[{"audio_id": "fuRQF4yqfUE", "text": {"fuRQF4yqfUE-00000-00000513-00001524": "Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee Adam Schiff made a glaring claim Sunday that there is “direct evidence” of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia", "fuRQF4yqfUE-00001-00001524-00002401": "The chairman went on to say he refuses to let up on looking into Trump’s finances despite the president’s extreme objections", "fuRQF4yqfUE-00002-00002401-00003681": "\"I think there is direct evidence in the e-mails from the Russians through their intermediary offering dirt on Hillary Clinton as part of what is described in writing as the Russian government effort to help elect Donald Trump", "fuRQF4yqfUE-00003-00003681-00004470": "They offer that dirt. There is an acceptance of that offer in writing from the president’s son Don Jr", "fuRQF4yqfUE-00004-00004470-00005902": "and there’s overt acts in furtherance of that.”.Schiff says circumstantial evidence of Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort sharing internal polling data with someone linked to Russian intelligence services played a part in his claim", "fuRQF4yqfUE-00005-00005902-00007090": "The chairman confirmed his committee is currently looking into allegations that Russian operatives have been laundering money through the Trump Organization — though he admitted those claims aren’t currently proven", "fuRQF4yqfUE-00006-00007090-00008501": "The House Intelligence Committee’s probe will include speaking with banks who have worked with Trump, accountants and chief financial officers who’ve worked with the Trump Organization any others with knowledge of the Moscow Trump Tower deal", "fuRQF4yqfUE-00007-00008501-00009833": "The attitude shift among many House Democrats comes after an explosive testimony from Donald Trump’s former personal attorney and fixer Michael Cohen where details about numerous financial crimes were aired out", "fuRQF4yqfUE-00008-00009833-00010786": "Republicans have downplayed Cohen’s testimony repeatedly, claiming he is continuing to lie after being charged for lying to Congress", "fuRQF4yqfUE-00009-00010786-00011944": "GOP leader Kevin McCarthy went on to call for Schiff to recuse himself from the investigation for contacting Cohen, a claim Schiff said was “pretty frivolous", "fuRQF4yqfUE-00010-00011944-00013271": "” Jim Jordan, the top Republican on the House Oversight Committee, also claimed there is still zero evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia despite evidence provided during Cohen’s testimony", "fuRQF4yqfUE-00011-00013271-00014080": "Trump attacked Schiff on Saturday during a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference, calling him “little shifty Schiff", "fuRQF4yqfUE-00012-00014080-00015034": "” He went on to deny there was collusion between him and Russia, saying investigators are morphing the probe to “inspect every deal he’s ever done", "fuRQF4yqfUE-00013-00015034-00015134": "”"}}, {"audio_id": "fyQlo61dxyg", "text": {}}, {"audio_id": "fzwNJ-LadGk", "text": {"fzwNJ-LadGk-00000-00000000-00001248": "In an exclusive interview with The Hill, President Donald Trump was asked what he viewed the biggest mistake in American history and his answer just sent the Republican Party on a whirlwind spiral", "fzwNJ-LadGk-00001-00001248-00001961": "The worst single mistake ever made in the history of our country: going into the Middle East, by President Bush", "fzwNJ-LadGk-00002-00001961-00002831": "Obama may have gotten them [U.S.soldiers] out wrong, but going in is to me the biggest single mistake made in the history of our country", "fzwNJ-LadGk-00003-00002831-00003831": "” Because we spent $7 trillion in the Middle East.Now if you wanna fix a window some place they say, ‘oh gee, let’s not do it", "fzwNJ-LadGk-00004-00003831-00004542": "Seven trillion, and millions of lives — you know, ‘cause I like to count both sides", "fzwNJ-LadGk-00005-00004542-00005320": "Millions of lives.To me it’s the worst single mistake made in the history of our country", "fzwNJ-LadGk-00006-00005320-00006624": "Civil war you can understand.Civil war, civil war.That’s different.For us to have gone into the Middle East, and that was just, that was a bad day for this country, I will tell you", "fzwNJ-LadGk-00007-00006624-00007833": "” That’s right — for once Trump didn’t pin the entire blame on President Obama, he full-on blasted a member of his own party, presumably the worst move he can make right now for the GOP", "fzwNJ-LadGk-00008-00007833-00008902": "Between his time as a presidential candidate and his twenty months in the White House, Trump has personally attacked 11 Republicans, which is essentially unheard of", "fzwNJ-LadGk-00009-00008902-00009756": "The president mistakenly shows no restraint going after fellow Republicans, even though it gives his party a bad reputation", "fzwNJ-LadGk-00010-00009756-00010819": "On a side note — yes, the Bush-era years were some of the worst in our history, forcing Obama to inherit a mess and do some damage control", "fzwNJ-LadGk-00011-00010819-00011532": "But President Trump has equaled and some may go as far as saying surpassed Bush’s historic disasters", "fzwNJ-LadGk-00012-00011532-00012394": "In a way, Trump is admitting that the Republican Party is to blame for our countries greatest strategic catastrophe"}}, {"audio_id": "fpuMygd2LE0", "text": {"fpuMygd2LE0-00000-00000571-00001535": "He's had three national security advisers, three chiefs of staff and three attorneys general and he hasn't even been in office for three years", "fpuMygd2LE0-00001-00001535-00002337": "One other result of the chaotic churn in President Donald Trump's Cabinet is that he has fewer women -- down to just three", "fpuMygd2LE0-00002-00002337-00003337": "Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen was forced out over the weekend because her boss wanted a more hardline immigration policy", "fpuMygd2LE0-00003-00003337-00004727": "The repercussions of her departure have already led to what one source described to CNN's Kaitlan Collins as a \"near-systematic purge\" at the agency that oversees immigration and the nation's borders, among many other things", "fpuMygd2LE0-00004-00004727-00005821": "It comes after the announcement less than two weeks ago that Small Business Administrator Linda McMahon is leaving her position to join Trump's outside political group", "fpuMygd2LE0-00005-00005821-00007185": "McMahon, who made a fortune as the executive in charge of the WWE, which at one point featured Trump, will stay in his orbit as she tries to raise money for the super PAC that will try to help him win reelection", "fpuMygd2LE0-00006-00007185-00008154": "The current commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, Kevin McAleenan, will temporarily take on the duties of homeland security secretary", "fpuMygd2LE0-00007-00008154-00009290": "It's not clear who will take over for McMahon.They were preceded by UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, whose position has gone unfilled since her departure months ago", "fpuMygd2LE0-00008-00009290-00010170": "Depending on who permanently replaces Nielsen and McMahon, Trump will have just three women sitting at the table for Cabinet meetings", "fpuMygd2LE0-00009-00010170-00011108": "Haley's UN position -- one that has been filled by a succession of women -- was downgraded, leaving 23 Cabinet-level positions", "fpuMygd2LE0-00010-00011108-00012229": "Counting the vacated roles, that leaves women as just 13% of Trump's Cabinet-level officials, a lower percentage than either Barack Obama or George W", "fpuMygd2LE0-00011-00012229-00012965": "Bush and the lowest in decades, according to the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers", "fpuMygd2LE0-00012-00012965-00014661": "It's not clear that the remaining women in Trump's Cabinet are in any danger, though Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has been under scrutiny recently for her department's short-lived proposal to cut funding for the Special Olympics, which briefly put her on the wrong side of Trump", "fpuMygd2LE0-00013-00014661-00015972": "Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao -- the wife of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell -- and CIA Director Gina Haspel, Trump's replacement for his now-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, are the other two", "fpuMygd2LE0-00014-00015972-00017367": "Turnover in top positions.But the shrinking number of women in Trump's Cabinet is just one symptom of the remarkable changeover among his top staffers, something that's been chronicled throughout his presidency", "fpuMygd2LE0-00015-00017367-00018341": "He's had five communications directors, for instance, which is not a Cabinet-level position but has been a central role for previous White Houses", "fpuMygd2LE0-00016-00018341-00019031": "That position is currently vacant, essentially filled by Trump and his Twitter feed", "fpuMygd2LE0-00017-00019031-00020227": "There is also not currently a permanent chief of staff, supposedly the president's right hand, and a position that does not require Senate approval, although it does have Cabinet rank", "fpuMygd2LE0-00018-00020227-00020945": "Reince Priebus came first, the Republican insider who lasted a little more than six months in the role", "fpuMygd2LE0-00019-00020945-00021705": "John Kelly lasted longer, a year and half, from July of 2017 through the end of 2018", "fpuMygd2LE0-00020-00021705-00022959": "Rather than give his successor the title outright, Trump made Mick Mulvaney, who is still technically the director of the Office of Management and Budget, a sort-of promotion to acting chief of staff", "fpuMygd2LE0-00021-00022959-00023811": "A deputy of Mulvaney's is now acting OMB director.Acting leaders.And that's another key theme of Trump's presidency", "fpuMygd2LE0-00022-00023811-00024801": "He'll fire or push out a Cabinet secretary who frustrates him and then wait months to nominate a permanent successor, even in crucial roles", "fpuMygd2LE0-00023-00024801-00025402": "That's what happened with Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the nation's top lawyer", "fpuMygd2LE0-00024-00025402-00026496": "Trump pushed Sessions out of the role after more than a year of venting his frustration that Sessions had recused himself from the Russia election interference investigation", "fpuMygd2LE0-00025-00026496-00028118": "The President waited a month to nominate William Barr in Sessions' place.At the Pentagon, Patrick Shanahan has been acting secretary of defense for nearly four months and it's still not clear if Trump will nominate him as a permanent replacement", "fpuMygd2LE0-00026-00028118-00029077": "Turnover in national security, diplomacy positions.Shanahan isn't the only key national security official to be left hanging", "fpuMygd2LE0-00027-00029077-00030190": "Trump forced out his first secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, who he routinely disagreed with on policy, and elevated his then-CIA director, Mike Pompeo", "fpuMygd2LE0-00028-00030190-00031206": "His first defense secretary, James Mattis, wrote a letter outlining his opposition to Trump's plans to pull troops from Syria and Afghanistan", "fpuMygd2LE0-00029-00031206-00032164": "The mainstay of Trump's national security team is Dan Coats, the director of national intelligence, although he has publicly disagreed with Trump"}}, {"audio_id": "fYQfw4d9Tyu", "text": {"fYQfw4d9Tyu-00000-00000571-00001809": "On Tuesday, Representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL) sparked outrage by sending a threatening tweet at Michael Cohen as the former Trump attorney began his three days of testimony before Congress", "fYQfw4d9Tyu-00001-00001809-00003473": "Gaetz is known for his nauseatingly sycophantic behavior towards the inept ignoramus currently inhabiting the Oval Office, and critics immediately accused the Congressman of engaging in a mobster-like effort to intimidate Cohen in an effort to ingratiate himself with the president", "fYQfw4d9Tyu-00002-00003473-00004672": "Showcasing for the umpteenth time what a classless goon he is, Gaetz targeted Cohen’s family and alluded to some form of marital indiscretions on the part of Trump’s former fixer", "fYQfw4d9Tyu-00003-00004672-00006336": "The Florida Bar has already opened an investigation into the tweet and in the face of withering backlash, Gaetz deleted the tweet and issued another in which he claimed that he has apologized to Cohen and admitted that targeting the disbarred attorney’s family was out of line", "fYQfw4d9Tyu-00004-00006336-00007590": "It read more as a face-saving PR ploy than a sincere mea culpa.Now, it’s turned out that those who interpreted Gaetz’s retraction as disingenuous were almost certainly correct", "fYQfw4d9Tyu-00005-00007590-00008708": "Edward-Isaac Dovere of The Atlantic reported on Twitter that Trump called Representative Gaetz last night from Hanoi, Vietnam to discuss Michael Cohen’s bombshell testimony", "fYQfw4d9Tyu-00006-00008708-00009679": "According to Dovere, rather than explain how he now believes his threatening tweet was a mistake, Gaetz gushed unapologetically about it"}}, {"audio_id": "fcq68zdMeoA", "text": {"fcq68zdMeoA-00000-00000571-00001749": "On Tuesday, the Southern District of New York publicly released a partially redacted copy of the affidavit and search warrant served to Michael Cohen for the raiding of his residence and office", "fcq68zdMeoA-00001-00001749-00002577": "And as you read through them, one thing becomes rather clear: Donald Trump is in even more trouble than imaginable", "fcq68zdMeoA-00002-00002577-00004191": "It’s bad enough that Robert Mueller had been investigating everyone in Donald Trump’s inner circle a year before the Michael Cohen raid, but the newly released documents show that the first FBI actually began investigating Cohen at least nine months prior to the raid", "fcq68zdMeoA-00003-00004191-00004878": "Additionally, the fact that 19-pages are blacked out only adds more insult to the injury", "fcq68zdMeoA-00004-00004878-00006231": "How so? Well, more than likely, these 19-pages have been blacked out because they contain pertinent or otherwise sensitive information related to an ongoing SDNY criminal investigation", "fcq68zdMeoA-00005-00006231-00007469": "And in most multi-tier criminal investigations such as this, far more often than not, blacked out pages usually mean one thing: That a much bigger target has been named within them", "fcq68zdMeoA-00006-00007469-00008047": "If Donald Trump wasn’t already terrified, he should be now"}}, {"audio_id": "fcVk28cjKDA", "text": {"fcVk28cjKDA-00000-00000571-00002399": "An investigation has been launched to determine whether acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan violated ethics rules by promoting products made by his former employer, Boeing, while serving in his current role at the Pentagon, the Defense Department's inspector general announced Wednesday", "fcVk28cjKDA-00001-00002399-00004327": "Shanahan, who worked at Boeing for more than 30 years prior to taking a job at the Pentagon, has faced accusations of being overly warm toward the company and claims that he \"disparaged the company's competitors to his subordinates\" from a federal watchdog called Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics", "fcVk28cjKDA-00002-00004327-00005860": "CREW filed a complaint last week asking the inspector general to launch a probe into whether Shanahan's actions violated his signed ethics agreement which aims to ensure there are no conflicts of interest with Boeing while he is at the Pentagon", "fcVk28cjKDA-00003-00005860-00008010": "\"The Department of Defense Office of Inspector General has decided to investigate complaints that we recently received that Acting Secretary Shanahan allegedly took actions to promote his former employer, Boeing, and disparage its competitors, allegedly in violation of ethics rules,\" a spokesman for the office said in a statement", "fcVk28cjKDA-00004-00008010-00009105": "\"In his recent Senate Armed Services Committee testimony, Acting Secretary Shanahan stated that he supported an investigation into these allegations", "fcVk28cjKDA-00005-00009105-00009745": "We have informed him that we have opened this investigation,\" the statement said", "fcVk28cjKDA-00006-00009745-00011432": "A US defense official told CNN Wednesday that the IG precisely chose to use the word investigation because there is enough credible initial information beyond the complaint filed by CREW to warrant a probe into whether Shanahan violated his ethics agreement", "fcVk28cjKDA-00007-00011432-00012169": "The IG has not yet come to a conclusion as to whether a violation occurred, the official emphasized", "fcVk28cjKDA-00008-00012169-00013475": "\"It is extremely disturbing that acting Secretary Shanahan appears to be using his public office for Boeing's private gain,\" Noah Bookbinder, executive director of CREW, said last week", "fcVk28cjKDA-00009-00013475-00014695": "\"Ethics rules make clear that government employees cannot abuse their offices to promote a private company, much less work on official matters involving their former employer,\" he added", "fcVk28cjKDA-00010-00014695-00016152": "Joe Buccino, a spokesman for Shanahan said in a statement that \"Acting Secretary of Defense Shanahan welcomes the Inspector General's review of the complaint filed by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington", "fcVk28cjKDA-00011-00016152-00017043": "\".