", "d1t2SAwht18-00008-00008650-00009504": "Yet Nadler has also been silent. So what’s going on here?It’s possible Matt Whitaker has responded to the committee privately", "d1t2SAwht18-00009-00009504-00010560": "If so, that would suggest he’s looking to cooperate and maybe save his own butt, and he’s doing it privately because he doesn’t want Donald trump to find out", "d1t2SAwht18-00010-00010560-00011615": "It’s also possible Whitaker is indeed ignoring the letter, and Nadler is silently preparing to drop the legal hammer on him instead of merely responding with words", "d1t2SAwht18-00011-00011615-00012756": "We don’t know what’s going on here, and that’s the odd part. Considering what’s at stake here – Whitaker could end up arrested over this – the eerie silence is speaking rather loudly"}}, {"audio_id": "d2bPKXbjFdA", "text": {"d2bPKXbjFdA-00000-00000571-00001668": "The Trump honeymoon is coming to an end. I know what you’re thinking: “Trump honeymoon? On good days it’s been a fever dream, on most days it’s been a lucid nightmare", "d2bPKXbjFdA-00001-00001668-00002621": "” You’re right. But for some of his supporters, one part of his presidency has been enough to keep times sweet — the economy", "d2bPKXbjFdA-00002-00002621-00003426": "Thanks to the policies of the Obama administration, Donald Trump lolloped into the helm of a country with a booming economy", "d2bPKXbjFdA-00003-00003426-00004238": "Naturally, it was and continues to be his instinct to backpedal from anything Obama did, regardless of the consequences", "d2bPKXbjFdA-00004-00004238-00005259": "The economic consequences of Trump’s radical deregulatory policies, erratic governing, and trade war have predictably stymied growth", "d2bPKXbjFdA-00005-00005259-00006286": "The markets have stagnated and our trade deficit is eye watering, but because the economy remains relatively good, many people continue supporting Trump", "d2bPKXbjFdA-00006-00006286-00007098": "This support is the Trump honeymoon.It’s for people who think “I don’t agree with everything he does, but I like some stuff", "d2bPKXbjFdA-00007-00007098-00007725": "” That “stuff” always includes the economy, and it’s often their biggest defense of him", "d2bPKXbjFdA-00008-00007725-00008546": "The fact that people give Trump contingent support based on the US’s economic performance isn’t something new", "d2bPKXbjFdA-00009-00008546-00009434": "Presidents tend to lose favorability when the economy is bad and tend to gain favorability when the economy is good", "d2bPKXbjFdA-00010-00009434-00010290": "The bad news for Trump, and all of us, is that this mediocre economic performance might be the best it’ll get for him", "d2bPKXbjFdA-00011-00010290-00011897": "There is a silver lining, I promise.The United Kingdom is our closest overseas ally and they’re presently dithering towards an uncertain Brexit future with a high potential for global economic repercussions should they fail to properly leave the European Union", "d2bPKXbjFdA-00012-00011897-00013075": "This should keep Trump up at night.Britain requested an extension from the EU today because, with less than two weeks from a hard Brexit, Parliament has yet to approve any leave strategy", "d2bPKXbjFdA-00013-00013075-00013864": "If approved, it’ll buy them some time, perhaps enough to hold a second referendum, however unlikely that is", "d2bPKXbjFdA-00014-00013864-00014512": "The most likely situation is that Britain’s exit is rough, even with a Brexit deal", "d2bPKXbjFdA-00015-00014512-00015938": "The Bank of England actually issued a warning saying that a worst-case-scenario Brexit would be worse than a global financial crisis for Britain, and the chain reactions of this for the US would mean an economic punch in the gut"}}, {"audio_id": "d4xP17sia0M", "text": {"d4xP17sia0M-00000-00000571-00001665": "The second summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un ended in failure on Thursday with the two sides far apart on the central issues of disarmament and sanctions relief", "d4xP17sia0M-00001-00001665-00003139": "The abrupt end to the Hanoi meeting, which was cut short by several hours, was a setback from both leaders who had made long journeys – Kim by rail and Trump by air – in the expectation that a deal was within reach", "d4xP17sia0M-00002-00003139-00003982": "There are no plans for a third summit, but the US has expressed willingness to continue talks at a lower level", "d4xP17sia0M-00003-00003982-00005288": "The collapse of the two leaders’ talks came suddenly. Late on Wednesday night the White House circulated detailed plans for negotiating sessions, a working lunch and a signing ceremony for a joint agreement", "d4xP17sia0M-00004-00005288-00006218": "When the two leaders reconvened on Thursday morning, however, they appeared sombre and cautious about whether a deal was possible", "d4xP17sia0M-00005-00006218-00007112": "A few hours later, the summit was called off. The signing ceremony was cancelled and the official lunch left uneaten", "d4xP17sia0M-00006-00007112-00008209": "Table settings and name cards went unused in the empty dining hall of the Metropole Hotel, the summit venue, as the leaders made their way back to their own hotels", "d4xP17sia0M-00007-00008209-00009857": "In his version of events, Trump said the deal broke down because Kim wanted complete sanctions relief for dismantling the main nuclear complex at Yongbyon, but the US wanted other nuclear facilities, including covert sites, disabled as well", "d4xP17sia0M-00008-00009857-00010452": "“It was about the sanctions basically,” Trump said at a press conference in Hanoi", "d4xP17sia0M-00009-00010452-00011442": "“They wanted the sanctions lifted in their entirety and we couldn’t do that . Sometimes you have to walk, and this was just one of those times''", "d4xP17sia0M-00010-00011442-00012378": "“There is a gap. We have to have sanctions,” he said. “There is a gap. We have to have sanctions and he wants to denuke", "d4xP17sia0M-00011-00012378-00013072": "But he wants to just do areas that are less important than the areas that we want''"}}, {"audio_id": "dq1vh3e54kk", "text": {"dq1vh3e54kk-00000-00000571-00001631": "On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” President Trump said he does have plans to release the FISA applications related to the Russia probe", "dq1vh3e54kk-00001-00001631-00003097": "Host Sean Hannity asked, “Do you have plans to release those FISA applications, Gang of Eight information, the 302s of Bruce Ohr and others, and the five buckets that John Solomon and Sara Carter — as they call them?”", "dq1vh3e54kk-00002-00003097-00003930": "Trump responded, “I do. I have plans to declassify and release. I have plans to absolutely release", "dq1vh3e54kk-00003-00003930-00004565": "”.He later added, “[A]t the right time, we will be absolutely releasing.”"}}, {"audio_id": "drGLUmLMVIE", "text": {"drGLUmLMVIE-00000-00000571-00001919": "President Donald Trump mocked Never Trumpers in an exclusive, more-than-40-minute interview with Breitbart News in the Oval Office on Monday afternoon, calling them a nearly dead, “amazing breed” of political figures", "drGLUmLMVIE-00001-00001919-00002862": "Trump added, however, the ones who are left are still “slightly dangerous.”.“The Never Trumpers, that’s an amazing breed", "drGLUmLMVIE-00002-00002862-00004016": "First of all, they’re on mouth-to-mouth resuscitation now,” Trump said in response to a question from Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alexander Marlow on his thoughts on Never Trumpers", "drGLUmLMVIE-00003-00004016-00006352": "“There aren’t many of them left. But they’re still slightly dangerous''.Trump’s comments on Never Trumpers in the Breitbart News exclusive interview went further than a line he first rolled out in his speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) hosted by the American Conservative Union (ACU) a little over a week ago, where the president spoke for a record two-plus hours", "drGLUmLMVIE-00004-00006352-00007535": "“Everyone in this great country, right now, because of our great new economy, is doing well — except, of course, for the Never Trumpers,” Trump said in the CPAC speech", "drGLUmLMVIE-00005-00007535-00008337": "“But they are on mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. Mouth to mouth. Mouth to mouth. They’re hanging in", "drGLUmLMVIE-00006-00008337-00009073": "A couple of them. I mean, these guys have gotten me wrong. Not only Never Trumpers", "drGLUmLMVIE-00007-00009073-00011098": "You have Never Trumpers; you have certain hardline. They’re basically dishonest people — because, look, let’s face it: Whether you like me or not — if my name is Smith instead of Trump, and if you told him I put in over 100 federal judges — it’ll soon be 145 federal judges and two Supreme Court judges", "drGLUmLMVIE-00008-00011098-00013459": "(Applause.) And 17 appellate division judges''.In his Breitbart News exclusive interview, Trump then pointed to Erick Erickson, the founder of the now-defunct Red State who was a leading Never Trumper in 2016 but has, as of February 2019, endorsed Trump for re-election in 2020, as an example of the Never Trump movement losing credibility", "drGLUmLMVIE-00009-00013459-00014614": "Trump said in addition to Erickson’s public endorsement of him, he called the White House and pledged his complete support to the president—a sea change reversal from 2016", "drGLUmLMVIE-00010-00014614-00015507": "Trump said he hopes that this continues and other Never Trumpers recognize the error of their ways and endorse him in 2020", "drGLUmLMVIE-00011-00015507-00016450": ".“But if you take a look at the Never Trumpers—Erick Erickson was great, a couple weeks ago he called up and he said ‘I’m all in,’” Trump said", "drGLUmLMVIE-00012-00016450-00018879": "“And they should all say that because think of what I’ve done. If my name was William Smith instead of Donald Trump—we will have 145 judges very shortly, 145 I’ll be up to, we’re over a hundred now, but very shortly we’ll be up to 145 judges including federal courts of appeals and two Supreme Court Justices who are central casting great everything", "drGLUmLMVIE-00013-00018879-00020418": "With the tax cuts, the regulation cuts, all of what I’ve done for the vets, what I’ve done for the military—we’re rebuilding the military—that budget is not about wars, that budget is about buying equipment and missiles and all the different things that we’re doing", "drGLUmLMVIE-00014-00020418-00021251": "Any one of those guys, you put a different name on, and they’d say this is the greatest president in history including Ronald Reagan''"}}, {"audio_id": "dF0kb0IQ3du", "text": {"dF0kb0IQ3du-00000-00000571-00001887": "You probably haven’t heard the name Thom Tillis all that often. The junior Senator from North Carolina made headlines last week when he said he would vote for legislation to block Trump’s national emergency", "dF0kb0IQ3du-00001-00001887-00003167": "Though he hails from a purple state that Donald Trump only won by four points in 2016, he has been a staunch Trumper over the past two years, so he’s not of the same category as Sen", "dF0kb0IQ3du-00002-00003167-00004089": "Susan Collins of Maine who has to show she can flip flop on Trump when it suits her, if she wants to appeal to any voters back home", "dF0kb0IQ3du-00003-00004089-00005027": "However, Tillis hasn’t gotten a great reception at home for his decision, which he defends as entrusting too much power to the executive branch", "dF0kb0IQ3du-00004-00005027-00005787": "North Carolina Republican activists have called for a primary challenger to replace him in 2020", "dF0kb0IQ3du-00005-00005787-00007741": "So far, no Republicans have shown any interest – not necessarily because they agree with Tillis, but possibly because incumbents are difficult to primary, and they don’t know what the political battleground will look like in a year, particularly after Republicans lost their supermajority in the state legislature in 2018", "dF0kb0IQ3du-00006-00007741-00008679": "This is noteworthy because while the vote to revoke the national emergency is set for next week, it is expected to pass in the Senate", "dF0kb0IQ3du-00007-00008679-00010243": "The only question now is how many Republicans will join and vote with the Democrats Sen Rand Paul, who has a reputation for being a Trump sycophant, has come out against it and predicts that as many as ten Republican Senators could vote against it", "dF0kb0IQ3du-00008-00010243-00012035": "We know that at least seven of them are holding out for sure. The other notorious Trump sycophant in the Senate, Lindsey Graham, has cautioned fellow senators from voting against it, saying that Donald Trump will back their primary challengers – but few, if any of them, are listening", "dF0kb0IQ3du-00009-00012035-00013341": "The GOP Congress fell lockstep behind Donald Trump rather quickly – seeing that if nothing else, he’d autograph whatever unpopular legislation they wanted to pass and nominate conservative federal judges", "dF0kb0IQ3du-00010-00013341-00013866": "Now, the honeymoon seems to be ending, as the party unravels"}}, {"audio_id": "dSbLEggQyDY", "text": {"dSbLEggQyDY-00000-00000571-00001773": "Trump expressed the agreement between his administration and the mindset of CPAC attendees by saying, “We believe strongly in the Second Amendment and the right to keep and bear arms''", "dSbLEggQyDY-00001-00001773-00002777": "He then contrasted the pro-gun view with that of the Democrats’ view by warning CPAC attendees that the Second Amendment was “under siege", "dSbLEggQyDY-00002-00002777-00003780": "” He noted that the Democrats “have a lot of plans,” but he assured the CPAC attendees that he would stand in the gap for the Second Amendment", "dSbLEggQyDY-00003-00003780-00004783": "He said, “I will protect you, because it all has to come through my office, and we hopefully are going to be here for six more years, so you’re in good shape''", "dSbLEggQyDY-00004-00004783-00006286": "House Democrats passed legislation Wednesday to criminalize private gun sales. That was two days after the White House had taken the preemptive measure of making it known that Trump would veto the bill, should it reach his desk"}}, {"audio_id": "dWQhX1-dLbA", "text": {"dWQhX1-dLbA-00000-00000571-00001506": "President Donald Trump met with four World War II veterans at the White House on Thursday, introducing them to the press at the Oval Office", "dWQhX1-dLbA-00001-00001506-00002381": "“That was a great victory, we knew how to win wars, that was a tremendous victory,” Trump said after visiting with the four men", "dWQhX1-dLbA-00002-00002381-00003491": ".Sidney Walton, a former medic in World War II, was traveling the country to raise awareness of the disappearing veterans as a member of the “No Regrets” tour across America", "dWQhX1-dLbA-00003-00003491-00004259": "Walton asked Trump to let him join the president onstage in an upcoming rally the next time he was in Pittsburg", "dWQhX1-dLbA-00004-00004259-00004998": "“That’s why he’s successful, he’s very aggressive,” Trump quipped to the press and agreed to arrange it", "dWQhX1-dLbA-00005-00004998-00005787": "“I want to be like you one day,” Trump said, noting the veterans’ advanced age and praising their “great genes", "dWQhX1-dLbA-00006-00005787-00006505": "”.Veteran Paul Kriner was 103-years-old.“He doesn’t look a day over 90,” Trump joked", "dWQhX1-dLbA-00007-00006505-00007433": "Kriner recalled that his team was in 517 days of combat during the war.“We’re proud of him, we’re proud of all of you,” Trump said", "dWQhX1-dLbA-00008-00007433-00008363": ".Floyd Wigfield said that he was on Utah Beach in the war in June 1944 as part of the third wave of soldiers", "dWQhX1-dLbA-00009-00008363-00009457": "“That was a pretty brutal area at the time, wasn’t it?” Trump said.Wigfield said he was on the battlefield for 19 days before he was wounded", "dWQhX1-dLbA-00010-00009457-00010447": "Later, he was redeployed back to Germany.Trump said he would attend the 75th-anniversary recognition of D-Day this summer in France", "dWQhX1-dLbA-00011-00010447-00011236": "One of the organizers told Trump that Wigfield wanted to fly back from the event in France with the president", "dWQhX1-dLbA-00012-00011236-00012296": ".“We’ll work that out. You’ll like Air Force One,” he said with a grin.Walton has been touring the nation to raise awareness that World War II Veterans", "dWQhX1-dLbA-00013-00012296-00013106": "“I joined the Army to fight Hitler,” veteran Allen Jones said, saying that it was a great day in his life to meet the president", "dWQhX1-dLbA-00014-00013106-00014049": "“That was a good reason,” Trump replied.One of the organizers gave the president a hat and asked him to share a photo on Twitter", "dWQhX1-dLbA-00015-00014049-00014420": "“I don’t tweet too much,” he joked"}}, {"audio_id": "dXzqxqOYrcg", "text": {"dXzqxqOYrcg-00000-00000513-00002017": "Former Vice President Joe Biden’s advisers are reportedly asking him to consider pledging to just serve one term in office if he wins his party’s nomination and faces off against President Donald Trump in the general election", "dXzqxqOYrcg-00001-00002017-00003438": "According to a Thursday New York Times report, Biden’s advisers are discussing “a possible pledge to serve only one term” and framing Biden’s 2020 campaign “as a one-time rescue mission for a beleaguered country.\"", "dXzqxqOYrcg-00002-00003438-00004901": "Biden is reportedly “uneasy with the prospect of pledging up front not to seek re-election,” though, “believing that it would make him a lame-duck president before he even takes office and cripple his ability to get anything done.\"", "dXzqxqOYrcg-00003-00004901-00006048": "His advisers are reportedly also asking him to consider announcing failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams as his running mate when he announces his candidacy", "dXzqxqOYrcg-00004-00006048-00007299": "But the Times notes that, by doing so, “Biden could appear presumptuous — even imperious — by choosing a running mate before the electorate has the chance to sift the field of candidates.\"", "dXzqxqOYrcg-00005-00007299-00007913": "A one-term pledge would highlight the fact that Biden would turn 80 in the White House", "dXzqxqOYrcg-00006-00007913-00009151": "But in a poll of millennials organized by Chicago’s GenForward survey project that was released this week, Biden actually led “in all surveyed voting blocks–except for millennial Latinos.\"", "dXzqxqOYrcg-00007-00009151-00010235": "The poll found Biden, with 21 percent support among millennial voters, three percentage points ahead of Sen.Bernie Sanders (I-VT)", "dXzqxqOYrcg-00008-00010235-00012774": "Biden, who can be tedious on the stump with his long-winded and never-ending speeches, also led among young minority voters who were not born while Biden was calling school busing “racist” in the 1970s and do not remember the criticism he got from left-wing activists for not having Anita Hill’s back as much as they had hoped he would during the Clarence Thomas Supreme Court confirmation hearings in 1991", "dXzqxqOYrcg-00009-00012774-00014637": "In the poll of millennials, Biden received “29 percent of Asian American millennials, 28 percent of African American millennials and 19 percent of millennial whites,” while Sanders led among young Latinos between the ages of 18-34 with 26 percent support", "dXzqxqOYrcg-00010-00014637-00015658": ".In addition, as Gallup has noted, Biden has established himself as the clear national frontrunner and would enter the race at the head of the pack", "dXzqxqOYrcg-00011-00015658-00016525": "Biden led the most recent CNN/Des Moines Register Iowa poll in addition to the most recent Monmouth national poll", "dXzqxqOYrcg-00012-00016525-00018466": "Announcing Abrams as his running mate would also pose risks to Biden and Abrams. It would remind black voters of Biden’s questionable record on social justice issues, his support for the infamous Crime Bill, and treatment of Hill when he chaired the Senate Judiciary Committee during Thomas’s confirmation hearings", "dXzqxqOYrcg-00013-00018466-00019822": "In addition, it would also force Abrams, one of the party’s brightest rising stars, to defend someone who held positions and beliefs that went against everything Abrams has been fighting against as an activist", "dXzqxqOYrcg-00014-00019822-00021136": "If Biden enters the race, he will be asked about a 1975 interview that the Washington Post recently unearthed in which Biden told the paper that he thought school busing policies were “racist”", "dXzqxqOYrcg-00015-00021136-00022272": "“The new integration plans being offered are really just quota systems to assure a certain number of blacks, Chicanos, or whatever in each school", "dXzqxqOYrcg-00016-00022272-00023050": "That, to me, is the most racist concept you can come up with,” Biden said in that interview", "dXzqxqOYrcg-00017-00023050-00024335": "“What it says is, ‘In order for your child with curly black hair, brown eyes, and dark skin to be able to learn anything, he needs to sit next to my blond-haired, blue-eyed son", "dXzqxqOYrcg-00018-00024335-00025336": "’ That’s racist! Who the hell do we think we are, that the only way a black man or woman can learn is if they rub shoulders with my white child?”", "dXzqxqOYrcg-00019-00025336-00027504": ".In an election cycle in which black voters are demanding that Democrats talk about reparations for the descendants of slaves, Biden will also have to explain why he believed then that he did “not buy the concept” that “in order to even the score, we must now give the black man a heads start, or even hold the white man back, to even the race”", "dXzqxqOYrcg-00020-00027504-00028797": "“I don’t feel responsible for the sins of my father and grandfather. I feel responsible for what the situation is today, for the sins of my own generation,” Biden said in that interview", "dXzqxqOYrcg-00021-00028797-00029471": "“And I’ll be damned if I feel responsible to pay for what happened 300 years ago”", "dXzqxqOYrcg-00022-00029471-00031542": "Though Biden is reportedly “95%” sure that he will run for president, he is also reportedly “uneasy” about the “potential attacks on his son Hunter, who was a subject of Breitbart News Editor-at-Large Peter Schweizer’s blockbuster book, Secret Empires, which highlighted the ‘new corruption’ associated with the Bidens\"", "dXzqxqOYrcg-00023-00031542-00033546": "In Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends, Schweizer revealed that in 2013 “Hunter Biden’s firm signed a billion-dollar deal with a subsidiary of the Chinese government’s Bank of China just 10 days after Joe and Hunter Biden flew to China aboard Air Force Two\"", "dXzqxqOYrcg-00024-00033546-00034567": "Still, all signs indicate that Biden is likely to run for president for a third time and formally announce his candidacy in April", "dXzqxqOYrcg-00025-00034567-00035662": "Last week, MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell asked Biden: “Why wouldn’t you run Mr. Vice President?”.Biden responded: “I can’t think of any reason.”"}}, {"audio_id": "ewpMTtZK9pI", "text": {"ewpMTtZK9pI-00000-00000571-00001399": "The Trump National Golf Course in Los Angeles has often promoted the high level of charitable giving with which it has been involved", "ewpMTtZK9pI-00001-00001399-00002715": "These claims of large amounts of charity have no doubt been exaggerated. National Public Radio took it upon themselves to investigate these glorious claims and were able to prove most of them incorrect", "ewpMTtZK9pI-00002-00002715-00004753": "The NPR “Embedded” podcast team was featured on Morning Edition on October 18th.According to Tom Dreisbach of NPR, “…on their website, they claimed that they had given approximately $5 million to a variety of charitable causes, and they listed about 200 organizations that they said they had given money to", "ewpMTtZK9pI-00003-00004753-00006448": "So we examined this list that was on the website. We cross-referenced that with a publicly available document that the Trump campaign had put out where they essentially just listed out all of their donations over the years, and that included some donations from the golf club", "ewpMTtZK9pI-00004-00006448-00007206": "But when we looked at the golf club’s website, they included some organizations that weren’t on that document", "ewpMTtZK9pI-00005-00007206-00008099": "So that got us to look a little bit closer.We started contacting those organizations, emailing, making phone calls", "ewpMTtZK9pI-00006-00008099-00009277": "And what we found very quickly is that a number of them – about 17 in total – said they had received no donations at all or at least had no record of such a donation", "ewpMTtZK9pI-00007-00009277-00010442": "That included the California Department of Veterans Affairs. It included the Alisa Ann Ruch Burn Foundation, which supports children who have suffered severe burns", "ewpMTtZK9pI-00008-00010442-00011489": "And then the donations we could verify were almost entirely in-kind donations for a round of golf or a gift certificate for a Sunday brunch for two", "ewpMTtZK9pI-00009-00011489-00012336": "What we were able to account for is about $800,000 in donations – far short of that $5 million number''", "ewpMTtZK9pI-00010-00012336-00013678": "I don’t know how much more Trump’s administration can take. Every day it seems as though we get clarification on yet another piece of murky information – and it is never a clarification for the good of the President", "ewpMTtZK9pI-00011-00013678-00014629": "Trump has gotten down and laid among the dogs of politics and society. Now he is suffering the repercussions of such actions", "ewpMTtZK9pI-00012-00014629-00015086": "His hand is being called and the world is watching"}}, {"audio_id": "eXEsj0bqA4g", "text": {"eXEsj0bqA4g-00000-00000571-00001665": "The second summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un ended in failure on Thursday with the two sides far apart on the central issues of disarmament and sanctions relief", "eXEsj0bqA4g-00001-00001665-00003139": "The abrupt end to the Hanoi meeting, which was cut short by several hours, was a setback from both leaders who had made long journeys – Kim by rail and Trump by air – in the expectation that a deal was within reach", "eXEsj0bqA4g-00002-00003139-00003982": "There are no plans for a third summit, but the US has expressed willingness to continue talks at a lower level", "eXEsj0bqA4g-00003-00003982-00005288": "The collapse of the two leaders’ talks came suddenly. Late on Wednesday night the White House circulated detailed plans for negotiating sessions, a working lunch and a signing ceremony for a joint agreement", "eXEsj0bqA4g-00004-00005288-00006218": "When the two leaders reconvened on Thursday morning, however, they appeared sombre and cautious about whether a deal was possible", "eXEsj0bqA4g-00005-00006218-00007112": "A few hours later, the summit was called off. The signing ceremony was cancelled and the official lunch left uneaten", "eXEsj0bqA4g-00006-00007112-00008209": "Table settings and name cards went unused in the empty dining hall of the Metropole Hotel, the summit venue, as the leaders made their way back to their own hotels", "eXEsj0bqA4g-00007-00008209-00009893": "In his version of events, Trump said the deal had broken down because Kim wanted complete sanctions relief for dismantling the main nuclear complex at Yongbyon, but the US wanted other nuclear facilities, including covert sites, disabled as well", "eXEsj0bqA4g-00008-00009893-00010489": "“It was about the sanctions basically,” Trump said at a press conference in Hanoi", "eXEsj0bqA4g-00009-00010489-00011479": "“They wanted the sanctions lifted in their entirety and we couldn’t do that . Sometimes you have to walk, and this was just one of those times''", "eXEsj0bqA4g-00010-00011479-00012414": "“There is a gap. We have to have sanctions,” he said. “There is a gap. We have to have sanctions and he wants to denuke", "eXEsj0bqA4g-00011-00012414-00013109": "But he wants to just do areas that are less important than the areas that we want''", "eXEsj0bqA4g-00012-00013109-00014757": "North Korea disputed Trump’s version of events. At abruptly scheduled midnight press conference in Hanoi, the North Korean foreign minister, Ri Yong Ho, said Pyongyang had only demanded partial sanctions relief in return for closing Yongbyon", "eXEsj0bqA4g-00013-00014757-00015789": "He said the US had wasted an opportunity that “may not come again” and Pyongyang’s position would not change even if the US seeks further talks", "eXEsj0bqA4g-00014-00015789-00017453": "Trump however made clear that the status quo will continue, with North Korea continuing to suspend nuclear and missile tests, while the US will not take part in joint military exercises with South Korea, which the US president is opposed to anyway"}}, {"audio_id": "eZ27aC6zNi0", "text": {"eZ27aC6zNi0-00000-00000571-00001459": "There’s absolutely no doubt about it, folks – if Ivanka gets implicated, then the entire Team Trump could come crashing down", "eZ27aC6zNi0-00001-00001459-00002692": "And based on the the latest call for investigations, that just might happen.More than 20 Democrats have signed a letter requesting that an FBI review of Ivanka Trump’s security clearance", "eZ27aC6zNi0-00002-00002692-00003577": "They argue that that Ivanka  may have breached regulations that require her to disclose any foreign meetings she has had", "eZ27aC6zNi0-00003-00003577-00004557": "In addition, she should disclose all meetings her husband Jared Kushner and her brother Donald Trump Jr have had with foreign representatives", "eZ27aC6zNi0-00004-00004557-00006315": "All such contacts and meetings are supposed to filed on SF-86 forms.Ms Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, were central figures in the President’s election campaign, and he insisted they take up federal jobs in the White House to allow them to continue to advise him", "eZ27aC6zNi0-00005-00006315-00008162": "Congressman Don Beyer wrote to acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, “As a member of the White House staff and close adviser to the president, Ms Trump applied for a security clearance, and, as a result, was required to disclose her own foreign contacts as well as those of her spouse and siblings''", "eZ27aC6zNi0-00006-00008162-00009031": "Beyer noted that Kushner had had to update his SF-86 multiple times to reflect over 100 phone calls or meetings", "eZ27aC6zNi0-00007-00009031-00009721": "He added, “We are concerned that Ivanka Trump may have engaged in similar deception", "eZ27aC6zNi0-00008-00009721-00010484": "For example, did she disclose her husband’s meeting with Sergei Kislyak and and Sergey Gorkov?”"