[{"audio_id": "GvRFVAZztyo", "text": {"GvRFVAZztyo-00000-00000571-00001650": "Republicans may want to re-think one of their planned 2020 campaign themes: It seems that President Donald Trump has met a “socialist” country he actually likes", "GvRFVAZztyo-00001-00001650-00002956": "In recent months Trump has repeatedly cited what he calls the growing threat of socialism in an effort to tarnish leftist Democrats eyeing the Oval Office while also justifying his efforts to oust Venezuela’s dictator", "GvRFVAZztyo-00002-00002956-00003993": ".But this week, the U.S. leader has been praising Vietnam, the socialist-in-name country hosting his summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un", "GvRFVAZztyo-00003-00003993-00004868": "In fact, Trump has pointed to Vietnam’s economic advances as a model Kim could emulate if he gives up his nuclear weapons", "GvRFVAZztyo-00004-00004868-00005905": "“Vietnam is thriving like few places on earth,” Trump tweeted Wednesday. “North Korea would be the same, and very quickly, if it would denuclearize", "GvRFVAZztyo-00005-00005905-00006762": "The potential is AWESOME, a great opportunity, like almost none other in history, for my friend Kim Jong Un''", "GvRFVAZztyo-00006-00006762-00007634": "During his meeting with Vietnamese leaders the same day, Trump waved a small Vietnamese flag, praised growing U", "GvRFVAZztyo-00007-00007634-00008789": "S.-Vietnam economic ties, and signed new trade deals. The president’s public schedules also used the country’s full official name: the Socialist Republic of Vietnam", "GvRFVAZztyo-00008-00008789-00009961": "Though it is standard diplomatic protocol to refer to foreign countries by their preferred name, the repeated presence of the word in official White House statements this week was jarring", "GvRFVAZztyo-00009-00009961-00010567": "In reality, the Vietnam model, and Trump’s praise of it, also underscores the elasticity of the concept of “socialism,” and why some of its tenets may appeal to Americans", "GvRFVAZztyo-00010-00010567-00011388": "Despite the presence of the s-word in its formal name, Vietnam is typically classified as a communist state", "GvRFVAZztyo-00011-00011388-00012451": "But its economy is largely capitalist, especially after the Communist Party adopted a policy of “doi moi” (renovation) in the 1980s", "GvRFVAZztyo-00012-00012451-00013339": "The country's official name \"is a vestige term,\" said Joshua Kurlantzick, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations", "GvRFVAZztyo-00013-00013339-00014624": "\"People in Vietnam are focused on getting rich, making money''.Vietnam is in some ways mimicking China by unleashing capitalist forces while keeping tight restraints on political expression", "GvRFVAZztyo-00014-00014624-00016097": "In one sense, praising Vietnam is just the latest discordant note for a president whose foreign policy, more than most presidents, is a tangle of contradictions on everything from human rights to use of military force", "GvRFVAZztyo-00015-00016097-00017654": "After all, on the other side of the world right now, Trump is using diplomatic and economic pressure to try to push out of power Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, who preaches socialist ideals but whose country's economy is in ruins"}}, {"audio_id": "GvaO51yZSny", "text": {"GvaO51yZSny-00000-00000571-00001778": "One of Donald Trump’s relatively few life skills is that he’s really good at creating comparatively harmless scandals about himself in order to distract us from his more damaging scandals", "GvaO51yZSny-00001-00001778-00002911": "Now that Trump has finally thrown his full weight into the escalating debacle between Kellyanne Conway and George Conway, a lot of people think he’s doing it again", "GvaO51yZSny-00002-00002911-00003943": "I’m here to tell you, that’s not what’s going on here.Here’s what Donald Trump tweeted today: “George Conway, often referred to as Mr", "GvaO51yZSny-00003-00003943-00005053": "Kellyanne Conway by those who know him, is VERY jealous of his wife’s success & angry that I, with her help, didn’t give him the job he so desperately wanted", "GvaO51yZSny-00004-00005053-00005698": "I barely know him but just take a look, a stone cold LOSER & husband from hell!”", "GvaO51yZSny-00005-00005698-00007114": "Wait, are we supposed to believe this is somehow helping Donald Trump? What exactly is this distracting us from? It’s not as if we’ve forgotten that the Mueller report is about to land on his head", "GvaO51yZSny-00006-00007114-00008193": "And if we do lose track, Felix Sater will be happy to remind us of the real story when he publicly testifies against Trump a week from today", "GvaO51yZSny-00007-00008193-00008935": "Donald Trump is lashing out at George Conway for the same reason he’s lashing out at John McCain", "GvaO51yZSny-00008-00008935-00009930": "Trump is taking on water from all sides, and it’s gotten so bad for him, that even his delusionally broken mind can see that he’s sinking", "GvaO51yZSny-00009-00009930-00010967": "This is a guy who’s taking out his frustrations in any direction he can, because he’s just that exasperated about his own impending downfall", "GvaO51yZSny-00010-00010967-00011772": "There’s no strategy here. Not anymore. Trump just knows he’s losing and he doesn’t like it"}}, {"audio_id": "GCfi4yTzbEg", "text": {"GCfi4yTzbEg-00000-00000571-00001856": "Donald Trump is supposed to be winning, right? He and his allies have spent the past week insisting that he’s been exonerated in his criminal scandals, and that he’s now boldly moving forward", "GCfi4yTzbEg-00001-00001856-00002721": "But Trump’s own mouth told a very different story today, and it involved everything from Robert Mueller to Fred Trump to oranges", "GCfi4yTzbEg-00002-00002721-00003726": "No, really. .While speaking with reporters today, Donald Trump urged everyone to “take a look at the oranges, the oranges of the investigation", "GCfi4yTzbEg-00003-00003726-00004721": "” After he had twice said “oranges” while trying to say “origins,” Trump gave up and instead told everyone to look at “the beginnings of that investigation", "GCfi4yTzbEg-00004-00004721-00005680": "” He then somehow managed to correctly get the word “origin” to come out of his mouth, before ultimately saying “oranges” for a third time", "GCfi4yTzbEg-00005-00005680-00006344": "The brief video clip, which you can watch below, was nothing short of stunning.", "GCfi4yTzbEg-00006-00006344-00007511": "The kicker is that Trump wasn’t done screwing up. He later said that “my father is German, right, was German, and born in a very wonderful place in Germany", "GCfi4yTzbEg-00007-00007511-00008227": "” Meanwhile back in the real world, Trump’s father was born in New York City in 1905", "GCfi4yTzbEg-00008-00008227-00009765": "Perhaps Trump was mistakenly referring to his grandfather, who was born in the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1869, which is now part of Germany – but it seems more likely that Trump has simply forgotten what country his own father was born in", "GCfi4yTzbEg-00009-00009765-00010586": ".Donald Trump misspeaks on a fairly regular basis, and he makes false claims on a near-constant basis", "GCfi4yTzbEg-00010-00010586-00012513": "But his words today go way beyond what we’re accustomed to seeing from him. Even as House Democrats launched their first big subpoena at the Trump regime today, and are apparently planning to launch several more tomorrow, Donald Trump suddenly sounds – in all seriousness – like he belongs in a treatment facility"}}, {"audio_id": "GFSorqTr1LE", "text": {"GFSorqTr1LE-00000-00000571-00001260": "It might have been the day when Donald Trump's Washington finally slipped the limits of credulity", "GFSorqTr1LE-00001-00001260-00002822": "The administration's big guns -- Attorney General William Barr, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin -- got a hostile reception on Capitol Hill from Democrats eager to pull back a presidency they see as out of control", "GFSorqTr1LE-00002-00002822-00003486": "Tuesday zipped by in a blur of grave constitutional tussles scented with the whiff of corruption", "GFSorqTr1LE-00003-00003486-00004471": "Surreal exchanges unfolded in Congress that left witnesses spluttering. There were superficial feuds over alternative facts", "GFSorqTr1LE-00004-00004471-00005798": "The bizarre sideshow encompassed climate denial, a spat about Adolf Hitler, one senator's meditation on Hollywood's molesting actors and a schoolroom-style squabble between a top Democrat and Mnuchin", "GFSorqTr1LE-00005-00005798-00006984": "The weird juxtaposition of the weighty and the frivolous seemed an apt metaphor for how Trump's presidency has torn age-old codes of political custom and behavior to shreds", "GFSorqTr1LE-00006-00006984-00008094": "In the odd new normal of the Trump era, several top Cabinet officials found themselves answering questions about topics that would have seemed unthinkable in more conventional times", "GFSorqTr1LE-00007-00008094-00009337": "Barr faced a grilling over his conclusions about the most serious investigation into presidential conduct in years -- and a report by special counsel Robert Mueller that Americans have yet to read", "GFSorqTr1LE-00008-00009337-00010332": "Mnuchin was beating back demands for the release of Trump's tax returns, after the President bucked tradition and refused to share them with Americans", "GFSorqTr1LE-00009-00010332-00011396": "Both men left serious questions unanswered that offered ample evidence of the Trump administration's allergy to scrutiny, which is knotting up the political system", "GFSorqTr1LE-00010-00011396-00012662": "Their intransigence offered a reminder that while Democrats in the House now have the duty of oversight after the midterm elections, making effective use of their power is far from easy", "GFSorqTr1LE-00011-00012662-00014449": "For once, the President himself was not in the brightest spotlight.But Trump had his moments, saying that a visiting Arab dictator accused of arresting and torturing opponents was doing a \"great job\" and blaming former President Barack Obama for locking up kids in cages at the southern border", "GFSorqTr1LE-00012-00014449-00015980": "More than anything, though, a day of barely suppressed tensions, flaring mistrust and a disconnect between foes who barely share a common political language exemplified the effect the 45th President has had on the culture and character of Washington"}}, {"audio_id": "GHL0934gGr8", "text": {"GHL0934gGr8-00000-00000513-00001861": "The Trump White House's mysterious and controversial relationship with Saudi Arabia is under fresh scrutiny over the case of a US-Saudi citizen who has reportedly been jailed, beaten and tortured in the kingdom", "GHL0934gGr8-00001-00001861-00003182": "The fate of physician Walid Fitaihi is again raising the question of whether strongmen leaders who are crucial to the personal political projects of administration power players are getting a pass on human rights", "GHL0934gGr8-00002-00003182-00004744": "Fitaihi was detained in a sweep against prominent Saudi figures orchestrated by the kingdom's de facto leader, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, in November 2017 and was initially held at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Riyadh", "GHL0934gGr8-00003-00004744-00005896": "His lawyer said he was then transferred to prison, where he has been held for nearly a year without due process, a period in which his health and emotional state have deteriorated", "GHL0934gGr8-00004-00005896-00006986": "President Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, was in Saudi Arabia last week to push his Middle East peace initiative and is close to the Crown Prince", "GHL0934gGr8-00005-00006986-00007903": "But there has been no public indication that Kushner advocated on behalf of Fitaihi or inquired about the terms of his detention", "GHL0934gGr8-00006-00007903-00009013": "There is already bipartisan anger in Washington over the administration's response to the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul last year", "GHL0934gGr8-00007-00009013-00010246": "CNN has reported that US intelligence agencies have concluded that the killing and dismembering of the journalist was ordered by the Crown Prince, despite the Saudi government's denials", "GHL0934gGr8-00008-00010246-00012045": "The administration infuriated senators by ignoring a February deadline to provide a report on the murder, and Trump has repeatedly warned that Saudi Arabia's purchases of US weapons and its role in helping the administration confront Iran are not worth jeopardizing over the episode", "GHL0934gGr8-00009-00012045-00014153": "US-Saudi relations under rare scrutiny.The fallout of the Khashoggi case and the brutality of the Saudi military intervention in Yemen have provoked rare unity in the Senate, with members of both parties questioning the utility and morality of America's alliance with a Gulf ally that has been an anchor of Washington's Middle East policy for decades", "GHL0934gGr8-00010-00014153-00015491": "Despite increasing coverage of the Fitaihi case, there is little sign that the administration is making his detention a high priority or is willing to consider it in the wider context of US-Saudi relations", "GHL0934gGr8-00011-00015491-00017022": "National security adviser John Bolton told CNN's Jake Tapper on Sunday that \"as of this moment, my understanding is we have had what's called consular access, meaning American diplomats in Saudi Arabia have visited with him", "GHL0934gGr8-00012-00017022-00018458": "\".\"Beyond that, we don't really have any additional information at this point.\".In a statement to CNN on Sunday, the State Department confirmed that Fitaihi is detained in Saudi Arabia and that he was getting consular services", "GHL0934gGr8-00013-00018458-00019749": "\"We have raised his case with the Government of Saudi Arabia.\" the statement said, and a spokesperson added that the department took \"all allegations of abuse and torture extremely seriously", "GHL0934gGr8-00014-00019749-00021663": "\".The Saudi government has yet to respond to several requests from CNN for a comment on the case of Fitaihi, who qualified for his US citizenship while studying and practicing medicine in the US and then returned to Saudi Arabia to found a hospital in Jeddah and forge a career as a motivational speaker", "GHL0934gGr8-00015-00021663-00023254": "In a statement to The New York Times, which first reported on the Fitaihi case, a Saudi Embassy spokesman said the kingdom \"takes any and all allegations of ill-treatment of defendants awaiting trial or prisoners serving their sentences very seriously", "GHL0934gGr8-00016-00023254-00024255": "\".The quiet US handling of Fitaihi's detention contrasts with the way Trump has dealt with other cases of Americans imprisoned abroad", "GHL0934gGr8-00017-00024255-00024949": "He has often boasted about getting US detainees home from North Korea, for example", "GHL0934gGr8-00018-00024949-00026308": "He celebrated the release of Aya Hijazi, an Egyptian-American aid worker, by inviting her to the Oval Office after top aides said he had engaged behind the scenes with top leaders in Cairo to win her release", "GHL0934gGr8-00019-00026308-00027308": "The administration made the detention of American pastor Andrew Brunson in Turkey a diplomatic sticking point in the tense relations between the NATO allies", "GHL0934gGr8-00020-00027308-00028734": "Brunson also earned an Oval Office invite to thank the President.Trump frequently claimed credit for the return from North Korea of imprisoned US tourist Otto Warmbier even though he was in a vegetative state and later died", "GHL0934gGr8-00021-00028734-00030223": "Last week, after meeting with Kim Jong Un in Hanoi, Vietnam, the President said he took at face value the North Korean dictator's word that he did not know about Warmbier's ill treatment in prison, earning a rebuke from the dead man's parents", "GHL0934gGr8-00022-00030223-00031477": "Given the strategic importance of an American prisoner and Kim's rule of fear, most North Korea analysts and even many of Trump's GOP allies think the President's comment lacks credibility", "GHL0934gGr8-00023-00031477-00032404": "The administration has often been selective about pointing out human rights abuses in a way that seems to align with its political priorities", "GHL0934gGr8-00024-00032404-00033238": "It has used the issue as a cudgel against Venezuela and Iran, but soft-pedaled with Saudi Arabia and North Korea", "GHL0934gGr8-00025-00033238-00034502": "The New York Times reported on Saturday that Fitaihi told a friend he had been slapped, stripped, blindfolded and tortured with electricity before he was taken to jail from the Ritz-Carlton", "GHL0934gGr8-00026-00034502-00035434": "In a letter to the State Department in January, Fitaihi's lawyer Howard Cooper said his client had been able to speak briefly to his mother on the phone", "GHL0934gGr8-00027-00035434-00036299": "He told her that \"he is fear of his life, that he cannot take his situation any longer and that he desires all help possible", "GHL0934gGr8-00028-00036299-00036399": "\""}}, {"audio_id": "GMUrbVKRwi0", "text": {"GMUrbVKRwi0-00000-00000571-00001284": "Sorry if anyone thought it was crass, but Trump is doing what Trump does to giddy Democrats!", "GMUrbVKRwi0-00001-00001284-00002296": "The 2020 Elections will be here soon and Democrats are scrambling to get ready.Based on what we’ve seen recently, they are not happy about their chances", "GMUrbVKRwi0-00002-00002296-00003308": "Why do we think this? Because over the last few weeks, they’ve been suggesting major changes to the basic rules of our democracy", "GMUrbVKRwi0-00003-00003308-00004121": "Here is what’s been proposed:.Lower the voting age to 16.Get rid of the electoral college", "GMUrbVKRwi0-00004-00004121-00005533": "Change the setup of the Supreme Court.Compensating much Democrats?.I mean, I know you lost hard in 2016, but if the only way you can win is changing all of the rules that’s a bit pathetic (but what else is new?)", "GMUrbVKRwi0-00005-00005533-00006346": "Luckily, we have an amazing President folks!.Here’s the transcript if you need it:", "GMUrbVKRwi0-00006-00006346-00007658": "“The Democrats are getting very “strange.” They now want to change the voting age to 16, abolish the Electoral College, and Increase significantly the number of Supreme Court Justices", "GMUrbVKRwi0-00007-00007658-00008570": "Actually, you’ve got to win it at the Ballot Box!”.BOOM.Trump never misses an opportunity to call out the ridiculousness of the left", "GMUrbVKRwi0-00008-00008570-00009383": "As he points out, you can’t make these changes until you win the election first – their plan is doomed from the start", "GMUrbVKRwi0-00009-00009383-00010196": "Not to mention, even one of these changes would have been debated and rejected in time’s past", "GMUrbVKRwi0-00010-00010196-00011108": "But today, Democrats are pushing for all of them, all at once.The ballot box is the heart of our democracy", "GMUrbVKRwi0-00011-00011108-00012121": "Changes so drastic can only be made if the American people agree.Democrats seem to think that changing the rules will give them victory in 2020", "GMUrbVKRwi0-00012-00012121-00012834": "-18-year-olds aren’t voting, so let’s get even YOUNGER (more clueless) kids to vote!", "GMUrbVKRwi0-00013-00012834-00013946": "-The Electoral Colleges failed us in 2016. So, let’s just use the popular vote!.-Trump has a conservative majority in the Supreme Court", "GMUrbVKRwi0-00014-00013946-00014958": "Let’s just cram in 2 more judges. Or six. Or ten!.Why not right? Whatever it takes, eh Dems?", "GMUrbVKRwi0-00015-00014958-00015671": "Unless they win, this political party does not have the ultimate say in what happens in this country", "GMUrbVKRwi0-00016-00015671-00016584": "We do.And I have a feeling that more than a few patriots (like all of you fine people) aren’t interested in them at all", "GMUrbVKRwi0-00017-00016584-00017297": "Make sure and make your voice heard this election, we have a lot at stake to protect in Washington this next year"}}, {"audio_id": "GN_BUHY8BM4", "text": {"GN_BUHY8BM4-00000-00000571-00002425": "While speaking to ABC on Wednesday, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) reacted to Attorney General William Barr’s comments about spying on the Trump campaign by stating that Barr is “doing the bidding” of the president, and his comments “were a disservice” to members of the FBI", "GN_BUHY8BM4-00001-00002425-00003313": "Schiff said it is “stunning to hear the top law enforcement officer in the country talk so cavalierly about spying on a political campaign", "GN_BUHY8BM4-00002-00003313-00004298": "”. .He continued, “This must be very pleasing to Donald Trump, who wants to create a narrative that he’s the victim of some deep state coup", "GN_BUHY8BM4-00003-00004298-00005017": "But the attorney general has a higher responsibility than simply doing the bidding of the president of the United States", "GN_BUHY8BM4-00004-00005017-00005980": "He ought to be looking out for the public interest, and I think his comments really were a disservice to the hard-working men and women of the FBI", "GN_BUHY8BM4-00005-00005980-00006080": "”"}}, {"audio_id": "GOno-VKQpxI", "text": {"GOno-VKQpxI-00000-00000571-00002073": "Responding to the New York Times report that Trump pushed through Jared Kushner’s security clearance House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff said in a statement that the issue is “the latest indicator of the President’s disregard for our national security''", "GOno-VKQpxI-00001-00002073-00003877": "Congressman Eric Swalwell, who chairs the Intelligence Modernization and Readiness Subcommittee added in the statement with Schiff that Trump has “jeopardized our national security by putting clearances in the hands of unscrupulous people, and against the recommendations of background investigators''", "GOno-VKQpxI-00002-00003877-00005280": "A standoff has erupted between Health and Human Services officials and House Ethics Committee chair Ted Deutch over comments the Chairman made alleging that HHS staff had sexually abused migrant children in their custody, Politico reports", "GOno-VKQpxI-00003-00005280-00005884": "Heads of the agency refused to meet with Congressman Deutch until he issues an apology", "GOno-VKQpxI-00004-00005884-00006787": "Deutch has meanwhile refused to backdown on the remarks, which he made during a hearing on Trump’s family separation policy"}}, {"audio_id": "GOBkKwvLEt8", "text": {"GOBkKwvLEt8-00000-00000571-00002143": "Adding to what already must be one of the most miserable existences in politics, reports are surfacing that the Trump White House is threatening low level staffers and interns with financial ruin if they refuse to sign non-disclosure agreements", "GOBkKwvLEt8-00001-00002143-00004089": "That seems like a well run organization with nothing to hide, right?.Zoe Jackman is the director of the internship program that invited interns into the White House earlier this year, but the interns were met by a demand from the White House to sign an NDA during an orientation meeting that was called an “ethics training”", "GOBkKwvLEt8-00002-00004089-00004800": "It was during this training that the interns were warned about the consequences of leaking information to the media", "GOBkKwvLEt8-00003-00004800-00005664": "“Interns were also told that they would not receive their own copies,” The Daily Beast reported, citing inside sources", "GOBkKwvLEt8-00004-00005664-00006743": "The Washington Post got their hands on a draft of the non-disclosure agreement, which shows threats to violators with a $10 million penalty for each offense", "GOBkKwvLEt8-00005-00006743-00008039": "However, when CNN’s Jake Tapper asked the White House about it, a statement was issued saying that Trump staffers “were never asked or required to sign NDAs with $10 million clauses", "GOBkKwvLEt8-00006-00008039-00010063": "Beyond that, we do not discuss security or personnel matters''.“All White House employees—from senior officials to interns—understand the necessity of discretion based on the fact that they hold positions of public trust, with an emphasis on public,” the Beast quoted former Obama National Security Council spokesperson Ned Price", "GOBkKwvLEt8-00007-00010063-00011978": "“But this White House’s approach to non-disclosure agreements, even for interns, seems to suggest that guarding against criticism of the president and his family—what most of us would consider to be protected speech—is just as important as safeguarding the sensitive information the American public entrusts to the government''"}}, {"audio_id": "GR106VhNBGo", "text": {"GR106VhNBGo-00000-00000571-00001883": "On Wednesday, President Donald Trump attacked George Conway, the husband of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, and claimed that Conway was bitter because he refused to employ him in his administration", "GR106VhNBGo-00001-00001883-00002795": "However, a letter sent by Conway to Trump in May 2017 shows that Trump is lying about what really happened", "GR106VhNBGo-00002-00002795-00004416": "“George Conway, often referred to as Mr. Kellyanne Conway by those who know him, is VERY jealous of his wife’s success and angry that I, with her help, didn’t give him the job he so desperately wanted,” the president wrote on Twitter", "GR106VhNBGo-00003-00004416-00005129": "“I barely know him but just take a look, a stone cold LOSER and husband from hell!”", "GR106VhNBGo-00004-00005129-00006241": "But the letter, which was obtained by The Washington Post, backs up Conway’s claim that he was the one who turned down a position at the Justice Department, not the other way around", "GR106VhNBGo-00005-00006241-00007453": "“I am profoundly grateful to you and to the Attorney General for selecting me to serve as Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division of the Department of Justice,” Conway wrote to Trump in the letter", "GR106VhNBGo-00006-00007453-00008666": "“I have reluctantly concluded, however, that, for me and my family, this is not the right time for me to leave the private sector and take on a new role in the federal government", "GR106VhNBGo-00007-00008666-00008770": "”"}}, {"audio_id": "GVE5VV-IkIo", "text": {"GVE5VV-IkIo-00000-00000571-00002762": "WASHINGTON, DC — US President Donald Trump “may have avoided getting entrapped into a bad deal” by refusing to accept dictator Kim Jong-un’s scant denuclearization offer in exchange for major sanctions relief at the second unprecedented summit with North Korea earlier this year, a renowned expert on negotiations with the rogue regime told lawmakers Tuesday", "GVE5VV-IkIo-00001-00002762-00004750": "Dr. Victor Cha, who served in the George W. Bush White House and is now the Korea chair at the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS), testified before the Senate Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on East Asia and the Pacific alongside Kelly Magsamen from the liberal Center for American Progress (CAP)", "GVE5VV-IkIo-00002-00004750-00006608": "Both experts discussed U.S. policy towards North Korea following the second summit that failed to convince the regime to take credible steps towards the complete, verifiable, and irreversible denuclearization of the Korean peninsula in exchange for relief from crippling economic sanctions and security guarantees", "GVE5VV-IkIo-00003-00006608-00008026": "The two unprecedented meetings between a sitting U.S. president and a North Korean leader — at Singapore in June 2018 and in Vietnam in late February 2019 — failed to deliver an agreement on denuclearization", "GVE5VV-IkIo-00004-00008026-00008943": "Moreover, Cha and Magsamen determined North Korea has continued its nuclear activities despite the negotiations, echoing recent U", "GVE5VV-IkIo-00005-00008943-00010374": "S. intelligence assessments. Both experts, however, conceded the Trump administration’s economic pressure campaign is having an impact on the negotiations, citing Kim’s insistence on getting sanctions relief", "GVE5VV-IkIo-00006-00010374-00011048": "The two experts believe the sanctions have granted the Trump administration “leverage” in the U", "GVE5VV-IkIo-00007-00011048-00012929": "S.-North Korea talks.Despite acknowledging that the economic pressure campaign on Kim is bearing fruit, the CAP expert urged the Trump administration in her written testimony to “explore what limited sanctions relief might support an interim agreement without necessarily removing leverage", "GVE5VV-IkIo-00008-00012929-00014209": "”.“I want to be clear at the outset that I am a strong supporter of diplomacy with North Korea, but I want to also be clear that I think the Administration is doing it wrong,” Magsamen stated", "GVE5VV-IkIo-00009-00014209-00014932": "In his written testimony, Cha, who also serves as a professor at Georgetown University, declared:", "GVE5VV-IkIo-00010-00014932-00017025": "The president indeed may have avoided getting entrapped into a bad deal at Hanoi. What North Korea put on the table in terms of the Yongbyon nuclear complex is a fraction of their growing nuclear program that does not even break the surface of their underlying arsenal and stockpiles of fissile materials, not to mention missile bases and delivery systems", "GVE5VV-IkIo-00011-00017025-00018605": "And what they sought in return, in terms of major sanctions relief on five UN Security Council resolutions that target ninety percent of their trade, would have removed one of the primary sources of leverage, albeit imperfect, on the regime", "GVE5VV-IkIo-00012-00018605-00019825": "In this instance, no deal was better than a bad deal.Dictator Kim has reportedly offered to demolish the Yongbyon nuclear plant and other facilities for making nuclear-bomb fuel", "GVE5VV-IkIo-00013-00019825-00020698": "Nevertheless, Kim has continued to enrich uranium at the plant following his first summit with Trump last June", "GVE5VV-IkIo-00014-00020698-00021421": "Trump expressed disappointment at reports of ongoing missile and potential nuclear activity in North Korea"}}, {"audio_id": "GXvUidYVY5g", "text": {"GXvUidYVY5g-00000-00000571-00002049": "President Donald Trump’s long-awaited peace plan will include major economic and other incentives for Palestinians, but is likely to stop short of establishing a Palestinian state, the Washington Post reported on Sunday", "GXvUidYVY5g-00001-00002049-00002846": "The plan will likely “enshrine” Israeli control in the West Bank, the report said, citing anonymous U", "GXvUidYVY5g-00002-00002846-00003781": "S. officials as well as Arab officials familiar with “sales pitches” delivered by Trump’s senior advisor and son-in-law Jared Kushner", "GXvUidYVY5g-00003-00003781-00004954": ".Washington will call for tens of billions of dollars in aid from Gulf nations to be invested into both the West Bank and Gaza Strip, as well as Egypt and Jordan", "GXvUidYVY5g-00004-00004954-00006007": "“The economic plan only works if the region supports it. This is a very important part of the overall equation,” a US official told the Post", "GXvUidYVY5g-00005-00006007-00007177": "“But this is not a so-called economic peace. We are taking very seriously both aspects of this, the political, which deals with all the core issues, and the economic", "GXvUidYVY5g-00006-00007177-00009227": "”.“Core issues” generally refers to borders, status of Jerusalem, and the so-called right of return in which Palestinian “refugees” in the diaspora and their descendants will have the right to move inside Israeli proper, something that has always been a red line for Israel since it would spell the end of the Jewish state by demographic means", "GXvUidYVY5g-00007-00009227-00009854": ".The timing of unveiling the plan is “still being worked out,” a US official said", "GXvUidYVY5g-00008-00009854-00010881": "Days before the April 9 elections, Netanyahu historically declared that he fully intends to extend Israeli sovereignty over the West Bank", "GXvUidYVY5g-00009-00010881-00011954": "The incumbent prime minister also said he had told President Donald Trump that would not evacuate “a single person” from the 400,000 or so Jews residing in the area", "GXvUidYVY5g-00010-00011954-00012866": "Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday said he did not believe Netanyahu’s talk of annexation would damage the peace plan", "GXvUidYVY5g-00011-00012866-00013950": "Asked by CNN’s Jake Tapper whether he thought Netanyahu “vowing to annex the West Bank” could harm the Trump proposal, Pompeo answered, “I don’t", "GXvUidYVY5g-00012-00013950-00014815": "”. .“I think that the vision that we’ll lay out is going to represent a significant change from the model that’s been used,” he added", "GXvUidYVY5g-00013-00014815-00015624": "“We’ve had a lot of ideas for 40 years. They did not deliver peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians,” he said", "GXvUidYVY5g-00014-00015624-00016761": "“Our idea is to put forward a vision that has ideas that are new, that are different, that are unique, that tries to reframe and reshape what’s been an intractable problem", "GXvUidYVY5g-00015-00016761-00017466": "”.The Trump administration, he said, wants “a better life” for both Israelis and Palestinians", "GXvUidYVY5g-00016-00017466-00018171": "“We hope that we can get to a better place,” he continued. “Everyone wants this conflict resolved", "GXvUidYVY5g-00017-00018171-00019339": "We want a better life for the Israelis without this conflict, and we certainly want a better life for the people of — the Palestinian people, both in the West Bank and in Gaza", "GXvUidYVY5g-00018-00019339-00020175": "”.Netanyahu also told Army Radio that the Palestinians would not have a state or security control", "GXvUidYVY5g-00019-00020175-00020828": "“There will be no Palestinian state,” he said, “not like the one people are talking about", "GXvUidYVY5g-00020-00020828-00021860": "It won’t happen.”.During a heated debate with Senator Tim Kaine last week, Pompeo refused to outright endorse a two-state solution to the conflict", "GXvUidYVY5g-00021-00021860-00023113": "The Washington Post report cited Israel’s UN Ambassador Danny Danon saying that Israel is anticipating the peace plan while the Palestinian leadership has rejected it sight unseen", "GXvUidYVY5g-00022-00023113-00024560": ".“We will welcome it; we will look at it. We are open-minded,” Danon said. “Unlike the Palestinians, we do respect the work that was done by the team, and we will be willing to look at it and speak about it", "GXvUidYVY5g-00023-00024560-00025603": "The Palestinians say exactly the opposite — they say we don’t want to speak with the Israelis, and we don’t want to see the plan that was drafted by the US”"}}, {"audio_id": "GY8enW2vAkM", "text": {"GY8enW2vAkM-00000-00000571-00001239": "In a series of Tweets on Monday night, Donald Trump took to the art of predicting the future", "GY8enW2vAkM-00001-00001239-00002903": "Rather than accept failure on his latest evil plan to erase the legacy of Barack Obama, he predicted a White House win in 2020 for himself, a Republican takeover of the House, and a holding of the Senate, leaving Democrats with no power in Washington", "GY8enW2vAkM-00002-00002903-00003972": ".The series of tweets seems to have been prompted by the completely predictable response by Republicans to Trump’s desire to bring healthcare front and center one more time", "GY8enW2vAkM-00003-00003972-00005014": "Trump’s strategy, without having any plan to replace the current version of the Affordable Care Act, was to mount a legal challenge to Obamacare", "GY8enW2vAkM-00004-00005014-00006498": "Following a lack of support from Republicans, and a direct message from Mitch McConnell to work it out with Nancy Pelosi, we are now left with Trump’s version of “trust me” – in spite of the previews of Trump’s view of healthcare seen in his March budget", "GY8enW2vAkM-00005-00006498-00007945": ".The Monday night tweets reveal that the Republicans are working on a plan that will be better than Obamacare, less expensive than Obamacare, will protect preexisting conditions, and be much more usable than Obamacare", "GY8enW2vAkM-00006-00007945-00009230": "The catch? Voters need to trust his less than trustworthy words, vote for him, and once he wins, he will reveal the plan whose vote is to take place right after the 2020 election", "GY8enW2vAkM-00007-00009230-00009941": "At this point, it is unclear that any Republicans are even working on any plan to revise the ACA", "GY8enW2vAkM-00008-00009941-00011150": "The hot potato of health care helped lead the Republicans to the biggest losses in the House ever recorded, and it is not a topic that they want to make center stage as we head into the 2020 election cycle", "GY8enW2vAkM-00009-00011150-00012487": ".With thirty-four Senate seats up for grabs in 2020, and twenty-two of them held by Republicans, Democrats look as though they are in a good position to gain the number of seats that they need for a majority", "GY8enW2vAkM-00010-00012487-00013592": "Democrats will need to keep talking about Trump’s goal to invalidate the ACA without a replacement, as well as his earlier statements denying the need to cover pre-existing conditions", "GY8enW2vAkM-00011-00013592-00014721": "Trump brought this issue back to life, and the Democrats need to keep it there, as all 435 House seats, as well as the most important seat in the White House up for grabs"}}, {"audio_id": "GaCbA4PP5ky", "text": {"GaCbA4PP5ky-00000-00000571-00002099": "Former Whitewater independent counsel Ken Starr told Breitbart News that President Donald Trump “never interfered” with Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s ostensible investigation of “collusion” between the Russian government and the president’s 2016 campaign", "GaCbA4PP5ky-00001-00002099-00003172": "He joined Thursday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily to discuss Mueller’s submission of a report to Attorney General William Barr with host Alex Marlow", "GaCbA4PP5ky-00002-00003172-00004570": "Starr said, “It is, in fact, a vindication of the president, and a great thing for the country [on] collusion, that the door is shut in terms of any kind of criminal prosecutions, no indictments, no sealed indictments", "GaCbA4PP5ky-00003-00004570-00006626": "Very good news. However, the beginning of debate — it’s going to be a pretty vigorous debate — we’ve shifted over to the political side of whether there was obstruction of justice because the decision was made to kick judgment to the attorney general, so he’s made that judgment collaboratively with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein", "GaCbA4PP5ky-00004-00006626-00007407": "”.Starr challenged the validity of Democrat-pushed “obstruction of justice” narratives related to Trump", "GaCbA4PP5ky-00005-00007407-00008718": "“The Mueller investigation was all about Russian collusion,” stated Starr. “Was there an agreement, conspiracy, and why? And he’s put that to rest as the result of a very elaborate investigation", "GaCbA4PP5ky-00006-00008718-00009429": "When you look at the resources he had, this is like a D-Day invasion. Spare no expense", "GaCbA4PP5ky-00007-00009429-00010439": "Whatever personnel you need, general, you’re going to have it.”.Starr added, “That to me, by the way, is virtually conclusive on obstruction", "GaCbA4PP5ky-00008-00010439-00012211": "How can the president have obstructed an investigation that was never interfered with, and was elaborately financed? I think it should give the American people great solace and comfort that this investigation was able to proceed unimpeded with, as I say, all these elaborate resources", "GaCbA4PP5ky-00009-00012211-00012971": "”.Starr contrasted his conduct as Whitewater’s independent counsel with that of Mueller’s as special counsel", "GaCbA4PP5ky-00010-00012971-00013796": "“I did not do any early morning raids or early morning arrests. That always struck me as a little over the top", "GaCbA4PP5ky-00011-00013796-00014125": "One person’s view.”"}}, {"audio_id": "Gjdgvt2gDYo", "text": {"Gjdgvt2gDYo-00000-00000571-00001307": "Over the last few months, things have been changing in the world of American politics quite dramatically", "Gjdgvt2gDYo-00001-00001307-00003347": "It all started back in November of last year when the Democrats won the midterm elections of 2018 and finally took back control of the House of Representatives from the Republican party, allowing the great Nancy Pelosi to become Speaker of the House and finally paving the way for an efficient check to the power of President Donald Trump", "Gjdgvt2gDYo-00002-00003347-00004126": "Already, they are causing unimaginable problems for the White House and the GOP government", "Gjdgvt2gDYo-00003-00004126-00005774": "The President of the United States and leader of the free world was forced to trigger the longest government shutdown in the entire history of the United States in a desperate attempt to pass his signature campaign pledge as policy, the Mexican Border Wall, and even then he failed", "Gjdgvt2gDYo-00004-00005774-00006733": "These senior Democrats like Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer are not willing to stand for any nonsense from the Republicans and it is showing already", "Gjdgvt2gDYo-00005-00006733-00008324": "Another effect of the Blue Wave that led to the Democratic resurgence in Congress late last year is the intake of young, exciting new members of Congress who bring with them radical agendas and thrilling new energy to effect real political change", "Gjdgvt2gDYo-00006-00008324-00009745": "An excellent example of this is Rep.Ilhan Omar, who – as we here at Blue Side Nation recently reported – did a phenomenal job of grilling Trump’s latest unqualified nominee and exposing him for his flaws", "Gjdgvt2gDYo-00007-00009745-00011531": "But perhaps the very best known of the new members is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who has ignited an almighty online campaign in her support and who threatens to shake up all of the political norms as we know them with her very exciting new economic proposal, called the Green New Deal", "Gjdgvt2gDYo-00008-00011531-00012654": "Branded as the reinstatement of true, environmental and fair and just socialism that America wants and needs, it is essentially the capitalist Republicans’ worst nightmare", "Gjdgvt2gDYo-00009-00012654-00014271": "However, astonishingly, hardline Republican Sen.Mitch McConnell, who is Senate Majority Leader, has now announced that he will be allowing a vote on the Green New Deal because, simply, he has been backed into a corner and has no choice at this point", "Gjdgvt2gDYo-00010-00014271-00014971": "This represents a truly remarkable achievement on the part of the new incoming Democrats", "Gjdgvt2gDYo-00011-00014971-00016264": "They have really only just arrived on Capitol Hill and already they are pushing people around and getting their way, getting their radical agenda on the table for proper debate and real potential progress"}}, {"audio_id": "H0JhlBWtNoQ", "text": {"H0JhlBWtNoQ-00000-00000571-00001430": "One of the worst things about encounters with these folks is that there exists no meaningful way to have a conversation with them", "H0JhlBWtNoQ-00001-00001430-00002582": "They don’t listen to reason. They don’t care about facts. They simply ignore the obvious in favor of the reality that suits that narrative with which they have been indoctrinated", "H0JhlBWtNoQ-00002-00002582-00003277": "Well folks, we found a way to shut them the hell up.Businessman, author and former U", "H0JhlBWtNoQ-00003-00003277-00004183": "S. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich took to Facebook recently to describe his encounter with one of these rabid Donald Trump supporters", "H0JhlBWtNoQ-00004-00004183-00005638": "It sounds like the conversation did not end well for the Trump fan.Reich’s post destroys the notion that has seemingly taken root among a lot of Americans that Trump is a successful businessman and therefore will make a good president", "H0JhlBWtNoQ-00005-00005638-00006503": "Even if Donald Trump were a good businessman (he’s not), that isn’t even close to qualifying someone for the office of President", "H0JhlBWtNoQ-00006-00006503-00007109": "Trump lacks both knowledge and experience in policy, both domestic and foreign.", "H0JhlBWtNoQ-00007-00007109-00007752": "He’s nothing more than a con-man, who just conned his way into the White House"}}, {"audio_id": "Hu6-z3W7dw4", "text": {"Hu6-z3W7dw4-00000-00000571-00001650": "We said for a long time that when the caravans started, they would never stop.And the caravans from Central America are only getting bigger", "Hu6-z3W7dw4-00001-00001650-00002739": "It has ballooned into a crisis.Trump stood against them from the beginning, while Democrats and the media gave them every excuse and ways to apply for asylum", "Hu6-z3W7dw4-00002-00002739-00003849": "Mexico is bracing for the possible arrival of the “mother of all caravans,” even as doubts arise over whether the group of Central American migrants will be all that big", "Hu6-z3W7dw4-00003-00003849-00004721": "According to reports from Mexican officials, this latest caravan is coming from Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala", "Hu6-z3W7dw4-00004-00004721-00005701": "They indicate it could be as large as 20,000 strong.20,000?! That’s an entire town charging our border!", "Hu6-z3W7dw4-00005-00005701-00006639": "Those kinds of numbers are utterly unacceptable. Our border must be secured. Anyone who wants to enter has to follow our laws", "Hu6-z3W7dw4-00006-00006639-00007506": "But when thousands get on buses or march for the border, intent on just entering in? How are we going to sustain that?", "Hu6-z3W7dw4-00007-00007506-00008313": "Even Democrats have to admit this is beyond the breaking point.And Donald is already taking action", "Hu6-z3W7dw4-00008-00008313-00009023": "President Trump is responding to this growing threat by promising to close our border completely", "Hu6-z3W7dw4-00009-00009023-00010034": "If Mexico doesn’t stop them, that’s the only choice he has left.Unless Mexico does its part and refuses to let them through, this will be our reality", "Hu6-z3W7dw4-00010-00010034-00010711": "But President Trump needs America’s support if he’s going to pull off this gutsy move"}}, {"audio_id": "H_K6nT4ZUZu", "text": {"H_K6nT4ZUZu-00000-00000571-00001582": "According to Politico, Tax firm Mazars USA say the are ready to turn over 10 years worth of tax returns belonging to President Donald Trump", "H_K6nT4ZUZu-00001-00001582-00002342": "Mazars say the want the House Oversight and Reform Committee to issue a subpoena to make the process official", "H_K6nT4ZUZu-00002-00002342-00003047": "HOT TOPIC Trump has tried to hide it, but decades of secrets are about to hit via Subpoena", "H_K6nT4ZUZu-00003-00003047-00004479": "ByChristopher PowellPublished on April 4, 2019.Share.Tweet.According to Politico, Tax firm Mazars USA say the are ready to turn over 10 years worth of tax returns belonging to President Donald Trump", "H_K6nT4ZUZu-00004-00004479-00005239": "Mazars say the want the House Oversight and Reform Committee to issue a subpoena to make the process official", "H_K6nT4ZUZu-00005-00005239-00006929": "“Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) told reporters that Mazars USA, a tax and accounting firm, has asked the committee for a so-called ‘friendly’ subpoena so that it can formalize the process of complying with the panel’s request,” Politico said", "H_K6nT4ZUZu-00006-00006929-00007618": "“They have told us that they will provide the information pretty much when they have a subpoena", "H_K6nT4ZUZu-00007-00007618-00008499": "And we’ll get them a subpoena,” Cummings told reporters on Wednesday.This comes after Cummings launched a probe into Trump’s finances", "H_K6nT4ZUZu-00008-00008499-00009640": "Republicans have attacked the probe as an effort to “solely embarrass President Trump and to advance the relentless Democrat attacks upon the Trump administration,” Politico reports"}}, {"audio_id": "HKiv_UyKhY0", "text": {"HKiv_UyKhY0-00000-00000571-00001655": "President Donald Trump said late Monday night that Republicans are working on a new health care plan but won't introduce it until after the 2020 election", "HKiv_UyKhY0-00001-00001655-00003536": "\"Everybody agrees that ObamaCare doesn't work. 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,\" Trump said on Twitter", "HKiv_UyKhY0-00002-00003536-00004220": "There is no evidence that there is another health care reform proposal coming from the GOP", "HKiv_UyKhY0-00003-00004220-00005108": "\"The Republicans are developing a really great HealthCare Plan with far lower premiums (cost) & deductibles than ObamaCare", "HKiv_UyKhY0-00004-00005108-00006310": "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 back the House", "HKiv_UyKhY0-00005-00006310-00007305": "It will be truly great HealthCare that will work for America. Also, Republicans will always support Pre-Existing Conditions", "HKiv_UyKhY0-00006-00007305-00008269": "The Republican Party will be known as the Party of Great HealtCare. Meantime, the USA is doing better than ever & is respected again!\"", "HKiv_UyKhY0-00007-00008269-00009269": "Trump's statements come a week after his administration announced that it now agreed with a judge's ruling that the entire Affordable Care Act should be scrapped", "HKiv_UyKhY0-00008-00009269-00010186": "The opinion was a dramatic reversal from the administration's previous stance that only portions of the act could not be defended", "HKiv_UyKhY0-00009-00010186-00011202": "Trump has been stymied on one of his primary campaign promises -- to repeal the signature law of his predecessor -- despite multiple attempts in Congress", "HKiv_UyKhY0-00010-00011202-00012602": "Trump attempted on multiple occasions to repeal Obamacare during 2017, when his party was in control of both chambers of Congress, but failed to do so due to a lack of support within his own party", "HKiv_UyKhY0-00011-00012602-00013339": "The failed attempts proved to be a galvanizing force for Democrats in the 2018 midterms", "HKiv_UyKhY0-00012-00013339-00014245": "Health care was the top issue for Democratic and independent voters, and focusing on the issue helped Democrats take over the House in January", "HKiv_UyKhY0-00013-00014245-00015397": "The President has insisted in recent days that, despite his administration's position that all of the ACA should be struck down, the GOP will be the party of health care", "HKiv_UyKhY0-00014-00015397-00016677": "He's also repeatedly promised to protect people with pre-existing conditions, a provision that would be eliminated if the federal district judge's ruling in a Texas case is upheld on repeal", "HKiv_UyKhY0-00015-00016677-00017620": "Trump said Thursday he's asked Republican senators to work on a replacement to the Affordable Care Act, but no such group appears to exist", "HKiv_UyKhY0-00016-00017620-00018537": "Multiple Republican senators who Trump name-checked said they were not a part of a working group, but had spoken with the President about health care recently", "HKiv_UyKhY0-00017-00018537-00020083": "And on Wednesday, Marc Short, Vice President Mike Pence's chief of staff and the former White House legislative affairs director, claimed on CNN that \"the President will be putting forward plans this year\" to replace Obamacare through Congress", "HKiv_UyKhY0-00018-00020083-00020794": "White House officials were quick to tell CNN that Short had gotten ahead of White House deliberations", "HKiv_UyKhY0-00019-00020794-00021847": "The White House has yet to decide whether it will take the lead on crafting an Obamacare replacement, they said, or whether the President will punt to Republican lawmakers"}}, {"audio_id": "Hf4BS63Z4GM", "text": {"Hf4BS63Z4GM-00000-00000513-00001260": "The top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee said Friday that a recent comment by freshman U", "Hf4BS63Z4GM-00001-00001260-00002198": "S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., who also serves on the panel, represented a \"vile anti-Semitic slur,\" according to reports", "Hf4BS63Z4GM-00002-00002198-00003428": "U.S. Rep. Eliot Engle, D-N.Y., chairman of the House panel, then called on Omar to apologize for her remark, which was made at an event in Washington earlier this week", "Hf4BS63Z4GM-00003-00003428-00004744": "“I want to talk about the political influence in this country that says it is OK for people to push for allegiance to a foreign country,” Omar, who is Muslim, said, in an apparent reference to Israel", "Hf4BS63Z4GM-00004-00004744-00006134": "\"I want to ask why is it OK for me to talk about the influence of the NRA, of fossil fuel industries, or big pharma, and not talk about a powerful lobbying movement that is influencing policy", "Hf4BS63Z4GM-00005-00006134-00006865": "\".Engle issued his rebuke of her comment late Friday, saying it they amounted to a \"vile anti-Semitic slur", "Hf4BS63Z4GM-00006-00006865-00008728": "\" Conservative critics had panned the remark earlier.Added Engel, who is Jewish: “I welcome debate in Congress based on the merits of policy, but it’s unacceptable and deeply offensive to call into question the loyalty of fellow American citizens because of their political views, including support for the U", "Hf4BS63Z4GM-00007-00008728-00010462": "S.-Israel relationship. Her comments were outrageous and deeply hurtful, and I ask that she retract them, apologize, and commit to making her case on policy issues without resorting to attacks that have no place in the Foreign Affairs Committee or the House of Representatives", "Hf4BS63Z4GM-00008-00010462-00011301": "”.Omar also said at the event that she feared her religious affiliation would get in the way of meaningful discussions", "Hf4BS63Z4GM-00009-00011301-00012612": "“What I’m fearful of [is] that a lot of our Jewish colleagues, a lot of our constituents, a lot of our allies, go to thinking that everything we say about Israel to be anti-Semitic because we are Muslim,” she said", "Hf4BS63Z4GM-00010-00012612-00013472": "“But it’s almost as if, every single time we say something regardless of what it is we say … we get to be labeled something", "Hf4BS63Z4GM-00011-00013472-00014415": "And that ends the discussion.”.The event, called \"Progressive Issues Town Hall,\" was held at Busboys and Poets, a D", "Hf4BS63Z4GM-00012-00014415-00015585": "C. restaurant. Omar was joined by three fellow Democrats in Congress: Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, Pramila Jayapal of Washington state and Mark Pocan of Wisconsin", "Hf4BS63Z4GM-00013-00015585-00017390": "It was moderated by the venue's owner Andy Shallal, who echoed Omar's sentiment.