\"Acting Secretary Shanahan has at all times remained committed to upholding his ethics agreement filed with the DoD", "fcVk28cjKDA-00012-00017043-00018333": "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,\" he said", "fcVk28cjKDA-00013-00018333-00019425": "Last week Shanahan was asked by Sen. Richard Blumenthal whether he supports such an investigation by the IG, Shanahan said, \"yes, I do", "fcVk28cjKDA-00014-00019425-00020345": "\".Shanahan has been one of the names under consideration to be nominated by President Donald Trump as the full-time secretary of defense"}}, {"audio_id": "fiBiSEj_GVI", "text": {"fiBiSEj_GVI-00000-00000571-00001650": "On Thursday, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange was released to London law enforcement officials from the Ecuadorian embassy where he had been living", "fiBiSEj_GVI-00001-00001650-00002872": "President* Donald Trump immediately denied knowing Assange or anything about Wikileaks, despite mentioning (and praising) both countless times during the 2016 Presidential campaigns", "fiBiSEj_GVI-00002-00002872-00003734": "It’s common knowledge that Wikileaks helped Russian interference in that election, possibly swinging votes to Trump", "fiBiSEj_GVI-00003-00003734-00005111": "But back to Trump’s knowledge of Assange and Wikileaks: It’s absurd for Trump to lie about knowing them, when there is ample video and photographic proof to the contrary, but that’s just where we are in 2019", "fiBiSEj_GVI-00004-00005111-00006657": "CNBC’s Christina Wilkie reports that Trump liked WikiLeaks so much that had a poster of Assange in his campaign’s debate war room in 2016, with the following caption, “Dear Hillary, I miss reading your classified emails", "fiBiSEj_GVI-00005-00006657-00007752": "”.HOT TOPIC 2 Minute and 41 Second Video Released That Puts Trump’s Massive Lie Concerning Julian Assange on Full Display – Straight From His Own Mouth", "fiBiSEj_GVI-00006-00007752-00009277": "ByChristopher PowellPublished on April 12, 2019.Share.Tweet.On Thursday, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange was released to London law enforcement officials from the Ecuadorian embassy where he had been living", "fiBiSEj_GVI-00007-00009277-00010805": ".Ads by Revcontent.Report Advertisement.President* Donald Trump immediately denied knowing Assange or anything about Wikileaks, despite mentioning (and praising) both countless times during the 2016 Presidential campaigns", "fiBiSEj_GVI-00008-00010805-00011667": "It’s common knowledge that Wikileaks helped Russian interference in that election, possibly swinging votes to Trump", "fiBiSEj_GVI-00009-00011667-00013044": "But back to Trump’s knowledge of Assange and Wikileaks: It’s absurd for Trump to lie about knowing them, when there is ample video and photographic proof to the contrary, but that’s just where we are in 2019", "fiBiSEj_GVI-00010-00013044-00014206": "CNBC’s Christina Wilkie reports that Trump liked WikiLeaks so much that had a poster of Assange in his campaign’s debate war room in 2016, with the", "fiBiSEj_GVI-00011-00014206-00014849": "This is just the latest in a long line of easily refutable claims by Donald Trump", "fiBiSEj_GVI-00012-00014849-00015632": "He lies to protect himself. He lies just for the hell of it. He lies for no reason whatsoever", "fiBiSEj_GVI-00013-00015632-00016055": "Lying is Trump’s defining characteristic"}}, {"audio_id": "g8Wny15gei4", "text": {"g8Wny15gei4-00000-00000513-00001393": "As his scandals continue to close in on him, Donald Trump’s behavior in recent days has become more strange than ever", "g8Wny15gei4-00001-00001393-00002357": "He’s attacked deceased war hero John McCain four times in the past week. He’s attacked the husband of one of his senior advisers", "g8Wny15gei4-00002-00002357-00003269": "As Trump becomes more frantic, can he top all this in the weirdness department? He may have just done precisely that", "g8Wny15gei4-00003-00003269-00004089": "This evening Donald Trump sent out an email to his supporters with the subject line “Witch Hunt Report Attached\"", "g8Wny15gei4-00004-00004089-00005209": "The subject line also includes an image of a paperclip, aimed at tricking recipients into believing that a document of some kind has been attached to the email", "g8Wny15gei4-00005-00005209-00005946": "Then the first line of the email says “[SORRY THIS DOCUMENT IS BLANK].” Wait, what?", "g8Wny15gei4-00006-00005946-00007722": "After the weird fake-out that even Trump’s own base probably isn’t gullible enough to fall for, the email then claims that “loser Democrats and their friends in the Fake News Media” have been claiming that “they plan to release the report ‘soon’ but they’ve been saying that for OVER 2 YEARS\"", "g8Wny15gei4-00007-00007722-00008744": "This is weird, considering the report will be released by Robert Mueller and the Department of Justice, not the “loser Democrats” or the “Fake News Media\"", "g8Wny15gei4-00008-00008744-00009817": "Of course this entire bizarre email turns out to be an attempt at luring recipients into taking a poll about whether the “Witch Hunt” should end", "g8Wny15gei4-00009-00009817-00011748": "It’s all part of a Trump 2020 campaign fundraiser. The timing is interesting when you consider that Donald Trump is trying to fundraise off the premise that he’s done nothing wrong, even as Forbes reported yesterday that Trump has funneled more than a million dollars of these donations into his own businesses"}}, {"audio_id": "gsiVDIosOB0", "text": {"gsiVDIosOB0-00000-00000571-00001650": "Donald Trump has said that a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un broke down over the issue of sanctions, after the talks in Vietnam ended early with no deal", "gsiVDIosOB0-00001-00001650-00002245": "“It was about the sanctions basically,” Trump said at a press conference in Hanoi", "gsiVDIosOB0-00002-00002245-00003230": "“They wanted the sanctions lifted in their entirety and we couldn’t do that . Sometimes you have to walk, and this was just one of those times", "gsiVDIosOB0-00003-00003230-00004724": "”.The US president said that Kim had offered to dismantle some parts of his nuclear infrastructure, including the Yongbyon nuclear complex, but was not prepared to destroy other parts of the programme, including covert uranium plants", "gsiVDIosOB0-00004-00004724-00005876": "“There is a gap. We have to have sanctions,” Trump said. “They were willing to denuke a large portion of the areas we wanted but we couldn’t give up all the sanctions for that''", "gsiVDIosOB0-00005-00005876-00007846": "Trump said there was no plan for a third summit but made clear that the current status quo would continue, with North Korea continuing to suspend nuclear and missile tests, while the US would not take part in joint military exercises with South Korea, which the US president said he was opposed to anyway", "gsiVDIosOB0-00006-00007846-00008689": "“I gave that up quite a while ago because it costs us $100 million to do it. I hated to see it", "gsiVDIosOB0-00007-00008689-00009416": "I thought it was unfair,” Trump said, saying South Korea should shoulder more of the costs", "gsiVDIosOB0-00008-00009416-00010189": "“Exercising is fun and it’s nice they play their war games. I’m not saying its not necessary", "gsiVDIosOB0-00009-00010189-00011610": "On some levels it is. On other levels it’s not''.Although he said another summit with Kim might not happen “for a long time”, Trump remained defensive of the North Korean leader and the relationship between the two men", "gsiVDIosOB0-00010-00011610-00012315": "“We spent all day with Kim Jong-un,” Trump said. “He’s quite a guy and quite a character", "gsiVDIosOB0-00011-00012315-00013619": "And our relationship is very strong.”.He even defended Kim over the death of US student Otto Warmbier, who had been sent back home from North Korea seriously ill in June 2017", "gsiVDIosOB0-00012-00013619-00014624": "“He says he didn’t know about it and I will take him at his word,” Trump said, adding that North Korea was a big country and: “Those prisons are rough", "gsiVDIosOB0-00013-00014624-00015682": "They’re rough places and bad things happen.”.Trump gave a detailed public account to date of the central disagreements that have dogged the negotiations", "gsiVDIosOB0-00014-00015682-00016860": "He confirmed that the US side had confronted the North Koreans with the existence of covert nuclear facilities outside Yongbyon and demanded they be put on the negotiating table", "gsiVDIosOB0-00015-00016860-00018292": "“They were surprised we knew,” he said.The US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, said that the breakdown of talks was partly caused by differences over the sequences of nuclear disarmament and sanctions relief", "gsiVDIosOB0-00016-00018292-00019689": "The press conference came after a scheduled lunch and signing ceremony for the expected joint statement were both cancelled at short notice, as Trump and Kim left the summit venue and returned to their separate Hanoi hotels", "gsiVDIosOB0-00017-00019689-00020888": "“The two leaders discussed various ways to advance denuclearization and economic-driven concepts,” Sarah Sanders, the White House spokeswoman, said in a written statement", "gsiVDIosOB0-00018-00020888-00021688": "“No agreement was reached at this time, but their respective teams look forward to meeting in the future", "gsiVDIosOB0-00019-00021688-00022829": "”.A Trump media conference was brought forward two hours, and journalists accompanying the US president were told to get ready to board Air Force One for the flight back to Washington"}}, {"audio_id": "gveLTv3-mHc", "text": {"gveLTv3-mHc-00000-00000571-00001992": "President Donald Trump rose to power propelled in part by his rhetoric about invaders from the south swarming the border, and his claim that Mexico was \"sending\" rapists and killers, but the facts proved quite the opposite", "gveLTv3-mHc-00001-00001992-00002681": "The government's own figures showed the number of people crossing the border had been declining steadily", "gveLTv3-mHc-00002-00002681-00004019": "And in 2015, when Trump launched his campaign, a Pew Research Center analysis found that among one group of migrants, Mexicans, more people were leaving the United States for Mexico than coming across", "gveLTv3-mHc-00003-00004019-00004823": "After two years in office, Trump's bravado-driven policies have contributed to reversing what was a positive trend", "gveLTv3-mHc-00004-00004823-00005918": "How else to explain the sharp reversal in what looked like hard-won gains in a complicated, morally-wrenching problem, starting just after Trump took office?", "gveLTv3-mHc-00005-00005918-00007307": "Years after claiming there was one, Trump now has a real crisis.The number of border apprehensions is at the highest level in more than a decade, according to US Customs and Border Protection (CBP)", "gveLTv3-mHc-00006-00007307-00008376": "Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen says \"the system is in freefall.\" Trump has finally helped create the crisis he pretended existed before", "gveLTv3-mHc-00007-00008376-00010011": "What's Trump's solution? Every possible idea to make the problem worse. Everything he proposes, from cutting aid to Central American countries -- some $700 million in a variety of programs -- to closing the border, will exacerbate the problem", "gveLTv3-mHc-00008-00010011-00011307": "That is, of course, if you think the challenge is how to solve a humanitarian crisis: how to humanely manage and perhaps reduce the flow of families and individuals into the United States", "gveLTv3-mHc-00009-00011307-00012124": "If you think the problem is how to stoke the passions of Americans in order to win more votes, then the question looks different", "gveLTv3-mHc-00010-00012124-00013018": "Nationalist leaders have a thing for migrant and refugee crises. Hardly any issue is more beneficial to their hold on power", "gveLTv3-mHc-00011-00013018-00014339": "Whether real or imagined, the specter of outsiders \"invading\" the country contains the perfect elements of us-versus-them passion and fear-inducing uncertainty to rally voters around a flag-hugging strongman", "gveLTv3-mHc-00012-00014339-00016385": "If Trump were looking for something more than political fuel to ignite hotter fires among his staunchest supporters, he would offer a thoughtful, muscular policy, one that would invigorate Washington's efforts to improve conditions in Central America, an effort that serves US security and economic interests as much as it does that of its neighbors", "gveLTv3-mHc-00013-00016385-00017542": "The United States should expand, not suspend, programs aiming to attack the unlivable conditions in Central American countries with some of the world's highest murder rates", "gveLTv3-mHc-00014-00017542-00018660": "For many, life is so dangerous and the prospects are so dim, that they would rather risk the perilous trek and endure the cruelty they encounter in the United States than risk staying", "gveLTv3-mHc-00015-00018660-00019833": "Some programs in police training, rule of law, human rights standards and economic development are too new to show results, but others are already proving effective", "gveLTv3-mHc-00016-00019833-00021734": "Trump's chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, instead disingenuously tells an interviewer \"we told you so,\" claiming that the lack of a giant border wall is the reason why so many people, mostly from the so-called Northern Triangle -- El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala -- are suddenly at the border", "gveLTv3-mHc-00017-00021734-00022554": "That's Trumpian hogwash. Don't believe it.Trump's own policies have helped bring us to this moment", "gveLTv3-mHc-00018-00022554-00023712": "Consider the numbers.Apprehensions at the border peaked at 1.6 million people in 2000, according to CBP data (slightly higher than in 1986)", "gveLTv3-mHc-00019-00023712-00024743": "The number dropped most years after that. By fiscal year 2017, it had plummeted by an amazing 82%, to 303,000", "gveLTv3-mHc-00020-00024743-00026112": "At the same time, migration from Mexico had reversed, with research and data from the US and Mexican governments showing a million Mexicans voluntarily returning to their country between 2009 and 2014"}}, {"audio_id": "gwl3ogkoZNI", "text": {"gwl3ogkoZNI-00000-00000571-00001482": "Just when you thought Ivanka might escape any kind of implication into the Russia scandal, the New York Times blows a story wide open", "gwl3ogkoZNI-00001-00001482-00002660": "The Trump Organization was recently required to turn over a batch of emails as part of the ongoing investigation into interference with the 2016 presidential election", "gwl3ogkoZNI-00002-00002660-00004016": "In emails obtained by the New York Times, Felix Sater wrote to Donald Trump’s attorney Michael Cohen regarding building a “Trump Tower” in Moscow, saying: “I will get Putin in on this program and we will get Donald elected''", "gwl3ogkoZNI-00003-00004016-00004928": "As Felix Sater’s name becomes increasingly recognizable to the public, one wonders whether he will prove to be the nadir of Trump’s presidency", "gwl3ogkoZNI-00004-00004928-00006307": "Despite Trump’s repeated attempts to disavow any knowledge of Sater — though Felix Sater helped to finance the much maligned Trump SoHo project and held an office in Trump Tower — he will not go away from the zeitgeist", "gwl3ogkoZNI-00005-00006307-00007219": "In particular, he is playing an increasingly troublesome role for Donald Trump, an arguably delightful role for Robert Mueller", "gwl3ogkoZNI-00006-00007219-00008877": "In addition to stating that somehow Vladimir Putin would be responsible for installing Donald Trump as president, the emails from the New York Times also show Sater proclaiming, “I arranged for Ivanka to sit in Putins [sic] private chair at his desk and office in the Kremlin''", "gwl3ogkoZNI-00007-00008877-00009857": "Sater continued, “If he says it we own this election. Americas most difficult adversary agreeing that Donald is a good guy to negotiate''", "gwl3ogkoZNI-00008-00009857-00010473": "This is the first instance that Ivanka Trump has been brought directly into the fray", "gwl3ogkoZNI-00009-00010473-00011408": "She maintains that she has never actually met with Vladmir Putin and only ever visited the Kremlin as part of a tour of Red Square", "gwl3ogkoZNI-00010-00011408-00012343": "Ivanka Trump claims to not remember whether she sat in Putin’s chair during the tour, although she admitted that it was possible"}}, {"audio_id": "g_0rkrWeMTg", "text": {"g_0rkrWeMTg-00000-00000571-00001302": "Nancy Pelosi and her Democratic cohorts are moving to impeach President Donald Trump this spring", "g_0rkrWeMTg-00001-00001302-00002245": "Luckily, the president and those loyal to him are fully aware of this bogus impeachment scheme, but they will need the help of patriots to expose it", "g_0rkrWeMTg-00002-00002245-00003146": "Every American who cares about our Republic needs to read this.The Democrats are aware they can’t fully impeach President Trump", "g_0rkrWeMTg-00003-00003146-00004095": "That’s because the Senate is held by the GOP. They can impeach him in the House of Representatives, but then the Senate must vote to concur", "g_0rkrWeMTg-00004-00004095-00004933": "Of course, they will not. So why are Nancy Pelosi and her dirty rat cohorts moving ahead with impeachment?", "g_0rkrWeMTg-00005-00004933-00005766": "This is all about winning the 2020 election and smearing Trump so badly with the Independent voters he won’t get re-elected", "g_0rkrWeMTg-00006-00005766-00006741": "The Democrats are gearing up this spring to gather bogus evidence, through bogus investigations, which will then lead to the impeachment hearings this fall", "g_0rkrWeMTg-00007-00006741-00007472": "It’s all a game. President Trump has done nothing even close that rises to the level of impeachment", "g_0rkrWeMTg-00008-00007472-00008710": "Take that to the bank.The Washinton Examiner also has picked up on this impeachment scheme, with an article titled: Byron York: House Democrats send message: Impeachment is on", "g_0rkrWeMTg-00009-00008710-00009557": "“The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee says there is no doubt President Trump has obstructed justice,” reports Byron York", "g_0rkrWeMTg-00010-00009557-00010361": "“It’s very clear that the president obstructed justice,” Democratic Rep. Jerrold Nadler told ABC Sunday", "g_0rkrWeMTg-00011-00010361-00011725": "“It’s very clear — 1,100 times he referred to the Mueller investigation as a witch hunt, he tried to — he fired — he tried to protect Flynn from being investigated by the FBI", "g_0rkrWeMTg-00012-00011725-00012840": "He fired Comey in order to stop the Russian thing, as he told NBC News. He — he’s dangled part — he’s threat — he’s intimidated witnesses", "g_0rkrWeMTg-00013-00012840-00014219": "In public''.“Think what you will about the reasons — calling an investigation a ‘witch hunt’ is obstruction of justice? — but Nadler sounded less like a man weighing the evidence than a man who has made up his mind,” says Byron York", "g_0rkrWeMTg-00014-00014219-00015120": "“Given that, Nadler’s ABC interview led to a question: President Nixon was threatened with impeachment for obstruction of justice", "g_0rkrWeMTg-00015-00015120-00016434": "President Clinton was impeached for obstruction of justice. Why is Nadler, who heads the committee in the House that originates articles of impeachment, not moving forward with impeaching President Trump right now?”", "g_0rkrWeMTg-00016-00016434-00017377": "“We don’t have the facts yet,” Nadler said — a perplexing admission for a man who had just confidently enumerated the president’s crimes", "g_0rkrWeMTg-00017-00017377-00018600": "“Impeachment is a long way down the road.” So he says, but we know differently.The Democratic plan is coming into sharper relief, and the impeachment decision has been made", "g_0rkrWeMTg-00018-00018600-00019611": "Various committee chairs are moving forward in gathering and organizing the formal justification for removing the president, the Conservative Treehouse points out", "g_0rkrWeMTg-00019-00019611-00020721": "“House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler has produced his committee witness list to initiate the predictable groundwork for his ‘impeachment’ process,”‘ the Conservative Treehouse reports", "g_0rkrWeMTg-00020-00020721-00021504": "“Pelosi’s trio of organized cohorts Schiff, Cummings and Nadler each have a role in the process''"}}, {"audio_id": "g_mJXjisHYU", "text": {"g_mJXjisHYU-00000-00000571-00001271": "Welcome to the day you’ve all been waiting for – one of the days you’ve been waiting, at least", "g_mJXjisHYU-00001-00001271-00002449": "Today is going to be the busiest day yet in the takedown of Donald Trump, and based on where his head is right now, he’s not remotely prepared for what’s going to hit him over the next several hours", "g_mJXjisHYU-00002-00002449-00003833": "For starters, the House Judiciary Committee is sending document requests today to more than five dozen Trump-related people and entities, including Donald Trump Jr, Ivanka Trump, Eric Trump and Jared Kushner", "g_mJXjisHYU-00003-00003833-00005440": "These are not the kinds of “requests” that can be ignored or easily worked around, and so Trump’s family members will have to quickly decide whether to turn over evidence that incriminates him (and likely themselves), or to risk getting busted for not turning it over", "g_mJXjisHYU-00004-00005440-00007190": "But that’s just part of what’s going down today.House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings publicly informed the White House on Friday that if he didn’t get the John Kelly and Don McGahn memos about Jared Kushner’s security clearance scandal by today, he’d drop the hammer on them", "g_mJXjisHYU-00005-00007190-00007992": "So either the memos will conveniently become public today, or we’ll see subpoenas go out today, take your pick", "g_mJXjisHYU-00006-00007992-00008786": "And yeah, this is on top of the House Oversight Committee seeking the memos directly from Kelly and McGahn", "g_mJXjisHYU-00007-00008786-00009567": "One way or the other, it’s all going to come out, and very soon.There are other big things at play", "g_mJXjisHYU-00008-00009567-00010708": "The judge in the Roger Stone case has given him until today to explain his secret book deal which appears to violate his gag order, so Stone could well be in jail by the end of the day", "g_mJXjisHYU-00009-00010708-00011565": "The hits keep coming. Donald Trump’s reckoning is finally upon us. Today should have plenty of fireworks", "g_mJXjisHYU-00010-00011565-00012145": "Each day going forward will be even worse for him, until he surrenders"}}, {"audio_id": "gPfxBsgtFDA", "text": {"gPfxBsgtFDA-00000-00000571-00002081": "The Department of Justice announced Sunday that special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation did not find evidence that President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign “conspired or coordinated” with the Russian government in the 2016 presidential election", "gPfxBsgtFDA-00001-00002081-00003264": "Further, Mueller did not “exonerate” the president of obstructing justice, according to Attorney General William Barr, who said his summary “sets out evidence on both sides of the question", "gPfxBsgtFDA-00002-00003264-00004620": "”.11:24 PM — MSNBC host Ari Melber says House Democrats must accept that Mueller did not find a “chargeable election conspiracy” and there will be no additional indictments", "gPfxBsgtFDA-00003-00004620-00006226": "“Some people want those charges because they just think they are true, they expected that there would be a chargeable conspiracy after hearing so much about Trump publicly asking for Russia’s help and his aides going to meetings,” Melber said, according to Mediaite", "gPfxBsgtFDA-00004-00006226-00007036": "“Other people, let’s be real may just hope for charges that challenge the legitimacy of this very controversial president", "gPfxBsgtFDA-00005-00007036-00007994": "Those motivations are not what guides our justice system.”