}}, {"audio_id": "eivB0Pfnc1M", "text": {"eivB0Pfnc1M-00000-00000513-00002367": "Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said Friday that his panel will subpoena special counsel Robert Mueller if more details regarding his report on possible collusion between the 2016 Trump campaign and Russia is required", "eivB0Pfnc1M-00001-00002367-00003898": "“If necessary, we will call Bob Mueller or others before our committee,” Schiff told CNN host Wolf Blitzer, adding that the House Judiciary Committee could request Attorney General Bill Barr testify on the report’s findings, as well", "eivB0Pfnc1M-00002-00003898-00004836": "Mueller delivered his report to Barr on Friday and said that he could brief Congressional leaders on its findings as early as this weekend", "eivB0Pfnc1M-00003-00004836-00006325": "Schiff continued:.At the end of the day, the (Justice) department is under a statutory obligation to provide our committee with any information regarding significant intelligence activities, including counterintelligence", "eivB0Pfnc1M-00004-00006325-00007072": "And it’s hard to imagine anything more significant than what Bob Mueller has been investigating", "eivB0Pfnc1M-00005-00007072-00008268": "This began as a counterintelligence investigation by the FBI. It began as the same in our committee, and we have a right to be informed, and we will demand to be informed about it", "eivB0Pfnc1M-00006-00008268-00009028": "The California Democrat made no mention whether Mueller’s possible testimony would be public or closed-door"}}, {"audio_id": "elL_zrCflnE", "text": {"elL_zrCflnE-00000-00000513-00001586": "If Donald Trump’s puppet Attorney General William Barr had released an even halfway believable “summary” of Robert Mueller’s report, more people might be falling for it", "elL_zrCflnE-00001-00001586-00002976": "But because Barr had to release such an obviously and cartoonishly inaccurate summary, it’s taken all of minutes for the public, the media, and the politicians to begin poking mile-wide holes in Barr’s attempted coverup", "elL_zrCflnE-00002-00002976-00004303": "Senator Richard Blumenthal, who sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee, appeared on MSNBC on Sunday evening and minced no words: “This letter is elegantly but brazenly devious", "elL_zrCflnE-00003-00004303-00005220": "What [Bill] Barr has done is essentially to frame the message before the facts are available, before the substance is accessible", "elL_zrCflnE-00004-00005220-00006024": "He has in effect created headlines that will create a trap for all of us.” Blumenthal was just getting started", "elL_zrCflnE-00005-00006024-00007584": "The Senator went on to offer a plausible explanation for why Barr’s summary might be claiming that Mueller found no collusion: “The crime of obstruction is designed to prevent destruction of evidence, whether it’s witness tampering or document destruction", "elL_zrCflnE-00006-00007584-00008386": "So the finding here that there was insufficient evidence to establish collusion may be the result of that obstruction", "elL_zrCflnE-00007-00008386-00009485": "There’s also a different theory about Barr having limited his collusion claims to the Russian government itself, as opposed to Russian government representatives", "elL_zrCflnE-00008-00009485-00010927": "Senator Blumenthal also seemed to hint that the Democrats could subpoena Trump to testify: “One question I have, which really hasn’t been explored, is why the Special Counsel did not force an interview with Donald Trump", "elL_zrCflnE-00009-00010927-00012555": "You mentioned earlier that there have been thousands of subpoenas. Why not a subpoena for Donald Trump? I have great respect for Bob Mueller, but I said from the very start that Trump has to be interviewed under oath, just as other presidents have been before", "elL_zrCflnE-00010-00012555-00013281": "” The Senate Judiciary Committee won’t do that, but the House Judiciary Committee certainly can"}}, {"audio_id": "f0gG2dh4Ha8", "text": {"f0gG2dh4Ha8-00000-00000571-00001749": "lawyer for President Trump said in a letter to the Treasury Department Friday that House Democrats’ demand for the president’s tax returns is illegal and would set a dangerous precedent", "f0gG2dh4Ha8-00001-00001749-00003575": "The letter came in response to the request Wednesday from Rep. Richard Neal (D-MA), the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, that the IRS hand over six years of the president’s personal and business tax returns, as well as files related to any administrative reviews or audits of those returns", "f0gG2dh4Ha8-00002-00003575-00004829": "Neal said he was authorized to obtain the return by a provision of the tax code that requires the IRS to deliver an individual’s tax returns at the request of the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee", "f0gG2dh4Ha8-00003-00004829-00006391": "William Consovoy, a lawyer representing the president in the dispute over his tax returns, wrote to Treasury Department General Counsel Brent McIntosh to argue that Neal’s request was not legal because it stemmed from an illicit purpose", "f0gG2dh4Ha8-00004-00006391-00007480": "“His request is a transparent effort by one political party to harass an official from the other party because they dislike his politics and speech,” Consovoy wrote", "f0gG2dh4Ha8-00005-00007480-00008679": "Consovoy also pointed out that the same section of the law that allows the chairman to request individual tax returns also allows the president to request tax returns", "f0gG2dh4Ha8-00006-00008679-00009486": "“If the IRS acquiesces to Chairman Neal’s request, it would set a dangerous precedent,” Consovoy wrote", "f0gG2dh4Ha8-00007-00009486-00010270": "“Once this Pandora’s box is opened, the ensuing tit-for-tat will do lasting damage to our nation", "f0gG2dh4Ha8-00008-00010270-00011038": "”. .Consovoy went on to point out that most members of Congress do not release their tax returns:", "f0gG2dh4Ha8-00009-00011038-00012101": "“The potential abuses would not be limited to Congress, as the President has even greater authority than Congress to obtain individuals’ tax returns", "f0gG2dh4Ha8-00010-00012101-00012939": "Congressional Democrats would surely balk if the shoe was on the other foot and the President was requesting their tax returns", "f0gG2dh4Ha8-00011-00012939-00014360": "After all, nearly 90% of them have insisted on keeping their tax returns private, including Speaker Pelosi, Senator Schumer, Representative Nadler, Representative Schiff, and Representative Neal himself", "f0gG2dh4Ha8-00012-00014360-00015133": "“.Trump has said he will not release his tax returns as long as he continues to be audited by the IRS", "f0gG2dh4Ha8-00013-00015133-00016411": "In 2016, during the transition, Trump’s lawyers said that while earlier tax audits had been completed, the IRS was still auditing tax years 2009 and beyond", "f0gG2dh4Ha8-00014-00016411-00017380": ".Consovoy argued in the letter that the ongoing audits provide another reason the IRS should not release the president’s tax returns to Neal", "f0gG2dh4Ha8-00015-00017380-00018618": "“IRS examinations are trial-like adjudications, and basic principles of due process require adjudications to be insulated from congressional interference,” Consovoy wrote", "f0gG2dh4Ha8-00016-00018618-00019608": "Neal has framed his request as part of Congress’s oversight function, saying the committee wants to examine how the IRS audits presidents", "f0gG2dh4Ha8-00017-00019608-00020786": "Consovoy, pointing out that Neal has not requested information about audits for any other president other than Trump, described this as a phony pretext in a partisan political fight", "f0gG2dh4Ha8-00018-00020786-00023127": "“If Chairman Neal genuinely wants to review how the IRS audits Presidents, why is he seeking tax returns and return information covering the four years before President Trump took office? Why is he not requesting information about the audits of previous Presidents? And why can he not simply ask the IRS to explain its policy?” Consovoy wrote", "f0gG2dh4Ha8-00019-00023127-00023944": "“The answer, of course, is that Chairman Neal’s request is not about Page 3 of 4 examining IRS policy", "f0gG2dh4Ha8-00020-00023944-00024443": "It is about scoring political points against President Trump.”"}}, {"audio_id": "f7B227EXW50", "text": {"f7B227EXW50-00000-00000571-00001798": "The Democratic House appears geared up and ready to subpoena the Mueller Report, and seeks to receive an unredacted report to be able to read what Mueller said, and not his medium, William Barr", "f7B227EXW50-00001-00001798-00002637": "“President Donald” Trump awoke this morning and turned to his favorite thing (other than McDonald’s and Hannity): Twitter", "f7B227EXW50-00002-00002637-00004095": "Trump must be nervous about the report and what it really says about him.Trump’s first tweet was: “Robert Mueller was a God-like figure to the Democrats, until he ruled No Collusion in the long awaited $30,000,000 Mueller Report", "f7B227EXW50-00003-00004095-00004907": "Now the Dems don’t even acknowledge his name, have become totally unhinged, and would like to go through the whole process again", "f7B227EXW50-00004-00004907-00005644": "It won’t happen!”.I don’t recall any god-like paeans to Mueller, but he did not rule “no collusion", "f7B227EXW50-00005-00005644-00006592": "” The Barr summary states that there was no direct collusion with the Russian government, while saying nothing about unofficial Kremlin operatives", "f7B227EXW50-00006-00006592-00007913": "In addition, it’s long been widely reported that with forfeitures, the investigation was a net gain to the government, and $30 million a relative bargain compared to some other recent investigations", "f7B227EXW50-00007-00007913-00009141": "Think of it this way – it cost less than a few trips to Mar-A-Lago.Trump then tweeted “There is no amount of testimony or document production that can satisfy Jerry Nadler or Shifty Adam Schiff", "f7B227EXW50-00008-00009141-00010105": "It is now time to focus exclusively on properly running our great Country!” I smell another t-shirt opportunity for Trump in that tweet", "f7B227EXW50-00009-00010105-00010938": "But we do agree with Trump on his last sentence, we do need to “focus exclusively on properly running our great Country", "f7B227EXW50-00010-00010938-00011576": "” Sadly, with him and his administration in the White House, that is not possible", "f7B227EXW50-00011-00011576-00013132": "Every day, news emerges about more Trump scandals and Trump incompetence. This week, already, the news has surfaced that more than two dozen individuals were granted security clearance despite recommendations to the contrary", "f7B227EXW50-00012-00013132-00013775": "Telltale Trump is sending us a message that despite his Twitter bravado, he is scared"}}, {"audio_id": "f88zK2nOOqk", "text": {"f88zK2nOOqk-00000-00000000-00000200": "Aj de raj", "f88zK2nOOqk-00001-00000200-00003277": "My new channel"}}, {"audio_id": "f93JjdxoSSu", "text": {"f93JjdxoSSu-00000-00000571-00002710": "Ilhan Omar (D-MN) said at a press conference on Wednesday at the Capitol to announce a House bill that would prevent a president from determining whether people who may pose a national security threat can enter the country that, although President Donald Trump hasn’t built a wall on the southern border, he has created an “invisible wall” to keep Muslims out of the United States", "f93JjdxoSSu-00001-00002710-00004379": "“Trump may not have gotten his border wall, but he’s created an invisible wall keeping out people around the world based solely on their religion,” Omar said at an event to gain support for the National Origin-Based Antidiscrimination for Nonimmigrants Act, or the NO BAN Act", "f93JjdxoSSu-00002-00004379-00005411": "“I have said this before and let me say it again,” Omar said. “I believe this ban will go down in history as a moral stain on our country’s history", "f93JjdxoSSu-00003-00005411-00006122": "”.Omar said Trump used the travel ban to “create a religious test for entry into the United States", "f93JjdxoSSu-00004-00006122-00007425": "”.In fact, the executive orders Trump issued, including the latest in March of 2017, only apply to six Muslim majority countries with ties to terrorism as determined by the U", "f93JjdxoSSu-00005-00007425-00008285": "S. State Department — Iran, Yemen, Somalia, Sudan, Libya, and Syria.The order states:", "f93JjdxoSSu-00006-00008285-00009306": "Executive Order 13769 did not provide a basis for discriminating for or against members of any particular religion", "f93JjdxoSSu-00007-00009306-00011098": "While that order allowed for prioritization of refugee claims from members of persecuted religious minority groups, that priority applied to refugees from every nation, including those in which Islam is a minority religion, and it applied to minority sects within a religion", "f93JjdxoSSu-00008-00011098-00012715": "That order was not motivated by animus toward any religion, but was instead intended to protect the ability of religious minorities — whoever they are and wherever they reside — to avail themselves of the USRAP in light of their particular challenges and circumstances", "f93JjdxoSSu-00009-00012715-00013558": ".The order also states that waivers can be issued for individuals from those six countries on a case by case basis"}}, {"audio_id": "f998-pwDqEu", "text": {"f998-pwDqEu-00000-00000513-00001315": "President Donald Trump just keeps spinning wildly out of control in his angry antagonism", "f998-pwDqEu-00001-00001315-00002464": "This Wednesday outside the White House, he again slammed top adviser Kellyanne Conway’s husband George, apparently fed up with his criticism of his administration", "f998-pwDqEu-00002-00002464-00003969": "In an ever-growing number of high-profile instances, George has broken with his wife and lambasted the Trump team, including most recently via suggesting that Trump has narcissistic and antisocial personality disorders", "f998-pwDqEu-00003-00003969-00005154": "That apparently deeply unnerves the president, who’s now leading the national conversation a certain direction essentially because he’s mad about what someone said about him on Twitter", "f998-pwDqEu-00004-00005154-00005935": "Asked about his latest angry tweets about George, Trump told a reporter outside the White House:", "f998-pwDqEu-00005-00005935-00006688": "‘I don’t know him. He’s a whack job — there’s no question about it, but I really don’t know him", "f998-pwDqEu-00006-00006688-00008072": "I think he’s doing a tremendous disservice to a wonderful wife. Kellyanne is a wonderful woman, and I call him Mr.  Kellyanne. The fact is that he’s doing a tremendous disservice to a wife and family’", "f998-pwDqEu-00007-00008072-00011181": "Earlier Wednesday, he’d railed against George as a “stone cold LOSER & husband from hell” who’s just mad that Trump didn’t “give him the job he so desperately wanted,” although to be clear, Conway rejected a job offer from the Trump administration for a role in the Justice Department with a publicly available letter in which he offered that early 2017 was “not the right time for me to leave the private sector and take on a new role in the federal government” as Assistant Attorney General for the DOJ’s Civil Division", "f998-pwDqEu-00008-00011181-00013148": "Trump has trotted out false claims that his opponents came begging to him for favors before in what’s ultimately support for Conway’s suggestion that he suffers from narcissistic personality disorder, which includes the symptom of being “preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power” and so on", "f998-pwDqEu-00009-00013148-00014631": "That particular attack line is often sexist in nature, with the president having used it against figures ranging from Democratic presidential candidate and New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand to cable news host Mika Brzezinski", "f998-pwDqEu-00010-00014631-00015350": "That doesn’t even cover the question of why “Mr. Kellyanne” is supposed to be some kind of insult", "f998-pwDqEu-00011-00015350-00016392": "George asserted that it’s only a zinger among the “extremely juvenile and boorish,” quipping that what he really wouldn’t want to be called is “Individual 1”", "f998-pwDqEu-00012-00016392-00018393": "Trump’s endless tirades serve as a handy distraction from the tangible issues he’s facing, including the broad illegal hush money scheme targeting women with whom he had affairs in which he’s been implicated as “Individual 1” .While Trump rages, investigations into those and related crimes continue", "f998-pwDqEu-00013-00018393-00018910": "His continued raging just keeps proving George right", "f998-pwDqEu-00014-00018910-00021169": "In recent days, he’s completely made stuff up as part of a days-long campaign against former Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who passed away last year from brain cancer, claiming him to have shared allegations about Trump/Russia collusion with the media before the election that he didn’t even get until after the election and never leaked", "f998-pwDqEu-00015-00021169-00022677": "That’s hardly all. The hate tweets have flowed freely, like many to most other weekends from the president, and while he rails on the White House lawn like an angry schoolyard bully, he somehow wants us to take him seriously"}}, {"audio_id": "fvqE6s_Co0u", "text": {"fvqE6s_Co0u-00000-00000571-00001550": "According to the latest breaking news, the FBI has been ordered to hand copies of James Comey’s memos about President Donald Trump over to U", "fvqE6s_Co0u-00001-00001550-00002368": "S. District Judge James Boasberg so that he can review them and determine whether or not to release the records to the public", "fvqE6s_Co0u-00002-00002368-00003488": "This order, of course, comes in response to a Freedom of Information Act case brought by CNN, USA Today, the conservative Judicial Watch group and others", "fvqE6s_Co0u-00003-00003488-00004996": "Back in January, CNN stated in filings that it believed the public should have access to the memos because both the former FBI director and the president that fired him have accused each other “of grave breaches of the public trust", "fvqE6s_Co0u-00004-00004996-00005803": "” The memos, CNN said in its filings, would include “contemporaneous records of disputed conversations", "fvqE6s_Co0u-00005-00005803-00007023": "”.Although the judge would not specify when he will make his decision, he ordered the FBI to hand over both “clean” and redacted versions of Comey’s memos by no later than April 1"}}, {"audio_id": "fp9Dtcg6Dyg", "text": {"fp9Dtcg6Dyg-00000-00000513-00002289": "On Monday, House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler announced that he was beginning a broad-scale investigation into Donald Trump's business and political life, the first step in a slow but purposeful attempt by congressional Democrats to build an impeachment case against the President", "fp9Dtcg6Dyg-00001-00002289-00003394": "Nadler, in an interview with ABC's \"This Week,\" was open about the strategy. \"We do not now have the evidence all sorted out and everything to do an impeachment,\" he said", "fp9Dtcg6Dyg-00002-00003394-00004050": "\"Before you impeach somebody, you have to persuade the American public that it ought to happen", "fp9Dtcg6Dyg-00003-00004050-00005544": "\".That persuasion campaign began in earnest Monday, with Nadler issuing more than six dozen letters to various Trump administration officials, business partners and campaign officials, seeking answers to a wide variety of questions", "fp9Dtcg6Dyg-00004-00005544-00007192": "The questions deal with, among other topics: potential obstruction of justice, hush money payments to two women alleging affairs with Trump, potential collusion with Russia during the 2016 campaign and violations of the Constitution's emoluments clause", "fp9Dtcg6Dyg-00005-00007192-00009488": "As Axios' Mike Allen wrote in his Monday newsletter:.\"In an investigation being coordinated among six to eight House committees, Trump will essentially be on public trial for months to come, with topics that include abuse of power, obstruction of justice, conflicts of interest (including profit from the Trump International Hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue) and money laundering", "fp9Dtcg6Dyg-00006-00009488-00010220": "\".That this \"public trial\" is being led by Nadler -- and the Judiciary Committee -- is no coincidence", "fp9Dtcg6Dyg-00007-00010220-00011050": "The impeachment process -- if it happens -- would run through that same Judiciary Committee and be overseen by Nadler", "fp9Dtcg6Dyg-00008-00011050-00012124": "This is a testing ground.It's also an acknowledgment by Democrats that impeachment is a purely political -- not legal -- process that requires persuasion", "fp9Dtcg6Dyg-00009-00012124-00013142": "This isn't about convincing a jury or a judge. This is about convincing the American people, who then, theoretically, pressure their representatives in Congress", "fp9Dtcg6Dyg-00010-00013142-00014206": "(The last time Congress impeached a president without public buy-in -- in 1998 -- the impeachment backfired badly against the Republicans who had pursued it", "fp9Dtcg6Dyg-00011-00014206-00015585": ").One person who has long grasped that a) impeachment, not indictment, is the real threat to the President and b) impeachment only happens if the court of public opinion wants it to happen is one Donald John Trump", "fp9Dtcg6Dyg-00012-00015585-00016948": "For much of the past 18 months, Trump has railed against his own Justice Department, describing the ongoing special counsel probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election as a witch hunt and a hoax", "fp9Dtcg6Dyg-00013-00016948-00017714": "He has savaged Robert Mueller and his special counsel team as \"angry\" Democrats trying to relitigate the election", "fp9Dtcg6Dyg-00014-00017714-00018539": "(Mueller is a registered Republican who ran the FBI for a decade under one Democratic and one Republican president", "fp9Dtcg6Dyg-00015-00018539-00019545": ").\"Presidential Harassment by 'crazed' Democrats at the highest level in the history of our Country,\" Trump tweeted Sunday night of the Nadler investigations", "fp9Dtcg6Dyg-00016-00019545-00020623": "\"Likewise, the most vicious and corrupt Mainstream Media that any president has ever had to endure - Yet the most successful first two years for any President", "fp9Dtcg6Dyg-00017-00020623-00021530": "We are WINNING big, the envy of the WORLD, but just think what it could be?\".Trump's PR campaign against Mueller has worked -- to an extent", "fp9Dtcg6Dyg-00018-00021530-00022248": "Mueller's approval ratings have dropped somewhat (although so, too, have Trump's) in CNN polling", "fp9Dtcg6Dyg-00019-00022248-00023876": "In a December survey, 43% approved of the job Mueller was doing while 40% disapproved -- a far tighter margin than the 48% approval/36% disapproval for Mueller from CNN polling earlier, in the fall of 2018", "fp9Dtcg6Dyg-00020-00023876-00024529": "That same poll showed some waning in the public's desire for Trump to be impeached, as well", "fp9Dtcg6Dyg-00021-00024529-00025404": "Fully 50% said they didn't think Trump should be impeached and kicked out of office while 43% favored those moves", "fp9Dtcg6Dyg-00022-00025404-00026326": "That was down from a September 2018 poll, when 47% of people supported the impeachment and removal of Trump", "fp9Dtcg6Dyg-00023-00026326-00027765": "As CNN pollster Jennifer Agiesta noted, however, that 43% number in the December poll is a higher mark than any of Trump's three most recent predecessors received when pollsters asked whether they should be impeached", "fp9Dtcg6Dyg-00024-00027765-00029466": ").Nadler, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (California) and every other Democratic leader will insist the investigations launched Monday are all about bringing accountability and oversight to the executive branch -- a role for the legislative branch laid out in the Constitution", "fp9Dtcg6Dyg-00025-00029466-00030317": "But make no mistake: This is Democrats' first major step toward the possibility of pursuing impeachment against the President", "fp9Dtcg6Dyg-00026-00030317-00031832": "Impeachment is a process -- in Congress, yes, but more so in convincing the public (and even wavering Republican elected officials) that this is not a partisan exercise but rather a necessary defense of our democratic ideals", "fp9Dtcg6Dyg-00027-00031832-00032459": "That sales effort started today. Who knows when it ends -- and if it's successful"}}, {"audio_id": "fS1PYhjGGJE", "text": {"fS1PYhjGGJE-00000-00000571-00001514": "While the politicians and the media enjoy the circus that is the Michael Cohen hearings, Trump is actually out in the world working to help America", "fS1PYhjGGJE-00001-00001514-00002493": "Look, Trump is trying to promote American interests abroad and solve a major foreign policy dilemma – what to do with North Korea", "fS1PYhjGGJE-00002-00002493-00003240": "Trump is not one to put his head in the sand and hope the problem goes away as Obama and Bush did", "fS1PYhjGGJE-00003-00003240-00004335": "Trump is a man of action – case in point, Trump just announced a great new deal between Boeing and Vietnam’s Bamboo Airlines and VietJet Aviation", "fS1PYhjGGJE-00004-00004335-00005320": "From Fortune:.Vietnam’s Bamboo Airways and VietJet Aviation JSC signed deals to buy 110 aircraft from Boeing Co", "fS1PYhjGGJE-00005-00005320-00006041": "during President Donald Trump’s visit to Hanoi for a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un", "fS1PYhjGGJE-00006-00006041-00007399": "Bamboo agreed to purchase 10 787-9 Dreamliners worth about $3 billion, while VietJet’s order is for 100 737 Max planes valued at $12", "fS1PYhjGGJE-00007-00007399-00008347": "7 billion, Boeing said Wednesday. VietJet’s 100-plane commitment was unveiled at the Farnborough air show last year", "fS1PYhjGGJE-00008-00008347-00008979": "The accords were signed in the presence of Trump and Vietnam’s President Nguyen Phu Trong", "fS1PYhjGGJE-00009-00008979-00010680": "Vietnam’s airlines are expanding their fleets as rising incomes and the region’s growing economies are spurring many to fly for the first time, boosting demand in the Asia Pacific, whose air-travel market is projected to surpass that of North America and Europe combined", "fS1PYhjGGJE-00010-00010680-00011975": "Demand in Vietnam is also expected to climb after U.S. regulators last month gave their approval to the nation’s air-safety system, making its airlines eligible to begin direct flights to the U", "fS1PYhjGGJE-00011-00011975-00014274": "S. and codeshare with American carriers.The Chicago-based planemaker had been involved in the effort to get the safety rating, which would allow state-owned Vietnam Airlines to launch nonstop flights to Los Angeles and San Francisco, and proceed with a long-planned order for either Boeing 777-8 or Airbus SE A350-1000 aircraft", "fS1PYhjGGJE-00012-00014274-00016210": "Vietnam Airlines is considering purchasing as many as 100 737 Max planes this year to replace its aging fleet of Airbus SE single-aisle jets, with the new aircraft due for delivery between 2020 and 2030, Chief Executive Officer Duong Tri Thanh said in an interview last week", "fS1PYhjGGJE-00013-00016210-00016873": "It may also buy long-range aircraft in preparation for flights to California"}}, {"audio_id": "fUeoIDYJfDE", "text": {"fUeoIDYJfDE-00000-00000571-00001691": "CNN’s Anderson Cooper recently addressed President Trump’s claim that there has been no collusion between his current staff, his former campaign staff, and Russia", "fUeoIDYJfDE-00001-00001691-00002984": "Trump made this statement to media outlets as they questioned if he would be interviewed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller as part of the investigation into possible Russian involvement in the 2016 election", "fUeoIDYJfDE-00002-00002984-00003865": "According to the statements made to media sources, Trump is unsure if he will take part in any interview requested by Mueller", "fUeoIDYJfDE-00003-00003865-00004928": "His basis for this is that there is no evidence that any collusion ever existed. In fact, Trump states that the entire investigation is a sham", "fUeoIDYJfDE-00004-00004928-00006153": "Accordingly, Trump believes that this is a ploy by Democrats to try and tarnish his presidency, his Presidential election win, and ultimately him personally – as well as his family", "fUeoIDYJfDE-00005-00006153-00006850": "Throughout the media appearance Trump continually referred back to Hillary Clinton and her campaign", "fUeoIDYJfDE-00006-00006850-00008741": "He repeatedly laid blame on Clinton for the current Russia investigation, referenced several instances from Clinton’s time as Secretary of State which he felt were inappropriate or illegal, and felt that Clinton was the driving force behind the “witch hunt” Democrats were conducting to try and invalidate the Trump presidency", "fUeoIDYJfDE-00007-00008741-00009721": "Cooper points out that Trump’s statements during the media appearance elude to the fact that he will not agree to an interview by the Mueller investigative team", "fUeoIDYJfDE-00008-00009721-00011231": "Why? According to Trump’ statements h believes, and has been advised that if no evidence of collusion can be presented then there is no reason to agree to or participate in an interview – in Trump’s mind the interview would be pointless and frivolous", "fUeoIDYJfDE-00009-00011231-00012333": "However, Cooper further points out that collusion is defined as, “secret agreement or cooperation especially for an illegal or deceitful purpose“", "fUeoIDYJfDE-00010-00012333-00013908": "Cooper then reminds his audience that several members of the Trump White House and campaign staff have been indicted and pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice charges due to lying about any involvement or contact with Russians during the 2016 campaign or after"}}, {"audio_id": "fWf7X8eGu3U", "text": {"fWf7X8eGu3U-00000-00003802-00004202": "Breathing."