“I know that’s a very sensitive topic and I know it’s an issue that has been out there and it’s used oftentimes to quiet people, to disparage them, to isolate them,” Shallal said, according to the New York Times"}}, {"audio_id": "IoG_OXO4pL0", "text": {"IoG_OXO4pL0-00000-00000513-00001529": "“President” Donald Trump had signaled that he intended to sign an executive order that was designed to guarantee free speech on college campuses", "IoG_OXO4pL0-00001-00001529-00002814": "On Thursday, Trump followed through on his promise, executing his latest Executive Order, “Improving Free Inquiry, Transparency, and Accountability At Colleges and Universities\"", "IoG_OXO4pL0-00002-00002814-00004737": "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", "IoG_OXO4pL0-00003-00004737-00006058": "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", "IoG_OXO4pL0-00004-00006058-00007270": "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", "IoG_OXO4pL0-00005-00007270-00008509": "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", "IoG_OXO4pL0-00006-00008509-00009661": "Trump’s EO provides:.“Free inquiry is an essential feature of our Nation’s democracy, and it promotes learning, scientific discovery, and economic prosperity", "IoG_OXO4pL0-00007-00009661-00011385": "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”", "IoG_OXO4pL0-00008-00011385-00012555": "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", "IoG_OXO4pL0-00009-00012555-00014219": "” 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", "IoG_OXO4pL0-00010-00014219-00015130": "The report could address caps on student loans available and put more emphasis on the institutions sharing in the financial burdens", "IoG_OXO4pL0-00011-00015130-00016005": "The outcome likely will have little impact, as the cost of a college education is not likely to decrease in any meaningful way", "IoG_OXO4pL0-00012-00016005-00017103": "As per the normal, Trump and his Education Secretary Betsy DeVos don’t know much about education, or anything. Trump does know executive orders, though"}}, {"audio_id": "I5bHOOxZ0Bo", "text": {"I5bHOOxZ0Bo-00000-00000571-00002088": "In one of the more awkward double bookings in diplomatic history, the Hanoi hotel that was supposed to serve as a headquarters for the US press corps had also been reserved by one of the world’s most press-averse and security-fixated dictators, Kim Jong-un", "I5bHOOxZ0Bo-00001-00002088-00003005": "Such cohabitation was never going to work for the North Korean security apparatus, which is not accustomed to dealing with inquisitive journalists", "I5bHOOxZ0Bo-00002-00003005-00003611": "Kim’s bodyguards have been known to accost reporters they suspect of having taken pictures of the leader and demand they hand over their smartphones for scrutiny", "I5bHOOxZ0Bo-00003-00003611-00005118": "After a brief discussion between the North Korean and Vietnamese officials in Hanoi’s Melia Hotel on Tuesday morning, the US journalists were unceremoniously evicted from the media centre that the White House advance teams had spent days erecting", "I5bHOOxZ0Bo-00004-00005118-00006451": "The fact that the problem was only discovered on Tuesday, the day before Kim is due to meet Donald Trump in the Vietnamese capital, said a lot about the haste with which this second summit between the two leaders has been arranged", "I5bHOOxZ0Bo-00005-00006451-00007477": "Hanoi was agreed as a venue two weeks ago, a win for the North Koreans who wanted to combine the trip with a relationship-building session with the Vietnamese leadership", "I5bHOOxZ0Bo-00006-00007477-00009460": "The Trump administration had wanted to meet in the coastal resort of Danang.Very few details about the timing and location of the summit have been released so far, other than that Trump and Kim – who both arrived in Hanoi on Tuesday – will have a brief one-on-one encounter on Wednesday evening followed by a working dinner with top officials", "I5bHOOxZ0Bo-00007-00009460-00010270": "Their Vietnamese hosts will put on entertainment, possibly in the French colonial-era opera house in central Hanoi", "I5bHOOxZ0Bo-00008-00010270-00010876": "A government guesthouse has been made available for working talks on Thursday, the duration and timing of which remain uncertain, but there may also be talks in the Metropole Hotel, where Graham Greene wrote The Quiet American and where Jane Fonda stayed when she made a wartime visit to North Vietnam in 1972", "I5bHOOxZ0Bo-00009-00010876-00012385": "Given the warmth of the relationship Trump claims to have developed with Kim, and the very many unanswered questions about how and whether North Korea will disarm, it is unclear why the two leaders have put off their first meeting until Wednesday evening", "I5bHOOxZ0Bo-00010-00012385-00013334": "By then, Kim will have been in town for more than 24 hours after a 65-hour ride from Pyongyang in his personal armoured train", "I5bHOOxZ0Bo-00011-00013334-00014162": "Like his father, Kim Jong-il, the North Korean leader tends to avoid air travel, apparently for security reasons", "I5bHOOxZ0Bo-00012-00014162-00015640": "The Chinese government flew him to the first summit with Trump in Singapore last June, but according to South Korean diplomats Kim has since decided that appearing to depend on China for transport is at odds with the regime’s philosophy of self-reliance", "I5bHOOxZ0Bo-00013-00015640-00016489": "North Korea’s answer to Air Force One, an old Ilyushin, has not been tested over a long distance for some years"}}, {"audio_id": "Iw0aAn8eMsE", "text": {"Iw0aAn8eMsE-00000-00000513-00001939": "The TV pundits really, really, really want you to buy into the narrative tonight that the submission of Robert Mueller’s report somehow means that Mueller didn’t find enough evidence to build a criminal case against Donald Trump", "Iw0aAn8eMsE-00001-00001939-00003133": "What’s this based on? Literally nothing, of course. Meanwhile, the people in position to know better are expecting Mueller’s report to set off additional indictments", "Iw0aAn8eMsE-00002-00003133-00004292": "First, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff appeared on MSNBC and stated that he thinks it’s “likely” there are more indictments coming; they’ll just come from the U", "Iw0aAn8eMsE-00003-00004292-00005988": "S. Attorneys’ offices that Mueller handed off the cases to. But this didn’t seem to fit with the doomsday narrative, so MSNBC kept pushing the notion that it’s all over, and everyone who hasn’t yet been arrested is somehow magically off the hook", "Iw0aAn8eMsE-00004-00005988-00007466": "That’s when Richard Blumenthal stepped to the plate.Richard Blumenthal, who sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee, appeared on MSNBC and stated that there is a “high likelihood that there are indictments in this president’s future", "Iw0aAn8eMsE-00005-00007466-00008266": "” He explained that these indictments are likely to come from SDNY and/or other federal prosecutors", "Iw0aAn8eMsE-00006-00008266-00009660": "But again, this didn’t fit the prevailing MSNBC narrative, so the host cut off Blumenthal, and began asking leading questions which were aimed at painting the picture that no more indictments are coming", "Iw0aAn8eMsE-00007-00009660-00011115": "We don’t know why the TV pundits are so eager tonight to push the notion that they somehow know that no one else will be indicted, beyond the obvious fact that scaring viewers is a good way to paralyze them into staying tuned in", "Iw0aAn8eMsE-00008-00011115-00012495": "But back in the real world, people who have been involved with the overall Trump-Russia investigation, such as Adam Schiff and Richard Blumenthal, are very loudly saying that they’re expecting more indictments", "Iw0aAn8eMsE-00009-00012495-00012947": "Blumenthal even thinks Trump is going to be indicted"}}, {"audio_id": "IBx-BSirtT0", "text": {"IBx-BSirtT0-00000-00000571-00001913": "Likely US voters largely reject the idea of more investigations into President Donald Trump after summarized findings of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation found no 2016 collusion with Russians", "IBx-BSirtT0-00001-00001913-00003509": "Of the 1,000 likely voters Rasmussen surveyed from March 25-26, 61 percent said it is time for congressional Democrats to move on to other issues and away from searching for evidence of collusion between Trump associates and Russia", "IBx-BSirtT0-00002-00003509-00004546": "This comes after Attorney General Bill Barr released a letter to Congress summarizing the findings of Mueller’s investigation into Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election", "IBx-BSirtT0-00003-00004546-00005599": ".Barr’s letter states that Mueller found that Trump and campaign associates did not collude with Russians in the presidential election, despite many offers", "IBx-BSirtT0-00004-00005599-00007054": "Voters polled by Rasmussen were asked, “Now that the Mueller probe has failed to prove that the Trump campaign colluded with the Russian government, should congressional Democrats do their own investigation, or should they move on to other issues?”", "IBx-BSirtT0-00005-00007054-00008216": "A mere 31 percent of likely voters polled wanted congressional Democrats to conduct their own investigation despite the Mueller report findings of no collusion", "IBx-BSirtT0-00006-00008216-00009110": "A similar mid-February poll was taken before results of the Mueller investigation were determined and Barr’s summary made public", "IBx-BSirtT0-00007-00009110-00011218": "That poll asked, “If the Mueller probe fails to find proof that the Trump campaign colluded with the Russian government, should congressional Democrats do their own investigation, or should they move on to other issues?” Only 29 percent favored additional congressional investigation at the time, while 63 percent said, “Move on", "IBx-BSirtT0-00008-00011218-00012098": "”.The mid-February poll surveyed 1,000 likely voters and was conducted February 13-14"}}, {"audio_id": "IMJBgZ6hr14", "text": {"IMJBgZ6hr14-00000-00000513-00001756": "Although Special Counsel Robert Mueller has submitted the final report summarizing his Russia investigation to the Justice Department, President Donald Trump is far from free from scrutiny", "IMJBgZ6hr14-00001-00001756-00003807": "House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) has announced that he intends to haul Attorney General William Barr in for questioning in the near future to answer for his determination that Trump isn’t guilty of obstruction of justice, which Mueller’s report specifically did not offer a final determination on", "IMJBgZ6hr14-00002-00003807-00005648": "He shared:.‘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 the House Judiciary Committee in the near future'", "IMJBgZ6hr14-00003-00005648-00007605": "Nadler highlighted those “discrepancies” in other public commentary, noting that Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein seem to have reached the conclusion that Trump should be free from consequences for possible obstruction of justice within two days after Mueller and his team spent a full 22 months investigating", "IMJBgZ6hr14-00004-00007605-00008663": "Mueller’s report specifically states:.‘While this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him'", "IMJBgZ6hr14-00005-00008663-00010199": "Barr claimed that the determination to that effect “leaves it to the Attorney General to determine whether the conduct described in the report constitutes a crime,” and he took the least surprising route for a Trump appointee to draw his conclusion", "IMJBgZ6hr14-00006-00010199-00012680": "As Nadler notes, a full accounting of the “underlying evidence” in the case could resolve the discrepancy. Barr said in his Sunday letter to Congress that his team was reviewing what parts of the report were protected by federal law covering grand jury proceedings before releasing more details than the brief, four-page Sunday letter two days after Mueller’s team submitted their confidential report", "IMJBgZ6hr14-00007-00012680-00014370": "There’s not a good history with Trump’s AG picks and Congress — both of the others have lied during testimony, Jeff Sessions about his Russia connection and Matthew Whitaker about whether Trump had ever asked him to personally intervene in investigations on his behalf", "IMJBgZ6hr14-00008-00014370-00015313": "Calling Barr for testimony is far from the only way House Democrats have put forward as part of an effort to obtain that underlying evidence", "IMJBgZ6hr14-00009-00015313-00017019": "Nadler told CNN that his committee would be ready and willing to target Mueller’s report with a subpoena if Barr isn’t forthcoming and even take their fight to the Supreme Court, if necessary — although thanks to Trump’s ascent, that body now leans conservative", "IMJBgZ6hr14-00010-00017019-00018916": "Similarly, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) has gone so far as to suggest that he’d be open to bringing Mueller himself in for questioning if his panel can’t get the underlying information the special counsel’s team collected on the issues the Trump team poses", "IMJBgZ6hr14-00011-00018916-00020229": "Schiff, Nadler, and House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) have all already established their intent on close oversight of the Trump team through growing lines of wide-ranging inquiry", "IMJBgZ6hr14-00012-00020229-00022664": "Besides the obstruction issue, Schiff is also after material on the president’s connections to Russia, which could pose a continued counterintelligence threat to the United States, although Mueller’s report concludes that no Trump team member conspired or coordinated with Russian agents seeking to tilt the 2016 elections — which, for the record, is a conspicuously different word than “collusion\""}}, {"audio_id": "IT5KxEmVJ-y", "text": {"IT5KxEmVJ-y-00000-00000571-00001297": "A large piece of dynamite went off last week in the Trump White House security clearance scandal", "IT5KxEmVJ-y-00001-00001297-00002493": "Tricia Newbold of the White House Personnel Security Office sat down with the House Oversight and Reform Committee for an interview, according to new reports today from several major news outlets", "IT5KxEmVJ-y-00002-00002493-00004844": "Her testimony appears to have been quite compelling. .According to Ms Newbold, as many as twenty-five top Trump administration officials were ultimately given security clearances, even after they’d initially been rejected for such things as foreign influence, conflicts of interest, personal conduct, financial problems, drug use, and criminal conduct precluding their initial clearances", "IT5KxEmVJ-y-00003-00004844-00005649": "Ms. Newbold said that she could not sit back and allow issues that could “impact national security” to go unaddressed", "IT5KxEmVJ-y-00004-00005649-00006542": "Think about that for a second. .These are twenty-five people who could, either knowingly or unknowingly share information with U", "IT5KxEmVJ-y-00005-00006542-00007898": "S. enemies, and who were forcibly given clearance. They now have access to top secret information, which, if it lands in the wrong hands, could potentially impact and devastate millions of Americans", "IT5KxEmVJ-y-00006-00007898-00008658": "We can’t sit quietly by while secrets impacting our very existence are being placed in the wrong hands", "IT5KxEmVJ-y-00007-00008658-00009342": "When you consider the sheer magnitude of these actions, it is quite frightening to say the least", "IT5KxEmVJ-y-00008-00009342-00010285": "Newbold was apparently bothered by these same possibilities and decided to come forward after her complaints were swept under the carpet", "IT5KxEmVJ-y-00009-00010285-00011487": ".Coming forward to the Committee after receiving no help from her office, Newbold shared that bringing the matter to the attention of Congress was her “last hope to bring integrity” back to her office", "IT5KxEmVJ-y-00010-00011487-00013383": "Newbold prepared a memo to Congress stating that: “I do not see a way forward positively in our office without coming to an external entity … And I want it known that this is a systematic, it’s an office issue, and we’re not a political office, but these decisions were being continuously overrode", "IT5KxEmVJ-y-00011-00013383-00014804": "” The bulk of Ms. Newbold’s complaints center around Carl Kline, the former Personnel Security Chief of the White House, and she has a list of the people who were initially denied clearance, which we can assume she has shared with Congress", "IT5KxEmVJ-y-00012-00014804-00015758": "The White House also attempted to block Ms. Newbold from speaking with Congress, but she said that “other whistleblowers have corroborated” her allegations", "IT5KxEmVJ-y-00013-00015758-00016526": ".The Trump administration will go down as the single most corrupt administration the country has ever seen", "IT5KxEmVJ-y-00014-00016526-00017205": "Watergate was bad, but this goes beyond merely breaking into your opposition’s office", "IT5KxEmVJ-y-00015-00017205-00017858": "This is exposing the United States and its people to danger at the hands of foreign enemies", "IT5KxEmVJ-y-00016-00017858-00018780": "While Nixon was driven by vindictiveness, as is Trump, he pales in comparison to the dangers presented by the Trump “presidency", "IT5KxEmVJ-y-00017-00018780-00018880": "”"}}, {"audio_id": "Il5472paDZM", "text": {"Il5472paDZM-00000-00000513-00001929": "Ty Cobb served as the White House attorney for roughly nine months of the investigation led by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, and in a recent interview with ABC News Podcast The Investigation revealed his great respect for Mr", "Il5472paDZM-00001-00001929-00002571": "Mueller and refuted President Donald Trump’s claims that his investigation is a “witch hunt", "Il5472paDZM-00002-00002571-00003783": "”.When asked if he has the same opinion of Mr. Mueller as does the Commander in Chief, Cobb said “I don’t feel the same way about Mueller,” adding “I don’t feel the investigation is a witch hunt", "Il5472paDZM-00003-00003783-00005236": "” He also vouched for the character of Muller, calling him “an American hero.”.“I think Bob Mueller’s an American hero,” Cobb said, adding “even though he came from an, arguably, privileged background, he has a backbone of steel", "Il5472paDZM-00004-00005236-00006074": "He walked into a firefight in Vietnam to pull out one of his injured colleagues and was appropriately honored for that", "Il5472paDZM-00005-00006074-00006831": "I’ve known him for 30 years as a prosecutor and a friend. And I think the world of Bob Mueller", "Il5472paDZM-00006-00006831-00007620": "He is a very deliberate guy. But he’s also a class act. And a very justice-oriented person", "Il5472paDZM-00007-00007620-00007720": "”"}}, {"audio_id": "JuLAKb-rq4k", "text": {"JuLAKb-rq4k-00000-00000571-00001981": "Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” host Andrea Mitchell said President Donald Trump was considered to epitomize America’s “profound narcissism” during a discussion with New York Times columnist David Brooks", "JuLAKb-rq4k-00001-00001981-00002705": "Mitchell said, “In fact, the country in so many ways has been moving toward a profound narcissism", "JuLAKb-rq4k-00002-00002705-00003535": "Which we see perhaps epitomized, some would say, in our president. But it goes beyond just this president", "JuLAKb-rq4k-00003-00003535-00004567": "It’s the culture and the political conversation.”. .Brooks said, “Right. We have a crisis of disconnection where we are just not close to each other", "JuLAKb-rq4k-00004-00004567-00005309": "The number of people who say no one knows them well is up. The number of people committing suicide is up", "JuLAKb-rq4k-00005-00005309-00005957": "The number of teenagers committing suicide is up 70% over the last few years.”"}}, {"audio_id": "JDQ6c7ByKM0", "text": {"JDQ6c7ByKM0-00000-00000513-00001286": "On Thursday, Crown Prince Alexander and Crown Princess Katherine of Serbia held a gala dinner in London", "JDQ6c7ByKM0-00001-00001286-00002224": "The royals visited the British capital to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Crown Princess Katherine’s charity organisation, Lifeline", "JDQ6c7ByKM0-00002-00002224-00002837": "They hosted the great gala dinner at Claridge’s hotel and Royal Central was invited", "JDQ6c7ByKM0-00003-00002837-00003974": "The location of the dinner was no coincidence. The famous hotel is the birthplace of Crown Prince Alexander, making the evening especially poignant for the royal couple", "JDQ6c7ByKM0-00004-00003974-00004726": "The funds that were raised during the gala will go towards supplying children’s hospitals in Serbia with medical equipment", "JDQ6c7ByKM0-00005-00004726-00005993": "In 1993, Crown Princess Katherine founded the Lifeline Humanitarian Organisation which currently has offices in Chicago, New York, Toronto, London and Athens", "JDQ6c7ByKM0-00006-00005993-00007134": "This organisation, together with the HRH Crown Princess Katherine Foundation, works to collect money for medical equipment that has been delivered to numerous hospitals in Serbia", "JDQ6c7ByKM0-00007-00007134-00008077": "If you want to read more about the HRH Crown Princess Katherine Foundation and the Lifeline Humanitarian Organisation, you can do so here", "JDQ6c7ByKM0-00008-00008077-00009190": "Serbia’s Prince Philip and Princess Danica were also present. Prince Philip gave an impassioned speech where he showed his concern for his parents and thanked them for their work", "JDQ6c7ByKM0-00009-00009190-00010402": "Crown Princess Katherine was the speaker who touched all the 200 guests. She was so moved  that she cried from the stage while she thanked everyone who had helped her over the past 25 years", "JDQ6c7ByKM0-00010-00010402-00011134": "A charity auction was also held where jewellery, paintings and experiences were auctioned off", "JDQ6c7ByKM0-00011-00011134-00011828": "All the money raised goes directly to the Crown Princess Foundation to help Serbian children", "JDQ6c7ByKM0-00012-00011828-00012583": "The Serbian royal couple has been working for many years to improve the situation of those who need extra support", "JDQ6c7ByKM0-00013-00012583-00013806": "Last year they took part in several special events including a charity evening and auction at the University Women’s Club in London to raise funds and awareness for the treatment of children with disabilities in Serbia", "JDQ6c7ByKM0-00014-00013806-00014749": "They also participated in a charity event in London in March 2018; which raised money for a new ambulance for a Serbian hospital", "JDQ6c7ByKM0-00015-00014749-00015796": "When Crown Princess Katherine’s charity organisation, Lifeline, celebrated its 20th anniversary it also held a charity gala at Claridge’s in London", "JDQ6c7ByKM0-00016-00015796-00016593": "That event raised money for the Cerebral Palsy Society in Greece and the Children’s Home Foundation in Greece", "JDQ6c7ByKM0-00017-00016593-00017437": "In addition to the Serbian royals, the event in 2014 was also attended by Princess Beatrice of York", "JDQ6c7ByKM0-00018-00017437-00018257": "Royal Central`s Senior Europe Correspondent Oskar Aanmoen was invited to the dinner", "JDQ6c7ByKM0-00019-00018257-00019148": "Next week Royal Central will bring you his exclusive interview with members of the Serbian Royal Family, so stay tuned"}}, {"audio_id": "JpBVRvGfwWU", "text": {"JpBVRvGfwWU-00000-00000513-00001960": "Everything Donald Trump touches is stained by his corruption and lies; even something as benign as a charity that bears his name, under further scrutiny and investigation, turns out to be a corrupt and even criminal enterprise", "JpBVRvGfwWU-00001-00001960-00003049": "Trump’s charity foundation was determined by New York Attorney General Letitia James to have been nothing more than a personal piggy bank for the president and his children", "JpBVRvGfwWU-00002-00003049-00004138": "The Trump Foundation was closed down due to the illegality of its handling and the remaining donations were distributed among non-profit charities under government oversight", "JpBVRvGfwWU-00003-00004138-00005734": "However, that doesn’t resolve the state’s lawsuit against the foundation. James filed legal paperwork requesting that Trump pay millions in restitution after illegally using the funds and restrict the Trumps from overseeing any charitable organization", "JpBVRvGfwWU-00004-00005734-00007020": "According to the Associated Press:.‘State Attorney General Letitia James, a Democrat, detailed her case against the foundation in a 37-page court filing in a lawsuit that seeks $2", "JpBVRvGfwWU-00005-00007020-00007908": "8 million in restitution and an order banning Trump and his three eldest children from running any New York charities for 10 years’", "JpBVRvGfwWU-00006-00007908-00008908": "The GOP and the Trump administration has blasted James as a Democrat with an agenda, making up lies against Trump for political gain", "JpBVRvGfwWU-00007-00008908-00009613": "They never want to discuss the actual proof James has against Trump, but there’s quite a bit of it", "JpBVRvGfwWU-00008-00009613-00011194": "‘James said the evidence of banned coordination between campaign officials and the foundation includes deposition testimony from Trump Organization executive Allen Weisselberg and emails he exchanged with former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski’", "JpBVRvGfwWU-00009-00011194-00013461": "Perhaps the most shocking allegation, backed by multiple sources of proof, is that Trump’s charity organization mishandled donations to veteran’s groups, which were collected during the 2016 campaigns when Trump skipped a Republican debate out of protest of his perceived unfair treatment by Fox News’ Megyn Kelly and held a charity drive to raise funds for veterans", "JpBVRvGfwWU-00010-00013461-00014315": "The money went through the Trump Foundation, which is illegal, and money held by that foundation was not used for charities", "JpBVRvGfwWU-00011-00014315-00015953": "‘Trump was also accused in the suit of directing that $100,000 in foundation money be used to settle legal claims over an 80-foot flagpole he had built at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, instead of paying the expense out of his own pocket’", "JpBVRvGfwWU-00012-00015953-00017184": "The investigation doesn’t stop with Trump’s charity, however. Every aspect of Trump’s business and personal financial life is under scrutiny and turning up corruption at every turn", "JpBVRvGfwWU-00013-00017184-00018738": "‘James, a Democrat newly elected to office, also issued subpoenas Monday to Deutsche Bank and Investors Bank seeking records related to four Trump real estate projects and his failed 2014 bid to buy the NFL’s Buffalo Bills’"}}, {"audio_id": "JRtO1fwVnnc", "text": {"JRtO1fwVnnc-00000-00000571-00001989": "America is so used to the president being creepy about his daughter Ivanka by now, it’s almost difficult to be surprised whenever he gushes about her, gives her more responsibility in the White House, or says something wildly inappropriate", "JRtO1fwVnnc-00001-00001989-00003175": "These are all things we have come to expect from Donald Trump, sadly, but it still doesn’t make it any less pathetic whenever he does something ridiculous to praise his daughter", "JRtO1fwVnnc-00002-00003175-00004544": "In a move that proves that the president will always be hungry for media attention, Trump thrust his daughter into the spotlight and practically begged Americans to watch her appearance on Fox News later tonight", "JRtO1fwVnnc-00003-00004544-00005304": "In a sad tweet, the president praised Ivanka for her “hard work” and posed as his daughter’s publicist", "JRtO1fwVnnc-00004-00005304-00006161": "He wrote:''My wonderful daughter, Ivanka, will be interviewed tonight by Steve Hilton on ‘The Next Revolution", "JRtO1fwVnnc-00005-00006161-00007096": "’ @FoxNews 9:00 P.M. She works so hard and has achieved so much for the USA and gets so little credit!)", "JRtO1fwVnnc-00006-00007096-00009405": "Then watch Mark Levin at 10:00 P.M., a great show!”.Trump continues to do everything he can to drum up attention and business for his family, which is exactly why the president has yet to disconnect from his many businesses (despite promising America that he would) and why Trump decided to put his family members in White House positions that they’re clearly not qualified for", "JRtO1fwVnnc-00007-00009405-00010502": "For Trump, he sees any opportunity to promote the interests of his selfish family and sees no problem exploiting his position as POTUS to benefit himself"}}, {"audio_id": "Jd4GBAUkB38", "text": {"Jd4GBAUkB38-00000-00000571-00001655": "Two days ago, we learned that House Democrats planned on initiating action today, Friday, to block Donald Trump’s declaration of an emergency on the southern border", "Jd4GBAUkB38-00001-00001655-00002692": "In that regard, things took a turn for the worst for the President today, when it was made public that now Republicans could be jumping on board for the block", "Jd4GBAUkB38-00002-00002692-00003561": "This comes as Rep. Justin Amash, Republican from Michigan, has joined Democrats in co-sponsoring the joint resolution", "Jd4GBAUkB38-00003-00003561-00004706": "Amash is no stranger to breaking with his party and Trump himself, and at this time it is unknown if other members of his caucus will join him in voting for the resolution", "Jd4GBAUkB38-00004-00004706-00005400": "The resolution is expected to be brought to the House floor on Tuesday, February 26", "Jd4GBAUkB38-00005-00005400-00006529": "In a tweet, dated February 15, 2019, Amash’s representative had this to say:.‘A national emergency declaration for a non-emergency is void", "Jd4GBAUkB38-00006-00006529-00007459": "‘A prerequisite for declaring an emergency is that the situation requires immediate action and Congress does not have an opportunity to act", "Jd4GBAUkB38-00007-00007459-00008538": "@POTUS @realDonaldTrump is attempting to circumvent our constitutional system.The tweet comes as no surprise to anyone who has Rep", "Jd4GBAUkB38-00008-00008538-00010016": "Justin Amash even remotely on their radar. About a year ago, he was one of the first House conservative Republicans to voice to concern over Trump’s threatening to shut down the Mueller investigation and support for an independent commission", "Jd4GBAUkB38-00009-00010016-00011604": "Amash could even be a rarity on Capitol Hill, particularly for a Republican; he also states in the below video that he has “more confidence in Comey,” referring to whom he believes between Donald Trump and former FBI Director, James Comey", "Jd4GBAUkB38-00010-00011604-00012466": "The measure is being led by Congressional Hispanic Caucus Chairman Joaquin Castro, a Democrat from Texas", "Jd4GBAUkB38-00011-00012466-00014143": "Castro had this to say today, in a call from reporters:.‘Right now I believe that we’re at about 226 or 227 co-sponsors including one Republican, Justin Amash, and I look forward to getting more support as the days go on", "Jd4GBAUkB38-00012-00014143-00015818": "’.House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is likely proud of Amash’s move and bipartisanship. On Monday she sent a letter to members of both parties where she encouraged them to support the resolution, stating that she believes Trump’s decision is an “institutional assault” against Congress", "Jd4GBAUkB38-00013-00015818-00017944": "Released, in full, on her .gov official website she states, in part:.‘President Trump’s emergency declaration proclamation undermines the separation of powers and Congress’s power of the purse, a power exclusively reserved by the text of the Constitution to the first branch of government, the Legislative branch, a branch co-equal to the Executive", "Jd4GBAUkB38-00014-00017944-00019582": "’‘All Members take an oath of office to support and defend the Constitution. The President’s decision to go outside the bounds of the law to try to get what he failed to achieve in the constitutional legislative process violates the Constitution and must be terminated", "Jd4GBAUkB38-00015-00019582-00020535": "We have a solemn responsibility to uphold the Constitution, and defend our system of checks and balances against the President’s assault", "Jd4GBAUkB38-00016-00020535-00022019": "’.You can read the full letter, here.The move by House Democrats (and some Republicans) comes as Trump and his administration are facing push-back from every direction and mounting legal troubles over his fake National Emergency"}}, {"audio_id": "JhZyyfGDjMo", "text": {"JhZyyfGDjMo-00000-00000571-00001608": "Trump is facing down a swarm of investigations from multiple congressional committees, a special counsel, state and federal prosecutors, and private litigants", "JhZyyfGDjMo-00001-00001608-00003358": "His entire life is under scrutiny.But the fight back has begun.If there is any President who could bear such strain, who would perhaps relish the struggle, prosper amid its cacophony and be willing to cross all sorts of conventional lines to stay alive, it would surely be Trump", "JhZyyfGDjMo-00002-00003358-00004196": "As a youth at New York Military Academy, the future President learned one thing above all else: \"life is about survival", "JhZyyfGDjMo-00003-00004196-00004917": "It's always about survival,\" according to writer Michael D'Antonio in his biography of Trump", "JhZyyfGDjMo-00004-00004917-00005996": "It's been Trump's motto ever since, no matter the collateral damage and the cost of legal battles and reputational hits, personal scandals and bankruptcies", "JhZyyfGDjMo-00005-00005996-00006618": "Now America is about to be dragged along on Trump's most existential struggle yet", "JhZyyfGDjMo-00006-00006618-00007908": "Survival in a personal and political sense now defines his life, with Robert Mueller's report expected to be filed soon and Democrats unfurling an oversight blitz that could lead to impeachment", "JhZyyfGDjMo-00007-00007908-00009355": "When House Democrats on Monday unveiled a mammoth document demand from a list of 81 potential witnesses linked to Trump's businesses, campaigns, presidency and family, he and aides initially pledged cooperation", "JhZyyfGDjMo-00008-00009355-00010439": "But the mask soon slipped.Trump responded on Tuesday according to his creed, with a promise of all-out confrontation and a searing blast at his enemies", "JhZyyfGDjMo-00009-00010439-00011918": "\"It's a disgrace. It's a disgrace to our country,\" he said, accusing Democrats of being consumed by anger at their loss in 2016, and framing the coming fight as an extension of his 2020 re-election campaign", "JhZyyfGDjMo-00010-00011918-00013015": "Trump's press secretary, Sarah Sanders, set the vituperative tone of a fight against a Democratic majority seeking to expose the President as historically corrupt", "JhZyyfGDjMo-00011-00013015-00014185": "\"Democrats have embarked on a fishing expedition because they are terrified that their two year false narrative of 'Russia collusion' is crumbling,\" Sanders said in a statement on Monday night", "JhZyyfGDjMo-00012-00014185-00014765": "\"The Democrats are not after the truth, they are after the President''"}}, {"audio_id": "Ji8JS5K9SWy", "text": {"Ji8JS5K9SWy-00000-00000571-00001556": "They have been quick to condemn WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange -- and vow that justice will be served now that its leader has been arrested", "Ji8JS5K9SWy-00001-00001556-00002394": "But when it comes to President Donald Trump's past praise of WikiLeaks, Senate Republicans are at a loss for words", "Ji8JS5K9SWy-00002-00002394-00003188": "\"You need to talk to the President about his comments,\" Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr said as he left the Capitol", "Ji8JS5K9SWy-00003-00003188-00003930": "\"That's up to the President,\" said Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham when asked about Trump's past praise", "Ji8JS5K9SWy-00004-00003930-00005492": "They're hardly alone. On Thursday, few Republicans wanted to revisit Trump's past comments, instead drawing their ire toward Assange while offering their support for the US government's efforts to pursue his extradition and prosecution", "Ji8JS5K9SWy-00005-00005492-00006571": "\"I think it's about time,\" said Sen. Roy Blunt, a member of GOP leadership who sits on the Senate Intelligence Committee, when asked about Assange's arrest in London", "Ji8JS5K9SWy-00006-00006571-00007968": "Yet when asked about Trump's past praise for WikiLeaks, Blunt paused for several seconds before saying: \"Well, I think anytime people are releasing information that shouldn't be released, that's a troublesome thing", "Ji8JS5K9SWy-00007-00007968-00008632": "\".The Missouri Republican then added: \"I don't have anything else to say beyond that", "Ji8JS5K9SWy-00008-00008632-00009496": "\".On Thursday, Trump himself sought to distance himself from his own remarks, saying: \"I know nothing about WikiLeaks", "Ji8JS5K9SWy-00009-00009496-00011035": "It's not my thing.\".Yet, time and again on the campaign trail in 2016, Trump trumpeted WikiLeaks and the drip of damaging information about the Clinton campaign -- even as the authorities warned that the Russians were behind the hacked emails", "Ji8JS5K9SWy-00010-00011035-00011800": "\"I love reading those WikiLeaks,\" Trump said in November 2016, a common refrain at his rallies", "Ji8JS5K9SWy-00011-00011800-00012730": "At the time in 2016, GOP Sen. Marco Rubio warned the GOP not to tout the WikiLeaks information", "Ji8JS5K9SWy-00012-00012730-00013916": "\"Because it was the work of a foreign intelligence agency, and it was designed to play a role in our elections,\" Rubio said Thursday, recalling why he raised his past concerns", "Ji8JS5K9SWy-00013-00013916-00015136": "\"I told people not to do that, because today it was Hillary Clinton, but tomorrow it will be a Republican, or anyone,\" Rubio told CNN when asked about Trump's praise at the time", "Ji8JS5K9SWy-00014-00015136-00016416": "The Florida Republican on Thursday blamed the media for covering the stolen emails, saying that gives incentive for other foreign powers to replicate Russians' actions of 2016", "Ji8JS5K9SWy-00015-00016416-00018156": "\"In the future, if foreign adversaries know if they can get access to things that are salacious and put them out there in the public domain, the media's going to focus a little bit on how that became public, but mostly on the contents of that salacious content,\" Rubio said", "Ji8JS5K9SWy-00016-00018156-00019240": "Yet when asked if Trump should re-examine his past rhetoric touting WikiLeaks, Rubio said: \"During the campaign, you have to ask him why he said that", "Ji8JS5K9SWy-00017-00019240-00021881": "Perhaps he wasn't as familiar at the time as he is now.\".On Thursday morning, the 47-year-old Assange was arrested and dragged out of the Ecuadorian embassy in the United Kingdom, where had been in asylum for seven years, as the US seeks his extradition on charges that he engaged in a 2010 conspiracy to break into a classified federal computer and leak secret records that officials say endangered national security", "Ji8JS5K9SWy-00018-00021881-00022617": "When asked what he thought about Trump's past praise, Graham instead discussed his own personal views of Assange", "Ji8JS5K9SWy-00019-00022617-00023571": "\"I've repeatedly condemned the guy,\" Graham said. \"He'll be offered a fair trial. The wheels of justice are finally turning", "Ji8JS5K9SWy-00020-00023571-00023910": "He's never been a hero.\""}}, {"audio_id": "K3UrI1G2a_y", "text": {"K3UrI1G2a_y-00000-00000571-00002044": "Well, isn’t this an interesting development?.Slate published a story recently that suggests a certain position the Trump Justice Department is arguing before the Supreme Court could jeopardize Melania’s status in the United States", "K3UrI1G2a_y-00001-00002044-00002822": ".The particular Supreme Court case in question involves a Serbian woman who was applying for U", "K3UrI1G2a_y-00002-00002822-00003692": "S. citizenship. She allegedly misrepresented a fact about her husband her paperwork, and was subsequently deported", "K3UrI1G2a_y-00003-00003692-00005926": "The Trump Justice Department argued that her deportation was completely justified, and went so far as to argue that any inaccuracies on official immigration paperwork, even those involving virtually pointless, or “immaterial” issues, justifies immediate deportation – even retroactive revocation of one’s already-granted citizenship", "K3UrI1G2a_y-00004-00005926-00007062": "Slate points to The New York Times for more details. They point out that even Chief Justice, John Roberts found the Trump Administration’s argument way past the point of reasonable:", "K3UrI1G2a_y-00005-00007062-00008227": "“Some time ago, outside the statute of limitations, I drove 60 miles an hour in a 55-mile-an-hour zone,” the chief justice said, adding that he had not been caught", "K3UrI1G2a_y-00006-00008227-00009379": "The form that people seeking American citizenship must complete, he added, asks whether the applicant had ever committed a criminal offense, however minor, even if there was no arrest", "K3UrI1G2a_y-00007-00009379-00010763": "“If I answer that question no, 20 years after I was naturalized as a citizen, you can knock on my door and say, ‘Guess what, you’re not an American citizen after all’?” Chief Justice Roberts asked", "K3UrI1G2a_y-00008-00010763-00011427": "Robert A. Parker, a Justice Department lawyer, said the offense had to be disclosed", "K3UrI1G2a_y-00009-00011427-00012584": "Chief Justice Roberts seemed shocked. “Oh, come on,” he said.The chief justice asked again whether someone’s citizenship could turn on such an omission", "K3UrI1G2a_y-00010-00012584-00013579": "Mr. Parker did not back down. “If we can prove that you deliberately lied in answering that question, then yes,” he said"}}, {"audio_id": "K6W_lvFMqNQ", "text": {"K6W_lvFMqNQ-00000-00000000-00001781": "For a multitude of very good reasons, Donald Trump is terrified of Congressman Adam Schiff, and therefore Trump’s group of complicit treason apologists in Congress are also losing their collective minds over what the new Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee has the power to do", "K6W_lvFMqNQ-00001-00001781-00003207": "Earlier this month, John Solomon, a pro-Trump conspiracy theorist who writes for The Hill, confirmed his concerns about Schiff, stating he “has proven to be his party’s most effective antagonist toward President Trump", "K6W_lvFMqNQ-00002-00003207-00003988": "And now, with the new powers of being chairman, he is drawing both new weapons and new scrutiny", "K6W_lvFMqNQ-00003-00003988-00005020": "”On Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy regurgitated some of Solomon’s propaganda while attacking Schiff", "K6W_lvFMqNQ-00004-00005020-00007183": "When asked by host Maria Bartiromo about Schiff’s investigation into Trump-Russia treason, McCarthy did not attempt to hide his unhinged disdain for the rule of law, saying “We now find that Adam Schiff met with Glenn Simpson, the co-founder of Fusion GPS, the individual that created that fake dossier, in Aspen, which never has been known to us", "K6W_lvFMqNQ-00005-00007183-00008855": "”McCarthy’s inveterate lies did not end there. He went on to say that Schiff “should recuse himself based upon meeting with an individual that’s under, that we’re looking at from creating the Fusion GPS, I mean from Fusion GPS and not even telling us", "K6W_lvFMqNQ-00006-00008855-00012935": "” So let me get this straight. Wanting to gain further information from someone who has repeatedly provided credible information is somehow wrong, but meeting with untold Russians is supposedly “opposition research?”Because Jeff Sessions, who actively participated in subverting American democracy, and then repeatedly lied to Congress, was forced to recuse himself from any Trump-Russia matters, McCarthy believes Schiff should also have to recuse himself, and possibly even step down as Chairman, because, why exactly? Apparently, it is because Schiff is getting closer every day to proving Trump and his cronies sold out America to benefit themselves and foreign adversaries", "K6W_lvFMqNQ-00007-00012935-00013444": "They are clearly terrified of Schiff, and for very good reasons!"}}, {"audio_id": "K7Nf8fviAHM", "text": {"K7Nf8fviAHM-00000-00000571-00001971": "Donald Trump, whose faltering mental and cognitive competence is increasingly on display every time he opens his mouth these days, is suddenly firing nearly the entire leadership at the Department of Homeland Security", "K7Nf8fviAHM-00001-00001971-00002909": "So is this merely a broad and pointless fit of rage on the part of a man who’s falling apart, or is there something more calculated going on here?", "K7Nf8fviAHM-00002-00002909-00004032": "A few months into his presidency, Donald Trump abruptly fired dozens of U.S. Attorneys across the nation, after having already signaled that he was planning to keep them all", "K7Nf8fviAHM-00003-00004032-00005380": "By the time the smoke cleared, it had become obvious that all the carnage was merely an excuse for Trump to get rid of Preet Bharara, who at the time was the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York", "K7Nf8fviAHM-00004-00005380-00006618": "The SDNY had federal jurisdiction over New York City, where Trump lived and ran his businesses, and Trump wanted Bharara out of there before he could expose any of Trump’s crimes", "K7Nf8fviAHM-00005-00006618-00008216": ".Now it’s fair to wonder if we’re in a similar situation. First Donald Trump canned his own ICE Director nominee last week, saying he wanted someone “tougher,” which made no sense considering he’d just finished handpicking the guy", "K7Nf8fviAHM-00006-00008216-00008875": "Then he pushed Homeland Security Director Kirstjen Nielsen out the door last night", "K7Nf8fviAHM-00007-00008875-00009828": "Then today he announced that he was getting rid of Nielsen’s top deputy. Now he’s getting rid of the Secret Service Director for no apparent reason", "K7Nf8fviAHM-00008-00009828-00011471": "It’s that last one that stands out.The leaders of DHS and ICE are supposed to carry out the president’s political agenda, so it would make sense for the president to replace these people if his agenda changes, or if they’re unwilling to continue carrying it out", "K7Nf8fviAHM-00009-00011471-00012887": "But there’s no evidence that this even necessarily happened. And now Trump is forcing out the head of the Secret Service, a distinctly nonpartisan agency whose operations are entirely separate from the president’s agenda", "K7Nf8fviAHM-00010-00012887-00013924": "The only legitimate basis for firing the Secret Service Director would be due to personal scandal or professional incompetence, and there’s no evidence of any such thing", "K7Nf8fviAHM-00011-00013924-00014509": "By all accounts, the Secret Service is doing as strong of a job as ever"}}, {"audio_id": "K8_reyPSUyY", "text": {"K8_reyPSUyY-00000-00000513-00001861": "President Donald Trump described the investigation into his administration's security clearance process as a “witch hunt” and a “disgrace” as the White House refused to hand over documents relating to his son-in-law Jared Kushner", "K8_reyPSUyY-00001-00001861-00002919": "The White House and the House Oversight and Reform Committee clashed over the review as the Trump administration denied requests for documents and interviews from the committee", "K8_reyPSUyY-00002-00002919-00004034": "Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings said the White House was attempting to challenge the panel's authority and was questioning whether it had a legitimate purpose for the requests", "K8_reyPSUyY-00003-00004034-00005123": "Cummings also released a letter he received from White House counsel Pat Cipollone in which he called Cummings’s request “unprecedented and extraordinarily intrusive", "K8_reyPSUyY-00004-00005123-00006662": "“As I have explained in multiple previous letters, it is clearly established as a matter of law that the decision to grant or deny a security clearance is a discretionary function that belongs exclusively to the Executive Branch,” Cipollone wrote", "K8_reyPSUyY-00005-00006662-00008151": "The review was launched by the committee following concerns that as many as 130 people working in the Executive Office of the President did not have permanent security clearances, according to White House documents obtained by NBC News", "K8_reyPSUyY-00006-00008151-00009005": "Among those who reportedly did not have full clearance was the president’s daughter, Ivanka Trump, and her husband, Jared Kushner", "K8_reyPSUyY-00007-00009005-00010457": "The the committee's request for documents arrived following a New York Times report that  said that Trump had ordered officials to grant Kushner a high-level security clearance despite objections from senior administration and intelligence officials", "K8_reyPSUyY-00008-00010457-00012354": "“The White House appears to be arguing that Congress has no authority to examine decisions by the Executive Branch that impact our national security—even when the President’s former National Security Advisor has pleaded guilty to lying about his contacts with foreign government officials,” Cummings said in a statement", "K8_reyPSUyY-00009-00012354-00013897": "“There is a key difference between a president who exercises his authority under the Constitution and a president who overrules career experts and his top advisors to benefit his family members and then conceals his actions from the American people", "K8_reyPSUyY-00010-00013897-00014950": "The White House’s argument defies the Constitutional separation of powers, decades of precedent before this Committee, and just plain common-sense", "K8_reyPSUyY-00011-00014950-00015893": "”.According to The Hill, Cummings is reportedly looking into subpoenaing the administration  to force the release of the requested documents", "K8_reyPSUyY-00012-00015893-00016915": ".“The White House security clearance system is broken, and it needs both congressional oversight and legislative reform,” Cummings said in his statement", "K8_reyPSUyY-00013-00016915-00017510": "“I will be consulting with Members of the Committee to determine our next steps.”", "K8_reyPSUyY-00014-00017510-00018814": "The House Judiciary Committee has also launched an investigation, with at least 81 people and organizations linked to the president or his campaign team receiving letters in relation to the probe", "K8_reyPSUyY-00015-00018814-00019950": "“The witch hunt continues,” Trump told reporters after signing an executive order on National Roadmap to Empower Veterans and End Veteran Suicide, at the White House", "K8_reyPSUyY-00016-00019950-00020765": "“The fact is that that we got 81 letters, there was no collusion, it was a hoax, there was no anything", "K8_reyPSUyY-00017-00020765-00021643": "They [Democrats] want to do that instead of getting legislation passed.“It’s a disgrace, it’s a disgrace to our country", "K8_reyPSUyY-00018-00021643-00022269": "I’m not surprised that it’s happening,” Trump said, reported The Associated Press", "K8_reyPSUyY-00019-00022269-00023301": "“Basically, they've started the campaign. So, the campaign begins.\".In a tweet the same night, Trump simply wrote: “PRESIDENTIAL HARASSMENT!”"}}, {"audio_id": "Kv7mlj3ajHI", "text": {"Kv7mlj3ajHI-00000-00000571-00001861": "One of the biggest headlines of the day today is the FBI bust of dozens of wealthy parents who bribed school officials, SAT administrators and coaches to get their children into elite schools", "Kv7mlj3ajHI-00001-00001861-00003050": "My first reaction to the pictures of soccer moms in the headlines of all the major news outlets was, I wonder if the overzealous moms qualify for the “otherwise blameless life” discount", "Kv7mlj3ajHI-00002-00003050-00004066": "Here’s the problem with that reaction. Three years ago this scandal would have been much bigger news than it is today, and my first reaction would have been anger", "Kv7mlj3ajHI-00003-00004066-00004693": "Our country and our economy were founded on the idea of individual mobility and opportunity", "Kv7mlj3ajHI-00004-00004693-00005787": "At its best our country operates as a meritocracy: people are able to rise or fall based on their level of ability, merit, determination and effort", "Kv7mlj3ajHI-00005-00005787-00007446": "Equal opportunity is our ideal. We have fallen dreadfully short of this goal.Wealth conveys societal opportunity that’s not available to those without it, and over the last twenty years there has been a dramatic decrease in the ability of those not born into wealth to obtain it", "Kv7mlj3ajHI-00006-00007446-00008436": "Opportunities for social mobility are getting more scarce. Our colleges and universities are supposed to be a gateway for opportunity", "Kv7mlj3ajHI-00007-00008436-00010755": "The system for entry into these institutions is supposed to be merit based.The idea that the wealthy can illegally purchase a coveted slot into the best universities for their otherwise unqualified child, gives another precious advantage to an already advantaged child, and takes that opportunity away from a gifted child more intellectually equipped to make use of a fine education", "Kv7mlj3ajHI-00008-00010755-00013438": "This should be a big deal, but let’s face it. When the President’s campaign manager was secretly working as an agent of the Ukraine and Russia, when he laundered money, when he evaded paying taxes on his earnings from that secret agency, and he lied to FBI agents, and then he gets off with only four years in prison, and is referred to by a judge as, “otherwise blameless,” it’s hard to get worked up over a mom cheating to get her child into a university"}}, {"audio_id": "KvGPoeSttby", "text": {"KvGPoeSttby-00000-00000513-00001816": "President Trump on Saturday accused his political opponents of coming up empty-handed in their Russia probes and now resorting to peddling “bullshit\" amid increasing scrutiny of his personal finances", "KvGPoeSttby-00001-00001816-00003065": "During a two-hour speech Saturday that often scorned its script, the president proclaimed repeatedly he had done nothing wrong and that Democrats are grasping for straws to take him down", "KvGPoeSttby-00002-00003065-00003817": "“There’s no collusion, so now they go and morph into ‘let’s inspect every deal he’s ever done", "KvGPoeSttby-00003-00003817-00004734": "We’re going to go into his finances, we’re going to check his deals,’ these people are sick, they’re sick,” he told a spellbound crowd", "KvGPoeSttby-00004-00004734-00005875": ".“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 the sudden they’re trying to take you out with bullshit", "KvGPoeSttby-00005-00005875-00007377": "” .The comments come as Trump faces ongoing investigations from several powerful House committees and special counsel Robert Mueller is reportedly wrapping up his probe into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Moscow in 2016", "KvGPoeSttby-00006-00007377-00008731": ".The House Intelligence Committee, led by chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), is conducting its own inquiry into Russian collusion and announced last month it would expand its probe into Trump’s personal finances", "KvGPoeSttby-00007-00008731-00010865": "“The president’s actions and posture towards Russia during the campaign, transition, and administration have only heightened fears of foreign financial or other leverage over President Trump and underscore the need to determine whether he or those in his administration have acted in service of foreign interests since taking office,” Schiff said in a statement in February", "KvGPoeSttby-00008-00010865-00012077": "Trump slammed the development, saying it amounted to presidential harassment. The president previously stated that investigating his personal business or his family members was “red line", "KvGPoeSttby-00009-00012077-00013119": "”.