.11:03 PM — MSNBC analyst not happy tonight", "gPfxBsgtFDA-00006-00007994-00009188": "10:49 PM — WikiLeaks says “no-one from Robert Mueller’s team (or any other element of the US DoJ) ever approached WikiLeaks or its staff for information", "gPfxBsgtFDA-00007-00009188-00010693": "”.10:32 PM — Ready for more?.10:12 PM — After Mueller concludes no Trump campaign-Russia collusion occurred, Democrat National Committee head Tom Perez asks if President Trump was compromised by Russia", "gPfxBsgtFDA-00008-00010693-00012584": "8:56 PM —Meadows discusses pardons with Politico: “It is too soon to have discussions of pardons but many of us who have a deeper understanding of what transpired and the motivations surrounding General Flynn’s case believe justice would be served with extreme leniency from the sentencing judge", "gPfxBsgtFDA-00009-00012584-00014133": "”.8:32 PM — Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) echoes former Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ), says it’s not a prosecutor’s job to exonerate a subject―they either uncover evidence or they don’t", "gPfxBsgtFDA-00010-00014133-00015063": "7:39 PM — A senior White House official tells the Daily Mail that they haven’t witnessed the president “this happy in months", "gPfxBsgtFDA-00011-00015063-00016157": "It’s like election night again.”.7:36 PM — Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) calls Barr’s summary of the Mueller report “inadequate", "gPfxBsgtFDA-00012-00016157-00016954": "”.7:24 PM — Vice President Mike Pence issues a statement on the Mueller report summary’s findings:", "gPfxBsgtFDA-00013-00016954-00019213": "“Today is a great day for America, President Trump and our entire administration. After two years of investigation, and reckless accusations by many Democrats and members of the media, the Special Counsel has confirmed what President Trump said along; there was no collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016 election,” the vice president said", "gPfxBsgtFDA-00014-00019213-00020723": "“The Attorney General also confirmed that there was no obstruction of justice. This total vindication of the President of the United States and our campaign should be welcomed by every American who cherishes the truth and the integrity of our elections", "gPfxBsgtFDA-00015-00020723-00022071": "”. .He continued: “In the days ahead, the American people can be confident that the President and our entire administration will continue to focus where we always have, on the issues most important to our country", "gPfxBsgtFDA-00016-00022071-00023469": "We can only hope that Democrats, who have spent so much time on these discredited allegations, will join us to advance an agenda that will make our nation even more prosperous and more secure for every American", "gPfxBsgtFDA-00017-00023469-00024657": "”.7:11 PM — President Donald Trump returns to the White House from Mar-a-Lago. “I just want to tell you that America is the greatest place on earth,” he told reporters"}}, {"audio_id": "geayht1aAGA", "text": {"geayht1aAGA-00000-00000513-00001730": "Last Friday, exercising the first in his so-called “presidency,” Trump vetoed the Congressional resolution to overturn his National Emergency Declaration over US-Mexico border wall", "geayht1aAGA-00001-00001730-00002887": "There’s a possibility that Congress could overrule this veto if both branches have the votes to do so, but unfortunately, at this point, it doesn’t look like they will", "geayht1aAGA-00002-00002887-00003950": "However, it does look like Republicans are looking to make it easier to terminate future resolutions if the “president” attempts to abuse his power again", "geayht1aAGA-00003-00003950-00006053": "According to Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio):.‘It’s an institutional issue, it’s a congressional authorities issue.We have the power of the purse. Under the National Emergencies Act, there was too much latitude that was given away … and we need to pull that back some and let it be used for legitimate national security purposes’", "geayht1aAGA-00004-00006053-00007532": "Senator Marcio Rubio (R-FL) also stated that in the wake of this fight over Trump’s border wall, there is a “unanimity” in the GOP conference over making changes to this law in order to keep it from being used improperly", "geayht1aAGA-00005-00007532-00008292": "According to recent reports:.‘Even GOP senators who sided with Trump are interested in the broader issue‘", "geayht1aAGA-00006-00008292-00009052": "“I would like to revisit the emergency powers that Congress has provided to the executive branch,” said Sen", "geayht1aAGA-00007-00009052-00009794": "Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), who voted with Trump. “I do think it’s going to be a healthy debate to have”", "geayht1aAGA-00008-00009794-00010974": "‘McConnell told reporters after a closed-door conference lunch that there was “a lot of discomfort with the law” among Republicans and that they were “discussing” ways it could be altered", "geayht1aAGA-00009-00010974-00011664": "“If Congress has grown uneasy with this law, as many have, then we should amend it", "geayht1aAGA-00010-00011664-00013464": "If the 116th Congress regrets the degree of flexibility that the 94th Congress gave the executive, the 116th Congress can do something about it,” McConnell added separately during a floor speech, announcing that he had asked Johnson to look into legislation on the issue’", "geayht1aAGA-00011-00013464-00014916": "That’s right. Even Mitch McConnell is afraid of what Trump might do in the future now that he has tasted some of the power that comes with abusing the National Emergencies Act, and so does Republican Senator John Cornyn of Texas, who said:", "geayht1aAGA-00012-00014916-00015653": "‘I don’t know of any president that likes to give up power, but clearly Congress has been asleep at the switch”", "geayht1aAGA-00013-00015653-00017413": "The Democratic House will hold a vote to overturn Trump’s veto on March 26th. There’s still a chance that they will succeed, but in the high degree of probability that they don’t, a congressional aide said that Schumer is prepared to hold a vote every 6 months until they do"}}, {"audio_id": "gmi7yUHzr_k", "text": {"gmi7yUHzr_k-00000-00000000-00000204": "DIE ETHAN NOT ONE LOVE YOU", "gmi7yUHzr_k-00001-00001325-00001650": "🎶ya ya ya🎶", "gmi7yUHzr_k-00002-00002133-00002457": "🎶my way🎶", "gmi7yUHzr_k-00003-00002731-00003234": "🎶it's hard to forget about my way🎶", "gmi7yUHzr_k-00004-00003365-00003804": "🎶it's hard to forget my way🎶", "gmi7yUHzr_k-00005-00003954-00004500": "🎶but I'm not forget you🎶", "gmi7yUHzr_k-00006-00004582-00004767": "🎶yaaa🎶", "gmi7yUHzr_k-00007-00004958-00005067": "🎶it's always🎶", "gmi7yUHzr_k-00008-00005168-00005389": "🎶yaaaa🎶", "gmi7yUHzr_k-00009-00005754-00006120": "🎶never forgot about the good times we had🎶", "gmi7yUHzr_k-00010-00006366-00006738": "🎶it was always my way or your way🎶", "gmi7yUHzr_k-00011-00006974-00007616": "🎶we never had a bad fight then that night then that night yaaaa we never had a bad fight than that night you want me to die🎶", "gmi7yUHzr_k-00012-00007896-00008357": "🎶we never had a bad fight than that night you want me to die🎶", "gmi7yUHzr_k-00013-00008491-00009363": "🎶it's always been my way since you came in my life destroy it like you do🎶", "gmi7yUHzr_k-00014-00009481-00009850": "🎶I don't understand why you got in my head🎶", "gmi7yUHzr_k-00015-00010008-00010272": "🎶then you want to break it like you always do🎶", "gmi7yUHzr_k-00016-00010300-00010607": "🎶I don't understand why you want to break us🎶", "gmi7yUHzr_k-00017-00010681-00011212": "🎶I don't understand why you want me it's my way🎶", "gmi7yUHzr_k-00018-00011293-00011778": "🎶never wanted you in my life then I saw this pretty girl you were like hey🎶", "gmi7yUHzr_k-00019-00011806-00011978": "🎶I don't understand why🎶", "gmi7yUHzr_k-00020-00012745-00012934": "🎶my way🎶", "gmi7yUHzr_k-00021-00014221-00014426": "🎶it was always my way🎶", "gmi7yUHzr_k-00022-00014544-00014876": "🎶I don't understand why you have to break me🎶", "gmi7yUHzr_k-00023-00014904-00015000": "🎶what is done🎶", "gmi7yUHzr_k-00024-00015050-00015141": "🎶what is done🎶", "gmi7yUHzr_k-00025-00015208-00015471": "🎶I don't understand why you hate me🎶", "gmi7yUHzr_k-00026-00015529-00015722": "🎶what is done you are done🎶", "gmi7yUHzr_k-00027-00015750-00016718": "🎶I don't understand why you hate me what is done you are done I don't understand why you hate me what is done🎶", "gmi7yUHzr_k-00028-00017162-00017606": "🎶I don't understand why you hate me🎶"}}, {"audio_id": "h92rkDx-7IE", "text": {"h92rkDx-7IE-00000-00000513-00001774": "President Donald Trump’s decision to pay off adult film star Stormy Daniels in an effort to keep her quiet about an affair they had is continuing to cause his team legal headaches", "h92rkDx-7IE-00001-00001774-00003600": "House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) has unveiled a new line of inquiry into the payment, seeking information from former Fox News reporter Diana Falzone, who uncovered the story in real time as it was unfolding before the 2016 election", "h92rkDx-7IE-00002-00003600-00004768": "After her then-superiors at the network shot down her reporting, the story didn’t emerge until The Wall Street Journal published an account of the pay-off the following year", "h92rkDx-7IE-00003-00004768-00007534": "Falzone hasn’t backed down, however. After The New Yorker‘s Jane Mayer published a profile of Fox News’ relationship with the Trump team that covered the incident with her Stormy Daniels reporting, she sought to be freed from a nondisclosure agreement she’d signed with the network after previous litigation involving the two of them in which Falzone had alleged gender discrimination after being demoted after uncovering the hush money", "h92rkDx-7IE-00004-00007534-00009143": "Her lawyer Nancy Smith has asserted that she’s now effectively free from the agreement because of Cummings’ request for documents and testimony and will be complying, saying that no legally binding nondisclosure agreement trumps a government investigation", "h92rkDx-7IE-00005-00009143-00011194": "Cummings asked Salzone for:.‘All documents in you or your agent’s custody, control, or possession referring to or relating to women alleging extramarital affairs with Donald Trump, payments by the President or anyone on his behalf to silence them, or any other potential campaign finance violation’", "h92rkDx-7IE-00006-00011194-00012469": "Falzone is in a good position to have relevant documents, having determined specific details of the arrangement before the election, according to Daniels’ former lawyer Keith Davidson", "h92rkDx-7IE-00007-00012469-00013937": "He told MSNBC’s Ari Melber that Falzone had asked him for comment while initially researching the story and at the time, had information including the payment size and the corporate names used for the original agreement", "h92rkDx-7IE-00008-00013937-00015112": "The arrangement was not legal, and former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen will soon be reporting for a three-year jail term in part because of his participation in the scheme", "h92rkDx-7IE-00009-00015112-00016758": "The hush money amounted to a campaign finance law violation because prosecutors determined it constituted an effort to prop up Trump’s presidential campaign and not, as some in the Trump camp have claimed, an effort to protect the eventual president’s marriage", "h92rkDx-7IE-00010-00016758-00018393": "Davidson himself has asserted that the hush money effort was political, as evidenced by it getting underway shortly after the emergence of the Access Hollywood tape on which Trump can be heard bragging about his supposed freedom to commit sexual assault", "h92rkDx-7IE-00011-00018393-00019751": "Trump claimed at one point that he didn’t have anything to do with the payoff — but he did, having personally directed Cohen to come up with the money for the Daniels payment and then reimbursing him while he was in office", "h92rkDx-7IE-00012-00019751-00021366": "In connection to recent public Congressional testimony that Cohen offered before Cummings’ committee, he revealed Donald Trump’s and even Donald Trump Jr.’s signatures on the checks reimbursing him, ensuring that the Trump team’s legal vulnerability continues"}}, {"audio_id": "hqXASP-GxDg", "text": {"hqXASP-GxDg-00000-00000571-00002431": "Legere and Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure testified before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law to answer questions on the deal, appearing before lawmakers for the first time since T-Mobile's spending at the Washington hotel came to light", "hqXASP-GxDg-00001-00002431-00003073": "The Washington Post was first to report on T-Mobile's spending at the Trump hotel", "hqXASP-GxDg-00002-00003073-00004272": "Legere and a handful of other company executives checked in at the Trump hotel the day after the deal was announced in April 2018 and some have returned repeatedly since then", "hqXASP-GxDg-00003-00004272-00005200": "T-Mobile has spent $195,000 on stays and meetings at the hotel over the past 11 months, the company has said", "hqXASP-GxDg-00004-00005200-00006237": "\"Do you understand the optics of that? What it looks like? It looks like what's happening is that T-Mobile is trying to curry favor with the White House,\" said Rep", "hqXASP-GxDg-00005-00006237-00006984": "Hank Johnson, a Georgia Democrat.Legere replied that he's a \"longtime Trump hotel stayer''", "hqXASP-GxDg-00006-00006984-00007684": "\"The optics of me staying at the Trump hotel hasn't changed in 10 years,\" he said", "hqXASP-GxDg-00007-00007684-00008977": "In a letter sent to two Democratic lawmakers last month, he explained that he chose to stay there based on \"availability, security, meeting facilities and proximity to the activities scheduled in that city", "hqXASP-GxDg-00008-00008977-00010210": "\".The amount spent at the Trump International Hotel accounted for 14% of the $1.4 million spent at DC hotels by T-Mobile during that period, the company has said", "hqXASP-GxDg-00009-00010210-00012187": "But that didn't satisfy all members of the Democrat-controlled House panel.\"I only raise this because we unfortunately have a situation where the President has not disclosed his business interests and it appears you might be trying to influence the President to get involved in something he really should not be involved in,\" said Rep", "hqXASP-GxDg-00010-00012187-00013718": "Pramila Jayapal, a Washington state Democrat.It was no secret that President Donald Trump opposed the merger between AT&T and Time Warner (CNN is a division of WarnerMedia, which was created as a result of that merger)", "hqXASP-GxDg-00011-00013718-00015256": "The Justice Department unsuccessfully sued to block the acquisition.Chairman David Cicilline, a Rhode Island Democrat, called the proposed merger between T-Mobile and Sprint a \"critical test\" for the antitrust division of the Justice Department", "hqXASP-GxDg-00012-00015256-00016288": "Is it \"genuinely dedicated to promoting competition, or does it only oppose mergers when the White House tells it to do so?\" he asked during his opening statement", "hqXASP-GxDg-00013-00016288-00017247": "The Justice Department did not seek to block a similar merger between Disney and 21st Century Fox, which owns Fox News", "hqXASP-GxDg-00014-00017247-00018401": "The White House did not respond to a request for comment for this story.Republicans on the Judiciary Committee criticized Democrats for asking Legere about his hotel stays"}}, {"audio_id": "hDAEwheafHI", "text": {"hDAEwheafHI-00000-00000513-00001925": "Appearing Monday evening on the Fox News Channel, radio personality Glenn Beck told host Sean Hannity that “we are officially at the end of the country as we know it” if the Republican Party fails to win the 2020 election", "hDAEwheafHI-00001-00001925-00003137": "As part of their nearly 10-minute interview, Beck explained how he believes various radical groups are plotting together to “destabilize” the West, warning that the plan is already in motion", "hDAEwheafHI-00002-00003137-00005456": "“I said what was coming and the last few steps were that the radicals, the anarchists, the Islamists, the socialists would all gather together, they would not be working together, plotting together, but they would see the opportunity and they would all come together and work to destabilize Europe and America,” Beck told his former colleague “And that is exactly what is happening", "hDAEwheafHI-00003-00005456-00006668": "”.Beck then warned the U.S. will cease to exist in its current form if the Democrats win in 2020 — and “may not survive,” even if President Donald Trump is re-elected", "hDAEwheafHI-00004-00006668-00007581": "“If the Republicans don’t win in this next election, I think we are officially at the end of the country as we know it,” he said", "hDAEwheafHI-00005-00007581-00008394": "“We may not survive even if we win, but we definitely don’t if the Republicans lose with Donald Trump", "hDAEwheafHI-00006-00008394-00009206": "”.Beck, once a prominent Never Trumper, saw his popularity among conservatives plummet after he endorsed Sen", "hDAEwheafHI-00007-00009206-00010219": "Ted Cruz (R-TX) in the 2016 presidential election and contributed to National Review‘s “Against Trump” special issue", "hDAEwheafHI-00008-00010219-00011631": "Since President Trump’s election, Beck’s media company, TheBlaze, which recently merged with CRTV, has suffered greatly due to mismanagement, falling advertising revenue, and declining web traffic", "hDAEwheafHI-00009-00011631-00013251": "The company has also conducted several rounds of layoffs.In recent months, Beck has warmed to President Trump and signaled he will support him in the next election, telling Hannity earlier March that the president is “doing the things he said he would do", "hDAEwheafHI-00010-00013251-00013964": "”.