}}, {"audio_id": "fdyNQ8lqIiy", "text": {"fdyNQ8lqIiy-00000-00000571-00001929": "Even as Donald Trump’s behavior continues to spiral more aggressively and criminally out of control, House Democrats are moving more aggressively with the tools they have for exposing Trump and taking him down", "fdyNQ8lqIiy-00001-00001929-00002794": "To that end, House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings is subpoenaing Trump’s financial records – and he’s about to get them", "fdyNQ8lqIiy-00002-00002794-00003799": ".As Palmer Report keeps explaining, subpoenas are a very powerful tool, but they’re not magic wands that always deliver instant or automatic results", "fdyNQ8lqIiy-00003-00003799-00004831": "When the person or entity being subpoenaed doesn’t want to cooperate, it can result in a court battle where a judge ends up deciding who has to do what", "fdyNQ8lqIiy-00004-00004831-00005748": "If House Democrats want to win these rulings, they have to carry out their subpoenas in a way that’s based in strategy, not haste", "fdyNQ8lqIiy-00005-00005748-00006474": "Fortunately, when it comes to the subpoena that Cummings is sending, there will be no fight", "fdyNQ8lqIiy-00006-00006474-00007412": ". .That’s because Donald Trump’s accounting firm Mazars actually asked Cummings to issue a subpoena for Trump’s financial records", "fdyNQ8lqIiy-00007-00007412-00008284": "This allows Mazars to fully cooperate without violating any confidentiality agreements that might be in place", "fdyNQ8lqIiy-00008-00008284-00009611": "The Washington Post says that the subpoena is happening right about now, and since Mazars has already publicly staked itself to fully cooperate, we expect the records will be turned over very soon", "fdyNQ8lqIiy-00009-00009611-00011079": ".This story runs parallel to last week’s revelation that Capital One has been cooperating with House Democrats for the past month when it comes to Donald Trump’s banking records, and that Capital One has asked to be subpoenaed", "fdyNQ8lqIiy-00010-00011079-00012048": "According to House Financial Services Committee Chair Maxine Waters, Deutsche Bank has already begun giving her Trump’s banking records as well", "fdyNQ8lqIiy-00011-00012048-00013109": "These financial institutions are clearly uninterested in protecting Trump at their own expense; they just want legal cover for cooperating with House Democrats"}}, {"audio_id": "ffcssu4Wdzg", "text": {"ffcssu4Wdzg-00000-00000571-00001877": "Watch most cable or network news shows and the message is clear --  President Donald Trump is unpopular, especially compared to the dozens of fresh faces attempting to challenge him for the White House in 2020", "ffcssu4Wdzg-00001-00001877-00002788": "Some of the faces are not so fresh as three of the leading contenders -- Biden, Sanders, and Warren are septuagenarians", "ffcssu4Wdzg-00002-00002788-00003627": "Despite the exonerating Mueller report, Trump is still on the ropes, about to be impeached, a Russian agent, and so on", "ffcssu4Wdzg-00003-00003627-00004528": "Trump is also a Nazi, racist, homophobe, Islamophobe, and sexist pig. Nobody likes him", "ffcssu4Wdzg-00004-00004528-00005905": "At least that’s what CNN says.If this was truly the case, Trump should be polling in the low 30s at best, with most of the country giving him and his administration a thumbs down on performance and results", "ffcssu4Wdzg-00005-00005905-00007475": "Yet reality is far different. In the media bubble, where journalists all live in the same neighborhoods, kids attend the same schools, all go to the same parties and belong to the same tennis and fitness clubs, there are no MAGA hats to be seen", "ffcssu4Wdzg-00006-00007475-00008459": "Outside the bubble, the picture is far different, even if the smart set at MSNBC and the New York Times choose not to see it", "ffcssu4Wdzg-00007-00008459-00009938": "What do opinion polls say?.Rasmussen has the well-deserved reputation as the most accurate pollster, based on being the closest of all major polling organization in predicting the results of the 2016 presidential election", "ffcssu4Wdzg-00008-00009938-00010839": "In their daily presidential tracking poll, as of Friday April 5, President Trump had a 51 percent total approval number", "ffcssu4Wdzg-00009-00010839-00012320": "Most of this calendar year, despite the constant drumbeat of Russian collusion, his approval number has been in the mid to high 40s, ranging from a low of 43 percent to a high of 52 percent since January 1", "ffcssu4Wdzg-00010-00012320-00013950": "For comparison, President Obama, exactly eight years ago on April 5, 2011, was at 47 percent approval, with numbers ranging from the mid to high 40s, occasionally hitting 50 percent, much the same as President Trump", "ffcssu4Wdzg-00011-00013950-00014823": "At first glance, one might say both presidents were equally popular at the same points of their respective presidencies", "ffcssu4Wdzg-00012-00014823-00015465": "And both went on to be reelected for a second term. Fair enough -- but there is more", "ffcssu4Wdzg-00013-00015465-00016502": "What shapes public opinion in significant part? The media. What has the media’s role been in influencing opinion during the Obama versus Trump presidencies?", "ffcssu4Wdzg-00014-00016502-00018002": "Media coverage of President Trump has been almost exclusively negative. NewsBusters reported 90 percent negative coverage of Trump during 2018, matching similarly negative coverage in 2017", "ffcssu4Wdzg-00015-00018002-00018378": "But without effect, as they note"}}, {"audio_id": "fjtISJxG2Oc", "text": {"fjtISJxG2Oc-00000-00000513-00001777": "Meghan will take part in the panel discussion at Kings College London on 8 March, hosted by the Queen's Commonwealth Trust - an organisation that champions, funds and connects young leaders across the world", "fjtISJxG2Oc-00001-00001777-00003331": "Joing her in the talk is Annie Lennox, founder of The Circle NGO, Adwoa Aboah, founder of Gurls Talk, Julia Gillard, Chair of GIWLkings, Chrisann Jarrett, founder of Let Us Learn and Angeline Murimirwa, Executive Director of Camfed", "fjtISJxG2Oc-00002-00003331-00004611": "In front of an audience of students, the panel will dicuss some key barriers women all over the world face, including access to education, as well as ideas and solutions to unleash women's potential", "fjtISJxG2Oc-00003-00004611-00005447": "They will cover issues women face within employment, and discuss positive outcomes when equal opportunity is given", "fjtISJxG2Oc-00004-00005447-00006286": "The Duchess of Sussex is a long-standing advocate for women's rights and feminism, championing a cause close to her heart", "fjtISJxG2Oc-00005-00006286-00007155": "Meghan spoke about the need for women to have access to education in a heartfelt speech during her royal visit to Fiji last year", "fjtISJxG2Oc-00006-00007155-00008417": "Speaking to a group of college students, the Duchess said: \"Everyone should be afforded the opportunity to receive the education they want, but more importantly the education they have the right to receive", "fjtISJxG2Oc-00007-00008417-00010280": "And for women and girls in developing countries, this is vital.\"Providing them with access to education is the key to economic and social development, because when girls are given the right tools to succeed, they can create incredible futures—not only for themselves but for all of those around them", "fjtISJxG2Oc-00008-00010280-00011392": "\"And while progress has been made in many areas across the Commonwealth, there's always room to offer more opportunities to the next generation of young adults and specifically to young women", "fjtISJxG2Oc-00009-00011392-00013712": "\".Announcing two new grants to Fiji National University and the University of the South Pacific to allow them to empower femal staff, the Duchess said: \"Grants like this will ensure that women are provided with the training and skills to operate effectively in their roles, and that those with leadership potential are given the opportunity to be heard and recognized at the most senior level", "fjtISJxG2Oc-00010-00013712-00014812": "\".She added: \"When girls are given the right tools to succeed, they can create incredible futures, not only for themselves but also for those around them", "fjtISJxG2Oc-00011-00014812-00016332": "\".Meghan also explained that she paid for her own university tuition, saying: \"It was through scholarships, financial aid programmes and work-study where my earnings from a job on campus went directly towards my tuition", "fjtISJxG2Oc-00012-00016332-00016432": "\""}}, {"audio_id": "fmGvoFo8xrU", "text": {"fmGvoFo8xrU-00000-00000513-00001383": "Princess Eugenie has shared the inspiration behind her two wedding dresses as the bespoke gowns are now on display at Windsor Castle", "fmGvoFo8xrU-00001-00001383-00002576": "The Queen’s granddaughter told how she chose a low back for her wedding dress because “scars tell a story about your past on your future” and showing them is a way of “getting rid of a taboo", "fmGvoFo8xrU-00002-00002576-00003637": "” She also revealed that the blush gown she wore to the evening reception was designed to be reminiscent of Grace Kelly’s outfits in 1955 film To Catch a Thief", "fmGvoFo8xrU-00003-00003637-00004648": "Eugenie, 28, spoke for an audio guide to the special display in Windsor Castle’s Grand Reception Room, which opens on Friday, March 1", "fmGvoFo8xrU-00004-00004648-00005606": "Also on show is the Greville Emerald Kokoshnik Tiara which Eugenie was loaned by the Queen for the day and is on display for the first time", "fmGvoFo8xrU-00005-00005606-00006857": "It is accompanied by her wedding earrings and a silk replica of her bouquet. Groom Jack Brooksbank’s Saville Row morning suit is also shown, as is the Ralph & Russo dress Princess Beatrice wore", "fmGvoFo8xrU-00006-00006857-00007868": "A bridesmaid dress worn by Robbie Williams and Ayda Field’s daughter Theodora Williams and a page boy suit worn by Louis de Givenchy make up the collection", "fmGvoFo8xrU-00007-00007868-00009545": "The princess, who was married at Windsor Castle’s St George’s Chapel on October 12, 2018, deliberately chose a dress with a low back and no veil so she could show the scar down her spine from her scoliosis operation when she was 12", "fmGvoFo8xrU-00008-00009545-00010298": "She reveals in the audio guide how she has since received letters from people praising her decision", "fmGvoFo8xrU-00009-00010298-00011862": "“I had always wanted a low back, part of it was showing my scar. I believe scars tell a story about your past and your future and it’s a way of getting rid of a taboo,” says Eugenie about her ceremony dress designed by Peter Pilotto and Christopher De Vos", "fmGvoFo8xrU-00010-00011862-00012959": "“For me it’s a way of communicating with people who are going through either similar situations with scoliosis or having a scar of their own that they are trying to deal with", "fmGvoFo8xrU-00011-00012959-00013782": "”.She continues, “We started getting a lot of letters from people who were happy that I had stood up and showed my scar", "fmGvoFo8xrU-00012-00013782-00014717": "People with scoliosis, letters from girls that are going through the same thing, and I definitely was very touched by everyone’s support", "fmGvoFo8xrU-00013-00014717-00015676": "”.The princess also spoke of how “incredible” it was to borrow a tiara from the Queen, saying: “I’ve never worn a tiara before in my life", "fmGvoFo8xrU-00014-00015676-00016522": "It was the most incredible thing to wear such a piece of history that my grandmother had lent me, it was a very proud moment", "fmGvoFo8xrU-00015-00016522-00017653": "”.Eugenie chose friend Zac Posen to design the silk gown for her evening reception, describing him as “such a cool, fun, brilliant designer and friend", "fmGvoFo8xrU-00016-00017653-00018737": "”.“I wanted something reminiscent of Grace Kelly in To Catch a Thief so I showed that for reference and Zac came up with this silk that he’d found from Manchester", "fmGvoFo8xrU-00017-00018737-00019691": "Every single draping effect, every single detail, every button, it’s all painstakingly done by him and his team,” she said", "fmGvoFo8xrU-00018-00019691-00020986": "Touchingly, she also spoke of having “always looked up to Beatrice as a big sister” describing her maid of honor as looking “so beautiful on that day in this wonderful Ralph and Russo creation", "fmGvoFo8xrU-00019-00020986-00021963": "”.Exhibition senior curator Caroline de Guitar told T&C that Eugenie was involved “every step of the way” with the exhibition", "fmGvoFo8xrU-00020-00021963-00023423": "She added how wonderful it was “to hear personally from her what thought process was behind both the wedding dress and the evening dress, the involvement of the different designers and the way it’s woven very personally into the different aspects of her life", "fmGvoFo8xrU-00021-00023423-00023523": "”"}}, {"audio_id": "g8sWzLm5ZqY", "text": {"g8sWzLm5ZqY-00000-00000571-00001631": "President Donald Trump accused companies like Facebook, Twitter, and Google of colluding with Democrats to censor his supporters online to their political advantage", "g8sWzLm5ZqY-00001-00001631-00002355": "“Actually it’s incredible that I won the election because you know it was so rigged against me,” he said", "g8sWzLm5ZqY-00002-00002355-00003345": "“It wasn’t Russians. Russia collusion was a delusion. But what there is, is there was collusion between the Democrats and these tech companies''", "g8sWzLm5ZqY-00003-00003345-00004204": "The president spoke about political bias in top Silicon Valley companies in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News on Monday", "g8sWzLm5ZqY-00004-00004204-00005526": "The president said that any Republican running in 2020 would face a “tremendous disadvantage” in social media after he surprised tech companies by beating Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election", "g8sWzLm5ZqY-00005-00005526-00006356": "“It’s totally steered, which has been proven now, totally steered toward the Democrats and yet I won,” he said", "g8sWzLm5ZqY-00006-00006356-00007715": "Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow told the president he would be running against not only the Democrats and the media but also against the big tech companies during his presidential run in 2020", "g8sWzLm5ZqY-00007-00007715-00008566": "The president responded by noting Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign proposal to break up the big tech companies", "g8sWzLm5ZqY-00008-00008566-00009556": ".“Isn’t it funny? Elizabeth Warren called for their total breakup,” he said. “I do smile though, they’re so protective of her", "g8sWzLm5ZqY-00009-00009556-00010444": "”.He sympathized with critics of the big tech companies like Facebook, Google, and Twitter who wanted to regulate the companies", "g8sWzLm5ZqY-00010-00010444-00011539": "“I understand a lot of people wanting to look into it. I mean normally I’d like to say let it be free, let it all be free, but it’s not free,” Trump said", "g8sWzLm5ZqY-00011-00011539-00012767": "“It’s really run by a small number of people''.The president also referred to reports from Breitbart News exposing tech bias against conservatives in companies like Twitter, Facebook, and Google", "g8sWzLm5ZqY-00012-00012767-00013926": "“Now we’ve seen it, now we’ve caught them. We’ve seen the speeches, we’ve seen the in-house little videos that somehow got released, to me, that’s a very big scandal,” he said", "g8sWzLm5ZqY-00013-00013926-00015016": "The Big Tech Masters of the Universe have made it clear that they are dedicating themselves to not allowing a repeat of Trump’s 2016 election win", "g8sWzLm5ZqY-00014-00015016-00016027": "During an all-hands company meeting after the election, Google VP Kent Walker said that nationalism must be just a “hiccup” in the march towards “progress", "g8sWzLm5ZqY-00015-00016027-00016758": "” Google accomplishes this goal by manipulating search autocomplete results, among other techniques", "g8sWzLm5ZqY-00016-00016758-00018997": "Meanwhile, social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter are constantly innovating new ways to stifle conservative media and prominent figures, including “deboosting” posts, shadowbanning and blacklisting conservatives to stop the spread of popular ideas, and tinkering with algorithms to dampen conservative media while propping up the mainstream media", "g8sWzLm5ZqY-00017-00018997-00020034": "All while they enjoy special legal protections under federal law, and their CEOs blithely claim to Congress that their companies have no political bias", "g8sWzLm5ZqY-00018-00020034-00020707": "The president specifically criticized Twitter for blacklisting conservatives on their platform", "g8sWzLm5ZqY-00019-00020707-00021645": "“Twitter’s horrible what they’re doing to people, they’re blanking them out … What’s going on with Twitter is terrible for conservatives,” he said", "g8sWzLm5ZqY-00020-00021645-00022536": "Trump again pointed to a growing political movement around breaking up the big companies monopolizing tech and online speech", "g8sWzLm5ZqY-00021-00022536-00023338": "“A lot of people are talking about breaking them up. They’re dishonest, there’s tremendous dishonesty,” he said", "g8sWzLm5ZqY-00022-00023338-00023873": "“And it’s really all steered toward the Republicans and the conservative movement", "g8sWzLm5ZqY-00023-00023873-00025226": "It’s a hundred percent steered against''.When asked by Breitbart News reporter Charlie Spiering about how he planned to fight tech bias in the 2020 election, he replied, “You fight it by just being good", "g8sWzLm5ZqY-00024-00025226-00026099": "You got to be really good. It’s much harder for a conservative Republican to win than it is for a liberal Democrat''"}}, {"audio_id": "g9qKlTLS5Qy", "text": {"g9qKlTLS5Qy-00000-00000513-00002020": "president Donald Trump's tenure in the White House has been dogged by critics and pundits calling for impeachment from the start, and talk of removing Trump from office has only escalated since Democrats regained control of the House of Representatives", "g9qKlTLS5Qy-00001-00002020-00002871": "Yet, MSNBC host Chris Matthews says the impeachment process is behind schedule, and needs to begin now", "g9qKlTLS5Qy-00002-00002871-00004332": "During Thursday’s  episode of Hardball with Chris Matthews, Matthews said Trump had committed impeachable crimes \"in broad daylight,\" and pointed to several examples of things Trump has done that he considers worthy of being indicted by Congress:", "g9qKlTLS5Qy-00003-00004332-00005228": "Asking former FBI Director James Comey to drop his investigation into former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn;", "g9qKlTLS5Qy-00004-00005228-00006455": "Firing Comey for refusing to drop the investigation;.Firing former Attorney General Jeff Sessions for recusing himself from probes into the 2016 presidential campaign and election", "g9qKlTLS5Qy-00005-00006455-00007234": ".Matthews noted that the Democrats have the majority in the House and thereby have the power to impeach Trump", "g9qKlTLS5Qy-00006-00007234-00008007": "Now, he said, is the time to impeach, instead of waiting two more years to find a “cherry” on top", "g9qKlTLS5Qy-00007-00008007-00009013": "\"Some argue that the push for impeachment is ahead of schedule, I think a stronger argument should be made that it's way behind schedule,\" Matthews said", "g9qKlTLS5Qy-00008-00009013-00010423": ".The United States Constitution gives the House of Representatives sole power to impeach an official while the Senate has the authority to then hold impeachment trials to determine whether or not to remove someone from office", "g9qKlTLS5Qy-00009-00010423-00011656": ".While some Democratic leaders have given any indication about when, or if, they might begin the impeachment process, freshman Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib advocated for getting the process going", "g9qKlTLS5Qy-00010-00011656-00012735": "On Wednesday, she met with activists and announced that she would introduce a resolution to have the House Judiciary Committee look into grounds for impeachment", "g9qKlTLS5Qy-00011-00012735-00014245": "“If we don’t hold impeachment proceedings today, start them today and hold him accountable to following the United States Constitution, think about that, this is not going to be the last CEO that runs for president of the United States,” Tlaib said", "g9qKlTLS5Qy-00012-00014245-00015423": "“This is not going to be the last person that tries to get away with this. And what does that say about the most powerful, most important body, most important position in the world?”", "g9qKlTLS5Qy-00013-00015423-00016577": "Ahead of her announcement, Tlaib, along with freshman Representative Ilhan Omar, signed a pledge promising to impeach Trump, which was created by the advocacy group By the People", "g9qKlTLS5Qy-00014-00016577-00017220": "\"It’s my pleasure to support this pledge to impeach Donald Trump,” Tlaib said at the time", "g9qKlTLS5Qy-00015-00017220-00018490": "\"I can’t wait for us to show people, especially families in my district, that they are being put first—and that we’re going to hold everyone accountable to the law, including the president of the United States", "g9qKlTLS5Qy-00016-00018490-00019673": "\".While Trump’s impeachment garnered support from some lawmakers, a Quinnipiac Poll released on Tuesday found the majority of Americans disagree with impeaching Trump at this time", "g9qKlTLS5Qy-00017-00019673-00021185": "Fifty-nine percent of people polled said lawmakers shouldn’t begin impeachment proceedings, although, 58 percent responded Congress should further investigate Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen’s claim about the president’s “unethical and illegal behavior", "g9qKlTLS5Qy-00018-00021185-00021285": "”"}}, {"audio_id": "gt593NVEsu0", "text": {"gt593NVEsu0-00000-00000571-00002125": "US intelligence officials will no longer be required to publicly disclose the number of civilians killed in airstrikes against terrorist targets \"outside areas of active hostilities\" due to a new executive order issued by President Donald Trump on Wednesday", "gt593NVEsu0-00001-00002125-00003585": "However, given the secrecy surrounding counterterrorism strikes conducted by US intelligence agencies, it is unclear whether Wednesday's announcement will result in less transparency about how the US conducts such operations", "gt593NVEsu0-00002-00003585-00004411": "A spokesperson for the National Security Council declined to clarify when asked for more information by CNN", "gt593NVEsu0-00003-00004411-00005876": "Specifically, Trump's order lifts an Obama-era mandate for intelligence professionals to provide an \"unclassified summary of the number of strikes\" as well as \"assessments of combatant and non combatant deaths resulting from those strikes\" each year", "gt593NVEsu0-00004-00005876-00007718": "The most recent published report, which was released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence in January of 2017, said \"US government\" conducted 54 strikes outside of Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan during 2016, resulting in one civilian death", "gt593NVEsu0-00005-00007718-00008538": "A spokesperson for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence referred questions about the change to the White House", "gt593NVEsu0-00006-00008538-00010021": "The secretary of defense is legally required to provide a similar report and will continue to do so despite Wednesday's executive order as that requirement falls under congressional oversight as outlined in the National Defense Authorization Act", "gt593NVEsu0-00007-00010021-00011058": "However, that report pertains solely to US military operations in places like Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Somalia and Libya", "gt593NVEsu0-00008-00011058-00012195": "CNN has previously reported on at least one CIA strike that has taken place during the Trump administration, which occurred in Yemen, killing a senior al Qaeda bomb maker", "gt593NVEsu0-00009-00012195-00013117": "The White House said Wednesday's executive order was not an effort to decrease transparency about casualties resulting from US strikes", "gt593NVEsu0-00010-00013117-00015131": "\"The United States Government is fully committed to complying with its obligations under the law of armed conflict, minimizing, to the greatest extent possible, civilian causalities, and acknowledging responsibility when they unfortunately occur during military operations,\" a National Security Council spokesperson told CNN in a statement"}}, {"audio_id": "gEfRUg-OvRc", "text": {"gEfRUg-OvRc-00000-00000513-00002320": "Yesterday, the Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee tried to create the false appearance that almost no one in Donald Trump’s orbit was cooperating with the committee’s recent document requests, presumably in the hope of giving Trump’s associates the confidence to refuse to cooperate", "gEfRUg-OvRc-00001-00002320-00003104": "But last night it was revealed that this was false, and that plenty of people were in fact cooperating", "gEfRUg-OvRc-00002-00003104-00004682": "Now we’re getting names, including a big one.Donald Trump’s former White House Communications Director Hope Hicks is turning over Trump-related documents to the House Judiciary Committee, according to a new report this evening from CNN", "gEfRUg-OvRc-00003-00004682-00005962": "Why does this matter? First, Hicks is selling Trump out by complying with the document request, as opposed to trying to stand her ground and fight what would have been an inevitable subpoena", "gEfRUg-OvRc-00004-00005962-00007659": "But there’s more to it than that.Second, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler has already publicly made clear that this initial round of document requests is only seeking the same documents that Robert Mueller other investigators have already requested", "gEfRUg-OvRc-00005-00007659-00008840": "Hope Hicks decision to turn over documents to the committee tells us that Mueller has already asked her for the same documents, and that she’s already complied with that request", "gEfRUg-OvRc-00006-00008840-00009773": "She wouldn’t give these documents to Congress if she refused to give them to Mueller, because Congress would just give them to Mueller anyway", "gEfRUg-OvRc-00007-00009773-00010549": "So now we know that Hope Hicks has sold out Donald Trump to the House Democrats and to Robert Mueller", "gEfRUg-OvRc-00008-00010549-00011896": "She’s not the only one. Nadler confirmed earlier this week that Steve Bannon gave thousands of documents to the committee, which means he must have previously given thousands of documents to Mueller as well", "gEfRUg-OvRc-00009-00011896-00012630": "It’s starting to become clear who wants to survive this legally, and who wants to go to prison with Trump"}}, {"audio_id": "gQzjKrI4374", "text": {"gQzjKrI4374-00000-00000571-00001848": "CNN broke a story that tells a damning story of the Trump Administration making direct contact with the FBI in an attempt to squash the widely-circulating stories about Russia", "gQzjKrI4374-00001-00001848-00002937": "CNN explains, “The direct communications between the White House and the FBI were unusual because of decade-old restrictions on such contacts", "gQzjKrI4374-00002-00002937-00003886": "Such a request from the White House is a violation of procedures that limit communications with the FBI on pending investigations", "gQzjKrI4374-00003-00003886-00004617": "”.In other words, the White House contacted the FBI to speak specifically about Russia", "gQzjKrI4374-00004-00004617-00007041": "When they did this, they broke the law.The FBI response was an emphatic: NO. “The FBI rejected a recent White House request to publicly knock down media reports about communications between Donald Trump’s associates and Russians known to US intelligence during the 2016 presidential campaign, multiple US officials briefed on the matter tell CNN", "gQzjKrI4374-00005-00007041-00007913": "”.Now we get on to the part of every Trump Administration story that lets you know who lied, and what they lied about", "gQzjKrI4374-00006-00007913-00009481": "According to CNN, the FBI Deputy Director of the time, Andrew McCabe, met with Reince Priebus, Trump’s short-lived chief-of-staff, about the Russia stories at an aside during another, unrelated meeting at the White House", "gQzjKrI4374-00007-00009481-00010228": "The White House said this scenario was a lie, and posited that McCabe called Priebus that morning", "gQzjKrI4374-00008-00010228-00011053": "Later, a White House official confirmed and verified that CNN’s description of events was, in fact, accurate", "gQzjKrI4374-00009-00011053-00012803": "CNN went on to discuss the situation:.The Trump administration’s efforts to press Comey run contrary to Justice Department procedure memos issued in 2007 and 2009 that limit direct communications on pending investigations between the White House and the FBI", "gQzjKrI4374-00010-00012803-00015165": "“Initial communications between the [Justice] Department and the White House concerning pending or contemplated criminal investigations or cases will involve only the Attorney General or the Deputy Attorney General, from the side of the Department, and the Counsel to the President, the Principal Deputy Counsel to the President, the President, or the Vice President from the side of the White House,” reads the 2009 memo", "gQzjKrI4374-00011-00015165-00016113": "The memos say the communication should only happen when it is important for the President’s duties and where appropriate from a law enforcement perspective", "gQzjKrI4374-00012-00016113-00017249": "A Department of Justice spokesman said Attorney General Jeff Sessions is reviewing the memos and that “the Department is following the guidelines in its communications with the White House", "gQzjKrI4374-00013-00017249-00017349": "”"}}, {"audio_id": "gmcCoJI257U", "text": {"gmcCoJI257U-00000-00000571-00001919": "On Monday night, Donald Trump took to Twitter to boldly predict another election win in 2020, as well as a Republican overhaul in the House, and a continued Republican stronghold in the Senate", "gmcCoJI257U-00001-00001919-00003186": "However, if all of those things are actually going to happen, one thing that must be addressed is his plan (or lack thereof) to invalidate and subsequently replace the Affordable Care Act", "gmcCoJI257U-00002-00003186-00004688": "While Trump’s aim in those tweets was to suggest that Republicans are working on a plan that will be better than Obamacare, less expensive than Obamacare, will protect preexisting conditions, and more, it appears he missed the mark", "gmcCoJI257U-00003-00004688-00005952": "Based exclusively on in his March budget, Trump’s “plan” appears to be “one in which richer Americans can do just fine buying their own health care” and leaves vulnerable populations with less medical care", "gmcCoJI257U-00004-00005952-00006707": "At this point, though, no one really knows what to make of his so-called plan, and Trump realizes this", "gmcCoJI257U-00005-00006707-00007574": "As a result, he continues to buy time with his usual “trust me” routine, hoping that voters will do just that", "gmcCoJI257U-00006-00007574-00008616": "With enough trust and votes between now and the the 2020 election, and once he wins, then (and probably only then) will he reveal the plan", "gmcCoJI257U-00007-00008616-00011670": "However, I’m not so sure this strategy will actually pan out. At the going rate, it is unclear that any Republicans are even working on a legitimate plan to revise the ACA, so how is anyone to believe that they ever will? Regardless of the answer to that question, it’s certainly one the Republicans would rather not be asked as we head into the 2020 election cycle, especially considering thirty-four Senate seats will be up for grabs in 2020, and twenty-two of them are held by Republicans", "gmcCoJI257U-00008-00011670-00012587": "But I digress. If Trump and the Republicans want to bring healthcare conversations back to life, then by all means, let them", "gmcCoJI257U-00009-00012587-00013887": "However, the Democrats will need to keep those conversations going so that voters will see through the facade, particularly if they want to retain the House majority and reclaim the Senate and White House"}}, {"audio_id": "h16B9NdWsyk", "text": {"h16B9NdWsyk-00000-00000571-00002384": "Donald Trump has been president for 792 days. Special counsel Robert Mueller has been on the job -- investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election and the possibility of collusion between the Russians and members of Trump's campaign -- for 675 days", "h16B9NdWsyk-00001-00002384-00003379": "That all came to a head at 5 p.m. Eastern, when the Justice Department announced that Mueller had delivered his investigation to Attorney General William Barr", "h16B9NdWsyk-00002-00003379-00004617": "While we don't know what's in the report, we do know that this marks a major milestone: Mueller's investigation, which has occupied 85% of Trump's presidency, is now finished", "h16B9NdWsyk-00003-00004617-00005664": "We are likely to look back on Trump's presidency -- no matter what the report actually says -- as \"before Mueller report\" and \"after the Mueller report''", "h16B9NdWsyk-00004-00005664-00006654": "Barr told congressional leaders in a letter Friday that he may be able to advise them on the \"principal conclusions\" of the Mueller report \"as soon as this weekend", "h16B9NdWsyk-00005-00006654-00007629": "\".This all began on May 17, 2017, when Mueller was appointed as special counsel by deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein", "h16B9NdWsyk-00006-00007629-00008381": "In the intervening 22 months (statistics courtesy of CNN Mueller probe expert Marshall Cohen):", "h16B9NdWsyk-00007-00008381-00010557": "Mueller brought criminal charges against 37 people and entities.6 of them were associates of President Trump: Campaign chairman Paul Manafort, deputy campaign chairman Rick Gates, national security adviser Michael Flynn, foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos, Trump ex-attorney Michael Cohen and political svengali Roger Stone", "h16B9NdWsyk-00008-00010557-00011453": "5 people have been sentenced to prison.Trump has referred to the investigation as a \"witch hunt\" more than 170 times", "h16B9NdWsyk-00009-00011453-00012843": "Given the length of the Mueller probe, the number of charges it has produced and Trump's unrelenting negative attacks on Mueller and his team, it's normal to see the conclusion of the Mueller report as the beginning of the end of all of this", "h16B9NdWsyk-00010-00012843-00015220": "Except that even with Mueller's probe now shuttered, we still don't immediately know a) what he submitted of his findings to Barr b) what Barr will redact c) whether the White House will be able to see the report before Congress and/or exert executive privilege on parts of it d) when Congress will get the report and how extensive or not the report will be and e) when -- and if -- the report is made public", "h16B9NdWsyk-00011-00015220-00016863": "That leaves off the many House Democratic investigations into the Trump administration, the possibility of bringing Mueller in front of Congress to testify over the report, and the likely legal fights that will follow any redactions and executive privilege claims", "h16B9NdWsyk-00012-00016863-00017673": ".See what I mean? End of the beginning. Not the beginning of the end.Still, it is an end -- if not the end"}}, {"audio_id": "h3z5E3lR28E", "text": {"h3z5E3lR28E-00000-00000513-00001665": "Actor John Cusack speculated Wednesday that there may not be a “peaceful transition of power” in the United States under President Trump, panicking about possible “violence\"", "h3z5E3lR28E-00001-00001665-00003107": "“[The] only way it stops is through direct intervention -political & legal tracts must run concurrently but dems cannot abdicate their constitutional duties – hoping mueller will do it all,” Cusack said in a social media post", "h3z5E3lR28E-00002-00003107-00004402": "“Also believe there will not be a peaceful transition of power & we must prepare for this – when authoritarians threaten violence – take them at their word – might be the only thing he’s not lying about,” he added", "h3z5E3lR28E-00003-00004402-00005583": "Cusack routinely has social media meltdowns. Just this week, he posted a bizarre fantasy of imprisoning the president and forcing him to eat garbage", "h3z5E3lR28E-00004-00005583-00006604": "“Trump should be tied on the neck by a chain with a 2o foot leader- in a trash heap in New Jersey – & be allowed to feed only on the local vegetation", "h3z5E3lR28E-00005-00006604-00007777": "”.Last week, the Better Off Dead actor said Trump was a “pathological liar/criminal,” adding, “The only way democracy survives him – is if he rots in prison\"", "h3z5E3lR28E-00006-00007777-00008966": "The 52-year-old has also attacked the GOP in general.