“He has no basis to do that. He’s just a political hack who’s trying to build a name for himself,” Trump told reporters after Schiff’s announcement", "KvGPoeSttby-00010-00013119-00013803": "“It’s just presidential harassment and it’s unfortunate and it really does hurt our country", "KvGPoeSttby-00011-00013803-00014592": "”.“I saw little shifty Schiff … he went into a meeting and he said, ‘we’re going to look into his finances", "KvGPoeSttby-00012-00014592-00015556": "’ I said, ‘where did that come from, he always talked about collusion! Collusion with Russia, collusion delusion,’ ” Trump added Saturday", "KvGPoeSttby-00013-00015556-00016462": "The House Oversight and Reform Committee has launched a slew of investigations, including one examining the White House security clearance process", "KvGPoeSttby-00014-00016462-00017202": ".The committee also held a high-profile hearing Wednesday with former Trump attorney Michael Cohen", "KvGPoeSttby-00015-00017202-00018860": "The now-disbarred lawyer slammed the president as a “racist” and a “con man” who was engaged in a bevy of financial crimes and aware of Roger Stone’s efforts to coordinate with WikiLeaks on a dump of embarrassing Democratic documents during the presidential election", "KvGPoeSttby-00016-00018860-00020524": ".The House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee held another hearing earlier this year examining a tax law concerning presidential tax returns, another focal point of Democrats’ concerns after Trump refused during the campaign to make his finances more transparent", "KvGPoeSttby-00017-00020524-00021862": "Trump on Saturday repeated usual frustrations over his perceived restrictions in responding to the probes, saying criticism of Democrats’ efforts could lead to accusations the White House was obstructing justice", "KvGPoeSttby-00018-00021862-00023147": ".“If you use Article II, it’s called obstruction, but only for Trump, not for anyone else,” he said, referring to the section of the Constitution laying out executive branch powers", "KvGPoeSttby-00019-00023147-00024349": ".The congressional oversight efforts are all taking place as Mueller quietly wraps up his widespread probe, with observers estimating the final report could be filed in the coming weeks", "KvGPoeSttby-00020-00024349-00025017": "The inquiry has led to indictments and guilty pleas for a litany of Trump associates", "KvGPoeSttby-00021-00025017-00026302": "Trump lashed out at the special counsel Saturday as well, noting that Mueller never received a confirmation vote to be special counsel, a position for which no congressional approval is required", "KvGPoeSttby-00022-00026302-00027919": "The ongoing investigative cloud hovering over the White House has plagued Trump nearly since his 2017 inauguration, resulting in repeated claims Mueller and House Democrats are leading a “witch hunt” to make up for an embarrassing loss in the 2016 election", "KvGPoeSttby-00023-00027919-00029573": ".However, Democrats have expressed no desire to stem the pace of their investigations, with the House Intelligence Committee most recently calling for testimony from Trump Organization Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg over Trump’s personal financial habits"}}, {"audio_id": "Kzl45efZYc0", "text": {"Kzl45efZYc0-00000-00000571-00001736": "President Donald Trump now says Robert Mueller acted honorably in the Russia investigation -- a change of tune from the man who had at one time called the special counsel disgraced and discredited", "Kzl45efZYc0-00001-00001736-00002768": "Asked during Monday's White House meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu whether Mueller acted honorably, Trump replied: \"Yes, he did", "Kzl45efZYc0-00002-00002768-00003705": "\".The comment follows Friday's submission of Mueller's report into Russian interference in the 2016 election to Attorney General Bill Barr", "Kzl45efZYc0-00003-00003705-00004779": "According to Barr's summary of the report, Mueller did not establish that Trump campaign associates colluded with Russians to influence the outcome of the election", "Kzl45efZYc0-00004-00004779-00005986": "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", "Kzl45efZYc0-00005-00005986-00006633": "Mueller would not make the decision on whether to prosecute the President on obstruction", "Kzl45efZYc0-00006-00006633-00007443": "Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein made the determination the evidence was \"not sufficient\" to support prosecution", "Kzl45efZYc0-00007-00007443-00008807": "The White House, however, has continued to echo Trump's tweeted sentiment -- that not only was there no collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, but that Trump has been totally exonerated by Mueller and Barr", "Kzl45efZYc0-00008-00008807-00010155": "Trump also reiterated Monday that he wouldn't mind if the report became public, telling the press that it \"wouldn't bother\" him \"at all\" if Barr released the Mueller report, adding that it's Barr's decision to make", "Kzl45efZYc0-00009-00010155-00010839": "Asked whether the investigation was indeed a \"witch hunt,\" Trump didn't answer directly", "Kzl45efZYc0-00010-00010839-00011612": "\"It lasted a long time,\" he said. \"We're glad it's over, it's 100% the way it should have been", "Kzl45efZYc0-00011-00011612-00012576": "I wish it could have gone a lot sooner, a lot quicker.\".\"There are a lot of people out there that have done some very, very evil things", "Kzl45efZYc0-00012-00012576-00013477": "Very bad things. I would say treasonous things against our country and hopefully people that have done such harm to our country", "Kzl45efZYc0-00013-00013477-00014237": "We've gone through a period of really bad things happening. Those people will certainly be looked at,\" he said", "Kzl45efZYc0-00014-00014237-00015044": "\"We can never let this happen to another president again. I can tell you that. I say it very strongly", "Kzl45efZYc0-00015-00015044-00016176": "Very few people I know could have handled it,\" Trump added.Asked whether he was thinking about pardoning anyone implicated in the Russia investigation, Trump said no", "Kzl45efZYc0-00016-00016176-00017166": "\"Haven't thought about it,\" he said.CLARIFICATION: This story was updated to more precisely reflect Attorney General Bill Barr's letter to Congress", "Kzl45efZYc0-00017-00017166-00018649": "Specifically, Barr quoted from special counsel Robert Mueller's report to say the \"investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities", "Kzl45efZYc0-00018-00018649-00018749": "\""}}, {"audio_id": "KFd8VnMBQHA", "text": {"KFd8VnMBQHA-00000-00000571-00001409": "Border Patrol just sounded the alarm. The border chief just officially declared we have reached the “breaking point", "KFd8VnMBQHA-00001-00001409-00002368": "”.And President Trump is putting the blame squarely on not one, but two groups. And he’s about to take massive action to fix it", "KFd8VnMBQHA-00002-00002368-00003306": "Direct from his Twitter account.Here’s Trump’s full text: “The DEMOCRATS have given us the weakest immigration laws anywhere in the World", "KFd8VnMBQHA-00003-00003306-00004659": "Mexico has the strongest, & they make more than $100 Billion a year on the US Therefore, CONGRESS MUST CHANGE OUR WEAK IMMIGRATION LAWS NOW, & Mexico must stop illegals from entering the U", "KFd8VnMBQHA-00004-00004659-00005377": "S. through their country and our Southern Border. Mexico has for many years made a fortune off of the U", "KFd8VnMBQHA-00005-00005377-00006683": "S., far greater than Border Costs.”.You’re exactly right, Donald!.The laws Democrats (and some Republicans!) put in place are making it next to impossible to protect our country", "KFd8VnMBQHA-00006-00006683-00007558": "And it doesn’t help that our southern neighbor gets $100 BILLION a year, but they are making the problem worse, not better", "KFd8VnMBQHA-00007-00007558-00008859": "Donald needs to put a stop this NOW, don’t you agree?.And he is. Trump is vowing extreme action to put an end to the border crisis unfolding before our eyes: he’s giving Mexico a stiff ultimatum:", "KFd8VnMBQHA-00008-00008859-00010113": ".“If Mexico doesn’t immediately stop ALL illegal immigration coming into the United States throug our Southern Border, I will be CLOSING the Border, or large sections of the Border, next week", "KFd8VnMBQHA-00009-00010113-00011296": "This would be so easy for Mexico to do, but they just take our money and “talk.” Besides, we lose so much money with them, especially when you add in drug trafficking etc", "KFd8VnMBQHA-00010-00011296-00012155": "), that the Border closing would be a good thing!”.Yes, President Trump! Finally taking the action we’ve been waiting for!", "KFd8VnMBQHA-00011-00012155-00012973": "He’s sick and tired of Democrats and Mexico working against him, so what is he going to do about it? Shut it all down", "KFd8VnMBQHA-00012-00012973-00013621": "That will be quite painful for Mexican business, who rely on importing their goods here", "KFd8VnMBQHA-00013-00013621-00014493": "Hopefully, Mexico gets its act together and closes down its side of the border before the situation escalates", "KFd8VnMBQHA-00014-00014493-00015405": "But the one thing they shouldn’t do? Ignore Trump. Because Donald’s not bluffing. He really will shut it all down", "KFd8VnMBQHA-00015-00015405-00015878": "He vowed to put America first—and he’s going to do it"}}, {"audio_id": "KPwElJgK6uk", "text": {"KPwElJgK6uk-00000-00000571-00001892": "Donald Trump doesn’t seem too happy about the fact that House Democrats formally targeted just about everyone in his life who might be sitting on evidence of his crimes (and yes, even Ivanka will soon be added)", "KPwElJgK6uk-00001-00001892-00002987": "Trump has gone even further off the deep end than usual. In fact he’s so far out there, he’s resorting to relying on one of his own most famously failed henchmen", "KPwElJgK6uk-00002-00002987-00003784": "In response to the barrage of document requests, Donald Trump posted this quote today: “There is no Collusion", "KPwElJgK6uk-00003-00003784-00004640": "All of these investigations are in search of a crime. Democrats have no evidence to impeach President Trump", "KPwElJgK6uk-00004-00004640-00005926": "Ridiculous!” This is of course ridiculous on its face. Then we get to the really good part, where we find out that the quote in question is from – of all people – Devin Nunes", "KPwElJgK6uk-00005-00005926-00007553": "That’s right, this is the same Devin Nunes who famously went to the White House in the middle of the night in order to get his hands on classified information, then leaked it the next day, and got himself temporarily removed from his own House Intelligence Committee investigation as a result", "KPwElJgK6uk-00006-00007553-00009013": "This is the same Devin Nunes who then went on to massively hype a secret memo he was writing that was going to expose the Trump-Russia investigation as a hoax, and then the memo turned out to be just a couple pages of empty fluff", "KPwElJgK6uk-00007-00009013-00010455": "Devin Nunes is knee deep in the Trump-Russia scandal, which is part of why he went to such great lengths to try to illegally obstruct the investigation, and there’s every reason to believe he’ll end up being criminally charged for it", "KPwElJgK6uk-00008-00010455-00011382": "Now that House Democrats have Donald Trump cornered, he’s quoting Nunes? Why not just quote Vladimir Putin and get it over with?"}}, {"audio_id": "Kbbr2opP8_M", "text": {"Kbbr2opP8_M-00000-00000513-00001425": "Sen. Doug Jones (D-AL) dodged giving an answer when asked whether he thought President Trump should be “impeached or beaten in 2020”", "Kbbr2opP8_M-00001-00001425-00002937": "At a book tour event in Birmingham, Alabama, on Sunday, he took some questions submitted to him via notecard, but refused to answer one, according to Yellowhammer News, which published a video of the moment", "Kbbr2opP8_M-00002-00002937-00003949": "Jones read the card to himself, laughed, before reading it aloud, “Would the country be better off if Trump is impeached or beaten in 2020?”", "Kbbr2opP8_M-00003-00003949-00004862": "“Well, I think I’m just going to hold that one for a little bit,” Jones said as laughter and applause broke out", "Kbbr2opP8_M-00004-00004862-00006374": "“I’m sure there’s a tracker here recording this,” he added.House Democrats have stepped up their efforts to impeach Trump, launching sweeping document requests from more than 80 Trump family members, business, and campaign associates", "Kbbr2opP8_M-00005-00006374-00007995": "A USA Today/Suffolk University Poll published on Monday revealed that support for the House of Representatives to seriously consider impeaching Trump dropped ten points since October, from 39 percent to 28 percent", "Kbbr2opP8_M-00006-00007995-00009007": "Sixty-two percent of Americans said the House should not seriously consider impeaching Trump, compared with 54 percent last October"}}, {"audio_id": "KfPsiHS10B8", "text": {"KfPsiHS10B8-00000-00000513-00001448": "Donald Trump promised the people at his rallies that he would keep Social Security, Medicare Insurance, and Medicaid Insurance safe", "KfPsiHS10B8-00001-00001448-00002341": "He lied. In his new budget, he made draconian cuts to one of these program’s payments to hospitals", "KfPsiHS10B8-00002-00002341-00003167": "The cuts would be “devastating.” Now, state and national organizations in three states have filed lawsuits", "KfPsiHS10B8-00003-00003167-00004240": "Trump’s cuts to Medicaid Insurance come on the backs of low-income residents in New Hampshire and other states, those who are the least able to fight back", "KfPsiHS10B8-00004-00004240-00005086": "A new Medicaid Insurance expansion work requirement means that many people will unfairly lose their health insurance", "KfPsiHS10B8-00005-00005086-00006424": "People will die.New Hampshire’s Governor Chris Sununu (R) spearheaded the initiative, which was based upon the bone-headed myth that people who have Medicaid Insurance are lazy and just want a free ride", "KfPsiHS10B8-00006-00006424-00007766": "The waivers have also been part of Republicans’ attempts to chip away at life-saving government programs that are not entitlements in the current meaning of the word — a belief that something unearned is deserved", "KfPsiHS10B8-00007-00007766-00009846": "Instead, these are guarantees that people are genuinely entitled to receive.The class action suit claims that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have violated the Medicaid Act when it gave New Hampshire the ability to demand people work 100 hours per month or lose their health benefits", "KfPsiHS10B8-00008-00009846-00010739": "New Hampshire Legal Assistance (NHLA) joined the three-state lawsuit as the third state, according to", "KfPsiHS10B8-00009-00010739-00011886": "The Concord Monitor.The policy director at NHLA Dawn McKinny said:.‘Our concern is that folks who are eligible and working in fact will lose coverage", "KfPsiHS10B8-00010-00011886-00013200": "The majority of folks in New Hampshire on Medicaid are in working households, and their concern is just even having to file additional paperwork or navigate these requirements will cause them to lose coverage", "KfPsiHS10B8-00011-00013200-00013934": "’.The New Hampshire legislature passed on a bipartisan basis, and it will take effect in April", "KfPsiHS10B8-00012-00013934-00014741": "It demands people must work 100 hours a month or give the same number of hours volunteering in the community", "KfPsiHS10B8-00013-00014741-00015569": "There are exemptions. The problem is that people’s situations do not fit neatly into that box", "KfPsiHS10B8-00014-00015569-00016514": "Ian Ludders, 40, works in agriculture. His job is seasonal, and there are months where no work has been available", "KfPsiHS10B8-00015-00016514-00017520": "Samuel Philbrick, 26, works in retail. Unfortunately, the sports goods store only offers him irregular hours", "KfPsiHS10B8-00016-00017520-00018314": "Another problem, a legal problem, is that the work requirement was not part of the Affordable Care Act", "KfPsiHS10B8-00017-00018314-00019735": "New Hampshire had to get a waiver, which POTUS approved in 2018. The waiver was submitted by the Granite State’s Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to the CMS", "KfPsiHS10B8-00018-00019735-00020926": "North Carolina staff attorney for the National Health Law Program Sarah Grusin indicated that this lawsuit against New Hampshire will generally be the same as those in other states:", "KfPsiHS10B8-00019-00020926-00021846": "‘The approval of the New Hampshire Granite Advantage Waiver was contrary to the Medicaid statute, which is to furnish health coverage", "KfPsiHS10B8-00020-00021846-00022914": "We know that this policy is to kick people off of coverage, as it has already done in Arkansas, where 18,000 people have lost their coverage’", "KfPsiHS10B8-00021-00022914-00024706": "Three states are listed on the lawsuit: Arkansas, Kentucky, and New Hampshire. Two national organization joined NHLA in the lawsuit: the National Center for Law and Economic Justice in New York and the National Health Law Program in Washington D.C", "KfPsiHS10B8-00022-00024706-00025756": "As the various lawsuits related to several federal investigations have become available, MSNBC host of The Rachel Maddow Show has read parts of them", "KfPsiHS10B8-00023-00025756-00026613": "Her audience enjoys this so much that she has continued. The first part of the New Hampshire lawsuit is shown below"}}, {"audio_id": "KjzODy5VSlI", "text": {"KjzODy5VSlI-00000-00000571-00001472": "Democrats are actively helping caravans seek asylum to get as many over as possible, in defiance of President Trump", "KjzODy5VSlI-00001-00001472-00002141": "They are overwhelming our immigration system, and people are slipping through the cracks", "KjzODy5VSlI-00002-00002141-00002815": "President Trump implemented a plan to stop them, and now he’s expanding it in a big way", "KjzODy5VSlI-00003-00002815-00004353": "From Buzz Feed:''A plan to keep Central American immigrants in Mexico while they wait for their asylum cases to be processed in the US could soon be expanded to new points along the southwest border, Trump administration officials said Friday", "KjzODy5VSlI-00004-00004353-00005806": "The planned expansion of the policy — called Migration Protection Protocols — represents the administration’s latest attempt to institute sweeping changes to dissuade asylum-seekers from crossing the border and entering the country", "KjzODy5VSlI-00005-00005806-00006999": "''.Democrats tried to foil Trump’s immigration reform.They thought if they could force through as many border jumpers and caravans as possible, they’d be looking good for 2020", "KjzODy5VSlI-00006-00006999-00007705": "There are many reports of ‘undocumenteds’ voting in the 2018 elections, and that is likely to continue", "KjzODy5VSlI-00007-00007705-00008598": "The only person standing in their way?.Donald Trump. His policies are putting Americans first and keeping us safe", "KjzODy5VSlI-00008-00008598-00009159": "God only knows what would happen if he left the White House in 2020"}}, {"audio_id": "L1USFWEAXrA", "text": {"L1USFWEAXrA-00000-00000513-00001939": "The White House on Friday rejected a Democratic congressional request to interview a former White House lawyer about hundreds of thousands of dollars in hush money payments made by President Trump’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen", "L1USFWEAXrA-00001-00001939-00002824": "White House counsel Pat Cipollone told House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings (D-Md", "L1USFWEAXrA-00002-00002824-00003681": ") in a letter obtained by The Hill that the White House has been “cooperative and responsive” to the panel's requests for documents", "L1USFWEAXrA-00003-00003681-00005486": "But Cipollone said that because the Oversight panel wants to interview Trump’s former deputy assistant and deputy counsel Stefan Passantino about things he discussed or advised during his White House tenure, the request needs to be sent to Cipollone’s office — not directly to Passantino", "L1USFWEAXrA-00004-00005486-00007040": "Passantino left the White House last summer and is now working for the Trump Organization, handling requests from House Democrats like Cummings who have launched multiple investigations into Trump, his family members and allies, and his business dealings", "L1USFWEAXrA-00005-00007040-00008890": "“In response to your request, given longstanding law and practice, we are not inclined to make the former Deputy Counsel to the President available for a transcribed interview inquiring into his conversations and advice he provided while serving as Deputy Counsel to the President,” Cipollone wrote to Cummings", "L1USFWEAXrA-00006-00008890-00010180": "The Oversight chairman’s request is separate from the sprawling investigation into Trump’s campaign, administration and business enterprise that House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N", "L1USFWEAXrA-00007-00010180-00011695": "Y.) launched earlier this week. But Passantino, the White house’s former top ethics lawyer, is one of 81 individuals and entities that Nadler is focusing on in that obstruction of justice and public corruption probe", "L1USFWEAXrA-00008-00011695-00013733": ".Cummings had sent a letter to Passantino on Feb. 27 — the day of Cohen’s explosive public testimony before Congress — requesting he appear for a transcribed interview later this month, on March 18, about the payments made to women who alleged before the 2016 election that they had affairs with Trump", "L1USFWEAXrA-00009-00013733-00014984": "The Oversight chairman has previously raised concerns that Passantino and Sheri Dillon, a private lawyer for Trump, may have provided false information to government ethics officials about the payments", "L1USFWEAXrA-00010-00014984-00015627": "Cummings has also requested a transcribed interview from Dillon about the payments", "L1USFWEAXrA-00011-00015627-00017040": "Cummings wrote in a Feb. 15 letter to Cipollone that the committee had obtained internal notes from Office of Government Ethics (OGE) officials that described “changing explanations” from Trump’s legal team about the payments", "L1USFWEAXrA-00012-00017040-00018270": "“It now appears that President Trump’s other attorneys — at the White House and in private practice — may have provided false information about these payments to federal officials,” Cummings wrote", "L1USFWEAXrA-00013-00018270-00019639": "“This raises significant questions about why some of the President’s closest advisers made these false claims and the extent to which they too were acting at the direction of, or in coordination with, the President", "L1USFWEAXrA-00014-00019639-00020882": "”.In the letter Friday, Cipollone accused Cummings of making “unfair accusations maligning the reputations of individual attorneys” and mounting an “unnecessarily antagonistic inquiry", "L1USFWEAXrA-00015-00020882-00021763": "”.“Such unfair assertions are the antithesis of the procedure that you have insisted the Committee should follow,” he wrote", "L1USFWEAXrA-00016-00021763-00022374": "Cummings’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment Friday night", "L1USFWEAXrA-00017-00022374-00023050": "The Oversight chairman could choose to subpoena Passantino to compel his testimony", "L1USFWEAXrA-00018-00023050-00024388": ".Cohen, who last year pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations linked to the payments as well as other charges, is due to report to prison in May to serve a three-year sentence for his crimes", "L1USFWEAXrA-00019-00024388-00025568": "The former lawyer has implicated Trump in the hush money scheme, detailing the president’s involvement in high-profile testimony before the Oversight and Reform Committee last week", "L1USFWEAXrA-00020-00025568-00026352": "The president, however, has offered shifting explanations about his knowledge of the payments but denied wrongdoing", "L1USFWEAXrA-00021-00026352-00027094": "“It was not a campaign contribution, and there were no violations of the campaign finance laws by me", "L1USFWEAXrA-00022-00027094-00027520": "Fake News!” Trump tweeted on Thursday"}}, {"audio_id": "LGLrMkh0lnu", "text": {"LGLrMkh0lnu-00000-00000571-00002663": "Now that Donald Trump’s newly handpicked Attorney General William Barr has falsely spun the still-secret Robert Mueller report in pro-Trump fashion, and a number of major news outlets have played along by falsely reporting Barr’s words as if they were Mueller’s words, Donald Trump has decided that he’s been fully exonerated", "LGLrMkh0lnu-00001-00002663-00003447": "More to the point, he clearly feels emboldened – and he’s moving in a dangerously ugly direction at rapid speed", "LGLrMkh0lnu-00002-00003447-00004750": "In the day and a half since Donald Trump falsely announced that he’s been exonerated, his Department of Justice has suddenly announced that it’ll go into court to try to dismantle the Affordable Care Act", "LGLrMkh0lnu-00003-00004750-00005649": "Trump’s Pentagon has suddenly announced that it’s found $1 billion for Trump to begin building his border wall", "LGLrMkh0lnu-00004-00005649-00006438": "Trump’s campaign has given TV news networks a list of people who are supposed to be banned from the air", "LGLrMkh0lnu-00005-00006438-00007221": "His flunky Lindsey Graham just announced that he’ll seek a new Special Counsel to investigate Hillary Clinton", "LGLrMkh0lnu-00006-00007221-00008010": "And Trump tweeted last night about his desire to have President Obama investigated for some gibberish or other", "LGLrMkh0lnu-00007-00008010-00008890": "Many or even most of these moves will either fall flat of their own accord, be defeated in court, or end up backfiring", "LGLrMkh0lnu-00008-00008890-00009671": "But this is where Donald Trump’s head is at now. He’s been falsely, temporarily given a reprieve", "LGLrMkh0lnu-00009-00009671-00010985": "Instead of using this window of opportunity to try to make something of his failed presidency, he’s decided to use it to pander to his base and seek petty revenge on those who have dared to expose his corruption", "LGLrMkh0lnu-00010-00010985-00011863": "It’s as if Trump has decided to try to prove to mainstream Americans that he’s every bit as awful as they’ve always believed", "LGLrMkh0lnu-00011-00011863-00013365": "What’s not clear is if Donald Trump truly thinks that William Barr’s cartoonish stunt has actually gotten him off the hook for his endless list of criminal scandals, or if Trump understands that Mueller’s report will surface and destroy him eventually", "LGLrMkh0lnu-00012-00013365-00014117": "If it’s the latter, Trump may be trying to finish off America with the finite window of time he has left", "LGLrMkh0lnu-00013-00014117-00015008": "House Democrats will have their hands on the Mueller report before much longer, because they’ve never had a larger priority", "LGLrMkh0lnu-00014-00015008-00015708": "These next weeks may be among the most important – and perilous – in American history"}}, {"audio_id": "LpOZ7JpMi6u", "text": {"LpOZ7JpMi6u-00000-00000030-00000230": "Гренкииии.. Ммммммммммммммммм.", "LpOZ7JpMi6u-00001-00000230-00000396": "аааа что,", "LpOZ7JpMi6u-00002-00000396-00000636": "эх Белорусь...", "LpOZ7JpMi6u-00003-00000636-00000696": "плор щюгууууьзжо кзьшьщкфпьошгщпкдш", "LpOZ7JpMi6u-00004-00000696-00000846": "................................................................................................................", "LpOZ7JpMi6u-00005-00000846-00000915": "0_0", "LpOZ7JpMi6u-00006-00000915-00001474": "."}}, {"audio_id": "LPXN3LrLA6u", "text": {"LPXN3LrLA6u-00000-00000571-00001623": "Cindy McCain, the widow of Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), ripped a proposal by President Donald Trump to erect a wall on the U", "LPXN3LrLA6u-00001-00001623-00002235": "S.-Mexico border to blunt the flow of human trafficking in an interview airing Friday", "LPXN3LrLA6u-00002-00002235-00003235": "“The people that are coming over the border, for the most part, are not trafficked individuals,” McCain told NBC News reporter Cynthia McFadden", "LPXN3LrLA6u-00003-00003235-00004416": "“It’s people within our own walls, in our own borders, so a wall is not going to fix this, but education will and awareness will and strengthening our laws will", "LPXN3LrLA6u-00004-00004416-00005304": "”.“The misnomer in this is that somehow this occurs outside the country, that somehow its another country — not us, ever us", "LPXN3LrLA6u-00005-00005304-00006393": "Well, it is very much us,” she continued. “The trafficking I’m talking about with you is domestic trafficking, these are domestic individuals being trafficked", "LPXN3LrLA6u-00006-00006393-00007451": "”.McCain serves on the Arizona governor’s human trafficking council and has worked on initiatives to reform laws on the issue since 2004", "LPXN3LrLA6u-00007-00007451-00008470": "McCain recently apologized after law enforcement disputed her claim that she stopped a human-trafficking attempt at an airport in Glendale, Arizona", "LPXN3LrLA6u-00008-00008470-00009125": "She made the false presumption because a woman was accompanying a child of “a different ethnicity", "LPXN3LrLA6u-00009-00009125-00010463": "”.In February, President Trump said human traffickers were “going through a border where there’s nobody for miles and miles, and there’s no wall to protect,” adding, “they come into our country and they sell people", "LPXN3LrLA6u-00010-00010463-00011231": "”.In her interview with NBC News, McCain also criticized the lack of civility in U", "LPXN3LrLA6u-00011-00011231-00012014": "S. politics and said that her late husband would have been saddened by the state of Democrat-Republican relations", "LPXN3LrLA6u-00012-00012014-00013352": "“I am quite certain he knows what’s going on,” she said. “I know he’d be so upset over this because of the tenor, the lack of inaction on many members’ parts, specifically on members of Congress,” McCain said", "LPXN3LrLA6u-00013-00013352-00013973": "“He would’ve been right in the mix saying we’re going to work together, please let’s not fight", "LPXN3LrLA6u-00014-00013973-00014974": "That’s who he was.”.She continued: “Oh, he loved a good fight. Heck, yeah. But it was never personal with him", "LPXN3LrLA6u-00015-00014974-00015752": "He and Ted Kennedy used to fight like cats and dogs on the floor. but they were the best of friends", "LPXN3LrLA6u-00016-00015752-00016144": "I wish we could go back to that.”"}}, {"audio_id": "LSysbaiR3lA", "text": {"LSysbaiR3lA-00000-00000513-00001226": "Other than Paul Manafort himself, no one was very happy with the sentencing hearing he had on Wednesday", "LSysbaiR3lA-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", "LSysbaiR3lA-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", "LSysbaiR3lA-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", "LSysbaiR3lA-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", "LSysbaiR3lA-00005-00005288-00006040": "In short, the hearing was, as Schiff characterized it, a “barely concealed appeal for a pardon", "LSysbaiR3lA-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", "LSysbaiR3lA-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", "LSysbaiR3lA-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", "LSysbaiR3lA-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", "LSysbaiR3lA-00010-00010486-00011139": "Manafort was indicted for sixteen separate state crimes shortly after leaving the court", "LSysbaiR3lA-00011-00011139-00011852": "As NBC noted following that announcement, “a presidential pardon is ineffective against state crimes", "LSysbaiR3lA-00012-00011852-00012437": "”.Twitter was furious over the light sentence Manafort received"}}, {"audio_id": "LVXWqcTRmW4", "text": {"LVXWqcTRmW4-00000-00000571-00001323": "We apparently have entered another opposite day situation, where left is right and up is down", "LVXWqcTRmW4-00001-00001323-00002193": "Corruptus Maximus, aka “President” Donald Trump, is tweeting out how others should be investigated for treason and dishonesty", "LVXWqcTRmW4-00002-00002193-00003253": "He’s uttering such nonsense in a week in which Michael Cohen sent Congress a letter revealing how damaging his newly discovered hard drive of evidence might be against Trump", "LVXWqcTRmW4-00003-00003253-00004442": ".Trump and his campaign associates met dozens of times with various Russians, then lied about it, then discounted it, and still have not explained why they engaged in such conduct", "LVXWqcTRmW4-00004-00004442-00006095": "And we have indictments and convictions. We also have the developing tensions between Attorney General William Barr and some members of Robert Mueller’s Russian investigation team, the latter making it clear that Barr downplayed the seriousness of the findings and facts in the report", "LVXWqcTRmW4-00005-00006095-00006837": "We will have to wait a bit on the report and what it does or does not report to verify the Mueller team’s statements", "LVXWqcTRmW4-00006-00006837-00007584": "On Saturday afternoon, Trump tweeted: “Why should I be defending a fraudulent Russian Witch Hunt", "LVXWqcTRmW4-00007-00007584-00008475": "It’s about time the perpetrators of this fraud on me and the American People start defending their dishonest and treasonous acts", "LVXWqcTRmW4-00008-00008475-00009744": "How and why did this terrible event begin? Never Forget!”.Nobody knows who these supposed “perpetrators” are, but it is breathtaking that a sitting president would unilaterally accuse anyone of treason", "LVXWqcTRmW4-00009-00009744-00010787": "And it’s a bit premature to be taking a victory lap – one can ask the Auburn basketball team about counting a win or vindication before the scoreboard says zero", "LVXWqcTRmW4-00010-00010787-00012208": ".The “terrible event” began in this manner – a campaign for president consorted with, worked with, and obtained support from numerous unofficial representatives of the Russian government, and became President of the United States", "LVXWqcTRmW4-00011-00012208-00013002": "That same person then fired the FBI Director under flimsy, and ultimately untrue, pretenses", "LVXWqcTRmW4-00012-00013002-00013754": "Then he proudly confessed during a television interview. The game is not over, and this is not a game", "LVXWqcTRmW4-00013-00013754-00014449": "To give new context to an old adage, “Those who live in the White House should not cast aspersions", "LVXWqcTRmW4-00014-00014449-00014767": "” Truth will win out"}}, {"audio_id": "LYqSz1oc2RA", "text": {"LYqSz1oc2RA-00000-00000571-00002060": "Today is not the first time in which Donald Trump has carried out a public feud with a cancer patient, and it’s not the first or the tenth time in which Trump has carried out a feud with a black public figure while questioning that person’s intelligence", "LYqSz1oc2RA-00001-00002060-00003366": "But this morning stood out as being remarkable because Trump simultaneously carried out a feud with a cancer patient and a black public figure, as he appeared to be trying to create a mess on as many fronts as possible", "LYqSz1oc2RA-00002-00003366-00004703": "After Spike Lee used his Academy Awards speech last night to encourage people to vote in 2020 for morally superior candidates, Donald Trump accused Lee this morning of having given a “racist” speech", "LYqSz1oc2RA-00003-00004703-00005513": "Trump also implied that Lee was too stupid to give a speech without notes, and that he was too illiterate to even read his own notes", "LYqSz1oc2RA-00004-00005513-00006560": "This was remarkable, considering that Trump’s own tweets suggest he’s semi-illiterate, and he’s easily the worst teleprompter reader in modern political history", "LYqSz1oc2RA-00005-00006560-00007198": "Then Donald Trump lashed out at former Senator Harry Reid, who is now battling cancer", "LYqSz1oc2RA-00006-00007198-00008096": "Trump falsely claimed that Reid was run out of politics (he retired), and accused Reid of career long dishonesty", "LYqSz1oc2RA-00007-00008096-00009334": "As per usual, this was a matter of Trump projecting his own failings on others. But what stood out is that Trump was clearly, desperately, looking to create a distraction this morning", "LYqSz1oc2RA-00008-00009334-00010277": "A couple hours later, Alva Johnson accused Donald Trump of trying to kiss her while she was working for his 2016 campaign", "LYqSz1oc2RA-00009-00010277-00012312": "Trump knew this story was coming out today. So were his Twitter antics this morning a way of trying to distract the media and the public from that, or is there another big shoe yet to drop? Just how poorly does Trump expect his Kim summit to go? Are Trump’s criminal scandals about to get even worse for him? Stay tuned", "LYqSz1oc2RA-00010-00012312-00012772": "Trump is even more out of control than usual"}}, {"audio_id": "M2SJFlqME_u", "text": {"M2SJFlqME_u-00000-00000571-00001981": "President Donald Trump adores Twitter. This should not be a surprise to anyone who has been paying attention to American politics over the last three years or so, nor should it surprise anyone who knows anything about Donald Trump", "M2SJFlqME_u-00001-00001981-00003120": "Throughout his life and career he has displayed all the textbook indications of narcissism, and Twitter is the perfect place for someone of that personality type to feel at home", "M2SJFlqME_u-00002-00003120-00003956": "You are forced to express your opinions very briefly and you have the opportunity to do it very frequently", "M2SJFlqME_u-00003-00003956-00005017": "Everything is short, so you do not have to have a long attention span. There are lots of people shouting, certain that they are right and everyone else is wrong", "M2SJFlqME_u-00004-00005017-00005842": "It is Trump’s dream.Sadly, it seems that despite his love of Twitter, Trump is very bad at using it", "M2SJFlqME_u-00005-00005842-00007200": "There are a great many things that can result in the national and international humilation of a sitting President, but perhaps never before has a total misunderstanding of how the Internet works been responsible for that", "M2SJFlqME_u-00006-00007200-00008452": "Recently, Donald Trump, the man who is somehow still our President of the United States and leader of the free world, made a mistake on Twitter so incredibly embarrassing it is better even than “covfefe”", "M2SJFlqME_u-00007-00008452-00009149": ".Twitter removed a campaign video posted by President Donald Trump after Warner’s Bros", "M2SJFlqME_u-00008-00009149-00009823": "Pictures complained about the use of the score from its 2012 movie “The Dark Knight Rises", "M2SJFlqME_u-00009-00009823-00010962": "” Trump on Tuesday tweeted the video, which featured images of Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton juxtaposed with images from Trump’s two years in office", "M2SJFlqME_u-00010-00010962-00011672": "The text, set against the movie’s score, read: “First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you", "M2SJFlqME_u-00011-00011672-00012477": "Then they call you a racist. Donald J. Trump. Your vote. Proved them all wrong.” Warner Bros", "M2SJFlqME_u-00012-00012477-00013083": "said use of the score from the Batman movie starring Christian Bale was “unauthorized", "M2SJFlqME_u-00013-00013083-00015138": "”.That’s right. Trump thought he could buy people’s votes, just like he has bought everything in his life (with the billions he was handed by his father) so he uploaded a video to his Twitter account simply instructing people to vote for him in 2020 so that he can spend another four years wallowing and generally doing awful things in the Oval Office", "M2SJFlqME_u-00014-00015138-00015912": "And he got shut down because he forgot to ask for permission to use the music from Batman", "M2SJFlqME_u-00015-00015912-00016437": "You could not make this stuff up. Nor would you want to, in fact"}}, {"audio_id": "MuFgO2W5_ao", "text": {"MuFgO2W5_ao-00000-00000571-00001733": "Donald Trump has attacked the late John McCain multiple times over the past few days, each time in increasingly offensive fashion, but today took the cake", "MuFgO2W5_ao-00001-00001733-00002807": "Trump was giving a speech in Ohio today when he falsely tried to take credit for McCain’s funeral, and then attacked McCain for what happened after the funeral", "MuFgO2W5_ao-00002-00002807-00003995": "No, really, it was that deranged.Donald Trump said this today of John McCain: “I gave him the kind of funeral that he wanted, which as president I had to approve", "MuFgO2W5_ao-00003-00003995-00005351": "” Then he added, “I didn’t get a thank you.” Wait, what in the name of all that is holy? For starters, Trump had nothing to do with McCain’s funeral, which he was in fact banned from attending", "MuFgO2W5_ao-00004-00005351-00006067": "Second of all, Trump appears to be attacking McCain for not having come back from the dead to thank him", "MuFgO2W5_ao-00005-00006067-00007347": "If there’s an upside to this disgusting debacle, it’s that even the Republican cowards in the Senate are finally feeling compelled to begin criticizing Donald Trump for his attacks on John McCain", "MuFgO2W5_ao-00006-00007347-00008018": "GOP Senator Johnny Isakson of Georgia said today that Trump’s words were “deplorable", "MuFgO2W5_ao-00007-00008018-00009272": "” It’s not clear if Isakson realized the irony in using Hillary Clinton’s word to describe Trump, after the GOP ripped Clinton so thoroughly for having referred to Trump’s base as “deplorables''", "MuFgO2W5_ao-00008-00009272-00010661": "We’ll see where this is headed. But if Donald Trump thinks that repeatedly and grotesquely attacking John McCain is somehow going to save his dying presidency, suffice it to say that he’s miscalculating here", "MuFgO2W5_ao-00009-00010661-00011424": "Republican Senators have spent the past three years failing to properly defend McCain against Trump’s attacks", "MuFgO2W5_ao-00010-00011424-00012631": "But now that Trump is nearing his downfall anyway, if the GOP Senators are looking for an excuse to finish him off, his attacks on McCain are nothing short of the perfect excuse"}}, {"audio_id": "M-bQMCjo16M", "text": {"M-bQMCjo16M-00000-00000571-00001344": "Here we go. Just days after Michael Cohen's explosive congressional testimony, Rep", "M-bQMCjo16M-00001-00001344-00002355": "Jerrold Nadler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, issued a wave of letters seeking information from 81 -- yes, 81 -- people and organizations", "M-bQMCjo16M-00002-00002355-00003256": "Nadler's requests mark the opening salvo in what promises to be a heated legal and political battle between the White House and Congress", "M-bQMCjo16M-00003-00003256-00004008": "Nadler's opening gambit is more sledgehammer than scalpel, carrying risks and potential rewards", "M-bQMCjo16M-00004-00004008-00005573": "Strategically, the requests lack a coherent topical focus. Nadler could find himself buried in irrelevant materials and, ultimately, bogged down in litigation over whether and to what extent parties must produce evidence to him", "M-bQMCjo16M-00005-00005573-00006942": "On the reward side, however, you'll never know if you don't ask. By serving requests to nearly every person in Trump's orbit, Nadler ensured that he will have plenty of raw materials to work with", "M-bQMCjo16M-00006-00006942-00008143": "This is often how criminal investigations work: Gather all the material possible, then winnow it down to the most relevant and probative information upon which to assess potential charges", "M-bQMCjo16M-00007-00008143-00008990": "Politically, Nadler served notice that he does not intend to take half-measures and that he is spoiling for a fight", "M-bQMCjo16M-00008-00008990-00010703": "On the other hand, Nadler's broad-based approach left the political door swinging wide open for Trump and those around him to decry the investigation as an unfocused, over-broad \"big fat fishing expedition\" and, of course, to reprise the familiar \"witch hunt\" rallying cry", "M-bQMCjo16M-00009-00010703-00012422": "Ultimately, we should expect this battle to land in the courts. Congress may step up its tactics from informal letters (which politely but firmly request the recipient to provide information) to subpoenas (which compel the witness to provide information, like it or not)", "M-bQMCjo16M-00010-00012422-00013924": "Subpoena recipients in and around the White House, in turn, may resist by invoking executive privilege -- arguing essentially that internal communications between the President and his advisers are confidential and protected from disclosure", "M-bQMCjo16M-00011-00013924-00014817": "All this could culminate in the most consequential legal battle over executive privilege since the Richard Nixon case in 1974", "M-bQMCjo16M-00012-00014817-00016090": "The Supreme Court unanimously rejected Nixon's executive privilege claim over tape recordings of internal White House conversations; Nixon resigned 16 days after losing the decision"}}, {"audio_id": "MG4aOqSPjCo", "text": {"MG4aOqSPjCo-00000-00000571-00001885": "When the House Judiciary Committee sent document requests to dozens of Donald Trump’s associates on Monday, part of the goal was to find people who were willing to cooperate by turning over the relevant documents", "MG4aOqSPjCo-00001-00001885-00002982": "But in these kinds of mass-requests, there is also clearly a secondary of goal of sending everyone involved scrambling, and some of them are going to screw up in the process", "MG4aOqSPjCo-00002-00002982-00004209": "That scrambling is already underway.Donald Trump’s former longtime adviser Michael Caputo announced on Tuesday night that he is going to refuse to cooperate with the document request he received", "MG4aOqSPjCo-00003-00004209-00005181": "He says that he’s also aware of four other unnamed Trump associates who are going to refuse to cooperate, according to the Washington Post", "MG4aOqSPjCo-00004-00005181-00006566": "This can’t end well for any of the five of them.Caputo says that he’s refusing to cooperate partly because he fears the House Judiciary Committee is going to try to use the documents to hit him with perjury charges", "MG4aOqSPjCo-00005-00006566-00008081": "He may be onto something, because he testified before the House Intelligence Committee back in 2017, when it was under control of Devin Nunes, who was all but begging Trump’s associates to come in and insist that they and Trump were innocent", "MG4aOqSPjCo-00006-00008081-00008911": "We don’t know if Caputo in particular lied under oath, but it’s a safe bet that a whole lot of people did", "MG4aOqSPjCo-00007-00008911-00010032": "So anyone who lied under oath to the Republican House, and now turns over documents to the Democratic House, could end up incriminating themselves for perjury in the process", "MG4aOqSPjCo-00008-00010032-00011241": "But not cooperating comes with its own legal risks. For instance, Donald Trump’s longtime associate Tom Barrack announced to CNBC on Tuesday that he’ll be turning over everything", "MG4aOqSPjCo-00009-00011241-00012641": "He won’t be the only one.The trouble for Michael Caputo ad his fellow dissenters is that, statistically speaking, someone else among the eighty-one names is likely going to turn over the documents in question", "MG4aOqSPjCo-00010-00012641-00013430": "For instance, if two people have a conversation via email or text, only one of them has to cooperate", "MG4aOqSPjCo-00011-00013430-00014877": "By fighting this, Caputo will rack up huge legal fees, even as others will probably turn over the documents involving him anyway – and if he is incriminated, prosecutors will seek a harsh sentence due to his lack of cooperation", "MG4aOqSPjCo-00012-00014877-00015253": "This can’t end well for any of them"}}, {"audio_id": "MGoASkVtWWA", "text": {"MGoASkVtWWA-00000-00000513-00001466": "Texas Republican Rep. Will Hurd said he would vote for Donald Trump in 2020 over his friend, former Texas Democratic Rep", "MGoASkVtWWA-00001-00001466-00002098": "Beto O'Rourke, should he decide to run and win the Democratic Party's nomination", "MGoASkVtWWA-00002-00002098-00002817": "\"My plan is to vote for the Republican nominee,\" Hurd told CNN's Jake Tapper on \"State of the Union", "MGoASkVtWWA-00003-00002817-00003942": "\".\"So, you would vote for President Trump over Beto O'Rourke?\" Tapper asked.\"It's most likely that Donald Trump is the likely candidate, right,\" Hurd said", "MGoASkVtWWA-00004-00003942-00004640": "\"So, Trump over O'Rourke?\" Tapper pressed again.\"That's very clear,\" Hurd replied", "MGoASkVtWWA-00005-00004640-00005350": "\"Unless Beto O'Rourke decides to run as a Republican, which I don't think he's planning on doing", "MGoASkVtWWA-00006-00005350-00006586": "\".Hurd, who is the only Republican in the House to represent a district in Texas along the southern border, has been critical of Trump, including the President's proposal for a border wall", "MGoASkVtWWA-00007-00006586-00008386": "\"Building a 30-foot-high concrete structure from sea to shining sea is the most expensive and least effective way to do border security,\" Hurd told Tapper on Sunday, adding later, \"What we should be doing is focusing on technology, manpower, physical barriers where it makes sense", "MGoASkVtWWA-00008-00008386-00009287": "\".Hurd was one of 13 Republicans who voted to block Trump's national emergency declaration to shift funds to the southern border", "MGoASkVtWWA-00009-00009287-00010023": "\"That gives the President certain powers that I believe goes against what our Constitution has set,\" Hurd said", "MGoASkVtWWA-00010-00010023-00011403": "In 2017, when they were both in office, Hurd and O'Rourke famously took a bipartisan road trip from San Antonio to Washington, DC, broadcasting their nearly 1,600-mile drive", "MGoASkVtWWA-00011-00011403-00012259": "O'Rourke, who lost a bid for Senate in Texas against Ted Cruz, is weighing whether to jump into the 2020 race"}}, {"audio_id": "MakWL4jOIq4", "text": {"MakWL4jOIq4-00000-00000571-00002271": "The story has shifted yet again. The last word we heard from Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is that he’ll remain on the job at least until Special Counsel Robert Mueller has completed his work – yet the media keeps reporting that Rosenstein is about to resign", "MakWL4jOIq4-00001-00002271-00003071": "Now the media is even reporting that Donald Trump has picked a replacement. So what’s going on?", "MakWL4jOIq4-00002-00003071-00004228": "It started back in January, when a major news outlet reported that Rod Rosenstein was preparing to resign once William Barr was confirmed as the new Attorney General", "MakWL4jOIq4-00003-00004228-00005275": "Rosenstein immediately shot this down, going through his associates to inform NBC News that he was staying for as long as Mueller was staying", "MakWL4jOIq4-00004-00005275-00006903": "But Rosenstein remaining on the job wasn’t a ratings friendly story, and the scary prospect of him imminently quitting was perfect for ratings, so the media mostly ignored Rosenstein’s own words, and spent the next month claiming that Rosenstein was about to quit", "MakWL4jOIq4-00005-00006903-00007770": "Then on Monday, NBC News reported that Rod Rosenstein was indeed planning to resign in mid March", "MakWL4jOIq4-00006-00007770-00010285": "Wait, wasn’t this the same network that had previously reported Rosenstein’s assertion that he wasn’t leaving, and then spent the next month ignoring its own reporting? Palmer Report pointed out that these stories about Rosenstein quitting were almost surely being planted by Donald Trump and his people, because Trump desperately wants Rosenstein out, but doesn’t seem to have the guts or political muscle to fire him", "MakWL4jOIq4-00007-00010285-00011406": "As long as the media kept breathlessly hyping Trump’s leaks about Rosenstein resigning, it could end up sabotaging Rosenstein’s ability to remain on the job", "MakWL4jOIq4-00008-00011406-00012453": ". .Now tonight we have a new twist. Major media outlets are reporting that Donald Trump has settled on a replacement for Rod Rosenstein", "MakWL4jOIq4-00009-00012453-00013833": "Just to make things even more confusing, Rosenstein’s supposed replacement has the similar name of Jeffrey Rosen; perhaps Trump truly is delusional enough to think people might not notice the difference", "MakWL4jOIq4-00010-00013833-00015147": "But if we know anything about Rod Rosenstein based on watching him in action the past year and a half, it’s that he will never resign unless he thinks Robert Mueller is on a 100% safe path to the finish line", "MakWL4jOIq4-00011-00015147-00015928": "1) These media leaks are all one big bluff by Trump to try to force Rosenstein out", "MakWL4jOIq4-00012-00015928-00016669": "2) Rosenstein is leaving, because he’s concluded that new AG William Barr will protect Mueller", "MakWL4jOIq4-00013-00016669-00017409": "3) Rosenstein is leaving because he expects Mueller to finish Trump off by mid March"}}, {"audio_id": "McMPXH-hgzc", "text": {"McMPXH-hgzc-00000-00000513-00001539": "Donald Trump has a lot of “acting” positions in his administration, including the acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan, who took over for Gen", "McMPXH-hgzc-00001-00001539-00002595": "James Mattis when he resigned. Shanahan previously worked for more than 30 years at Boeing, and that is creating a problem in his new position", "McMPXH-hgzc-00002-00002595-00004368": "After two crashes by Boeing’s Max 8 in Indonesia and Ethiopia, an investigation into how the aircraft was deemed “safe” just two weeks before the tragic incidences occurred began, and Shanahan’s ties to Boeing have led to an entirely separate investigation into him", "McMPXH-hgzc-00003-00004368-00006521": "The Washington Post reports that:.‘The Department of Defense Office of Inspector General has decided to investigate complaints we recently received that Acting Secretary Patrick Shanahan allegedly took actions to promote his former employer, Boeing, and disparage its competitors, allegedly in violation of ethics rules", "McMPXH-hgzc-00004-00006521-00007404": "’.The Defense Department’s Office of the Inspector General initiated the investigation into the number two man at the Pentagon", "McMPXH-hgzc-00005-00007404-00008420": "Shanahan’s spokespeople issued a statement upon release of the news, while Shanahan himself called the investigation “just noise", "McMPXH-hgzc-00006-00008420-00009310": "”.‘Acting Secretary Shanahan has at all times remained committed to upholding his ethics agreement filed with the DoD", "McMPXH-hgzc-00007-00009310-00010559": "This agreement ensures any matters pertaining to Boeing are handled by appropriate officials within the Pentagon to eliminate any perceived or actual conflict of interest issue with Boeing", "McMPXH-hgzc-00008-00010559-00011596": "’.The ethics complaint alleges that Shanahan promoted Boeing’s interests while criticizing Lockheed Martin, a rival of the aircraft company", "McMPXH-hgzc-00009-00011596-00013989": "In a statement by the Office of the Inspector General, they wrote that:.