“By the time he got to Israel, he was proving me wrong every step of the way on his policies", "hDAEwheafHI-00011-00013964-00014777": "I was happy, thrilled, thrilled to say, he’s doing the things he said he would do,” the radio personality said", "hDAEwheafHI-00012-00014777-00016997": "Asked whether he would vote for President in 2020, Beck replied: “I think when you are looking at avowed socialists that want to end the free market…when you are sitting here talking about infanticide, when you look at who these people are, there’s no way anyone who is standing up against those guys and actually has a spine, yes", "hDAEwheafHI-00013-00016997-00018009": "Now, will I say I’m going to vote for him? No. And here’s why, because anyone I ever say I’m voting for, it’s a kiss of death", "hDAEwheafHI-00014-00018009-00018114": "”"}}, {"audio_id": "hp258AxRspU", "text": {"hp258AxRspU-00000-00000571-00001219": "Trump has gotten even tougher on the border now that the crisis has reached its highest levels", "hp258AxRspU-00001-00001219-00002099": "He took millions of dollars from caravan countries, and he promised to punish Mexico with tariffs and a closed border", "hp258AxRspU-00002-00002099-00002851": "Mexico, big surprise, starting helping right away—preventing thousands from entering", "hp258AxRspU-00003-00002851-00003562": "But how does the American people feel about Trump playing hardball? Looks like they’re on his side", "hp258AxRspU-00004-00003562-00004562": "From Rasmussen.The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows that 51% of Likely U", "hp258AxRspU-00005-00004562-00005458": "S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Forty-seven percent (47%) disapprove", "hp258AxRspU-00006-00005458-00006438": "Ka-boom! Can you believe it?.After months of negative press, Trump is enjoying a 51% approval among Americans", "hp258AxRspU-00007-00006438-00007049": "Trump’s approval at this point in his administration is beating Obama’s at the same time", "hp258AxRspU-00008-00007049-00007992": "That’s pretty significant. Remember, Obama was the media’s golden boy. The left-wing news praised everything he did", "hp258AxRspU-00009-00007992-00009089": "Meanwhile, media coverage of Trump is 92% negative. What a travesty.Yet today, Trump is enjoying a higher approval rating than Obama", "hp258AxRspU-00010-00009089-00009844": "That’s huge.Trump enjoyed a boost after the Mueller report came out, clearing him of Russian collusion", "hp258AxRspU-00011-00009844-00010834": "But it dipped after the migrant crisis exploded.But with Trump taking strong action, and even heading to the border, Americans are noticing", "hp258AxRspU-00012-00010834-00011954": "And it’s Americans like you who are making the difference.Regular Americans, regardless of their party, don’t want to see tens of thousands of strangers entering our country", "hp258AxRspU-00013-00011954-00012686": "Unless you are a lemming Democrat, you probably approve of what Trump is doing to fix the problem", "hp258AxRspU-00014-00012686-00013438": "His numbers are at an all-time high, right as the media is trying to discredit him in time for 2020", "hp258AxRspU-00015-00013438-00013984": "Are you one of the majority of Americans that approve of the president?"}}, {"audio_id": "hQrrxn_M0i0", "text": {"hQrrxn_M0i0-00000-00000571-00002668": "No one has been a bigger convert on President Donald Trump than Lindsey Graham.Way back in 2015, when the South Carolina senator was challenging the billionaire businessman for the Republican presidential nomination, Graham said this of Trump: \"You know how you make America great again? Tell Donald Trump to go to hell", "hQrrxn_M0i0-00001-00002668-00003426": "\" And, oh yeah, Graham also called Trump a \"race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot", "hQrrxn_M0i0-00002-00003426-00004580": "\".Fast-forward to the here and now. \"To every Republican, if you don't stand behind this President, we're not going to stand behind you,\" Graham said in South Carolina recently", "hQrrxn_M0i0-00003-00004580-00005544": "\"This is the defining moment of his presidency. It's not just about a wall. It's about him being treated different than any other president", "hQrrxn_M0i0-00004-00005544-00006649": "\" (In 2017, Graham said he was \"the happiest dude in America right now,\" adding: \"We have got a President and a national security team that I've been dreaming of for eight years", "hQrrxn_M0i0-00005-00006649-00008026": "\").Graham's 180-degree turn on Trump has been particularly pronounced of late, as he has carefully calibrated his responses to the President's attacks on the late John McCain -- Graham's best friend in the Senate", "hQrrxn_M0i0-00006-00008026-00009157": "After taking heat for his lackluster original response to Trump's attacks, Graham was more full-throated in his response on Wednesday; \"When it comes to criticizing Sen", "hQrrxn_M0i0-00007-00009157-00010468": "McCain and his service, I think that's a huge mistake,\" Graham said of Trump.On Thursday morning, we got hard evidence that proves a) why Graham is playing so nice with Trump and b) that it's working", "hQrrxn_M0i0-00008-00010468-00011565": "A new Winthrop Poll shows that almost three in four Republicans and Republican leaners (74%) approve of the job that Graham is doing in the state", "hQrrxn_M0i0-00009-00011565-00012380": "That's similar to Trump's 82% job approval rating among South Carolina Republicans in that same poll", "hQrrxn_M0i0-00010-00012380-00013258": "\"Graham's approval has benefited from his defense of, and alignment with, President Trump,\" Winthrop Poll director Dr", "hQrrxn_M0i0-00011-00013258-00014818": "Scott Huffmon said. \"While Graham's numbers used to lag those of other Republicans among GOP identifiers, since he has taken up the President's banner on most every issue, his approval among Republicans in South Carolina has steadily risen", "hQrrxn_M0i0-00012-00014818-00015651": "\".Graham admitted that his embrace of Trump is politically motivated in an interview with The New York Times' Mark Leibovich", "hQrrxn_M0i0-00013-00015651-00016578": "\"If you don't want to get re-elected, you're in the wrong business,\" he said.Graham is, undoubtedly, focused on his political future", "hQrrxn_M0i0-00014-00016578-00017889": "He's up for re-election in 2020 and, unlike in his past fights for a new term, there don't appear to be significant conservative forces amassing to challenge him in next year's GOP primary"}}, {"audio_id": "hfp2vNTVKcy", "text": {"hfp2vNTVKcy-00000-00000571-00001561": "Thanks to an extradition request from the United States, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was arrested by UK authorities in London", "hfp2vNTVKcy-00001-00001561-00003447": "At first glance, it’s too difficult to determine what this means, as it could have stemmed from William Barr as an effort to silence Assange about Trump-Russia, or it could have been a direct result of the DOJ working around Barr in order to get to Assange to see if it could get some answers regarding the alleged scandal", "hfp2vNTVKcy-00002-00003447-00004975": "Regardless, Donald Trump was given the opportunity to speak to a pool of reporters on the matter, and his comments were interesting to say the least, especially considering they contradicted comments he made just weeks before the 2016 election", "hfp2vNTVKcy-00003-00004975-00006075": "“I know nothing about WikiLeaks. It’s not my thing, and I know there is something having to do with Julian Assange,” Trump said about the Assange arrest", "hfp2vNTVKcy-00004-00006075-00007642": "“I’ve been seeing what’s happened with Assange.”.However, it appears Donald Trump completely forgot about the tweet he posted prior to the 2016 election, attacking the Clinton campaign while defending WikiLeaks as a legitimate intel source:", "hfp2vNTVKcy-00005-00007642-00008378": "“Very little pick-up by the dishonest media of incredible information provided by WikiLeaks", "hfp2vNTVKcy-00006-00008378-00009789": "So dishonest! Rigged system!” he wrote.Then, days later, he tweeted that “WikiLeaks proves even the Clinton campaign knew Crooked mishandled classified info, but no one gets charged? RIGGED!”", "hfp2vNTVKcy-00007-00009789-00010583": "And let’s not forget about his comments at a political rally,  where he said “oh, we love WikiLeaks", "hfp2vNTVKcy-00008-00010583-00011294": "”.So what gives? Why the sudden change of heart? Seems awfully convenient if you ask me", "hfp2vNTVKcy-00009-00011294-00012414": "When the election was at stake and Julian Assange and WikiLeaks were working to rig it in his favor, he had no problem praising them with each opportunity he was given to do so", "hfp2vNTVKcy-00010-00012414-00013456": "But now, with his own DOJ arresting Assange a criminal, we’re expected to believe he knows nothing about them? Seriously? Has the man lost his mind?", "hfp2vNTVKcy-00011-00013456-00013843": "Yes. Yes, he has"}}, {"audio_id": "hf_59_0fUYg", "text": {"hf_59_0fUYg-00000-00000571-00001438": "Obama and Hillary Clinton continue to say they had nothing to do with what went on behind the scenes of the 2016 election", "hf_59_0fUYg-00001-00001438-00002261": "Now new evidence has finally gone public over a year later, and it could lay waste to everything the Democrats have claimed", "hf_59_0fUYg-00002-00002261-00003091": "Lisa Page admitted under oath that Obama’s DOJ ordered the FBI not to prosecute Hillary Clinton", "hf_59_0fUYg-00003-00003091-00004575": "And Democrats are scrambling to contain the fallout. From Fox essentially confirmed that “the FBI was ordered by the Obama DOJ not to consider charging Hillary Clinton for gross negligence in the handling of classified information''", "hf_59_0fUYg-00004-00004575-00005612": "So Obama’s DOJ, likely under his orders, demanded the FBI to stand down.Democrats have been denying this for years, and there’s good reason why", "hf_59_0fUYg-00005-00005612-00006414": "The charge of gross negligence probably would have had a major effect on the 2016 election against President Trump", "hf_59_0fUYg-00006-00006414-00008287": "If she was guilty, many would think she was unfit to be President.And Trump immediately brought this revelation to the world—he let his presidential sledgehammer fly:''President Trump has questioned FBI investigation into Hillary’s email server, and many of his supporters will see this as vindication", "hf_59_0fUYg-00007-00008287-00009431": "After they dropped the case, he said the fix was in. Even though former FBI Director James Comey announced Hillary broke the law, he did not pursue charges", "hf_59_0fUYg-00008-00009431-00010141": "Many speculated Obama and the DOJ ordered them to drop the case. Now what does it look like?", "hf_59_0fUYg-00009-00010141-00010904": "Lisa Page’s testimony is exactly the opposite of what Comey has been telling us for years", "hf_59_0fUYg-00010-00010904-00011771": "He claimed he dropped the case on his own volition.Instead, it looks like he was told from the very beginning to drop it", "hf_59_0fUYg-00011-00011771-00012565": "If this is true, it is a weaponization of our Justice Department against Donald Trump to protect Hillary Clinton", "hf_59_0fUYg-00012-00012565-00013333": "And just think of it: Democrats accused Trump of “obstructing” justice over a simple statement on Twitter", "hf_59_0fUYg-00013-00013333-00014198": "Yet, according to insider Lisa page, Obama’s DOJ ordered Comey to drop a case. He didn’t seem to mind at all"}}, {"audio_id": "i32WSrEJOn0", "text": {"i32WSrEJOn0-00000-00000571-00002094": "Does it feel as if the Robert Mueller investigation into the conspiracy between the Donald Trump campaign and Moscow and Russia’s attack on the 2016 presidential election has been going on for an eternity? It has been continuing for nearly two years", "i32WSrEJOn0-00001-00002094-00003515": "That is about to change.One of the new Trump-appointed Attorney General (AG)  Bill Barr’s first acts was to indicate that he is preparing to announce the end of Mueller’s investigations as early as next week according to CNN", "i32WSrEJOn0-00002-00003515-00004303": "At that point, Barr will prepare a summary of Mueller’s confidential report and submit it to Congress", "i32WSrEJOn0-00003-00004303-00005474": "It has not been clear from Barr’s nomination hearings whether he will give the entire redacted document to Congress or if the legislative body would be able to request an unredacted copy", "i32WSrEJOn0-00004-00005474-00006137": "Thus far, the House has indicated that it wants to release Mueller’s report to the public", "i32WSrEJOn0-00005-00006137-00007064": "Barr has told lawmakers that he wants to be as “transparent” as possible with both the public and Congress “consistent with the rules and the law", "i32WSrEJOn0-00006-00007064-00008075": "”.The special counsel must follow established regulations. When, he has completed his investigation, Mueller will give Barr a “confidential” report", "i32WSrEJOn0-00007-00008075-00008773": "The rules, however, do not say that the attorney general must share it with Congress", "i32WSrEJOn0-00008-00008773-00010549": "It is up to the lawmakers whether they make the report public.‘Former FBI Acting Director Andrew McCabe made new claims overnight about President Trump, Russia and the Mueller investigation, saying he thinks “it’s possible” when asked if he thinks Trump could still be a Russian asset", "i32WSrEJOn0-00009-00010549-00011508": "‘The AG had stated the Department of Justice (DOJ) tries to keep “derogatory” data about individuals who have not been charged private", "i32WSrEJOn0-00010-00011508-00012414": "If the congressional committees are dissatisfied with Barr’s summary, they do have the option of asking Mueller to testify publicly before them", "i32WSrEJOn0-00011-00012414-00013428": "According to CNN:.‘The regulations require Mueller to explain in his report all decisions to prosecute or not prosecute matters under scrutiny", "i32WSrEJOn0-00012-00013428-00014339": "Barr would also need to inform Congress if the Justice Department prevented the special counsel team from pursuing any investigative steps", "i32WSrEJOn0-00013-00014339-00015024": "’Mueller’s team of investigators heavily redacted its recent court filings, which are public", "i32WSrEJOn0-00014-00015024-00016071": "These include Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort. The redactions protected the pending investigations and individuals who have not been charged", "i32WSrEJOn0-00015-00016071-00017082": "Although, Mueller’s probe may soon conclude, there are still cases pending in the New York Southern District (NYSD) and Washington, D", "i32WSrEJOn0-00016-00017082-00018030": "C. courts.For three days last week, employees in the special counsel’s office have been taking boxes of files out of their office", "i32WSrEJOn0-00017-00018030-00018524": "This was unusual and might mean further hand-offs"}}, {"audio_id": "iyZ2ddOB9dy", "text": {"iyZ2ddOB9dy-00000-00000571-00001467": "For Christians, we are currently in Lent, the holiest of our seasons which culminates in the solemnness turned celebration of Easter Weekend", "iyZ2ddOB9dy-00001-00001467-00002519": "It is convention during this period for Christians to commit to some deliberate act of denial in order to focus on their faith and bring them nearer their God", "iyZ2ddOB9dy-00002-00002519-00004466": "This is paraphrased into the common giving something up for Lent.This year, when people ask me, Charlie, what are you giving up for Lent?  My answer has to be that I’m giving up the hope that any elected government leaders other than President Trump, are willing to stand up for the beliefs and intentions of a majority of Americans", "iyZ2ddOB9dy-00003-00004466-00006242": "This past week, 12 Republican Senators (does that number sound at all familiar in the context of Lent?) joined all of their Democratic colleagues in voting 59-41 in support of a Bill that declared as unconstitutional the President’s National Emergency Declaration to fund a border wall", "iyZ2ddOB9dy-00004-00006242-00007971": ".In the end, they all forsook him and fled.It is very important to remember that all of this has come to a head over the past five months because the President did not place his own Party in the position of having to shut the government down while they controlled both Houses of Congress", "iyZ2ddOB9dy-00005-00007971-00008935": "For two years the President had a majority in the House and in the Senate and tried to rely on them to cooperate in getting our border secured", "iyZ2ddOB9dy-00006-00008935-00010009": "They did what is in their nature to do.  They did nothing. .It is worth presenting a roll call of those GOP Senators who voted against the President", "iyZ2ddOB9dy-00007-00010009-00010719": "To borrow from the all-time movie classic, Casablanca, let’s round up the usual suspects:", "iyZ2ddOB9dy-00008-00010719-00012697": "Mitt Romney (UT), Susan Collins (ME), Marco Rubio (FL), Pat Toomey (PA), Roger Wicker (MS), Lamar Alexander (TN), Lisa Murkowski (AK), Roy Blount (MO), Jerry Moran (KS), Mike Lee (UT), Rob Portman (OH)…", "iyZ2ddOB9dy-00009-00012697-00013585": "…and Rand Paul (KY) whose libertarian ideals I generally but with whom I simply cannot agree in this case", "iyZ2ddOB9dy-00010-00013585-00014201": "The reasons for their turning their back on the President run along the expected lines", "iyZ2ddOB9dy-00011-00014201-00014932": "Some fear that the use of Emergency Powers will encourage future Presidents to do the same", "iyZ2ddOB9dy-00012-00014932-00016150": "Others say outright that it is unconstitutional.  Roy Blunt actually said that he worried this would allow a Democratic President to use an Emergency Declaration to pass gun control", "iyZ2ddOB9dy-00013-00016150-00016850": "Is anybody ready to join me in giving up?.Fortunately, the President isn’t giving up", "iyZ2ddOB9dy-00014-00016850-00017861": "He is going to veto this non-sensical Bill and let the fight turn to the courts where Republicans along with Democrats will try to stop him", "iyZ2ddOB9dy-00015-00017861-00019775": "This is with complete disregard of the wishes of the American people.The polls on the border and the building of a wall can be confusing when looked at as independent parts of a whole because depending upon how the question is asked, journalists and pundits can cite scripture for their purpose and draw differing conclusions", "iyZ2ddOB9dy-00016-00019775-00020755": "That said, back in January, The Daily Caller ran a piece that did a good job in synthesizing the results of various polls", "iyZ2ddOB9dy-00017-00020755-00021653": "The conclusion?  Americans feel border security is a really big problem and they are willing to spend money to address it", "iyZ2ddOB9dy-00018-00021653-00022954": ".Our political system has evolved to the point where in most precincts today during most elections, the two party’s have produced a choice for voters that allows them to pick between two non-responsive candidates", "iyZ2ddOB9dy-00019-00022954-00023981": "Preservation of the status quo along with the trappings of power, privilege, profit, and prestige have become governing objectives for most politicians", "iyZ2ddOB9dy-00020-00023981-00024785": "That means that when we have a President like Donald Trump willing to stand up and fight for us, he is forced to fight against them", "iyZ2ddOB9dy-00021-00024785-00026047": "There has been no other circumstance like this in modern political history.  I wish that the stakes weren’t so high so that I could simply step back and enjoy the incredible theater of this", "iyZ2ddOB9dy-00022-00026047-00026726": "We have the classic plotline of one solitary figure standing up against a unified threat", "iyZ2ddOB9dy-00023-00026726-00028220": "In traditional literature, the story usually ends tragically.  In a contemporary film, the story often ends triumphantly because movie executives know that crowds are hungry for a hero in a world with so few real ones", "iyZ2ddOB9dy-00024-00028220-00028931": "I don’t know how this one will end but already the protagonist has taken on tremendous adversity", "iyZ2ddOB9dy-00025-00028931-00030341": "The President has lost friends and has had his own Party turn on him.  He has been the subject contrived criminal investigations that have seen the use of law enforcement agencies turned into Tammany Hall type machinery", "iyZ2ddOB9dy-00026-00030341-00031290": "He and his family have been insulted and outright threatened in a way that takes us back to Abraham Lincoln and the days of the Civil War", "iyZ2ddOB9dy-00027-00031290-00032353": "As a conservative activist who supports the President, I am constantly under attack and am subject to accusations, rumors, and name-calling", "iyZ2ddOB9dy-00028-00032353-00034053": "What our President is facing makes me feel like I am as popular as Oprah.If this most recent rebuke of the President in the Senate doesn’t make clear to all Americans that the answer to our problems isn’t just to elect more Republicans, I don’t know what else can", "iyZ2ddOB9dy-00029-00034053-00035111": "If we take most of the gang of 12 at their word, then you can summarize their reasons for voting against the President by saying that his boldness scared them", "iyZ2ddOB9dy-00030-00035111-00035780": ".We don’t need more “R’s” in elected government and we certainly don’t need more “D’s", "iyZ2ddOB9dy-00031-00035780-00036477": "”  What we need are more “C’s,” as in courage.Enjoy your Lenten season.  