“It’s good for America to see how gop is complete deathkkkult,” the Hot Tub Time Machine actor said last month"}}, {"audio_id": "h56jiW4RAqo", "text": {"h56jiW4RAqo-00000-00000571-00002060": "Anyone paying attention at all realizes that President Donald Trump is not in healthy mental state, but mental health experts are now calling him a “clinical sociopath” as an explanation for his constant, never-ending barrage of lies", "h56jiW4RAqo-00001-00002060-00003138": "Reporter Kurt Eichenwald, who has known Trump for over 30 years, explained how Trump has leveraged a “mental illness” to help him lie over the years", "h56jiW4RAqo-00002-00003138-00004450": "In a series of tweets, Eichenwald recalled interacting with Trump in 1987. Trump has a pattern of lying to reporters anonymously to get favorable media coverage, Eichenwald said"}}, {"audio_id": "hrzIiaR7If4", "text": {"hrzIiaR7If4-00000-00000513-00001814": "Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., on Sunday said there are \"enormous amounts of evidence\" linking the Trump campaign to Russia — the same day House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif", "hrzIiaR7If4-00001-00001814-00002916": ", said there's \"direct evidence\" of collusion between the two.The top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee disputed on NBC's \"Meet the Press\" recent remarks by Sen", "hrzIiaR7If4-00002-00002916-00003791": "Richard Burr, R-N.C. claiming that the committee hasn't found \"factual evidence\" of collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign", "hrzIiaR7If4-00003-00003791-00004846": "Warner, referring to \"the litany of what we know,\"  said, \"the ongoing negotiations about Trump Tower, well into the campaign, I believe the fact that Mr", "hrzIiaR7If4-00004-00004846-00006090": "Trump knew about the dump of the Wikileaks material, the fact that clearly the meeting at Trump Tower meeting which was not described appropriately, in terms of offering dirt,\" were all evidence", "hrzIiaR7If4-00005-00006090-00007244": "\"To me, that's all evidence,\" he said. \"There’s no one that could factually say there’s not plenty of evidence of collaboration or communications between Trump Organization and Russians", "hrzIiaR7If4-00006-00007244-00008341": "\".Warner, however, did note that he'd be withholding full judgment until the Senate Intelligence Committee finishes its investigation into the 2016 presidential campaign", "hrzIiaR7If4-00007-00008341-00010180": "Meantime on Sunday, House Intel Chair Schiff said on CBS' \"Face the Nation\" that he believes \"there is direct evidence in the emails 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", "hrzIiaR7If4-00008-00010180-00010959": "\".“They offer that dirt. There is an acceptance of that offer in writing from the president’s son, Don Jr", "hrzIiaR7If4-00009-00010959-00011586": ", and there is overt acts and furtherance of that… That to me is direct evidence,\" Schiff added", "hrzIiaR7If4-00010-00011586-00012981": "The Senate committee's investigation is separate from that of Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who is also probing Russian election interference, questions of collusion and possible obstruction of justice by the Trump campaign"}}, {"audio_id": "hAOCBufVQQA", "text": {"hAOCBufVQQA-00000-00000571-00002431": "Just how deranged of an anti-immigrant extremist do you have to be for someone like Kirstjen Nielsen, who has been kidnapping immigrant children and locking them in cages, to decide that you’re too much of an extremist? That’s the question that Donald Trump is now facing in the wake of Nielsen’s departure", "hAOCBufVQQA-00001-00002431-00003669": "It turns out Speaker Nancy Pelosi has the answer. .Kirstjen Nielsen felt that Donald Trump has become “increasingly unhinged” about immigration, according to a CNN report", "hAOCBufVQQA-00002-00003669-00004727": "This ostensibly means that Trump is now looking to do something to immigrants that’s even more evil than stealing kids and putting them in concentration camps", "hAOCBufVQQA-00003-00004727-00005816": "Now that Nielsen is out, we can surely expect House Democrats to call on her to publicly testify about why she left, and what Trump is truly planning", "hAOCBufVQQA-00004-00005816-00006644": ".Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi quickly released a statement after news surfaced about the details of Nielsen’s exit", "hAOCBufVQQA-00005-00006644-00008123": "Pelosi said precisely what most Americans are thinking right now: “It is deeply alarming that the Trump Administration official who put children in cages is reportedly resigning because she is not extreme enough for the White House’s liking", "hAOCBufVQQA-00006-00008123-00009282": "The President’s dangerous and cruel anti-immigrant policies have only worsened the humanitarian suffering at the border and inflicted vast suffering on the families who have been torn apart", "hAOCBufVQQA-00007-00009282-00010460": "”. .Nancy Pelosi continued: “The Trump Administration’s increasingly toxic anti-immigrant policies were resoundingly rejected by the American people in the midterm election", "hAOCBufVQQA-00008-00010460-00011746": "America needs a Homeland Security Secretary who will respect the sanctity of families, honor our proud heritage as a nation of immigrants, and restore sanity to this Administration’s policies", "hAOCBufVQQA-00009-00011746-00011846": "”"}}, {"audio_id": "hHBpvuUqpVQ", "text": {"hHBpvuUqpVQ-00000-00000571-00001955": "Kobach said:.Well, if the president feels the need to tap me to serve, I’m certainly going to consider that … I’ve advised the president for years now and obviously want to help him and the administration and the country", "hHBpvuUqpVQ-00001-00001955-00002728": "[Emphasis added].As far as the czar position goes, it depends on whether its a truly effective position", "hHBpvuUqpVQ-00002-00002728-00004055": "We’ve had … Obama created a bunch of czars, Bush had a couple. Some of these czars are just little more than a White House policy position that doesn’t really have any authority to execute and do anything", "hHBpvuUqpVQ-00003-00004055-00005077": "And so the devil is in the details. If this is just a position or an adviser who has a fantasy title, then no it probably won’t solve much", "hHBpvuUqpVQ-00004-00005077-00006108": "But if the position has the weight of the president and the authority to tell various cabinet agencies what needs to be done, then actually it could be effective", "hHBpvuUqpVQ-00005-00006108-00007219": "[Emphasis added].Rumors first circulated this week that Trump is considering Kobach or former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli to be an Immigration Czar", "hHBpvuUqpVQ-00006-00007219-00008193": "As Kobach notes, though, there has yet to be a plan from the White House that gives insight as to what the position would have authority over", "hHBpvuUqpVQ-00007-00008193-00008956": ".“It’s not clear to me what plan, if any, there is to create such a position,” Kobach said", "hHBpvuUqpVQ-00008-00008956-00010889": "Insiders have told Breitbart News that the Immigration Czar role could be one of two roles: An adviser to Trump on immigration that works to coordinate policy between multiple federal agencies, or a subordinate job to sitting Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen", "hHBpvuUqpVQ-00009-00010889-00012934": "One America News‘s Ryan Girdusky told the National Interest Kobach serving as Trump’s Immigration Czar to coordinate policy between multiple federal agencies is crucial to not only quickly implementing executive actions on illegal and legal immigration, but also to drive up base support for the president in the upcoming 2020 election", "hHBpvuUqpVQ-00010-00012934-00014091": "“It’s vital that this administration brings in Kobach,” Girdusky said. “He understands the issue and Trump’s base—far more than most people in Trump’s administration", "hHBpvuUqpVQ-00011-00014091-00015617": "”. .“Kobach would actually ensure that our immigration laws are enforced, our border is secure, and signal to Trump’s base that he hasn’t abandoned us on the issue — which is vital leading up to 2020,” Girdusky said"}}, {"audio_id": "hJV-be62FZc", "text": {"hJV-be62FZc-00000-00000000-00000200": "Hi"}}, {"audio_id": "hVO6ehEzK4y", "text": {"hVO6ehEzK4y-00000-00000513-00001840": "A bipartisan group of US lawmakers said the Trump administration's response to China's alleged abuses of the largest Muslim Uyghur ethnic minority in Xinjiang was inadequate and urged it to hold Beijing to account", "hVO6ehEzK4y-00001-00001840-00003245": "\"The administration has taken no meaningful action in response to the situation in (Xinjiang),\" lawmakers wrote in a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, four months after they originally called on him to take action on this issue", "hVO6ehEzK4y-00002-00003245-00004598": "CNN has reached out to the State Department for comment.As many as two million Uyghurs are estimated to have been imprisoned in huge detention centers in China's far west, according to a US government report", "hVO6ehEzK4y-00003-00004598-00005361": "The human rights crisis in Xinjiang has drawn increasingly harsh criticism from across the world", "hVO6ehEzK4y-00004-00005361-00006194": "At a UN hearing in November, more than a dozen countries called on Beijing to end its \"arbitrary detention\" of Uyghurs", "hVO6ehEzK4y-00005-00006194-00007025": "A former detainee told CNN she witnessed abuse and torture, and lost one of her sons during her time in the camps", "hVO6ehEzK4y-00006-00007025-00008093": "Beijing has repeatedly denied it is detaining Uyghurs against their will, calling the camps \"vocational training centers\" and suggesting they are providing education", "hVO6ehEzK4y-00007-00008093-00010144": "In their letter Monday, the US lawmakers, led by House Committee on Foreign Affairs Chairman Eliot Engel, said that \"over a million Uyghurs and other Muslim ethnic minorities have been interned in 'political re-education camps' without due process as part of a broader attempt to wipe out their separate identity, language, and history", "hVO6ehEzK4y-00008-00010144-00012153": "\".\"Global responses to these abuses have been insufficient. Of particular concern are reports of US companies that may be contributing to Beijing's persecution of Uyghurs through their support or commercial ties to Hikvision and Dahua -- two Chinese tech giants that have profited from the surge of security spending in Xinjiang,\" the letter added", "hVO6ehEzK4y-00009-00012153-00013446": "It also pointed to plans by Frontier Services Group, a Hong Kong-based company that counts former Blackwater CEO Erik Prince among its investors, to build a \"training center\" in Xinjiang", "hVO6ehEzK4y-00010-00013446-00014934": "\"These examples demonstrate not just the need to increase public awareness of human rights issues in (Xinjiang), but also impose consequences on PRC officials responsible and those who enable their abuses,\" the letter said", "hVO6ehEzK4y-00011-00014934-00017829": "\"Rhetoric without action will only embolden Beijing.\".Lawmakers requested information on whether the US monitors the use of American technology in facilitating the surveillance and detention of Muslim minorities in Xinjiang, and details of \"any US companies that are allegedly providing technology transfers, sales, or security training for Chinese government officials or closely associated entities that operate in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region", "hVO6ehEzK4y-00012-00017829-00018740": "\".They also called on the Trump administration to reveal its plans, either unilaterally or with allies, for \"holding Beijing accountable", "hVO6ehEzK4y-00013-00018740-00019788": "\".The letter comes as Beijing is facing a growing global backlash over the situation in Xinjiang, as reports of alleged abuses their stack up", "hVO6ehEzK4y-00014-00019788-00020535": "Last month, Turkey -- which has a large Uyghur population -- said the detention camps were a \"great shame for humanity", "hVO6ehEzK4y-00015-00020535-00022450": "\".In a strongly-worded statement, Foreign Ministry spokesman Hami Aksoy said hundreds of thousands of prisoners were subject to \"torture and political brainwashing\" in China's camps, and called on the UN and the international community \"to take effective measures in order to bring to an end this human tragedy in Xinjiang", "hVO6ehEzK4y-00016-00022450-00023612": "\".Lawmakers in Indonesia and Malaysia have also expressed alarm over the alleged abuses in Xinjiang, and called for a full accounting of the \"re-education camp\" system"}}, {"audio_id": "hd8PFyqlzLM", "text": {"hd8PFyqlzLM-00000-00000513-00002030": "President Trump on Friday blasted Michael Cohen over a newly reported book proposal that apparently painted the president in a positive light, saying his former lawyer's pitch contradicts this week's congressional testimony and renders him “totally discredited", "hd8PFyqlzLM-00001-00002030-00002916": "”.“Wow, just revealed that Michael Cohen wrote ‘a love letter to Trump’ manuscript for a new book that he was pushing", "hd8PFyqlzLM-00002-00002916-00003613": "Written and submitted long after Charlottesville and Helsinki, his phony reasons for going rogue", "hd8PFyqlzLM-00003-00003613-00004337": "Book is exact opposite of his fake testimony, which is now a lie!” Trump tweeted Friday", "hd8PFyqlzLM-00004-00004337-00005042": "“Congress must demand the transcript of Michael Cohen’s new book, given to publishers a short time ago", "hd8PFyqlzLM-00005-00005042-00005839": "Your heads will spin when you see the lies, misrepresentations and contradictions against his Thursday testimony", "hd8PFyqlzLM-00006-00005839-00007093": "Like a different person! He is totally discredited!” he continued.The president’s tweets come after the Daily Mail exclusively obtained a proposal reportedly dated Jan", "hd8PFyqlzLM-00007-00007093-00008430": "24, 2018 and titled “Trump Revolution: From The Tower to the White House.” Cohen reportedly was shopping the pitch to publishers just weeks before the FBI raided his office as part of the U", "hd8PFyqlzLM-00008-00008430-00009208": "S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York’s criminal investigation into his personal business dealings", "hd8PFyqlzLM-00009-00009208-00010319": "According to the Daily Mail, Cohen’s book would have touted Trump, countering descriptions of his then-boss as \"crazy,\" \"dumb,\" \"paranoid\" and hateful toward the media", "hd8PFyqlzLM-00010-00010319-00011024": "The pitch reportedly said: \"All of these things have been said about my longtime boss, Donald J", "hd8PFyqlzLM-00011-00011024-00012212": "Trump. None of it is true. Except maybe that last one – about the media. Trump does believe that reporters are out to get him, and for a very good reason", "hd8PFyqlzLM-00012-00012212-00013432": "Many of them are.\".The Mail reported that Cohen promised chapters would focus on first lady Melania Trump and Trump’s children, as well as the “unfortunate saga” of Stormy Daniels", "hd8PFyqlzLM-00013-00013432-00014459": "\"By offering my point-of-view, it is my sincere hope that I can help close or at least narrow the knowledge gap,\" he reportedly wrote", "hd8PFyqlzLM-00014-00014459-00015386": "The book deal was reportedly being negotiated with Hachette’s Center Street, but ultimately collapsed when Cohen was charged by SDNY", "hd8PFyqlzLM-00015-00015386-00016397": "But the revelation of Cohen’s proposal comes after the now-disbarred attorney delivered scathing testimony about Trump before the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday", "hd8PFyqlzLM-00016-00016397-00017230": "Cohen called Trump a “racist,” a “conman” and “a cheat.”.“Since taking office, he has become the worst version of himself", "hd8PFyqlzLM-00017-00017230-00018184": "He is capable of behaving kindly, but he is not kind. He is capable of committing acts of generosity, but he is not generous", "hd8PFyqlzLM-00018-00018184-00019574": "He is capable of being loyal, but he is fundamentally disloyal,” Cohen said in his opening statement Wednesday, adding that “to our nation, I am sorry for actively working to hide from you the truth about Mr", "hd8PFyqlzLM-00019-00019574-00021057": "Trump when you needed it most.”.Yet he also testified he started having his doubts about the president after the summit with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki and Trump's handling of white supremacist violence and rallies in Charlottesville, Va", "hd8PFyqlzLM-00020-00021057-00021995": "While the book proposal came before the Helsinki summit, it came well after the Charlottesville violence, and a full year into Trump's presidency", "hd8PFyqlzLM-00021-00021995-00023507": "Republicans on the oversight committee, like Ranking Member Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, blasted Cohen, questioning why he continued to work for Trump for 10 years and claiming that Cohen turned on the president after he didn't get a job in the White House", "hd8PFyqlzLM-00022-00023507-00025453": "Cohen denied wanting to work in the administration.Cohen’s high-profile congressional testimony came after he pleaded guilty to lying to Congress about a Trump real estate project in Russia as part of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian meddling and potential collusion with Trump campaign associates", "hd8PFyqlzLM-00023-00025453-00027091": "Cohen also pleaded guilty to five counts of tax evasion, one count of making false statements to a financial institution, one count of willfully causing an unlawful corporate contribution, and one count of making an excessive campaign contribution", "hd8PFyqlzLM-00024-00027091-00028303": "He is reporting in May to serve a three-year prison sentence.Trump on Friday also complained that Democrats are now using the testimony to expand and pursue their own investigations", "hd8PFyqlzLM-00025-00028303-00029915": "“Oh’ I see! Now that the 2 year Russian Collusion case has fallen apart, there was no Collusion except bye[sic] 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", "hd8PFyqlzLM-00026-00029915-00030738": "Let’s follow discredited Michael Cohen and the fraudulent and dishonest statements he made on Wednesday,” Trump tweeted Friday", "hd8PFyqlzLM-00027-00030738-00031733": "“No way, it’s time to stop this corrupt and illegally brought Witch Hunt. Time to start looking at the other side where real crimes were committed", "hd8PFyqlzLM-00028-00031733-00033366": "Republicans have been abused long enough. Must end now!” he continued.During his testimony, Cohen said he brought evidence to support previous claims that Trump organized the hush-money payments to two women—Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal", "hd8PFyqlzLM-00029-00033366-00034097": "Cohen accused Trump of being involved in a “criminal scheme to violate campaign finance laws", "hd8PFyqlzLM-00030-00034097-00035285": "” Cohen testified Wednesday that Trump repaid him in $35,000 installments.“Michael Cohen’s book manuscript shows that he committed perjury on a scale not seen before", "hd8PFyqlzLM-00031-00035285-00036234": "He must have forgotten about his book when he testified. What does Hillary Clinton’s lawyer, Lanny Davis, say about this one", "hd8PFyqlzLM-00032-00036234-00036996": "Is he being paid by Crooked Hillary. Using her lawyer?” Trump tweeted Friday morning", "hd8PFyqlzLM-00033-00036996-00038109": "Cohen is represented by Lanny Davis, a longtime Clinton ally.On Friday, Davis responded to Trump in a statement: “Sometime in early 2018, Mr", "hd8PFyqlzLM-00034-00038109-00038908": "Cohen was offered a substantial advance for a proposal regarding a book on understanding Donald Trump", "hd8PFyqlzLM-00035-00038908-00039689": "Mr. Cohen ultimately elected not to proceed. In other words, POTUS has yet lied again", "hd8PFyqlzLM-00036-00039689-00041636": "but what’s the difference between 9000 or 9001 lies?”.House Oversight Committee Republicans on Thursday referred Cohen to the Justice Department, claiming he committed perjury during his testimony over several statements made regarding his aspirations of working in the Trump administration and his foreign business contracts", "hd8PFyqlzLM-00037-00041636-00043046": "Davis countered in a statement Thursday that his client testified \"truthfully\" before the committee, calling the complaint a \"baseless criminal referral\" and \"sad misuse of the criminal justice system with the aura of pure partisanship", "hd8PFyqlzLM-00038-00043046-00044115": "”.Cohen also testified Wednesday that he would not commit to rejecting any type of book, movie, or television deal when his prison sentence is complete"}}, {"audio_id": "hgEq1QaYQWU", "text": {"hgEq1QaYQWU-00000-00000571-00001738": "President Donald Trump’s “Hire American” policy pushed Americans’ wages up by 3.4 percent in the last 12 months, according to employment data released March 8", "hgEq1QaYQWU-00001-00001738-00002496": "“We’re seeing wages rise more than they have at any time for a long, long time,” Trump told reporters", "hgEq1QaYQWU-00002-00002496-00003368": "He added.The big news, really, was that wages went up. And that’s great for the American worker", "hgEq1QaYQWU-00003-00003368-00004949": "That’s something people — I don’t know if they ever expected to see it.Vice President Mike Pence said, “wages are rising at the fastest pace in nearly a decade, and more Americans are working today than ever before in the history of our country", "hgEq1QaYQWU-00004-00004949-00005764": "”.Americans’ wealth-creating productivity is also rising much faster than under former Presidents George W", "hgEq1QaYQWU-00005-00005764-00007566": "Bush and Barack Obama. Productivity rose 1.8 percent in 2018, up from 0.2 percent in Obama’s last year, because higher wages are pressuring employers to buy the labor-saving machinery that will help Americans produce even more wealth", "hgEq1QaYQWU-00006-00007566-00008561": ".But all the good news comes just after Trump publicly walked away from his “Hire American” economic strategy that made it all possible", "hgEq1QaYQWU-00007-00008561-00009603": "On March 6, Trump told Apple CEO Tim Cook and other CEOs that he would open a new pipeline of cheap foreign workers for tech companies", "hgEq1QaYQWU-00008-00009603-00010452": "That shift is good for companies who do not want to hire workers away from each other by offering escalating salaries", "hgEq1QaYQWU-00009-00010452-00011158": "The goal, said Trump, is to expand corporate revenues, profits, and stock prices:", "hgEq1QaYQWU-00010-00011158-00011957": "These are very ambitious people around this table. They don’t like the concept of not expanding", "hgEq1QaYQWU-00011-00011957-00012761": "Would you say that’s right, Barbara [Humpton, CEO of Siemens USA]? Barbara is not into non-expansion", "hgEq1QaYQWU-00012-00012761-00013514": "So we want to have the companies grow. And the only way they’re going to grow is if we give them the workers", "hgEq1QaYQWU-00013-00013514-00014310": "Since early 2017, Trump has faced mounting corporate pressure to reverse his “Hire American” policy", "hgEq1QaYQWU-00014-00014310-00015389": "That pressure has been growing as wages for white-collar workers inched up and has been growing stronger as wages for information technology workers rises", "hgEq1QaYQWU-00015-00015389-00016573": "For example, wages for “information” employees rose 6.5 percent from $39.15 per hour in February 2018 up to $41", "hgEq1QaYQWU-00016-00016573-00017826": "71 per hour in February 2019. In general, every dollar added to wages is a dollar cut from profits and causes a $15 cut in companies’ stock prices", "hgEq1QaYQWU-00017-00017826-00018879": "To suppress these wage gains, Cook and his peers want to import more cheap, foreign workers via the H-1B, L-1 and OPT visa programs", "hgEq1QaYQWU-00018-00018879-00020206": "In 2018, for example, Apple asked for federal approval to import 1,814 H-1B visa-workers and to get green cards for 103 visa workers", "hgEq1QaYQWU-00019-00020206-00020979": "Overall, U.S. companies already employ at least 1.5 million of these visa workers", "hgEq1QaYQWU-00020-00020979-00022484": "Trump’s pro-corporate abandonment of his “Hire American” policy also comes as newspapers increasingly, but grudgingly, acknowledge his success in delivering prosperity to a wide class of ordinary Americans who were left behind since 2000", "hgEq1QaYQWU-00021-00022484-00023542": "The news reports are showing that Trump is making Americans’ bank accounts great again after 16 years of catastrophic failure by Bush and Obama", "hgEq1QaYQWU-00022-00023542-00024338": "“Workers suddenly have more power to demand higher pay and better jobs,” the Washington Post admitted March 8", "hgEq1QaYQWU-00023-00024338-00025718": "Workers are receiving the fattest wage increases since the Great Recession as employers struggle to find enough people to fill their ranks and employees have more leverage to demand higher pay and jump to better jobs", "hgEq1QaYQWU-00024-00025718-00027123": "Wages grew 3.4 percent in the past year, the government reported Friday, the fastest pace in nearly a decade and well above inflation, suggesting that employers are hustling to lure and retain workers", "hgEq1QaYQWU-00025-00027123-00028500": "Many are slashing requirements for jobs and are hiring workers quickly to prevent them from being scooped up by competitors, a far cry from the days when job seekers felt lucky to even get a callback", "hgEq1QaYQWU-00026-00028500-00029537": "Costco announced this week that it is raising pay for its entry-level workers to $15 an hour — up a dollar from an increase nine months ago"}}, {"audio_id": "i9SHmNJc7m4", "text": {"i9SHmNJc7m4-00000-00000571-00002193": "In Libya, a frightening and intricate political corner of North Africa, the Trump administration risks putting itself in an untenable situation of backing two horses in the same race -- the recognized government of Libya and the rebels knocking at the door of the capital", "i9SHmNJc7m4-00001-00002193-00003065": "The United States must quickly decide where its long-term interests lie and then embrace that avenue unreservedly", "i9SHmNJc7m4-00002-00003065-00004782": "Otherwise, the civil war that has now begun will only intensify. And Libya, fractured into two halves after the Arab Spring -- the west ruled by Tripoli and the east ruled from Benghazi by insurgents -- could easily fall prey to forces antithetical to American interests", "i9SHmNJc7m4-00003-00004782-00006610": "For some background, insurgent military forces of Field Marshall Khalifa Haftar are rolling toward the capital of Tripoli, where Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj leads a government, which the UN and much of the western world recognized more than three years ago in an effort to bring peace to the country", "i9SHmNJc7m4-00004-00006610-00007887": "Nominally, the Trump administration joined with Britain, France, Italy, the