‘The Department of Defense Office of Inspector General has decided to investigate complaints we recently received that Acting Secretary Patrick Shanahan allegedly took actions to promote his former employer, Boeing, and disparage its competitors, allegedly in violation of ethics rules", "McMPXH-hgzc-00010-00013989-00015519": "’.All of Trump’s promises to “drain the swamp” have turned out to be just more lies from the president now that he’s in the Whtie House, as his cabinet members continue to turn out to be working more in their own interest than the American people’s", "McMPXH-hgzc-00011-00015519-00017082": "‘CREW cited news stories saying Shanahan had criticized Lockheed Martin, a chief rival to Boeing, and had urged the Pentagon to buy more Boeing-manufactured F-15X fighter jets in defiance of Air Force acquisition preferences", "McMPXH-hgzc-00012-00017082-00017202": "’"}}, {"audio_id": "MdLPEg-yqMU", "text": {"MdLPEg-yqMU-00000-00000513-00001586": "President Donald Trump continues to seem to treat the presidency like a five day a week job, even as investigations and security issues close in around him", "MdLPEg-yqMU-00001-00001586-00003995": "This Friday, he again took off for a surprise weekend trip to his Mar-a-Lago resort, where while the government continues to grapple with his policy proposals like a border wall blocking off an entire country that will cost billions of dollars, he’ll be golfing, watching television, and tweeting — and, apparently, meeting with Caribbean leaders in between those activities, he claims", "MdLPEg-yqMU-00002-00003995-00004752": "Trump has cost the country tens of millions of dollars and counting with his frequent golf trips", "MdLPEg-yqMU-00003-00004752-00006406": "In February, the Government Accountability Office released a report on the costs at the request of Congressional Democrats, outlining that early on in his presidency, average documented costs per trip to Florida come out to a whopping $3", "MdLPEg-yqMU-00004-00006406-00007380": "4 million. That brings the cost of just four such trips across February and March of 2017 to a stunning $13", "MdLPEg-yqMU-00005-00007380-00008618": "6 million.The information is the very first official accounting of the costs of the president’s golf habit — previously, concerned citizens only had educated estimates to go on", "MdLPEg-yqMU-00006-00008618-00009650": "There is no reason to believe that there was some dramatic drop-off in the cost of the president’s weekend getaways to Florida since early 2017", "MdLPEg-yqMU-00007-00009650-00011170": "He’s spent more than ten percent of his presidency so far at Mar-a-Lago, and overall, he’s spent well over one-fourth of his time in office at a property branded with his own name, most of which are golf courses like the one near Mar-a-Lago", "MdLPEg-yqMU-00008-00011170-00012748": "It’s old news at this point, but the irony remains that Trump asserted prior to taking office that he wouldn’t take many vacations, and even lambasted Barack Obama for supposedly taking too much time off while in office", "MdLPEg-yqMU-00009-00012748-00013385": "Trump’s travel rate has swamped Obama’s, and yet he wants us to take him seriously", "MdLPEg-yqMU-00010-00013385-00015224": "It’s not the only indication of his uniquely flippant approach to the presidency. Recently, an anonymous staffer leaked about three months worth of his schedules, which revealed that around 60 percent of the president’s scheduled days were devoted to “Executive Time” — whatever on earth that’s supposed to mean", "MdLPEg-yqMU-00011-00015224-00016079": "Trump, of course, insists he’s done more than any other president in American history — which is a quote, not conjecture", "MdLPEg-yqMU-00012-00016079-00016862": "The line got him laughs at the United Nations General Assembly, but his team is still using versions of it", "MdLPEg-yqMU-00013-00016862-00018996": "In reality, we can all see what Trump is doing. He continues to hinge his behavior and decisions on Twitter, where in recent days, he’s ranged from attacking Kellyanne Conway’s husband George as a “stone cold LOSER & husband from hell!” to touting a decision to further entrench his administration on the side of Israeli nationalism", "MdLPEg-yqMU-00014-00018996-00020355": "Even Russian President Vladimir Putin said asserting Israeli control over the contested Golan Heights was a bad idea, and when he’s better at foreign policy than an American president, something is very off", "MdLPEg-yqMU-00015-00020355-00022157": "All of this continues to unfold while Trump faces unprecedented investigative efforts across the federal Justice Department, state authorities, and Congress, all struggling to deal with the weight of a long shady businessman taking up residence in the White House", "MdLPEg-yqMU-00016-00022157-00022852": "Even his long defunct inaugural committee is facing three investigations!"}}, {"audio_id": "MgGDUAPd27A", "text": {"MgGDUAPd27A-00000-00000571-00001655": "Social Security is a frustrating challenge with no clear solution in sight.We need to rein in spending, but we can’t leave retired Americans in the lurch", "MgGDUAPd27A-00001-00001655-00002407": "The real problem is: how do you make sure honest Americans get their benefits while rooting out the conmen?", "MgGDUAPd27A-00002-00002407-00003118": "President Trump is announcing a “social” solution to put an end to a major Social Security scam", "MgGDUAPd27A-00003-00003118-00003956": "From Fox Business:.In order to identify people wrongly claiming Social Security Opens a New Window", "MgGDUAPd27A-00004-00003956-00005056": "disability benefits, the administration is working on a proposal to use social media sites – including Facebook and Twitter – to corroborate claims", "MgGDUAPd27A-00005-00005056-00005829": "The new monitoring strategy will look to a person’s social media to make sure they’re not conning the government", "MgGDUAPd27A-00006-00005829-00006840": "For instance, let’s say there was someone claiming benefits for an injured back. But on the same day, they post pictures of themselves playing golf", "MgGDUAPd27A-00007-00006840-00007741": "Hmm… that’s no good. With a program in financial trouble, the last thing it needs is people taking from it who don’t need it", "MgGDUAPd27A-00008-00007741-00008415": "Right now, social media is only checked after someone’s under suspicion for fraud", "MgGDUAPd27A-00009-00008415-00009575": "But how does the Social Security Administration know in the first place?.This new measure by Trump will require everyone requesting money to undergo a social media screening", "MgGDUAPd27A-00010-00009575-00010311": "Seems legit. If you have an honest need, then you wouldn’t object to having your social media checked", "MgGDUAPd27A-00011-00010311-00011317": "Some might say this is a step towards violating someone’s privacy. But keep in mind these social media posts are made public on major websites", "MgGDUAPd27A-00012-00011317-00012385": "These aren’t a person’s private pictures or diary entries.Plus, these people specifically requested tax dollars to pay for their injuries or other needs", "MgGDUAPd27A-00013-00012385-00013117": "So, they shouldn’t be surprised if the government wants to make sure they’re not con artists", "MgGDUAPd27A-00014-00013117-00014248": "Some people use stolen identities to claim benefits for themselves. A quick social media check would prove that these 20-somethings aren’t retired 80-year-olds", "MgGDUAPd27A-00015-00014248-00014546": "Sounds good to me"}}, {"audio_id": "MmQBAzxStgy", "text": {"MmQBAzxStgy-00000-00000571-00001318": "Donald Trump won the biggest victory of his presidency this week when Mueller cleared him of collusion", "MmQBAzxStgy-00001-00001318-00001955": "Mueller’s report ended two years of hate coverage aimed at undermining the administration", "MmQBAzxStgy-00002-00001955-00002728": "Trump is already on the warpath.Obama might be looking over his shoulder, after this tweet from Donald", "MmQBAzxStgy-00003-00002728-00003567": "“WSJ: Obama Admin Must Account for ‘Abuse of Surveillance Powers’.According to the report, Sen", "MmQBAzxStgy-00004-00003567-00004189": "Rand Paul wants to look into how the Obama administration abused its surveillance powers", "MmQBAzxStgy-00005-00004189-00004957": "This is something many of you have been demanding for years. We need to find out what Obama was up to", "MmQBAzxStgy-00006-00004957-00006056": "But Obama’s not the only one in the hot seat. Only hours after Trump’s good news broke, Hillary probably started sweating when she heard what happened next", "MmQBAzxStgy-00007-00006056-00007135": "“A “lock her up” chant broke out at Mar-a-Lago tonight during Sen. Graham’s speech as he called for an investigation into Clinton and the origins of the dossier", "MmQBAzxStgy-00008-00007135-00008083": "Trump watched on from a table in the ballroom.”.Obama and Hillary were often connected with abuses of power in the last administration", "MmQBAzxStgy-00009-00008083-00009021": "Yet we never saw a real investigation into their behavior.But it was more than just the former president and the secretary of state", "MmQBAzxStgy-00010-00009021-00009711": "There was a tangled web of agents potentially abusing their power to persecute their rivals", "MmQBAzxStgy-00011-00009711-00010442": "Here is a handy chart to help you out.Lynch, Comey, Strzok float right to the top of that list", "MmQBAzxStgy-00012-00010442-00011625": "But there are many more within the “deep state” may have used their power to pull strings during the 2016 Election, even abusing FISA warrants to spy on one of Trump’s campaign people", "MmQBAzxStgy-00013-00011625-00012485": "All to prevent you from electing Donald Trump to the White House.Lynch, Comey, Strzok float right to the top of that list", "MmQBAzxStgy-00014-00012485-00013668": "But there are many more within the “deep state” may have used their power to pull strings during the 2016 Election, even abusing FISA warrants to spy on one of Trump’s campaign people", "MmQBAzxStgy-00015-00013668-00014209": "All to prevent you from electing Donald Trump to the White House"}}, {"audio_id": "MnwJ0A56wx4", "text": {"MnwJ0A56wx4-00000-00000571-00001576": "Trump’s war of words against former Acting Director of the FBI Andrew McCabe continued this morning with another pathetic, irate Twitter outburst", "MnwJ0A56wx4-00001-00001576-00003507": "The president is incensed about a 60 Minutes interview with McCabe that came out over the weekend in which, amongst other things, he revealed that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein entertained the idea of using the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office, so convinced was he of the threat the president posed to the United States", "MnwJ0A56wx4-00002-00003507-00005304": "On top of that, McCabe revealed a chilling incident in which the president refused to believe the American intelligence community when they warned him about the threat of North Korean nuclear missiles because, of all things, Vladimir Putin told Trump that the weapons could not reach the United States", "MnwJ0A56wx4-00003-00005304-00006490": "Of course, since it’s Donald Trump, his attacks against McCabe aren’t coming in the form of substantive or credible rebukes of the former Acting Director’s bombshell claims", "MnwJ0A56wx4-00004-00006490-00008405": "Instead, Trump is relying on personal insults and conspiracy theory peddling.Now, for some reason, Trump has zeroed in on McCabe’s previous claim that he insulted McCabe’s wife during a phone call with the former Acting Director, referring to her as a “loser” after she lost a State Senate bid", "MnwJ0A56wx4-00005-00008405-00010424": "McCabe reiterated the claim during 60 Minutes.In his morning tweet, Trump claimed that he “never said anything bad about” McCabe’s wife, before immediately repeating his slanderous conspiracy theory that her State Senate campaign corruptly took contributions from Hillary Clinton as the FBI was investigating her over her emails", "MnwJ0A56wx4-00006-00010424-00011247": "Trump’s obvious implication was that McCabe undermined the investigation to get money for his wife’s political aspirations", "MnwJ0A56wx4-00007-00011247-00012568": "In reality, McCabe recused himself from the Clinton investigation once he was promoted to Deputy Director, erasing any legitimate argument that there was some kind of untoward quid pro quo at play", "MnwJ0A56wx4-00008-00012568-00013334": "As usual, this is Trump spewing lies he knows his delusional supporters will lap up without question", "MnwJ0A56wx4-00009-00013334-00014073": ".Trump went on to insist that he never called McCabe’s wife a “loser” and that McCabe is lying", "MnwJ0A56wx4-00010-00014073-00015421": "The fact that he thinks that any reasonable person would believe him — perhaps the most dishonest president in American history — over a lifelong public servant with a sterling reputation is quite frankly laughable", "MnwJ0A56wx4-00011-00015421-00016434": "The simplest and most likely case is that Trump did call McCabe’s wife a loser and has now decided to lie about it like he lies about basically everything", "MnwJ0A56wx4-00012-00016434-00016816": "Cowardly and disgraceful"}}, {"audio_id": "N4MKnoB9WHQ", "text": {"N4MKnoB9WHQ-00000-00000571-00001830": "Kirstjen Nielsen has resigned as Department of Homeland Security (DHS) secretary in the midst of soaring illegal immigration levels and an expanded Catch and Release policy under her direction", "N4MKnoB9WHQ-00001-00001830-00002598": "On Sunday, President Trump wrote online that Nielsen would be leaving her position as head of DHS", "N4MKnoB9WHQ-00002-00002598-00004129": "Nielsen’s resignation as DHS secretary comes amid a surge of illegal immigration-Mexico border and an expanded Catch and Release policy that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency has been tasked with carrying out", "N4MKnoB9WHQ-00003-00004129-00005022": "During Nielsen’s tenure as DHS secretary, illegal immigration has increased nearly every month over the last year and a half", "N4MKnoB9WHQ-00004-00005022-00006302": "Simultaneously, the Trump administration has yet to construct a border wall on new land at the southern border that did not previously have barriers built by the Bush and Obama administrations", "N4MKnoB9WHQ-00005-00006302-00007848": ".Most recently, officials with the National ICE Council accused Nielsen of “grossly” mismanaging DHS and failing to acknowledge that the agency had been operating an expanded Catch and Release policy for border crossers and illegal aliens for months", "N4MKnoB9WHQ-00006-00007848-00009165": "As Breitbart News chronicled, Nielsen previously served in the Bush administration overseeing a crisis team following the destruction of New Orleans, Louisiana, by Hurricane Katrina in 2005", "N4MKnoB9WHQ-00007-00009165-00010304": "The Bush administration had waved federal regulations to allow an unlimited level of illegal immigration into the Gulf Coast to take low-skill jobs rebuilding the region", "N4MKnoB9WHQ-00008-00010304-00011176": "Nielsen previously chaired a World Economic Forum committee that authored a report praising mass migration into Europe", "N4MKnoB9WHQ-00009-00011176-00012519": "For her confirmation process to DHS, Nielsen worked with an assortment of allies that worked vigorously in the 2016 presidential election to oppose Trump, including Frances Townsend and Tom Ridge"}}, {"audio_id": "NvcTKwwUN64", "text": {"NvcTKwwUN64-00000-00000571-00001699": "President Donald Trump threatened Friday to send more illegal immigrants to Democrat-run sanctuary cities if they failed to change the existing immigration and asylum laws", "NvcTKwwUN64-00001-00001699-00002906": "He told a group of reporters that he was “strongly looking at” the idea after visiting Texas and California and the border, where his administration was constructing new physical barriers", "NvcTKwwUN64-00002-00002906-00004233": ".“If they don’t agree, we might as well do what they always say they want. We’ll bring in the illegals … we’ll bring them to sanctuary city areas, and let that particular area take care of it,” Trump said", "NvcTKwwUN64-00003-00004233-00005513": "“Whether it’s a state or whatever it might be. California certainly is always saying they want more people in their statuary cities, well we’ll give them more people, we can give them a lot", "NvcTKwwUN64-00004-00005513-00006670": "We can give them an unlimited supply.”.The president commented on the border crisis after hosting an event at the White House to promote the growth of 5G networks", "NvcTKwwUN64-00005-00006670-00007516": "Trump mocked Democrats for insisting that his administration let migrants and illegal immigrants in, rather than deporting them", "NvcTKwwUN64-00006-00007516-00008180": "“They always seem to have open arms,” Trump said. “Let’s see if they have open arms", "NvcTKwwUN64-00007-00008180-00009316": "”. .Trump said the “horrible old fashioned laws” made it impossible to detain illegals longer than 20 days, adding that the current asylum laws were “absolutely insane", "NvcTKwwUN64-00008-00009316-00010048": "”.Trump specifically referred to the Governor of California, who welcomed more refugees and illegals", "NvcTKwwUN64-00009-00010048-00010784": "“We’ll give them to the Sanctuary cities to maybe take care of if that’s what they want,” he said"}}, {"audio_id": "NBFzJcDVRWA", "text": {"NBFzJcDVRWA-00000-00000571-00001307": "President Donald Trump espouses a dangerous brand of nationalist and protectionist economics", "NBFzJcDVRWA-00001-00001307-00002997": "He thinks that America First has to mean harmful tariffs which benefit no one. He has recently threatened to issue crippling tariffs on the auto industry in the US, so the industry giants came out one by one to explain why he is completely wrong on this issue", "NBFzJcDVRWA-00002-00002997-00004742": "A group of industry experts called Moody’s Investors Service said in a report:''“The economic fallout would be significant, with auto tariffs hurting the global economy by distorting prices and creating inefficiencies, and the impact would reverberate across global supply chains", "NBFzJcDVRWA-00003-00004742-00005926": "The already weakening pace of global expansion would magnify global growth pressures, causing a broader hit to business and consumer confidence amid tightening financial conditions''", "NBFzJcDVRWA-00004-00005926-00007242": "Similarly, Toyota released a statement along the same lines.“The 137,000 people who work for Toyota across America deserve to know whether they are considered a national security threat", "NBFzJcDVRWA-00005-00007242-00007874": "And the American consumer needs to know whether the cost of every vehicle sold in the U", "NBFzJcDVRWA-00006-00007874-00009217": "S. may increase''. Some other organizations minced their words even less. The American International Automobile Dealers Association came out to call the entire Commerce Department investigation “bogus”", "NBFzJcDVRWA-00007-00009217-00011168": "Their CEO, by the name of Cody Lusk, said in a statement.“Now, dealerships must continue to operate under a cloud of uncertainty, not knowing if at any moment their products will be slapped with 25 percent tariffs, raising vehicle and repair costs by thousands of dollars and slashing sales''", "NBFzJcDVRWA-00008-00011168-00012331": "However, if you are looking for strongly worded statements against Trump policy, the best port of call is always his former employees and officals, of whom there are plenty", "NBFzJcDVRWA-00009-00012331-00013260": "William Reinsch is a former US trade official who now works as a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies", "NBFzJcDVRWA-00010-00013260-00014068": "He said.“[The Commerce Department recommendations] will certainly be tariffs because, hey, he’s a Tariff Man", "NBFzJcDVRWA-00011-00014068-00014893": "[President Trump is] pursuing something that, as near as I can tell, the domestic (auto) industry doesn’t want", "NBFzJcDVRWA-00012-00014893-00015906": "Once he pursues it, he is going to be under pressure to give up the one thing the auto industry really does want, the US tariff on imported light trucks''", "NBFzJcDVRWA-00013-00015906-00016907": "It is rare that we see shows of public unity on policy issues within the current hostile and polarized climate of American politics", "NBFzJcDVRWA-00014-00016907-00017842": "But if there is one thing we can be sure entire sectors of society will agree on, it is that President Donald Trump is doing a bad job", "NBFzJcDVRWA-00015-00017842-00018414": "Hopefully he will get the message, but I won’t be holding my breath"}}, {"audio_id": "NFRvR1xnG4U", "text": {"NFRvR1xnG4U-00000-00000571-00001757": "In the forty-eight hours since Donald Trump had his newly handpicked Attorney General William Barr make false claims about the nature of the Mueller report, Trump has begun moving full speed", "NFRvR1xnG4U-00001-00001757-00002519": "The trouble, both for him and the nation: it’s not clear what direction he even thinks he’s headed on", "NFRvR1xnG4U-00002-00002519-00003209": "Tonight, Trump went so far off the rails, he sounded like he needed medical attention", "NFRvR1xnG4U-00003-00003209-00004698": "Donald Trump and his regime have spent today trying to completely eliminate Obamacare, trying to sabotage Medicare, trying to illegally fund his border wall, and trying to kill off the Special Olympics, along other atrocities", "NFRvR1xnG4U-00004-00004698-00005745": "But that’s apparently not enough for Trump, who took to Twitter and sounded like he’s either gotten into someone’s stash of laughing gas, or turned into the Joker", "NFRvR1xnG4U-00005-00005745-00007041": "This evening, Trump tweeted “The Fake News Media has lost tremendous credibility with its corrupt coverage of the illegal Democrat Witch Hunt of your all time favorite duly elected President, me! T", "NFRvR1xnG4U-00006-00007041-00007788": "V. ratings of CNN & MSNBC tanked last night after seeing the Mueller Report statement", "NFRvR1xnG4U-00007-00007788-00009314": "Fox News up BIG!” Wait, what? First, none of this is true. Second, this doesn’t even sound like it was written by him; it sounds like something from a Trump parody account that was trying to be as over the top as possible", "NFRvR1xnG4U-00008-00009314-00010045": "If Donald Trump really did write this tweet, we’re convinced that he’s in need of immediate medical attention", "NFRvR1xnG4U-00009-00010045-00011471": "Mentally and psychologically stable people don’t sound like this. It’s as if what little was left of Trump’s mind vanished entirely once William Barr handed him a temporary and artificial respite from his criminal scandals", "NFRvR1xnG4U-00010-00011471-00012007": "This is precisely why the 25th Amendment was written"}}, {"audio_id": "NQ0XEoDX5r4", "text": {"NQ0XEoDX5r4-00000-00000571-00001284": "The massive college cheating scandal that rocked the news yesterday seems like it has nothing to do with Donald Trump", "NQ0XEoDX5r4-00001-00001284-00002237": "Today on Morning Joe, host Mika Brzezinski even called the explosive development “an incredible relief from Trump news and political news", "NQ0XEoDX5r4-00002-00002237-00003010": "” There is indeed no evidence that Trump or anyone around him is involved in this particular scandal", "NQ0XEoDX5r4-00003-00003010-00004016": "Nevertheless, what is happening should frighten this president because it may spell big trouble for his legal liability and even his future as a businessman", "NQ0XEoDX5r4-00004-00004016-00005168": "The college cheating scandal’s prosecution is possible in large part because of a 1970 law known as RICO, which stands for Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations", "NQ0XEoDX5r4-00005-00005168-00006367": "RICO offers a path to criminal and civil recovery in situations where leaders of an “enterprise” have inspired their underlings to commit a “pattern of racketeering activity", "NQ0XEoDX5r4-00006-00006367-00007556": "” From prison sentences to asset forfeiture and more, RICO can help ensure not only that all guilty parties get punished but that an enterprise itself gets shuts down", "NQ0XEoDX5r4-00007-00007556-00008909": "RICO was enacted to help fight organized crime. But prosecutors and private individuals have been getting creative, applying the law to other situations in which they argue there is a criminal enterprise at work", "NQ0XEoDX5r4-00008-00008909-00010139": "For example, RICO has led to indictments against FIFA officials for international soccer corruption, and it is a part of ongoing litigation into Harvey Weinstein’s sexual misconduct", "NQ0XEoDX5r4-00009-00010139-00010954": "RICO’s valuable role in the college cheating scandal highlights the law’s proven power and widening applicability", "NQ0XEoDX5r4-00010-00010954-00011897": "This should scare the bejesus out of Trump and his business associates. RICO cases are challenging to bring, and they are not always successful", "NQ0XEoDX5r4-00011-00011897-00013104": "But it is not a stretch to think that the SDNY investigation into the Trump Organization could produce enough compelling evidence under RICO to make the whole company come crashing down", "NQ0XEoDX5r4-00012-00013104-00013916": "At the very least, this serves as a stark reminder that Trump’s future hangs on so much more than the Mueller probe"}}, {"audio_id": "Nc4v01YagYA", "text": {"Nc4v01YagYA-00000-00000000-00000880": "It seems like every week there’s a new discussion of invoking the 25th Amendment in order to remove Donald Trump from the White House", "Nc4v01YagYA-00001-00000880-00002110": "It would be perfectly justified, and it at leastseems like it would be easier than securing a conviction in the Senate if the Democrats take over the House in November but not the upper chamber", "Nc4v01YagYA-00002-00002110-00004302": "As if it weren’t enough that he constantly attacks the media, or that he’s been accused of sexual assault by at least 17 women, or that he’s publicly known to have cheated on his current wife with not one but two stars of the adult entertainment industry, the fact is that Trump presents a threat to America by simply not knowing the first thing about being President", "Nc4v01YagYA-00003-00004302-00006394": "Like, he’s very, very bad at it.And recently, in addition to the legions of Americans who would love to see Trump booted out of the Oval Office, someone leaked a claim to theNew York Times that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein even talked about invoking the rarely (until now) discussed provision in the US Consitution", "Nc4v01YagYA-00004-00006394-00007405": "Even if he had — which he didn’t — it’s not like this should surprise anyone.Go ahead and type the number “25” into your Google search box", "Nc4v01YagYA-00005-00007405-00008816": "Does it look like this?  I bet it does.Last year, when the hashtag #25thAmendment started trending on Twitter, Donald Trump had a full-blown meltdown in private over the whole thing, and talk of it now is no different", "Nc4v01YagYA-00006-00008816-00009625": "It’s not enough, though.It’s not enough to just know that Trump is upset by people talking about removing him from office", "Nc4v01YagYA-00007-00009625-00010568": "He works for the American people and should be in absolute FEAR that we will forcibly remove him from office if he keeps acting like a buffoon"}}, {"audio_id": "NhE5oMYlPyI", "text": {"NhE5oMYlPyI-00000-00000571-00001665": "President Trump’s assault on the long sacrosanct Fourth Estate began in earnest and has been forwarded by his administration, particularly those in communications roles", "NhE5oMYlPyI-00001-00001665-00003590": "From Spicer’s banning of cameras to Huckabee Sanders’s banning of any sort of recording devices in certain areas of the Senate — officially created by the Republican-led Senate Rules Committee, to Trump and ostensibly his entire staff decrying all critical coverage “fake news,” our free press has never been so endangered", "NhE5oMYlPyI-00002-00003590-00004424": ".Fox News — and Fox & Friends in particular — emerged as the de facto media outlet for our White House", "NhE5oMYlPyI-00003-00004424-00005534": "Trump appeared to be toying with his own media narrative in the manner of his pal Putin with a video in which Kaylaigh McEnany is posed in front of a blue screen which reads “DonaldJTrump", "NhE5oMYlPyI-00004-00005534-00006218": "com” excitedly informing the audience of various Trump administration accomplishments", "NhE5oMYlPyI-00005-00006218-00006673": "This has now become known as Trump TV"}}, {"audio_id": "NigD8iKw858", "text": {"NigD8iKw858-00000-00000571-00001284": "Even though Trump is in Vietnam for a summit with Kim Jong Un, he is still taking care of things at home", "NigD8iKw858-00001-00001284-00002091": "Obama and the Democrats have been trying for years to transform America into their socialist, open borders dream", "NigD8iKw858-00002-00002091-00003264": "But when Donald Trump got elected he started rolling it all back.Democrats thought they could stop Trump in the courts thanks to all of Obama’s judicial appointments pulling the strings for them", "NigD8iKw858-00003-00003264-00005377": "But with Trump’s latest win, he’s undoing Obama’s legacy for good.From Fox News.The Senate on Tuesday confirmed President Trump’s nominee to be a judge on the liberal 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in a party-line vote — and, in a historic snub, the White House ignored the input of the judge’s two Democratic home-state senators in the process", "NigD8iKw858-00004-00005377-00006573": "Seattle attorney Eric Miller was confirmed by the Senate in a 53-46 vote.Miller’s credentials make him a huge threat to the unhinged leftists who run the 9th Circuit Court", "NigD8iKw858-00005-00006573-00007368": "They know Miller won’t be their puppet, and won’t help them in their quest to stop everything the President tries to do", "NigD8iKw858-00006-00007368-00008436": "The 9th Circuit has done nothing but obstruct the President, whether it was over his travel ban or his efforts to stop funding for sanctuary cities", "NigD8iKw858-00007-00008436-00009389": "But Miller, who was a former clerk to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, is much more aligned with the President’s vision of a safer America", "NigD8iKw858-00008-00009389-00010338": "And that’s why Washington State’s two Democratic senators, Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray, opposed Miller’s appointment so strongly", "NigD8iKw858-00009-00010338-00011375": "Trump is still, in many ways, just getting started. By the end of his second term, the Democrats firm grip on the Federal Court system will be eliminated", "NigD8iKw858-00010-00011375-00012286": "We have the Senate, the Presidency, and the Supreme Court. And now the most liberal court in the country is being turned red"}}, {"audio_id": "O2xcLHUZESA", "text": {"O2xcLHUZESA-00000-00000513-00001255": "Many people think that the United States has a one-person-one-vote Democracy. That is not so", "O2xcLHUZESA-00001-00001255-00002218": "Instead, the country has an antiquated system called the Electoral College, where a person’s vote elects the people who will elect the president", "O2xcLHUZESA-00002-00002218-00003632": "It is time to change that, and one state is leading the way.Right now, a state gets one delegate for every U. S. House of Representative plus two (one for each senator), for a grand total of 538 delegates", "O2xcLHUZESA-00003-00003632-00005037": "Usually, those delegates vote the way their voters wish, but not always. That was why Delaware has thrown away its Electoral College and traded it for the popular vote, which actually is one-person-one-vote", "O2xcLHUZESA-00004-00005037-00006270": "It takes a majority, 270 electoral votes, to win the presidency. That was how Donald Trump could win the electoral vote, and Secretary Hillary Clinton could win the popular vote", "O2xcLHUZESA-00005-00006270-00008467": "State Representative Lyndon Yearick (R-DE) said, according to the state’s WHYY:.“While not perfect the Electoral College has been an effective mechanism to protect the interests of small states in selecting our nation’s leader.This bill would circumvent a system with a 230-year track record with a system that’s impact is impossible to gauge’", "O2xcLHUZESA-00006-00008467-00009297": "Both Democrats and Republicans in Delaware believed this would give the state more power during the presidential elections", "O2xcLHUZESA-00007-00009297-00010961": "Delaware voted 24-17 to join a group of states with a unique plan.These 11 states plus Washington, D.C. want to pledge their combined Electoral College delegate votes to the presidential candidate who wins the 2020 presidential election popular vote", "O2xcLHUZESA-00008-00010961-00011967": "The states would not implement their plan until enough states join their group for a combined 270 (majority of) Electoral College votes", "O2xcLHUZESA-00009-00011967-00012677": "That means, after Delaware’s three votes, the alliance will needs 98 additional votes", "O2xcLHUZESA-00010-00012677-00014634": "In spite of the country’s founders intentions, according to History.com:.‘The founders’ efforts, the electoral college system almost never functioned as they intended, but, as with so many constitutional provisions, the document prescribed only the system’s basic elements, leaving ample room for development", "O2xcLHUZESA-00011-00014634-00016086": "As the republic evolved, so did the electoral college system, and, by the late 19 century, the following range of constitutional, federal and state legal, and political elements of the contemporary system were in place…", "O2xcLHUZESA-00012-00016086-00016899": "‘…They (delegates) are expected to vote for the presidential and vice presidential candidates of the party that nominated them", "O2xcLHUZESA-00013-00016899-00018335": "Notwithstanding this expectation, individual electors have sometimes not honored their commitment, voting for a different candidate or candidates than the ones to whom they were pledged; they are known as “faithless” or “unfaithful” electors", "O2xcLHUZESA-00014-00018335-00019772": "In fact, the balance of opinion by constitutional scholars is that, once electors have been chosen, they remain constitutionally free agents, able to vote for any candidate who meets the requirements for President and Vice President ‘", "O2xcLHUZESA-00015-00019772-00020577": "The bill’s sponsor state Representative David Bentz (D-DE) told WHYY:.‘We’re already overlooked", "O2xcLHUZESA-00016-00020577-00021836": "Delaware is seen as this true blue state. And if you’re a Republican voter what is your motivation to vote? Because you know at the end of the day Delaware’s three electoral votes will go to that Democrat", "O2xcLHUZESA-00017-00021836-00022512": "If you’re a democrat maybe you’re not motivated either because you know you don’t have to’", "O2xcLHUZESA-00018-00022512-00023507": "Opponents of the bill say that the result would not be fair if most voters in Delaware voted for the presidential candidate who lost the popular vote", "O2xcLHUZESA-00019-00023507-00024513": "Those who support the bill claimed that the states with more delegates, i.e., Florida, Ohio, and Pennsylvania get to select the presidents", "O2xcLHUZESA-00020-00024513-00025140": "This would make certain that swing states were not the only ones that candidates visited", "O2xcLHUZESA-00021-00025140-00025989": "Interestingly, several Democratic 2020 presidential candidates have not followed the traditional state track", "O2xcLHUZESA-00022-00025989-00026624": "Bentz said this legislation would make certain the next president was elected by the people:", "O2xcLHUZESA-00023-00026624-00028102": "‘I think if enough states do this it will be good for Delaware. It will really amplify our voice, take us from a state that’s passed over and our residents will be treated the same as residents in swing states and across the country’", "O2xcLHUZESA-00024-00028102-00029139": "That would force presidential candidates to campaign in the states they often skip. Delaware Governor John Carney (D) has agreed to sign the bill"}}, {"audio_id": "O35br3J04n8", "text": {"O35br3J04n8-00000-00000571-00001435": "Despite the report of China pushing back, President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the talks are going very well", "O35br3J04n8-00001-00001435-00002632": "The Wall Street Journal reported that U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin will travel to Beijing next week for high-level talks", "O35br3J04n8-00002-00002632-00003313": "Chinese Vice Premier Liu He will visit Washington the following week, according to the Journal", "O35br3J04n8-00003-00003313-00004055": "The hope is that these talks could lead to a meeting between Trump and China’s Xi Jinping in late April", "O35br3J04n8-00004-00004055-00005803": "Trump has now twice delayed raising tariffs on China’s imports. The administration imposed a 10 percent tariff on some $200 billion of Chinese goods last autumn, adding to the higher tariffs on an additional $50 billion of China imports", "O35br3J04n8-00005-00005803-00006555": "That 10 percent was lower than expected and was set to rise to 25 percent on January 1", "O35br3J04n8-00006-00006555-00007339": "At a trade meeting in Buenos Aires in December, the tariff hike was put on hold until March 1", "O35br3J04n8-00007-00007339-00008300": "It was then suspended indefinitely while talks continue. .China is seeking reassurance that the current tariffs will be lifted", "O35br3J04n8-00008-00008300-00008888": "Some in the administration believe those tariffs should be kept in place until U", "O35br3J04n8-00009-00008888-00010126": "S. officials are satisfied China is living up to its commitments. Instead, the current talks would simply win China a lasting reprieve from the threat of further tariff hikes", "O35br3J04n8-00010-00010126-00011395": "Bloomberg reports that China has pushed back against this, demanding an immediate lifting of tariffs in exchange to structural changes to its rules over foreign investment that the U", "O35br3J04n8-00011-00011395-00012458": "S. government says facilitate forced technology transfers by requiring U.S. companies doing business in China to partner with a domestic company", "O35br3J04n8-00012-00012458-00014099": "“Beijing has also stepped back from its initial promises over data protection of pharmaceuticals, didn’t offer details on plans to improve patent linkages, and refused to give ground on data-service issues, one person familiar with the U", "O35br3J04n8-00013-00014099-00015327": "S.’s views said. Beijing is trying to bring in wording that would ensure rules in the trade agreement have to comply with Chinese laws, the person added,” Bloomberg reported", "O35br3J04n8-00014-00015327-00016330": "Interestingly, Bloomberg also reports that “a person close to Lighthizer” has denied that Chinese officials have been backpedaling", "O35br3J04n8-00015-00016330-00017398": "One U.S. official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told Breitbart News that it was unlikely any meeting to finalize a deal would take place in April", "O35br3J04n8-00016-00017398-00018007": "“We still have to far to go and the Chinese are dragging their heels,” the official said"}}, {"audio_id": "O5jF1mcI_g8", "text": {"O5jF1mcI_g8-00000-00000571-00001326": "Are you tired of WINNING yet, America?.The moment Donald Trump entered office, things began to change", "O5jF1mcI_g8-00001-00001326-00002023": "Unfortunately, some of his most important achievements have been ignored by the mainstream media", "O5jF1mcI_g8-00002-00002023-00002935": "But we know the truth:.POTUS quickly went to work to end years of failure; he reversed policies and agendas that only hurt the U", "O5jF1mcI_g8-00003-00002935-00003682": "S. and put us behind every other nation in the world.Trump signed a bill that slashed regulation", "O5jF1mcI_g8-00004-00003682-00004539": "He worked with the GOP to score historic tax cuts.He was able to win over companies to invest in the U", "O5jF1mcI_g8-00005-00004539-00005691": "S. He ditched NAFTA.It’s a BIG list, isn’t it?.And now, all that hard work has paid off, with one of the biggest achievements arriving just this month", "O5jF1mcI_g8-00006-00005691-00007002": "From Bloomberg:.“Filings for U.S. unemployment benefits unexpectedly dropped, falling to the lowest level since October 1969 and suggesting little sign of cooling in a tight labor market", "O5jF1mcI_g8-00007-00007002-00008081": "“.Unemployment is falling rapidly, thanks to Trump.Many Americans weren’t even alive when we saw these numbers before! How do you like them apples?", "O5jF1mcI_g8-00008-00008081-00009334": "Jobless claims were at a very low 196,000 at the end of the first week in April, and the four-week average was 207,000—the lowest since December 1969", "O5jF1mcI_g8-00009-00009334-00010298": "These are incredible numbers. Remember, other leaders (‘cough’ Obama ‘cough’) told us jobs were gone and weren’t coming back", "O5jF1mcI_g8-00010-00010298-00011200": "Obama and other Democrats told us we’d have to accept an America with less opportunity, fewer jobs, and low salaries", "O5jF1mcI_g8-00011-00011200-00011826": "Oh yeah?.President Trump didn’t have a magic wand to make these amazing numbers happen", "O5jF1mcI_g8-00012-00011826-00012924": "He simply put America first.Crazy, I know. But this simply proves that our past leaders weren’t even considering us when they made their decisions", "O5jF1mcI_g8-00013-00012924-00013866": "Obama and the Democrats were just looking to help themselves.On the flip side, President Trump is fighting to ensure ALL Americans thrive", "O5jF1mcI_g8-00014-00013866-00014514": "Everyone needs to know the truth: Trump is doing what people said was impossible!"}}, {"audio_id": "O-eweIznP9E", "text": {"O-eweIznP9E-00000-00000571-00001712": "The House failed Tuesday to override President Donald Trump's veto after both chambers of Congress sought to overturn his national emergency declaration to build more border wall", "O-eweIznP9E-00001-00001712-00002593": "The vote was 248-181, with 14 Republicans voting with Democrats to support the override", "O-eweIznP9E-00002-00002593-00003661": "It was a steep hill to climb for opponents of Trump's national emergency as the House would have needed two-thirds of its members to back the veto override", "O-eweIznP9E-00003-00003661-00005134": "Thirteen Republicans voted for the resolution in the first place.\"Today, Congressional Democrats attempted to block the President's National Emergency Declaration -- they failed,\" White House spokesman Hogan Gidley said in a statement after the vote", "O-eweIznP9E-00004-00005134-00006519": "\"Democrats continue to ignore the reality that our porous southern border is a magnet for illegal immigration, child smugglers, human traffickers, drug cartels, gangs and many other criminals", "O-eweIznP9E-00005-00006519-00007477": "This national security and humanitarian crisis endangers every American and cannot be described as anything other than a National Emergency", "O-eweIznP9E-00006-00007477-00009191": "\".Both chambers of Congress had passed a resolution to overturn Trump's national emergency declaration to fund more border wall, which would use billions from the Treasury and Defense departments after Congress rejected giving Trump the full amount of border wall money he requested for the year", "O-eweIznP9E-00007-00009191-00010202": "The decision sparked criticism from Republicans and Democrats alike, many of whom argued the national emergency action would violate the Constitution", "O-eweIznP9E-00008-00010202-00011782": "The House easily passed the resolution of disapproval in February. A few weeks later, 12 Senate Republicans joined with Senate Democrats to pass it, marking a sharp rebuke from members of the President's own party on a key issue to his base", "O-eweIznP9E-00009-00011782-00013297": "The President vetoed the bill one day after it cleared the Senate.\"Congress has the freedom to pass this resolution and I have the duty to veto it,\" Trump said from the Oval Office before officially sending the measure back to Congress without his approval", "O-eweIznP9E-00010-00013297-00014091": "House Democrats, meanwhile, were quick to announce they would hold an override vote on March 26", "O-eweIznP9E-00011-00014091-00015523": "\"The House and Senate resoundingly rejected the President's lawless power grab, yet the President has chosen to continue to defy the Constitution, the Congress and the will of the American people,\" Pelosi said in a statement at the time", "O-eweIznP9E-00012-00015523-00016408": "But the House faced a high hurdle, needing a two-thirds majority -- rather than a simple majority -- to override the veto", "O-eweIznP9E-00013-00016408-00017498": "The House first passed the bill 245-182.House Democratic leaders were under no illusion that the veto override would pass", "O-eweIznP9E-00014-00017498-00018676": "Speaker Nancy Pelosi said last week that the point of the vote is to make it clear the new Democratic-controlled House won't tolerate the President's persistence for a border wall", "O-eweIznP9E-00015-00018676-00019433": "\"Whether we can succeed with the number of votes is not the point,\" Pelosi said at an event in New York", "O-eweIznP9E-00016-00019433-00020993": "\"We are establishing the intent of Congress.\".Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said earlier this month that the National Emergency Act allows for a resolution of disapproval to come up every six months, and Democrats intend to bring it up again then"}}, {"audio_id": "OJYXn55zMs4", "text": {"OJYXn55zMs4-00000-00000571-00002710": "If Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) was actually a man of his word — if he wasn’t a Republican politician, in other words — then he would consider the plethora of investigations that Democrats in the House of Representatives have launched into the president and the many other easily identified targets within the Trump administration as fair game", "OJYXn55zMs4-00001-00002710-00004147": "After all, he’s a leading member of a party that never encountered an aspect of Hillary Clinton’s life that they didn’t feel was worthy of spending many years and millions of taxpayer dollars fruitlessly investigating", "OJYXn55zMs4-00002-00004147-00005657": "Graham was also the one who channeled Miley Cyrus during the 2016 election campaign by calling Trump “a wrecking ball” who was destroying the Republican party’s chances of ever attracting votes from Latinx-Americans with his immigration policies", "OJYXn55zMs4-00003-00005657-00006500": "Of course, that was before Graham had the political epiphany that led him to become a born-again Trump buttock-smoocher", "OJYXn55zMs4-00004-00006500-00008055": "Now, the Democrats in the House are the targets of Graham’s demolition-themed proclamations as the senator relayed the heartbreaking emotional toll that those mean Democratic committee chairpeople were causing for Trump with their voluminous document requests", "OJYXn55zMs4-00005-00008055-00008734": "“He believes they are taking a wrecking ball to his life. Clinton said that about us", "OJYXn55zMs4-00006-00008734-00009371": "They’re going nuts,” Graham said. “‘It seems like nobody wants to solve any problems", "OJYXn55zMs4-00007-00009371-00010330": "’ He said that a couple times. He said he’s surprised. He thought it would be in everybody’s interest [to do] infrastructure and stuff like that", "OJYXn55zMs4-00008-00010330-00011782": "”.The wrecking ball descriptor seems to be a favorite of the South Carolina senator who has also used the term to describe Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman in the aftermath of the murder of his critic journalist Jamal Khashoggi", "OJYXn55zMs4-00009-00011782-00013287": "Graham revealed what is perhaps the primary motivation for his reversal in his attitude toward President Trump with a warning to fellow Republican Senators who are considering opposing the president’s national emergency declaration in a bill recently passed by the House"}}, {"audio_id": "OQDZgwEEoy0", "text": {"OQDZgwEEoy0-00000-00000571-00002151": "Just last week, back when he was still trying to convince us (and himself) that he’d been “exonerated” across the board, Donald Trump repeatedly stated that he was in favor of the full Robert Mueller report being released to Congress and the public", "OQDZgwEEoy0-00001-00002151-00002820": "Now, suddenly and tellingly, Trump is singing a very different tune in that regard", "OQDZgwEEoy0-00002-00002820-00004047": "The House Judiciary Committee is set to vote on Wednesday morning to authorize Chairman Jerry Nadler to issue as many subpoenas as he wants, in the name of forcing the Mueller report to become public", "OQDZgwEEoy0-00003-00004047-00005066": "By Donald Trump’s own logic, he should be fine with this, right? After all, he keeps insisting that the report is good news for him", "OQDZgwEEoy0-00004-00005066-00005845": "Except now he’s suddenly very offended at the idea that anyone would want to see the entire report", "OQDZgwEEoy0-00005-00005845-00006665": "Trump said this of Nadler this morning: “With the NO COLLUSION Mueller Report, which the Dems hate, he wants it all", "OQDZgwEEoy0-00006-00006665-00008405": "NOTHING WILL EVER SATISFY THEM!” Wait, so it’s wrong for the House Democrats and the public to want to see the entire report? But Trump wasn’t done changing his story: “There is no amount of testimony or document production that can satisfy Jerry Nadler or Shifty Adam Schiff", "OQDZgwEEoy0-00007-00008405-00010139": "It is now time to focus exclusively on properly running our great Country!”.Actually, there is something that can satisfy us all: give us the entire Mueller report, with no edits, no redactions, no more games, and let us all decide for ourselves what to make of it", "OQDZgwEEoy0-00008-00010139-00011550": "But Donald Trump knows he can’t do that, because he knows what all he’s done wrong, and he fears Robert Mueller uncovered much or all of it, and he knows his presidency could effectively be over the minute the Mueller report surfaces", "OQDZgwEEoy0-00009-00011550-00012466": "Now that House Democrats are about to subpoena everyone and everything in order to obtain the report, no wonder Trump is panicking"}}, {"audio_id": "ORY8nIdOtf8", "text": {"ORY8nIdOtf8-00000-00000513-00001309": "Do you want ice cream or cake?.As someone who recently celebrated a birthday, I know it’s hard to decide", "ORY8nIdOtf8-00001-00001309-00002106": "The easy solution is an ice cream cake.Head to Baskin-Robbins. Dairy Queen. Carvel", "ORY8nIdOtf8-00002-00002106-00002986": "All we need is ice cream cake.Congressional Republicans may need to enlist the services of Fudgie the Whale themselves", "ORY8nIdOtf8-00003-00002986-00004076": "They too face a dessert dilemma. Ice cream or cake? Funds for a border wall? Or money for a military spending priority in their state or district?", "ORY8nIdOtf8-00004-00004076-00005429": "This is where Fudgie comes in.President Trump’s national emergency declaration plunders various appropriations silos, which Congress targeted for specific Pentagon and “Military Construction” projects", "ORY8nIdOtf8-00005-00005429-00006602": "The national emergency redistributes money for the wall. GOPers want the wall. But they also don’t want President Trump to pilfer their pet project back home", "ORY8nIdOtf8-00006-00006602-00007325": "So, maybe the best solution to the quandary is the appropriations equivalent of an ice cream cake", "ORY8nIdOtf8-00007-00007325-00008198": "All lawmakers know right now are the general pots of money from which the Trump administration will loot funds for the wall", "ORY8nIdOtf8-00008-00008198-00009258": "But everyone’s in the dark when it comes to specifics.“I asked for the particulars,” said Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Richard Shelby, R-Ala", "ORY8nIdOtf8-00009-00009258-00009872": ", after having breakfast at the Pentagon with Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan", "ORY8nIdOtf8-00010-00009872-00010914": "Democratic leaders of the House Appropriations and Armed Services Committees also wrote to Shanahan demanding what programs were on the chopping block", "ORY8nIdOtf8-00011-00010914-00011849": "“We request that you produce the requested documents and information no later than March 21, 2019,” wrote the Democrats", "ORY8nIdOtf8-00012-00011849-00012826": "This is what happens when the power of the purse is ceded to the executive. No one on Capitol Hill knows what’s going on", "ORY8nIdOtf8-00013-00012826-00013578": "The Senate is cruising toward following the House’s lead and voting to terminate the national emergency", "ORY8nIdOtf8-00014-00013578-00014221": "The House already voted to undo the president’s action. The Senate will follow suit", "ORY8nIdOtf8-00015-00014221-00015028": "At least four Senate Republicans will join all 47 Senate Democrats to cease the national emergency", "ORY8nIdOtf8-00016-00015028-00016183": "Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., is among the four public GOP yeas. Paul says there are about ten other GOPers who will likely vote to halt the national emergency", "ORY8nIdOtf8-00017-00016183-00017376": "“If there is four, there’s ten,” said one Republican senator to Fox News.But there aren’t enough votes in the House or Senate to override a prospective veto by Trump", "ORY8nIdOtf8-00018-00017376-00018549": "Sixty-seven yeas are required in the Senate to override a presidential veto.However, that’s why the list of “particulars,” as Shelby put it, is so important", "ORY8nIdOtf8-00019-00018549-00019829": "If senators actually had the concrete information at their fingertips as to which military projects the administration may raid for the wall, it’s possible even more senators could vote to rebuff Trump", "ORY8nIdOtf8-00020-00019829-00020584": "If you’re for the wall, perhaps that’s a good argument to withhold the list until after the Senate’s taken the vote", "ORY8nIdOtf8-00021-00020584-00021373": "Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, says he’d like to see the docket ahead of time.“I would certainly support that", "ORY8nIdOtf8-00022-00021373-00022253": "I know a number of people who probably would,” said Romney.Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky", "ORY8nIdOtf8-00023-00022253-00023447": ", keeps saying that Republicans are having a “spirited discussion” about the vote to disapprove of the national emergency declaration and potential impacts on key military projects", "ORY8nIdOtf8-00024-00023447-00024293": "McConnell backed Mr. Trump’s decision to declare the national emergency in an effort to avoid a second government shutdown", "ORY8nIdOtf8-00025-00024293-00025388": "But McConnell adds “I advised the president not to take this route.” The Kentucky Republican also says he doesn’t “have a solution as to how this ends", "ORY8nIdOtf8-00026-00025388-00026346": "” The only thing that’s clear is the Senate will vote to reject the national emergency declaration, tempting President Trump to issue his first veto", "ORY8nIdOtf8-00027-00026346-00027143": "A vote to overturn the resolution is yet another example of Senate GOP dissension when it comes to the president", "ORY8nIdOtf8-00028-00027143-00028548": "In recent months, Republican senators broke with the president on a speedy withdrawal from Syria, how the administration dealt with Saudi Arabia following the death of Jamal Khashoggi and the cancellation of some Russian sanctions", "ORY8nIdOtf8-00029-00028548-00029570": "Fox News is told Trump was close to facing a “jailbreak” of GOP defections had the government not re-opened when it did following the shutdown", "ORY8nIdOtf8-00030-00029570-00030387": "If the Senate approves the package, the House and Senate are aligned and the package goes to President Trump, begging for the veto", "ORY8nIdOtf8-00031-00030387-00031066": "President Obama vetoed his first piece of legislation after only 11 months on the job", "ORY8nIdOtf8-00032-00031066-00031777": "President George W. Bush never vetoed a bill until he was in office for five-and-a-half years", "ORY8nIdOtf8-00033-00031777-00032432": "President Bill Clinton didn’t use a veto until two-and-a-half years into his presidency", "ORY8nIdOtf8-00034-00032432-00033206": "Presidents have only vetoed 2,500 pieces of legislation in the history of the republic", "ORY8nIdOtf8-00035-00033206-00033838": "But the Founders wanted to give Congress one last chance to go over the head of the executive", "ORY8nIdOtf8-00036-00033838-00034645": "That’s a veto override.One of the few things more rare than a veto is a successful veto override", "ORY8nIdOtf8-00037-00034645-00035765": "The gambit requires a two-thirds vote by both bodies of Congress. That’s 67 votes in the Senate, provided all 100 senators cast ballots", "ORY8nIdOtf8-00038-00035765-00036572": "And 427 House members cast ballots on the bill to block the national emergency last month", "ORY8nIdOtf8-00039-00036572-00037385": "So the yardstick there is 285 yeas. There were 245 members who voted in favor of the bill", "ORY8nIdOtf8-00040-00037385-00038349": "Thus, the House fell 40 votes short.We are not expecting a successful override of a prospective veto of the national emergency", "ORY8nIdOtf8-00041-00038349-00039195": "The math simply doesn’t work.The last unsuccessful attempt to override a veto came in January 2016", "ORY8nIdOtf8-00042-00039195-00040488": "President Barack Obama vetoed a Republican effort to repeal ObamaCare. The House voted 241-186, well short of the 285 yeas needed to override", "ORY8nIdOtf8-00043-00040488-00041131": "The maneuver never went to the Senate since the override maneuver failed in the House", "ORY8nIdOtf8-00044-00041131-00042246": "Note that the vote to override is based on how many lawmakers take part in the override effort itself, not how many members voted on the bill when it passed both bodies", "ORY8nIdOtf8-00045-00042246-00043090": "So, determining a precise number required to override is impossible until the veto override vote concludes", "ORY8nIdOtf8-00046-00043090-00044059": "The last successful veto override came in September 2016. Obama vetoed the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act", "ORY8nIdOtf8-00047-00044059-00044944": "The measure allowed families of 9/11 victims to sue those responsible or the attacks, including Saudi Arabia", "ORY8nIdOtf8-00048-00044944-00046169": "The Senate voted 97-1 to override Obama; 66 votes were needed. The House voted 348-77 with one lawmaker voting present", "ORY8nIdOtf8-00049-00046169-00047677": "And 284 yeas were needed for the override.The potential veto override attempt will only go to the House, since that’s the body which originated the disapproval legislation of the president’s national emergency declaration", "ORY8nIdOtf8-00050-00047677-00048455": "If the House comes up short with the override initiative, the effort dies there. It never moves to the Senate", "ORY8nIdOtf8-00051-00048455-00049098": "That’s an advantage for some Republican senators. They can be for the national emergency", "ORY8nIdOtf8-00052-00049098-00050156": "Oppose Mr. Trump plundering money for the wall from projects important to them and know they’ll never have to cast a vote to override the expected veto", "ORY8nIdOtf8-00053-00050156-00051041": "GOP senators can spin their votes and positions any way they want.It’s the ice cream cake of politics", "ORY8nIdOtf8-00054-00051041-00051676": "Having it both ways. Getting ice cream and cake, wrapped into one"}}, {"audio_id": "P1DSDop5ewM", "text": {"P1DSDop5ewM-00000-00000513-00001659": "Another day, another Trump scandal. In a Thursday letter to White House Counsel Pat Cipollone, House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings (D-Md", "P1DSDop5ewM-00001-00001659-00002383": ") has laid out alleged violations of federal record keeping law on the part of none other than Ivanka Trump", "P1DSDop5ewM-00002-00002383-00003911": "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", "P1DSDop5ewM-00003-00003911-00004744": "The Presidential Records Act demands that entire classes of written communication be preserved, not just some of them", "P1DSDop5ewM-00004-00004744-00006265": "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", "P1DSDop5ewM-00005-00006265-00008009": "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", "P1DSDop5ewM-00006-00008009-00009579": "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", "P1DSDop5ewM-00007-00009579-00010839": "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", "P1DSDop5ewM-00008-00010839-00011870": "The implication was that she’d endangered national security, even though years of investigation did not produce a single criminal liability on her part", "P1DSDop5ewM-00009-00011870-00013772": "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", "P1DSDop5ewM-00010-00013772-00014835": "Cummings claims Lowell said the question of whether Kushner has ever transmitted classified information via WhatsApp is “above my pay grade", "P1DSDop5ewM-00011-00014835-00016489": "”.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", "P1DSDop5ewM-00012-00016489-00017724": "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", "P1DSDop5ewM-00013-00017724-00019038": "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", "P1DSDop5ewM-00014-00019038-00020177": "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", "P1DSDop5ewM-00015-00020177-00021271": "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": "PslixlDE0HA", "text": {"PslixlDE0HA-00000-00000513-00001477": "First it was October, 2018, then November, then by the new year, then for sure by February, then last week for sure", "PslixlDE0HA-00001-00001477-00002715": "Now, people still swear Mueller will be all done by mid-March (that’s one week from now), and that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein will simultaneously leave the Justice Department", "PslixlDE0HA-00002-00002715-00003412": "Despite all kinds of evidence to the contrary, a part of me jumps on the bandwagon every time", "PslixlDE0HA-00003-00003412-00004585": "I get up early every Friday, turn on the news and expect to be greeted with images of pre-dawn raids and explosive headlines about Jared Kushner, and Don Jr", "PslixlDE0HA-00004-00004585-00005207": "indictments along with at least a handful of others. This Friday was no different", "PslixlDE0HA-00005-00005207-00006461": "Instead of pre-dawn raids, what we got this Friday is another tiny indication that even if the Special Counsel does issue some kind of report soon, the investigation is far from over", "PslixlDE0HA-00006-00006461-00007696": "The US District Court out of the Eastern District of Virginia has a secret Mueller-related grand jury, and that grand jury is not expected to wrap up its work for up to eighteen months", "PslixlDE0HA-00007-00007696-00008380": "That’s right, we could be wondering if this is “the Friday,” for seventy-eight more Fridays", "PslixlDE0HA-00008-00008380-00009666": "Along with this still-secret grand jury, we have the secret foreign government-owned financial institution fighting a subpoena, along with hundreds and hundreds of redacted pages of court filings", "PslixlDE0HA-00009-00009666-00010919": "All these secrets only stay secret because of ongoing active investigations.There are more pages redacted and investigations that are ongoing than there are things un-redacted and wrapped up", "PslixlDE0HA-00010-00010919-00012254": "Next Friday, I’ll be waiting again, along with hundreds of other people, expecting the Mueller investigation to end with a big bang, but I suspect the next big bang will still be just the beginning"}}, {"audio_id": "PESe3Yw0A9Q", "text": {"PESe3Yw0A9Q-00000-00000513-00002226": "After the disgusting scandal from October 2016 when the Access Hollywood tape was released, exposing Donald Trump for the groper that he is, one would think that he’d avoid any references to him grabbing women who are not his wife and kissing them in public", "PESe3Yw0A9Q-00001-00002226-00003114": "So what did he do during the signing of an executive order demanding “free speech” for racists and homophobes on college campuses?", "PESe3Yw0A9Q-00002-00003114-00004008": "He grabbed a blonde Ivanka look-a-like college student and kissed her in public.Twitter could not have been any more grossed out", "PESe3Yw0A9Q-00003-00004008-00005538": "It’s not as if the young woman had much of an opportunity to say no, what does one do during a public event in the biggest of national spotlights when a groper-in-chief grabs and kisses you in front of a group of people and an entire press pool?", "PESe3Yw0A9Q-00004-00005538-00008080": "The executive order Trump signed was no less disgusting. After college students across the country have made it clear that they’re not interested in the rhetoric of racists and transphobes like Milo Yiannapolous and Ben Shapiro, Trump insists that they must be allowed to speak on college campuses, places where respect and acceptance for marginalized communities are encouraged and practiced", "PESe3Yw0A9Q-00005-00008080-00009632": "The same man who believes that Saturday Night Live should be investigated and punished by the Justice Department for daring to make fun of him the same way they have every single president since Richard Nixon made quite a show of his stance on free speech", "PESe3Yw0A9Q-00006-00009632-00010295": "Of course, he also made a show of being a lecherous, disgusting old man"}}, {"audio_id": "PfIArkAghfA", "text": {"PfIArkAghfA-00000-00000513-00001743": "In a wide-ranging interview on the CBS show 60 Minutes, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said President Donald Trump did not have the authority to remove him from his position", "PfIArkAghfA-00001-00001743-00002811": "The Fed has often been the target of criticism from the Trump administration. Toward the end of last year, Bloomberg reported that the president had discussed firing Powell", "PfIArkAghfA-00002-00002811-00003859": "When CBS’s Scott Pelley asked Powell whether the president could fire him, he responded: “The law is clear that I have a four-year term", "PfIArkAghfA-00003-00003859-00004961": "And I fully intend to serve it.”.Pelley then pressed him to clarify his answer, asking, “So no, in your view?” to which Powell responded “no", "PfIArkAghfA-00004-00004961-00006361": "”.Following the publication of the Bloomberg story, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said he spoke with Trump about the Bloomberg report, and he said the president reassured him that no such discussion had taken place", "PfIArkAghfA-00005-00006361-00007098": "\"I have spoken with the President @realDonaldTrump and he said 'I totally disagree with Fed policy", "PfIArkAghfA-00006-00007098-00009091": "I think the increasing of interest rates and the shrinking of the Fed portfolio is an absolute terrible thing to do at this time, especially in the light of my major trade negotiations which are ongoing, but I never suggested firing Chairman Jay Powell, nor do I believe I have the right to do so,'\" Mnuchin wrote on Twitter", "PfIArkAghfA-00007-00009091-00010434": "In the 60 Minutes interview, Pelley asked Powell whether he thought raising interest rates four times last year had been a mistake—a move that resulted in the president calling the Fed “crazy” and “out of control", "PfIArkAghfA-00008-00010434-00011750": "” Traditionally, presidents do not publicly criticize the Fed in this manner.Powell responded: “I feel, and our committee feels, that our interest rate policy is in a very good place right now", "PfIArkAghfA-00009-00011750-00012910": "It's roughly neutral in a sense that our interest rate is in the range of estimates of a rate that is neither urging the economy to go faster, nor trying to slow it down,” he said", "PfIArkAghfA-00010-00012910-00014221": "“And we think that's an appropriate place for an economy that has the lowest unemployment in 50 years, that has inflation right about at our 2 percent objective, that has returned significantly to good health", "PfIArkAghfA-00011-00014221-00015339": "”.Trump has also previously called the Fed a “much bigger problem than China.” Pelley put this comment to Powell, asking if it was his duty to respond to such remarks", "PfIArkAghfA-00012-00015339-00017332": "“My duty is one that Congress has given us, which is to use our tools to achieve maximum employment and stable prices and to supervise and regulate banks so that they treat their customers fairly and so that they're strong, well-capitalized and can perform their critical function in good times and bad,” Powell said", "PfIArkAghfA-00013-00017332-00018160": "“That's my job. And I think for me to get into responding to any elected official would be a distraction from that job", "PfIArkAghfA-00014-00018160-00019344": "”.Powell asserted that the Fed remains independent, dismissing suggestions that a freeze in interest rate rises at the beginning of 2019 was anything to do with political pressure", "PfIArkAghfA-00015-00019344-00020404": "“It's very important that the public understand that we are always going to make decisions based on what we think is right for the American people,” Powell said", "PfIArkAghfA-00016-00020404-00021094": "“We answer to the American people and to their elected representatives in our system of government", "PfIArkAghfA-00017-00021094-00022173": "“So, when we say we're independent, what does that mean? What it means is that we serve long terms that are not at all synced up with the election cycle,” he said", "PfIArkAghfA-00018-00022173-00023016": "“And it means that we are directed to execute policy in a strictly nonpolitical way, serving all Americans", "PfIArkAghfA-00019-00023016-00023980": "And that's what we do. We are independent in that sense. Our decisions on rates can't be reversed by any other part of government", "PfIArkAghfA-00020-00023980-00024080": "”"}}, {"audio_id": "PgiUH2Hebmo", "text": {"PgiUH2Hebmo-00000-00000513-00001803": "House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler sat down with CNN’s Erin Burnett on Monday to talk about the far-reaching probe that seems to be touching every part of President Donald Trump‘s orbit", "PgiUH2Hebmo-00001-00001803-00003159": "Yet, despite Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump, and Jared Kushner all being on the list of the 81 persons and entities asked to submit information on Monday, one name from the Trump family is glaringly absent", "PgiUH2Hebmo-00002-00003159-00004196": "Ivanka Trump is not on the list.“She’s not on the initial list,” Nadler, who was careful with his language throughout the interview, said when asked about the First Daughter", "PgiUH2Hebmo-00003-00004196-00006116": "“That’s what we can say.”.He added: “We’re also saying that all the people on the list have given information already to either the special counsel or the Southern District or somebody and all we’re asking for at this point is information they’ve already turned over so that it can be done quickly and without questions of privilege", "PgiUH2Hebmo-00004-00006116-00006881": "”.Yet, he did not rule out the possibility that the Trump daughter could eventually be part of the probe", "PgiUH2Hebmo-00005-00006881-00007654": "“Conceivably, certainly,” he said when asked by Burnett if Ivanka may be added. “I can’t say", "PgiUH2Hebmo-00006-00007654-00008433": "Quite conceivably.”.Burnett then asked him if that means we shouldn’t read into who is not on the list", "PgiUH2Hebmo-00007-00008433-00008793": "“That’s right,” he said"}}, {"audio_id": "Q7TuYXfCA9A", "text": {"Q7TuYXfCA9A-00000-00000571-00001482": "If Donald Trump has been watching Michael Cohen’s live televised testimony today, it means Trump has been up all night watching it", "Q7TuYXfCA9A-00001-00001482-00002786": "Trump is in Vietnam right now, which is twelve time zones away from Washington DC – and the way the hearings have been going, Trump might end up deciding to just stay in Vietnam forever", "Q7TuYXfCA9A-00002-00002786-00004029": "At one point Michael Cohen provided documents proving that Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr, and Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg all signed checks reimbursing him for his crimes", "Q7TuYXfCA9A-00003-00004029-00004941": "At another point Cohen revealed he’d overheard Donald Trump and Roger Stone discussing their election rigging conspiracy with WikiLeaks", "Q7TuYXfCA9A-00004-00004941-00006035": "Then there was the just plain humiliating moment where Cohen produced documents showing that Trump was petrified about his school grades and SAT scores coming out", "Q7TuYXfCA9A-00005-00006035-00006895": "But the real consequence of today’s hearings is that House Democrats have just been given a roadmap for who and what to subpoena next", "Q7TuYXfCA9A-00006-00006895-00007780": "They used their questions to zero in on the precise location of incriminating documents that are apparently in Trump Tower", "Q7TuYXfCA9A-00007-00007780-00008574": "They’ll be subpoenaed, and if Trump doesn’t comply, a judge will sign off on a raid of Trump Tower", "Q7TuYXfCA9A-00008-00008574-00009653": "Yes, we’re approaching that point now.House Democrats are also now aware of the specific Team Trump attorneys who allegedly told Michael Cohen to lie to Congress", "Q7TuYXfCA9A-00009-00009653-00010625": "They’ll be subpoenaed to publicly testify, even as federal prosecutors presumably lean on them to cut plea deals against Donald Trump", "Q7TuYXfCA9A-00010-00010625-00011672": "What Cohen really did today was he broke down a whole lot of walls, allowing everyone involved to get to the treasure trove of criminal corruption that’s on the other side"}}, {"audio_id": "Qy-i0GgTgq8", "text": {"Qy-i0GgTgq8-00000-00000571-00002783": "In an interview with the House Oversight and Reform Committee to discuss the Trump administration’s security clearance process, White House Personnel Security Office employee Tricia Newbold officially blew the whistle on the Trump White House, alleging that it notoriously overrode national security professionals and granted security clearance to a number of disqualified people in the administration", "Qy-i0GgTgq8-00001-00002783-00003737": "As Politico reports, Newbold kept a list of White House officials whose clearance applications were initially denied but eventually overruled", "Qy-i0GgTgq8-00002-00003737-00004442": "The list is said to include as many as 25 people that had daily access to the president", "Qy-i0GgTgq8-00003-00004442-00006234": "“According to Ms. Newbold, these individuals had a wide range of serious disqualifying issues involving foreign influence, conflicts of interest, concerning personal conduct, financial problems, drug use, and criminal conduct,” aides wrote in summary of Newbold’s testimony", "Qy-i0GgTgq8-00004-00006234-00007422": "Newbold told lawmakers that she felt it was necessary to come forward with this information because when she tried to voice her concerns internally, they were completely disregarded", "Qy-i0GgTgq8-00005-00007422-00008917": "“I do not see a way forward positively in our office without coming to an external entity, and that’s because I have raised my concerns throughout the [Executive Office of the President] to career staffers as well as political staffers,” she said", "Qy-i0GgTgq8-00006-00008917-00009985": "“And I want it known that this is a systematic, it’s an office issue, and we’re not a political office, but these decisions were being continuously overrode", "Qy-i0GgTgq8-00007-00009985-00010085": "”"}}, {"audio_id": "QLn798nPt08", "text": {"QLn798nPt08-00000-00000571-00001707": "The New York Times has uncovered a 19-year-old memo from none other than Kenneth Starr under the the Freedom of Information Act that certainly throws a wrench into things legally for Donald Trump", "QLn798nPt08-00001-00001707-00003125": "As many ponder whether or not a President is immune to indictment, this report suggests that the Starr’s memo may aid Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller in his investigation into Donald Trump’s ties to the Russian collusion scandal", "QLn798nPt08-00002-00003125-00005009": "From the Times:.The 56-page memo, locked in the National Archives for nearly two decades and obtained by The New York Times under the Freedom of Information Act, amounts to the most thorough government-commissioned analysis rejecting a generally held view that presidents are immune from prosecution while in office", "QLn798nPt08-00003-00005009-00006477": "“It is proper, constitutional, and legal for a federal grand jury to indict a sitting president for serious criminal acts that are not part of, and are contrary to, the president’s official duties,” the Starr office memo concludes", "QLn798nPt08-00004-00006477-00007762": "“In this country, no one, even President Clinton, is above the law''.Mr. Starr assigned Ronald Rotunda, a prominent conservative professor of constitutional law and ethics whom Mr", "QLn798nPt08-00005-00007762-00009039": "Starr hired as a consultant on his legal team, to write the memo in spring 1998 after deputies advised him that they had gathered enough evidence to ask a grand jury to indict Mr", "QLn798nPt08-00006-00009039-00009946": "Clinton, the memo shows.DailyKos.com explains why this has potential to be a big deal in this investigation", "QLn798nPt08-00007-00009946-00011991": "What the Starr memo gives credence to is the possibility that Robert Mueller III, the former FBI director who is now special counsel, may have more options than is generally thought to be the case when it comes to action he might take when he has completed his inquiry into Trump’s campaign dealings with Russia and whether he obstructed justice", "QLn798nPt08-00008-00011991-00013741": "If Mueller found enough evidence to indict and consequently chose to accept the Jaworski and Starr point of view, he would still have to ponder the impact of the anything-but-small political fallout from taking the momentous step of indicting a sitting president for the first time in the history of the Republic"}}, {"audio_id": "QLGkPSk9dYc", "text": {"QLGkPSk9dYc-00000-00000571-00001519": "It’s bad enough that staff have been forced to reduce briefing reports to bullet points to keep up with Trump’s toddler-like attention span", "QLGkPSk9dYc-00001-00001519-00002381": "Trump has also been skipping briefings altogether in favor of tweeting and watching Fox News during his “executive time", "QLGkPSk9dYc-00002-00002381-00003358": "” And now, as per a report by the New York Times, the president is completely uninterested in intelligence briefings about terrorist attacks", "QLGkPSk9dYc-00003-00003358-00004259": "The NYT reported that Trump had been warned by briefers about hacking from Russia and China, but Trump doesn’t give a sh*t", "QLGkPSk9dYc-00004-00004259-00005740": "The NYT wrote:''In an effort to accommodate President Trump, who has attacked them publicly as ‘naïve’ and in need of going ‘back to school,’ the nation’s intelligence agencies have revamped their presentations to focus on subjects their No", "QLGkPSk9dYc-00005-00005740-00007046": "1 customer wants to hear about — economics and trade''.Intelligence officers have stated that he doesn’t care about people being hurt, he only cares about who is winning and getting a financial advantage", "QLGkPSk9dYc-00006-00007046-00008023": "Quoting career CIA official Douglas H. Wise, the NYT wrote:''If Trump tailors it to his needs, that is fine and his prerogative", "QLGkPSk9dYc-00007-00008023-00008708": "However, if he suppresses intelligence through that tailoring, that is not helpful", "QLGkPSk9dYc-00008-00008708-00009567": "He is no longer making informed decisions because he is making decisions based on information he could have had but didn’t have''", "QLGkPSk9dYc-00009-00009567-00010437": "The fact that Trump is showing indifference to details about potential terrorist attacks or spy work in America is terrifying", "QLGkPSk9dYc-00010-00010437-00011322": "Time and time again, we’ve seen the president humiliate this country by not knowing what the f*ck’s going on", "QLGkPSk9dYc-00011-00011322-00012260": "And still, the president still hasn’t learned that it is his responsibility to protect and work in the best interest of the United States", "QLGkPSk9dYc-00012-00012260-00012738": "He only cares about one thing — himself"}}, {"audio_id": "QUS2QpGGUpo", "text": {"QUS2QpGGUpo-00000-00000571-00002177": "With Monday’s deadline now behind us, it’s possible that up to eighty-one different people and entities related to Trump may have submitted any and all pertinent, last minute documents in their possession to the House Judiciary Committee as part of its investigation into Donald Trump", "QUS2QpGGUpo-00001-00002177-00002890": "“I am encouraged by the responses we have received since sending these initial letters two weeks ago", "QUS2QpGGUpo-00002-00002890-00004541": "It is my hope that we will receive cooperation from the remainder of the list, and will be working to find an appropriate accommodation with any individual who may be reluctant to cooperate with our investigation,” House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler said in a release", "QUS2QpGGUpo-00003-00004541-00005557": "And although very few names have been disclosed by the committee, at least one in particular was on Monday night, and it’s one that carries a lot of weight", "QUS2QpGGUpo-00004-00005557-00006746": "In an appearance on the Rachel Maddow show, Nadler shared that Steve Bannon’s name is in the fold, and apparently, he has submitted several thousand documents to the committee", "QUS2QpGGUpo-00005-00006746-00007819": "Considering Bannon was once in charge of the Donald Trump campaign, and also played a key role in the Donald Trump White House, this is rather huge news", "QUS2QpGGUpo-00006-00007819-00009627": "Additionally, since the committee let it be known that its requests to round up documents was solely to collect those which have already been requested by other investigators, Bannon’s submission tells us that Special Counsel Robert Mueller must have requested and likely possesses the same thousands of documents", "QUS2QpGGUpo-00007-00009627-00010669": "In other words, if there was ever any question as to whether or not Bannon was capable of selling Donald Trump out, I believe we may now have our answer", "QUS2QpGGUpo-00008-00010669-00011181": "And from the sounds of it, he may have done it twofold"}}, {"audio_id": "QV7DC_UU57c", "text": {"QV7DC_UU57c-00000-00000571-00001375": "'I don't believe that he would have allowed that to happen — it just wasn’t to his advantage to allow that,' the president said", "QV7DC_UU57c-00001-00001375-00002869": "President Donald Trump on Thursday said he trusted North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's assurance that he was unaware of the circumstances leading to the 2017 death of Otto Warmbier, the American student imprisoned by North Korea", "QV7DC_UU57c-00002-00002869-00003870": "\"He tells me he didn't know about it, and I will take him at his word,\" Trump said at a news conference held at the end of a two-day nuclear summit in Hanoi, Vietnam", "QV7DC_UU57c-00003-00003870-00004781": ".Warmbier was a student at the University of Virginia when he was arrested in 2016 while on a trip to North Korea", "QV7DC_UU57c-00004-00004781-00005724": "He was accused of stealing a propaganda poster from his hotel and sentenced to 15 years of hard labor following a sham trial", "QV7DC_UU57c-00005-00005724-00006772": "In June 2017, after months of lobbying, Warmbier was returned to the U.S. But he was in a vegetative state and died soon after", "QV7DC_UU57c-00006-00006772-00007827": "Trump said Thursday that he didn't believe Kim — whose regime is accused of a laundry list of human rights violations — would have ordered the mistreatment of Warmbier", "QV7DC_UU57c-00007-00007827-00009941": "“What happened is horrible. I really believe something really bad happened to him and I don't think the top leadership knew about it,” the president told reporters after his second summit with Kim, adding that “I did speak about it and I don't believe that he would have allowed that to happen — it just wasn’t to his advantage to allow that to happen", "QV7DC_UU57c-00008-00009941-00010614": "”.He later doubled down on Kim’s denial and said he trusted Kim was telling the truth", "QV7DC_UU57c-00009-00010614-00011641": "“He felt badly about it. I did speak to him, he felt very badly.” Trump said. “He knew the case very well but knew it later", "QV7DC_UU57c-00010-00011641-00012890": "And you know, you've got a lot of people, a big country, and in those prisons and those camps you have a lot of people and some really bad things happened to Otto, some really, really bad things", "QV7DC_UU57c-00011-00012890-00013958": "\".Since his overtures to North Korea began, Trump has caught heat for his reluctance to pressure Pyongyang over human rights violations like Warmbier’s detainment", "QV7DC_UU57c-00012-00013958-00014930": "Earlier in the day on Thursday, the president insisted that the two leaders were “discussing everything\" during the summit, including human rights", "QV7DC_UU57c-00013-00014930-00015724": "But his comments Thursday were still remarkable, especially in light of his rhetoric on the situation in the past", "QV7DC_UU57c-00014-00015724-00016709": "In September 2017, a few months after Warmbier’s death, Trump praised Warmbier’s parents for an interview they gave to Fox News", "QV7DC_UU57c-00015-00016709-00017244": "“Otto was tortured beyond belief by North Korea,” he wrote in a tweet."}}, {"audio_id": "QZVR7iKRU78", "text": {"QZVR7iKRU78-00000-00000571-00002224": "The reports are swirling around after three sources with a Trump connection spoke to Axios and claimed that President Trump said that he is “saving” a seat on the Supreme Court for conservative judge Amy Barrett and that she will replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg when the time comes", "QZVR7iKRU78-00001-00002224-00003376": "Last year when Justice Anthony Kennedy retired, 47 year-old Barrett was on Trump’s shortlist and was considered a standout favorite by many conservative activists", "QZVR7iKRU78-00002-00003376-00004661": "Ultimately, that seat was filled by Brent Kavanaugh, who was nominated and came under intense scrutiny over previous abortion comments and multiple accounts of alleged sexual misconduct", "QZVR7iKRU78-00003-00004661-00005813": "Eventually and to the dismay of many, he was confirmed.Barrett was nominated in 2017 by President Trump to serve as a judge in the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals", "QZVR7iKRU78-00004-00005813-00006720": "has a long history of extremely conservative views, particularly surrounding abortion, which continues to trouble Dems", "QZVR7iKRU78-00005-00006720-00007726": "Barrett, a Notre Dame, is a past member of the University Faculty for Life, which is a group that promotes the anti-abortion movement in every way", "QZVR7iKRU78-00006-00007726-00008794": "She has been on record at a university magazine saying, “life begins at conception” and has written about her willingness to revisit the landmark Roe v", "QZVR7iKRU78-00007-00008794-00010231": "Wade case.During a very tense confirmation hearing for her current position, Barrett was questioned by House Dems on the possibility of how her personal faith might hinder her ability to perform the duties of her job", "QZVR7iKRU78-00008-00010231-00011309": "Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) famously said to Barrett during the hearing. .“The dogma lives loudly within you… That’s of concern", "QZVR7iKRU78-00009-00011309-00012051": "”.Sen. Dianne Feinstein, to Judge Amy Barrett during her confirmation hearing in 2017", "QZVR7iKRU78-00010-00012051-00013747": "Although Trump has heartily expressed his desire to have Barrett on the bench which would allow for a serious conservative majority in the United States Supreme Court, the beautiful part of the whole thing is that the Notorious Ruth Bader Ginsburg, now 85, is still going", "QZVR7iKRU78-00011-00013747-00014857": "Despite some recent health concerns, RBG is in good shape and has said she has every intent to keep going for “at least five more years” which would not give Mr", "QZVR7iKRU78-00012-00014857-00015350": "Trump much of a chance to “save” a seat for anyone"}}, {"audio_id": "R4LL-aG9b7E", "text": {"R4LL-aG9b7E-00000-00000571-00002052": "President Donald Trump may appoint an “immigration czar” to help him coordinate the government’s fractured authority over border security, asylum law, the labor supply, and visas, according to a report by the Associated Press", "R4LL-aG9b7E-00001-00002052-00003515": "The AP reported:.The Trump administration is considering bringing on a “border” or “immigration czar” to coordinate the president’s immigration policies across various federal agencies, according to three people familiar with the discussions", "R4LL-aG9b7E-00002-00003515-00005766": "Trump is weighing two potential candidates for the post: Former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach and former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli — two far-right conservatives with strong views on immigration, according to the people, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the conversations publicly", "R4LL-aG9b7E-00003-00005766-00007180": "However, the report does not say if the appointee would be responsible for the border only or for the much broader issue of immigration, which includes visa workers, legal immigration, deportations, and much else", "R4LL-aG9b7E-00004-00007180-00007775": "The AP described the job vaguely either as “a ‘border’ or ‘immigration czar.'”.", "R4LL-aG9b7E-00005-00007775-00008749": "The leak may be designed to rally opposition to the proposal by pairing it with two advocates who are strongly opposed by the business wing of the GOP", "R4LL-aG9b7E-00006-00008749-00009671": "Kobach is a strong supporter of Trump, but he is opposed by business groups that support a large-scale inflow of foreign workers", "R4LL-aG9b7E-00007-00009671-00010630": "In 2013, Cuccinelli narrowly lost his race for Virginia governor after the Republican National Committee provided him little funding", "R4LL-aG9b7E-00008-00010630-00011495": "In the White House, Trump does not have a deputy to daily push his goals and to coordinate the agencies’ rival priorities", "R4LL-aG9b7E-00009-00011495-00012362": "As Trump deals with many top-level issues, his competing deputies tend to dominate low-priority debates", "R4LL-aG9b7E-00010-00012362-00013305": "For example, Trump’s deputies sidelined his demand for border funding during congressional budget talks in 2017 and 2018", "R4LL-aG9b7E-00011-00013305-00014378": "According to the Wall Street Journal:.In March [2018], Congress completed a $1.3 trillion spending package, but included just $1", "R4LL-aG9b7E-00012-00014378-00015105": "6 billion for a border barrier, with most of the money intended to replace existing fencing", "R4LL-aG9b7E-00013-00015105-00015943": "It banned the money from being spent on concrete slabs or any other of the wall prototypes the White House was considering", "R4LL-aG9b7E-00014-00015943-00017012": "Upset there wasn’t more money for the wall, Mr. Trump threatened to veto it. At an emergency meeting at the White House with his staff and Republican leaders, Mr", "R4LL-aG9b7E-00015-00017012-00017897": "Trump learned that the spending bill incorporated all of the border wall money that was requested in the White House budget proposal", "R4LL-aG9b7E-00016-00017897-00019117": "“Who the f— put that in my request?” Mr. Trump shouted. .A top-level coordinator is also needed because immigration issues are divided among several agencies", "R4LL-aG9b7E-00017-00019117-00019822": "For example, visas are reviewed and approved by the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of State", "R4LL-aG9b7E-00018-00019822-00020561": "Requests for workers are approved by the Department of Labor, DHS, and the state department", "R4LL-aG9b7E-00019-00020561-00021865": "Asylum requests are processed by DHS and the justice department.The flow of “Unaccompanied Alien Children” is managed by DHS and the Department of Health and Human Services", "R4LL-aG9b7E-00020-00021865-00022560": ".Lawsuits and appeals involving immigration are handled by the Justice Department", "R4LL-aG9b7E-00021-00022560-00023171": "The border wall is being managed by the Pentagon’s Corps of Engineers and the DHS", "R4LL-aG9b7E-00022-00023171-00024307": "A White House czar “could work, but it is often a bureaucratic way to be seen as doing something,” said Mark Krikorian, director of the Center for Immigration Studies", "R4LL-aG9b7E-00023-00024307-00025391": "“It is probably is a good idea to have one person oversee all the immigration stuff … but if you just have a border czar, I’m not sure how useful that is", "R4LL-aG9b7E-00024-00025391-00026776": "”.The czar’s personal authority could be weak or strong, he said. “It certainly could not hurt — but it would depend on who it was and how much juice that person had compared to other people in the administration", "R4LL-aG9b7E-00025-00026776-00027465": "”  Also, he said, the czar “should be somebody who does nothing but immigration,” he added", "R4LL-aG9b7E-00026-00027465-00029675": "The ideological priorities of the person for the job are critical, he said. “The fact is that we have a DHS Secretary [Kirstjen Nielsen] who does not agree with the administration … Clearly, if there was a DHS Secretary who actually shared the administration’s professsed goals on immigration, of tightening up the labor market as well as enforcing the border, that would help", "R4LL-aG9b7E-00027-00029675-00030498": "”.Each year, roughly four million young Americans join the workforce after graduating from high school or university", "R4LL-aG9b7E-00028-00030498-00031404": "But the federal government then imports approximately 1.1 million legal immigrants, refreshes a resident population of roughly 1", "R4LL-aG9b7E-00029-00031404-00032478": "5 million white-collar guest workers and roughly 500,000 blue-collar visa workers, and also tolerates about eight million illegal workers", "R4LL-aG9b7E-00030-00032478-00033541": "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", "R4LL-aG9b7E-00031-00033541-00035855": "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": "RvRcqvIPGK4", "text": {"RvRcqvIPGK4-00000-00000571-00001344": "President Donald Trump reacted to a serious fire at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, France on Monday", "RvRcqvIPGK4-00001-00001344-00002091": "“So horrible to watch the massive fire at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris,” Trump wrote on Twitter", "RvRcqvIPGK4-00002-00002091-00002885": ".Live news cameras showed the roof and the steeple of the famous cathedral engulfed in flames", "RvRcqvIPGK4-00003-00002885-00003776": "The president also commented on the news at an event in Minnesota promoting the success of the tax cuts boosting the economy", "RvRcqvIPGK4-00004-00003776-00005335": "“It’s one of the great treasures of the world, the greatest artists in the world … might be greater than any museum in the world, and it’s burning very badly, looks like it’s burning to the ground,” he said, noting that he watched the footage of the fire on Air Force One", "RvRcqvIPGK4-00005-00005335-00006014": "Trump acknowledged the devastating news put a “damper” on the event on tax reform", "RvRcqvIPGK4-00006-00006014-00007208": "“That’s beyond countries, that’s beyond anything, that’s a part of our growing up, it’s a part of our culture, it’s a part of our lives, it’s a truly great cathedral,” Trump said", "RvRcqvIPGK4-00007-00007208-00008034": ".He recalled personally visiting the cathedral in France.“There’s no cathedral in the world like it,” Trump said", "RvRcqvIPGK4-00008-00008034-00008786": "He said that the early estimations were that the cathedral fired started during a renovation process", "RvRcqvIPGK4-00009-00008786-00009833": "“At this moment they don’t know, but they think it was caused by renovation, and I hope that’s the reason, renovation, you know, what’s that all about?” he said", "RvRcqvIPGK4-00010-00009833-00011064": "“But it’s a terrible sight to behold.”. .It is unclear what started the fire, but the world watched helplessly as there were no signs of water being sprayed on the roof as the spire collapsed", "RvRcqvIPGK4-00011-00011064-00011753": "“Perhaps flying water tankers could be used to put it out,” Trump wrote. “Must act quickly!”", "RvRcqvIPGK4-00012-00011753-00012905": "First Lady Melania Trump also reacted to the news on Twitter.“My heart breaks for the people of Paris after seeing the fire at Notre Dame Cathedral,” she wrote", "RvRcqvIPGK4-00013-00012905-00013302": "“Praying for everyone’s safety.”"}}, {"audio_id": "RyaLZWTPSJ4", "text": {"RyaLZWTPSJ4-00000-00000513-00001960": "Although climate change is one the biggest issues facing our country and much of the world, the Trump administration has largely treated scientists’ assessments as fiction and denied the serious impact it is having on the environment", "RyaLZWTPSJ4-00001-00001960-00002702": "On Thursday, Democrats introduced a bill to prevent political interference with public science research", "RyaLZWTPSJ4-00002-00002702-00003854": "Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) and Rep. Paul Tonko (D-NY) introduced the legislation in light of “President Trump’s multi-agency assault”", "RyaLZWTPSJ4-00003-00003854-00004710": "The Science Integrity Act would ensure that political considerations do not factor into scientific conclusions", "RyaLZWTPSJ4-00004-00004710-00005826": "The legislation would prohibit the suppression of scientific findings and allow scientists to to answer media inquiries about their work without prior agency approval", "RyaLZWTPSJ4-00005-00005826-00006949": "Tonko said in a statement:.‘Independent, rigorous scientific research is one of the most powerful tools we have for advancing the public interest and keeping the American people safe", "RyaLZWTPSJ4-00006-00006949-00008955": "‘President Trump’s multi-agency assault on environmental standards has hinged on efforts to distort, bury and even rewrite credible public scientific findings, including his absurd denial of the growing climate crisis and efforts to cover up evidence that the American people are being exposed to dangerous toxins", "RyaLZWTPSJ4-00007-00008955-00009653": "’.Schatz said:.‘While it’s not the first time it has been under attack, this time feels worse", "RyaLZWTPSJ4-00008-00009653-00010368": "That’s why we need to answer the call of our times and stand up for science.’.According to Newsweek:", "RyaLZWTPSJ4-00009-00010368-00012126": "‘The goal of the Scientific Integrity Act, according to the bill’s sponsors, is to ensure Americans trust the science behind public policy decisions, and to address what they see as recent Trump-led distortions of scientific research on topics such as climate change and reproductive health’", "RyaLZWTPSJ4-00010-00012126-00013158": "Senator Schatz shared his concern over reports that Mr. Trump will create a White House panel attempting to undermine government research on the climate", "RyaLZWTPSJ4-00011-00013158-00013963": "He said:.‘And the person he will choose to lead this panel is the same man who compared climate science to Nazi propaganda’", "RyaLZWTPSJ4-00012-00013963-00014869": "According to Schatz and Tonko, the legislation is a “longstanding concern that has taken on newfound urgency under President Trump", "RyaLZWTPSJ4-00013-00014869-00015632": "” They cite the fact that Trump has been “burying reports on public health risks” over the past two years", "RyaLZWTPSJ4-00014-00015632-00017322": "Schatz said:.‘This may not be the first time science has been under attack in the United States—climate denial has been alive and well for some time now—but from a historical perspective, we are in one of the worst moments, if not the worst moment, for science", "RyaLZWTPSJ4-00015-00017322-00018275": "‘Particularly government science. Our bill is one of many ways that we can answer the call of our times and stand up for science", "RyaLZWTPSJ4-00016-00018275-00019370": "As Thomas Jefferson put it, information is the currency of democracy. And government science is some of the most important information we can have in times like these’", "RyaLZWTPSJ4-00017-00019370-00021039": "Rep. Tonko also added in a statement:.‘[W]e know the Trump Administration has taken direct steps to block, distort or obscure federal science reports—they even reportedly banned scientists at CDC from using the terms “evidence-based” or “science-based” in their", "RyaLZWTPSJ4-00018-00021039-00021786": "budget documents last year! Science simply shouldn’t be politicized regardless of party'"}}, {"audio_id": "RA_iOqlvrZ4", "text": {"RA_iOqlvrZ4-00000-00000571-00001691": "It hasn’t yet been two weeks since Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation wrapped up, and passions around the still unreleased final report are rising to a boil", "RA_iOqlvrZ4-00001-00001691-00002969": "On Wednesday night, the New York Times broke the story that some on Mueller’s team have been angered by Attorney General Bill Barr’s portrayal of the report and of the investigation’s conclusions", "RA_iOqlvrZ4-00002-00002969-00003687": "They believe that the investigation’s findings are much worse for the president than the public has been led to believe", "RA_iOqlvrZ4-00003-00003687-00004740": "That story, treated skeptically at first, was soon matched by confirming stories in the Washington Post, NBC News, and the Wall Street Journal", "RA_iOqlvrZ4-00004-00004740-00006007": "There also appears to be competing leaks about a factual matter. The new reports say Mueller’s team prepared “summaries” of its findings, which could have been released immediately or quite soon", "RA_iOqlvrZ4-00005-00006007-00007433": "But both publicly and privately, Barr and the Justice Department are sending the message that the report needs a thorough scrubbing for protected material before any of it is made public — a process that is expected to take weeks", "RA_iOqlvrZ4-00006-00007433-00008747": "Matthew Miller, a legal analyst and former spokesperson under President Barack Obama’s Justice Department, noted in new piece for Politico that “Barr is now in open warfare with the special counsel’s office", "RA_iOqlvrZ4-00007-00008747-00011108": "”. .He pointed out that Barr has been cagey about his own actions. While he initially said that his letter announcing Mueller’s conclusions on the Russsia conspiracy and obstruction of justice investigations was “summariz[ing] the principal conclusions reached by the Special Counsel and the results of his investigation,” Barr has since insisted that this letter was erroneously called a “summary", "RA_iOqlvrZ4-00008-00011108-00013386": "”.Miller continued: “Barr has also moved the goalposts on what categories of information would be redacted from the report, adding two new ones to the list he announced on March 24, while refusing so far to ask a court for permission to release grand jury material, as the Justice Department did at the conclusion of two previous investigations into presidential misconduct", "RA_iOqlvrZ4-00009-00013386-00014441": "”.While many were initially skeptical about Barr’s behavior and his framing of the special counsel’s conclusions, his critics now have much more ammunition", "RA_iOqlvrZ4-00010-00014441-00016379": "In light of these new developments, Barr’s history looks even more suspect. Over the summer of 2018, he wrote a memo and circulated it to administration officials arguing against the idea that the president obstructed justice in this case — long before he ever saw any of Mueller’s confidential findings", "RA_iOqlvrZ4-00011-00016379-00017234": "Trump then fired Attorney General Jeff Sessions in a clear attempt to gain more control over the probe, and he picked Barr as a replacement", "RA_iOqlvrZ4-00012-00017234-00018696": "Barr was also infamously involved in President George H.W. Bush’s issuing of pardons that quashed the investigation of the Iran-Contra affair, the scandal that gripped the administration the last time Barr was attorney general", "RA_iOqlvrZ4-00013-00018696-00019603": "These facts alone should have been enough to force Barr to recuse from the investigation for fear of tainting its integrity in the public’s view", "RA_iOqlvrZ4-00014-00019603-00020520": "But he refused to recuse, and nothing he has done since has given the world any reason to believe he’s a neutral umpire in this matter", "RA_iOqlvrZ4-00015-00020520-00021794": "Miller noted that it shouldn’t have been difficult for Barr to remain impartial in the investigation — he could have just left the decisions up to the Mueller, which is the reason a special counsel was appointed in the first place", "RA_iOqlvrZ4-00016-00021794-00023500": "“If the Justice Department has any hope of restoring the reputation that has been tarnished – sometimes fairly, sometimes not – through the last three years of political combat, it will be by leaning on Mueller’s hard-earned reputation and letting his work speak for itself,” wrote Miller", "RA_iOqlvrZ4-00017-00023500-00024574": "“Barr should get out of the way and let that happen. Otherwise, he will deserve all the criticism he gets, and both he and the Justice Department will suffer for it", "RA_iOqlvrZ4-00018-00024574-00024674": "”"}}, {"audio_id": "RChWkjcnUDQ", "text": {"RChWkjcnUDQ-00000-00000571-00001467": "After beginning his speech reading off of teleprompters, he soon pivoted to other topics in a speech that lasted over an hour", "RChWkjcnUDQ-00001-00001467-00002300": "“You know I’m totally off script right now, and this, you know, is how I got elected, by being off script,” he said", "RChWkjcnUDQ-00002-00002300-00003839": "“And if we don’t go off script our country is in big trouble, folks.”.Trump lashed out at the ongoing Mueller investigation and the work behind the scenes at the Justice Department and the FBI to investigate him for connections to Russia", "RChWkjcnUDQ-00003-00003839-00004797": "“Unfortunately you put the wrong people in a couple of positions, and they leave people for a long time that should not be there,” he said", "RChWkjcnUDQ-00004-00004797-00006171": "“All of a sudden, they are trying to take you out with bullshit.”.Trump made it clear whom he blamed by mocking the southern accent of his former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who recused himself from the investigation", "RChWkjcnUDQ-00005-00006171-00007130": "“Robert Mueller never received a vote, and neither did the person that appointed him,” Trump said, referring to the unelected bureaucrats investigating him", "RChWkjcnUDQ-00006-00007130-00008177": ".Trump praised conservative Reps. Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Mark Meadows (R-NC) for defending him against the ongoing attacks", "RChWkjcnUDQ-00007-00008177-00008872": "He expressed frustration with the Democrats in Congress that were attacking him, including Rep", "RChWkjcnUDQ-00008-00008872-00009682": "Adam Schiff (CA), whom he referenced as “Little Shifty Schiff.”.