Don’t give up", "iyZ2ddOB9dy-00032-00036477-00036793": "Have the courage to keep fighting"}}, {"audio_id": "iBTAkJzehtI", "text": {"iBTAkJzehtI-00000-00000571-00001694": "Sen. Rand Paul has joined the list of GOP Senators who are abandoning Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s pledge to support the border emergency declaration by President Donald Trump", "iBTAkJzehtI-00001-00001694-00002990": "“I can’t vote to give the president the power to spend money that hasn’t been appropriated by Congress,” Paul told a home-state audience at Western Kentucky University’s Augenstein Alumni Center on May 2", "iBTAkJzehtI-00002-00002990-00004311": "“We may want more money for border security, but Congress didn’t authorize it. If we take away those checks and balances, it’s a dangerous thing,” he said, according to the Bowling Green Daily News", "iBTAkJzehtI-00003-00004311-00004949": "Paul is the fifth GOP Senator who says he will oppose Trump’s emergency declaration", "iBTAkJzehtI-00004-00004949-00005779": "His vote will allow Democrats to get a resolution against emergency spending through the Senate with a vote or two to spare", "iBTAkJzehtI-00005-00005779-00006717": "But Trump’s emergency declaration is expected to survive because Trump can veto the Democrats’ resolution against the emergency", "iBTAkJzehtI-00006-00006717-00007728": "Trump is using the emergency declaration to redirect several billion dollars of appropriated funds to help build additional miles of border wall", "iBTAkJzehtI-00007-00007728-00008587": "The declaration comes after the D.C. establishment largely blocked Trump’s 2016 mandate for immigration reform", "iBTAkJzehtI-00008-00008587-00010557": "The GOP and Democratic establishments have done little to reverse the rising death toll from smuggled drugs, little to stop the rising inflow of low-wage economic migrants, and little to reverse the chaotic diversity in blue-collar neighborhoods which is being caused by the establishment’s cheap-labor immigration policy", "iBTAkJzehtI-00009-00010557-00011380": "Democrats need support from 20 GOP Senators to get the 67 votes needed to override Trump’s veto", "iBTAkJzehtI-00010-00011380-00012612": "McConnell agreed to support the border emergency and the associated funding for the border-wall, in exchange for Trump’s support of GOP’s botched 2019 budget agreement with the Democrats", "iBTAkJzehtI-00011-00012612-00013582": "The deal provided Trump with money for just 55 miles of wall, and conditions that allow Democrats to block construction until October"}}, {"audio_id": "ipohVFaw-r0", "text": {"ipohVFaw-r0-00000-00000513-00001597": "Donald Trump has spent today taking credit for the size of John McCain’s funeral, and criticizing McCain for not coming back from the dead to thank him for it", "ipohVFaw-r0-00001-00001597-00002420": "He’s also spent the day attacking George Conway, the husband of his senior adviser Kellyanne Conway", "ipohVFaw-r0-00002-00002420-00003271": "So could Trump possibly find a way to humiliate himself even further before the day ended? You already know the answer", "ipohVFaw-r0-00003-00003271-00004932": "It started at around 10pm eastern time, when Donald Trump tweeted this quote: “The reason we have the Special Counsel investigation is that James Comey (a dirty cop) leaked his memos to a friend, who leaked them to the press, on purpose", "ipohVFaw-r0-00004-00004932-00006609": "” There are a couple of problems here. First, none of this is factually correct. Second, the quote came from a woman named Kennedy, who occasionally hosts a show on Fox Business Channel, and previously hosted a show on MTV", "ipohVFaw-r0-00005-00006609-00007359": "That’s right, Trump is now reduced to quoting someone from MTV to try to make his case", "ipohVFaw-r0-00006-00007359-00008422": "Then Trump tweeted this crediting it to Sean Hannity: “John Solomon: As Russia Collusion fades, Ukrainian plot to help Clinton emerges", "ipohVFaw-r0-00007-00008422-00009104": "” The trouble here is that no one has any idea what this is even supposed to mean", "ipohVFaw-r0-00008-00009104-00010227": "With each passing day, more evidence emerges that Donald Trump and his campaign criminally conspired with the Russian government to alter the outcome of the 2016 election", "ipohVFaw-r0-00009-00010227-00011481": "And what’s this nonsense about Hillary and Ukraine?.It’s becoming more clear by the hour that Donald Trump is falling to pieces under the increasing pressure of his worsening criminal scandals", "ipohVFaw-r0-00010-00011481-00012651": "Trump picked a fight with a dead man today, and the dead man won. Then Trump tried to top it by quoting someone from MTV and making things up about Hillary Clinton", "ipohVFaw-r0-00011-00012651-00013043": "This just keeps getting more disturbing"}}, {"audio_id": "iPbVyKcd1gM", "text": {"iPbVyKcd1gM-00000-00000513-00001550": "Saturday morning on Twitter, there was the most unusual trending term that caught my eye, and I had to go see what it was about: #FakeMelania", "iPbVyKcd1gM-00001-00001550-00003501": "I think everyone can agree that Melania Trump is a “fake” person — as in, pretending to care about orphans and Jews and bullied kids and the poor, poor immigrants — as evidenced by the fact that she remains married to a white supremacist who wouldn’t pour his Diet Coke on any one of those people if they were on fire", "iPbVyKcd1gM-00002-00003501-00005977": "But one small sign that even the real Melania might not be real didn’t escape the attention of eagle-eyed observers — on a trip to Alabama this weekend where the Tacky Asshole in Chief handed out autographed Bibles to disaster victims, the First Lady was spotted holding hands with Donald, something that the power couple has notoriously struggled with since he was elected (or possibly before, we can’t really know)", "iPbVyKcd1gM-00003-00005977-00007984": "That details led people to look closer, and sure enough, what seemed like a conspiracy theory at first appears to be confirmed through multiple pieces of photographic evidence: Melania Trump has a body double, and now that we really compare the two side by side, it’s hard to see how we were ever fooled before", "iPbVyKcd1gM-00004-00007984-00009162": "There’s the simple stuff — the face doesn’t really look the same.But believe me, I’ve woken up with jowls on a bad day myself — that really wasn’t enough to convince me", "iPbVyKcd1gM-00005-00009162-00010820": "Height, on the other hand, is much harder to fake.You’ll note that in both of the photos there, “Melania” is wearing the same white and burgundy Adidas Superstars — not heels or pumps or anything else that would drastically affect the appearance of height in any way", "iPbVyKcd1gM-00006-00010820-00011999": "But where on earth would the President and his team be able to smuggle a body double for the First Lady that would be available at a moment’s notice and never be suspected of anything?", "iPbVyKcd1gM-00007-00011999-00012928": "That’s where the apparent proof comes in. There is a Secret Service agent assigned to the First Family that looks pretty familiar", "iPbVyKcd1gM-00008-00012928-00013639": "This seemingly implausible theory actually looks to be real, and this morning, our minds are BLOWN"}}, {"audio_id": "iYK2zLLtfaE", "text": {"iYK2zLLtfaE-00000-00000571-00001885": "The Observer reported recently that the Director of the NSA, Admiral Mike Rogers, has admitted in a private town-hall-style meeting of NSA staffing that Donald Trump did, in fact, collude with the Russians", "iYK2zLLtfaE-00001-00001885-00002995": "The story really begins when President Trump attempted to sway several top intelligence and security officials into joining his cause of derailing then FBI Director, James Comey", "iYK2zLLtfaE-00002-00002995-00003917": "According to The Observer, these officials included, but were not limited to, Rogers and Dan Coats, the Director of National Intelligence", "iYK2zLLtfaE-00003-00003917-00005260": "Trump was dealt a huge setback, however, when both of these men made it clear to the Trump that their loyalties lied with their oaths to defend the United States Constitution, not with the President’s political agendas", "iYK2zLLtfaE-00004-00005260-00006477": "In a testimony before the Senate Armed Forces Committee, Coats declined to answer questions about Trump’s attempt to undermine the FBI’s investigation into possible collusion between Trump and Russia", "iYK2zLLtfaE-00005-00006477-00007219": "He intimated the public setting would be inappropriate, and that he might be more forthcoming in a classified setting", "iYK2zLLtfaE-00006-00007219-00008245": "John Schindler, a highly-experience expert in U.S. intelligence and security, and writer for The Observer, makes it clear how Rogers feels", "iYK2zLLtfaE-00007-00008245-00009520": "This week’s town hall event, which was broadcast to agency facilities worldwide, was therefore met with surprise and anticipation by the NSA workforce, and Rogers did not disappoint", "iYK2zLLtfaE-00008-00009520-00010604": "I have spoken with several NSA officials who witnessed the director’s talk and I’m reporting their firsthand accounts, which corroborate each other, on condition of anonymity", "iYK2zLLtfaE-00009-00010604-00011772": "In his town hall talk, Rogers reportedly admitted that President Trump asked him to discredit the FBI and James Comey, which the admiral flatly refused to do", "iYK2zLLtfaE-00010-00011772-00013187": "As Rogers explained, he informed the commander in chief, “I know you won’t like it, but I have to tell what I have seen”—a probable reference to specific intelligence establishing collusion between the Kremlin and Team Trump", "iYK2zLLtfaE-00011-00013187-00014522": "Rogers then added that such SIGINT exists, and it is damning. He stated, “There is no question that we [meaning NSA] have evidence of election involvement and questionable contacts with the Russians", "iYK2zLLtfaE-00012-00014522-00016826": "” Although Rogers did not cite the specific intelligence he was referring to, agency officials with direct knowledge have informed me that DIRNSA was obviously referring to a series of SIGINT reports from 2016 based on intercepts of communications between known Russian intelligence officials and key members of Trump’s campaign, in which they discussed methods of damaging Hillary Clinton", "iYK2zLLtfaE-00013-00016826-00018571": "NSA employees walked out of the town hall impressed by the director’s forthright discussion of his interactions with the Trump administration, particularly with how Rogers insisted that he had no desire to “politicize” the situation beyond what the president has already done", "iYK2zLLtfaE-00014-00018571-00020076": "America’s spies are unaccustomed to playing partisan politics as Trump has apparently asked them to do, and it appears that the White House’s ham-fisted effort to get NSA to attack the FBI and its credibility was a serious mistake", "iYK2zLLtfaE-00015-00020076-00021066": "It’s therefore high time for the House and Senate intelligence committees to invite Admiral Rogers to talk to them about what transpired with the White House", "iYK2zLLtfaE-00016-00021066-00022672": "It’s evident that DIRNSA has something important to say. Since Mike Rogers is said to have kept notes of the president’s effort to enlist him in Trump’s personal war with the FBI, as any seasoned Beltway bureaucrat would do, his account ought to be impressively detailed"}}, {"audio_id": "iguVk1d5T4M", "text": {"iguVk1d5T4M-00000-00000571-00001524": "House Democrats voted Wednesday to condemn the Donald Trump administration’s support for a lawsuit that would entirely repeal Obamacare", "iguVk1d5T4M-00001-00001524-00002540": "The House passed H. Res. 271, which condemns “the Trump administration’s legal campaign to take away Americans’ health care", "iguVk1d5T4M-00002-00002540-00003530": "” The resolution passed 240-186, with one Republican voting “present.” Eight Republicans supported the measure", "iguVk1d5T4M-00003-00003530-00005455": "Rep. Colin Allred (D-TX) sponsored the bill.President Trump reignited the national conversation over the future of health care when his Department of Justice (DOJ) backed a federal judge’s ruling that the entire Affordable Care Act (ACA) violates the Constitution and must be repealed", "iguVk1d5T4M-00004-00005455-00006879": "Nearly Two-Thirds of Democrats Reject Mueller Findings.After many congressional Republicans signaled that they have no interest in a healthcare overhaul, Trump said that they will vote on an Obamacare replace after the 2020 election", "iguVk1d5T4M-00005-00006879-00007767": "Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said that he is “focusing on stopping the ‘Democrats’ Medicare for none’ scheme", "iguVk1d5T4M-00006-00007767-00009034": "”.During a National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) fundraiser Tuesday night, Trump said that Republicans will continue to lose elections if they run away from health care", "iguVk1d5T4M-00007-00009034-00010087": "“We have to win, we have to take back the House,” Trump said. “What really lost it and really helped us lose it was health care because we didn’t have an alternative", "iguVk1d5T4M-00008-00010087-00010187": "”"}}, {"audio_id": "j5D7zhSo9uk", "text": {"j5D7zhSo9uk-00000-00000571-00002109": "Bernie Sanders guessed right.At a Fox News town hall in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, on Monday night, Sanders mused to the moderators that President Donald Trump, who \"watches your network a bit,\" might be tuned in for the festivities", "j5D7zhSo9uk-00001-00002109-00004155": "The morning after and again on Tuesday night, Trump confirmed Sanders' well-founded suspicion with a series of snappish tweets, alleging the network had \"stuffed\" the room, which applauded many of the Vermont independent's answers, \"with Bernie supporters,\" after initially -- about 10 hours earlier -- calling it \"so weird to watch Crazy Bernie on Fox News", "j5D7zhSo9uk-00002-00004155-00005364": "\".Indeed, the sight of any Democrat -- much less a democratic socialist running for the party's presidential nomination -- in a venue so closely aligned with the Trump administration, is an unusual one", "j5D7zhSo9uk-00003-00005364-00006503": "Sanders' decision to tread those uneven boards upset more than a few liberals commentators, who worried that his presence alone might gift the network some undeserved credibility", "j5D7zhSo9uk-00004-00006503-00008300": "For Trump, though, the notes of aggravation in his tweets pointed to a broader new conflict: Here, for the first time, one of the candidates vying to deny him a second term had stood up on his stage, in front of an audience Trump views as his own, and delivered an unflinching case against him", "j5D7zhSo9uk-00005-00008300-00009442": "Sanders, who capped off his four-day, five-state trek through the Upper Midwest with the Fox News event, believes his path to the White House runs directly through Trump Country", "j5D7zhSo9uk-00006-00009442-00011249": "And he will not be deterred by a boisterous president or Democrats concerned that his focus on the region risks playing into what they view as a distorted reading of the 2016 election -- one that suggests \"economic anxiety\" drove voters to Trump and not the President's open appeals to race-based resentments", "j5D7zhSo9uk-00007-00011249-00012587": "Hillary Clinton, after all, won nationally with union households (51% to Trump's 42%) and voters making under $50,000 a year, according to exit polls", "j5D7zhSo9uk-00008-00012587-00013775": "\"I can understand why people voted for Trump based on what he said (in 2016),\" Sanders told supporters at a windswept rally in Madison, Wisconsin, last Friday", "j5D7zhSo9uk-00009-00013775-00014486": "\"And the reason for that, is that in Wisconsin and all over this country, there are a lot of people who are hurting", "j5D7zhSo9uk-00010-00014486-00016426": "There is a lot of pain out there.\".It was an argument Sanders repeated throughout the trip, one rooted in a belief that at least the outer rungs of Trump's base, a cohort viewed by some Democrats as too far gone to be won back, are there for the taking -- if only Democrats confront them with the reality of Trump's record in office", "j5D7zhSo9uk-00011-00016426-00018132": "\"Trump lied when he said that he would listen to their pain,\" Sanders said. \"So our job in this campaign is to reach out to working families who are hurting and to work with them to finally create a government and an economy that works for all of us and not just the 1%", "j5D7zhSo9uk-00012-00018132-00019329": "That is what the American people want -- they're tired of being lied to.\".For many on the left, particularly those in the organizing trenches, Sanders' view is a recognizable one", "j5D7zhSo9uk-00013-00019329-00020993": "And it fits with their own analysis of the 2016 election, which holds that a decisive, if relatively modest, number of frustrated swing voters either opted for Trump's right-wing populism or stayed home because of the absence of the left-wing alternative", "j5D7zhSo9uk-00014-00020993-00022050": "\"If you're going to a state that was won by Trump, you have to reckon with what drove voters to do that,\" a Sanders aide said ahead of his speech in Warren, Michigan", "j5D7zhSo9uk-00015-00022050-00023430": "\"If you're in Green Bay, Wisconsin, if you're in Kalamazoo, Michigan, if you're in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, you know what NAFTA did to your community, you know what these tax bills have done to your community", "j5D7zhSo9uk-00016-00023430-00024725": "\".A few minutes later in his remarks, Sanders came out for the first time against Trump's renegotiated version of the trade deal, the administration's United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement", "j5D7zhSo9uk-00017-00024725-00025478": "\"I challenge Donald Trump, for once in your life, keep your campaign promises,\" Sanders said", "j5D7zhSo9uk-00018-00025478-00027100": "\"Go back to the drawing board on NAFTA, do not send this treaty to Congress unless it includes strong and swift enforcement mechanisms to raise the wages of workers and to prevent corporations from outsourcing American jobs to Mexico", "j5D7zhSo9uk-00019-00027100-00028536": "\".But the underlying logic, promoted by both Sanders' campaign and the candidate himself, that says some Trump voters can be peeled off and brought back across the aisle, remains largely unproven in more recent elections", "j5D7zhSo9uk-00020-00028536-00029874": "Democrats won back the House during the 2018 midterms -- and claimed or retained governor's mansions in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania -- by marshaling a coalition of super-charged moderate liberals", "j5D7zhSo9uk-00021-00029874-00031321": "But Trump himself was not on the ballot and most Sanders-backed progressive candidates either lost their primaries or fell victim in November to the kind of attacks likely to be leveled at any eventual Democratic presidential nominee", "j5D7zhSo9uk-00022-00031321-00032684": "Down in Florida, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum, who is African American, led in most polls leading up to Election Day last year, typically outpacing now-former Democratic Sen", "j5D7zhSo9uk-00023-00032684-00034265": "Bill Nelson, who is white. But they both lost to their Republican opponents, who got eleventh hour boosts from Trump, and Nelson ultimately won more votes than Gillum, the former Tallahassee mayor Sanders endorsed before the primary", "j5D7zhSo9uk-00024-00034265-00035490": "Back up north, Democratic candidates across the primary field are beginning to sharpen their efforts to rebuild the so-called \"blue wall\" that Trump smashed through in 2016", "j5D7zhSo9uk-00025-00035490-00036469": "Pete Buttigieg, the young mayor of South Bend, Indiana, offered a preview of his own argument at his campaign's formal kick-off this weekend", "j5D7zhSo9uk-00026-00036469-00037574": "\"There is a myth being sold to industrial and rural communities,\" Buttigieg said, leaving the best known salesman unnamed, \"the myth that we can stop the clock and turn it back", "j5D7zhSo9uk-00027-00037574-00039053": "\".\"It comes from people who think the only way to reach communities like ours is through resentment and nostalgia,\" he continued, \"selling an impossible promise of returning to a bygone era that was never as great as advertised to begin with", "j5D7zhSo9uk-00028-00039053-00041333": "\".But Sanders has been the most direct. An April 8 memo from his campaign managers stated it plainly, arguing that \"the 2020 Electoral College map shows the most direct path to a Democratic victory is flipping back Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania\" -- three states Clinton lost in 2016 by fewer than 78,000 votes combined", "j5D7zhSo9uk-00029-00041333-00042822": "Democratic pollster Celinda Lake sees opportunity and risk in Sanders' tactics.