United Arab Emirates and the United Nations, as recently as April 4, backing the Tripoli government", "i9SHmNJc7m4-00005-00007887-00009410": "And, on April 7, Secretary of State Michael Pompeo elaborated, \"We have made clear that we oppose the military offensive by Khalifa Haftar's forces and urge the immediate halt to these military operations against the Libyan capital", "i9SHmNJc7m4-00006-00009410-00010432": "Forces should return to status quo ante positions. All involved parties have a responsibility to urgently deescalate the situation", "i9SHmNJc7m4-00007-00010432-00011816": "\".However, Pompeo's remarks do not reflect the tightrope that the US must walk, now that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Egyptian ruler Abdel Fattah el-Sisi have declared support for Haftar", "i9SHmNJc7m4-00008-00011816-00012832": "In fact, Haftar's forces are being aided by millions of dollars in aid pledged by Saudi Arabia -- promised in the weeks before he launched his campaign", "i9SHmNJc7m4-00009-00012832-00013979": "And since the insurgency has begun, Haftar has received additional air power from Egypt and the same UAE that signed the five-power statement urging an end to the fighting", "i9SHmNJc7m4-00010-00013979-00014914": "There are a host of reasons for ambivalence on the part of foreign powers and their varying degrees of support for the insurgent forces", "i9SHmNJc7m4-00011-00014914-00015940": "For example, the Tripoli government includes in its coalition the Libyan political party of the Muslim Brotherhood, a prime opponent of the Sisi government", "i9SHmNJc7m4-00012-00015940-00016998": "Tripoli has also failed to halt waves of African and Middle East refugees that have used Libya as a jumping-off point to Italy and asylum in Western Europe", "i9SHmNJc7m4-00013-00016998-00017973": "Beyond the failures of the Tripoli government, Haftar has been especially effective at beating back terrorist efforts to achieve a strong foothold in Libya", "i9SHmNJc7m4-00014-00017973-00018738": "In May 2015, ISIS seized the coastal town of Sirte , an oil center originally under Tripoli's control", "i9SHmNJc7m4-00015-00018738-00019691": "Meanwhile, al-Qaeda moved into a vacuum in eastern Libya. Both groups have since been ousted, and in part thanks to Haftar's forces", "i9SHmNJc7m4-00016-00019691-00020660": "So while Haftar would seem to have been doing the bidding of the United States, France and Italy, all at least are still nominally supporting the Tripoli government", "i9SHmNJc7m4-00017-00020660-00021562": "Yet Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the UAE are backing Haftar's forces against the Tripoli regime with arms and funding"}}, {"audio_id": "isWamgpSkd4", "text": {"isWamgpSkd4-00000-00000571-00001634": "Donald Trump came away from his meeting in Hanoi with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un with at least one thing: material for a new book, The Art of No Deal", "isWamgpSkd4-00001-00001634-00002572": "The breakdown in talks in Hanoi reaffirms what we’ve known for almost a year – this process has been diplomatic amateur hour", "isWamgpSkd4-00002-00002572-00003546": "Trump has repeatedly undermined his own negotiating position by making clear that he already sees his diplomacy with North Korea as a success", "isWamgpSkd4-00003-00003546-00004494": "After the first summit with Kim in Singapore in 2018 Trump falsely claimed that “there is no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea”", "isWamgpSkd4-00004-00004494-00005583": "Days before the Hanoi summit, Trump said that he didn’t need Kim to make any more concessions – “as long as there’s no testing [of nuclear weapons and missiles], we’re happy''", "isWamgpSkd4-00005-00005583-00006563": "It’s no wonder that Kim wasn’t willing to give more in Hanoi – Trump has been telling him for months that the status quo is just fine", "isWamgpSkd4-00006-00006563-00007469": "It’s sad to see an American president embarrassed by the world’s most ruthless dictator, but that’s what the world just saw in Hanoi", "isWamgpSkd4-00007-00007469-00008948": "Beyond the lack of substantive progress on the nuclear weapons program, Trump continued the disgusting spectacle of standing up for a tyrant who has been found by a United Nations commission to have committed “crimes against humanity”", "isWamgpSkd4-00008-00008948-00010259": "In the span of hours in Hanoi Trump called Kim a “friend”, defended Kim from blame for the murder of Otto Warmbier, and yet again disputed US intelligence analysis that North Korea continues building more weapons", "isWamgpSkd4-00009-00010259-00011960": "And yet, diplomacy is still the way forward because there is no other option, and real diplomacy can yield impressive results – just look at the Iran deal (which, of course, stopped Iran’s nuclear weapons program and didn’t require one leader-to-leader meeting)", "isWamgpSkd4-00010-00011960-00012923": "More sanctions and a return to “maximum pressure” will not help. And we must all be wary of the immense danger of a return to the “fire and fury” talk", "isWamgpSkd4-00011-00012923-00014566": "Despite the embarrassment in Hanoi, perhaps walking away from this meeting will create some of the diplomatic leverage that Trump has repeatedly squandered over the last year and force Kim to believe he needs to make more concessions in order to keep the process going", "isWamgpSkd4-00012-00014566-00015792": "Trump has consistently acted as though all he cares about is the appearance of a “win” on North Korea, and so if there was only a bad deal on the table and Trump rejected it, that’s a good thing", "isWamgpSkd4-00013-00015792-00016523": "If there is to be any hope for progress, Trump and his team must learn from the mistakes of the last year", "isWamgpSkd4-00014-00016523-00017550": "And since it seems difficult for Trump himself to learn from past mistakes, it is even more important that the next steps not include Trump’s personal diplomacy", "isWamgpSkd4-00015-00017550-00019373": "While it’s difficult to believe that Trump would keep quiet on any subject, Trump’s staff should hope that the president doesn’t get asked any more questions in public about North Korea and doesn’t tweet anymore about it – each time Trump says something on North Korea, he gives away a little more leverage"}}, {"audio_id": "iRZyX4_d89o", "text": {"iRZyX4_d89o-00000-00000624-00000824": "BAPPY VAI LOL"}}, {"audio_id": "iTptCxMazoI", "text": {"iTptCxMazoI-00000-00000513-00001372": "Earlier today MSNBC’s Ari Melber reported that Special Counsel Robert Mueller was finished as of today", "iTptCxMazoI-00001-00001372-00002245": "He didn’t end it there. This day would go down in history. As of today there is no more Special Counsel", "iTptCxMazoI-00002-00002245-00003525": "It’s done. It’s over as of today.But, wait, at 7:00 pm, Robert Mueller’s spokesman stated that Robert Mueller will be concluding his service in the coming days", "iTptCxMazoI-00003-00003525-00004198": "While this may be a minor distinction, it belies a larger problem with today’s reporting", "iTptCxMazoI-00004-00004198-00005583": "We just heard definitively from MSNBC that there will be no more indictments. Then, Senator Richard Blumenthal appeared on MSNBC and said more indictments are very likely", "iTptCxMazoI-00005-00005583-00006481": "Adam Schiff did the same. But none of that swayed MSNBC’s insistence that no one else will be indicted", "iTptCxMazoI-00006-00006481-00007414": "CNN has largely been pushing the same false narrative. Then CNBC reported that there are no sealed indictments anywhere", "iTptCxMazoI-00007-00007414-00008508": "Really? Where are they getting that information? What about Julian Assange? Are we supposed to believe there is no sealed indictment against him?", "iTptCxMazoI-00008-00008508-00009441": "Perhaps they mean that any additional indictments are no longer Mueller’s, because they have already been handed off to other offices within the DOJ", "iTptCxMazoI-00009-00009441-00010415": "That would make sense, but it would also mean this is very bad reporting, and a lot of reporters are jumping to inaccurate or misleading conclusions"}}, {"audio_id": "iXOFotYZGDE", "text": {"iXOFotYZGDE-00000-00000571-00001592": "Special counsel Robert Mueller did not find Donald Trump's campaign or associates conspired with Russia, Attorney General William Barr said Sunday", "iXOFotYZGDE-00001-00001592-00002799": "Mueller's investigation of whether the President committed obstruction of justice did not conclude the President committed a crime, but it also \"does not exonerate him,\" Barr quoted from Mueller's report", "iXOFotYZGDE-00002-00002799-00004755": "After nearly two years of being under the cloud of the Russia investigation, Trump's presidency is no longer directly under threat from the special counsel probe as the White House turns toward the 2020 campaign, although he still faces the specter of more legal and congressional action from the other investigations that remain ongoing", "iXOFotYZGDE-00003-00004755-00006260": "Trump and his allies charged that Mueller's report fully vindicated the President, while Democrats were already raising questions about Barr making the decision on obstruction, a signal that the fight and the fallout from Mueller's investigation is far from over", "iXOFotYZGDE-00004-00006260-00006999": "Mueller did not make the decision himself on whether to prosecute the President on obstruction", "iXOFotYZGDE-00005-00006999-00007809": "Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein made the determination the evidence was \"not sufficient\" to support prosecution", "iXOFotYZGDE-00006-00007809-00008626": "The President went beyond the conclusions of Barr's letter, saying Sunday the findings were a \"complete and total exoneration", "iXOFotYZGDE-00007-00008626-00009549": "\".\"No Collusion, No Obstruction, Complete and Total EXONERATION. KEEP AMERICA GREAT!\" Trump tweeted", "iXOFotYZGDE-00008-00009549-00010870": "\"It was just announced there was no collusion with Russia . there was no collusion with Russia, there was no obstruction, none whatsoever,\" Trump said to reporters before flying back to Washington from West Palm Beach, Florida", "iXOFotYZGDE-00009-00010870-00011539": "\"It was a complete and total exoneration. It's a shame our country had to go through this", "iXOFotYZGDE-00010-00011539-00012735": "To be honest, it's a shame your President had to go through this.\".Trump added, \"This was an illegal takedown that failed and hopefully somebody's going to be looking at the other side", "iXOFotYZGDE-00011-00012735-00014674": "\".Barr submitted to Congress a four-page summary of Mueller's conclusions on Sunday, which stated: \"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 influence the 2016 US Presidential Election", "iXOFotYZGDE-00012-00014674-00016162": "\".Mueller's team has no plans to issue any new indictments.\"The report does not recommend any further indictments, nor did the special counsel obtain any sealed indictments that have yet to be made public,\" the letter states", "iXOFotYZGDE-00013-00016162-00017374": "Barr wrote that no one associated with the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government, \"despite multiple offers from Russian-affiliated individuals to assist the Trump campaign", "iXOFotYZGDE-00014-00017374-00018359": "Mueller defined coordination as an \"agreement -- tacit or express -- between the Trump Campaign and the Russian government on election interference", "iXOFotYZGDE-00015-00018359-00019260": "\".The special counsel's office employed a massive effort through the court system and in interviewing witnesses to reach its findings", "iXOFotYZGDE-00016-00019260-00020838": "In all, Mueller's team interviewed about 500 witnesses and obtained more than 3,500 subpoenas and warrants of various types -- the bulk of which were subpoenas -- and 13 requests to foreign governments for evidence", "iXOFotYZGDE-00017-00020838-00021969": "Obstruction questions.Barr and Rosenstein said they could not bring a criminal case with proof beyond a reasonable doubt that Trump's actions obstructed a specific proceeding", "iXOFotYZGDE-00018-00021969-00022863": "Barr notes the \"absence of such evidence\" related to crimes around the Russian election interference weighed on his decision regarding obstruction", "iXOFotYZGDE-00019-00022863-00023578": "The letter stated that Mueller said he conducted a \"thorough factual investigation\" into obstruction", "iXOFotYZGDE-00020-00023578-00024532": "\"While this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him,\" Barr quotes Mueller as saying", "iXOFotYZGDE-00021-00024532-00025485": "In his letter, Barr says that Mueller's investigation into obstruction of justice found the President's actions were not \"done with corrupt intent", "iXOFotYZGDE-00022-00025485-00028105": "\".\"In cataloguing the President's actions, many of which took place in public view, the report identifies no actions that, in our judgment, constitute obstructive conduct, had a nexus to a pending or contemplated proceeding, and were done with corrupt intent, each of which, under the Department's principles of federal prosecution guiding charging decisions, would need to be proven beyond a reasonable doubt to establish an obstruction-of-justice offense", "iXOFotYZGDE-00023-00028105-00029359": "\".Fight over Barr's findings and release of full report.Democrats have demanded that Barr make Mueller's full report public and provide the special counsel's underlying evidence to Congress", "iXOFotYZGDE-00024-00029359-00030289": "They are threatening to subpoena and take the Trump administration to court if they're not satisfied with what the Justice Department provides", "iXOFotYZGDE-00025-00030289-00031151": "House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler said Sunday his committee will call Barr to testify \"in the near future", "iXOFotYZGDE-00026-00031151-00032995": "\".\"In light of the very concerning discrepancies and final decision making at the Justice Department following the Special Counsel report, where Mueller did not exonerate the President, we will be calling Attorney General Barr in to testify before @HouseJudiciary in the near future,\" the New York Democrat tweeted", "iXOFotYZGDE-00027-00032995-00033718": "Mueller's findings, Nadler said, means it is up to Congress to determine the President's future", "iXOFotYZGDE-00028-00033718-00034466": "\"Seems like the Department of Justice is putting matters squarely in Congress' court,\" Nadler tweeted", "iXOFotYZGDE-00029-00034466-00036119": "Barr said he intends to release as much as possible from the report. Mueller will be involved in the scrubbing of the report to remove secret grand jury material and any content related to ongoing investigations before it could be made public, Barr wrote", "iXOFotYZGDE-00030-00036119-00037386": "\"Given these restrictions, the schedule for processing the report depends in part on how quickly the Department can identify the (grand jury) material that by law cannot be made public", "iXOFotYZGDE-00031-00037386-00038533": "I have requested the assistance of the Special Counsel.\".The special counsel's investigation ended Friday after Mueller submitted his confidential report to Barr for review", "iXOFotYZGDE-00032-00038533-00039943": "Additional legal investigations.The 22-month special counsel probe led to charges against 37 defendants, which included six Trump associates, 26 Russians and three Russian companies", "iXOFotYZGDE-00033-00039943-00040839": "Seven defendants have pleaded guilty, and one, Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, was convicted at trial", "iXOFotYZGDE-00034-00040839-00041508": "While Mueller's investigation is over, several criminal investigations are still ongoing"}}, {"audio_id": "icjh9W6KjIu", "text": {"icjh9W6KjIu-00000-00000513-00001960": "If your first instinct today upon reading William Barr’s “summary” of the Mueller report is that it had to have been a misleading bunch of crap, and that the actual Mueller report must tell a very different story, it turns out you’re in good company", "icjh9W6KjIu-00001-00001960-00003073": "Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi just said the same thing.Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer released a three paragraph joint statement this evening", "icjh9W6KjIu-00002-00003073-00004786": "Here’s the most crucial sentence: “The fact that Special Counsel Mueller’s report does not exonerate the president on a charge as serious as obstruction of justice demonstrates how urgent it is that the full report and underlying documentation be made public without any further delay", "icjh9W6KjIu-00003-00004786-00007495": "”.Two more crucial sentences from Pelosi and Schumer: “Given Mr. Barr’s public record of bias against the Special Counsel’s inquiry, he is not a neutral observer and is not in a position to make objective determinations about the report … Congress requires the full report and the underlying documents so that the Committees can proceed with their independent work, including oversight and legislating to address any issues the Mueller report may raise", "icjh9W6KjIu-00004-00007495-00008788": "”.This means that Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats in Congress are going to aggressively use the full powers available to them in order to get their hands on what’s really in Robert Mueller’s report", "icjh9W6KjIu-00005-00008788-00009990": "For months, dating back to their midterm election victory, House Democrats have been publicly talking about subpoenaing Mueller so he can publicly testify about what’s in his report", "icjh9W6KjIu-00006-00009990-00011021": "There is no reason to expect Mueller wouldn’t cooperate, and there would be no legal avenue for Trump or the DOJ to stop it from happening"}}, {"audio_id": "id_3UfMZ-0M", "text": {"id_3UfMZ-0M-00000-00000571-00001576": "Democrats thought he would never use it – here it comes.Trump promised last Fall that he would declassify all the documents behind the infamous Russian probe", "id_3UfMZ-0M-00001-00001576-00002744": "He hesitated, waiting for Mueller’s report to come out.Well, guess what? Now that Mueller’s bombshell has exonerated the president, he’s gone some big plans", "id_3UfMZ-0M-00002-00002744-00004740": "Democrats should be worried.From Fox News:.President Trump… vowed to release the full and unredacted Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants and related documents used by the FBI to probe his campaign, saying he wants to “get to the bottom” of how the long-running Russia collusion narrative began", "id_3UfMZ-0M-00003-00004740-00005730": "President Trump promised to release the full and unredacted FISA warrants and other documents used by the FBI to launched their Russian “hunt", "id_3UfMZ-0M-00004-00005730-00006952": "”.You might remember, these warrants were acquired with the Steele dossier. This dossier was crafted by the Democrats (under Clinton’s orders) and was full of false information and lies", "id_3UfMZ-0M-00005-00006952-00007780": "So, you could say that the FBI and DOJ used lies to acquire a warrant to spy on a Trump campaign member", "id_3UfMZ-0M-00006-00007780-00008822": "Which would be a serious violation of justice and the Fourth Amendment.We don’t know for sure, though, because we haven’t seen these documents", "id_3UfMZ-0M-00007-00008822-00009538": "If Trump declassifies them, we will know for a fact just what the swamp trying to do", "id_3UfMZ-0M-00008-00009538-00010149": "And if they truly violated our Constitution to block Trump from becoming President", "id_3UfMZ-0M-00009-00010149-00010923": "Trump has accused FBI officials of committing “treason,” in their efforts to hinder our democracy", "id_3UfMZ-0M-00010-00010923-00011800": "You might remember the infamous text by FBI official Strzok, speaking of an “insurance policy,” should Trump win", "id_3UfMZ-0M-00011-00011800-00012675": "A policy meant to stop him from entering office.Trump’s evidence might even implicate top members of the former administration", "id_3UfMZ-0M-00012-00012675-00013422": "Who might be on the hook?.Lynch? Obama even? Hillary?.We might find out very soon"}}, {"audio_id": "idFQwNlt5yu", "text": {"idFQwNlt5yu-00000-00000571-00001613": "Hopes were high that President Trump and Kim Jong Un would reach a deal.But Trump walked after North Korea refused to fully shut down their nuke program", "idFQwNlt5yu-00001-00001613-00002261": "Our media, as usual, attacked the president, saying he didn’t know what he was doing", "idFQwNlt5yu-00002-00002261-00003023": "But once again, the master negotiator proved them all wrong and came out with a big win", "idFQwNlt5yu-00003-00003023-00003629": "That might be par for the course in Washington, but not in the Trump administration", "idFQwNlt5yu-00004-00003629-00004732": "Donald Trump promised to reach a good, lasting deal with North Korea. He wasn’t going to agree to something bad—like Obama with Iran—just for the headlines", "idFQwNlt5yu-00005-00004732-00005675": "He walked to show North Korea and the world that America is not playing games. We want peace and prosperity for all parties involved", "idFQwNlt5yu-00006-00005675-00007038": "In walking, he showed our allies that Trump meant business. He is going to forge a deal that will denuclearize North Korea and ensure South Korea, Japan, and other Asian nations are safe", "idFQwNlt5yu-00007-00007038-00007898": "Not to mention help secure freedom for North Korean citizens.North Korea was shaken when Trump quickly left Vietnam", "idFQwNlt5yu-00008-00007898-00008736": "It’s no big surprise that they are now changing their tune.Don’t be surprised if a good deal is announced very soon"}}, {"audio_id": "ifbLLeSYQyE", "text": {"ifbLLeSYQyE-00000-00000513-00001268": "The House Democrats are determined to impeach President Trump, and are now focusing on his family and businesses", "ifbLLeSYQyE-00001-00001268-00002968": "CNBC reported that the House Judiciary Committee on Monday launched a large-scale investigation into alleged abuses of power by President Donald Trump, sending requests for documents to 81 individuals and entities, including the president’s sons", "ifbLLeSYQyE-00002-00002968-00005465": "The probe will focus on three main topics: alleged obstruction of justice by Trump and others and the “alleged cover-up of violations of the law”; alleged corruption in areas including violations of the Constitution’s emoluments clause “and other criminal misuses of official positions for personal gain”; and alleged abuses of power, such as attacking the press and misusing the presidential pardon power", "ifbLLeSYQyE-00003-00005465-00007114": "House Minority leader is fighting back against this latest Democrat overreach.Democrats on Capitol Hill are significantly expanding their investigations into President Donald Trump, now openly targeting his family and businesses–in particular, the Trump Organization", "ifbLLeSYQyE-00004-00007114-00008519": "On Monday, House Democrats sent more than 80 separate document requests from the House Judiciary Committee to a wide-ranging slew of people affiliated with President Trump including most notably his two eldest sons Donald Trump, Jr", "ifbLLeSYQyE-00005-00008519-00009449": ", and Eric Trump, who currently run the operations of the Trump Organization while their father serves as President of the United States", "ifbLLeSYQyE-00006-00009449-00011842": "They also targeted Trump’s son-in-law and current White House official Jared Kushner, who is married to Trump’s daughter Ivanka, and several others in Trump’s orbit like his former personal secretary Rhona Graff, the Trump Organization’s chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg, and former top campaign and White House officials including Hope Hicks, Sean Spicer, and Stephen K", "ifbLLeSYQyE-00007-00011842-00012589": "Bannon.Bannon once served as the executive chairman of Breitbart News, but left in early 2018", "ifbLLeSYQyE-00008-00012589-00015050": "“House Democrats sent more than 80 letters Monday demanding documents from family members, business associates, political confidants and others with ties to President Trump, launching a sprawling probe into whether he and his administration have engaged in obstruction of justice, corruption and abuse of power,” the Washington Post wrote, describing the wide-ranging probing letters sent to all corners of the Trump universe", "ifbLLeSYQyE-00009-00015050-00016779": "“The farthest-reaching request since Democrats took control of the House underscored lawmakers’ determination to hold Trump and those around him accountable for an array of controversies that have dogged the president during his first two years in office — and perhaps lay the grounds for impeachment", "ifbLLeSYQyE-00010-00016779-00017973": "”.Recipients reportedly have two weeks to comply with the requests for a variety of documents and communications before they would be subpoenaed by the committee, which Rep", "ifbLLeSYQyE-00011-00017973-00020002": "Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) chairs.“We will act quickly to gather this information, assess the evidence, and follow the facts where they lead with full transparency with the American people,” Nadler, the Judiciary Committee Chairman, said in a statement announcing the wide-ranging probe into Trump’s universe according to the Washington Post", "ifbLLeSYQyE-00012-00020002-00020977": "“This is a critical time for our nation, and we have a responsibility to investigate these matters and hold hearings for the public to have all the facts", "ifbLLeSYQyE-00013-00020977-00022170": "That is exactly what we intend to do.”.Nadler over the weekend appeared on ABC’s This Week in which he told host George Stephanopoulos that he believes Trump has “obstructed justice", "ifbLLeSYQyE-00014-00022170-00022943": "”.“It’s very clear that the president obstructed justice,” Nadler said. “It’s very clear", "ifbLLeSYQyE-00015-00022943-00024043": "1,100 times he referred to the Mueller investigation as a witch hunt. He tried to protect Flynn from being investigated by the FBI", "ifbLLeSYQyE-00016-00024043-00024850": "He fired Comey in order to stop the Russia thing as he told NBC news. He has dangled pardons", "ifbLLeSYQyE-00017-00024850-00026339": "He has intimidated witnesses in public.”.Nadler, who would lead impeachment proceedings of Trump if Democrats do decide to go that route which it appears they are heading there, earned a sharp rebuke from House Minority Leader Rep", "ifbLLeSYQyE-00018-00026339-00027703": "Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) for those comments. “I think Congressman Nadler decided to impeach the president the day the president won the election,” McCarthy said on This Week on Sunday in response to Nadler"}}, {"audio_id": "ijDu_K0b6h8", "text": {"ijDu_K0b6h8-00000-00000571-00001203": "Sometimes perhaps an overblown sense of self-confidence can be your biggest weakness", "ijDu_K0b6h8-00001-00001203-00002697": "Apparently that happened to Donald Trump.Again.Donald Trump did his best to spite Barack Obama by attempting to pull out of the Paris climate agreement, but as The New York Times points out, he really doesn’t have the authority to do so", "ijDu_K0b6h8-00002-00002697-00003870": "Here is what the NYT wrote:.But he will stick to the withdrawal process laid out in the Paris agreement, which President Barack Obama joined and most of the world has already ratified", "ijDu_K0b6h8-00003-00003870-00004781": "That could take nearly four years to complete, meaning a final decision would be up to the American voters in the next presidential election", "ijDu_K0b6h8-00004-00004781-00006020": "So what does this all mean? It means that despite Trump’s worst efforts, the withdrawal process would not be completed until the week following our next presidential election in 2020", "ijDu_K0b6h8-00005-00006020-00006963": "Should Trump lose that election (or should he be removed from office at some point before the November 2020 elections), his actions would have been futile", "ijDu_K0b6h8-00006-00006963-00008172": "You might find this situation somewhat similar to the fall 2016, when Mitch McConnell and the Republicans decided to block President Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court, Merrick Garland", "ijDu_K0b6h8-00007-00008172-00009240": "Their rationale was that because the appointment vacancy came so close to a presidential election, that the new president alone should have the authority to make the appointment", "ijDu_K0b6h8-00008-00009240-00010630": "The big difference between these situations is that the action of the Republicans was completely and utterly unconstitutional, while the withdrawal timeline for the Paris agreement is functioning exactly the way it was designed"}}, {"audio_id": "j0ZP4muaSby", "text": {"j0ZP4muaSby-00000-00000571-00001276": "President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump attended church on Sunday, on the feast of St", "j0ZP4muaSby-00001-00001276-00002276": "Patrick.The couple attended services at St. John’s Episcopal church, a small church across from Lafayette Park outside the White House", "j0ZP4muaSby-00002-00002276-00002982": "Rev. Bruce McPherson, the interim rector, welcomed the first couple outside the church", "j0ZP4muaSby-00003-00002982-00003972": "The President spent Thursday honoring St. Patrick’s Day with Prime Minister of Ireland Leo Varadkar and praised the Irish at a White House reception", "j0ZP4muaSby-00004-00003972-00005085": "“I know many Irish people and they are inspiring. They’re sharp, they’re smart, they’re great, and they are brutal enemies, right?” he said  “So you have to keep them as your friend", "j0ZP4muaSby-00005-00005085-00005824": "Always keep them as your friend.  You don’t want to fight with the Irish.  It’s too tough", "j0ZP4muaSby-00006-00005824-00006639": "It’s too bloody.”.Trump last went to church in Washington, DC, on Christmas Eve at the National Cathedral"}}, {"audio_id": "jqfoPrXFQdk", "text": {"jqfoPrXFQdk-00000-00000571-00001360": "A version of this article first appeared in the \"Reliable Sources\" newsletter. You can sign up for free right here", "jqfoPrXFQdk-00001-00001360-00002240": "President Trump could not be more clear: He is pledging to provide \"truly great HealthCare that will work for America", "jqfoPrXFQdk-00002-00002240-00004121": "\".But maybe not until after the 2020 election.In an unusual nighttime tweetstorm on Monday, he said \"everybody agrees that ObamaCare doesn't work,\" so the GOP is developing \"a really great HealthCare Plan with far lower premiums (cost) & deductibles than ObamaCare", "jqfoPrXFQdk-00003-00004121-00005100": "\" He said a \"vote will be taken right after the Election when Republicans hold the Senate & win\" (pause for the next tweet) \"back the House", "jqfoPrXFQdk-00004-00005100-00005863": "\".The president went on to say that \"the Republican Party will be known as the Party of Great HealtCare", "jqfoPrXFQdk-00005-00005863-00006973": "\" Presidential typos are a sign of carelessness. or worse. But I digress. The president is drawing attention to health care concerns, and that's a good thing", "jqfoPrXFQdk-00006-00006973-00007710": "The national news media does not dedicate enough time to this topic. The more attention, the better!", "jqfoPrXFQdk-00007-00007710-00008527": "→ CNN's Kyle Feldscher: \"There is no evidence that there is another health care reform proposal coming from the GOP", "jqfoPrXFQdk-00008-00008527-00009475": "\".