“These people are sick!” Trump said", "RChWkjcnUDQ-00009-00009682-00010392": "He warned that Democrats were already shifting the investigations to his personal and business deals"}}, {"audio_id": "RCub3fRzFwI", "text": {"RCub3fRzFwI-00000-00000571-00002627": "Appearing on CBS News Monday afternoon, Nevada Democrat Lucy Flores, who recently accused former Vice President Joe Biden of kissing the back of her head and smelling her hair at a 2014 campaign event, affirmed she would still support Biden over President Donald Trump in the 2020 general presidential election", "RCub3fRzFwI-00001-00002627-00004356": "A partial transcript is as follows: .TANYA RIVERO: Let me ask you something. If [Biden] were to be the Democratic nominee and he’s up against Donald Trump — who has his own history with women, as we know, is pretty clouded — who would you support in that kind of a match-up?", "RCub3fRzFwI-00002-00004356-00005210": "LUCY FLORES: That’s not even a question, of course, I would support Biden.RIVERO: That’s interesting to know", "RCub3fRzFwI-00003-00005210-00007044": "Now, I want to go back to [Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT)] for a second, though, because his own campaign also in 2016 also had issues with women being mistreated by male staffers and you told NPR in January this year, that there was “essentially was a coverup", "RCub3fRzFwI-00004-00007044-00007681": "” Does that also disqualify Sanders? Do you think this was happening in his campaign?", "RCub3fRzFwI-00005-00007681-00009133": "FLORES: Those are two very, very different situations. I mean, you’re talking about a situation that occurred within a very, very large campaign structure and you’re talking about actual behavior that a person did", "RCub3fRzFwI-00006-00009133-00009577": "Those two things aren’t even close to being the same"}}, {"audio_id": "RIDtGXC8p30", "text": {"RIDtGXC8p30-00000-00000513-00001586": "Whether “President” Donald Trump knows it or not, our economy is suffering under his “leadership,” which consists of bullying tactics and hurling insults", "RIDtGXC8p30-00001-00001586-00003148": "Not a good way to get people to work with you. In the case of the GM plant in Lordstown, Ohio, Trump has been bullying UAW leader David Green while simultaneously begging CEO Mary Barra to keep the plant open", "RIDtGXC8p30-00002-00003148-00004423": "He attacks the one he sees as the weaker of the two.Never mind that David Green wrote two letters to Trump last year, seeking his help on the impending closing, to which Trump never responded", "RIDtGXC8p30-00003-00004423-00005207": "One can only wonder where he’s been since GM made the announcement in November 2018", "RIDtGXC8p30-00004-00005207-00006090": "The reason Trump is livid about the Lordstown plant is his (fake) campaign promise to increase manufacturing jobs", "RIDtGXC8p30-00005-00006090-00006719": "He then took office and imposed the very thing that hurts manufacturing: tariffs", "RIDtGXC8p30-00006-00006719-00008333": "In all fairness, the Lordstown plant primarily manufactured the Chevrolet Cruze, which was no longer of interest to car buyers, and GM decided to stop production and streamline its facilities to assist with overall profitability", "RIDtGXC8p30-00007-00008333-00009817": "As reported by Vox, part of this plan included closing four U.S. Plants (two in Ohio, one in Michigan, and one in Maryland) and one Canadian plant and cutting its workforce by 15%", "RIDtGXC8p30-00008-00009817-00011601": "Not only was Trump made aware of this by David Green, GM announced last fall that it was offering voluntary buyouts to 18,000 salaried workers to cut costs and that the “tariffs under the Trump administration could lead to a ‘smaller’ GM,” Vox reports", "RIDtGXC8p30-00009-00011601-00012557": "Has Trump not been paying attention? Of course he hasn’t. He’s too busy waging war against his perceived enemies", "RIDtGXC8p30-00010-00012557-00013579": "Now, it’s a crisis for him. As a wise man once said, “Be careful where you point your finger; you’re pointing two back at yourself", "RIDtGXC8p30-00011-00013579-00014339": "” Too bad Trump doesn’t know that.As Vox points out, Trump’s trade policies didn’t help", "RIDtGXC8p30-00012-00014339-00015198": "His tariffs are getting the better of the very jobs he claimed to protect. Now it’s someone else’s fault", "RIDtGXC8p30-00013-00015198-00016465": "To try to save his shrinking base in that area (which has decreased by 19% according to USA Today), he traveled there, as if his presence is going to make a difference", "RIDtGXC8p30-00014-00016465-00017559": "GM isn’t the problem; Trump is.As Politico points out, Trump doesn’t understand the global economy any more than he understands the U", "RIDtGXC8p30-00015-00017559-00018416": "S. economy, and the auto industry is very much a global industry. With auto makers building cars in the U", "RIDtGXC8p30-00016-00018416-00019276": "S. using foreign parts, and foreign manufacturers using U.S. parts, they all depend on each other", "RIDtGXC8p30-00017-00019276-00020253": "President Obama understood that nuance, and his policies increased investment, which Trump is single-handedly destroying", "RIDtGXC8p30-00018-00020253-00021044": "Donald Trump has seemingly never understood that tariffs are in essence an additional tax on U", "RIDtGXC8p30-00019-00021044-00022755": "S. citizens. Read a detailed analysis of tariffs by the Tax Foundation here. One can only assume that in addition to closing plants, he hasn’t noticed all of the retail businesses that are closing and leaving untold numbers of people unemployed", "RIDtGXC8p30-00020-00022755-00023899": "Yep. Trump is “making America great again” one bankruptcy or closing at a time. And the auto manufacturers are still moving operations to Mexico", "RIDtGXC8p30-00021-00023899-00024228": "Thanks, “President” Trump"}}, {"audio_id": "RQYSwuFVYCY", "text": {"RQYSwuFVYCY-00000-00000513-00001555": "House Democrats are introducing legislation Tuesday that would provide a pathway to citizenship for more than one million undocumented immigrants in the United States", "RQYSwuFVYCY-00001-00001555-00003501": "Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard and other House Democrats are unveiling the \"Dream and Promise Act,\" which would protect undocumented immigrants who came to the US as children, sometimes referred to as \"Dreamers,\" and immigrants with temporary protected status or deferred enforced departure", "RQYSwuFVYCY-00002-00003501-00004444": "\"There should be nothing partisan or political in this legislation,\" said Pelosi, who was flanked by House Democrats and immigrants, in introducing the bill", "RQYSwuFVYCY-00003-00004444-00005653": "\"Protecting Dreamers and TPS and (Deferred Enforced Departure) Americans is about honoring and respecting the family that is the heart of our faith and the heart of who we are as Americans", "RQYSwuFVYCY-00004-00005653-00006602": "\".The bill would provide a greater sense of security to a large swath of undocumented immigrants whose fate has been tied up in the courts", "RQYSwuFVYCY-00005-00006602-00007680": "Its enactment is unlikely, however, as it would face an uphill battle in the Republican-controlled Senate and President Donald Trump has voiced objections to such programs", "RQYSwuFVYCY-00006-00007680-00009595": "The nearly 700,000 beneficiaries of the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which shields undocumented immigrants who came to the US as children from deportation, have been in limbo since the Trump administration tried to end the program in 2017, prompting a slew of lawsuits", "RQYSwuFVYCY-00007-00009595-00010421": "Federal judges have since kept the program alive, taking issue with the reasoning for the sudden termination of protections", "RQYSwuFVYCY-00008-00010421-00012325": "Holders of temporary protected status -- which provides protection to people displaced by natural disasters, armed conflicts, or other events -- have similarly faced an uncertain future, as challenges to the administration's attempt to terminate the status for some designated countries works its way through the courts", "RQYSwuFVYCY-00009-00012325-00013103": "Approximately 318,000 people currently have this status, according to the Pew Research Center", "RQYSwuFVYCY-00010-00013103-00014339": "The measure addresses both of these groups.The bill would grant Dreamers with conditional permanent resident status for 10 years and cancel removal proceedings if requirements are met", "RQYSwuFVYCY-00011-00014339-00015235": "The criteria is similar to what DACA recipients have to meet, including graduating from high school or obtaining a GED", "RQYSwuFVYCY-00012-00015235-00016381": "The measure allows those who qualify to gain lawful permanent resident status, which is usually out of the question for many undocumented immigrants who came to the US as minors", "RQYSwuFVYCY-00013-00016381-00017319": "To obtain legal status, immigrants must have a qualifying petitioner -- for example, a family member or employer -- who can sponsor them", "RQYSwuFVYCY-00014-00017319-00018035": "Even in that case, however, he/she is already hindered by the fact that they came in illegally", "RQYSwuFVYCY-00015-00018035-00019129": "TPS holders would also be given the opportunity to gain lawful permanent resident status and have their removal proceedings canceled under the new bill", "RQYSwuFVYCY-00016-00019129-00020835": "In addition to addressing current TPS holders, the measure would amend the law to require the Department of Homeland Security secretary to provide an explanation for terminating a TPS designation, as well as a report shortly after publishing a notice of a termination", "RQYSwuFVYCY-00017-00020835-00022037": "\"This report must explain the original designation and any progress made by a country to resolve the issues leading to TPS designation,\" according to a fact sheet on the measure", "RQYSwuFVYCY-00018-00022037-00023520": "\"The Secretary also has to describe the qualitative and quantitative methods used to assess whether or not country conditions have improved, which would include addressing any challenges or shortcomings related to the initial designation", "RQYSwuFVYCY-00019-00023520-00024764": "\".For years, lawmakers have tried to push forward measures that would allow some undocumented immigrants who were brought to the US illegally as children to eventually obtain legal status", "RQYSwuFVYCY-00020-00024764-00025459": "Those attempts have repeatedly failed, despite often receiving bipartisan support"}}, {"audio_id": "RTzXogby_Tg", "text": {"RTzXogby_Tg-00000-00000513-00001861": "If Donald Trump’s marionette Attorney General William Barr had released an even remotely accurate or truthful summary of the Robert Mueller report today, Mueller could probably have simply gone back to retirement", "RTzXogby_Tg-00001-00001861-00003391": "But because Barr released a hilariously false “summary” that has legal experts rolling their eyes, and the public and the media ferociously demanding answers, Mueller is about to come back front and center in a way we’ve never before seen", "RTzXogby_Tg-00002-00003391-00004807": "Look for House Democrats to very quickly do two things. They’ll subpoena the Mueller report itself, which will set up a legal battle – and perhaps negotiations – about how much of it Barr will have to turn over", "RTzXogby_Tg-00003-00004807-00005656": "They’ll also subpoena Barr, and force him to testify about why he’s misleading the public about what the report says", "RTzXogby_Tg-00004-00005656-00006646": "If Barr refuses, he can be held in contempt of Congress and arrested, and you’d better believe there’s enough of a public appetite to support such a move", "RTzXogby_Tg-00005-00006646-00008263": "But that’s nothing compared to what’ll come next.For months, various House Democrats have publicly stated that if the Trump regime tried to bury the Mueller report, they would simply subpoena Robert Mueller to publicly testify about what his report says", "RTzXogby_Tg-00006-00008263-00009668": "Now that the Trump regime is indeed playing the worst of games with the report, there is no doubt House Democrats will bring in Mueller to testify, because they can make that happen quicker than they can forcibly get their hands on the report", "RTzXogby_Tg-00007-00009668-00010742": "There is every reason to expect that Robert Mueller will cooperate with such a subpoena, and no reason to expect that Trump or Barr can stop it", "RTzXogby_Tg-00008-00010742-00011633": "Mueller will only be willing to testify publicly about the parts of his report that aren’t part of ongoing investigations", "RTzXogby_Tg-00009-00011633-00013135": "But beyond that, everything will be on the table. Just about the entire world will tune in to hear Mueller speak, and it may end up being a more effective blow to Donald Trump than if Mueller’s report had simply been published to begin with"}}, {"audio_id": "RbTGTqvEg7g", "text": {"RbTGTqvEg7g-00000-00000513-00002542": "Rep. Maxine Waters took to Twitter Monday night to slam President Donald Trump.In a series of eight tweets, Waters lambasted Trump for his “fake summit” with “killer Kim Jong Un,” Jamal Khashoggi‘s death, the firing of James Comey, Jared Kushner‘s security clearance and his repeated refrain of “no collusion", "RbTGTqvEg7g-00001-00002542-00003496": "”.“Lying Trump came away from fake summit with terrorist & killer Kim Jong-un w/ nothing because Kim never intended to offer anything", "RbTGTqvEg7g-00002-00003496-00004387": "Don the con man got conned! Hey number 45, are you still in love w/ Kim?” Waters taunted", "RbTGTqvEg7g-00003-00004387-00005222": "She added: “Lying Trump said he believes killer Kim Jong-un, that he didn’t know what happened to #ottowarmbier", "RbTGTqvEg7g-00004-00005222-00006489": "Now he wants to flip the script. No one can believe this unworthy president. He is the most prolific, consistent, good for nothing liar this country has ever experienced", "RbTGTqvEg7g-00005-00006489-00007443": "”.\"Lying Trump came away from fake summit with terrorist & killer Kim Jong-un w/ nothing because Kim never intended to offer anything", "RbTGTqvEg7g-00006-00007443-00008344": "Don the con man got conned! Hey number 45, are you still in love w/ Kim?\".Waters was just warming up", "RbTGTqvEg7g-00007-00008344-00009034": "She next turned to Washington Post journalist Khashoggi’s grisly death and the firing of Comey", "RbTGTqvEg7g-00008-00009034-00010799": "\"The killing with the chainsaw & dismemberment of #JamalKhashoggi by the Saudis is the most gruesome & heartless act imaginable! Now we learned his body parts were burned in a giant oven! Trump, God will never forgive you for siding w/ MBS on this murder", "RbTGTqvEg7g-00009-00010799-00012309": "\".\"Obstruction of justice reality show: Firing Comey, sending coded messages to Manafort & others that he has the power to pardon; lying abt Trump Tower meeting; threatening Cohen's in-laws; attempting to destroy Mueller", "RbTGTqvEg7g-00010-00012309-00013341": "What more do we need to know? Impeachment is the only answer\".Then, Waters hit on Paul Manafort, Michael Cohen and Jared Kushner’s security clearance", "RbTGTqvEg7g-00011-00013341-00014725": "\"Hey Manafort, Cohen, Flynn, Gates, Papadopoulos, & Stone, its truth telling time, and the truth will free your heart and soul -- but no guarantees freedom from prison time", "RbTGTqvEg7g-00012-00014725-00015815": "\".\"Lying Trump, so you said you did nothing to force security clearance for Kushner, huh? Who do you think will believe that lie? Must give you credit", "RbTGTqvEg7g-00013-00015815-00016536": "You are the boldest, most daring liar I've ever heard of.  A pox on all your houses", "RbTGTqvEg7g-00014-00016536-00017489": "\".Finally, she scolded Trump for screaming no collusion before calling for all those who are “faint of heart” to support impeachment", "RbTGTqvEg7g-00015-00017489-00018573": "\"Trump, you have screamed no collusion and no obstruction of justice so many times, trying to influence others, that I think you really believe your own lies", "RbTGTqvEg7g-00016-00018573-00020174": "Just stop it. No honesty. No truth. No trust. No patriotism.\".\"For the faint of heart, who've been waiting for every \"t\" to be crossed and every \"i\" to be dotted, now is the time to demonstrate your patriotism", "RbTGTqvEg7g-00017-00020174-00021169": "Support impeachment!\".Waters is a frequent critic of Trump who has been the target of the president’s insults, including calling her “low IQ", "RbTGTqvEg7g-00018-00021169-00021684": "”.Trump has not yet responded to her latest tweets"}}, {"audio_id": "SupfJMmwk3I", "text": {"SupfJMmwk3I-00000-00000571-00001882": "The subset of the human species that Gore Vidal refers to as, “that small public which reads books voluntarily,” is vastly underrepresented among the acolytes and idolaters of Donald Trump", "SupfJMmwk3I-00001-00001882-00002689": "This is because most Trump adherents are suspicious of learning and hostile to science and education in the first place", "SupfJMmwk3I-00002-00002689-00004142": "Try to imagine it yourselves, belonging to a group of people who have never ventured to the other side of a mountain, yet they find actual virtue in staying put and actual folly in those who get up and find out what’s on the mountain’s other side", "SupfJMmwk3I-00003-00004142-00005578": "In short, there is something wrong, so the theory goes among these superstitious, medieval Trump janissaries, with people who learn, people who find both value in facts and actual enhanced value in checking those facts", "SupfJMmwk3I-00004-00005578-00006375": "Meanwhile they will insult you with words they consider the pinnacle of inventive imagination and classy good taste", "SupfJMmwk3I-00005-00006375-00007519": "Words like “libtard.”. .Take Donald Trump Jr and his own-goal tweet on Friday, an own-goal he scored in response to his father’s tweet from earlier that day", "SupfJMmwk3I-00006-00007519-00009554": "First, Donald Trump Senior tweeted this: “So funny that The New York Times & The Washington Post got a Pulitzer Prize for their coverage (100% NEGATIVE and FAKE!) of Collusion with Russia – And there was No Collusion! So, they were either duped or corrupt? In any event, their prizes should be taken away by the Committee!”", "SupfJMmwk3I-00007-00009554-00011557": ".Trump Jr then added “He’s right… unless they give Pulitzer’s for fiction.” Never mind for a moment there’s no possessive apostrophe for the plural of Pulitzer, Viet Thanh Nguyen’s zinger of a response was worth the whole price of admission when he tweeted back: “Actually, I think I won one of those Pulitzers for fiction", "SupfJMmwk3I-00008-00011557-00012576": "”.And so we have Trump pere and Trump fils, the very flower of the group of idiots and self-owning fools who see the world through a glass darkly – and simplistically", "SupfJMmwk3I-00009-00012576-00013255": "They’ll be back with more idiotic, entertaining tweets just like that, I guarantee it", "SupfJMmwk3I-00010-00013255-00014355": "Theirs, for all their money and gilded toilets in the world, is a group that never manages to bootstrap itself beyond their adoring Lower Middle Brow fanbase", "SupfJMmwk3I-00011-00014355-00015293": "In my secret fantasy, though, I can’t help but imagine an even more perfect denouement to this already delicious Trump Jr self-own", "SupfJMmwk3I-00012-00015293-00016677": "Imagine someone else tweets to Trump Jr something like, “Everyone who went to high school (everyone who paid attention, anyway) knows that Harper Lee won the Pulitzer for ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ a work of fiction", "SupfJMmwk3I-00013-00016677-00017398": "” To which Trump Jr would inevitably reply, “Well, Harper Lee didn’t earn his Pulitzer either", "SupfJMmwk3I-00014-00017398-00017498": "”"}}, {"audio_id": "S-GYess0Uu8", "text": {"S-GYess0Uu8-00000-00000571-00001422": "Just days ago, Trump-appointed acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker went through the ringer in a confirmation hearing before congress", "S-GYess0Uu8-00001-00001422-00002666": "His smug, arrogant, attitude and smart aleck answers to many of the questions led many to compare it to the angry, entitled, sniveling Brett Kavanaugh from his hearing last fall", "S-GYess0Uu8-00002-00002666-00003935": "But there are actually lots of other reasons Whitaker is unfit for the job. For instance, his relationship with Donald Trump and the large likelihood that he would aid the corruption coming from the White House", "S-GYess0Uu8-00003-00003935-00005179": "One prime example of this is the fact that he once said that he didn’t want to live in a country where Trump’s finances would be the subject of an investigation, as uncovered by The Democratic Coalition"}}, {"audio_id": "SKGmHlBm1cc", "text": {"SKGmHlBm1cc-00000-00000513-00002495": "In a Sunday morning segment on MSNBC’s AM Joy, host Joy Reid had on a panel of guests to discuss what kind of legal trouble the Trump children might be facing after Michael Cohen’s explosive testimony before the House Oversight Committee that implicated each of them — less so Eric, but definitely Don Jr", "SKGmHlBm1cc-00001-00002495-00003932": "and Ivanka — in not just a higher level of involvement in decisions made in the Trump Organization, but specifically as regards the potential “Trump Tower Moscow” at the center of Cohen’s lies to Congress the first time he testified", "SKGmHlBm1cc-00002-00003932-00005071": "One of Reid’s guests, Tim O’Brien, is the author of TrumpNation: The Art of Being Donald, and his insight during the segment could prove to be prescient and shocking", "SKGmHlBm1cc-00003-00005071-00007380": "After the group discussed just how deep Ivanka was in the project — especially in light of her interview in which she claimed to know almost nothing and play almost no role in it — O’Brien noted that Ivanka’s lies were plain on their face: She was in Moscow, scouting out sites for the project on a tour of the city with former Russian mafia player (and current federal informant) Felix Sater", "SKGmHlBm1cc-00004-00007380-00008702": "Then the host asked him what lengths Trump might go to in order to protect his children, and O’Brien was unequivocal: Trump would burn Jared Kushner in a heartbeat to shield Ivanka from legal trouble", "SKGmHlBm1cc-00005-00008702-00009577": "\"I think he would go to great lengths to protect his children, I do not suspect he’d go very far to protect his son-in-law", "SKGmHlBm1cc-00006-00009577-00010857": "I think he would throw Jared Kushner under the bus. I think Ivanka’s going to have to make a decision at some point whether she prefers her husband or her father, that could be a dramatic moment in all of this", "SKGmHlBm1cc-00007-00010857-00012445": "”.It’s true — Ivanka has long held herself out as the “reasonable” Trump, refusing to get into the fray on social media as her oldest brother does, and refraining from doing the kind of incendiary television interviews that her brother Eric participates in", "SKGmHlBm1cc-00008-00012445-00013965": "And as has been widely reported, Ivanka and Jared each have aspirations far beyond anything they’ve achieved so far, so its conceivable that when the time comes to make that decision, she may make a choice that her father never sees coming"}}, {"audio_id": "SNDymNoY4PM", "text": {"SNDymNoY4PM-00000-00000513-00001892": "After losing an hour of executive time to \"springing forward\" his clock an hour over the weekend, President Donald Trump voiced his support Monday to eliminate states' legal requirement of \"falling back\" an hour each year", "SNDymNoY4PM-00001-00001892-00003441": "\"Making Daylight Saving Time permanent is O.K. with me!\" Trump tweeted.One of the most common justifications for the time switch is the presumption that by extending summer daylight later into the evening, Americans use less energy", "SNDymNoY4PM-00002-00003441-00005053": "It was the reason Congress used in enacting Daylight Saving Time during World War I and again after the United States joined WWII, according to author David Prerau, who wrote a book which traced the history of the shift on Daylight Saving Time", "SNDymNoY4PM-00003-00005053-00005949": "But a 2008 Department of Energy study found that daylight saving time reduces annual energy use by about 0", "SNDymNoY4PM-00004-00005949-00006991": "03%. And a study that same year from the University of California-Santa Barbara found it might even increase energy consumption", "SNDymNoY4PM-00005-00006991-00008582": "And while it's a popular belief that Daylight Saving Time was created to help farmers get their harvests, farmers actually vociferously fought the proposals, arguing they cut productivity and made life overall tougher for them, according to Prerau", "SNDymNoY4PM-00006-00008582-00010005": "Ending Daylight Saving Time would require congressional approval, but it's already been bolstered by several Florida Republicans in Congress who sponsored legislation last year that would make daylight saving time permanent nationwide", "SNDymNoY4PM-00007-00010005-00010859": "The legislation died in Congress, but Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio reintroduced the legislation last week", "SNDymNoY4PM-00008-00010859-00012202": "Last year, then-Florida Gov. Rick Scott signed a law to make Daylight Saving Time permanent in the Sunshine State, but the act has yet to be signed off by Congress -- putting Florida's switch on hold", "SNDymNoY4PM-00009-00012202-00013445": "Americans have observed Daylight Saving Time switch for a little more than 100 years, but the amount of time which they have been observing when the nation \"falls back\" an hour has continued to shrink", "SNDymNoY4PM-00010-00013445-00014707": "The Standard Time Act established time zones and daylight saving. Daylight saving was repealed in 1919, but continued to be recognized in certain areas of the United States", "SNDymNoY4PM-00011-00014707-00015600": "The Uniform Time Act of 1966 established the system of uniform Daylight Saving Time throughout the United States", "SNDymNoY4PM-00012-00015600-00016739": "The dates were the last Sunday in April to the last Sunday in October.Today, most states observe eight months of Daylight Saving Time and four months in standard", "SNDymNoY4PM-00013-00016739-00018017": "Currently, Hawaii and most of Arizona do not follow the Daylight Saving Time switch, and neither do the US territories of Guam, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands and American Samoa"}}, {"audio_id": "SPv3_II87pM", "text": {"SPv3_II87pM-00000-00000571-00001650": "Donald Trump is the most prolific liar in history. His blatant lies, narcissism, and incompetence have made him a walking disaster for our country", "SPv3_II87pM-00001-00001650-00004011": "This all pales in comparison to his recent budget proposal. After giving massive tax cuts to the wealthy and corporations, he now wants to make up the difference by stealing from hard-working American citizens who have been contributing members to society and who, upon retirement, are counting on the funds that have been involuntarily extracted from their paychecks for many, many years", "SPv3_II87pM-00002-00004011-00005495": ".Trump proposes to cut $845 billion from Medicare, but that’s not all — this proposal also includes across the board cuts to both Social Security and Medicaid according to The Washington Post and MSNBC", "SPv3_II87pM-00003-00005495-00006495": "Trump would have a massive revolt on his hands if he could pass his spending bill, which he claims will balance the budget in 10 years", "SPv3_II87pM-00004-00006495-00007206": "According to the Washington Post, this bill cannot possibly balance the budget before 2034", "SPv3_II87pM-00005-00007206-00008436": "Yet another lie from Trump. Taking money from the elderly, poor, and sick is despicable, and I have a suggestion for Trump to balance his budget without stealing from Americans", "SPv3_II87pM-00006-00008436-00009878": "Trump needs to keep his useless butt in Washington and do his job. According to the Washington Post, taxpayers paid over $64 million for Trump’s trips to Mar-a-Lago during 2017 and 2018", "SPv3_II87pM-00007-00009878-00010625": "To see the full range of his travel activities, take a deep breath first and check out this article", "SPv3_II87pM-00008-00010625-00011931": "Further, NBC News reported that in 781 days in office, Trump spent 229 days at Trump properties and 173 days at his golf properties", "SPv3_II87pM-00009-00011931-00012837": "In February 2019, the Government Accountability Office estimates that federal agencies incurred approximately $13", "SPv3_II87pM-00010-00012837-00013809": "6 million for FOUR trips to Mar-a-Lago (from February 3 to March 5, 2017) as published by NPR", "SPv3_II87pM-00011-00013809-00014556": "These figures do not include the hundreds of thousands spent in secret service protection for Junior and Eric’s travels"}}, {"audio_id": "SS405PK00QM", "text": {"SS405PK00QM-00000-00000571-00001224": "Trump may be joining the cast of Orange is the New Black if there’s a Netflix reboot", "SS405PK00QM-00001-00001224-00003794": "In an interview with MSNBC, legal analyst Elie Mystal dropped a major bombshell prediction:''Now that SDNY is on it, they’re all going down…The key thing from Michael Cohen’s testimony, besides all the information he laid out, he issued basically a warning to the rest of the people in the Trump Organization from the CFO Allen Weisselberg all the way down to the secretary: you lie for Trump, you’re going to get got", "SS405PK00QM-00002-00003794-00005129": "I hope it is not lost on people is that the Trump Organization, which appears to be a massive criminal front, is so small potatoes that if Trump hadn’t run for president, SDNY wouldn’t care", "SS405PK00QM-00003-00005129-00006725": "[Donald Trump will be] waiting in cuffs”.It’s clear that Trump has the potential of being indicted by SDNY Authorities as he won’t be able to pardon himself, so winning the 2020 election is more than running on an agenda — it’s more like running away from jail", "SS405PK00QM-00004-00006725-00008010": "Elit Mystal continued:''SDNY cares about stopping terrorism…Putting SDNY on the Trump investigation is like bringing in Sherlock Holmes to figure out who framed Roger Rabbit''", "SS405PK00QM-00005-00008010-00009133": "The previous comment is a huge deal as it explicitly suggests that for the SDNY to bring charges against a criminal entity, the severity of the charges must be high", "SS405PK00QM-00006-00009133-00010486": "In this case, Trump is being accused of felony campaign finance violations as he presumably ordered Michael Cohen to pay off Stormy Daniels and other women, all while Trump was running for office", "SS405PK00QM-00007-00010486-00011338": "Furthermore, Cohen’s testimony is potentially damming as Trump worked side-by-side with Cohen on the hush money payments", "SS405PK00QM-00008-00011338-00012237": "Who knows, maybe Trump will order Ivanka to design a Gucci jumpsuit in preparation for his lengthy jail sentence"}}, {"audio_id": "STghGvkWS6Q", "text": {"STghGvkWS6Q-00000-00000513-00001231": "Even with the election more than a year and a half out, the 2020 presidential race continues to heat up", "STghGvkWS6Q-00001-00001231-00002811": "Initial rounds of polling make President Donald Trump’s chances at re-election seem slim, with a new Emerson College survey putting former Vice President Joe Biden a full 10 points ahead of Trump in a hypothetical 2020 matchup", "STghGvkWS6Q-00002-00002811-00004277": "Biden pulled in 55 percent of the support, while Trump only managed 45 percent.To be sure — Biden hasn’t yet announced a presidential candidacy, but he’s strongly indicated he’s leaning that direction", "STghGvkWS6Q-00003-00004277-00006223": "At a recent conference of the International Association of Fire Fighters, Biden told the enthusiastic crowd to save their energy because he “may need it in a few weeks,” while at a more recent Democratic Party fundraiser he almost made it “official” that he’s running for president but quickly corrected himself", "STghGvkWS6Q-00004-00006223-00007913": "He told the crowd that despite criticism from the “New Left,” he has the “most progressive record of anybody running” for president — quickly adding that he meant he’s “progressive” among anyone who could and would, in theory, run for president, not those who actually are", "STghGvkWS6Q-00005-00007913-00009112": "Trump seized on that slip of the tongue, deriding Biden as “another low I.Q. individual,” apparently ignoring the reflection in his phone screen when posting that angry tweet", "STghGvkWS6Q-00006-00009112-00010572": "While he may not be “low I.Q.” Trump has lied thousands upon thousands of times since taking office, completely taking leave of reality in what maybe started as a willing rejection of inconvenience but is long out of hand", "STghGvkWS6Q-00007-00010572-00011325": "Trump literally just makes stuff up, offering easily disproved lies time and time again", "STghGvkWS6Q-00008-00011325-00012382": "Biden did the best among potential 2020 general election challengers to Trump when Emerson College paired them with the current president in polling", "STghGvkWS6Q-00009-00012382-00013506": "Every other one of the top five Democratic primary contenders came within a margin of error of Trump’s level of support — and former Congressman Beto O’Rourke’s margin was negative", "STghGvkWS6Q-00010-00013506-00015154": "He had 49 percent of the support compared to Trump’s 51 percent.Adding possible third party presidential contender and widely derided former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz to the mix drops the Democratic contenders’ vote shares significantly", "STghGvkWS6Q-00011-00015154-00016439": "In Emerson College’s projections, Biden’s lead falls to 8 percent, while O’Rourke still loses by 2 percent but with his and Trump’s overall support dropping by 5 percent", "STghGvkWS6Q-00012-00016439-00017278": "In that matchup, Schultz gets 10 percent of the vote to Trump’s 46 percent and O’Rourke’s 44", "STghGvkWS6Q-00013-00017278-00018077": "As for which of these matchups is the most likely in the first place — Emerson College has Sen", "STghGvkWS6Q-00014-00018077-00018994": "Bernie Sanders (Vt.) and Biden tied with 26 percent of Democratic primary support, while Sen", "STghGvkWS6Q-00015-00018994-00019819": "Kamala Harris (Calif.) and O’Rourke have 12 and 11 percent of the support, respectively", "STghGvkWS6Q-00016-00019819-00020655": "Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) rounds out the top 5 with 8 percent of the support of those polled", "STghGvkWS6Q-00017-00020655-00021512": "Sanders and O’Rourke’s support has risen substantially in the time since they announced their respective candidacies", "STghGvkWS6Q-00018-00021512-00022792": "Sanders’ base spiked by 9 percent, while O’Rourke’s support went up by 7.While the polling remains preliminary at this point, the race is already most certainly underway", "STghGvkWS6Q-00019-00022792-00023730": "Trump has rallied numerous times, as have a number of Democratic candidates like Sanders and Harris on high-profile occasions"}}, {"audio_id": "SYIA1l1Eney", "text": {"SYIA1l1Eney-00000-00000513-00001320": "If the Trump administration accuses the Democrats of doing something, it means they’ve probably done it themselves", "SYIA1l1Eney-00001-00001320-00002174": "If they deny it, they’ve almost certainly done it. If they admit to it, it’s even worse than you’ve been led to believe", "SYIA1l1Eney-00002-00002174-00004272": "The Trump administration initially lied about separating families, with the excuse that they were simply following orders from a previous administration – though it’s been unclear if they’re referring to the policies of Presidents Obama, Bush 43 or Clinton – in other words, deflecting with lies and not caring where they point", "SYIA1l1Eney-00003-00004272-00005199": "As time drags on, we’ve found that the number of children separated is much higher than originally thought – some even forced into adoption", "SYIA1l1Eney-00004-00005199-00006064": "There are also the tragic deaths of children in U.S. custody, as reports reveal the conditions are even worse than we had feared", "SYIA1l1Eney-00005-00006064-00007307": "Part of the reason the federal government has tried the excuse that there’s too many separated children and parents, is because they are now using secret shelters to detain migrant children", "SYIA1l1Eney-00006-00007307-00008514": "One of them, located in Ada, Oklahoma, has a reputation for sexual harassment and physical abuse among its staff – and is known to be holding at least one migrant child", "SYIA1l1Eney-00007-00008514-00009310": "A report from two years ago singled out this particular facility for having a staff with no medical training", "SYIA1l1Eney-00008-00009310-00010120": "Even more alarming is that the attorneys of these children don’t even know how to find them – or how many even exist", "SYIA1l1Eney-00009-00010120-00011016": "There are at least five in Arkansas, Florida, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and Virginia, according to Reveal News", "SYIA1l1Eney-00010-00011016-00012244": "Beyond asking how this can be fixed, we must also ask if the number of separated families is so large because the Trump administration sought to profit off of this as much as possible?", "SYIA1l1Eney-00011-00012244-00014451": "People often compare this age to the beginning of the Holocaust. But it could be something else – echoes of our own dark past – our treatment of Native Americans that is all too often glossed over in schools, or the internment of Japanese-American citizens during World War II, which is also rarely embellished, and was routinely upheld by courts in its day", "SYIA1l1Eney-00012-00014451-00015331": "Media companies owe it to their country to put their resources into investigating this matter thoroughly from the ground up", "SYIA1l1Eney-00013-00015331-00016138": "This is hardly the beginning of another shameful chapter in American history. We’re several steps along the way"}}, {"audio_id": "SedGJ1MPwRg", "text": {"SedGJ1MPwRg-00000-00000571-00001629": "Trump gives American Flag a hug as he walks on CPAC Stage on Saturday, marking his fifth overall appearance at the conference and his third as president", "SedGJ1MPwRg-00001-00001629-00002718": "Shortly before he began his more than two-hour speech on Saturday, Trump paused to hug the American flag on stage to the song “Proud to be an American” by Lee Greenwood", "SedGJ1MPwRg-00002-00002718-00003606": "The speech was the longest ever CPAC speech and the longest speech given by a United States president at the conference", "SedGJ1MPwRg-00003-00003606-00004881": "Trump’s first speech at the conference was in 2011. .Although Trump had prepared a speech for the conference, he went “off script” to discuss a wide range of topics about his presidency", "SedGJ1MPwRg-00004-00004881-00005714": "“You know I’m totally off script right now, and this, you know, is how I got elected, by being off script,” he said", "SedGJ1MPwRg-00005-00005714-00007428": "“And if we don’t go off script our country is in big trouble, folks''.He also criticized congressional Democrats, special counsel Robert Mueller, and the FBI for conducting “bullshit” investigations, and mocked House Democrats’ “Green New Deal” legislation sponsored by Rep", "SedGJ1MPwRg-00006-00007428-00008454": "Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY).“I do like the green new deal. I respect it greatly,” Trump joked as the crowd laughed", "SedGJ1MPwRg-00007-00008454-00008862": "“It should be part of the dialogue of the next election''"}}, {"audio_id": "SePDQ8nP1nM", "text": {"SePDQ8nP1nM-00000-00000513-00002885": "When Special Counsel Robert Mueller announced on Friday that his work was complete and that he wasn’t recommending any more indictments, Palmer Report pointed out what we thought was obvious: if Mueller was stepping off the stage, he was handing off (or already did hand off) his ongoing investigations to permanent federal prosecutors in order to ensure that justice would be served", "SePDQ8nP1nM-00001-00002885-00004794": "It turns out we’re already getting confirmation of some of this.For instance, Law & Crime has pieced together the details of two different New York Times stories, and figured out that federal prosecutors based in Los Angeles are currently investigating the Donald Trump inauguration scandal", "SePDQ8nP1nM-00002-00004794-00006928": "Best anyone can tell, the inauguration probe – which allegedly involves numerous illegal foreign donations, and an alleged attempt by Trump at steering the money back into his own business – began when federal prosecutors in New York raided Michael Cohen’s office and found a tape recorded conversation about inauguration funds", "SePDQ8nP1nM-00003-00006928-00008381": "The recently released search warrant from the Cohen raid revealed that Robert Mueller initiated the Cohen investigation, only to find that Cohen didn’t conspire with Russia, but that Cohen did commit other Trump-related crimes", "SePDQ8nP1nM-00004-00008381-00009407": "Mueller then handed off the Cohen case to the Feds in New York, and their raid has since led to the Feds in Los Angeles investigating the Trump inauguration", "SePDQ8nP1nM-00005-00009407-00010356": "This thread alone makes clear that Robert Mueller’s investigation has set off other federal investigations into alleged Trump-related crimes", "SePDQ8nP1nM-00006-00010356-00011113": "So the idea that Mueller’s investigation is “complete” or “wrapped up” is nonsense", "SePDQ8nP1nM-00007-00011113-00011797": "It’s just that Mueller is no longer in charge of any of the ongoing investigations", "SePDQ8nP1nM-00008-00011797-00012921": "Notably, the existence of these investigations only tends to become public knowledge once they reach the point where something such as a raid causes it to become public knowledge", "SePDQ8nP1nM-00009-00012921-00013905": "So we don’t know just how many Mueller-spawned criminal investigations into Trump scandals are ongoing – but the number isn’t zero"}}, {"audio_id": "Sf3w54lgf34", "text": {"Sf3w54lgf34-00000-00000513-00002305": "After President Donald Trump accused Democrats of becoming an \"anti-Jewish party,\" the White House refused Monday to tamp down his claim, insisting the party's refusal to specifically condemn a freshman lawmaker for her controversial comments amounted to an \"abhorrent\" display", "Sf3w54lgf34-00001-00002305-00003768": "Speaking at her first formal briefing in more than a month, press secretary Sarah Sanders wouldn't say whether Trump believes Democrats hate Jews, which is what he reportedly told Republican donors over the weekend at his Florida estate", "Sf3w54lgf34-00002-00003768-00004823": "But she did little to disavow the notion, which Trump himself had previewed on Friday morning when he told reporters: \"The Democrats have become an anti-Israel party", "Sf3w54lgf34-00003-00004823-00005865": "They've become an anti-Jewish party, and that's too bad.\".Three days later, Sanders insisted Democrats -- rather than the President -- answer for their views", "Sf3w54lgf34-00004-00005865-00006727": "\"Democrats have had a number of opportunities to condemn specific comments and have refused to do that,\" she said", "Sf3w54lgf34-00005-00006727-00008004": "\"That's a question you should ask Democrats, what their position is, since they're unwilling to call this what it is and call it out by name and take action against members who have done things like this", "Sf3w54lgf34-00006-00008004-00009749": "\".She was referring to the controversy over comments made by Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minnesota, including criticism of the pro-Israel lobbying group American Israel Public Affairs Committee and the Israeli government, and an allusion to foreign allegiance that was seen by some as anti-Semitic", "Sf3w54lgf34-00007-00009749-00011123": "That prompted House Democratic leaders to bring forward a resolution condemning hate and intolerance, including anti-Semitism and anti-Muslim discrimination, that was chastised by some Republicans as overly broad", "Sf3w54lgf34-00008-00011123-00011943": "Sanders on Monday unfavorably compared Democrats' response to that of Republicans following comments made by Rep", "Sf3w54lgf34-00009-00011943-00012960": "Steve King, R-Iowa, in January that were sympathetic to white nationalism. In that instance, lawmakers formally reprimanded King", "Sf3w54lgf34-00010-00012960-00013628": "\"It should be done the way the Republicans did it when Steve King made terrible comments", "Sf3w54lgf34-00011-00013628-00014514": "We called it out by name, stripped him of his committee memberships and we'd like to see Democrats follow suit,\" Sanders said", "Sf3w54lgf34-00012-00014514-00015530": "Reminded that Trump himself had not called out King by name -- instead he repeatedly claimed not to be following the matter -- Sanders said she spoke for the President", "Sf3w54lgf34-00013-00015530-00017821": "And pressed by CNN's Jim Acosta on Trump's own claim of \"very fine people\" on both sides in response to white nationalist deadly violence in Virginia in 2017, where some protesters chanted \"Jews will not replace us,\" Sanders insisted he'd \"been very clear and consistently and repeatedly condemned hatred, bigotry, racism in all of its forms", "Sf3w54lgf34-00014-00017821-00017921": "\""}}, {"audio_id": "ShqHtpsWoa8", "text": {"ShqHtpsWoa8-00000-00000513-00001181": "Robert Mueller filed his Trump-Russia report this afternoon with the Attorney General", "ShqHtpsWoa8-00001-00001181-00001855": "No one knows yet what’s in the report, or what accompanying events might be about to play out", "ShqHtpsWoa8-00002-00001855-00003561": "It’s being widely reported that Mueller won’t bring any additional indictments, but an hour ago, Palmer Report explained that because Mueller is known to have handed some cases off to the likes of SDNY, it’s entirely reasonable to expect that more indictments are coming", "ShqHtpsWoa8-00003-00003561-00005792": "Now it turns out Adam Schiff agrees with us.House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff appeared on MSNBC during the 6pm hour today, and he said this: “What Mueller is reporting, as best we can tell, are his conclusions on the criminal side of the house, who should be indicted and who shouldn’t be indicted, and why he reached those conclusions", "ShqHtpsWoa8-00004-00005792-00006596": "” Then Schiff added that he thinks it’s “entirely possible if not likely that there will be other indictments” forthcoming", "ShqHtpsWoa8-00005-00006596-00008830": "It’s not all that difficult to figure out how and why this would be the case. For example, Robert Mueller investigated Michael Cohen and determined that while Cohen didn’t commit crimes central to the Trump-Russia election scandal, he did commit other Trump-related crimes, so he referred the case to the SDNY, which had jurisdiction over those crimes", "ShqHtpsWoa8-00006-00008830-00010099": "Sure enough, SDNY brought a case against Cohen, and he’s going to prison. Does anyone really believe that Cohen is the only person in Trump’s orbit who fit this particular pattern?", "ShqHtpsWoa8-00007-00010099-00010810": "So yeah, Adam Schiff is right to expect that there are additional indictments likely coming", "ShqHtpsWoa8-00008-00010810-00011546": "The question is how many Trump-related sealed indictments are in play that we don’t know about", "ShqHtpsWoa8-00009-00011546-00012199": "It’s also notable that Schiff expects the report to spell out who “should be indicted", "ShqHtpsWoa8-00010-00012199-00012884": "” This would mean that Mueller’s report has spelled out why these other indictments are about to be carried out"}}, {"audio_id": "Sin2g9lOn1Y", "text": {"Sin2g9lOn1Y-00000-00000571-00001804": "As the exasperating Jussie Smollett story has flipped on its head, most of us would probably like it to go away so we can get everyone’s full attention back on Trump’s daily affront to America", "Sin2g9lOn1Y-00001-00001804-00003084": "Whenever eyes and ears are pulled away from some awful Trump judge, damaging climate change decision, or NRA-enabled mass shooting by a click-hungry media, the president and the GOP win", "Sin2g9lOn1Y-00002-00003084-00003914": "But the Smollett farce is illuminating for one major reason: it serves as a quick refresher on the process of the law", "Sin2g9lOn1Y-00003-00003914-00006459": "Obstruction of justice. Collusion. After all, what else is it called when one allegedly conspires (colludes) with others to stage an attack for some ill-gotten gain, material or otherwise? And what else but obstruction of justice is it when law enforcement accuses a suspect of lying to investigators and charges him with disorderly conduct – a felony with a maximum three-year prison sentence?", "Sin2g9lOn1Y-00004-00006459-00007898": "And these are stakes much lower than what Trump and many around him are accused of, considering that colluding with Putin via Russian mob figures and obstructing investigations into that conspiracy is about as high-stakes as it gets", "Sin2g9lOn1Y-00005-00007898-00009752": "The alleged Smollett fakery has been red meat for MAGA twits, as it has allowed them to absolve themselves from supporting Trump’s xenophobia, divisive rhetoric and racist policies while tweeting about liberals being the judgy mean ones who will prop up falsehoods to make others look like the bad guys", "Sin2g9lOn1Y-00006-00009752-00010601": "Trump tweeted about Smollett this morning as well. But, like usual, Trump’s slobbering hordes go too far", "Sin2g9lOn1Y-00007-00010601-00011369": "Now they want Smollett to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.Okay, sure", "Sin2g9lOn1Y-00008-00011369-00012613": "If what Chicago PD chief Eddie Johnson alleges is eventually proven in court, Smollett should be reasonably punished for obstructing justice and conspiring with others to break the law", "Sin2g9lOn1Y-00009-00012613-00014078": "And Trump’s unquestioning cultists will have to figure out why their personal savior would be treated any differently by the justice system after he’s dispatched from the presidency for doing the same thing on an infinitely grander and more damaging scale", "Sin2g9lOn1Y-00010-00014078-00014465": "That should make for some interesting tweets"}}, {"audio_id": "SinlJO8xy3c", "text": {"SinlJO8xy3c-00000-00000571-00002068": "Prior to Monday, if there’s one thing most individuals would have said with a fair amount of certainty regardless of their political leaning, it’s that Speaker Nancy Pelosi can and will do anything necessary and within her power to impeach Donald Trump", "SinlJO8xy3c-00001-00002068-00002799": "However, based on what she said in a Monday interview with the Washington Post, perhaps that isn’t the case", "SinlJO8xy3c-00002-00002799-00003951": "“I’m not for impeachment,” she told the Post. “This is news''.“I’m going to give you some news right now because I haven’t said this to any press person before,” she continued", "SinlJO8xy3c-00003-00003951-00005450": "“But since you asked, and I’ve been thinking about this: Impeachment is so divisive to the country that unless there’s something so compelling and overwhelming and bipartisan, I don’t think we should go down that path, because it divides the country''", "SinlJO8xy3c-00004-00005450-00006451": "“And he’s just not worth it,” she concluded.However, based on the amount of laughter she indulged in during the interview, I’m not so sure I’m buying it", "SinlJO8xy3c-00005-00006451-00007995": "Perhaps it was all a ruse to throw Donald Trump off her scent. I mean, surely Pelosi knows she has no choice but to impeach Trump, otherwise her own voters may never forgive her, and will punish the Democratic party accordingly", "SinlJO8xy3c-00006-00007995-00008966": "Right? But that’s the point, of course. Pelosi can’t impeach Trump today.More than likely, that is the reality here", "SinlJO8xy3c-00007-00008966-00010620": "While Pelosi and the House certainly could try to impeach Trump today if they really wanted to, it wouldn’t do much good considering the Senate could then vote along party lines in opposition of the impeachment, making the entire process a complete and utter waste of time", "SinlJO8xy3c-00008-00010620-00011495": "Instead, Pelosi knows that successfully impeaching Donald Trump will require a much different and more methodical angle", "SinlJO8xy3c-00009-00011495-00013271": "With the support of House Democrats, Robert Mueller, the SDNY, and the Attorney General of New York, Pelosi will be able to use numerous hearings, subpoenas, and court filings to her benefit, opening the eyes of the Republican party and ridding Trump of the presidency once and for all", "SinlJO8xy3c-00010-00013271-00014115": "In other words, what may have seemed like a confusing move by Pelosi at the time is suddenly making much more sense", "SinlJO8xy3c-00011-00014115-00014431": "Well done, Nancy"}}, {"audio_id": "T9CXt9jrvG8", "text": {"T9CXt9jrvG8-00000-00000571-00001608": "Donald Trump is in a sh*tload of trouble right now, but we all know that the president is only looking out for himself — and of course his most beloved daughter Ivanka", "T9CXt9jrvG8-00001-00001608-00002987": "Even as many of Trump’s close associates and his own son Donald Trump Jr. are about to go to jail, what really has the president freaking out is the fact that he’s gotten his daughter in some deep sh*t and he can’t save her", "T9CXt9jrvG8-00002-00002987-00003760": ".Early this morning, the president was rage tweeting and he hinted that it’s because Ivanka is in trouble", "T9CXt9jrvG8-00003-00003760-00004714": "During the testimony of his former lawyer Michael Cohen, Cohen spoke of how Ivanka was involved in her father’s shady business dealings", "T9CXt9jrvG8-00004-00004714-00005320": "Now, Trump Organization financial officer Allen Weisselberg and Russian mafia money launderer Felix Sater are going to testify — and Ivanka has ties to them both", "T9CXt9jrvG8-00005-00005320-00005926": "Considering both of them have immunity, this is going to be TERRIBLE for Ivanka and Trump", "T9CXt9jrvG8-00006-00005926-00006531": "To make things worse, House Oversight Committee chair Elijah Cummings is also bringing Ivanka in to testify at least once, where she will be forced to either tell the truth and dig an even deeper hole for herself and her father or perjure herself (and go to jail)", "T9CXt9jrvG8-00007-00006531-00007138": "Ivanka has already been caught lying about her husband Jared’s security clearance ordeal at least once, on camera", "T9CXt9jrvG8-00008-00007138-00008930": "Ivanka is in a sticky situation no matter what she does, and Trump knows it. Just recently, the president’s daughter got busted making false statements about her husband’s security clearance! Needless to say, this is killing Trump because he knows he can’t save her", "T9CXt9jrvG8-00009-00008930-00009374": "Hence, why this Twitter meltdown happened this morning"}}, {"audio_id": "TyaEgLzROtg", "text": {"TyaEgLzROtg-00000-00000513-00001748": "One of the people responsible for securing Otto Warmbier’s release sided with President Donald Trump in his belief that North Korea leader Kim Jong Un wasn’t aware of the American’s condition", "TyaEgLzROtg-00001-00001748-00003420": "On Thursday, former Israeli Defense Forces paratrooper Mickey Bergman, who negotiated for Warmbier’s release, told Fox & Friends First host Heather Childers that while Trump could have articulated his comments better, the crux of the statement was correct", "TyaEgLzROtg-00002-00003420-00004368": "He said what Trump likely meant to say was that Kim made an effort to tell the president that he didn’t know what led to the 22-year-old’s condition", "TyaEgLzROtg-00003-00004368-00005549": "“I don’t believe they had any interest in Otto getting to the condition that he did and evidence that I have for this is it’s the only American prisoner to which it happened to,” Bergman said", "TyaEgLzROtg-00004-00005549-00006356": "“That was an anomaly. Typically our prisoners and hostages and detainees get back more or less in one piece", "TyaEgLzROtg-00005-00006356-00007581": "”.Bergman added that when Warmbier was returned to America, the negotiator’s North Korean counterparts made a point to tell him that they were unaware of the 22-year-old’s condition", "TyaEgLzROtg-00006-00007581-00008597": "He said they did so to ensure that Bergman didn’t think they negotiated in bad faith because they valued the relationship between the two countries", "TyaEgLzROtg-00007-00008597-00009697": "During a press conference after his meeting with Kim, Trump said he was taking the North Korean leader at his word in that he didn’t know about how Warmbier was being treated", "TyaEgLzROtg-00008-00009697-00010478": "Trump added that he didn’t believe Kim would have allowed it to happen because it wasn’t advantageous for him", "TyaEgLzROtg-00009-00010478-00011617": "The comments were met with criticism from both sides of the aisle and Senator Rob Portman told NBC News that North Korea should never be let off the hook for what they did", "TyaEgLzROtg-00010-00011617-00012497": "\"Look, the blood of Otto Warmbier is on Kim Jong Un’s hands,” Republican Senator Cory Gardner told Bloomberg", "TyaEgLzROtg-00011-00012497-00013960": "“He’s responsible for the death. There’s no doubt in my mind about that.\".Trump’s former Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley also spoke out about the president’s comment, although, she never mentioned him by name", "TyaEgLzROtg-00012-00013960-00014939": "On Twitter, she wrote that Americans “know the cruelty” the North Korean regime placed on Warmbier and added that he will never be forgotten", "TyaEgLzROtg-00013-00014939-00015739": "Childers's conversation with Bergman was before many people publicly criticized Trump’s comments", "TyaEgLzROtg-00014-00015739-00016812": "However, she predicted Americans would be shocked by the president’s decision to absolve Kim, and that some may even call him naïve for believing the North Korean leader", "TyaEgLzROtg-00015-00016812-00018259": ".“I think there’s a distinction here between not being aware that it happened to saying, 'This was not intentional, it was an incident, a mistake, somebody went rogue,' whatever happened there, which we don’t know what happened,” Bergman said", "TyaEgLzROtg-00016-00018259-00019563": "“The leader is saying this was not our intention.”