\"The irony,\" Lake said, \"is that Sanders was the future in 2016, but he has to be careful not to be the past in 2020", "j5D7zhSo9uk-00030-00042822-00043658": "\".But she praised his approach, in saying he \"understands\" why people chose Trump, as a practical decision", "j5D7zhSo9uk-00031-00043658-00044580": "\"It's really good that Bernie Sanders said that because I think every candidate is going to have to end up saying that,\" Lake told CNN", "j5D7zhSo9uk-00032-00044580-00045675": "For Democrats, she added, \"I think this is the beginning of saying, 'I understand what you were voting for, you didn't get it and I'm proposing something that will get you what you need", "j5D7zhSo9uk-00033-00045675-00046309": "' But to just tell voters they were wrong isn't a very successful way to persuade them", "j5D7zhSo9uk-00034-00046309-00047474": "\".Sanders' combative performance at the town hall in Bethlehem, where he was confronted with a mix of standard-issue campaign questions and Trump talking points, will hearten his loyalists", "j5D7zhSo9uk-00035-00047474-00048822": "It also underscored the theory, set out by campaign manager Faiz Shakir in Pittsburgh a day earlier, that Sanders is the Democratic primary candidate best equipped to withstand the coming Republican onslaught", "j5D7zhSo9uk-00036-00048822-00050802": "\"Donald Trump is going to say every candidate is a quote-unquote 'socialist.' Whether you're Kamala Harris or Pete Buttigieg or anybody else, he's going to say that about you,\" Shakir said, asserting that Sanders -- who is happy enough to talk about his democratic socialism when asked -- won't \"flinch\" when faced with the line", "j5D7zhSo9uk-00037-00050802-00052665": "\"When that (response to GOP attacks) comes out of the candidate's mouth, who are voters going to trust and believe?,\" Shakir asked, before answering his own question: \"On that score, I believe that when Bernie Sanders says those things, people are going to say, 'Yeah, I believe that he's going to do those things", "j5D7zhSo9uk-00038-00052665-00052765": "'\""}}, {"audio_id": "jxLa3t-V3bo", "text": {"jxLa3t-V3bo-00000-00000571-00002101": "It is a truly tragic indictment of the current state of affairs of American politics that perhaps the thing that the current President of the United States and leader of the free world is best known for around the globe is his use of social media", "jxLa3t-V3bo-00001-00002101-00003564": "The Twitter profile of President Donald Trump has been the subject of an unholy amount of public and media attention in the two years that he has resided in the White House – most of the time, of course, for all the wrong reasons", "jxLa3t-V3bo-00002-00003564-00004288": "However, a group of savvy students may have just found a way to put Trump’s Twitter habit to good use", "jxLa3t-V3bo-00003-00004288-00005526": "19 year old Oslene Johnson teamed up with her friends to try to get the President to change the law on documents for civil rights cold cases and, amazingly, they were successful", "jxLa3t-V3bo-00004-00005526-00006547": "There has been a proposal in the works for a long time to create an archive of documents preserving information from all those old civil rights lawsuits", "jxLa3t-V3bo-00005-00006547-00008318": "However, because of the insanely bureaucratic way that our government works, the proposed bill had been sitting on the side for decades by this point, and if politicians did not act quick, it would expire – so those documents from those civil rights cases would be lost forever", "jxLa3t-V3bo-00006-00008318-00009099": "The students at New Jersey’s Hightstown High School, led by Johnson, were not about to let that happen", "jxLa3t-V3bo-00007-00009099-00009763": "So, they decided to try to reach the President using his very favorite medium: Twitter", "jxLa3t-V3bo-00008-00009763-00010818": "They started incessantly tweeting at him, his friends, his close aides and advisers, and essentially every White House official and Trump ally they could find", "jxLa3t-V3bo-00009-00010818-00012001": "Johnson was extremely passionate about the cause in hand. “When you really look at it, it’s about providing closure for communities, families, and also as a country,” she said", "jxLa3t-V3bo-00010-00012001-00013752": "“They’re still with us''.Another student – a 17 year old senior by the name of Srihari Suvramanian – said: “It’s just atrocious that these individuals have gotten away with crimes committed decades ago, for so long, even though the majority of Americans know it’s wrong", "jxLa3t-V3bo-00011-00013752-00014864": "We think it’s very important to provide a sense of closure. Even if we can’t get a full sense of closure, maybe provide some answers to the people that were denied justice''", "jxLa3t-V3bo-00012-00014864-00015828": "On the one hand, it is tragic that we have now reached the point where children are having to take it upon themselves to campaign for political change", "jxLa3t-V3bo-00013-00015828-00016440": "On the other hand, though, this gives me a great deal of hope about the future"}}, {"audio_id": "jI-O1uUkFyo", "text": {"jI-O1uUkFyo-00000-00000571-00001903": "The House just lobbed a warning shot up Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House and the Department of Justice about Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian interference in the puppet show known as the 2016 election", "jI-O1uUkFyo-00001-00001903-00002877": "In a rare unanimous, bipartisan vote, the House passed a resolution calling for the Attorney General’s release of the Mueller report to the public", "jI-O1uUkFyo-00002-00002877-00003867": "The Special Counsel regulations require Mueller to submit his report to the AG, with further disclosure coming at the AG’s discretion", "jI-O1uUkFyo-00003-00003867-00005064": "But the current AG, William Barr, has not said exactly what he would do, and he refused to commit to making the report public when pressed about it at his recent Senate confirmation hearings", "jI-O1uUkFyo-00004-00005064-00005965": "Today’s resolution is non-binding, which means it does not have the power of law that can force the public release of the report", "jI-O1uUkFyo-00005-00005965-00007407": "It is also not likely that Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will allow the GOP-controlled Senate to consider a similar resolution anytime soon, and in fact Trump sycophant Lindsey Graham is already trying to sabotage it", "jI-O1uUkFyo-00006-00007407-00008081": "But the unanimous vote is nothing short of a primal scream for transparency in the Mueller probe", "jI-O1uUkFyo-00007-00008081-00010089": "Jerrold Nadler, the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, who introduced the resolution, aptly called the results “a clear signal to both the American people and to the Department of Justice that Congress believes transparency is a fundamental principle necessary to ensure that government remains accountable to the public''", "jI-O1uUkFyo-00008-00010089-00010915": "This House resolution did not pass because a handful of Republican moderates decided to break with their party", "jI-O1uUkFyo-00009-00010915-00011957": "On the contrary, House Republicans put up weak resistance on the debate floor, mostly just grumbling about how the resolution appears to be a waste of time", "jI-O1uUkFyo-00010-00011957-00012746": "In the end, the resolution passed by a whopping 420-0, with four Republicans voting “present", "jI-O1uUkFyo-00011-00012746-00013420": "” No one knows when Mueller will wrap up his investigation and submit his report to Barr", "jI-O1uUkFyo-00012-00013420-00014546": "But when that day arrives, Barr now knows what kind of furious bipartisan backlash he will face, starting with subpoenas, if he even thinks about trying to bury it"}}, {"audio_id": "jJR5Z7q1XQQ", "text": {"jJR5Z7q1XQQ-00000-00000571-00001924": "Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 84, recently crushed Donald Trump’s dream that her retirement may be imminent by announcing on Thursday that she has hired a full slate of clerks through 2020", "jJR5Z7q1XQQ-00001-00001924-00003201": "Ginsburg’s newest hires include: Alyssa Barnard, a Columbia Law graduate; Harvard Law grads Marco Basile and Susan Pelletier; and Stanford Law grad Michael Qian", "jJR5Z7q1XQQ-00002-00003201-00004149": "President Trump actually demanded Ginsburg resign after she criticized him during the 2016 presidential campaign cycle", "jJR5Z7q1XQQ-00003-00004149-00004745": "Trump cited for his reasoning her “dumb political statements” and inferred “mind is shot", "jJR5Z7q1XQQ-00004-00004745-00006048": "” Ruth Bader Ginsburg eventually apologized for bashing the then-candidate.During his presidency, she’s been much more measured in her comments about his job performance, but the shade is there", "jJR5Z7q1XQQ-00005-00006048-00006947": "Of course it. This is why she is so beloved. Ginsburg said, in a February interview with the BBC’s Newsnight:", "jJR5Z7q1XQQ-00006-00006947-00008036": "“We’re not experiencing the best of times.”.Back in November 2017, Trump had the hubris to release a list of potential Supreme Court nominees", "jJR5Z7q1XQQ-00007-00008036-00008898": "He got very lucky that his party was able to hold Scalia’s seat hostage so that he could install Neil Gorsuch", "jJR5Z7q1XQQ-00008-00008898-00009857": "For him to have released his short-list of favorites after having repeatedly insulted Ruth Bader Ginsburg was to engage in a tickle-fight with a wolverine", "jJR5Z7q1XQQ-00009-00009857-00010745": "Even if Ginsburg had planned for decades to retire before 2020, Trump’s own antics will have caused her to delay that", "jJR5Z7q1XQQ-00010-00010745-00012589": "Once again, Trump proves he’s neither “very stable” nor a “genius.”.Trump may have scored a victory with the retirement of Justice Kennedy and the installation of Brett Kavanaugh, but it looks like he’s gonna have to deal with the Notorious RBG until he’s finally voted (or removed) from office"}}, {"audio_id": "jKHVf7fRbCY", "text": {"jKHVf7fRbCY-00000-00000571-00001331": "Democratic Congressman Ted Lieu has been smartly and aggressively taking on the Trump regime from the very start", "jKHVf7fRbCY-00001-00001331-00002143": "For whatever reason, Donald Trump has largely ignored Lieu, even while viciously attacking other leading House Democrats", "jKHVf7fRbCY-00002-00002143-00003060": "But that changed yesterday, when Trump went after Lieu in surreal fashion – and suffice it to say that Lieu got the best of the exchange", "jKHVf7fRbCY-00003-00003060-00004102": ".This week House Democrats held a hearing on the rising dangers of white nationalism, so naturally House Republicans decided to make a mockery of it", "jKHVf7fRbCY-00004-00004102-00004954": "They invited Donald Trump loyalist Candace Owens to testify, so she could insist that white nationalism doesn’t exist", "jKHVf7fRbCY-00005-00004954-00005803": "This prompted Ted Lieu to play a recent clip of a speech in which Owens claimed that Adolf Hitler wasn’t all that bad", "jKHVf7fRbCY-00006-00005803-00006793": "This sent Owens off on an unhinged rant about how her quote was supposedly out of context, prompting Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler to intervene", "jKHVf7fRbCY-00007-00006793-00007571": ". .By any coherent definition, Ted Lieu won the exchange and Owens humiliated herself", "jKHVf7fRbCY-00008-00007571-00008509": "Just don’t tell that to Owens’ fellow Trump loyalist Arthur Schwartz, who posted a video clip of Owens ranting, and added “Wow", "jKHVf7fRbCY-00009-00008509-00009778": "Ted Lieu got a well deserved ass kicking. Shame on you Ted.” Donald Trump, who apparently didn’t watch the entire clip or didn’t understand what he was watching, promptly retweeted it", "jKHVf7fRbCY-00010-00009778-00010643": "The end result was that the President of the United States was attacking a prominent member of Congress under idiotic circumstances", "jKHVf7fRbCY-00011-00010643-00011850": ".Ted Lieu naturally seized the moment. He tweeted “Super excited Donald Trump retweeted this right-wing tweet about me! I pinned on my Twitter the full statement of Owens", "jKHVf7fRbCY-00012-00011850-00012649": "She said: ‘If Hitler just wanted to make Germany great and have things run well, OK, fine", "jKHVf7fRbCY-00013-00012649-00013239": "The problem is he wanted, he had dreams outside of Germany.'”"}}, {"audio_id": "je_2Ogazju4", "text": {"je_2Ogazju4-00000-00000571-00001960": "Kim Jong-un has arrived in Hanoi, after transferring from train to car for the final leg of his overland trip to Vietnam where the North Korean leader is scheduled to have a private dinner and meeting with Donald Trump on Wednesday", "je_2Ogazju4-00001-00001960-00003329": "Kim will meet the US president for a brief one-on-one conversation, followed by a social dinner, at which they will each be accompanied by two guests and interpreters, White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said", "je_2Ogazju4-00002-00003329-00004688": "Their meeting comes eight months after the historic summit in Singapore, the first between a sitting US president and a North Korean leader, which failed to produce concrete results on a path to denuclearisation", "je_2Ogazju4-00003-00004688-00005824": "Kim arrived on Tuesday at the station in the Vietnamese town of Dong Dang after crossing into China on Saturday thousands of kilometres further north at the city of Dandong", "je_2Ogazju4-00004-00005824-00006814": "Vietnamese officials were on hand to receive him at the station with a red carpet and guard of honour, with North Korean and Vietnamese flags flying", "je_2Ogazju4-00005-00006814-00007924": "Kim was seen leaving the train in Dong Dang and getting into a Mercedes Benz for the 170km (105-mile) journey to the capital, Hanoi", "je_2Ogazju4-00006-00007924-00008815": "He waved to young people lining the street as the car set off, flanked by about a dozen bodyguards running alongside", "je_2Ogazju4-00007-00008815-00010374": "There is no real expectation the second meeting will bring a final deal on ridding North Korea of nuclear weapons that threaten the US, but there are some hopes it could lead to a declaration that the 1950-53 Korean War is at last formally over", "je_2Ogazju4-00008-00010374-00011147": "The world leaders will be joined US secretary of state Mike Pompeo, who also arrived on Tuesday morning", "je_2Ogazju4-00009-00011147-00012485": "Trump and Kim will then hold a series of official meetings on Thursday.Trump, who lands in Vietnam late on Tuesday, will have meetings with the host country’s president and prime minister on Wednesday before seeing Kim", "je_2Ogazju4-00010-00012485-00013258": "Before leaving Washington on Monday, Trump tweeted that he was “Looking forward to a very productive summit''"}}, {"audio_id": "jiuUtl108Xg", "text": {"jiuUtl108Xg-00000-00000571-00002329": "At this point — just over two years into this disastrous presidency — even the critics who were most skeptical of the Trump-Russia story in the beginning are being forced to admit that there is something deeply suspicious about the president’s behavior towards Vladimir Putin’s cryptocriminal nation", "jiuUtl108Xg-00001-00002329-00003692": "It seems like hardly a week goes by without some new development that points towards the Trump campaign colluding with Russia or even worse President Trump himself bending over backward to deliver some concession to Putin", "jiuUtl108Xg-00002-00003692-00004544": "Our foreign policy is in shambles, and the president shows no interest in curbing Russian aggression and influence around the globe", "jiuUtl108Xg-00003-00004544-00005975": "According to The Associated Press, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is now claiming that the Trump administration is asking Russia for advice in advance of the summit between the United States and North Korea scheduled for later this week", "jiuUtl108Xg-00004-00005975-00006712": "The Russian diplomat said Washington “is even asking our advice, our views on this or that scenario''", "jiuUtl108Xg-00005-00006712-00007634": "Russia, in turn, has suggested Trump offer “security guarantees” to encourage Kim Jong-un to disarm his nuclear arsenal", "jiuUtl108Xg-00006-00007634-00008877": "Precisely what these guarantees would be is unclear, but the safe bet would be that they coincidentally happen to be things Russia wants the United States to do regardless of the negotiations", "jiuUtl108Xg-00007-00008877-00010345": ".While it’s possible that this is just more misinformation from Russia aimed at sowing distrust between the American people and their government, this story is unfortunately perfectly in keeping with other behavior we’ve witnessed from Trump", "jiuUtl108Xg-00008-00010345-00011722": "Recently, former Acting Director of the FBI Andrew McCabe revealed that Trump refused to believe the intelligence community when they informed him that North Korean missiles posed a threat to the United States", "jiuUtl108Xg-00009-00011722-00012273": "Trump decided this was simply not the case because Putin told him so"}}, {"audio_id": "kqp3OIyrQsu", "text": {"kqp3OIyrQsu-00000-00000513-00002109": "Why would Donald Trump mind whether his attorneys complied with a Democrat-led House committee to produce documents? After all, POTUS claims that he and his family are as pure as the driven snow, even though the president does have a significant orange tinge", "kqp3OIyrQsu-00001-00002109-00003109": "This is the deadline the House Judiciary committee set for 81 people, government agencies, and private organizations to fork them over", "kqp3OIyrQsu-00002-00003109-00004546": "What is the problem then?.The Judiciary committee encompasses far more than Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russia’s attack on the 2016 presidential election and the Trump campaign conspiracy with Moscow", "kqp3OIyrQsu-00003-00004546-00005264": "This House committee has been doing what the formerly Republican-led committee should have done over the past two years", "kqp3OIyrQsu-00004-00005264-00006103": "It has been investigating “abuses of official power, public corruption and obstruction of justice,” according to The Daily Beast", "kqp3OIyrQsu-00005-00006103-00007466": "Democrats on the House Judiciary committee will also question White House officials about how they have been dealing with white nationalism after the mass shooting in two mosques in New Zealand, according to The NY Daily News", "kqp3OIyrQsu-00006-00007466-00008213": "The Judiciary committee asked them to voluntarily provide large quantities of written materials", "kqp3OIyrQsu-00007-00008213-00009535": "The House committee thoughtfully suggested recipients of its request could start with those materials they had already given “Mueller or the US. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York (SDNY).”", "kqp3OIyrQsu-00008-00009535-00010820": "Trump’s attorney Jane Raskin let Judiciary committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and  the committee members know what the president’s outside legal team leader, Jay Sekulow, had in mind", "kqp3OIyrQsu-00009-00010820-00011593": "The letter insisted the attorneys had not turned any materials over to Mueller or the SDNY", "kqp3OIyrQsu-00010-00011593-00013490": "Therefore, Sekulow used semantics to claim what Nadler wanted did not exist.Republican strategist and former 2016 Trump campaign aide Michael Caputo’s attorney informed the Judiciary committee by letter that his client refused to testify or cooperate in any way", "kqp3OIyrQsu-00011-00013490-00014879": "Caputo jumped on the Sekulow bandwagon and told The Daily Beast:.