→ A view from the left: Jon Favreau of \"Pod Save America\" tweeted, \"Trump just made sure another election will be about health care", "jqfoPrXFQdk-00009-00009475-00010413": "Amazing.\".Kushner's deflection.Senior WH adviser Jared Kushner gave a very, very rare interview to Fox on Monday", "jqfoPrXFQdk-00010-00010413-00011515": "On the same day that the House Oversight Committee upped its scrutiny of the WH's security clearance process, due to info provided by a WH insider", "jqfoPrXFQdk-00011-00011515-00012263": "Kushner is one of the people ensnared by the scandal.Kushner was on Fox to talk about the \"First Step Act", "jqfoPrXFQdk-00012-00012263-00013041": "\" So his interviewer, Laura Ingraham, broached the security clearance issue as gently as possible", "jqfoPrXFQdk-00013-00013041-00013958": "\"The left is going crazy about this security clearance issue,\" she said, knowing that she'd be incensed if the shoes were on the other feet", "jqfoPrXFQdk-00014-00013958-00015042": "Kushner said he \"couldn't comment on the White House process\" but said he'd been \"accused of all kinds of things\" that turned out to be false during his tenure at the WH", "jqfoPrXFQdk-00015-00015042-00015831": "Ingraham then mocked the issue by asking Kushner if he poses a \"grave national security concern to the country", "jqfoPrXFQdk-00016-00015831-00016993": "\".→ The NYT's Maggie Haberman tweeted that Ingraham noticeably did NOT \"follow up by asking him if his father-in-law overruled security officials to grant him his clearance", "jqfoPrXFQdk-00017-00016993-00018315": "\".A White House whistleblower.The big picture, via CNN's Alex Marquardt: \"A White House whistleblower is alleging the Trump administration's handling of security clearances is threatening U", "jqfoPrXFQdk-00018-00018315-00020592": "S. national security.\".Her name is Tricia Newbold. She remains on the job. \"In a White House where aggressive leak investigations are conducted in service of President Trump, who has aides sign nondisclosure agreements,\" her account \"represents the rarest of developments: a damning on-the-record account from a current employee inside his ranks,\" the NYT's Katie Rogers writes", "jqfoPrXFQdk-00019-00020592-00022024": "Coming soon to Facebook?.Oliver Darcy emails: Mark Zuckerberg surprised everyone on Monday with the announcement that Facebook is developing a new section on the site devoted to curating \"high quality\" and \"trustworthy\" news", "jqfoPrXFQdk-00020-00022024-00023476": "Zuckerberg, who dropped the news during a recorded conversation with Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner, said the new section would be modeled after Facebook's existing \"Watch\" tab, which hosts videos and original programming", "jqfoPrXFQdk-00021-00023476-00024425": "Some details:.>> Executives have discussed possibly launching the feature by the end of 2019, a source familiar with the convos told me", "jqfoPrXFQdk-00022-00024425-00025172": ">> Zuckerberg said Facebook \"should be thinking\" about the possibility of paying publishers license fees", "jqfoPrXFQdk-00023-00025172-00025728": "He stressed that he wants to improve monetization for publishers"}}, {"audio_id": "jtkABs_SDbA", "text": {"jtkABs_SDbA-00000-00000571-00001629": "We all know that Fox News spent the 2016 election running half-true and untrue stories aimed at helping Donald Trump and harming Hillary Clinton", "jtkABs_SDbA-00001-00001629-00002681": "But now it turns out Fox News and its head honcho Rupert Murdoch went much further, to the point of outright rigging the election in Trump’s favor", "jtkABs_SDbA-00002-00002681-00004371": "In a lengthy and stunning new expose from Jane Mayer in the New Yorker, we’re learning that Fox News knew during the election about Donald Trump’s affair with adult film actress Stormy Daniels, but decided not to report the story because Rupert Murdoch wanted Trump to win", "jtkABs_SDbA-00003-00004371-00005181": "Withholding a major story like this, for the sake of altering the outcome of the election, qualifies as rigging the election", "jtkABs_SDbA-00004-00005181-00006025": "It gets worse.Fox News also fed Trump at least one Republican primary debate question in advance", "jtkABs_SDbA-00005-00006025-00006842": "Not only is that cheating, it means Fox rigged the primary race in Trump’s favor, against the other Republican candidates", "jtkABs_SDbA-00006-00006842-00007958": "Fox wasn’t merely trying to harm Hillary Clinton’s chances in the election; it was specifically trying to rig the election in favor of one Republican candidate over the others", "jtkABs_SDbA-00007-00007958-00008953": "That’s surreal.Fox and Murdoch have always been unscrupulous and dishonest. But this is over-the-top brazen even by their standards", "jtkABs_SDbA-00008-00008953-00010849": "Why would Fox News go this far to try to install one Republican candidate in particular, over all the other Republican candidates who also fit with the network’s ideology? Jane Mayer’s reporting today is extensive, but you have to wonder if there’s even more to the story that we don’t know yet"}}, {"audio_id": "jG7f4iuHW5A", "text": {"jG7f4iuHW5A-00000-00000571-00001728": "“President” Donald Trump is on his way to Vietnam, finally going there to serve his nation, decades after questionable doctor’s notes excusing him from serving in the war there", "jG7f4iuHW5A-00001-00001728-00002491": "At least he is going there this week, ostensibly in the service of our nation – but perhaps not", "jG7f4iuHW5A-00002-00002491-00004256": "We might never truly learn about what Trump and Kim Jong-un discuss.In advance of the visit by Trump and what clearly must be a coincidence, the plane of Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov, Foreign Minister of Russia, reportedly has landed in Vietnam ahead of Trump’s arrival", "jG7f4iuHW5A-00003-00004256-00005722": "Trump has been touting that if North Korea will give up nuclear weapons, it will be dominant on the world economic stage, tweeting:Meeting for breakfast with our Nation’s Governors – then off to Vietnam for a very important Summit with Kim Jong Un", "jG7f4iuHW5A-00004-00005722-00006377": "With complete Denuclearization, North Korea will rapidly become an Economic Powerhouse", "jG7f4iuHW5A-00005-00006377-00008496": "Without it, just more of the same. Chairman Kim will make a wise decision!.This is doubtful on many levels, including unlike South Korea or Japan or any other country producing electronics and that is an economic powerhouse, North Korea has nothing in terms of infrastructure or technology, other than its nuclear capabilities", "jG7f4iuHW5A-00006-00008496-00010144": "Trump also is talking about his bromance with Kim, noting that “we fell in love.” While being on good relationship terms with North Korea is important, we fear that Trump has fallen for good old-fashioned propaganda from a leader who knows how to play the game"}}, {"audio_id": "jb62lnCHfd4", "text": {"jb62lnCHfd4-00000-00000571-00001302": "Democrats are determined to oppose President Donald Trump, no matter how little evidence they have against him", "jb62lnCHfd4-00001-00001302-00002039": "Rep. Nadler announced Monday that he is opening an obstruction of justice probe into the President", "jb62lnCHfd4-00002-00002039-00002707": "Many experts have said this is crossing the line, and Trump is hitting them hard now", "jb62lnCHfd4-00003-00002707-00003933": "But he’s going around them and appealing directly to the American people.Nadler is using his power in the Judiciary Committee to probe just about every last aspect of the Trump administration", "jb62lnCHfd4-00004-00003933-00004664": "This wild demand seems to be a direct attempt at persecuting the president and anyone that’s ever worked with him", "jb62lnCHfd4-00005-00004664-00005458": "This needs to be restated: there has never been a shred of evidence to even hint at collusion between Trump and anyone", "jb62lnCHfd4-00006-00005458-00006469": "Yet despite that, Nadler has the audacity to accuse the president of “obstruction of justice, public corruption, and other abuses of power''", "jb62lnCHfd4-00007-00006469-00007138": "When has Trump ever done any of this? President Trump has aggressively pursued his agenda", "jb62lnCHfd4-00008-00007138-00007848": "But every bill signed into law, every trade deal, and every executive order has been legal", "jb62lnCHfd4-00009-00007848-00009045": "Even the Supreme Court has upheld controversial orders.The Cohen testimony—even as it was beyond the bounds of a normal investigation—only cleared Trump of collusion", "jb62lnCHfd4-00010-00009045-00009708": "Yet Nadler and the rest of the Democratic Party are pushing endless requests and investigations", "jb62lnCHfd4-00011-00009708-00010520": "Far more aggressively than any Congress in our history.All without solid proof that any wrongdoing has been committed"}}, {"audio_id": "jdJDX8Upbfy", "text": {"jdJDX8Upbfy-00000-00000571-00001947": "While an overwhelming majority of the public’s eyes have been focused on Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation regarding Russian collusion in the 2016 election, it appears more eyes should have been on Fox News", "jdJDX8Upbfy-00001-00001947-00003253": "Not because it is a reliable news source, but because the media giant and the man in charge of it are guilty of helping Donald Trump win the election by burying a game-changing story during the 2016 election", "jdJDX8Upbfy-00002-00003253-00005085": "Jane Mayer of the New Yorker has the inside scoop. According to her lengthy expose, Fox News and its head honcho Rupert Murdoch knew of Donald Trump’s affair with adult film actress Stormy Daniels during the election, but conveniently elected not to report on it because Murdoch wanted Trump to win:", "jdJDX8Upbfy-00003-00005085-00005918": "“…That fall, a FoxNews.com reporter had a story that put the network’s journalistic integrity to the test", "jdJDX8Upbfy-00004-00005918-00007313": "Diana Falzone, who often covered the entertainment industry, had obtained proof that Trump had engaged in a sexual relationship in 2006 with a pornographic film actress calling herself Stormy Daniels", "jdJDX8Upbfy-00005-00007313-00008796": "Falzone had worked on the story since March, and by October she had confirmed it with Daniels through her manager at the time, Gina Rodriguez, and with Daniels’s former husband, Mike Moz, who described multiple calls from Trump", "jdJDX8Upbfy-00006-00008796-00009948": "Falzone had also amassed e-mails between Daniels’s attorney and Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen, detailing a proposed cash settlement, accompanied by a nondisclosure agreement", "jdJDX8Upbfy-00007-00009948-00010920": "Falzone had even seen the contract.But Falzone’s story didn’t run—it kep  tbeing passed off from one editor to the next", "jdJDX8Upbfy-00008-00010920-00011827": "After getting one noncommittal answer after another from her editors, Falzone at last heard from LaCorte, who was then the head of FoxNews", "jdJDX8Upbfy-00009-00011827-00012749": "com. Falzone told colleagues that LaCorte said to her, “Good reporting, kiddo. But Rupert wants Donald Trump to win", "jdJDX8Upbfy-00010-00012749-00013702": "So just let it go.” LaCorte denies telling Falzone this, but one of Falzone’s colleagues confirms having heard her account at the time", "jdJDX8Upbfy-00011-00013702-00013802": "''"}}, {"audio_id": "jiud-6yTTfQ", "text": {"jiud-6yTTfQ-00000-00000571-00001548": "Congressional Democrats are planning to hold hearings about President Trump’s criticisms of establishment news outlets, according to a new report", "jiud-6yTTfQ-00001-00001548-00002906": "Bloomberg News reports that the House Judiciary Committee, which is currently led by Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), will seek to investigate Trump calling the media “fake news” and “enemies of the people''", "jiud-6yTTfQ-00002-00002906-00003844": "“The committee will study whether such actions either reflect or blur the Constitution’s separation of powers,” the report states", "jiud-6yTTfQ-00003-00003844-00004792": "The president’s repeated declarations that the “fake news” media is the “enemy of the people” has indeed upset many Democrats and media figures", "jiud-6yTTfQ-00004-00004792-00005975": "Possible 2020 hopeful and media darling Beto O’Rourke used the line to attack Trump and Republicans in 2018, accusing him of inciting violence against the media", "jiud-6yTTfQ-00005-00005975-00007469": "“This idea fronted by the president that somehow the press are the enemy of the people, reinforced by him tweeting out images of a reporter being hit by a train, body slammed in a wrestling ring, it is incitement to violence", "jiud-6yTTfQ-00006-00007469-00008893": "I don’t know any other way to call it,” O’Rourke said.Before the 2018 midterms, Trump doubled down on his attacks against the media, saying that it was not him but reporters and pundits who were fostering violence in America", "jiud-6yTTfQ-00007-00008893-00009781": ".“A lot of reporters are creating violence by not writing the truth,” he said. “The fake news is creating violence", "jiud-6yTTfQ-00008-00009781-00011040": "And you know what? The people that support Trump, and the people the support us, which is a lot of people, most people, those people know when a story is true, and they know when a story is false''", "jiud-6yTTfQ-00009-00011040-00012030": "“I’ll tell you what–if the media would write correctly, and write accurately, and write fairly, you’d have a lot less violence in the country,” he added"}}, {"audio_id": "jnKL8GuJhwU", "text": {"jnKL8GuJhwU-00000-00000571-00001339": "President Donald Trump complained Wednesday that he didn't receive a thank you for approving the funeral the late Sen", "jnKL8GuJhwU-00001-00001339-00002130": "John McCain wanted, marking his latest grievance in his recent onslaught against the Arizona Republican", "jnKL8GuJhwU-00002-00002130-00003013": "\"I endorsed him at his request, and I gave him the kind of funeral that he wanted, which as President I had to approve", "jnKL8GuJhwU-00003-00003013-00003854": "I don't care about this. I didn't get thank you. That's OK. We sent him on the way", "jnKL8GuJhwU-00004-00003854-00004677": "But I wasn't a fan of John McCain,\" Trump said during a speech Wednesday at a tank factory in Lima, Ohio", "jnKL8GuJhwU-00005-00004677-00005623": "Last year, McCain died of brain cancer, and as part of his services, lay in state in the Capitol building in Washington", "jnKL8GuJhwU-00006-00005623-00006547": "CNN previously reported that the senator, who had been held as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, did not want the President at his funeral", "jnKL8GuJhwU-00007-00006547-00007861": "McCain's daughter, Meghan McCain, also revealed earlier this year that she wished Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, Trump's daughter and son-in-law and senior advisers, had not attended the funeral", "jnKL8GuJhwU-00008-00007861-00008663": "Trump's remark about the funeral came as the President has continued to denigrate the dead senator's legacy", "jnKL8GuJhwU-00009-00008663-00009713": "Last weekend, Trump attacked McCain in several tweets that targeted his ties to the controversial Russia dossier and his vote against repealing Obamacare", "jnKL8GuJhwU-00010-00009713-00011132": "He also referred to McCain as being \"last in his class\" at the US Naval Academy.On Tuesday, he continued his criticism, telling reporters at the White House that \"I was never a fan of John McCain and I never will be", "jnKL8GuJhwU-00011-00011132-00012830": "\".The late senator's widow, Cindy McCain, publicized hateful messages she's been receiving since Trump's tweets, and daughter Meghan McCain has continued to respond to the President online and on ABC's \"The View,\" where she's a co-host", "jnKL8GuJhwU-00012-00012830-00013786": "All the while, a growing number Republican members of Congress have been publicly pushing back on Trump's comments, defending McCain", "jnKL8GuJhwU-00013-00013786-00014812": "In front of factory workers at the Ohio plant on Wednesday, Trump dedicated a considerable amount of time in his speech to disparaging McCain", "jnKL8GuJhwU-00014-00014812-00016071": "\"I have to be honest,\" Trump said, \"I never liked him much. Hasn't been for me.\".He said he probably \"never will\" like McCain, because \"John McCain received a fake and phony dossier", "jnKL8GuJhwU-00015-00016071-00016766": "\".He also dug into McCain's now-famous vote against a repeal of the Affordable Care Act", "jnKL8GuJhwU-00016-00016766-00017531": "\"When he finally had the chance to do it, he voted against repeal and replace,\" the President said", "jnKL8GuJhwU-00017-00017531-00018425": "\"Remember thumbs down?\".On Tuesday, Trump falsely accused McCain of misleading the White House over how he would vote", "jnKL8GuJhwU-00018-00018425-00019417": "Trump added Wednesday that veterans were on his side during the dispute, because McCain \"didn't get the job done\" with the Veterans Administration", "jnKL8GuJhwU-00019-00019417-00020138": "He also blamed McCain for wars in the Middle East.\"He was calling (President George W", "jnKL8GuJhwU-00020-00020138-00021382": ") Bush, President Bush all the time, 'Get into the Middle East! Get in to the Middle East,' \" Trump claimed, adding we've lost \"tremendous health and tremendous lives in that war''"}}, {"audio_id": "k2xpju9juSc", "text": {"k2xpju9juSc-00000-00000571-00001360": "Even Democrats have to admit there’s a massive problem at the border, and Donald has only one choice to fix it", "k2xpju9juSc-00001-00001360-00002248": "It’s getting worse by the day. Thousands of people in Central American caravans are marching to our border, demanding entry", "k2xpju9juSc-00002-00002248-00003125": "One could be more than 20,000 people!.Sadly, Mexico seems more willing to help than Democrats in Congress", "k2xpju9juSc-00003-00003125-00003773": "And now President Trump is forced to take his biggest step yet to stop the bleeding", "k2xpju9juSc-00004-00003773-00005210": "From Newsweek:.President Donald Trump ordered thousands of additional American troops to the southwest border over the next two months, according to a document drafted last week by Defense Department officials and obtained by Newsweek", "k2xpju9juSc-00005-00005210-00006411": "Thank you, Mr. President! No president has been willing to order thousands of troops to secure the border, and he wants to send 9-10,000 more soldiers to deal with the effort", "k2xpju9juSc-00006-00006411-00007216": "Let that sink in for a moment – that’s unprecedented!.But imagine if we had a permanent wall protecting our border", "k2xpju9juSc-00007-00007216-00008013": "Instead, these men and women have to be deployed, leaving their families and potentially endangering their lives", "k2xpju9juSc-00008-00008013-00008820": "Why?.Because of immigration activists working on behalf of the Left, more caravans are bombarding our border", "k2xpju9juSc-00009-00008820-00009650": "These border jumpers think they can get free housing, food, and benefits if they claim they are asylum seekers", "k2xpju9juSc-00010-00009650-00010708": "Even though they don’t qualify.Thanks to whatever lies immigration workers in South America are saying, thousands are risking their lives to march to the US", "k2xpju9juSc-00011-00010708-00011745": "The only thing we can do right now? Send soldiers to deal with it. If only Congress was smart enough, two years ago, to fund the border wall"}}, {"audio_id": "k57dPNkbi5U", "text": {"k57dPNkbi5U-00000-00000571-00001378": "Queen Elizabeth II is honoring President Donald Trump with a big invite for an extremely patriotic occasion", "k57dPNkbi5U-00001-00001378-00002094": "Many in the media were shocked, but they weren’t as snubbed and distressed as Trump-hater Meghan Markle", "k57dPNkbi5U-00002-00002094-00003120": "The former D-list actress has gotten on the wrong side of Her Majesty after she was just caught in another baby scandal which is rocking the somber Brits", "k57dPNkbi5U-00003-00003120-00004121": "Now, Trump is going to rain on her parade. You’ll love this.Meghan Markle has been very vocal about her hatred of President Donald Trump", "k57dPNkbi5U-00004-00004121-00004878": "The former Suits star called him a “misogynist” and advised Americans to vote for Hillary Clinton", "k57dPNkbi5U-00005-00004878-00005703": "According to palace sources, Markle remains very antagonistic toward Trump, calling him names like “Syphilis", "k57dPNkbi5U-00006-00005703-00006492": "”.And she hasn’t won over the most powerful woman in Britain, her husband’s grandmother Queen Elizabeth II", "k57dPNkbi5U-00007-00006492-00007720": "From day one, the American leftist rubbed the Monarch the wrong way. She refused to stop pandering to the leftist media and has constantly been caught leaking her own ridiculous propaganda", "k57dPNkbi5U-00008-00007720-00008590": "And President Trump was watching. In fact, the president rightly snubbed the American’s wedding without issuing any type of statement", "k57dPNkbi5U-00009-00008590-00009953": "However, when the Queen’s granddaughter, Princess Eugenie got married, Trump graciously tweeted this out to his 59 million followers: “Princess Eugenie of York was a truly beautiful bride yesterday", "k57dPNkbi5U-00010-00009953-00010763": "She has been through so much, and has come out a total winner!”.“Those who know Meghan, know she was out of her mind with jealousy", "k57dPNkbi5U-00011-00010763-00011902": "Trump acknowledged Eugenie to his almost 60 million followers. Meghan threw a tantrum and called Trump ‘worse than Hitler,'” a palace source told Mad World News", "k57dPNkbi5U-00012-00011902-00013545": ".Well, the American grifter is digging herself in deeper, and the latest baby scandal caused the Queen’s advisers to go ahead with issuing President Trump an invite to an official state visit to help celebrate the 75th anniversary of D-Day on June 6th", "k57dPNkbi5U-00013-00013545-00014556": "Meghan’s pregnancy has been shrouded in mystery and scandal. Many still claim her changing baby bump proves she is using a surrogate and wearing a “moon-bump", "k57dPNkbi5U-00014-00014556-00015292": "” Then, the charlatan duchess leaked to the press she would be raising the child “gender fluid” and “vegan", "k57dPNkbi5U-00015-00015292-00016303": "”.But what really upset the Queen was this latest scandal where she is refusing to use the best OB/GYN doctors in Britain because they are Her Majesty’s", "k57dPNkbi5U-00016-00016303-00017061": "“Meghan Markle has rejected the Queen’s doctors for her baby’s birth,” Radar Online reports", "k57dPNkbi5U-00017-00017061-00017839": "“The Former American actress wants her own team to deliver her first child with Prince Harry according to reports", "k57dPNkbi5U-00018-00017839-00017939": "”"}}, {"audio_id": "k7kGESRwK6M", "text": {"k7kGESRwK6M-00000-00000513-00001952": "In a blow to the Trump administration’s U.S.-Mexico border strategy, a federal court judge in California has expanded the number of migrant families separated at the border that the government may be required to reunite", "k7kGESRwK6M-00001-00001952-00003457": "San Diego-based U.S. District Court Judge Dana Sabraw late on Friday issued a preliminary ruling that would potentially expand by thousands the number of migrants included in a class-action lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union", "k7kGESRwK6M-00002-00003457-00004462": "Sabraw already ordered the Trump administration last year to reunite more than 2,800 migrant children who were separated from their parents at the U", "k7kGESRwK6M-00003-00004462-00005784": "S.-Mexico border under the administration’s “zero tolerance” policy.But he will allow more separated families to join the class-action lawsuit after a report released in January by the U", "k7kGESRwK6M-00004-00005784-00006889": "S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Inspector General, which identified potentially thousands more families that had been separated as early as July 1, 2017", "k7kGESRwK6M-00005-00006889-00008357": "The administration’s “zero tolerance” policy did not take effect until May 2018.“The hallmark of a civilized society is measured by how it treats its people and those within its borders,” Sabraw said in his ruling", "k7kGESRwK6M-00006-00008357-00009109": "Sabraw said that report was “a significant development in this case” and its contents “are undisputed", "k7kGESRwK6M-00007-00009109-00009903": "”.The Justice Department did not immediately respond to calls for comment.The administration of U", "k7kGESRwK6M-00008-00009903-00011283": "S. President Donald Trump implemented the zero-tolerance policy to criminally prosecute and jail all illegal border crossers - even those traveling with their children - which led to a wave of separations last year", "k7kGESRwK6M-00009-00011283-00012320": "The policy sparked outrage when it became public, and the backlash led Trump to sign an executive order reversing course on June 20, 2018", "k7kGESRwK6M-00010-00012320-00014096": "The IG report said prior to the officially announced zero-tolerance policy, the government began ramping up separations in 2017 for other reasons related to a child’s safety and well-being, including separating parents with criminal records or lack of proper documents", "k7kGESRwK6M-00011-00014096-00015640": "A Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman said in January after the IG report came out that the practice of separating apprehended minors from adults to protect the interests of the children has been standard practice “for more than a decade", "k7kGESRwK6M-00012-00015640-00016692": "”.The report also said more than 100 minors, including more than two dozen under age 5, were separated after the President’s executive order", "k7kGESRwK6M-00013-00016692-00018356": "“The court made clear that potentially thousands of children’s lives are at stake and that the Trump administration cannot simply ignore the devastation it has caused,” Lee Gelernt, ACLU lead attorney in the class-action family separation lawsuit, said on Friday"}}, {"audio_id": "k8pLvVexe4M", "text": {"k8pLvVexe4M-00000-00000571-00002193": "Trying to interpret Donald Trump’s increasingly deranged rants can end up being a fool’s errand, because when a mentally deranged person like Trump begins ranting, sometimes it means something, and other times it’s just a random pile of frantic word vomit", "k8pLvVexe4M-00001-00002193-00003611": "But if there is one bit of insight that can be consistently gleaned from Trump’s rants, it’s that when they come late at night and they’re particularly voluminous, they tend to give away that he thinks something ugly is about to drop on his head", "k8pLvVexe4M-00002-00003611-00004648": ".This brings us to how Donald Trump spent his Monday night. At around 10pm eastern time, he began ranting… and ranting… and ranting", "k8pLvVexe4M-00003-00004648-00005975": "As of midnight, he had posted six lengthy tweets in all, including an attack on Obamacare, and an attack on the “crazed and incompetent” Mayor of San Juan, among other disgraceful absurdities", "k8pLvVexe4M-00004-00005975-00007093": ".Taken individually, none of Trump’s tweets told us anything new. But combined, they sure seemed to paint a picture of a guy who’s really worried about something big and imminent", "k8pLvVexe4M-00005-00007093-00008167": "It’s worth pointing out that Tuesday is the deadline that House Judiciary Committee has set for Trump’s Attorney General William Barr to hand over the Mueller report", "k8pLvVexe4M-00006-00008167-00009361": "No one expects Barr to comply voluntarily, and the Democrats have already scheduled a vote for Wednesday morning which will allow Chairman Jerry Nadler to send subpoenas flying en masse"}}, {"audio_id": "krB6fha_X5y", "text": {"krB6fha_X5y-00000-00000571-00002376": "The House of Representatives voted on Tuesday to overturn President Donald Trump’s declaration of a national emergency on the southern border, with 13 Republicans joining Democrats to try to block the effort to divert funding to a border wall even though it lacks the congressional approval needed", "krB6fha_X5y-00001-00002376-00003536": "“Is your oath of office to Donald Trump or is it to the Constitution of the United States?” Speaker Nancy Pelosi asked Republican congress during a speech from the floor ahead of the vote", "krB6fha_X5y-00002-00003536-00005550": "“You cannot let him undermine your pledge to the Constitution''.The disapproval passed with a vote of 245 to 182, which will now be taken up by the Senate, where three Republicans have said they will support the disapproval, which is just one shy of the number needed for Congress to stop Trump’s fake national emergency", "krB6fha_X5y-00003-00005550-00006751": "Even Senator Mitch McConnell isn’t totally sold on backing Trump on the fake national emergency, saying ““I haven’t reached a total conclusion” when asked about it at a news conference on Tuesday", "krB6fha_X5y-00004-00006751-00007723": "Imagine that. Mitch McConnell hasn’t reached a conclusion.  I imagine when he does, it won’t be hard to guess what that will be", "krB6fha_X5y-00005-00007723-00008397": "It will be whatever enables and defends President Donald Trump to the most extreme degree"}}, {"audio_id": "kwewDgmr-0Y", "text": {"kwewDgmr-0Y-00000-00000513-00001424": "Alexandria-Ocasio Cortez might not be willing to take 'no' for an answer.Rep. Ocasio-Cortez, D-N", "kwewDgmr-0Y-00001-00001424-00002213": "Y., broke with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday on the topic of potentially impeaching President Trump", "kwewDgmr-0Y-00002-00002213-00003313": "The freshman congresswoman, who has previously said she “supports” impeachment, spoke to reporters in the wake of Pelosi saying Trump is “just not worth it", "kwewDgmr-0Y-00003-00003313-00004091": "”.\"I’m not for impeachment,\" Pelosi told The Washington Post Magazine in an interview published Monday", "kwewDgmr-0Y-00004-00004091-00005256": "\"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", "kwewDgmr-0Y-00005-00005256-00006646": "And he’s just not worth it.\".On Tuesday, Ocasio-Cortez said: “Legally I don't think it's something that can ever be 100 percent off the table, but if that's how she feels right now I respect that", "kwewDgmr-0Y-00006-00006646-00007610": "”.