.Warmbier was imprisoned in North Korea in 2016 after being convicted of stealing a propaganda poster while in the country on a guided tour", "TyaEgLzROtg-00017-00019563-00020548": "When he was returned to the United States, in June 2017, he was in a coma and died only days after being reunited with his parents", "TyaEgLzROtg-00018-00020548-00021958": "The North Korean regime offered no details as to how Warmbier came to be in a comatose state, and in April 2018, his parents, Fred and Cindy Warmbier, filed a lawsuit against North Korea", "TyaEgLzROtg-00019-00021958-00023280": "\"Otto was taken hostage, kept as a prisoner for political purposes, used as a pawn and singled out for exceptionally harsh and brutal treatment by Kim Jong Un,” Fred Warmbier said after filing the suit", "TyaEgLzROtg-00020-00023280-00023923": "In December, a judge ordered North Korea to pay the family $500 million."}}, {"audio_id": "Tp7pbX70UhQ", "text": {"Tp7pbX70UhQ-00000-00000571-00001323": "Remember the awkward situation below, when Melania refused to hold her husband’s hand in public?", "Tp7pbX70UhQ-00001-00001323-00002023": "This has been happening more obviously since the Stormy Daniels affair became public", "Tp7pbX70UhQ-00002-00002023-00003107": "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", "Tp7pbX70UhQ-00003-00003107-00003987": "It is being reported that Vanessa Trump sought advice from her mother-in-law before filing for divorce from Donald Trump Jr", "Tp7pbX70UhQ-00004-00003987-00004740": "US Weekly is reporting that Melania said “The Trump men are one and the same — vain and ­power-hungry", "Tp7pbX70UhQ-00005-00004740-00005918": "”.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", "Tp7pbX70UhQ-00006-00005918-00007195": "”.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", "Tp7pbX70UhQ-00007-00007195-00007984": "Regardless of the reason, this is the first real glimpse we are getting of how Melania feels about her husband", "Tp7pbX70UhQ-00008-00007984-00008841": "Turns out, she sees him the same way America sees him. He’s vain, power hungry and will never change"}}, {"audio_id": "TUt_z2hGRPY", "text": {"TUt_z2hGRPY-00000-00000513-00002051": "U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday he would soon sign an executive order requiring American universities and colleges to maintain “free speech” on campuses and threatened that schools not complying could lose federal research funds", "TUt_z2hGRPY-00001-00002051-00003694": "Trump made his remarks at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference after bringing to the stage Hayden Williams, a conservative activist who was punched at the University of California, Berkeley, last month while recruiting students for a conservative group", "TUt_z2hGRPY-00002-00003694-00004974": "“Today, I am proud to announce that I will be very soon signing an executive order requiring colleges and universities to support free speech if they want federal research funds,” Trump said", "TUt_z2hGRPY-00003-00004974-00006079": "If universities do not comply “it will be very costly,” he said. The U.S. government awards universities more than $30 billion annually in research funds", "TUt_z2hGRPY-00004-00006079-00006711": "The White House did not immediately respond a request for comment on details of the order", "TUt_z2hGRPY-00005-00006711-00008579": "Freedom of speech is enshrined in the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.It is not the first time that Trump, who has repeatedly lashed out at the media with cries of “fake news” and has called current defamation laws “a sham and a disgrace,” has threatened retaliatory action related to free speech", "TUt_z2hGRPY-00006-00008579-00009736": "Last September, he suggested in a tweet that the license of television networks could be at risk, though he offered no specifics in his tweet, which singled out NBC", "TUt_z2hGRPY-00007-00009736-00010805": "Broadcast networks do not receive general licenses, but they do hold licenses from the Federal Communications Commission for individual local stations they own", "TUt_z2hGRPY-00008-00010805-00011837": "In 2017, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai said the agency does not have authority to revoke broadcast licenses over editorial decisions", "TUt_z2hGRPY-00009-00011837-00012484": "“I believe in the First Amendment,” said Pai, whom Trump appointed as the FCC chair", "TUt_z2hGRPY-00010-00012484-00013310": "Trump on Saturday suggested that Williams sue the man who punched him and also “sue the college, the university", "TUt_z2hGRPY-00011-00013310-00014015": "And maybe sue the state.” He suggested that Williams was going to be “a very wealthy young man", "TUt_z2hGRPY-00012-00014015-00015311": "”.If universities “want our dollars — and we give to them by the billions — they have to allow people like Hayden and many other great young people and old people to speak — free speech,” Trump said", "TUt_z2hGRPY-00013-00015311-00016664": "Trump administration officials have suggested that the rights of speakers on college campuses have been trampled by student protesters who find their views offensive and suggested conservatives have been unfairly targeted", "TUt_z2hGRPY-00014-00016664-00018127": "The U.S. Justice Department filed a statement of interest in 2018 in a free speech lawsuit filed against the University of California, Berkeley, accusing the school of discriminating against speakers with conservative views", "TUt_z2hGRPY-00015-00018127-00019681": "In a settlement announced in December, the university will modify its procedures for handling “major events,” which typically draw hundreds of people, and agreed not to charge “security” fees for a variety of activities, including lectures and speeches", "TUt_z2hGRPY-00016-00019681-00020650": "It will also pay $70,000 to cover legal costs of the Berkeley College Republicans and the Tennessee-based Young America’s Foundation"}}, {"audio_id": "Ta3iKC-POfU", "text": {"Ta3iKC-POfU-00000-00000513-00001565": "Mr Mozzi, 35, and Princess Beatrice were seen together for first time together while on holiday in Lamu, a remote island off Kenya", "Ta3iKC-POfU-00001-00001565-00002908": "And now the property tycoon, who goes by the nickname 'Edo', has been seen getting out of the driver’s side of a grey Aston Martin Vantage, which retails from upwards of £120,900", "Ta3iKC-POfU-00002-00002908-00004055": "Princess Beatrice, the older sister of Princess Eugenie, and Mr Mozzi reportedly met at Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding although their parents have been friends for years", "Ta3iKC-POfU-00003-00004055-00004904": "Reports of Beatrice’s relationship emerged in November with a source revealing the pair had already had a string of dates", "Ta3iKC-POfU-00004-00004904-00005677": "Mr Mozzi, a divorcee with a two-year-old son, and Beatrice were said to have “hit it off instantly”", "Ta3iKC-POfU-00005-00005677-00006818": "Mr Mozzi was not present when the Royal Family stepped out traditional Christmas Day church service at Sandringham, so details of a relationship are not official yet", "Ta3iKC-POfU-00006-00006818-00007740": "Beatrice looked elegant in a navy blue button down coat with gold detailing, pairing her outfit with black gloves and black knee-high boots", "Ta3iKC-POfU-00007-00007740-00008610": "The Queen’s granddaughter, who is eight in line to the throne, is not what is known as a “working royal” and earns her own income", "Ta3iKC-POfU-00008-00008610-00009548": "Beatrice and Mr Mozzi’s relationship is said to be blossoming and the pair reportedly bring in the New Year at a bar in Kinzingo, Kenya", "Ta3iKC-POfU-00009-00009548-00010402": "The Princess, dressed in a blue-black print dress, was spotted dancing the night away with friends and Mr Mozzi by her side", "Ta3iKC-POfU-00010-00010402-00011682": "The next day, Beatrice is said to have travelled with Mr Mozzi and his family to a small village called Shela by boat, to view its antique craft stalls and ancient Swahili architecture", "Ta3iKC-POfU-00011-00011682-00012594": "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", "Ta3iKC-POfU-00012-00012594-00013552": "“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", "Ta3iKC-POfU-00013-00013552-00014391": "“Things are moving very quickly and it wouldn’t surprise anyone if they can engaged within a short period of time", "Ta3iKC-POfU-00014-00014391-00015005": "“They could even be tying the knot in 2019 - it’s already been discussed by her friends", "Ta3iKC-POfU-00015-00015005-00016358": "“Everyone is thrilled that Bea is so happy and in such a good place right now.”.Beatrice was maid of honour at her younger sister Princess Eugenie’s royal wedding to Jack Brooksbank in October last year"}}, {"audio_id": "U8bP2YwCJLu", "text": {"U8bP2YwCJLu-00000-00000513-00001902": "Special Counsel Robert Mueller has just submitted a report about his Trump-Russia investigation to Attorney General William Barr, according to the New York Times, the Washington Post, and other major news outlets", "U8bP2YwCJLu-00001-00001902-00002736": "This of course raises more questions than answers, but suffice it to say that things are about to get very real", "U8bP2YwCJLu-00002-00002736-00003707": "As of this moment, there are no real details available about what Robert Mueller’s report says, or what it even covers", "U8bP2YwCJLu-00003-00003707-00005489": "Some major news outlets are characterizing the submission of this report as the “end” of Mueller’s investigation, but we’re not sure we buy that notion, considering that just a few hours ago evidence surfaced that Mueller’s grand jury is still ongoing in at least one criminal case", "U8bP2YwCJLu-00004-00005489-00006267": "Regardless, all heck is about to break loose in rapid fashion. Here’s what you can expect", "U8bP2YwCJLu-00005-00006267-00006889": "William Barr now has to decide how much of Robert Mueller’s report to give to Congress", "U8bP2YwCJLu-00006-00006889-00007667": "Keep in mind that whatever Barr gives to Congress, it’ll almost surely get promptly leaked to the public", "U8bP2YwCJLu-00007-00007667-00009284": "Barr knows this, so he could decide to make a simultaneous public release. In any case, if the Democrats in Congress believe that Barr’s version of the Mueller report is incomplete or inaccurate, they’ll quickly take steps to get their hands on the whole thing", "U8bP2YwCJLu-00008-00009284-00011351": "We’ll see what happens on the indictment front. Rudy Giuliani has spent all day insisting that Robert Mueller won’t bring any more indictments, but he’s consistently unreliable, and again, as of today Mueller is still trying to push a witness into appearing before a grand jury, whose sole purpose is to bring indictments", "U8bP2YwCJLu-00009-00011351-00012367": "If Mueller has built criminal cases against additional people, he can easily hand them off to the SDNY or other permanent federal prosecutors", "U8bP2YwCJLu-00010-00012367-00013009": "If there are sealed indictments in play, they could surface at any moment for all we know", "U8bP2YwCJLu-00011-00013009-00014446": "Of course the central question here is what Robert Mueller’s report reveals about Donald Trump’s crimes, the Trump 2016 campaign’s criminal connections to the Kremlin, and what the Trump-Russia scandal was really all about", "U8bP2YwCJLu-00012-00014446-00015820": "We’re about to officially find out soon. In the meantime, expect Trump’s allies to spin this report as inaccurately as possible, even as pundits everywhere are left to take mere guesses about what’s in it", "U8bP2YwCJLu-00013-00015820-00016316": "Take everything you hear today with a grain of salt"}}, {"audio_id": "UsOkhSG6YQI", "text": {"UsOkhSG6YQI-00000-00000571-00001524": "President Donald Trump has signed an executive order effectively canceling public reports on civilian deaths from US drone strikes", "UsOkhSG6YQI-00001-00001524-00002922": "The president, who signed the order on Wednesday, is cutting an Obama-era directive that required the director of national intelligence to release a yearly report divulging data about civilian and combatant deaths in U", "UsOkhSG6YQI-00002-00002922-00003820": "S. drone attacks outside active war zones throughout the world in places like Yemen, Somalia, and Pakistan", "UsOkhSG6YQI-00003-00003820-00005092": ".Obama first introduced his measure in 2016 in an effort to be more transparent but Trump doesn’t go for that, speaking frequently on his dismay over publicizing military actions", "UsOkhSG6YQI-00004-00005092-00007070": "A 2017 law providing Congress with statistics on civilian deaths in active combat zones but many experts agree that Trump’s revocation of Obama’s directive is a dramatic fall in transparency and that this will for strikes by other agencies, like the CIA, to go unnoticed by the public at large", "UsOkhSG6YQI-00005-00007070-00008282": "Hina Shamsi, director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s National Security Project, slammed this decision by the president, calling it “deeply wrong”, the Associated Press reported", "UsOkhSG6YQI-00006-00008282-00009219": "“Trump’s decision to increase secrecy about the United States’ killing of people abroad is deeply wrong and dangerous for public accountability", "UsOkhSG6YQI-00007-00009219-00010398": "Trump revoked a transparency order that provided an imperfect but still important official record of deaths caused by the military and, critically, the CIA", "UsOkhSG6YQI-00008-00010398-00011351": "This decision will hide from the public the government’s own tally of the total number of deaths it causes every year in its lethal force program", "UsOkhSG6YQI-00009-00011351-00012492": "Now, the government is also no longer committed to providing reasons why its total death count is different from independent credible reports by media and rights groups''", "UsOkhSG6YQI-00010-00012492-00013344": "Hina Shamsi, director of the ACLU’s National Security Project.Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif", "UsOkhSG6YQI-00011-00013344-00015136": ") who serves as the chair of the House Intelligence Committee and has been taking Trump to task on transparency in other areas, certainly sees the President’s signature secrecy at work here as well, telling the BBC that he could see “no justification” in revoking the practice of disclosure", "UsOkhSG6YQI-00012-00015136-00016654": "The White House National Security Council spokesman said that the government was committed to “minimizing — to the greatest extent possible — civilian causalities and acknowledging responsibility when they unfortunately occur during military operations''", "UsOkhSG6YQI-00013-00016654-00018017": "The Bureau of Investigative Journalism has reported that 769 to 1,725 civilians have been killed since 2004, based on official data and credible sources", "UsOkhSG6YQI-00014-00018017-00019524": "It also reports that there have been 2,243 drone strikes in the first two years of the Trump presidency, a sharp contrast with the 1,878 during Obama’s ENTIRE eight years in the Oval Office"}}, {"audio_id": "UtIdIylmek0", "text": {"UtIdIylmek0-00000-00000571-00001331": "After 2 years, the Mueller “hunt” is finally over and the Attorney General has his verdict for the nation", "UtIdIylmek0-00001-00001331-00002326": ".He is refusing to release the full report for now, although Democrats like Bernie Sanders are begging for the full text to parse every detail", "UtIdIylmek0-00002-00002326-00003010": "Fat chance of that.I couldn’t wait to see what Barr said—we’ve all been waiting for two years", "UtIdIylmek0-00003-00003010-00005236": "Attorney General William Barr on Sunday released… a bombshell four-page letter… 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", "UtIdIylmek0-00004-00005236-00006043": "”.Can you believe it?.The Russians even offered to help Trump win, and they couldn’t find anything on him or his team", "UtIdIylmek0-00005-00006043-00007579": "And the only thing I was more excited to hear about? Donald’s reaction.President Trump was surprisingly quiet over the weekend, but when Barr’s report came out, he was quick to blast out a triumphant tweet—and keep it on a positive note", "UtIdIylmek0-00006-00007579-00008292": "For those who need the quote: No Collusion, No Obstruction, Complete and Total EXONERATION", "UtIdIylmek0-00007-00008292-00009092": "KEEP AMERICA GREAT!.Donald Trump should feel like he’s on the top of the world. I definitely would", "UtIdIylmek0-00008-00009092-00010055": "It’s over.All these years, all the drama, Trump called them out but also patiently waited because he knew there was nothing to find", "UtIdIylmek0-00009-00010055-00010750": "And now the Democrats want to call for further investigations because they didn’t get what they want", "UtIdIylmek0-00010-00010750-00011727": "And that would probably only hurt their case more.You know what I think? President Trump’s chances for re-election just went through", "UtIdIylmek0-00011-00011727-00012699": "the. ROOF. With a strong economy, the incumbent President just knocked down the biggest roadblock to another 4 years", "UtIdIylmek0-00012-00012699-00013347": "I’m sure he’s ready to get back to work this week for us, the American people"}}, {"audio_id": "UpW5D7sTqZk", "text": {"UpW5D7sTqZk-00000-00000571-00001401": "President* Donald Trump is infamous for a lot of reasons, but his public speeches are surely near the top of the list", "UpW5D7sTqZk-00001-00001401-00002822": "From his Presidential bid announcement, through his ridiculous campaign rallies, to the State of the Union addresses and Presidential press conferences, Trump rarely seems more unhinged this side of Twitter than on a stage with a microphone", "UpW5D7sTqZk-00002-00002822-00004178": "All that just went to a new level as Trump gave the longest speech (2 Hours) of his presidency at the CPAC, saying, among many other insane things, that the Mueller investigation is “bullshit”", "UpW5D7sTqZk-00003-00004178-00004967": "During the speech, Trump attacked the “collusion delusion,” referring to Robert Mueller’s investigation", "UpW5D7sTqZk-00004-00004967-00005868": "Trump said that he was being “sarcastic” and “having fun” during his campaign when he told Russia to hack Hillary Clinton’s emails", "UpW5D7sTqZk-00005-00005868-00008271": "“I’ve learned with the fake news, if you tell a joke, if you are sarcastic, if you’re having fun with the audience, if you are on live television with millions of people and 25,000 people in an arena, and if you say something like ‘Russia, please, if you can, get us Hillary Clinton’s emails! Please, Russia, please! Please get us the emails! Please!’” Trump said", "UpW5D7sTqZk-00006-00008271-00009371": "Trump also went on to mock former attorney general, Jeff Sessions, and former FBI Director James Comey, who he says is Mueller’s “best friend", "UpW5D7sTqZk-00007-00009371-00010293": "” “We’re waiting for a report by people who weren’t elected,” Trump said. “All of a sudden, they’re trying to take you out with bullshit''", "UpW5D7sTqZk-00008-00010293-00011994": "Trump also attacked Democrats, focusing in part on the Green New Deal, saying: “Nothing is more extreme than the Democrats’ plan to completely take over American energy and completely destroy America’s economy through their new $100 trillion Green New Deal”", "UpW5D7sTqZk-00009-00011994-00013624": "Trump said was like a “high school term paper written by a poor student''.Trump also threatened to issue an executive order that guarantees free speech at colleges and universities, then warned that institutions would be risking federal money if they didn’t comply", "UpW5D7sTqZk-00010-00013624-00014297": "This man in clearly terrified and unfit to hold the office of President of the United States", "UpW5D7sTqZk-00011-00014297-00014849": "It becomes clearer every time he opens his mouth or logs into Twitter"}}, {"audio_id": "UShrqelutVI", "text": {"UShrqelutVI-00000-00000571-00001527": "President Donald Trump continued criticizing the late Senator John McCain on Tuesday, as reporters questioned him at the White House", "UShrqelutVI-00001-00001527-00002141": "“I was never a fan of John McCain and I never will be,” he said at the White House", "UShrqelutVI-00002-00002141-00002770": ".Trump reminded reporters that McCain essentially killed the vote to repeal Obamacare", "UShrqelutVI-00003-00002770-00003838": "“I’m very unhappy that he didn’t repeal and replace Obamacare as you know, he campaigned on repealing and replacing Obamacare for years,” Trump said", "UShrqelutVI-00004-00003838-00005027": "“And then he got to a vote and he said thumbs down.”.Trump said that McCain indicated that he supported the bill but surprised Republicans by changing his mind at the last minute", "UShrqelutVI-00005-00005027-00006265": "“I think that’s disgraceful, plus there were other things,” Trump said.The president commented on McCain during a visit with Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday in the Oval Office"}}, {"audio_id": "UXpl2VQkdqk", "text": {"UXpl2VQkdqk-00000-00000571-00002438": "Donald Trump has suddenly become enraged about Bernie Sanders – not because he has anything bad to say about Bernie, and not necessarily because he thinks Bernie will even be the 2020 nominee, but because Bernie did a town hall on Trump’s favorite channel Fox News, and it went fairly well", "UXpl2VQkdqk-00001-00002438-00003374": "That alone is enough to set off a malignant narcissist like Trump, and sure enough, he finally exploded about it on Tuesday evening", "UXpl2VQkdqk-00002-00003374-00005296": "First, Donald Trump posted this bizarre tweet, which gave away just how insecure he’s feeling about the whole thing: “Many Trump Fans & Signs were outside of the Fox News Studio last night in the now thriving (Thank you President Trump) Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, for the interview with Crazy Bernie Sanders", "UXpl2VQkdqk-00003-00005296-00006513": "Big complaints about not being let in-stuffed with Bernie supporters. What’s with Fox News?” Aw, Trump got his feelings hurt because Fox isn’t kissing his butt as thoroughly as it used to", "UXpl2VQkdqk-00004-00006513-00008162": "Then Trump went on to inexplicably demand that Sanders pay more taxes. This was even as Trump continues to try to delay the Treasury Department’s inevitable release of Trump’s tax returns, because all kinds of dirty secrets are obviously lurking in there", "UXpl2VQkdqk-00005-00008162-00009073": "But then Trump decided for some reason that this would be a good thing to tweet: “I believe it will be Crazy Bernie Sanders vs", "UXpl2VQkdqk-00006-00009073-00010262": "Sleepy Joe Biden as the two finalists to run against maybe the best Economy in the history of our Country (and MANY other great things)! I look forward to facing whoever it may be", "UXpl2VQkdqk-00007-00010262-00011832": "May God Rest Their Soul!”.That’s right, nevermind that Democratic candidates like Kamala Harris and Pete Buttigieg seem to have most of the momentum right now; in Donald Trump’s mind, he thinks the only serious candidates are his fellow old white guys", "UXpl2VQkdqk-00008-00011832-00012947": "Also, why on earth has Trump decided that Joe Biden, with his ever-upbeat personality, is “sleepy” now? Forget it, we don’t even want to know", "UXpl2VQkdqk-00009-00012947-00013786": "The real upshot here is that Trump is very jealous that Fox News isn’t as thoroughly in his corner as it used to be", "UXpl2VQkdqk-00010-00013786-00014251": "Trump is as insecure as he is incoherent"}}, {"audio_id": "UXNlG_i4HDU", "text": {"UXNlG_i4HDU-00000-00000513-00001602": "Polls. Sometimes we love them, and sometimes we don’t. How do we know when they are accurate? Sometimes we don’t", "UXNlG_i4HDU-00001-00001602-00002694": "A valid poll can display feelings on issues. However, if the poll is biased or the questions unclear, results don’t always speak the truth", "UXNlG_i4HDU-00002-00002694-00003762": "This week, USA Today published an article entitled “Poll: Half of Americans say Trump is victim of a ‘witch hunt’ as trust in Mueller erodes", "UXNlG_i4HDU-00003-00003762-00004630": "” As you might expect, “President” Donald Trump immediately tweeted in support of this headline, without reading the full article", "UXNlG_i4HDU-00004-00004630-00006667": "If you take this headline at face value without reading the article and conducting further research, you might think that confidence in Mueller has dropped significantly since the December NPR/PBS NewHouse/Marist poll that found only 33% of Americans viewed Mueller’s investigation as a “witch hunt”", "UXNlG_i4HDU-00005-00006667-00007545": "As reported by Vox, the Suffolk/USA Today poll question which generated the headline is “seriously flawed", "UXNlG_i4HDU-00006-00007545-00008417": "” What does that mean? The question was a two-part question, which can result in skewed numbers from lack of clarity", "UXNlG_i4HDU-00007-00008417-00009645": "The question asked: “President Trump has called the Special Counsel’s investigation a ‘witch hunt’ and said he’s been subjected to more investigations than previous presidents because of politics", "UXNlG_i4HDU-00008-00009645-00010389": "Do you agree?”.Some may agree with the first part of the question but not the second or vice versa", "UXNlG_i4HDU-00009-00010389-00011264": "The two parts are not necessarily related to or dependent upon each other, and different answers could be given for each", "UXNlG_i4HDU-00010-00011264-00012199": "In today’s fast-paced world, most of us “skim” materials to save time and could have easily missed one part of this question", "UXNlG_i4HDU-00011-00012199-00013793": "As Vox points out, this is poor polling strategy.Though neither Vox nor I have proof of any of this, the compound question invariably sets itself up for failure, especially viewed in light of similar but well-constructed poll questions", "UXNlG_i4HDU-00012-00013793-00015031": "Vox points to a Washington Post / Schar School poll conducted last month, which indicated that 56% of those polled find Mueller more credible than Trump, and the Hill", "UXNlG_i4HDU-00013-00015031-00015924": "TV / American Barometer poll found 58% who believe Mueller’s investigation is “unbiased", "UXNlG_i4HDU-00014-00015924-00016880": "” Vox has this right. When presented with one clear question, people participating in polls gave very different responses", "UXNlG_i4HDU-00015-00016880-00019474": "Vox does mention other results of the Suffolk/USA poll that are based on more clearly written questions and tend to support the belief that the earlier-mentioned results were skewed, giving Trump some bad news in the process: 62% of respondents are against introducing impeachment proceedings at the present time while also supporting the aggressive investigation techniques being used by Democrats", "UXNlG_i4HDU-00016-00019474-00020341": "Nancy Pelosi is right to play down impeachment—for now. Her decision is in line with the American public’s view", "UXNlG_i4HDU-00017-00020341-00021321": "Of course, Trump chose to ignore the worst news for him from this poll: 52% have “’little or no trust’” in his denial of collusion", "UXNlG_i4HDU-00018-00021321-00022240": "We can’t always take poll results at face value and certainly not by a headline, which could also be erroneously constructed", "UXNlG_i4HDU-00019-00022240-00023502": "Wisely take poll data with the proverbial grain of salt. Many contingencies come into play that can easily skew a poll in the direction intended by the polltaker or framer", "UXNlG_i4HDU-00020-00023502-00024288": "Of course, Donald Trump sees anything that appears to support him as good, without bothering to look further", "UXNlG_i4HDU-00021-00024288-00024892": "The headline plays to his base, and that’s what he wants"}}, {"audio_id": "UbZxYaflOOA", "text": {"UbZxYaflOOA-00000-00000571-00002418": "The Department of Homeland Security has requested assistance from the Defense Department to mount approximately 218 miles of new and replacement barriers along the US-Mexico border, according to documents released by the Sierra Club, a grassroots environmental organization", "UbZxYaflOOA-00001-00002418-00003849": "In a February 25 memo to the Defense Department, the Department of Homeland Security identifies four sectors along the southern border that require reinforcement through barriers, light installation and other measures", "UbZxYaflOOA-00002-00003849-00005153": "Combined, the mileage amounts to approximately 218 miles of new or replacement barrier, just shy of the White House's January request of approximately 234 miles", "UbZxYaflOOA-00003-00005153-00006610": "The memo largely focuses on vehicle and pedestrian barriers -- the former is intended to stop vehicles, but people can easily climb over it, and the latter is designed to keep both vehicles and pedestrians from crossing", "UbZxYaflOOA-00004-00006610-00007425": "The request, which will be funded through counterdrug monies, also cites the number of drug seizures in each region", "UbZxYaflOOA-00005-00007425-00009491": "\"DHS requests that DoD assist in the execution of projects, within the Project Areas set forth below, to: (1) replace existing vehicle barriers or dilapidated pedestrian fencing with new pedestrian fencing; (2) construct roads; and (3) install lighting,\" the memo reads", "UbZxYaflOOA-00006-00009491-00010957": "The four sectors listed are: El Centro, Yuma, Tucson and El Paso. In addition to new replacement barriers, the Department of Homeland Security has also requested assistance with road construction and light installation", "UbZxYaflOOA-00007-00010957-00012292": "In the El Centro sector, the Department of Homeland Security requests the replacement of around 15 miles of existing vehicle barrier with new pedestrian fencing, in addition to light installation", "UbZxYaflOOA-00008-00012292-00014332": "The project is located in Imperial County, California.In the Yuma sector, the Department of Homeland Security has asked for assistance to replace around 36 miles of existing vehicle barrier and approximately six miles of \"dilapidated pedestrian fencing with new pedestrian fencing,\" in addition to light installation", "UbZxYaflOOA-00009-00014332-00015878": "The areas are located in Yuma County, Arizona.In the Tucson sector, the Department of Homeland Security requests replacing around 86 miles of existing vehicle barrier with new pedestrian fencing, in addition to light installation", "UbZxYaflOOA-00010-00015878-00017882": "The areas are located in Pima, Cochise, and Santa Cruz Counties, Arizona.In the El Paso Sector, which includes New Mexico, the Department of Homeland Security requests replacing approximately 70 miles of existing vehicle barrier with new pedestrian fencing, in addition to light installation", "UbZxYaflOOA-00011-00017882-00018934": "Areas are located in Luna, Hidalgo and Doña Ana Counties, New Mexico.The memo notes that the projects are on federal property", "UbZxYaflOOA-00012-00018934-00019723": "In areas where that's not the case, the onus is on the Department of Homeland Security to secure the land", "UbZxYaflOOA-00013-00019723-00021037": "Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan wrote a response to the request on March 25, saying that that the Pentagon would use $1 billion to fund border barriers at two of the four requested sectors", "UbZxYaflOOA-00014-00021037-00023051": "\"At this time I have decided to undertake Yuma Sector Projects 1 and 2 and El Paso Sector Project 1 by constructing 57 miles of 18-foot high pedestrian fencing, constructing and improving roads, and installing lighting as described in your February 25, 2019 request,\" Shanahan wrote", "UbZxYaflOOA-00015-00023051-00023756": "\"Additional support may be available in the future, subject to the availability and other factors,\" he added", "UbZxYaflOOA-00016-00023756-00024699": "CNN reported this week that the Defense Department has begun scouting sites along the US-Mexico border to erect new physical barriers", "UbZxYaflOOA-00017-00024699-00026251": "Small teams of engineers and experts, comprised of about 10 personnel, are on the ground in Yuma, Arizona, and the New Mexico part of the El Paso sector, which also includes Texas, looking at sites, according to two department officials", "UbZxYaflOOA-00018-00026251-00027324": "President Donald Trump has repeatedly aired his grievances about the situation along the southern border, going so far as to threaten closing it entirely Friday"}}, {"audio_id": "Un9eS2VSRVu", "text": {"Un9eS2VSRVu-00000-00000571-00001185": "Michelle Obama just wrapped up an interview with Conan O’Brien on his new podcast", "Un9eS2VSRVu-00001-00001185-00001939": "She was hoping to extinguish the rumors that her daughter Malia had been extended “special privileges” in life", "Un9eS2VSRVu-00002-00001939-00002713": "So, Michelle put the spotlight on President Donald Trump, saying that “it’s not a reality show” to be president", "Un9eS2VSRVu-00003-00002713-00003431": "But that didn’t stop the truth about 20-year-old Malia from coming out. You don’t want to miss this", "Un9eS2VSRVu-00004-00003431-00005019": "‘It’s Not a Reality Show’: Michelle Bashes Trump After Daughters ‘Privilege’ Exposed", "Un9eS2VSRVu-00005-00005019-00006121": "Michelle Obama is back on her never-ending book tour. This time, she gave Conan O’Brien an interview on his new podcast called “Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend", "Un9eS2VSRVu-00006-00006121-00007414": "” The former first lady was quick to change the subject away from her daughters after Tucker Carlson just exposed the special privileges that are afforded to the Obama girls that other Americans will never know", "Un9eS2VSRVu-00007-00007414-00008151": "The 55-year-old Obama trashed President Trump while claiming her remarks had nothing to do with him", "Un9eS2VSRVu-00008-00008151-00009094": "“It’s not a reality show, it’s real-life stuff,” she told O’Brien about how the perception of the job has changed in the current presidency", "Un9eS2VSRVu-00009-00009094-00010262": "Michelle said that in her involvement in the 2016 election, she tried to emphasize that the position is a hard job and that someone with certain “experience needed to fill it", "Un9eS2VSRVu-00010-00010262-00011714": "”.“This is a really hard job, and it’s serious, and it requires a level of knowledge, of history and patience, and you have to be a reader, and you have to be someone that can handle stress, and you have to watch your words,” she said", "Un9eS2VSRVu-00011-00011714-00012537": "“I mean, we live in a time, ‘tell it like it is,’ and it’s like, not when your words can start wars and shift markets", "Un9eS2VSRVu-00012-00012537-00013590": "There’s a responsibility to be careful with them.”.That’s when O’Brien brought the conversation back to her family, something Michelle was hoping to avoid", "Un9eS2VSRVu-00013-00013590-00014279": "“I am in awe of my children for the way they have managed this whole thing with poise and grace", "Un9eS2VSRVu-00014-00014279-00014984": "There’s a resilience that they’ve had to develop,” she said.“We spent eight years just going, ‘It’s okay", "Un9eS2VSRVu-00015-00014984-00016515": "You’ll be fine. This is normal. Just go to school,”‘ she said. But was that school the typical public school? And did the Obama girls have to pass entrance exams and provide transcripts showing GPAs of 4", "Un9eS2VSRVu-00016-00016515-00017296": "0 or higher that is required for entrance into the elite Sidwell Friends School that they attended?", "Un9eS2VSRVu-00017-00017296-00018208": "The likely answer is “no.” The Sidwell school says it only accepts 7% of its applicants and it’s based on “merit", "Un9eS2VSRVu-00018-00018208-00018845": "” We all know the Obamas were given entrance based on who their parents were, not on “merit", "Un9eS2VSRVu-00019-00018845-00019697": "”.The recent college scandal where celebrities bought their kids’ way into elite universities touched Obama in a couple of ways", "Un9eS2VSRVu-00020-00019697-00020569": "First, Michelle’s personal tennis instructor who also coached the Obama girls was indicted in the college admission scandal", "Un9eS2VSRVu-00021-00020569-00022100": "“A tennis instructor for former first lady Michelle Obama and her daughters, Malia and Sasha, was among dozens of people indicted by federal authorities in a college admissions scandal announced last Tuesday,” the Washington Examiner reported", "Un9eS2VSRVu-00022-00022100-00023320": "Although there is nothing linking the Obamas to the scandal, Tucker Carlson exposed the reason why the leftist political elites don’t have to bribe anyone to get their kids into the best universities", "Un9eS2VSRVu-00023-00023320-00024456": "How did Chelsea Clinton wind up at more than one top-notch university? Fox News’ Tucker Carlson recently explored this question in the wake of the college admissions scandal", "Un9eS2VSRVu-00024-00024456-00025592": "“How (do) the mediocre children of the politically powerful on both sides take top spots at top schools without even resorting to bribery?” Carlson asked", "Un9eS2VSRVu-00025-00025592-00026289": "“They get it for free,” he said. “They are just awarded them for the achievement of being born", "Un9eS2VSRVu-00026-00026289-00027711": "”.“That’s how Chelsea Clinton wound up at Stanford and Oxford,” Carlson added. He said the Clinton daughter also ended up on “the various boards of big companies and then making documentary films nobody ever watches", "Un9eS2VSRVu-00027-00027711-00028479": "All without having a single original thought ever in her life.”.“The media pretend to be shocked", "Un9eS2VSRVu-00028-00028479-00029730": "In an editorial on the scandal, the New York Times singled out Harvard University for its special admissions preferences and back doors for certain applicants,” notes The American Thinker’s Jack Cashill", "Un9eS2VSRVu-00029-00029730-00030853": "“This is the same New York Times, however, that published an entirely uncritical article three years prior headlined, ‘Malia Obama Rebels, Sort of, by Choosing Harvard", "Un9eS2VSRVu-00030-00030853-00032049": "”.“Malia is the fourth member of the Obama family to attend that august university, none of whom, save perhaps for Grandpa Obama, deserved to be there,” Cashill believes"}}, {"audio_id": "V2hITGysLJy", "text": {"V2hITGysLJy-00000-00000513-00001949": "While much of the American media continues to focus on gossip, trivia, and hostility toward President Donald Trump, some will actually cover the meeting in Hanoi between the President and North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un", "V2hITGysLJy-00001-00001949-00002788": "However, if you pull back and look at the entire planet, you will see many things are changing across the globe", "V2hITGysLJy-00002-00002788-00003611": "Because of the mainstream media's myopic focus, we simply don’t have a very good understanding of what is happening abroad", "V2hITGysLJy-00003-00003611-00004342": "In fact, the world is perhaps more in flux now than any time since the end of World War II", "V2hITGysLJy-00004-00004342-00005698": "Consider some of the uncertainties building around the world.In Venezuela, the dictator Nicolás Maduro may be able to survive and keep power with the support of Cuba, Russia, Iran, and China", "V2hITGysLJy-00005-00005698-00006393": "This would be a blow to all the democratic countries that have publicly come out for his replacement", "V2hITGysLJy-00006-00006393-00007262": "It would be a special blow to the prestige of President Trump and the United States if Maduro is still in power a year from now", "V2hITGysLJy-00007-00007262-00008237": "In France, the reform efforts of President Emmanuel Macron are floundering. His poll numbers are dramatically worse than President Trump’s", "V2hITGysLJy-00008-00008237-00008963": "The populist Yellow Vests are constantly protesting, and the economy is failing to grow", "V2hITGysLJy-00009-00008963-00009728": "In Italy, the economy has shrunk for the last two quarters (what experts refer to as a “technical” recession)", "V2hITGysLJy-00010-00009728-00010676": "However, the strange coalition of populists, called the Five Star Movement, has found a nice target to distract local anger", "V2hITGysLJy-00011-00010676-00011523": "The populists are picking a fight with Macron and siding with the Yellow Vests, which of course has infuriated the French president", "V2hITGysLJy-00012-00011523-00013061": "The European Union has refused to negotiate an easy exit for the United Kingdom because the Europeanists in Brussels are terrified that a successful and painless British departure from the Common Market might lead a number of other countries to follow", "V2hITGysLJy-00013-00013061-00013808": "Italy and Hungary could be candidates for pulling out—or at least threatening to pull out as a negotiating device", "V2hITGysLJy-00014-00013808-00014869": "The result has been an incredibly frustrating, hard road for British Prime Minister Theresa May—and there is a very grave danger that the system will melt down", "V2hITGysLJy-00015-00014869-00015668": "The Irish Republic is adamant that the open border between it and Northern Ireland will remain open", "V2hITGysLJy-00016-00015668-00016295": "The Unionists in the North are equally committed to keeping the border with Great Britain open", "V2hITGysLJy-00017-00016295-00017520": "It is hard to see how you can leave Europe but retain an open border. It is possible that this problem will lead to open hostilities in Northern Ireland for the first time in decades", "V2hITGysLJy-00018-00017520-00018604": "In Britain itself, the agonies of the prime minister's Conservative Party are being matched by the increasingly bitter fight over anti-Semitism in the Labour Party", "V2hITGysLJy-00019-00018604-00019370": "American political problems begin to seem simple when you read the British press about their multi-party crisis", "V2hITGysLJy-00020-00019370-00020595": "In Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has shocked virtually all of his American allies by forming an alliance with a fringe party—which is widely seen as racist and hateful", "V2hITGysLJy-00021-00020595-00021289": "The upcoming Israeli elections may have more impact than anyone would have guessed six months ago", "V2hITGysLJy-00022-00021289-00022418": "In Saudi Arabia, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s modernizing initiative has been made dramatically harder by his apparent involvement in the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi", "V2hITGysLJy-00023-00022418-00023896": "In his effort to rebalance his government, the Crown Prince has been visiting nearby countries and making seemingly affirmatory comments about human rights abuses—even Chinese concentration camps for Turkic Muslims (called Uighurs)", "V2hITGysLJy-00024-00023896-00024986": "Pakistani-based terrorists killed at least 40 Indian paramilitary police in Kashmir, and a dozen Indian jets bombed a terrorist training camp in Pakistan", "V2hITGysLJy-00025-00024986-00026229": "Since both India and Pakistan have nuclear weapons—and both are under popular pressure to be tough with the other—the danger of a nuclear war may be greater on this front than any other", "V2hITGysLJy-00026-00026229-00027104": "The Catholic Church continues to wrestle with a deep crisis, and each week sadly brings more painful stories to light", "V2hITGysLJy-00027-00027104-00028167": ".Russia remains in Crimea, and its proxy forces remain in eastern Ukraine—when it is not stirring up trouble with Ukraine in the Sea of Azov", "V2hITGysLJy-00028-00028167-00029074": "In Barcelona this week, the Chinese company Huawei will announce a dominant lead in implementing 5G technology worldwide", "V2hITGysLJy-00029-00029074-00029862": "This is the most important information and communication breakthrough since the invention of the personal computer", "V2hITGysLJy-00030-00029862-00031688": "While President Trump has tweeted about the need for American success in this area, the combination of bureaucratic old corporations, uncoordinated government, and blindness to the scale of the Chinese commitment has put America well behind in what may become the first great American defeat in the long struggle with China", "V2hITGysLJy-00031-00031688-00032927": "There are plenty more examples of how the system around the world is fraying, but this survey gives you a context in which to measure the childishness and lack of seriousness of most of the American news media"}}, {"audio_id": "Vrr5RMbKmMM", "text": {"Vrr5RMbKmMM-00000-00000571-00001524": "I still remember where I was standing when I first heard that FBI Director James Comey had been fired on May 9, 2017", "Vrr5RMbKmMM-00001-00001524-00002666": "When the story broke, details were scarce, but there was no shaking the feeling that a serious crime had been committed, a blatant power grab by the man occupying the Oval Office", "Vrr5RMbKmMM-00002-00002666-00004371": "Comey himself thought it was a joke when he saw the headline. Now, we are getting a much more desolate picture of the eight days between Comey’s firing and Robert Mueller’s appointment as special counsel – in which Trump’s presidency and the stability of the nation were both in doubt", "Vrr5RMbKmMM-00003-00004371-00005361": "We know this because of Andrew McCabe’s newly published memoir, based on extensive memos he had written while fearing for his job", "Vrr5RMbKmMM-00004-00005361-00007287": "Shortly after the firing, Comey’s own detailed memos began to leak. Now, yet another scandal of life in the Trump White House has come to the surface – that Donald Trump gave his son-in-law top security clearance against the wishes of not only intelligence officials but his own White House counsel and chief of staff", "Vrr5RMbKmMM-00005-00007287-00007898": "There was a reason that The New York Times was able to cover the story with so much depth", "Vrr5RMbKmMM-00006-00007898-00008773": "Both White House counsel Donald McGahn and John Kelly created extensive memos documenting Trump’s requests in great detail", "Vrr5RMbKmMM-00007-00008773-00010970": "The ongoing pattern here is that an alarming number of senior staffers have been asked to do morally unconscionable or downright illegal acts for this administration – morally questionable requests that break democratic social norms, such as Trump’s deranged request to have law enforcement investigate his political rivals – and they in turn take a great deal of notes", "Vrr5RMbKmMM-00008-00010970-00011819": "Michael Cohen was somewhat ahead of the game, with over a hundred tapes recorded over the course of a decade as Trump’s fixer", "Vrr5RMbKmMM-00009-00011819-00012602": "Each of these people who documented Trump’s crimes feared the political or legal repercussions that could have occurred", "Vrr5RMbKmMM-00010-00012602-00013266": "It’s interesting to note that the leaks became more frequent leading up to Cohen’s hearing", "Vrr5RMbKmMM-00011-00013266-00015285": "Our picture of one man’s assault on many of the nation’s most cherished institutions is coming further into focus – and it is safe to expect a great deal moredocuments are currently in the possession of Robert Mueller – perhaps a factor that has stayed the hand of Trump and his Attorneys General from firing him – that will gradually be released to the public", "Vrr5RMbKmMM-00012-00015285-00016528": "One day Trump will be answering for his crimes, and we must hold onto this growing cache of evidence – a blueprint of rising authoritarianism, if we are to keep it from ever happening again"}}, {"audio_id": "VvmLDNjZvBo", "text": {"VvmLDNjZvBo-00000-00000571-00001618": "As part of their series The Trump Files, Mother Jones has released information that suggests Donald Trump was influenced by the writings of Adolf Hitler", "VvmLDNjZvBo-00001-00001618-00003131": "We’ve all heard Trump get compared to Hitler, which is easy to just dismiss as people over reacting to a guy who clearly has narcissistic issues, but according to Trump’s ex-wife Ivana Trump, there is more to the Hitler comparison than perhaps we thought", "VvmLDNjZvBo-00002-00003131-00004831": ".The revealing info comes from a 1990 Vanity Fair story on Trump:.“Ivana Trump told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler’s collected speeches, My New Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed", "VvmLDNjZvBo-00003-00004831-00005474": "Kennedy now guards a copy of My New Order in a closet at his office, as if it were a grenade", "VvmLDNjZvBo-00004-00005474-00006485": "Hitler’s speeches, from his earliest days up through the Phony War of 1939, reveal his extraordinary ability as a master propagandist", "VvmLDNjZvBo-00005-00006485-00007300": "”.Trump’s response to this revelation:.“Did your cousin John give you the Hitler speeches?” I asked Trump", "VvmLDNjZvBo-00006-00007300-00008483": "Trump hesitated. “Who told you that?”.“I don’t remember,” I said.“Actually, it was my friend Marty Davis from Paramount who gave me a copy of Mein Kampf, and he’s a Jew", "VvmLDNjZvBo-00007-00008483-00009460": "” (“I did give him a book about Hitler,” Marty Davis said. “But it was My New Order, Hitler’s speeches, not Mein Kampf", "VvmLDNjZvBo-00008-00009460-00010298": "I thought he would find it interesting. I am his friend, but I’m not Jewish.”).Later, Trump returned to this subject", "VvmLDNjZvBo-00009-00010298-00010904": "“If I had these speeches, and I am not saying that I do, I would never read them", "VvmLDNjZvBo-00010-00010904-00012404": "”.At least one person doubts Trump read the entire book. His Art of the Deal ghostwriter Tony Schwartz told TheNew Yorker in July, “I seriously doubt that Trump has ever read a book straight through in his adult life", "VvmLDNjZvBo-00011-00012404-00013321": "”.Trump’s flippant, casual dismissal of this issue suggests that perhaps he doesn’t think being compared to Hitler is really all that bad", "VvmLDNjZvBo-00012-00013321-00014783": "Trump’s hilarious rationalization that his Jewish friend (he isn’t even Jewish) gave him the book, so it’s OK, is a lot like your racist friend who always talks about his black friend, making it OK to be a racist", "VvmLDNjZvBo-00013-00014783-00015431": "Maybe the comparisons of Trump and Hitler are more valid than people have previously thought"}}, {"audio_id": "VwcM9usgHvE", "text": {"VwcM9usgHvE-00000-00000571-00001378": "Let’s be honest right off the bat: Donald Trump is a terrible president. Oh, and he’s a terrible person", "VwcM9usgHvE-00001-00001378-00002378": "And you can throw in a terrible American, too.And it seems that while things continue to deteriorate, the lines have already been drawn", "VwcM9usgHvE-00002-00002378-00003149": "Nothing Trump does or says at this point is going to change the minds of the hardcore Trump supporters", "VwcM9usgHvE-00003-00003149-00004016": "Meanwhile, the rest of America – the ones who are rational, thoughtful, and objective – are left shaking our heads", "VwcM9usgHvE-00004-00004016-00004771": "As Trump continues to isolate the United States, however, the world has begun to weigh in", "VwcM9usgHvE-00005-00004771-00005487": "And one German newspaper has just said what every sane American already thinks about Trump", "VwcM9usgHvE-00006-00005487-00006471": "And folks, it’s brutal.Der Spiegel just published an article called “A Danger to the World: It’s Time to Get Rid of Donald Trump", "VwcM9usgHvE-00007-00006471-00007224": "” Here are some of the highlights:.Donald Trump is not fit to be president of the United States", "VwcM9usgHvE-00008-00007224-00008169": "He does not possess the requisite intellect and does not understand the significance of the office he holds nor the tasks associated with it", "VwcM9usgHvE-00009-00008169-00009308": "He doesn’t read. He doesn’t bother to peruse important files and intelligence reports and knows little about the issues that he has identified as his priorities", "VwcM9usgHvE-00010-00009308-00009948": "His decisions are capricious and they are delivered in the form of tyrannical decrees", "VwcM9usgHvE-00011-00009948-00010685": "And with that opening, they capture the basic problem most Americans have with our criminal-in-chief", "VwcM9usgHvE-00012-00010685-00011727": "But it goes on:.He is a man free of morals. As has been demonstrated hundreds of times, he is a liar, a racist and a cheat", "VwcM9usgHvE-00013-00011727-00012678": "I feel ashamed to use these words, as sharp and loud as they are. But if they apply to anyone, they apply to Trump", "VwcM9usgHvE-00014-00012678-00013511": "And one of the media’s tasks is to continue telling things as they are: Trump has to be removed from the White House", "VwcM9usgHvE-00015-00013511-00014436": "Quickly. He is a danger to the world.Trump is a miserable politician. He fired the FBI director simply because he could", "VwcM9usgHvE-00016-00014436-00015076": "James Comey had gotten under his skin with his investigation into Trump’s confidants", "VwcM9usgHvE-00017-00015076-00015846": "Comey had also refused to swear loyalty and fealty to Trump and to abandon the investigation", "VwcM9usgHvE-00018-00015846-00017210": "He had to go.Trump is also a miserable boss. His people invent excuses for him and lie on his behalf because they have to, but then Trump wakes up and posts tweets that contradict what they have said", "VwcM9usgHvE-00019-00017210-00018730": "He doesn’t care that his spokesman, his secretary of state and his national security adviser had just denied that the president had handed Russia (of all countries) sensitive intelligence gleaned from Israel (of all countries)", "VwcM9usgHvE-00020-00018730-00019498": "Trump tweeted: Yes, yes, I did, because I can. I’m president after all"}}, {"audio_id": "VM3N0a2P5jE", "text": {"VM3N0a2P5jE-00000-00000513-00002600": "During his March 2 marathon speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), President Donald Trump referred to Senator Mazie Hirono as the \"crazy female senator,\" but rather than be offended by the remark, the junior senator from Hawaii says it's a \"badge of honor\" and has some choice words of her own for the president", "VM3N0a2P5jE-00001-00002600-00003817": ".\"This is the second time that he’s referred to me as the ‘crazy female senator from Hawaii,’\" said Hirono when asked during a Politico Playbook event about the president's apparent nickname for her", "VM3N0a2P5jE-00002-00003817-00004838": "\"I’ve decided that the reason he doesn’t say my name is because he can’t figure out how to pronounce it and doesn't want to look foolish in front of his adoring audience", "VM3N0a2P5jE-00003-00004838-00006061": "\".To be precise, during the CPAC speech, Trump initially referred to Hirono as the \"crazy female senator from the state of Ohio\" before quickly correcting that to \"state of Hawaii", "VM3N0a2P5jE-00004-00006061-00006777": "\" He immediately doubled down on the characterization, adding \"She's like -- she's like a crazed person", "VM3N0a2P5jE-00005-00006777-00007388": "\".Hirono's response to the name-calling?.“I think It’s pretty funny,” said Hirono", "VM3N0a2P5jE-00006-00007388-00008237": "“If the president wants to call me names, that’s a badge of honor… He calls everyone who doesn’t agree with him names", "VM3N0a2P5jE-00007-00008237-00009052": "”.Then the senator had some names of her own for Trump.