‘My attorney responded to the House Judiciary document request within 24 hours—we have none of the requested documents", "kqp3OIyrQsu-00012-00014879-00015916": "I have testified three times under oath, answering the same questions each time, paying $20,000 to $30,000 each time", "kqp3OIyrQsu-00013-00015916-00017170": "I have not yet been invited to testify a fourth time. If I am, I will decline. If I am subpoenaed, I will assert my Fifth Amendment rights. Enough is enough.’", "kqp3OIyrQsu-00014-00017170-00017784": "Others in Trump’s orbit may elect to stiff-arm Nadler or slow-walk their materials", "kqp3OIyrQsu-00015-00017784-00018552": "Over half of the 81 people or entities from whom the committee chair requested materials have complied", "kqp3OIyrQsu-00016-00018552-00019257": "A number of those who were around Trump during the campaign told the Daily Beast they intended to comply:", "kqp3OIyrQsu-00017-00019257-00021021": "‘…former campaign foreign-policy aide Carter Page, music publicist and Trump Tower New York meeting facilitator Rob Goldstone, ex-political adviser Sam Nunberg and even ex-legal team spokesperson Mark Corallo told The Daily Beast earlier this month they would cooperate’", "kqp3OIyrQsu-00018-00021021-00022149": "The House Judiciary committee has the power of the subpoena, but there has not been an answer to what Chairman Nadler will do if people refuse to comply with his request for materials"}}, {"audio_id": "kB_TwjULcLM", "text": {"kB_TwjULcLM-00000-00000571-00001428": "Trump supporters are a pretty outspoken bunch. Just like us at Patriot Journal.You speak your mind", "kB_TwjULcLM-00001-00001428-00002791": "You’re not afraid of what other people think. That’s the true American spirit.But on many liberal college campuses, American universities, this kind of freedom does not seem to exist", "kB_TwjULcLM-00002-00002791-00003726": "Conservatives are uninvited from college campuses. Many feel they are being silenced, and their 1st Amendment rights suppressed", "kB_TwjULcLM-00003-00003726-00005283": "Now Trump is boldly standing up for them. From NY Post:.President Trump on Thursday is set to sign an executive order on campus free speech, ordering colleges to “support free speech” or face “very costly” consequences", "kB_TwjULcLM-00004-00005283-00005980": "WOW.Donald is signing a powerful order to urge universities to support free speech", "kB_TwjULcLM-00005-00005980-00006712": "Colleges that refuse or allow a hostile environment towards free expression could face consequences", "kB_TwjULcLM-00006-00006712-00007631": "This goes hand-in-hand with Trump’s crusade against “political correctness,” an attitude many believe suppresses free speech", "kB_TwjULcLM-00007-00007631-00008770": "Schools that hinder a student’s free speech will have to deal with Donald—he will not provide federal grants to schools if they are found guilty of attacking free speech", "kB_TwjULcLM-00008-00008770-00009491": "Schools will definitely think twice about allowing censorship on their campuses.This is a big deal", "kB_TwjULcLM-00009-00009491-00010685": "Colleges are where students go to learn and grow.But when schools censor certain ideas—or even outright ban speakers—shouldn’t there be serious consequences?", "kB_TwjULcLM-00010-00010685-00011314": "But the American people must stand up to protect their Constitutional rights"}}, {"audio_id": "kMipRbKZzWc", "text": {"kMipRbKZzWc-00000-00000571-00001945": "President Donald Trump triggered rampant confusion among his own aides and administration officials when he said Friday he is withdrawing new sanctions aimed at North Korea that were just issued by his own administration", "kMipRbKZzWc-00001-00001945-00002987": "\"It was announced today by the US Treasury that additional large scale Sanctions would be added to those already existing Sanctions on North Korea", "kMipRbKZzWc-00002-00002987-00003697": "I have today ordered the withdrawal of those additional Sanctions!\" Trump tweeted on Friday", "kMipRbKZzWc-00003-00003697-00004860": "The tweet set off a firestorm in the administration, with aides rushing -- or waiting -- to understand what sanctions Trump was referring to and what the policy implications would be", "kMipRbKZzWc-00004-00004860-00006093": "Many aides quickly concluded that the President was referring to sanctions targeting two Chinese shipping companies that have allegedly helped North Korea skirt sanctions imposed by the United Nations", "kMipRbKZzWc-00005-00006093-00007772": "Those new actions were fulfilled under existing sanctions authority.But two sources familiar with Trump's tweet Friday afternoon said it was in fact not about those sanctions, but instead about additional large-scale sanctions targeting North Korea that have been in the works", "kMipRbKZzWc-00006-00007772-00008493": "It was not clear why Trump said the sanctions had been announced on Friday, as they had not", "kMipRbKZzWc-00007-00008493-00009729": "One source believed Trump had conflated the sanctions that were still in the works with those announced by the Treasury Department on Thursday, as the latter were the subject of news reports on Friday", "kMipRbKZzWc-00008-00009729-00010941": "A senior administration official said the administration will not be pursuing additional sanctions against North Korea at this time and that the actions against the Chinese shippers remain in place", "kMipRbKZzWc-00009-00010941-00012738": "Still, Trump's announcement amounted to a startling rebuke of policy action being undertaken by his own government, which he in fact believed had already been publicly announced, once again calling attention to the unconventional and undisciplined policy process that has often defined the Trump administration", "kMipRbKZzWc-00010-00012738-00013848": "The White House declined to provide details on the sudden policy shift, but said Trump was pulling back the sanctions because he \"likes\" North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un", "kMipRbKZzWc-00011-00013848-00015144": "Pressed to expand on Trump's tweet, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders offered only a brief statement, saying: \"President Trump likes Chairman Kim and he doesn't think these sanctions will be necessary", "kMipRbKZzWc-00012-00015144-00016460": "\".She did not clarify which sanctions Trump was referring to.Several White House officials told CNN on Friday that they were confused by Trump's tweet and were unsure what he was referring to", "kMipRbKZzWc-00013-00016460-00017529": "In the 24 hours before Trump's tweet, top administration officials were busy publicly heralding the new designations targeting the Chinese shipping companies", "kMipRbKZzWc-00014-00017529-00018333": "\"Important actions today from @USTreasury,\" Trump's national security adviser, John Bolton, tweeted on Thursday", "kMipRbKZzWc-00015-00018333-00018986": "\"The maritime industry must do more to stop North Korea's illicit shipping practices", "kMipRbKZzWc-00016-00018986-00019853": "Everyone should take notice and review their own activities to ensure they are not involved in North Korea's sanctions evasion", "kMipRbKZzWc-00017-00019853-00021405": "\".In a statement announcing the sanctions, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said that the US believes \"the full implementation of North Korea-related UN Security Council resolutions is crucial to a successful outcome\" of denuclearizing North Korea", "kMipRbKZzWc-00018-00021405-00022886": "\"Treasury will continue to enforce our sanctions, and we are making it explicitly clear that shipping companies employing deceptive tactics to mask illicit trade with North Korea expose themselves to great risk,\" Mnuchin said", "kMipRbKZzWc-00019-00022886-00024396": "Trump administration officials had also hailed the sanctions as a continuation of the US pressure campaign on North Korea and an attempt to enforce existing sanctions authorities, insisting this was not aimed at widening North Korea-targeted sanctions", "kMipRbKZzWc-00020-00024396-00025143": "\"It is really meant to be a continuous activity of the US, and it really needs to a continuous activity of", "kMipRbKZzWc-00021-00025143-00026018": "all of the UN members to maintain the integrity of the sanctions,\" a senior administration official told CNN on Thursday", "kMipRbKZzWc-00022-00026018-00027640": "More than two hours after the President's tweet announcing he would roll back newly imposed sanctions announced by the Treasury Department, administration officials involved in the sanctions actions were still waiting for guidance from the White House on the meaning of Trump's tweet and how to proceed", "kMipRbKZzWc-00023-00027640-00028635": "\"We were caught off guard and people are still trying to figure out what is going on,\" one administration official said, nearly three hours after Trump's tweet", "kMipRbKZzWc-00024-00028635-00029589": "\"Everyone over here is watching Twitter and the news.\".These administration officials had yet to receive any guidance on the President's tweet", "kMipRbKZzWc-00025-00029589-00031428": "For now, they are simply in a holding pattern.Adam Mount, a nuclear expert at the Federation of American Scientists, said Trump's move will reduce the pressure on North Korea and make it more difficult for US diplomats to ensure other countries maintain the pressure campaign on North Korea", "kMipRbKZzWc-00026-00031428-00032705": "\"The message this sends is unmistakable. After refusing to consider sanctions relief at Hanoi, Trump volunteers to loosen enforcement in order to preserve the talks,\" Mount said", "kMipRbKZzWc-00027-00032705-00034265": "\"It shovels leverage to other side, assuring them their tactics could work.\".\"Reversing the designations will make it even more difficult for US diplomats to concentrate allies + partners on sanctions enforcement, especially at sea,\" he added"}}, {"audio_id": "kPXkO1eyFdo", "text": {"kPXkO1eyFdo-00000-00000571-00001488": "Earlier this evening we saw the abrupt resignation of Homeland Security Director Kirstjen Nielsen, immediately after she met with Donald Trump", "kPXkO1eyFdo-00001-00001488-00002556": "These kinds of high profile departures are nearly always publicly framed as a mutually agreeable “resignation” even if it’s a resignation in protest or a firing", "kPXkO1eyFdo-00002-00002556-00003340": "We still don’t know exactly what happened with Nielsen, but now we know precisely how she feels about Trump", "kPXkO1eyFdo-00003-00003340-00004813": ".Kirstjen Nielsen thinks that Donald Trump is “becoming increasingly unhinged about the border crisis and making unreasonable and even impossible requests,” according to a White House source who spoke to CNN about Nielsen’s resignation", "kPXkO1eyFdo-00004-00004813-00006148": "This is remarkable for a couple reasons. First, of all the high ranking people who have departed the Trump regime, this is the ugliest swing that any of them has taken at Trump on their way out the door", "kPXkO1eyFdo-00005-00006148-00007495": "Second, Nielsen was believed to have been on Trump’s side. . .Donald Trump and Kirstjen Nielsen clearly saw eye to eye when it came to kidnapping immigrant children from their parents and locking them in cages", "kPXkO1eyFdo-00006-00007495-00009395": "So this isn’t some kind of ideological impasse. This is simply a matter of Nielsen deciding that Trump has spiraled completely out of his gourd, demanding that she make imaginary things happen – and either she quit over it, or he ousted her because she tried to tell him that the things he was demanding were imaginary"}}, {"audio_id": "kRHJpuEafVQ", "text": {"kRHJpuEafVQ-00000-00000571-00001417": "President Donald Trump spoke to reporters in Hanoi after talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ended early with no agreement", "kRHJpuEafVQ-00001-00001417-00002117": "Here are the top lines from his news conference:.Sticking points were \"about sanctions\"", "kRHJpuEafVQ-00002-00002117-00003060": "Responding to a question about whether it was North Korea's desire to see the back of sanctions which derailed talks, Trump said it was", "kRHJpuEafVQ-00003-00003060-00003771": ".\"Basically they wanted the sanctions lifted in their entirety, and we couldn't do that,\" he said", "kRHJpuEafVQ-00004-00003771-00004640": ".\"He wants to denuke, he just wants to do areas that are less important than what we want,\" Trump said of Kim", "kRHJpuEafVQ-00005-00004640-00005468": ".He added that ultimately the breakdown of the summit \"was about sanctions''.Trump's relationship with Kim still \"very warm\"", "kRHJpuEafVQ-00006-00005468-00006495": "Trump said his relationship with Kim was still \"very warm\" and insisted that the meeting didn't end contentiously but with \"a very friendly walk''", "kRHJpuEafVQ-00007-00006495-00008067": "Trump said he took Kim's word on Otto Warmbier.Trump said he regretted what happened to US citizen Otto Warmbier, who was detained in North Korea for 17 months before being returned to the US in 2017, where he died days later", "kRHJpuEafVQ-00008-00008067-00008815": "Warmbier's parents have accused the North Korean government of torturing their son and causing his death", "kRHJpuEafVQ-00009-00008815-00009499": "Trump said he discussed the issue with Kim, and said \"I don't believe he would allow that to happen''", "kRHJpuEafVQ-00010-00009499-00010661": "\"Those prisons are rough, rough places, and bad things happen,\" he added. \"I don't believe he knew about it, he felt badly about it, he felt very badly''", "kRHJpuEafVQ-00011-00010661-00011596": "He added that while Kim \"knew the case very well,\" he knew about it \"later''.\"Some really bad things happened to Otto,\" Trump said", "kRHJpuEafVQ-00012-00011596-00012597": ".\"(Kim) tells me he didn't know about it and I will take him at his word''.He blasted Democrats for scheduling Cohen testimony during summit", "kRHJpuEafVQ-00013-00012597-00013493": "\"I think having a fake hearing like that and having it in the middle of this very important summit was really a terrible thing,\" Trump said", "kRHJpuEafVQ-00014-00013493-00014676": "\"Having it during this very important summit is sort of incredible''.Trump said while Cohen \"lied a lot,\" he was \"impressed\" by one thing: \"He said no collusion with the Russian hoax''", "kRHJpuEafVQ-00015-00014676-00015381": "\"I said, 'I wonder why he didn't lie about that too like he lied about everything else,'\" Trump said", "kRHJpuEafVQ-00016-00015381-00016066": "Trump continued: \"He said no collusion and I was you know a little impressed by that frankly", "kRHJpuEafVQ-00017-00016066-00016829": "He could have gone all out. He only went about 95% instead of 100%.\""}}, {"audio_id": "kafGTVej83c", "text": {"kafGTVej83c-00000-00000571-00002371": "In his televised New Year’s speech, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un had a stern warning to President Trump and the United States if current sanctions were not lifted saying his country “may be compelled to find a new way” to defend itself, leading many to believe he was hinting at a military response", "kafGTVej83c-00001-00002371-00004147": "How important are sanctions to North Korea? In a New Year speech, Kim said that if the US “tries to unilaterally force us to do something, and continues with sanctions… we might have no choice but to reluctantly seek a new way to defend the country’s sovereignty” pic", "kafGTVej83c-00002-00004147-00005887": "twitter.com/bJ908DLANh— BBC Monitoring (@BBCMonitoring) February 28, 2019.President Trump and Kim Jong Un have been engaged in what many hope are talks leading to an agreement of the controversial North Korean nuclear program", "kafGTVej83c-00003-00005887-00006970": "Clearly, most countries would like to see North Korea give up the nuclear weapons but since they continue to refuse to agree to do so, they have been under harsh sanctions", "kafGTVej83c-00004-00006970-00008298": "But even after these talks and despite the threat of possible military engagement from the North Korean leader, Trump said in a statement to reporters on Thursday that the sanctions are, indeed, still in place", "kafGTVej83c-00005-00008298-00011053": "Kim Jong Un’s address had more to say to the US:.“If the United States does not keep the promise it made in the eyes of the world, and out of miscalculation of our people’s patience, it attempts to unilaterally enforce something upon us and persists in imposing sanctions and pressure against our Republic… we may be compelled to find a new way for defending the sovereignty of the country and the supreme interests of the state and for achieving peace and stability of the Korean peninsula", "kafGTVej83c-00006-00011053-00012391": "”.Although North Korea insists it has ended testing on its nuclear sites, many believe the threat is that the 12 test sites will start back up and that they may, in fact, expand to include more", "kafGTVej83c-00007-00012391-00013916": "The two leaders met last year and SAID they agreed on peace as they move forward but there has still been no real glimpse of what or how they intend to do that when North Korea seems to be dead-set on keeping its nuclear arms as they currently are"}}, {"audio_id": "kgV7tLdZygu", "text": {"kgV7tLdZygu-00000-00000571-00002164": "In her much anticipated new memoir, “Becoming”, former First Lady Michelle Obama opens up about her childhood, her marriage, and just what she thinks of the current political climate, including President Donald Trump, the Washington Post reported on Thursday", "kgV7tLdZygu-00001-00002164-00003366": "Obama speaks candidly about Trump in the book, giving her reaction to key moments, such as hearing about the now infamous ‘grabbing women’ conversation, which she says left her in a “fury”", "kgV7tLdZygu-00002-00003366-00004962": "She also said she would “never forgive” him for starting the so-called birther movement, which was responsible for trying to prove that President Barack Obama’s American birth certificate had been falsified and which she believes put her family in real danger", "kgV7tLdZygu-00003-00004962-00005604": "According to the Post, which received an early copy of the book, she addresses the issue saying,", "kgV7tLdZygu-00004-00005604-00006456": "“The whole [birther] thing was crazy and mean-spirited, of course, its underlying bigotry and xenophobia hardly concealed", "kgV7tLdZygu-00005-00006456-00008378": "But it was also dangerous, deliberately meant to stir up the wingnuts and kooks…What if someone with an unstable mind loaded a gun and drove to Washington? What if that person went looking for our girls? Donald Trump, with his loud and reckless innuendos, was putting my family’s safety at risk", "kgV7tLdZygu-00006-00008378-00009551": "And for this I’d never forgive him.”.As President Trump left the White House for Paris, reporters questioned him about Obama’s memoir and got an angry reaction", "kgV7tLdZygu-00007-00009551-00010499": "Trump chastened Michelle Obama for “getting paid a lot of money to write a book” and added that “they always expect a little controversy”", "kgV7tLdZygu-00008-00010499-00011531": "He also took jabs at President Obama, blaming him for leaving him with an “old and tired” military, saying, “I’ll never forgive him for what he did to our military", "kgV7tLdZygu-00009-00011531-00012242": "I’ll never forgive him for what he did in many other ways, which I’ll talk to you about in the future", "kgV7tLdZygu-00010-00012242-00012997": "What he did, because she talked about safety. What he did to our military made this country very unsafe", "kgV7tLdZygu-00011-00012997-00013097": "”"}}, {"audio_id": "l7Mel397blY", "text": {"l7Mel397blY-00000-00000571-00001535": "President Donald Trump this weekend called out multinational corporation General Motors (GM) for closing its first of four U", "l7Mel397blY-00001-00001535-00002368": "S. assembly plants it expects to shutter this year, urging GM CEO Mary Barra to quickly reopen the plant", "l7Mel397blY-00002-00002368-00003327": "Trump called out the automaker and Barra for laying off thousands of American workers and the recent closing of the Lordstown, Ohio, assembly plant", "l7Mel397blY-00003-00003327-00004753": "This year, GM announced it would stop production at four of its U.S. plants, including Detroit-Hamtramck and Warren Transmission in Michigan, Lordstown Assembly in Ohio, and Baltimore Operations in Maryland", "l7Mel397blY-00004-00004753-00005463": "Trump initially blasted the decision, saying, “This country has done a lot for General Motors", "l7Mel397blY-00005-00005463-00007143": "They better get back to Ohio and soon.”