“She's always demonstrated leadership that takes all kind of factors into account,” she added in support of Pelosi, according to The Hill", "kwewDgmr-0Y-00007-00007610-00011058": "Billionaire activist Tom Steyer, who is bankrolling a campaign pushing for Trump's impeachment, shot back at Pelosi on Monday: \"Speaker Pelosi thinks `he's just not worth it?' Well, is defending our legal system `worth it?' Is holding the president accountable for his crimes and cover-ups `worth it?' Is doing what's right `worth it?' Or shall America just stop fighting for our principles and do what's politically convenient", "kwewDgmr-0Y-00008-00011058-00011842": "\".White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders, meanwhile, said \"I agree\" in response to Pelosi's comments", "kwewDgmr-0Y-00009-00011842-00012382": "Sanders added of impeachment, \"I don't think it should have ever been on the table", "kwewDgmr-0Y-00010-00012382-00013607": "\".Earlier this month, the freshman Democrat attempted to turn up the heat on Trump, saying investigators should focus on his taxes and financial statements instead of Russian collusion", "kwewDgmr-0Y-00011-00013607-00015151": "\"While [Trump's] talking collusion, collusion, collusion I think, in oversight, we should be talking about taxes, taxes, taxes, and his bank account, bank account, his bank account,” Ocasio-Cortez said at the time", "kwewDgmr-0Y-00012-00015151-00016324": "“His financial statements, because that’s where I think, actually, some of the most troubling practices are with direct relevance to the American people under the scope of oversight", "kwewDgmr-0Y-00013-00016324-00016424": "”"}}, {"audio_id": "kxrnpH91bxy", "text": {"kxrnpH91bxy-00000-00000571-00002342": "The president’s determined efforts to get his wall one way or another appear to be losing steam as Republican opposition to his “national emergency” declaration grows to the point where he might have to use the first veto of his presidency on shutting down a Congressional effort to stop him from doing it", "kxrnpH91bxy-00001-00002342-00004429": "He doesn’t even seem to care that much. His attention and energy sapped by worry over the Mueller investigation and unwelcome intrusion of the House’s investigative committees into every aspect of his life, he hasn’t made any efforts to head off the Republican rebellion — and they aren’t exactly quaking in their boots at the consequences of their backstabbing", "kxrnpH91bxy-00002-00004429-00005672": "His casual dismissal of any repercussions for his vote is telling, for it reveals just how little political capital the President has to work with on the Hill and how weak his own party thinks he is", "kxrnpH91bxy-00003-00005672-00008486": "Given how hard he complained about the failure of the Obamacare repeal — to this day, he still takes potshots at the now-dead John McCain for his vote — and the hyperaggressive, overcompensating way that he responds to the slightest indication of disloyalty or criticism from anyone and everyone, it’s very surprising to see him treat this dissension in the ranks with kid gloves — and perhaps a sign that the cracks in the shell of Donald Trump are about to splinter beyond repair"}}, {"audio_id": "k_VFCvH699c", "text": {"k_VFCvH699c-00000-00000000-00000653": "Donald Trump has accused Andrew McCabe and Rod Rosenstein of plotting treason against him", "k_VFCvH699c-00001-00000653-00002761": "Former acting FBI Director McCabe has been drip-feeding revelations from his new book to the media over the past few weeks, including an assertion that Trump's decision to fire Comey in May 2017 sparked so much alarm within the agency that it led to discussions about invoking the 25th Amendment to remove him as president", "k_VFCvH699c-00002-00002761-00003999": "He also claimed that Trump said he trusted Vladimir Putin more than U.S. intelligence when it came to the question of whether North Korean had the capability to hit the U.S. with ballistic missiles.", "k_VFCvH699c-00003-00003999-00004837": "Tweeting Monday morning, Trump said: “Wow, so many lies by now disgraced acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe", "k_VFCvH699c-00004-00004837-00006201": "He was fired for lying, and now his story gets even more deranged. He and Rod Rosenstein, who was hired by Jeff Sessions (another beauty), look like they were planning a very illegal act, and got caught", "k_VFCvH699c-00005-00006201-00007423": "There is a lot of explaining to do to the millions of people who had just elected a president who they really like and who has done a great job for them with the Military, Vets, Economy and so much more", "k_VFCvH699c-00006-00007423-00009905": "This was the illegal and treasonous ‘insurance policy’ in full action!”Rosenstein repeatedly has denied he \"pursued or authorized recording the president\" and also has denied McCabe's suggestion that the deputy attorney general had broached the idea of invoking the Constitution's 25th Amendment, which allows Cabinet members to seek the removal of a president if they conclude that he or she is mentally unfit", "k_VFCvH699c-00007-00009905-00011049": "The Justice Department echoed both denials in a statement released last week, saying Rosenstein \"was not in a position to consider invoking the 25th Amendment", "k_VFCvH699c-00008-00011049-00012352": "\".Yet McCabe said in the interview, \"Rod raised the [25th Amendment] issue and discussed it with me in the context of thinking about how many other Cabinet officials might support such an effort", "k_VFCvH699c-00009-00012352-00013113": "” He added that he believed Rosenstein was \"counting votes or possible votes\" to remove Trump from office", "k_VFCvH699c-00010-00013113-00014468": "Fox News reported Sunday that Baker, in his testimony to Congress, provided even more details about the alleged 25th Amendment discussions – saying two Cabinet officials were “ready to support” such an effort"}}, {"audio_id": "kM5p3JXy9hY", "text": {"kM5p3JXy9hY-00000-00000571-00001681": "Monday on MSNBC’s “Deadline,” former Justice Department spokesman Matt Miller discussed the ouster of Kirstjen Nielsen, as the secretary of Homeland Security", "kM5p3JXy9hY-00001-00001681-00003366": "After playing a clip of President Donald Trump’s comments on asylum seekers, Miller said, “When I watch that clip and the clip of Secretary Nielsen failing to remember how many children died in her department’s custody, I’m really just filled with shame as an American", "kM5p3JXy9hY-00002-00003366-00004165": "”. .He continued, “The same sense of shame I felt during the family separation event last year", "kM5p3JXy9hY-00003-00004165-00004970": "It’s a stain certainly on the administration, on the people who carried out that policy, but it’s a stain on our entire country", "kM5p3JXy9hY-00004-00004970-00005685": "It’s a stain that’s not over just because the family separation policy ended last year", "kM5p3JXy9hY-00005-00005685-00006644": "The Justice Department told a federal court on Friday it’ll be two years before they can account for all the people separated as a result of that policy", "kM5p3JXy9hY-00006-00006644-00007733": "Two years before they’ll even be able to say how many people were affected. We still don’t know and may never know how many children were orphaned as a result of that policy", "kM5p3JXy9hY-00007-00007733-00008613": "The stain that President Trump and Secretary Nielsen put on our country through implementing that policy will never leave us", "kM5p3JXy9hY-00008-00008613-00009481": "I shudder to think what family separation 2.0, and whatever else the president comes up with, will look like", "kM5p3JXy9hY-00009-00009481-00010502": "”.He added, “He doesn’t have the patience or the willingness to sit down and actually understand immigration policy and come up with something that would work", "kM5p3JXy9hY-00010-00010502-00011685": "Be willing to work with Congress. Take a political risk. He’s the one person that can do it, he has such credibility with the right on this issue and come up with a policy", "kM5p3JXy9hY-00011-00011685-00012571": "He’s never willing to do that, so I fear we’ll get something that looks worse than the humanitarian disaster we saw last year", "kM5p3JXy9hY-00012-00012571-00012671": "”"}}, {"audio_id": "kScuNPRvDIg", "text": {"kScuNPRvDIg-00000-00000571-00001733": "Even as House Democrats gear up to unearth the real Robert Mueller report and expose Donald Trump’s crimes, Trump is wasting no time pushing forward with his deranged agenda", "kScuNPRvDIg-00001-00001733-00002775": "Near the top of his list: getting rid of the Affordable Care Act and taking health care away from tens of millions of Americans, while replacing it with nothing", "kScuNPRvDIg-00002-00002775-00003460": "Suffice it to say that this isn’t going over well, and now Trump is throwing a fit about it", "kScuNPRvDIg-00003-00003460-00005032": ".Donald Trump’s latest attempt at sabotaging Obamacare and destroying President Obama’s legacy has gone over so poorly, even Trump’s fellow Republican leaders are letting it be known through various media leaks that they want nothing to do with it", "kScuNPRvDIg-00004-00005032-00006080": "Instead of realizing that he’s picked a loser of an idea, Trump is instead doubling down on it, and – naturally – doubling his empty bombast", "kScuNPRvDIg-00005-00006080-00006863": "On Monday night, Trump posted this angry multi-part tweet: “Everybody agrees that ObamaCare doesn’t work", "kScuNPRvDIg-00006-00006863-00008344": "Premiums & deductibles are far too high – Really bad HealthCare! Even the Dems want to replace it, but with Medicare for all, which would cause 180 million Americans to lose their beloved private health insurance", "kScuNPRvDIg-00007-00008344-00009233": "The Republicans are developing a really great HealthCare Plan with far lower premiums (cost) & deductibles than ObamaCare", "kScuNPRvDIg-00008-00009233-00010390": "In other words it will be far less expensive & much more usable than ObamaCare. Vote will be taken right after the Election when Republicans hold the Senate & win", "kScuNPRvDIg-00009-00010390-00011469": "back the House. It will be truly great HealthCare that will work for America. Also, Republicans will always support Pre-Existing Conditions", "kScuNPRvDIg-00010-00011469-00012735": "The Republican Party will be known as the Party of Great HealtCare. Meantime, the USA is doing better than ever & is respected again!” That’s right, he spelled it HealtCare", "kScuNPRvDIg-00011-00012735-00013767": ".To be clear, there is no consensus that “ObamaCare doesn’t work,” and there is no evidence that Donald Trump and the Republicans have any such alternative", "kScuNPRvDIg-00012-00013767-00015220": "This is the same utter nonsense that they pushed back in 2017. They didn’t have an alternative back then either, most Americans saw right through the con, and Trump and the GOP got pummeled in the midterm elections as a result", "kScuNPRvDIg-00013-00015220-00015705": "Now Trump is intent on making the same mistake again"}}, {"audio_id": "kh8aprFnovA", "text": {"kh8aprFnovA-00000-00000571-00001684": "It has been suggested that one of the driving reasons he ran for president in the first place was because Barack Obama once roasted him publicly and it was his way of getting even for it", "kh8aprFnovA-00001-00001684-00002465": "Trump is not one that will sit back and not retaliate if he feels you have wronged him", "kh8aprFnovA-00002-00002465-00003554": "Another prime example is how Trump responded to CNN during the campaign after they played the now famous video of him talking about grabbing women by their genitals", "kh8aprFnovA-00003-00003554-00004348": "This profile of CNN bigshot Jeff Zucker gives a lot of insight into how Trump operates with vengeance:", "kh8aprFnovA-00004-00004348-00006409": "For Zucker, the thick-skinned TV executive and newsman, it was just business. For Trump, the thin-skinned TV star and now approval-craving politician, it was tactical but also personal: He believed that he had gotten Zucker his job at CNN and that the network’s increasingly aggressive coverage of him was an act of betrayal", "kh8aprFnovA-00005-00006409-00007887": "Trump actually didn’t play a meaningful role in Zucker’s hiring. (“The president is certainly entitled to believe whatever he likes about our conversation,” Kent wrote me in an email, “however, it was not a factor in the decision to hire Jeff", "kh8aprFnovA-00006-00007887-00010032": "”) But after the second presidential debate in October, when several CNN panelists criticized Trump for dismissing his comments about grabbing women by the genitals as “locker-room talk,” Zucker received an email from Trump, via his campaign spokeswoman, Hope Hicks:''Jeff — Too bad you (CNN) couldn’t be honest with how well I did in the debate", "kh8aprFnovA-00007-00010032-00010771": "The dumbest thing I ever did was get you the job at CNN — you are the most disloyal person", "kh8aprFnovA-00008-00010771-00011497": "Just remember, I always seem to find a way to get even. Best wishes, Donald J. Trump", "kh8aprFnovA-00009-00011497-00012062": "”.Trump is a revenge-driven person…it’s just who he is"}}, {"audio_id": "khgkdsi5I48", "text": {"khgkdsi5I48-00000-00000571-00001213": "Can you guess which lame-brain liberal just jumped aboard the “impeach Trump” bandwagon?", "khgkdsi5I48-00001-00001213-00002062": "Democrats have only two cards to play these days:.The race (or victim) card, and the “impeach Trump” card", "khgkdsi5I48-00002-00002062-00002757": "That’s it. They seem to care nothing about the actual state of the union, or its citizens", "khgkdsi5I48-00003-00002757-00003384": "Remember when Maxine Waters swore she never said she wanted the President impeached?", "khgkdsi5I48-00004-00003384-00004384": "…and HOW many times has she demanded exactly that?.And every time you turn around, a new Democrat leader is leaping aboard the “Impeach Donald” bandwagon", "khgkdsi5I48-00005-00004384-00005116": "You probably won’t be too surprised to learn the identity of the latest passenger on that bandwagon, either:", "khgkdsi5I48-00006-00005116-00006106": "Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, aka “AOC.”.And WHY does she want the President impeached? Oh, wait ’til you hear…", "khgkdsi5I48-00007-00006106-00006811": "From Breitbart:.“When asked why she thought the president should be impeached, Ocasio-Cortez said…", "khgkdsi5I48-00008-00006811-00007571": "‘Number one is emoluments. I think it’s always been emoluments. It’s always been about that for me", "khgkdsi5I48-00009-00007571-00008770": "I think two would be tax fraud.’”.Okay, wait a second … “emoluments”?.For those that don’t know, emolument is when a person is getting paid to run for public office", "khgkdsi5I48-00010-00008770-00009486": "So … who is paying Trump to be president? What’s this, a NEW lie Democrats have cooked up?", "khgkdsi5I48-00011-00009486-00010144": "Then there’s the tax fraud accusation, which there’s virtually no evidence to support", "khgkdsi5I48-00012-00010144-00011296": "As in, zero.Democrats are demanding Trump’s tax returns, suggesting he might not be paying his “fair share,” but none of them are outright saying he’s committing tax fraud", "khgkdsi5I48-00013-00011296-00012328": "And that’s because there IS no fraud.But AOC saved the best for last; her final reason for wanting Trump impeached is … wait for it … Russia!", "khgkdsi5I48-00014-00012328-00013148": "That’s right, she’s so far gone, she’s actually claiming Trump is getting paid by Russia for being president!", "khgkdsi5I48-00015-00013148-00014148": "Okay, look: we know the Russian collusion lie was debunked by Mueller. Trump had nothing to do with Russian attempts to interfere with our election", "khgkdsi5I48-00016-00014148-00014875": "But not only is AOC pushing this dead lie, she’s twisted it into complete and utter nonsense", "khgkdsi5I48-00017-00014875-00015590": "In fact, just about everything that comes out of this woman’s mouth these days is complete nonsense", "khgkdsi5I48-00018-00015590-00016554": "Elections have consequences, folks.And because New Yorkers were bamboozled by the media, they elected a child to public office"}}, {"audio_id": "l8L5fggG-Gg", "text": {"l8L5fggG-Gg-00000-00000571-00002357": "It is being reported by major British publication The Spectator that Special Counsel Robert Mueller is ready to indict Donald Trump, but Attorney General William Barr is preventing him from moving forward, because of a decades old DOJ memo that suggests you cannot indict a sitting President", "l8L5fggG-Gg-00001-00002357-00003274": "A very interesting thing just happened in New York State: Paul Manafort was indicted on state charges for sixteen felony offenses", "l8L5fggG-Gg-00002-00003274-00003938": "Several of Manafort’s crimes involved falsifying business records in the first degree", "l8L5fggG-Gg-00003-00003938-00005027": "As reported by Rachel Maddow on Wednesday night, this is the same kind of criminal charge in the same state for which Donald Trump was named as an unindicted co-conspirator", "l8L5fggG-Gg-00004-00005027-00005816": "This raises the very real possibility that New York State could indict President Trump at any time", "l8L5fggG-Gg-00005-00005816-00006743": "New York State prosecutors are not federal prosecutors (not to be confused with the Southern District of NY, which is a federal office)", "l8L5fggG-Gg-00006-00006743-00007441": "They are not part of the Department of Justice and are not subject to DOJ internal policies", "l8L5fggG-Gg-00007-00007441-00008940": "They have no restrictions on indicting a President.So, why haven’t they indicted Trump yet? First of all, most if not all, law enforcement offices work together, especially in determining jurisdiction issues", "l8L5fggG-Gg-00008-00008940-00009637": "Clearly, Mueller’s office has been in communication with state law enforcement offices", "l8L5fggG-Gg-00009-00009637-00010742": "If the President of the United States is indicted by anyone, that indictment would be challenged in the courts, and the courts would have to decide if a sitting President could be indicted", "l8L5fggG-Gg-00010-00010742-00011643": "Robert Mueller and his team of prosecutors are first-rate, and they are by far the best-equipped office to handle that court case", "l8L5fggG-Gg-00011-00011643-00013394": "Additionally, the list of charges Mueller could potentially bring are much more likely to include post-election crimes that include abuse of power and other high impact crimes that could more effectively counter the defense argument that indicting a sitting President is too disruptive to the country"}}, {"audio_id": "lrrAG2rfFxY", "text": {"lrrAG2rfFxY-00000-00000694-00001094": "- Вока Шывы, той хто валодае ім, валодае цэлым светам.", "lrrAG2rfFxY-00001-00001704-00001904": "- Трынаццаць скрынь золата.", "lrrAG2rfFxY-00002-00001980-00002154": "- Вы з бацькам сапраўдныя археолагі...", "lrrAG2rfFxY-00003-00002154-00002398": "- а я, паляўнічы за скарбамі.", "lrrAG2rfFxY-00004-00002398-00002528": "- 160 мільёнаў", "lrrAG2rfFxY-00005-00002626-00002826": "- Да таго ж рабаваць гробниы ня законна", "lrrAG2rfFxY-00006-00002858-00002966": "- Пачакайце мяне!", "lrrAG2rfFxY-00007-00002970-00003170": "- Скарбы належаць усяму чалавецтву, а не аднаму чалавеку.", "lrrAG2rfFxY-00008-00003210-00003358": "- Арыгінал, ён бессмяротны", "lrrAG2rfFxY-00009-00003424-00003624": "- Мае 160 мільёнаў даляраў!", "lrrAG2rfFxY-00010-00003706-00003804": "- Прашу прабачэння!", "lrrAG2rfFxY-00011-00004552-00004634": "- Давай хутчэй!", "lrrAG2rfFxY-00012-00005432-00005528": "- Давай, бяжы да яго!", "lrrAG2rfFxY-00013-00006406-00006914": "Даспехі бога: у пошуках скарбы", "lrrAG2rfFxY-00014-00007034-00007300": "- Маляня, Джэкі! - Дзядзька, Джэк!", "lrrAG2rfFxY-00015-00007334-00007608": "З 8 мая ў кіно!"}}, {"audio_id": "lsrmTzX5yy0", "text": {"lsrmTzX5yy0-00000-00000571-00001542": "It’s not entirely clear at what point Donald Trump figured out that House Democrats were going to seize his financial records today", "lsrmTzX5yy0-00001-00001542-00003206": "Was it over the weekend, when he had one of his most bonkers Twitter meltdowns to date? Was is this morning, when he began attacking Nancy Pelosi in berserk fashion? In any case, Trump now seems to understand just how poorly today is going for him", "lsrmTzX5yy0-00002-00003206-00004776": ".Even as William Barr prepares to release portions of the Mueller report in the hope of fending off the subpoena for the full report, and Donald Trump’s attorneys beg the government not to hand over his tax returns, Trump is losing some more immediate battles today", "lsrmTzX5yy0-00003-00004776-00006041": "House Democrats just issued a friendly subpoena to infamous Russian money launderer Deutsche Bank, specifically seeking Trump’s financial records with Russia, and they also subpoenaed Trump’s accounting firm", "lsrmTzX5yy0-00004-00006041-00006863": "These subpoenas give these institutions legal cover to cooperate, and prevent Trump from being able to do anything about it", "lsrmTzX5yy0-00005-00006863-00008010": ". .So maybe this was on Donald Trump’s mind this morning when he took yet another shot at trying to convince his violently deranged base to bring harm to Congresswoman Ilhan Omar", "lsrmTzX5yy0-00006-00008010-00009374": "Perhaps it helps explain why, when the nightmarish fire broke out at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris this afternoon, Trump inexplicably tweeted that the French should use “flying water tankers” to fight the blaze", "lsrmTzX5yy0-00007-00009374-00010463": "And perhaps Trump was trying to shore up his base ahead of the bad news, when he insisted this evening that the steel industry is magically making a comeback", "lsrmTzX5yy0-00008-00010463-00011380": ".In any case, it’s not difficult to parse that Donald Trump is at least partly aware of just how bad today’s news has been for him", "lsrmTzX5yy0-00009-00011380-00012743": "Even as House Democrats continue to fight for the Mueller report and Trump’s tax returns, two battles they’ll win eventually but not imminently, they won today when it comes to Trump’s banking and accounting records", "lsrmTzX5yy0-00010-00012743-00013629": "Deutsche Bank has been busted for facilitating the laundering of billion of dollars of Russian money into places like New York City", "lsrmTzX5yy0-00011-00013629-00013974": "We’ll see what comes of it"}}, {"audio_id": "l-5gU4ScXyI", "text": {"l-5gU4ScXyI-00000-00000571-00001182": "President Trump has been shaking up the Washington swamp more than usual this week", "l-5gU4ScXyI-00001-00001182-00002172": "He’s even catching his own party off guard. He promised to close the border this week if Mexico did not stop border jumpers immediately", "l-5gU4ScXyI-00002-00002172-00002927": "The DC elites and the liberal media flipped out, saying Trump would cause major harm to our economy", "l-5gU4ScXyI-00003-00002927-00003632": "It looked like Donald was backing down—then he caught them off guard with a powerful response", "l-5gU4ScXyI-00004-00003632-00004870": "From Twitter.Here’s what Trump said: “Congress must get together and immediately eliminate the loopholes at the Border! If no action, Border, or large sections of Border, will close", "l-5gU4ScXyI-00005-00004870-00005884": "This is a National Emergency!”.Go TRUMP!.Trump is not backing down. He is demanding Congress get rid of loopholes like “catch and release", "l-5gU4ScXyI-00006-00005884-00006519": "”.Why would Trump be willing to take the hit to our economy by closing the border?", "l-5gU4ScXyI-00007-00006519-00007362": "Because we are seeing a full-blown crisis on our borders.  If our border is overrun, we don’t have a country", "l-5gU4ScXyI-00008-00007362-00008326": "Democrats don’t even seem to care what happened on our border. One 2020 candidate actually wants to decriminalize border crossings", "l-5gU4ScXyI-00009-00008326-00009233": "Trump, on the other hand, is thinking of Americans first. He is putting our safety ahead of politics to stop this crisis", "l-5gU4ScXyI-00010-00009233-00010021": "Our only hope, it seems, is Trump taking hard action, and he needs America’s support to do it"}}, {"audio_id": "lD-UG7KGFao", "text": {"lD-UG7KGFao-00000-00000513-00002299": "What was all that back there? Why did Special Counsel Robert Mueller choose, in the end, to go the route that he did? What was he trying to accomplish, before Donald Trump’s corrupt Attorney General William Barr took his report and rewrote it in orange crayon? It turns out", "lD-UG7KGFao-00001-00002299-00004815": "one sentence pretty much explains it all.When Barr first announced that Mueller hadn’t been able to determine whether Trump should be criminally charged, Palmer Report’s best guess was that Mueller actually made an overwhelming factual case for Trump’s guilt, and then essentially said “Here it is, now you decide” – in the same way that a courtroom prosecutor ultimately tells a jury that it has to decide guilt", "lD-UG7KGFao-00002-00004815-00005967": "Barr then twisted that by trying to bury Mueller’s entire case, and simply painting Mueller as having been too wishy-washy or bereft of evidence to make a decision", "lD-UG7KGFao-00003-00005967-00008396": "It turns out we were pretty much right. In the middle of a very long and somewhat unrelated article the Daily Beast casually dropped this sentence: “A source with direct knowledge of the investigation told The Daily Beast that it was their interpretation that “Mueller was making a case to Congress, who (unlike DOJ, in Mueller’s view) is empowered to weigh the lawfulness of a president’s conduct", "lD-UG7KGFao-00004-00008396-00009227": "” Okay, so someone on the inside thinks it went down more or less like we did. But wait a minute here", "lD-UG7KGFao-00005-00009227-00009906": "If this is the case, then Robert Mueller must have been expecting one of two things", "lD-UG7KGFao-00006-00009906-00011408": "Either he mistakenly thought William Barr would do the right thing and give the entire report to Congress and the public, or Mueller put a gameplan in place to ensure that his entire report would become public no matter what Barr did", "lD-UG7KGFao-00007-00011408-00012330": "Based on Mueller’s track record of aggression and thoroughness, we’re inclined to lean toward the latter – and we’ll find out soon enough", "lD-UG7KGFao-00008-00012330-00013061": "Either way, this helps explain everything that just went down between Mueller and Barr"}}, {"audio_id": "lFpkqVenJku", "text": {"lFpkqVenJku-00000-00000571-00002044": "As we wait for Robert Mueller's report to drop and with House Democrats launching investigations into the administration, many are wondering if there will be a \"smoking gun\" that proves President Donald Trump deserves to be impeached", "lFpkqVenJku-00001-00002044-00003985": "Trying to find a smoking gun in a federal investigation is not new. In every investigation since Richard Nixon's Watergate scandal, politicians have assumed that it was necessary to discover a concrete piece of evidence that can prove with total certainty that a president committed \"high crimes and misdemeanors", "lFpkqVenJku-00002-00003985-00005048": "\" With Ronald Reagan's Iran Contra scandal, a smoking gun was never found. With President Bill Clinton, it was Monica Lewinsky's blue dress", "lFpkqVenJku-00003-00005048-00005884": "But the expectation of finding one piece of conclusive evidence is misplaced and too often obscures the big picture", "lFpkqVenJku-00004-00005884-00007684": "Not every investigation will be like Watergate, where just as the House Judiciary Committee voted in late July 1974 on articles of impeachment, the Supreme Court voted unanimously that President Nixon could not invoke executive privilege to block the release of White House recordings", "lFpkqVenJku-00005-00007684-00009368": "One of these tapes was from June 23, 1972 -- six days after the break-in of the Democratic National Headquarters at the Watergate complex -- in which President Nixon could be heard saying that he wanted the CIA to stop the FBI investigation", "lFpkqVenJku-00006-00009368-00010549": "There it was: obstruction of justice.\"The tape was the last straw,\" former national security adviser and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger recalled in TIME magazine", "lFpkqVenJku-00007-00010549-00011406": "\"It provided the pretext for waverers to commit themselves to impeachment and for others to abandon Nixon", "lFpkqVenJku-00008-00011406-00012474": "By now there had been too many shocks; everybody wanted to get it over with.\" On August 5, 1974, the public heard the tapes", "lFpkqVenJku-00009-00012474-00013428": "Two days later, upon seeing the full transcript, New York Republican Rep. Barber Conable said it \"looked like a smoking gun", "lFpkqVenJku-00010-00013428-00014164": "\" Republican Sens. Barry Goldwater and Hugh Scott met with the President to tell him he was finished", "lFpkqVenJku-00011-00014164-00015288": "On August 8, Nixon announced his resignation.Ever since that epic moment in American history, the \"smoking gun\" has achieved a mythological status in presidential scandals", "lFpkqVenJku-00012-00015288-00015836": "The problem is that the story exaggerates the role of this kind of evidence"}}, {"audio_id": "lFzTqJmET4c", "text": {"lFzTqJmET4c-00000-00000571-00001825": "President Donald Trump on Friday repeated his threat to close down the border between the United States and Mexico, but this time he noted he would act next week if Mexico doesn't step up", "lFzTqJmET4c-00001-00001825-00003219": "\"If Mexico doesn't immediately stop ALL illegal immigration coming into the United States throug (sic) our Southern Border, I will be CLOSING the Border, or large sections of the Border, next week,\" he tweeted", "lFzTqJmET4c-00002-00003219-00004398": "Trump, in Florida on Friday afternoon, said he could close the border to trade for a \"long time\" and insisted the US had run out of detention space for undocumented immigrants", "lFzTqJmET4c-00003-00004398-00005466": "\"We have the weakest, most pathetic laws,\" the President said, threatening to close the border if two current caravans of migrants cross into the US", "lFzTqJmET4c-00004-00005466-00006357": "\"We have run out of space. We can't hold people anywhere. Mexico can stop it so easily,\" he added", "lFzTqJmET4c-00005-00006357-00007268": "Trump's comments follow a period in which the Department of Homeland Security and border officials have said their resources have become strained", "lFzTqJmET4c-00006-00007268-00008227": "Earlier this week, Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan said the \"breaking point has arrived\" for the US immigration system", "lFzTqJmET4c-00007-00008227-00009452": "Over the last two weeks, Customs and Border Protection announced that they will be releasing migrants in Arizona, as well as the Del Rio sector and Rio Grande Valley region of Texas", "lFzTqJmET4c-00008-00009452-00010301": "And more people are expected to be apprehended at the border in March than any month since 2008, CBP says", "lFzTqJmET4c-00009-00010301-00011466": "So far, the plan Department of Homeland Security says it will commit to is pulling some officers from legal ports of entry to help with the influx of migrants crossing illegally", "lFzTqJmET4c-00010-00011466-00013072": "This plan will not fully close ports on the southern border as of now.In a Friday statement announcing the move, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said there is a \"cascading crisis\" at the border and \"the system is in free fall", "lFzTqJmET4c-00011-00013072-00014386": "\".The Department of Homeland Security is moving officers from its ports to help with the mission between ports, which will result in slow downs, a senior Department of Homeland Security official told reporters", "lFzTqJmET4c-00012-00014386-00015551": "But the official said full closure of ports of entry is \"on the table.