“He’s a liar; he lies every single day,\" she claimed", "VM3N0a2P5jE-00008-00009052-00009799": "\"He’s a misogynist. He’s an admitted sexual predator, and he attacks everyone who doesn’t agree with him", "VM3N0a2P5jE-00009-00009799-00011544": "And the only thing that will save us is his resignation.”.Later during the program, Hirono stressed that while she believes it is \"time to investigate\" Trump and his tax returns, she cautioned against the push for the new Democratic majority to immediately impeach the president", "VM3N0a2P5jE-00010-00011544-00012317": "\"We should not be rushing in to impeach him. I certainly don't want to end up making the president a martyr", "VM3N0a2P5jE-00011-00012317-00012417": "\""}}, {"audio_id": "VpMHhHAP0Y8", "text": {"VpMHhHAP0Y8-00000-00000151-00000444": "Сёння ў Алеся Бяляцкага Дзень нараджэння.", "VpMHhHAP0Y8-00001-00000577-00000809": "Гэта ўжо не першы раз, калі гэты выбітны", "VpMHhHAP0Y8-00002-00000809-00001111": "праваабаронца і кіраўнік \"Вясны\"", "VpMHhHAP0Y8-00003-00001111-00001394": "не можа адсвяткаваць яго так, як хоча", "VpMHhHAP0Y8-00004-00001423-00001566": "таму што ён у турме.", "VpMHhHAP0Y8-00005-00001691-00002233": "Ён быў за кратамі ў 2011-2013 гадах.", "VpMHhHAP0Y8-00006-00002250-00002596": "Я вельмі добра памятаю 2012 год, калі яму споўнілася 50.", "VpMHhHAP0Y8-00007-00002596-00002945": "І ён атрымаў віншаванні з усяго свету.", "VpMHhHAP0Y8-00008-00003000-00003356": "І калі яго вызвалілі ў 2014 годзе, ён паказаў", "VpMHhHAP0Y8-00009-00003356-00003652": "неверагодную колькасць віншаванняў.", "VpMHhHAP0Y8-00010-00003715-00004004": "Ён падкрэсліў, наколькі важна атрымаць", "VpMHhHAP0Y8-00011-00004004-00004315": "такія віншаванні з Днём нараджэння і іншыя віншаванні,", "VpMHhHAP0Y8-00012-00004315-00004482": "калі вы ў турме.", "VpMHhHAP0Y8-00013-00004506-00004756": "Дзеля салідарнасці і дзеля абароны.", "VpMHhHAP0Y8-00014-00004849-00005149": "Сёння ён зноў у турме", "VpMHhHAP0Y8-00015-00005149-00005601": "разам з некалькімі іншымі праваабаронцамі \"Вясны\"", "VpMHhHAP0Y8-00016-00005640-00005851": "і сотнямі беларусаў.", "VpMHhHAP0Y8-00017-00005940-00006200": "\"Вясна\" - гэта арганізацыя, якая", "VpMHhHAP0Y8-00018-00006200-00006543": "дакументуе парушэнні правоў чалавека.", "VpMHhHAP0Y8-00019-00006566-00007111": "Арганізацыя, якая назірае за ўсімі справамі палітвязняў.", "VpMHhHAP0Y8-00020-00007328-00007923": "Я памятаю, як Алесь сказаў мне, калі я сустрэлася з ім у 2014 годзе", "VpMHhHAP0Y8-00021-00007923-00008427": "як выдатна было зноўку адзначыць свой Дзень нараджэння.", "VpMHhHAP0Y8-00022-00008466-00008634": "Мы сустрэліся ў Варшаве.", "VpMHhHAP0Y8-00023-00008680-00009000": "Гэта быў той самы год, калі ён выйшаў на волю.", "VpMHhHAP0Y8-00024-00009000-00009391": "І ён спытаў мяне: \"Не маглі б вы застацца, каб мы маглі адзначыць Дзень нараджэння", "VpMHhHAP0Y8-00025-00009391-00009591": "разам з калегамі і сябрамі?\"", "VpMHhHAP0Y8-00026-00009654-00009847": "Але я тады не магла.", "VpMHhHAP0Y8-00027-00009890-00010039": "І я да гэтага часу шкадую пра гэта", "VpMHhHAP0Y8-00028-00010124-00010591": "таму што я заўсёды ведала, што не варта прымаць гэтую свабоду як данасць", "VpMHhHAP0Y8-00029-00010591-00010787": "што трэба святкаваць, калі можаце.", "VpMHhHAP0Y8-00030-00010869-00011366": "І я вельмі спадзяюся, калі Алесю ў наступным годзе споўніцца 60 гадоў", "VpMHhHAP0Y8-00031-00011400-00011540": "мы ўсе", "VpMHhHAP0Y8-00032-00011540-00011685": "калегі і сябры", "VpMHhHAP0Y8-00033-00011731-00011876": "зможам адсвяткаваць разам.", "VpMHhHAP0Y8-00034-00011876-00012204": "І што Алесь будзе вольным чалавекам разам з усімі іншымі", "VpMHhHAP0Y8-00035-00012204-00012572": "палітвязнямі і праваабаронцамі ў Беларусі.", "VpMHhHAP0Y8-00036-00012654-00013139": "Так што з Днём нараджэння, Алесь!"}}, {"audio_id": "VSUEaoSXBeg", "text": {"VSUEaoSXBeg-00000-00000571-00001728": "Thursday at her weekly news conference, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said President Donald Trump and Republicans were calling for the resignation of Rep", "VSUEaoSXBeg-00001-00001728-00002872": "Adam Schiff (D-CA), who continues to claim collusion between President Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and Russians, because they were “afraid", "VSUEaoSXBeg-00002-00002872-00004304": "”.Pelosi said, “What would be the proper adjective, shameful, sad, irresponsible of the president of the United States and the Republicans on the Intelligence committee to take the actions they have? They are just plain afraid", "VSUEaoSXBeg-00003-00004304-00005440": "They are afraid of the truth. They are afraid of competence. They are afraid of a leader who is recognizing in our country for being calm, professional, patriotic", "VSUEaoSXBeg-00004-00005440-00006357": "I’m so proud of the work of Chairman Adam Schiff in a stark contrast to the irresponsible almost criminal behavior of the previous chair of the committee", "VSUEaoSXBeg-00005-00006357-00007809": "”.“So what is the president afraid of?” she continued. “Is he afraid of the truth that he would go after a member a chairman of a committee, a respected chairman of a committee in the Congress? I think they’re just scaredy cats", "VSUEaoSXBeg-00006-00007809-00008452": "They just don’t know what to do, so they have to make an attack. They did the wrong thing", "VSUEaoSXBeg-00007-00008452-00009946": "The American people know that. It is their own insecurity, their own fear of the truth, their fear of the facts and their fear of an effective, patriotic leader who in his measured way is going to make sure the America people know the truth", "VSUEaoSXBeg-00008-00009946-00010046": "”"}}, {"audio_id": "VTCuk-yPkyk", "text": {"VTCuk-yPkyk-00000-00000513-00001273": "Thursday morning, Beto O’Rourke announced his candidacy for the presidency of the United States of America", "VTCuk-yPkyk-00001-00001273-00002501": "Progressive liberals everywhere went berserk as the liberal rockstar solidified the rumors that have been churning since the midterm elections when he pulled out an impressive campaign against Ted Cruz", "VTCuk-yPkyk-00002-00002501-00003598": "While, Beto didn’t win that election, the American people saw in him a future president, and have continually urged him to run against Donald Trump in 2020", "VTCuk-yPkyk-00003-00003598-00004509": "When the president found out about the bid this morning, his natural reaction was to speak down on O’Rourke out of sheer fear of his star-power", "VTCuk-yPkyk-00004-00004509-00005115": "Trump said this upon hearing the news that Beto O’Rourke would be running against him next year:", "VTCuk-yPkyk-00005-00005115-00006147": "“I think he’s got a lot of hand movement. I’ve never seen so much hand movement. I said, ‘Is he crazy or is that just the way he acts?'”", "VTCuk-yPkyk-00006-00006147-00006878": "He can’t be serious? Is that the worst thing he could come up with? He talks with his hands!?", "VTCuk-yPkyk-00007-00006878-00007727": "Trump continued:.“I’ve actually never seen anything quite like it. Study it. I’m sure you’ll agree", "VTCuk-yPkyk-00008-00007727-00008681": "”.The irony of this complaint coming from Donald Trump, who can’t keep his hands down during a speech to save his life, is overwhelming", "VTCuk-yPkyk-00009-00008681-00009496": "Once again, the president has shown us how spiteful, jealous, childish, and petty he truly and deeply is"}}, {"audio_id": "VViGmhHGAzo", "text": {"VViGmhHGAzo-00000-00000571-00002018": "Last year, even as Donald Trump’s presidency seemed to be on its last legs, and the Republican Party seemed to be inching away from him, something happened that caused the GOP to rush back into his arms and buy him significant time", "VViGmhHGAzo-00001-00002018-00002893": "Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy abruptly announced he was retiring, thus allowing Trump to nominate his replacement", "VViGmhHGAzo-00002-00002893-00003967": "This was suspicious beyond words, because Kennedy’s son was an executive at Deutsche Bank, which was at the financial center of Donald Trump’s Russia scandal", "VViGmhHGAzo-00003-00003967-00004962": "This set off a million theories about how Donald Trump might have used Trump-Russia dirt on Justin Kennedy as leverage to force Anthony Kennedy into retirement", "VViGmhHGAzo-00004-00004962-00005646": "The trouble was that, while it all made sense, it was all vague and circumstantial", "VViGmhHGAzo-00005-00005646-00007125": "But that’s no longer the case. Tonight the New York Times published a verty lengthy expose about the mutually corrupt relationship between Trump and Deutsche Bank over the years – and both the older and younger Kennedy play a role in the story", "VViGmhHGAzo-00006-00007125-00009086": "The NY Times article confirms, once and for all, what had long been suspected: Justin Kennedy was indeed the Deutsche Bank senior executive who kept making the decision to loan large amounts of money to Donald Trump for bad real estate deals, even after every other bank in the world had sworn off lending money to Trump", "VViGmhHGAzo-00007-00009086-00009972": "Oh, and there’s this sentence: “Occasionally, Justice Kennedy stopped by Deutsche Bank’s offices to say hello to the team''", "VViGmhHGAzo-00008-00009972-00011881": "So now we only have two possibilities. The first is that a Supreme Court Justice abruptly retired at the perfect time to save Donald Trump’s presidency, after the Justice’s son had coincidentally spent years signing off on absurd loans to Trump, from a bank that’s best known for laundering Russian money", "VViGmhHGAzo-00009-00011881-00013344": "The second is that Justin Kennedy is a Kremlin asset who spent years funneling money from Vladimir Putin to Donald Trump, and Anthony Kennedy retired in order to keep Trump afloat, because it was the only way to protect his son", "VViGmhHGAzo-00010-00013344-00013563": "Pick one"}}, {"audio_id": "Vjs1VOVYwF8", "text": {"Vjs1VOVYwF8-00000-00000571-00002569": "Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has had enough of this crap. Donald Trump’s newly handpicked Attorney General William Barr falsely characterized the Mueller report over the weekend, and Trump’s Republican House allies have spent the week using Barr’s disingenuous “summary” to try to punish those who have dared to expose Trump’s scandals", "Vjs1VOVYwF8-00001-00002569-00003982": "Now Pelosi is coming out swinging.As for William Barr’s four page “summary” of the Mueller report – which is now known to contain at least three hundred pages of evidence about Donald Trump’s scandals – Pelosi isn’t having any of it", "Vjs1VOVYwF8-00002-00003982-00005100": "She’s slamming Barr’s actions as “arrogant” and “condescending” and she’s throwing her full weight behind the brewing legal fight to force the entire Mueller report to become public", "Vjs1VOVYwF8-00003-00005100-00006022": "House Democrats have a number of options available, including subpoenaing the report itself, subpoenaing Barr, and subpoenaing Mueller", "Vjs1VOVYwF8-00004-00006022-00007289": "As for William Barr’s four page “summary” of the Mueller report – which is now known to contain at least three hundred pages of evidence about Donald Trump’s scandals – Pelosi isn’t having any of it", "Vjs1VOVYwF8-00005-00007289-00008407": "She’s slamming Barr’s actions as “arrogant” and “condescending” and she’s throwing her full weight behind the brewing legal fight to force the entire Mueller report to become public", "Vjs1VOVYwF8-00006-00008407-00009329": "House Democrats have a number of options available, including subpoenaing the report itself, subpoenaing Barr, and subpoenaing Mueller", "Vjs1VOVYwF8-00007-00009329-00010740": "Meanwhile, the Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee are making the bizarre demand that Chairman Adam Schiff resign, because he’s spent the past two years pointing to the abundance of Trump-Russia collusion evidence that’s been in plain sight", "Vjs1VOVYwF8-00008-00010740-00011346": "Schiff isn’t going anywhere, as the Republicans don’t have the numbers to oust him", "Vjs1VOVYwF8-00009-00011346-00012093": "Nancy Pelosi, who would make any final call about Schiff’s fate, is coming out strongly in his support", "Vjs1VOVYwF8-00010-00012093-00012832": "She’s slamming the Republicans on the committee, calling them “scaredy cats” who “just don’t know what to do''", "Vjs1VOVYwF8-00011-00012832-00014475": "Even as the Trump-Barr coverup of the Mueller report continues to show more cracks by the hour, it’s clear that Nancy Pelosi and the House Democrats are going to keep hammering away at exposing the truth, no matter what Donald Trump and the Republicans might throw at them"}}, {"audio_id": "W53lNIfAg50", "text": {"W53lNIfAg50-00000-00000571-00001380": "If the Trump administration accuses the Democrats of doing something, it means they’ve probably done it themselves", "W53lNIfAg50-00001-00001380-00002242": "If they deny it, they’ve almost certainly done it. If they admit to it, it’s even worse than you’ve been led to believe", "W53lNIfAg50-00002-00002242-00004264": "The Trump administration initially lied about separating families, with the excuse that they were simply following orders from a previous administration – though it’s been unclear if they’re referring to the policies of Presidents Obama, Bush 43 or Clinton – in other words, deflecting with lies and not caring where they point", "W53lNIfAg50-00003-00004264-00005202": "As time drags on, we’ve found that the number of children separated is much higher than originally thought – some even forced into adoption", "W53lNIfAg50-00004-00005202-00006082": "There are also the tragic deaths of children in U.S. custody, as reports reveal the conditions are even worse than we had feared", "W53lNIfAg50-00005-00006082-00007242": "Part of the reason the federal government has tried the excuse that there’s too many separated children and parents, is because they are now using secret shelters to detain migrant children", "W53lNIfAg50-00006-00007242-00008378": "One of them, located in Ada, Oklahoma, has a reputation for sexual harassment and physical abuse among its staff – and is known to be holding at least one migrant child", "W53lNIfAg50-00007-00008378-00009172": "A report from two years ago singled out this particular facility for having a staff with no medical training", "W53lNIfAg50-00008-00009172-00009967": "Even more alarming is that the attorneys of these children don’t even know how to find them – or how many even exist", "W53lNIfAg50-00009-00009967-00010847": "There are at least five in Arkansas, Florida, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and Virginia, according to Reveal News", "W53lNIfAg50-00010-00010847-00012124": "Beyond asking how this can be fixed, we must also ask if the number of separated families is so large because the Trump administration sought to profit off of this as much as possible?", "W53lNIfAg50-00011-00012124-00014360": "People often compare this age to the beginning of the Holocaust. But it could be something far more sinister – echoes of our own dark past – our treatment of Native Americans that is all too often glossed over in schools, or the internment of Japanese-American citizens during World War II, which is also rarely embellished, and was routinely upheld by courts in its day", "W53lNIfAg50-00012-00014360-00015180": "Media companies owe it to their country to put their resources into investigating this matter thoroughly from the ground up", "W53lNIfAg50-00013-00015180-00015954": "This is hardly the beginning of another shameful chapter in American history. We’re several steps along the way"}}, {"audio_id": "WDpjLO66r1Y", "text": {"WDpjLO66r1Y-00000-00000571-00001650": "We all expected Matt Whitaker to flip on Donald Trump eventually, because even a lunkhead like Whitaker can see that there are no magic pardons coming down", "WDpjLO66r1Y-00001-00001650-00002977": "We just didn’t expect Whitaker to flip quite so quickly or dramatically. He testified today to the House Judiciary Committee about Trump’s obstruction of justice crimes, according to Chairman Jerry Nadler", "WDpjLO66r1Y-00002-00002977-00003724": "This is a big deal. But Whitaker isn’t the first cooperating obstruction witness against Trump", "WDpjLO66r1Y-00003-00003724-00005058": "For instance, it’s been widely reported that former White House Counsel Don McGahn has been cooperating with Robert Mueller’s obstruction of justice probe for more than a year, most of that time without Trump’s knowledge", "WDpjLO66r1Y-00004-00005058-00006017": "It’s also been reported that Steve Bannon gave Mueller twenty hours of testimony, and no one testifies for that long unless they’re cooperating", "WDpjLO66r1Y-00005-00006017-00007132": "Before that, there were major media reports that Reince Priebus and Sean Spicer both documented Trump’s obstruction in real time, and then gave those notes to Mueller", "WDpjLO66r1Y-00006-00007132-00007780": "In other words, this isn’t merely a matter of Matt Whitaker’s word against Donald Trump’s word", "WDpjLO66r1Y-00007-00007780-00009165": "It’s a matter of Whitaker, McGahn, Bannon, Priebus, Spicer, maybe Hope Hicks, and probably others, all testifying that they witnessed Trump commit highly similar crimes in different settings", "WDpjLO66r1Y-00008-00009165-00009771": "This adds up to corroboration.We’ll see where this goes, but here’s what stands out", "WDpjLO66r1Y-00009-00009771-00011108": "If even a dummy like Matt Whitaker can figure out that Donald Trump isn’t really going to pardon any of his henchmen, that tells us that most of Trump’s henchmen have likely figured out by now that there are no magic pardons", "WDpjLO66r1Y-00010-00011108-00011834": "So the list of cooperating witnesses against Trump is probably even longer than we could guess at"}}, {"audio_id": "WS-RsvbFKJk", "text": {"WS-RsvbFKJk-00000-00000513-00001764": "he 2020 election is less than two years away and the list of candidates ready to take on Donald Trump grows longer everyday, as Democrats across the country launch their presidential campaigns", "WS-RsvbFKJk-00001-00001764-00002516": "So far, a dozen lawmakers have officially thrown their hats into the ring for the Democratic Party’s nomination", "WS-RsvbFKJk-00002-00002516-00003697": "There are at least ten more Democrats who have not yet announced 2020 bids, but are considered possible candidates, like Joe Biden, Beto O’Rourke and Stacey Abrams", "WS-RsvbFKJk-00003-00003697-00004807": "The 2020 Democratic field is already the most ethnically and racially diverse in history and has a record-breaking number of female candidates vying for a shot at the White House", "WS-RsvbFKJk-00004-00004807-00005664": "But even with dozens of Democrats knocking on the door, Trump has remained confident he will be elected to a second term", "WS-RsvbFKJk-00005-00005664-00006453": "During his CPAC speech earlier this month, the president promised the crowd a re-election victory", "WS-RsvbFKJk-00006-00006453-00007231": "“We’re going to do it again in 2020, and the numbers, I think, are going to be even bigger,” Trump said", "WS-RsvbFKJk-00007-00007231-00007978": "Here’s a full, updated list of Democrats aiming to take down Trump in 2020.Announced", "WS-RsvbFKJk-00008-00007978-00008997": "Cory Booker - The New Jersey senator and former Newark mayor has made a name for himself in Congress for his oratory skills and criminal justice reform efforts", "WS-RsvbFKJk-00009-00008997-00009720": "He has also signed on as a co-sponsor on progressive legislation like Medicare for All and the Green New Deal", "WS-RsvbFKJk-00010-00009720-00010757": "But Booker has been criticized for being too cozy with Wall Street after he was the top recipient of corporate money in the 2014 election cycle", "WS-RsvbFKJk-00011-00010757-00011721": "Julian Castro - The 44-year-old lawmaker is the first Texas Democrat to announce a bid for president in more than four decades", "WS-RsvbFKJk-00012-00011721-00012965": "The former San Antonio mayor served in the Obama administration as the secretary of housing and urban development and was in the running to be Hillary Clinton’s vice president in 2016", "WS-RsvbFKJk-00013-00012965-00013743": "Key issues for Castro include immigration reform, Medicare for All and universal pre-kindergarten", "WS-RsvbFKJk-00014-00013743-00014532": "John Delaney - Delaney is a former House representative known for his ability to reach across the aisle", "WS-RsvbFKJk-00015-00014532-00015245": "He was also the first Democrat to challenge Trump when he announced his candidacy in 2017", "WS-RsvbFKJk-00016-00015245-00016000": "He supports ending gerrymandering, universal health care, artificial intelligence and a carbon tax", "WS-RsvbFKJk-00017-00016000-00017212": "Tulsi Gabbard - The 37-year-old congresswoman from Hawaii made headlines when she resigned as vice chair of the Democratic National Committee in 2016 to support Bernie Sanders", "WS-RsvbFKJk-00018-00017212-00018118": "The Iraq War veteran’s key issues include the Green New Deal, tuition-free college and a reduced military presence in the Middle East", "WS-RsvbFKJk-00019-00018118-00019973": "But she’s received criticism over her stance on LGBTQ rights.Kamala Harris - While Harris only joined the Senate in 2016, she’s drawn nationwide attention for her harsh criticism of the Trump administration - especially when it comes to Trump’s cabinet nominees and court appointments", "WS-RsvbFKJk-00020-00019973-00020921": "The California senator has championed civil rights legislation and recently unveiled a tax plan aimed at benefiting the middle class", "WS-RsvbFKJk-00021-00020921-00021940": "John Hickenlooper - The Colorado governor announced his presidential bid in early March and is positioning himself as a moderate in a large field of progressive candidates", "WS-RsvbFKJk-00022-00021940-00022820": "Before becoming a politician, Hickenlooper was a geologist who became rich when he opened a brewery in Denver", "WS-RsvbFKJk-00023-00022820-00023525": "His key issues include gun control, the Green New Deal and marijuana legalization", "WS-RsvbFKJk-00024-00023525-00024641": "Jay Inslee - Inslee, the governor of Washington, is running for president on a climate change platform, arguing that defeating climate change should be “our nation’s No", "WS-RsvbFKJk-00025-00024641-00025388": "1 priority.” He has called for Democrats to support green-energy economic programs", "WS-RsvbFKJk-00026-00025388-00026472": "Amy Klobuchar - The 58-year-old senator from Minnesota stoked national attention last year during the confirmation hearing of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh", "WS-RsvbFKJk-00027-00026472-00027616": "In her 12 years serving in public office, she’s focused on legislation to combat the nation’s opioid crisis and lowering the cost of prescription drugs", "WS-RsvbFKJk-00028-00027616-00028400": "Klobuchar has also drawn attention for successfully pushing for mandated sexual harassment training in the Senate", "WS-RsvbFKJk-00029-00028400-00029484": "Bernie Sanders - The independent senator from Vermont is taking another shot at the Democratic nomination after losing to Hillary Clinton in 2016", "WS-RsvbFKJk-00030-00029484-00030502": "After Sanders announced bid in mid-February, his campaign raised nearly $6 million in just one day in small-dollar donations from across the country", "WS-RsvbFKJk-00031-00030502-00031581": "But the self-described democratic socialist has found himself in hot water over reports of sexual misconduct within his 2016 campaign staff", "WS-RsvbFKJk-00032-00031581-00032407": "Elizabeth Warren - The 69-year-old senator from Massachusetts began her presidential bid at the end of December", "WS-RsvbFKJk-00033-00032407-00033425": "As a former Harvard bankruptcy law professor, Warren has used her time in office to advocate for greater regulations on Wall Street and big businesses", "WS-RsvbFKJk-00034-00033425-00034595": "But in recent months, she has drawn criticism for taking a DNA test to prove her Native American heritage, a stunt the indigenous community said undermined tribal interests", "WS-RsvbFKJk-00035-00034595-00035627": "Marianne Williamson - Williamson is one of the lesser-known candidates in the crowded Democratic field, having run for Congress back in 2014 and lost", "WS-RsvbFKJk-00036-00035627-00036502": "Williamson is an author who has published more than a dozen self-help books, four of which have been on the New York Times bestseller list", "WS-RsvbFKJk-00037-00036502-00037338": "The 66-year-old supports universal pre-school and free college, DACA and reparations for slavery", "WS-RsvbFKJk-00038-00037338-00038333": "Andrew Yang - The 44-year-old technology executive who founded Venture for America announced his candidacy way back in November 2017", "WS-RsvbFKJk-00039-00038333-00039519": "He is running on a platform of “human-centered capitalism” and one of his boldest proposals is a universal basic income of $1,000 per month for all Americans", "WS-RsvbFKJk-00040-00039519-00041100": "Exploratory.Pete Buttigieg - The 37-year-old mayor of South Bend, Indiana is one of the youngest candidates to launch a 2020 exploratory committee and is the first openly gay person to launch a bid for the presidency", "WS-RsvbFKJk-00041-00041100-00041970": "The military veteran is running on a millennial platform, focusing on key issues like climate change and economic stability", "WS-RsvbFKJk-00042-00041970-00043291": "He is a strong supporter of labor and union groups.Kirsten Gillibrand - The New York senator and close friend of the Clintons announced her exploratory committee in January during an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert", "WS-RsvbFKJk-00043-00043291-00044213": "A champion of the #MeToo movement, Gillibrand has made a career in the Senate by cracking down on sexual assault in the military", "WS-RsvbFKJk-00044-00044213-00045028": "But Gillibrand has found herself under scrutiny over her office's handling of a staff sexual misconduct report", "WS-RsvbFKJk-00045-00045028-00046141": "Possible.Stacey Abrams - The Georgia lawmaker is seen as a rising star in the Democratic Party after her failed bid for governor sparked a national debate about voter suppression", "WS-RsvbFKJk-00046-00046141-00047183": "Abrams was tapped to give the Democratic rebuttal to Trump’s State of the Union address, which earned praise from party leaders like Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer", "WS-RsvbFKJk-00047-00047183-00047949": "Joe Biden - The former vice president is rumored to be announcing his candidacy any day now as he travels the country", "WS-RsvbFKJk-00048-00047949-00048967": "While he hasn’t announced anything yet, early polling already shows Biden would be an easy frontrunner in the Democratic primary and a serious challenger to Trump", "WS-RsvbFKJk-00049-00048967-00049926": "The former Delaware senator was expected to run for president in 2016, but decided against it after the death of his son Beau", "WS-RsvbFKJk-00050-00049926-00050926": "Beto O’Rourke - O’Rourke, despite losing his Senate bid in the 2018 midterms to Republican Ted Cruz, is not ruling out a presidential run", "WS-RsvbFKJk-00051-00050926-00051932": "The young Democrat became a national star for his battle with Cruz in deep-red Texas in a race he only lost by less than three percentage points", "WS-RsvbFKJk-00052-00051932-00052580": "He has placed immigration, education and climate change at the center of his platform"}}, {"audio_id": "X4vZ-yRlo38", "text": {"X4vZ-yRlo38-00000-00000513-00001367": "Meghan Markle is believed to have revealed to close pals attending her intimate baby shower in New York the gender of Baby Sussex", "X4vZ-yRlo38-00001-00001367-00002561": "The Duchess of Sussex, who is soon to enter the eighth month of her pregnancy, hinted in January she and Prince Harry had no plans to find out whether they will welcome a boy or a girl", "X4vZ-yRlo38-00002-00002561-00003718": "But E! royal expert Melanie Bromley suggested Meghan could have been trying to gain back control over her perception in the public sphere after the Royal Family \"took away her voice", "X4vZ-yRlo38-00003-00003718-00004598": "\".Ms Bromley said: \"I don’t know if it’s certain that Meghan is telling her friends things and allowing it to get out", "X4vZ-yRlo38-00004-00004598-00005235": "\"But I don’t blame her if it’s the case because she has had her voice taken away from her", "X4vZ-yRlo38-00005-00005235-00006667": "And I would want somebody to speak on my behalf. That’s natural.\".A source close to Meghan told the Daily Mail this week the Duchess of Sussex had told friends in New York she is expecting a Royal Baby boy for the Spring", "X4vZ-yRlo38-00006-00006667-00007555": ".But the royal expert suggested the former actress has revealed the gender to find which friends are leaking information to the media", "X4vZ-yRlo38-00007-00007555-00008336": "Ms Bromley continued: “Traditionally, the Royals don’t really find out the sex of their baby", "X4vZ-yRlo38-00008-00008336-00009509": "“But obviously Meghan is just changing things up. And I can definitely see her saying to Harry ‘I would like to know because I want to decorate the nursery in a certain way’", "X4vZ-yRlo38-00009-00009509-00011074": "It could be that.“It could be that she has told people to see who the leaks are. But as I have said before, I do think that Meghan knows her friends are talking to the press and I think that is a very unusual position that the Royal Family haven’t had before", "X4vZ-yRlo38-00010-00011074-00012369": "\".She added: \"I will say, going back to the People Magazine article of three weeks ago - which has caused massive problems – if they are her best friends, why are they talking to People Magazine", "X4vZ-yRlo38-00011-00012369-00013529": "That story is the smoking gun.\".Five of Meghan Markle’s friends in February attempted to counter the negativity directed at the Duchess of Sussex in an interview with People magazine", "X4vZ-yRlo38-00012-00013529-00014582": "One of Meghan's inner circle said: “Meg has silently sat back and endured the lies and untruths, we worry about what this is doing to her and the baby", "X4vZ-yRlo38-00013-00014582-00015203": "“It’s wrong to put anyone under this level of emotional trauma, let alone when they’re pregnant", "X4vZ-yRlo38-00014-00015203-00016583": "”.Meghan and Harry have this week returned from a three-day visit to Morocco and are expected to be soon settling down in their new home on the Windsor Estate, Frogmore Cottage, to prepare for the arrival of the Royal Baby", "X4vZ-yRlo38-00015-00016583-00017672": "While Harry and Meghan admitted they did not want to know the sex of their child beforehand, the name Victoria has emerged as a clear favourite among Britons for the tot", "X4vZ-yRlo38-00016-00017672-00018526": "The name Victoria would be a nod to the Royal family, as Queen Elizabeth II is a great-great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria", "X4vZ-yRlo38-00017-00018526-00019558": "Although the two monarchs never met as Queen Victoria died before Queen Elizabeth II was born, the two appear to have a strong bond"}}, {"audio_id": "X6vSEE200cg", "text": {"X6vSEE200cg-00000-00000513-00001338": "President Donald Trump continues to upend established American domestic and foreign policy at every turn", "X6vSEE200cg-00001-00001338-00002971": "This Friday, he abruptly announced that he’d ordered the cancellation of additional rounds of sanctions the Treasury Department had unveiled just the previous day targeting Chinese shipping companies that have helped North Korea evade the economic impact of their isolation", "X6vSEE200cg-00002-00002971-00004478": "He revealed the decision in a Twitter post — because of course he did. In that Twitter post, he got a basic detail of the globally-relevant sanctions in question wrong, claiming them to have been unveiled on Friday as opposed to Thursday", "X6vSEE200cg-00003-00004478-00005847": "As he put it:‘It was announced today by the U.S. Treasury that additional large scale Sanctions would be added to those already existing Sanctions on North Korea.I have today ordered the withdrawal of those additional Sanctions!’", "X6vSEE200cg-00004-00005847-00006500": "Trump has dragged the execution of U.S. foreign policy to an incredibly low point", "X6vSEE200cg-00005-00006500-00007699": "It now hinges on error-packed, haphazardly thrown together Twitter posts from Mar-a-Lago, the Trump-branded resort where the president is staying this weekend", "X6vSEE200cg-00006-00007699-00008989": "As for an explanation for the abrupt decision, White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders offered:‘President Trump likes Chairman Kim, and he doesn’t think these sanctions will be necessary'", "X6vSEE200cg-00007-00008989-00010086": "That’s right — a whole round of sanctions targeting a nuclear-powered regime has been cancelled because Trump “likes” their dictatorial leader, Kim Jong Un", "X6vSEE200cg-00008-00010086-00010888": "Not only that, but in light of that fondness, Trump “doesn’t think” the additional sanctions will be necessary", "X6vSEE200cg-00009-00010888-00012560": "The catalyst isn’t that he has data suggesting they’re unneeded in the form of new concessions from the North Koreans, finer tuned economic numbers, or whatever else.Nope, he just likes Kim and doesn’t feel like having the sanctions in place", "X6vSEE200cg-00010-00012560-00014637": "Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin had touted the sanctions as indicating that the “United States and our like-minded partners remain committed to achieving the final, fully verified denuclearization of North Korea and believe that the full implementation of North Korea-related U.N. Security Council resolutions is crucial to a successful outcome.”", "X6vSEE200cg-00011-00014637-00015499": "The New York Times shared that “[c]urrent and former Treasury Department officials were stunned” by Trump’s move to the contrary", "X6vSEE200cg-00012-00015499-00016337": "This abrupt presidential break from America’s national security apparatus definitely fits into a broader pattern", "X6vSEE200cg-00013-00016337-00017727": "At a rally before the midterm elections, he proudly asserted that he and Kim “fell in love,” and to that end, he recently held a second in-person summit with the leader, but that effort ended without any signed agreement", "X6vSEE200cg-00014-00017727-00019493": "That premature conclusion apparently didn’t disillusion Trump, however, who is seemingly still riding on the strength of his love affair with a murderous dictator to keep the world from plunging into a nuclear winter, dumping the protective mechanisms normally in place in the process", "X6vSEE200cg-00015-00019493-00021070": "He even withdrew the United States from joint military exercises with the South Koreans that had been planned for last year, while there have been little if any indications that the North Koreans have halted their nuclear weapons programs", "X6vSEE200cg-00016-00021070-00022282": "After Kim and Trump’s second in-person love fest, satellite imagery emerged indicating the North Koreans had begun “rapidly rebuilding” a missile launch site.How reassuring"}}, {"audio_id": "Xz1WsVg9FoQ", "text": {"Xz1WsVg9FoQ-00000-00000571-00002068": "Earlier this week, as some of Donald Trump’s top officials began brazenly and illegally thumbing their nose at congressional oversight, we pointed out that the next logical step was for House Democrats to begin holding them in contempt of Congress", "Xz1WsVg9FoQ-00001-00002068-00002765": "Now House Democrats are preparing to do precisely that – and they’re naming names in the process", "Xz1WsVg9FoQ-00002-00002765-00003797": ".For instance, this afternoon House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings accused Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Gore of illegally dodging a subpoena", "Xz1WsVg9FoQ-00003-00003797-00004465": "He also accused Attorney General William Barr of having instructed Gore to dodge the subpoena", "Xz1WsVg9FoQ-00004-00004465-00005283": "Cummings added that if Gore “fails to comply with the subpoena, the Committee will consider him to be in contempt of Congress", "Xz1WsVg9FoQ-00005-00005283-00006320": "” To be clear, being held in contempt of Congress generally means being arrested by the House Sergeant-at-Arms and locked up until the subpoena is complied with", "Xz1WsVg9FoQ-00006-00006320-00007122": "As Committee Chair, Cummings can make this happen – and he has a history of doing what he says he’s going to do", "Xz1WsVg9FoQ-00007-00007122-00008287": ". .What stands out here is that Cummings is not only threatening to have Barr’s deputy Gore arrested, he’s directly accusing Barr of being responsible for Gore’s illegal behavior", "Xz1WsVg9FoQ-00008-00008287-00009530": "So why not simply jump straight to arresting Barr? If House Democrats are going to succeed in taking these kinds of drastic steps, they have to do it in a manner that’s more strategic than bombastic", "Xz1WsVg9FoQ-00009-00009530-00010886": "Arresting a high ranking DOJ official would serve to get the message across to those carrying out Trump’s illegal agenda, without handing Trump a talking point about House Democrats overreaching by having the Attorney General arrested", "Xz1WsVg9FoQ-00010-00010886-00011466": "Gore isn’t the only name being thrown around when it comes to contempt of Congress", "Xz1WsVg9FoQ-00011-00011466-00012879": "Democratic Congressman Bill Pascrell, who sits on the House Ways and Means Committee, is talking about holding Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin in contempt of Congress for illegally refusing to turn over Donald Trump’s tax returns", "Xz1WsVg9FoQ-00012-00012879-00013778": "Pascrell isn’t necessarily speaking on behalf of Committee Chairman Richard Neal, who would make the decision on such a matter", "Xz1WsVg9FoQ-00013-00013778-00014917": "For all we know, Neal could be looking at doing something more similar to what Cummings is doing – arresting a top Mnuchin deputy in order to drive a calculated point home", "Xz1WsVg9FoQ-00014-00014917-00015664": "But all of this speaks to just how aggressively House Democrats are looking to come out swinging", "Xz1WsVg9FoQ-00015-00015664-00016711": "Trump and his loyalists clearly aren’t going to back down unless and until they’re figuratively punched in the mouth – and it looks like that’s soon going to happen"}}, {"audio_id": "XHg38xY2sxM", "text": {"XHg38xY2sxM-00000-00000571-00002953": "During an interview on MSNBC Thursday morning, Vanity Fair’s Emily Jane Fox said that President Donald Trump and his family are terrified by the sight of Michel Cohen walking into Congress with “suitcases” full of documents as he answered more questions behind closed doors, some possibly addressing allegations that the president’s own lawyers helped coach his 2017 false testimony", "XHg38xY2sxM-00001-00002953-00005335": "During an interview on MSNBC Thursday morning, Vanity Fair’s Emily Jane Fox said that President Donald Trump and his family are terrified by the sight of Michel Cohen walking into Congress with “suitcases” full of documents as he answered more questions behind closed doors, some possibly addressing allegations that the president’s own lawyers helped coach his 2017 false testimony", "XHg38xY2sxM-00002-00005335-00006678": "“One of the most stunning images of the past week, which has been a fairly stunning week when it comes to Michel Cohen, was Cohen entering Capitol Hill yesterday with three suitcases and a big file folder,” she said", "XHg38xY2sxM-00003-00006678-00007699": "“I think that that, to me, was a moment that must have struck fear in President Trump and his family, and anyone who works in the Trump organization''", "XHg38xY2sxM-00004-00007699-00008854": "“Before his public testimony he spent time digging through boxes in a storage unit to find documents that backed up some of his claims,” Fox continued, citing her own reporting", "XHg38xY2sxM-00005-00008854-00010941": "“He spent this past weekend before he went back to Capitol Hill yesterday doing some more document diving and that is what was able to allow him to bring more documents yesterday about these kinds of edits and about communication he had with lawyers representing various members of the administration about the kinds of changes that they wanted to see made''", "XHg38xY2sxM-00006-00010941-00012234": "‘Morning Joe’ Host Joe Scarborough asked Fox to provide “some insight” into polling that shows “by more than double digits (that) Americans believe Michael Cohen far more than they believe Donald Trump", "XHg38xY2sxM-00007-00012234-00013634": "” Fox was only too happy to oblige.“What a sad state of affairs that number is, that the American public believes someone who admitted to lying to Congress more than their own president of the United States,” she said", "XHg38xY2sxM-00008-00013634-00015557": "“I think that Cohen felt like he went to Congress and did what he needed to do. I think the fact that he brought documents with him, those suitcases this week and the documents that he showed publicly last week, I think that is why you see the big discrepancy and I think that Cohen was pleased with that''"}}, {"audio_id": "XX1hqAHOLZu", "text": {"XX1hqAHOLZu-00000-00000513-00001545": "Congress continues to deal with the fallout of President Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration last month over the supposed crisis at the southern border", "XX1hqAHOLZu-00001-00001545-00003412": "House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) announced this Wednesday that her chamber would not be taking up Senate GOP legislation that responds to the essentially completely baseless declaration by curtailing the emergency powers of future presidents while leaving Trump’s current move intact", "XX1hqAHOLZu-00002-00003412-00004818": "As she put it:.‘In an effort to avoid voting in favor of the House’s resolution to terminate Trump’s fake emergency, GOP senators are proposing legislation to allow Trump to violate the Constitution *just this once", "XX1hqAHOLZu-00003-00004818-00006952": "* The House will not take up this legislation to give President Trump a pass.’.The legislation in question would make future emergency declarations expire after thirty days in the absence of Congressional action and has been presented as an alternative to directly voting to cancel Trump’s currently in-place declaration, an issue the Senate will be taking up Thursday", "XX1hqAHOLZu-00004-00006952-00007842": "Trump hopes to use subsequent executive power from the declaration to procure billions in funding for his southern border wall", "XX1hqAHOLZu-00005-00007842-00008968": "The Democratic majority House has already voted to cancel the declaration, moving to do so under the power of the same legislation that allowed for it in the first place", "XX1hqAHOLZu-00006-00008968-00009841": "Although the Senate remains in the hands of the GOP and even Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky", "XX1hqAHOLZu-00007-00009841-00011217": ") has expressed support for the president’s declaration, at least when this week began, four Republican Senators indicated plans to vote to strike it down, giving the cancellation the simple majority it needed", "XX1hqAHOLZu-00008-00011217-00012411": "Those to express opposition to that level have included Republican Sens. Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), Susan Collins (Maine), Rand Paul (Ky", "XX1hqAHOLZu-00009-00012411-00013430": "), and Thom Tillis (N.C.) — although The New York Times claimed on Tuesday that Tillis seemed to be “wavering” in his commitment to vote down the declaration", "XX1hqAHOLZu-00010-00013430-00014263": "Trump personally lobbied for Republican Senators to support his national emergency declaration on Twitter this Wednesday, posting:", "XX1hqAHOLZu-00011-00014263-00015360": "‘Republican Senators are overthinking tomorrow’s vote on National Emergency. It is very simply Border Security/No Crime – Should not be thought of any other way", "XX1hqAHOLZu-00012-00015360-00016097": "We have a MAJOR NATIONAL EMERGENCY at our Border and the People of our Country know it very well!’", "XX1hqAHOLZu-00013-00016097-00017134": "Either way, the cancellation is unlikely to make it through, because it also has to be approved by the president and he’s unsurprisingly pledged to veto the measure", "XX1hqAHOLZu-00014-00017134-00017933": "Neither Congressional chamber have a two-thirds, veto-proof majority in favor of the cancellation", "XX1hqAHOLZu-00015-00017933-00019550": "All hope is far from lost for those against the proclamation, however. The move quickly faced a number of lawsuits, including one with a coalition of 16 states led by California’s Attorney General Xavier Becerra against the Trump administration", "XX1hqAHOLZu-00016-00019550-00021958": "The declaration has essentially no basis in reality. Confronted with the facts of at least comparatively low crime associated with the southern border and undocumented immigration during his press conference announcing his national emergency declaration, Trump claimed there are vast unreported criminal networks among undocumented immigrants, singling them out with no tangible basis other than their skin color", "XX1hqAHOLZu-00017-00021958-00022917": "Still, Trump remains undeterred. In his recent budget proposal for the 2020 fiscal year, he asked for a whopping $8", "XX1hqAHOLZu-00018-00022917-00023933": "6 billion for his long-sought southern border wall blocking off Mexico, which there is no indication whatsoever Congress will actually give him"}}, {"audio_id": "XZQZnL-BRHU", "text": {"XZQZnL-BRHU-00000-00000571-00002198": "A federal judge in Florida just ruled that Trump’s Labor Secretary abused his prior position as a US. Attorney by violating victim’s rights laws to protect a billionaire pedophile from criminal prosecution for molesting at least 40 underage girls", "XZQZnL-BRHU-00001-00002198-00004045": "(ruling embedded below).Jeffrey Epstein hired an all-star legal team including Alan Dershowitz and Jay Lefkowitz to defend himself against substantiated allegations of sex crimes, and Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta was then the US. attorney in charge of prosecuting him", "XZQZnL-BRHU-00002-00004045-00005408": "Acosta gave Epstein a top secret, sweetheart deal to avoid all federal prosecution in exchange for pleading guilty to a couple of minor state offenses and serving a cursory sentence mostly in his own plush offices", "XZQZnL-BRHU-00003-00005408-00007705": "Epstein’s victims filed suit over 10 years ago when they found out about Acosta’s secret deal and today the judge ruled that prosecutors broke the Crime Victim’s Rights Act (CVRA) by not only failing to inform the victims before they agreed not to prosecute the billionaire but actually lying to the women by sending out false notices that the case was ongoing", "XZQZnL-BRHU-00004-00007705-00008820": "The judge ruled:.“The CVRA was designed to give the victims the same opportunity to attempt to affect prosecutorial decisions before they became final", "XZQZnL-BRHU-00005-00008820-00010074": "”.Instead, the Office engaged in lengthy negotiations with Epstein that included repeated assurances that the [Non-Prosecution Agreement] would not be ‘made public or filed with the Court", "XZQZnL-BRHU-00006-00010074-00011696": "'”.The 33-page ruling recounts in painstaking detail the numerous conversations by email between prosecutors and Epstein’s lawyers and their total coverup of one of America’s largest known sex-crimes for the sheer number of underage women he abused", "XZQZnL-BRHU-00007-00011696-00012811": "The judge opined:.“…Based upon the investigation, the United States has identified 40 young women who can be characterized as victims pursuant to 18 U", "XZQZnL-BRHU-00008-00012811-00013874": "S.C. § 2255. Some of those women went to Mr. Epstein’s home only once, some went there as many as 100 times or more", "XZQZnL-BRHU-00009-00013874-00014786": "Some of the women’s conduct was limited to performing a topless or nude massage while Mr Epstein masturbated himself.", "XZQZnL-BRHU-00010-00014786-00015366": "For other women, the conduct escalated to full sexual intercourse", "XZQZnL-BRHU-00011-00015366-00016844": "”.Yet, Trump’s current Labor Secretary, the single person most responsible for policing illegal child labor and human trafficking, ignored the victims and spent his time personally conferring with the billionaire’s lawyers", "XZQZnL-BRHU-00012-00016844-00017581": "Two weeks ago, the Justice Department announced an internal investigation into Acosta’s behavior", "XZQZnL-BRHU-00013-00017581-00019229": "Acosta personally interceded to protect Epstein from his office sending out the lawfully required notices to his victims, which are required to be delivered before any plea deal is sealed on multiple occasions for nine months after he agreed to stand down his prosecution", "XZQZnL-BRHU-00014-00019229-00020509": "His prosecutors even agreed to keep the non-prosecution agreement totally secret and to refuse to even give a copy of it to his victims unless they pursued a compulsory legal process", "XZQZnL-BRHU-00015-00020509-00022267": ".Jeffrey Epstein used those nine months to challenge his non-prosecution at the highest levels of the Department of Justice while his victims thought the FBI was still trying to determine if there was enough evidence to file charges based on the government’s misleading written notices to them", "XZQZnL-BRHU-00016-00022267-00024031": "Ultimately, victims were kept in the dark until more than a week after Epstein pleaded guilty in a Palm Beach County Circuit Court when the current lawsuit was filed in federal by attorney Bradley Edwards, who says that today’s ruling should result in the non-prosecution agreement being invalidated", "XZQZnL-BRHU-00017-00024031-00025595": "Jeffrey Epstein was facing life in prison in 2008 when he got Alexander Acosta to let him off the hook with a slap on the wrists, and nobody found out about the billionaire’s secret deal until late last year when the Miami Herald‘s Julie K", "XZQZnL-BRHU-00018-00025595-00026395": "Brown revealed the entire shameful affair in her award-winning investigative report “Perversion of Justice", "XZQZnL-BRHU-00019-00026395-00026495": "”"}}, {"audio_id": "Xa5S4zXZ_wk", "text": {"Xa5S4zXZ_wk-00000-00000571-00001631": "Donald Trump on Friday delivered yet another angry rant against special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation while talking with reporters on the White House lawn", "Xa5S4zXZ_wk-00001-00001631-00002621": "Trump was triggered after being asked a question about former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, who was sentenced to four years in jail on Thursday", "Xa5S4zXZ_wk-00002-00002621-00003363": "The president said that he felt “very badly” for Manafort and then falsely claimed that judge T", "Xa5S4zXZ_wk-00003-00003363-00003990": "S. Ellis said that the case proves there was “no collusion” between his campaign and Russia", "Xa5S4zXZ_wk-00004-00003990-00005262": "“The judge said there was no collusion with Russia!” Trump said. “It’s got nothing to do with Russia, it’s a collusion hoax, it’s a collusion witch hoax! I don’t collude with Russia!”", "Xa5S4zXZ_wk-00005-00005262-00005952": "To further drive his point home, Trump then again repeated the “no collusion” mantra", "Xa5S4zXZ_wk-00006-00005952-00007378": "“No collusion with Russia, there was absolutely none!” he said. “The judge, I mean, for whatever reason, I was very honored by it, also made the statement that this had nothing to do with collusion with Russia", "Xa5S4zXZ_wk-00007-00007378-00008057": "So, you know, keep it going, keep the hoax going, it’s just a hoax!”"}}, {"audio_id": "XeXV9l9Cgpy", "text": {"XeXV9l9Cgpy-00000-00000571-00001710": "The View’s Meghan McCain on Wednesday blasted President Donald Trump’s transgender military ban, describing it as “an unfair, un-American, and dangerous policy", "XeXV9l9Cgpy-00001-00001710-00002415": "”.“It is indefensible that Trump’s ban on Transgender troops is being implemented on Friday", "XeXV9l9Cgpy-00002-00002415-00003520": "This discriminatory policy will lead Transgender service members, patriots who have decided to serve their nation, to live in the shadows,” McCain wrote in a social media post", "XeXV9l9Cgpy-00003-00003520-00004831": "“It’s an unfair, un-American, and dangerous policy.”. .McCain’s tweet included a clip from The View of two active-duty transgender military members lamenting the policy set for implementation Friday", "XeXV9l9Cgpy-00004-00004831-00005821": "“On Friday, the 12th, as many as 15,000 transgender service members stand to lose their jobs,” Army Staff Sgt", "XeXV9l9Cgpy-00005-00005821-00007174": "Patricia King said on the ABC daytime talk show. “For those of us who are grandfathered in because we’ve already come out and we already have a diagnosis, there’s the possibility for systematic discrimination", "XeXV9l9Cgpy-00006-00007174-00008386": "”.In 2016, then-President Barack Obama lifted a ban on transgender people serving in the military, a move the Trump administration has attempted to reverse for over a year and a half", "XeXV9l9Cgpy-00007-00008386-00009428": "The Supreme Court in January voted 5-4 to grant President Trump’s request to lift injunctions halting the policy as challenges continue in lower courts", "XeXV9l9Cgpy-00008-00009428-00010724": "In a 2017 tweet, the president declared his administration would no longer “accept or allow” transgender people to serve in the military due to “tremendous medical costs and disruption”", "XeXV9l9Cgpy-00009-00010724-00011659": "Then-Defence Secretary Jim Mattis modified the policy by narrowing the ban to individuals with a history of gender dysphoria", "XeXV9l9Cgpy-00010-00011659-00012464": "According to the Palm Center, there are roughly 8,980 active duty transgender troops presently serving", "XeXV9l9Cgpy-00011-00012464-00013417": "McCain, the daughter of the late Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), is one of President Trump’s most vocal center-right critics", "XeXV9l9Cgpy-00012-00013417-00014185": "Appearing on CNN with host Van Jones in late January, McCain said she hates the U", "XeXV9l9Cgpy-00013-00014185-00014875": "S. without her father’s leadership. “As an American, I hate this country without him in it", "XeXV9l9Cgpy-00014-00014875-00015943": "I know that sounds awful. I don’t hate America but I just hate it without his leadership,” she said when asked how she was handling her father’s passing", "XeXV9l9Cgpy-00015-00015943-00017095": "In response to criticism of her father’s role in the Steele dossier, McCain wrote on social media that the president will never be loved like the Arizona Republican was", "XeXV9l9Cgpy-00016-00017095-00017806": "“No one will ever love you the way they loved my father…. I wish I had been given more Saturday’s with him", "XeXV9l9Cgpy-00017-00017806-00018479": "Maybe spend yours with your family instead of on twitter obsessing over mine?” she tweeted", "XeXV9l9Cgpy-00018-00018479-00019153": "McCain infamously included several jabs at President Trump in her eulogy for her father"}}]