\".\"It's short at the moment of full closure of any port, we will continue to operationally assess what is needed", "lFzTqJmET4c-00013-00015551-00016763": "But I think what the President is making clear, is with these numbers, if we have to close ports to take care of all of the numbers who are coming, we will do that, so it's on the table,\" the official said", "lFzTqJmET4c-00014-00016763-00017996": "\"But what we are doing is a very structured process based on operational needs to determine how many additional personnel we can pull from other duties to address the crisis between the ports", "lFzTqJmET4c-00015-00017996-00019276": "\".The official said the Department of Homeland Security is \"looking at it from an operational perspective\" and that the Department of Homeland Security secretary will make a \"recommendation accordingly to the President", "lFzTqJmET4c-00016-00019276-00020418": "\".Can Trump legally close the southern border?.The Justice Department declined to comment on the legality of closing the border or any portion of it, as described in the President's tweet", "lFzTqJmET4c-00017-00020418-00021154": "The Justice Department also declined to comment on whether the Office of Legal Counsel has issued an opinion", "lFzTqJmET4c-00018-00021154-00023158": "Though border closures are rare, they're not unprecedented. For example, in 1985, the abduction of a Drug Enforcement Administration agent and subsequent threats against customs agents prompted then-President Ronald Reagan, in agreement with the Mexican government, to close nine border crossings on the southern border", "lFzTqJmET4c-00019-00023158-00023800": "Will closing the border stem the flow of migrants illegally crossing into the US?"}}, {"audio_id": "lFKKZfEDA4y", "text": {"lFKKZfEDA4y-00000-00000571-00001749": "President Donald Trump vowed during his speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Saturday to defend conservative free speech on college campuses", "lFKKZfEDA4y-00001-00001749-00002956": "The president invited Hayden Williams, the conservative activist for the Leadership Institute who was punched in the face at the UC Berkeley campus in California, to join him on stage", "lFKKZfEDA4y-00002-00002956-00004079": "Trump also announced his decision to sign an executive order requiring colleges and universities to protect free speech on campus if they were to receive federal funding", "lFKKZfEDA4y-00003-00004079-00005173": "“If they want our dollars, and we give it to them by the billions, they’ve got to allow people like Hayden and a great many of young people and old people to speak,” Trump said", "lFKKZfEDA4y-00004-00005173-00005980": "“Free speech!”.Williams thanked the president for his support.“I am glad we could bring this to the forefront,” he said", "lFKKZfEDA4y-00005-00005980-00006728": "“If these socialist progressives had their way, they would put our Constitution through the paper shredder in a heartbeat''", "lFKKZfEDA4y-00006-00006728-00008023": "The crowd of young people at CPAC leaped to their feet with a roar of approval, giving the president a lengthy standing ovation and chanting, “USA! USA! USA!”", "lFKKZfEDA4y-00007-00008023-00009034": "“He can take a punch,” Trump said about Williams. “That was a hard punch. He was a strong guy, but you know what? You’ve got yourself a great lawyer", "lFKKZfEDA4y-00008-00009034-00009792": "… Sue him forever. … Sue the college. Sue the university, and maybe sue the state''"}}, {"audio_id": "lHoNUvBXWrY", "text": {"lHoNUvBXWrY-00000-00000513-00001226": "Other than Paul Manafort himself, no one was very happy with the sentencing hearing he had on Wednesday", "lHoNUvBXWrY-00001-00001226-00002132": "Manafort will serve a total of seven and a half years in prison, which includes the time he’s already spent waiting to be tried and sentencing", "lHoNUvBXWrY-00002-00002132-00002997": "For anyone who isn’t wealthy, seven and a half years for conspiracy against your country sounds a little too good to be true", "lHoNUvBXWrY-00003-00002997-00003997": "House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff posted on Twitter regarding the hearing, saying that it was little more than a plea for a pardon from Trump", "lHoNUvBXWrY-00004-00003997-00005288": "He noted the out-of-place “no collusion” diatribe Manafort’s lawyer went on once again, just as he did during Manafort’s previous sentencing, that sounded as if it was written by Trump himself", "lHoNUvBXWrY-00005-00005288-00006040": "In short, the hearing was, as Schiff characterized it, a “barely concealed appeal for a pardon", "lHoNUvBXWrY-00006-00006040-00006983": "”.Trump has yet to rule out the idea of granting Manafort a pardon and will face a massive wave of political backlash if he does", "lHoNUvBXWrY-00007-00006983-00008346": "He has repeatedly referred to his former lawyer and “fixer” Michael Cohen as a “rat,” or a person who tells on someone when they’ve committed crimes, which doesn’t exactly bode well for Trump’s chances of escaping all this unscathed", "lHoNUvBXWrY-00008-00008346-00009464": "For Manafort, though, Trump offered that he “feels bad” for his former campaign manager, a man Trump has said he doesn’t know well and has distanced himself from since his indictments", "lHoNUvBXWrY-00009-00009464-00010486": "While Schiff is correct that it shouldn’t be a state attorney general’s job to clean up the mess of the federal courts, it seems that’s the way this will play out", "lHoNUvBXWrY-00010-00010486-00011139": "Manafort was indicted for sixteen separate state crimes shortly after leaving the court", "lHoNUvBXWrY-00011-00011139-00011852": "As NBC noted following that announcement, “a presidential pardon is ineffective against state crimes", "lHoNUvBXWrY-00012-00011852-00012437": "”.Twitter was furious over the light sentence Manafort received"}}, {"audio_id": "lHvicPKj4ZI", "text": {"lHvicPKj4ZI-00000-00000513-00001226": "Other than Paul Manafort himself, no one was very happy with the sentencing hearing he had on Wednesday", "lHvicPKj4ZI-00001-00001226-00002132": "Manafort will serve a total of seven and a half years in prison, which includes the time he’s already spent waiting to be tried and sentencing", "lHvicPKj4ZI-00002-00002132-00002997": "For anyone who isn’t wealthy, seven and a half years for conspiracy against your country sounds a little too good to be true", "lHvicPKj4ZI-00003-00002997-00003997": "House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff posted on Twitter regarding the hearing, saying that it was little more than a plea for a pardon from Trump", "lHvicPKj4ZI-00004-00003997-00005288": "He noted the out-of-place “no collusion” diatribe Manafort’s lawyer went on once again, just as he did during Manafort’s previous sentencing, that sounded as if it was written by Trump himself", "lHvicPKj4ZI-00005-00005288-00006040": "In short, the hearing was, as Schiff characterized it, a “barely concealed appeal for a pardon", "lHvicPKj4ZI-00006-00006040-00006983": "”.Trump has yet to rule out the idea of granting Manafort a pardon and will face a massive wave of political backlash if he does", "lHvicPKj4ZI-00007-00006983-00008346": "He has repeatedly referred to his former lawyer and “fixer” Michael Cohen as a “rat,” or a person who tells on someone when they’ve committed crimes, which doesn’t exactly bode well for Trump’s chances of escaping all this unscathed", "lHvicPKj4ZI-00008-00008346-00009464": "For Manafort, though, Trump offered that he “feels bad” for his former campaign manager, a man Trump has said he doesn’t know well and has distanced himself from since his indictments", "lHvicPKj4ZI-00009-00009464-00010486": "While Schiff is correct that it shouldn’t be a state attorney general’s job to clean up the mess of the federal courts, it seems that’s the way this will play out", "lHvicPKj4ZI-00010-00010486-00011139": "Manafort was indicted for sixteen separate state crimes shortly after leaving the court", "lHvicPKj4ZI-00011-00011139-00011852": "As NBC noted following that announcement, “a presidential pardon is ineffective against state crimes", "lHvicPKj4ZI-00012-00011852-00012437": "”.Twitter was furious over the light sentence Manafort received"}}, {"audio_id": "lHetKGHLhz8", "text": {"lHetKGHLhz8-00000-00000571-00001919": "Former President Barack Obama left a powerful legacy from his time in the White House, even offering a poignant statement in his final farewell speech where he talked about “uniting to protect democracy”", "lHetKGHLhz8-00001-00001919-00003282": "Now, further proving his long reaching influence, a group of people who used to work with Obama are showing us just how much the future of American politics means to them- by suing President Donald Trump", "lHetKGHLhz8-00002-00003282-00004092": "The former members of Obama’s legal team have come together to form an organization called United To Protect Democracy", "lHetKGHLhz8-00003-00004092-00004943": "They are using their experience in the legal system and their legal knowledge to take on the task of taking Trump to court", "lHetKGHLhz8-00004-00004943-00005654": "What could Trump have done to warrant a lawsuit? According to this group, ALL KINDS OF THINGS", "lHetKGHLhz8-00005-00005654-00006764": "They have reason to believe that Trump’s White House is guilty of breaking codes for normal government business and that in turn, they have been breaking tons of ethical codes", "lHetKGHLhz8-00006-00006764-00007678": "United To Protect Democracy would like to see Trump and his willing administration face justice over the many wrongs they have committed", "lHetKGHLhz8-00007-00007678-00008553": "This group is full of motivated and intelligent workers and have already amassed an impressive staff and upwards of $1", "lHetKGHLhz8-00008-00008553-00009927": "5 million dollars in funds. Ian Bassin is the leader of the group, and is appearing on TV news segments and podcasts to spread the word about that can be done to make sense of the Trump Era", "lHetKGHLhz8-00009-00009927-00011701": "He offered the following statement on the mission and progress of United To Protect Democracy’s work:“When people hear concerns about democracies declining into authoritarianism, they expect that moment to come in a singular thunderclap where everyone can see that this is the time", "lHetKGHLhz8-00010-00011701-00012636": "In reality, often times, democracies decline over a period of years that happen through a series of much smaller steps''"}}, {"audio_id": "lU0RfDiujVo", "text": {"lU0RfDiujVo-00000-00000513-00002273": "Another day, another Trump scandal. In a new letter to White House Counsel Pat Cipollone, House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings (D-Md) has laid out alleged violations of federal record keeping law on the part of none other than Ivanka Trump", "lU0RfDiujVo-00001-00002273-00003801": "He says that during a meeting with Abbe Lowell, who’s a lawyer to Trump and her husband Jared Kushner, he learned that she allegedly has not saved emails about official business that have come to a personal account if she did not respond to them", "lU0RfDiujVo-00002-00003801-00004635": "The Presidential Records Act demands that entire classes of written communication be preserved, not just some of them", "lU0RfDiujVo-00003-00004635-00006155": "Cummings wants information from the Trump team on their electronic communication practices, including how the number of emails dealing with official business on a personal account of Ivanka’s relates to the number of those emails that have actually been preserved", "lU0RfDiujVo-00004-00006155-00007900": "The Ivanka email issue has been simmering for some time. Late last year, The Washington Post revealed that she’d used a personal account for hundreds of pieces of government business, which poses a number of issues besides that of possible illegally inadequate record keeping", "lU0RfDiujVo-00005-00007900-00009470": "To that end, Cummings also wants to know whether or not she transmitted any sensitive or classified information via her personal account — and the fact that there’s even the possibility she did indicts the Trump team for hypocrisy yet again", "lU0RfDiujVo-00006-00009470-00010729": "President Donald Trump has led countless chants of “Lock Her Up!” while stirring his rally crowds into frenzies over Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while Secretary of State", "lU0RfDiujVo-00007-00010729-00011761": "The implication was that she’d endangered national security, even though years of investigation did not produce a single criminal liability on her part", "lU0RfDiujVo-00008-00011761-00013662": "The danger they touted remains, though — thanks to the Trumps. At the same time he shared that Ivanka has allegedly not been complying with record keeping law, Cummings asserted that Kushner’s lawyer also told him that his client had been continuing to use WhatsApp for government business", "lU0RfDiujVo-00009-00013662-00014726": "Cummings claims Lowell said the question of whether Kushner has ever transmitted classified information via WhatsApp is “above my pay grade”", "lU0RfDiujVo-00010-00014726-00016416": "Lowell has unsurprisingly denied the claims, asserting he was significantly more vague than Cummings lets on, only referring to Ivanka’s use of personal email in the comparatively distant past and refusing to comment on Kushner’s WhatsApp use at all", "lU0RfDiujVo-00011-00016416-00017651": "He did admit, though, that he suggested they approach the White House counsel for more answers — so if Lowell was trying to undercut the legitimacy of Cummings’ latest quest, he failed", "lU0RfDiujVo-00012-00017651-00018965": "Cummings acknowledges that Lowell pointed him towards the White House, connecting the comment to his still standing question of whether Kushner had been authorized to use a civilian messaging system for government business", "lU0RfDiujVo-00013-00018965-00020104": "Up until this point, the administration has refused to comply with Cummings’ various inquiries, refusing to produce a single document or witness that they requested", "lU0RfDiujVo-00014-00020104-00021198": "Cummings has been seeking information on this issue since 2017, when he was the ranking member on the committee in light of House Democrats’ minority status"}}, {"audio_id": "lUlEJQsMzjy", "text": {"lUlEJQsMzjy-00000-00000571-00001333": "For some in the White House, Sunday seemed like the first day of the rest of Donald Trump's presidency", "lUlEJQsMzjy-00001-00001333-00002640": "By Friday, it was clear that while the cloud of Robert Mueller's special counsel investigation had lifted, the pervasive disarray that marked most of Trump's time in office was not going anywhere", "lUlEJQsMzjy-00002-00002640-00004411": "A sudden health care decision made after heated Oval Office disagreements -- along with a reversal on education funding, a confusing sanctions mystery and still-unfilled Cabinet posts -- revealed the chaotic practices and decision-making that have colored Trump's term until this point are still ever-present", "lUlEJQsMzjy-00003-00004411-00005406": "Instead of clearing the decks, the end of the Mueller probe has only thrown a fractious West Wing policy and messaging operation into sharper relief", "lUlEJQsMzjy-00004-00005406-00006537": "That's left some White House aides expressing regret the investigation's end wasn't matched with a more effective strategy to harness the momentum into advancing Trump's agenda", "lUlEJQsMzjy-00005-00006537-00007315": "And GOP lawmakers are scratching their heads at a health care push few believe makes political sense", "lUlEJQsMzjy-00006-00007315-00008227": "That's not exactly what Republicans and administration policy aides had in mind when it was announced last weekend the Mueller probe was over", "lUlEJQsMzjy-00007-00008227-00009301": "Many hoped the investigation's end might lead to an era of newly effective governing, a turning point for a President no longer preoccupied with an encroaching investigator", "lUlEJQsMzjy-00008-00009301-00010306": "Exuberant officials and a buoyant President spent the week cheering the initial results of Mueller's investigation, as laid out in a letter from Attorney General William Barr", "lUlEJQsMzjy-00009-00010306-00011821": "In a late-afternoon gathering last Sunday, aides convened in press secretary Sarah Sanders' office for a champagne toast after the attorney general's chief of staff phoned Emmet Flood, in Palm Beach with the President, to brief him on the report", "lUlEJQsMzjy-00010-00011821-00012858": "The intimate gathering of White House staffers was a sign of the relief that flooded through the West Wing after the stress of an investigation that loomed for years was lifted", "lUlEJQsMzjy-00011-00012858-00014076": "But the days that followed Sunday's champagne-clinking in Sanders' office came as a surprise to multiple people in the West Wing, according to interviews with half a dozen officials and Trump associates", "lUlEJQsMzjy-00012-00014076-00014898": "There was no Rose Garden celebration ceremony. Trump gave no speech declaring vindication in the East Room", "lUlEJQsMzjy-00013-00014898-00015753": "Instead, he made brief remarks before he climbed the steps of Air Force One and was whisked away to Washington"}}, {"audio_id": "leOEPb-Du68", "text": {"leOEPb-Du68-00000-00000571-00001529": "Recently on ‘Morning Joe’, MSNBC’s Donny Deutsch compared Trump voters to Nazis, saying “if you vote for Trump, you’re the bad guy", "leOEPb-Du68-00001-00001529-00002326": "” Deutsch said that Democrats needed to make the election a referendum on Trump voters, rather than on the president himself", "leOEPb-Du68-00002-00002326-00003799": "And he has a great point. .The comparison of Trump supporters to Nazis came about as Donny Deutsch criticized the administration’s “zero tolerance” border immigration policy that separated parents from their children at the border", "leOEPb-Du68-00003-00003799-00005335": "Even though Trump signed an executive order effectively ending the separations, there are still hundreds of children still in custody, and many more unanswered questions about the updated policy as well as the fate of the thousands of children already detained", "leOEPb-Du68-00004-00005335-00006153": "Please see below for a transcript of the exchange from Morning Joe:.MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Because that’s all [the Trumps] care about", "leOEPb-Du68-00005-00006153-00007070": "What it looks like. It’s deranged. It’s abusive. It’s cruel, it’s evil, and the entire world is watching", "leOEPb-Du68-00006-00007070-00008128": "It is now the time that he has gone too far. Question mark? Go.DONNY DEUTSCH: I could put an exclamation mark on everything you said", "leOEPb-Du68-00007-00008128-00009146": "It was particularly reprehensible when Ivanka said, “it looks a certain way.”.This can no longer be about who Trump is, it has to be about who we are", "leOEPb-Du68-00008-00009146-00010364": "If we are working towards November, we can no longer say Trump’s the bad guy. If you vote for Trump, you’re the bad guy, if you vote for Trump, you are ripping children from parents’ arms", "leOEPb-Du68-00009-00010364-00011701": "The mistake that we’ve made in the past is, ‘Look at that bad guy over there, look at that bad guy!’ What the Democrats have to do is make the next election not a referendum on not who Trump is, but on who you are", "leOEPb-Du68-00010-00011701-00012816": "That’s the big difference, you can no longer now, as a voter, because it’s not about taxes, it’s not even about some abstract term of immigration or nationalism", "leOEPb-Du68-00011-00012816-00013906": "If you vote for Trump, then you, the voter, you, not Donald Trump, are standing at the border, like Nazis, going, ‘you here, you here", "leOEPb-Du68-00012-00013906-00014948": "’.I think we now have to flip it. And it’s a given, the evilness of Donald Trump. But if you vote, you can no longer separate yourself", "leOEPb-Du68-00013-00014948-00015726": "You can’t say, ‘well he’s okay, but.’ And I think that gymnastics and that jiu-jitsu has to happen", "leOEPb-Du68-00014-00015726-00016599": "Deutsch may be not be appealing to the conscious of actual Trump voters, as they don’t really appear to have much in the way of that", "leOEPb-Du68-00015-00016599-00017453": "But, rather, to fire up Democrats, Independents, and Republicans who aren’t supportive of this president’s policies"}}, {"audio_id": "m-23JG2ChYY", "text": {"m-23JG2ChYY-00000-00001000-00001547": "Тэндэнцыя да адмены вышэйшай меры пакарання ва ўсім свеце працягваецца.", "m-23JG2ChYY-00001-00001547-00001935": "З нагоды Сусветнага дня супраць смяротнага пакарання", "m-23JG2ChYY-00002-00001935-00002781": "Швейцарыя пацвярджае сваю цвёрдую прыхільнасць падтрымліваць гэтую тэндэнцыю і абараняць любыя дасягненні."}}, {"audio_id": "mERGrUbh3iE", "text": {"mERGrUbh3iE-00000-00000571-00001247": "Herman Cain is one of the rights’ move-beloved commentators and presidential candidates", "mERGrUbh3iE-00001-00001247-00002044": "I don’t know about you, but I love him!.His no-nonsense approach to leadership drives Democrats crazy", "mERGrUbh3iE-00002-00002044-00002880": "Also, his role as CEO of a private business (meaning he actually understands money, like The Donald)", "mERGrUbh3iE-00003-00002880-00003833": "It might be that very reason why President Trump loves him too. Because it looks like he’s about to give Cain a big job on Capitol Hill", "mERGrUbh3iE-00004-00003833-00005523": "From Axios.President Trump has told confidants he wants Herman Cain on the Federal Reserve board, but will wait until his background check is completed before making the formal announcement, according to two senior administration officials familiar with the decision", "mERGrUbh3iE-00005-00005523-00006814": "Wow, that is BIG news for Herman – that would be fantastic!.According to reporters, Trump even wants to appoint Herman Cain as the head of the Federal Reserve board, a coveted spot", "mERGrUbh3iE-00006-00006814-00007731": "He’s only waiting for Cain’s background check to be complete, which is basically a formality to prevent Democrats from complaining", "mERGrUbh3iE-00007-00007731-00008757": "Is Cain really qualified for the job? Well, Cain served in the Kansas City Federal Reserve between 1989 to 1996", "mERGrUbh3iE-00008-00008757-00009468": ".Appointing Cain would hopefully what Trump has called a big mistake in appointing Jerome Powell", "mERGrUbh3iE-00009-00009468-00010379": "Trump has been unhappy with Powell over his 2018 choice to raise interest rates, a move that may be directly slow our booming economy", "mERGrUbh3iE-00010-00010379-00011163": "Cain, a former businessman like Trump, will probably have a more similar vision for our economy—booming!", "mERGrUbh3iE-00011-00011163-00012059": "Democrats would not be happy about this appointment, as we’ll have even more conservative, sound leaders overseeing our economy", "mERGrUbh3iE-00012-00012059-00013002": "Because of that, they’re going to fight against him tooth and nail. Which means Trump needs as much support as we can give him for Cain"}}, {"audio_id": "mFPqbonKgDU", "text": {"mFPqbonKgDU-00000-00000571-00001326": "Here’s the thing about congressional subpoenas. They’re a highly powerful tool, but they’re not a magic wand", "mFPqbonKgDU-00001-00001326-00002062": "House Democrats can’t simply issue a subpoena, and expect swift and automatic compliance", "mFPqbonKgDU-00002-00002062-00003057": "House Democrats have to approach the subpoena process in a judicious manner, so that if and when they’re challenged legally on it, they’ll win that legal battle", "mFPqbonKgDU-00003-00003057-00004063": "Accordingly, House Democrats just dropped their first big subpoena on the Trump regime today – and you can expect more such subpoenas at any minute", "mFPqbonKgDU-00004-00004063-00005335": "One of the keys to winning a subpoena battle in court is to convince the judge that you reasonably tried to obtain the testimony or evidence through less drastic measures before issuing the subpoena", "mFPqbonKgDU-00005-00005335-00006683": "House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings knows this, and so he’s gone through the necessary steps of asking nicely when it’s come to obtaining more information about the Trump White House and its security clearance scandal", "mFPqbonKgDU-00006-00006683-00007399": "Now those steps are out of the way, and Cummings has made his first hammer-dropping move on the matter", "mFPqbonKgDU-00007-00007399-00009016": "Elijah Cummings had the committee vote this afternoon to subpoena Carl Kline, who was in charge of the security clearance process, and who allegedly approved several high profile clearances at Donald Trump’s instruction, even after White House security experts and the U", "mFPqbonKgDU-00008-00009016-00009669": "S. intel community had flagged those people as security risks against the United States", "mFPqbonKgDU-00009-00009669-00010400": "But Kline is just step one.In investigations like this, you have to work your way from the bottom up", "mFPqbonKgDU-00010-00010400-00011205": "Cummings already has the voluntarily cooperation of whistleblower Tricia Newbold, which has led to the subpoena of Kline", "mFPqbonKgDU-00011-00011205-00012351": "In turn, Kline’s testimony could open the door to subpoena the people who were controversially given security clearances, two of whom are reportedly members of Donald Trump’s family"}}, {"audio_id": "mHpfqHqrdW8", "text": {"mHpfqHqrdW8-00000-00000571-00001618": "Roger Stone threw away what little was left of his life yesterday when he threatened the physical safety of the federal judge overseeing his upcoming criminal trial", "mHpfqHqrdW8-00001-00001618-00002687": "Stone was already guaranteed to spend the rest of his life in prison after his trial, and now he’ll likely rot in jail before and during the trial as well", "mHpfqHqrdW8-00002-00002687-00004254": "But the real loser here may be Donald Trump. No, really. .How could this possibly be even worse for Donald Trump than it is for Roger Stone, considering Stone just lost everything? Well, that’s sort of the point", "mHpfqHqrdW8-00003-00004254-00005092": "Stone’s life is now over. Pardons were never going to magically save him, due to state charges and such", "mHpfqHqrdW8-00004-00005092-00006210": "Stone’s only hope of having any future was to drag out his pre-trial legal proceedings for years, so he could have that freedom until he’s inevitably convicted and sent to prison", "mHpfqHqrdW8-00005-00006210-00007010": "But that’s now gone. Stone’s only remaining possible way out is to cut a plea deal against Trump", "mHpfqHqrdW8-00006-00007010-00008217": "There has long been debate among observers as to whether Roger Stone would cut a plea deal at the first sign of real trouble, or if he would try to stick to his guns as long as possible", "mHpfqHqrdW8-00007-00008217-00009389": "But we’re in a different realm now. Stone is about to go sit in solitary confinement in jail, in the same comparatively rough conditions Paul Manafort has been facing", "mHpfqHqrdW8-00008-00009389-00010129": "Anyone get a good look at Manafort lately? By all accounts, he’s practically dead already", "mHpfqHqrdW8-00009-00010129-00010847": "Stone is a lunatic, but even he may decide he simply can’t suffer the same fate as his pal Manafort", "mHpfqHqrdW8-00010-00010847-00011753": "So now we wait to see if Roger Stone’s catastrophic screw-up is going to end up being just as disastrous for Donald Trump", "mHpfqHqrdW8-00011-00011753-00012759": "These two men have been friends for forty years, they’re both criminals, they’re both perverts, and they surely know large swaths of each other’s dirtiest secrets", "mHpfqHqrdW8-00012-00012759-00013428": "If Stone flips, Trump might as well just report to solitary confinement himself"}}, {"audio_id": "mQdLEmioALU", "text": {"mQdLEmioALU-00000-00000571-00001524": "Rep Ilhan Omar is on shaky ground as her Minnesota constituents and the Minnesota Democratic Party are in agreement: she must go", "mQdLEmioALU-00001-00001524-00002815": "Omar’s anti-American, anti-Semitic remarks have caused the people in her own district in Minnesota to turn their back on the Congresswoman, and they want her gone as soon as possible", "mQdLEmioALU-00002-00002815-00003616": "But Rep. Omar’s response was to blame President Donald Trump, not herself for her newfound troubles", "mQdLEmioALU-00003-00003616-00004865": "You don’t want to miss this.Omar was given a prime opportunity to represent the Somali and Muslim populations from Minnesota and reflect that they too are patriotic Americans", "mQdLEmioALU-00004-00004865-00005664": "Instead, the 37-year-old Congresswoman has spent her first two months in Washington, D", "mQdLEmioALU-00005-00005664-00006417": "C. trashing Israel and making anti-Semitic slurs against Americans who support the Jewish state", "mQdLEmioALU-00006-00006417-00007495": "Of course, this is nothing new for Omar, who has a long history of rabid hatred of her adopted homeland’s support for our strongest ally in the Middle East", "mQdLEmioALU-00007-00007495-00009240": "Most people are aware of the sickening comments by Omar which launched the Democrats to create a “Hate Resolution,” but the majority of Americans are livid that Nancy Pelosi allowed Omar to draft much of the ridiculous statement which didn’t name her and focused on Islamophobia", "mQdLEmioALU-00008-00009240-00010996": "Now, its come to light that Omar is in hot water back home in Minnesota. In the early 1990s, Somali refugees started to populate the 5th district which Omar represents, and their history in Minnesota is tied closely with the Jewish population", "mQdLEmioALU-00009-00010996-00011790": "Calling for the removal of Omar are many Minnesota Somalis who aren’t on board with her anti-Semitic tropes", "mQdLEmioALU-00010-00011790-00013057": "Somali community activist Omar Jamal of St. Paul said he is in touch with local Jewish leaders about how the two sides can reaffirm their solidarity at a moment of crisis [Omar created]", "mQdLEmioALU-00011-00013057-00013927": "He said that he supported Omar’s congressional campaign but that her comments are “wrong, period,” the Washington Post reported", "mQdLEmioALU-00012-00013927-00014726": ".After she was warned by the Minnesota Democrats she had gone too far, Omar doubled down", "mQdLEmioALU-00013-00014726-00016400": "Steve Hunegs, executive director of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas, said he recently told Omar why many Jews are offended when they are accused of dual loyalty, showing her a picture of a cousin who was killed in action during World War II", "mQdLEmioALU-00014-00016400-00017223": "About a week later, on February 27, Omar told an audience at a town hall event in Washington, D", "mQdLEmioALU-00015-00017223-00018192": "C., that accusations of anti-Semitism were meant to silence her criticism of Israel and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee", "mQdLEmioALU-00016-00018192-00019151": "She said she wanted to talk about “the political influence in this country that says it is okay for people to push for allegiance to a foreign country''"}}]