.The production closures come after GM laid off about 1,500 American workers in Lordstown in 2018, while their Mexico production remains unaffected and production in China ramps up", "l7Mel397blY-00006-00007143-00009084": "At the beginning of this year, GM executives began laying off 14,700 workers in the United States and Canada, with the majority of the layoffs concentrated in Michigan, Ohio, Maryland, Georgia, and Texas, including at least 3,300 American factory workers", "l7Mel397blY-00007-00009084-00010353": "These layoffs included the mass layoff of at least 4,000 American workers in white-collar jobs for GM, many of whom were older and had worked at the corporation for more than two decades", "l7Mel397blY-00008-00010353-00011244": "Even in supporting industries, about 400 Americans are set to be laid off in the Lordstown, Ohio, region", "l7Mel397blY-00009-00011244-00012519": "A Lordstown resident told local media that the “life of our communities is at stake” because of the plant closure, saying, “This is the last nail in the economic coffin of the Mahoning Valley", "l7Mel397blY-00010-00012519-00013937": "We’re fighting for our lives here.”.In a series of online posts to Twitter, Trump said GM executives needed to devise a plan, quickly, to reopen the Lordstown plant, writing that Barra and others “must act quickly", "l7Mel397blY-00011-00013937-00015473": "”.Trump is headed to Michigan this month for a rally as he signals that economic nationalism will remain the central platform of his 2020 re-election bid with specifically the protection of American auto jobs increasingly becoming an election issue", "l7Mel397blY-00012-00015473-00016816": "Since 2017, about 4,500 American workers have lost their jobs at GM in Ohio and 1,600, specifically, were laid off with the recent closing of the Lordstown plant", "l7Mel397blY-00013-00016816-00017448": "Another 900 American workers in supporting industries have also been put out of work", "l7Mel397blY-00014-00017448-00018101": "In Michigan and Maryland, thousands of American workers are expected to be laid off this year", "l7Mel397blY-00015-00018101-00019574": ".The closing of the four U.S. plants comes as GM has reported nearly $11 billion in fourth quarter pre-tax profit and more than $38 billion in revenue, beating financial experts’ expectations", "l7Mel397blY-00016-00019574-00020394": "Additionally, despite the mass layoffs, Barra has continued to rake in nearly $22 million a year", "l7Mel397blY-00017-00020394-00021371": "Trade experts and fellow economic nationalists have urged Trump to pursue auto tariffs to persuade American automakers from leaving the U", "l7Mel397blY-00018-00021371-00022040": "S. to seek out cheaper production and less-paid foreign workers in China and Mexico"}}, {"audio_id": "lv8C1EIdDS8", "text": {"lv8C1EIdDS8-00000-00000571-00001535": "Congress tried to block Trump from taking big steps to end the flood at the border and build the wall, but Trump seems to have won out in the end", "lv8C1EIdDS8-00001-00001535-00002397": "He declared a national emergency to get billions to build the wall after he said they refused to make a fair deal", "lv8C1EIdDS8-00002-00002397-00003196": "Congress voted to block him, which was within their rights, but then he used what was his Presidential right", "lv8C1EIdDS8-00003-00003196-00004669": "From Fox News:.''Trump] used the first veto of his administration to reject a bipartisan resolution that sought to block his declaration of a national emergency at the border, a move almost certain to kill the measure''", "lv8C1EIdDS8-00004-00004669-00005881": "So Trump finally used his first veto, and he made it count. Even though a dozen Senate Republicans voted against him, that’s not nearly enough to override him in a second round", "lv8C1EIdDS8-00005-00005881-00006623": "So Trump won this round, but the public still might be wondering whether Trump had stepped a little too far", "lv8C1EIdDS8-00006-00006623-00007691": "Then he got some major backup.The big guns stepped in to put Democrats (and Republicans) in their place—the new Attorney General himself", "lv8C1EIdDS8-00007-00007691-00009081": "From Gateway Pundit:''AG Bill Barr: Mr. President your declaration was clearly authorized under the law and consistent with past precedent… exactly the type of emergency that presidents are permitted to address''", "lv8C1EIdDS8-00008-00009081-00009854": "The top legal authority in America, Attorney General Bill Barr, is giving Trump extra cover", "lv8C1EIdDS8-00009-00009854-00010648": "He explains that this situation is exactly what the law for national emergencies was created for", "lv8C1EIdDS8-00010-00010648-00011620": "When people are jumping the border at a record pace and Congress refuses to take meaningful action, what choice does the President have left?", "lv8C1EIdDS8-00011-00011620-00012636": "The Washington swamp is not used to a President who takes action in the face of opposition, especially when he’s rolling back years of liberal policies", "lv8C1EIdDS8-00012-00012636-00013341": "So Trump used his first veto to get the wall built, and has a great Attorney General ready to support him"}}, {"audio_id": "lwC-CUzqKi0", "text": {"lwC-CUzqKi0-00000-00000571-00002721": "On Saturday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “AM Joy,” 2020 presidential candidate, former HUD Secretary, and former San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro (D) stated that “the fact that this president may well be celebrating that he’s not being indicted tells you a lot about the status of his presidency, how low he has gone", "lwC-CUzqKi0-00001-00002721-00004011": "”.Castro said, “First, the fact that this president may well be celebrating that he’s not being indicted tells you a lot about the status of his presidency, how low he has gone", "lwC-CUzqKi0-00002-00004011-00005220": "Secondly, it may well be that there’s no calling for an indictment of the president because Robert Mueller is following established Department of Justice guidelines that say a sitting president should not be indicted", "lwC-CUzqKi0-00003-00005220-00006788": "So, until that full report is released and we know the perspective of Robert Mueller and the findings of fact, the American people really are not going to know what Donald Trump did or didn’t do or members — other members of his team did or didn’t do", "lwC-CUzqKi0-00004-00006788-00008000": "What we do know is that several folks on his campaign team that he was close to have already been indicted, including for relations that they had with Russians that were trying to influence the election", "lwC-CUzqKi0-00005-00008000-00008100": "”"}}, {"audio_id": "lxHcvZhWOlY", "text": {"lxHcvZhWOlY-00000-00000571-00001461": "President Donald Trump attacked the Washington Post on Friday for calling out his lies about Mexico’s immigration system", "lxHcvZhWOlY-00001-00001461-00002229": "And then he repeated threats he made against Mexico on Thursday that would harm the American auto industry", "lxHcvZhWOlY-00002-00002229-00003167": "On Thursday, Trump caved on his threat to close the border but threatened to slap Mexico with tariffs for allegedly being weak on immigration", "lxHcvZhWOlY-00003-00003167-00004593": "The tariffs would hurt the American auto industry, which would come to a screeching halt and put thousands of jobs at risk just so Trump can pretend he’s being tough on Mexico over a problem that doesn’t actually exist", "lxHcvZhWOlY-00004-00004593-00005672": "Trump soon followed up by claiming that Mexico caved to his demands and is now starting to detain and deport Central American migrants", "lxHcvZhWOlY-00005-00005672-00006869": "But the Washington Post fact-checked him on Friday morning.“Trump says Mexico began to detain thousands of Central American migrants at its southern border only this week,” WaPo wrote", "lxHcvZhWOlY-00006-00006869-00007595": "“Let’s not beat around the bush here — that’s totally false. They’ve been doing it for decades", "lxHcvZhWOlY-00007-00007595-00008384": "”“The president also claims Mexico has the strongest immigration laws in the world,” the newspaper continued", "lxHcvZhWOlY-00008-00008384-00009478": "“Experts sharply disagree. Mexico does have penalties for immigration violations, but it decriminalized the act of crossing the border in 2011", "lxHcvZhWOlY-00009-00009478-00010583": "Contrast that with the United States — where unauthorized entry is a misdemeanor for first-time offenders and a felony for repeat offenders — and Trump’s claim falls apart", "lxHcvZhWOlY-00010-00010583-00011526": "”.Focusing on Trump’s claims about Mexico only now beginning to detain migrants, WaPo demonstrated that Trump is lying", "lxHcvZhWOlY-00011-00011526-00012336": "THE CLAIM THAT MEXICO ONLY THIS WEEK STARTED TO DETAIN THOUSANDS OF CENTRAL AMERICANS AT ITS SOUTHERN BORDER IS NONSENSE", "lxHcvZhWOlY-00012-00012336-00013903": "MEXICAN IMMIGRATION OFFICIALS HAD 886,640 ENCOUNTERS WITH GUATEMALANS, HONDURANS AND SALVADORANS FROM 2011 THROUGH FEBRUARY, ACCORDING TO DATA FROM MEXICO’S DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (SEGOB)", "lxHcvZhWOlY-00013-00013903-00014616": "MEXICAN FOREIGN MINISTER MARCELO EBRARD HELD A NEWS CONFERENCE ON THE SAME DAY TRUMP MADE THESE CLAIMS", "lxHcvZhWOlY-00014-00014616-00015637": "IMMIGRATION POLICY HAS BEEN CONSISTENT SINCE PRESIDENT ANDRÉS MANUEL LÓPEZ OBRADOR (AMLO) TOOK OFFICE IN DECEMBER, EBRARD SAID", "lxHcvZhWOlY-00015-00015637-00016596": "“It’s not surprising to see Trump trample over basic facts about immigration in Mexico,” WaPo concluded, giving Trump four Pinocchios", "lxHcvZhWOlY-00016-00016596-00017333": "“After all, the president routinely makes unfounded claims about the U.S. immigration system", "lxHcvZhWOlY-00017-00017333-00018879": "The Mexican government says it’s tightening security in a key area 200 miles from its southern border, but Trump makes a far different and demonstrably false claim: that Mexico began detaining Central Americans by the thousands only days ago", "lxHcvZhWOlY-00018-00018879-00019683": "Mexico has deported Guatemalans, Hondurans, and Salvadorans more than 2 million times since 2001", "lxHcvZhWOlY-00019-00019683-00021099": "”.Well, Trump didn’t like being called out for lying, and insisted in a rage on Twitter that Mexico is only now starting to detain and deport migrants, and all because of his threats, which he went on to repeat", "lxHcvZhWOlY-00020-00021099-00022413": "This is yet another example of Trump pretending there is a problem, whining about that problem and then threatening punishment if that problem isn’t fixed, only to then declare that he solved the imaginary problem", "lxHcvZhWOlY-00021-00022413-00023576": "In reality, the only problem is that the United States created real problems in Central America that are causing thousands to flee their homeland in search of asylum", "lxHcvZhWOlY-00022-00023576-00024552": "Trump is ignoring the humanitarian crisis at the border in favor of fake crises so he can pander to his racist base of supporters", "lxHcvZhWOlY-00023-00024552-00025482": "Now those same supporters foolishly believe Trump is a hero who forced Mexico to do something they have already been doing for decades"}}, {"audio_id": "lzmbABPeaxg", "text": {"lzmbABPeaxg-00000-00000513-00001840": "As the Mueller investigation into Trump and his associates continues to rock on, the question has been if any of his children would be charged with any wrongdoing, especially his son-in-law Jared Kushner", "lzmbABPeaxg-00001-00001840-00003313": "Kushner serves as a senior adviser to Trump.Though we’re still waiting on the Mueller report, NYC Councilman Ritchie Torres has made some very interesting accusations against Kushner and the company he once ran", "lzmbABPeaxg-00002-00003313-00005531": "Torres is the chair of the New York Oversight Committee.Torres tweeted:.‘Kushner Co. uses an illegal business model that relies on operating illegal apartment buildings w. no certificates of occupancy. They are illegally operating 9 buildings throughout NYC, putting tenants at risk by ignoring the law'", "lzmbABPeaxg-00003-00005531-00007929": "Later on, he accused the company of harassing tenants.‘Our investigation into #KushnerCo has found that they rely on skirting the law, harassing tenants & lying to city govt in order to increase profits. We need city agencies to enforce anti-tenant harassment laws & conduct proper oversight of buildings operated by bad landlords’", "lzmbABPeaxg-00004-00007929-00009224": "So, what’s the big deal behind this? According to the Washington Post, a building owner must obtain a certificate of occupancy when a building undergoes “significant renovation”", "lzmbABPeaxg-00005-00009224-00009974": "Changing the layout of the building or the fire exits would be considered significant renovation", "lzmbABPeaxg-00006-00009974-00011076": "The head of Housing Rights Initiative Aaron Carr explained further:.‘A certificate of occupancy is essentially like a driver’s license for landlords’", "lzmbABPeaxg-00007-00011076-00012565": "To renew a certificate of occupancy, safety inspections would be required, which Kushner Cos. would want to avoid. If a building doesn’t have a certificate of occupancy, no one should be living on the property", "lzmbABPeaxg-00008-00012565-00013997": "Further complicating the matter is the fact that Kushner Cos. cannot get a certificate of occupancy due to previous fines. Torres claimed they still owe $350,000 in fines", "lzmbABPeaxg-00009-00013997-00015554": "'After our [last] press conference, the buildings department took action against Kushner Companies and issued $350,000 in violations. But has Kushner Companies paid those violations? No.’", "lzmbABPeaxg-00010-00015554-00017406": "Of course, a spokesperson for Kushner Cos.claimed they have paid $185,000 of the fines.According to the AP, they were fined $210,000 for claiming they had “no low-paying, rent-stabilized tenants in dozens of its buildings\"", "lzmbABPeaxg-00011-00017406-00018994": "claimed they have paid $185,000 of the fines.According to the AP, they were fined $210,000 for claiming they had “no low-paying, rent-stabilized tenants in dozens of its buildings\"", "lzmbABPeaxg-00012-00018994-00019822": "Guess what? They had hundreds. By making this claim, they were able to skip out on inspections", "lzmbABPeaxg-00013-00019822-00020509": "Kushner Cos. responded to the allegations basically claiming it wasn’t their fault", "lzmbABPeaxg-00014-00020509-00022139": "‘Similar to many other landlords, we inherited from prior owners certificates of occupancy with various issues.Kushner will continue the long and detailed process to work with our consultants and the Department of Buildings to correct every issue outstanding'", "lzmbABPeaxg-00015-00022139-00022854": "I bet they will. It’s hard to imagine that the company Kushner previously ran would operate lawfully", "lzmbABPeaxg-00016-00022854-00024249": "Considering Kushner married into a family headed by a man known for his unlawful real estate dealings, it’s probable that Kushner and his company would use underhanded methods to screw people out of a safe home", "lzmbABPeaxg-00017-00024249-00025221": "Though Kushner does not head Kushner Cos. anymore, he was the CEO when two of his building certificates of occupancy expired", "lzmbABPeaxg-00018-00025221-00025819": "Plus, we’re sure he gets updates on how the business is doing"}}, {"audio_id": "l_Co_FrqKS8", "text": {"l_Co_FrqKS8-00000-00000000-00001200": "How to 0:00:12.160,1193:02:47.295"}}, {"audio_id": "lEoGIi_grCE", "text": {"lEoGIi_grCE-00000-00000513-00002043": "When Donald Trump’s former campaign vice chairman Rick Gates cut a cooperating plea deal with Robert Mueller last year, it was obvious that Gates would fully cooperate against Paul Manafort, or else he wouldn’t have been given a deal", "lEoGIi_grCE-00001-00002043-00002741": "The question at the time was how much Gates would be able to give up on Donald Trump", "lEoGIi_grCE-00002-00002741-00003660": "After all, Gates continued to work for the campaign, and then for the transition team, long after Manafort was fired", "lEoGIi_grCE-00003-00003660-00004530": "Rick Gates was one of the many Trump-related people who received document requests from the House Judiciary Committee", "lEoGIi_grCE-00004-00004530-00005719": "Some big names, including Steve Bannon and Hope Hicks, are cooperating. Other people are saying they won’t cooperate, and are willing to roll the subpoena dice instead", "lEoGIi_grCE-00005-00005719-00006962": "But we were all expecting Rick Gates to cooperate, right? After all, Gates is still hoping for a lenient prison sentence, and he needs to be as helpful as possible", "lEoGIi_grCE-00006-00006962-00008104": "But this evening we all learned that Rick Gates has informed the House Judiciary Committee that he can’t give them his documents at this time, because prosecutors have advised him not to", "lEoGIi_grCE-00007-00008104-00008921": "The only possible reason for this is that prosecutors are still using Gates’ documents in an ongoing criminal case", "lEoGIi_grCE-00008-00008921-00010010": "Considering that just about everyone else involved has either been convicted or pleaded out, it’s clear that the evidence Gates is withholding is against Donald Trump", "lEoGIi_grCE-00009-00010010-00010692": "Gates is saying that he might be able to give Congress his documents in the “coming months", "lEoGIi_grCE-00010-00010692-00011520": "” This would seem to fall in line with the expectation that Robert Mueller will drop the hammer on Trump before much longer", "lEoGIi_grCE-00011-00011520-00011823": "Stay tuned"}}, {"audio_id": "lE_TY-As46g", "text": {"lE_TY-As46g-00000-00000571-00001203": "Bill O’Reilly just ended the anti-Trump media’s reign of terror with a blistering rebuke", "lE_TY-As46g-00001-00001203-00002010": "Bill takes on the mob by name, destroys them and exposes them as the absolute frauds that they really are", "lE_TY-As46g-00002-00002010-00002979": "They saw dollar signs and ratings and threw truth in the garbage and one must wonder if America will ever trust the mainstream media again", "lE_TY-As46g-00003-00002979-00004539": "Bill wrote:.“After the big nothing Mueller Report, there should be severe scrutiny of liberal journalists who irresponsibly and dishonestly used the Russian-collusion investigation to convict President Trump and members of his administration of a variety of crimes", "lE_TY-As46g-00004-00004539-00005586": "It was the usual corrupt media play – no due process, biased speculation, incredible hatred toward a person they despise; Donald Trump", "lE_TY-As46g-00005-00005586-00006840": "The worst offenders were CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times, and The Washington Post.  To say their coverage of the Mueller investigation was disgraceful is an extreme understatement", "lE_TY-As46g-00006-00006840-00007845": "Using anonymous sources and false assertions, these news organizations ginned up a phony narrative that divided the country and interfered with its governance", "lE_TY-As46g-00007-00007845-00009222": "And what price will these organizations pay?  Who will hold them accountable for all the deceit and incompetence? The sad truth is that some Americans will continue to pay attention to them – that’s the sheep component", "lE_TY-As46g-00008-00009222-00010084": "But the fault is not only on the left.  A bunch of “never-Trumpers” on the right have embarrassed themselves as well", "lE_TY-As46g-00009-00010084-00010899": "Journalists have the absolute obligation to cover an important story like the Mueller investigation aggressively", "lE_TY-As46g-00010-00010899-00011954": "That’s a given.  Accusations of governmental misconduct must be vetted.  But when personal or partisan emotion enter into news coverage, that’s corrupt", "lE_TY-As46g-00011-00011954-00012490": "And that’s what happened during the last two years with the Mueller investigation", "lE_TY-As46g-00012-00012490-00013765": "The situation became so extreme that Robert Mueller, himself, issued a statement saying a report that President Trump had ordered his attorney, Michael Cohen, to lie about the Russia thing was false", "lE_TY-As46g-00013-00013765-00014974": "That story came from the despicable website Buzzfeed and was quickly picked up by the hate-Trump media which is the game they play: disseminating unsubstantiated information from biased sources", "lE_TY-As46g-00014-00014974-00016110": "Now, the hate-Trump media will insinuate that the President did “something” wrong even though Mueller spent $30 million and cannot define what that “something” might be", "lE_TY-As46g-00015-00016110-00017320": "However, the partisan wolves will continue to howl, and jaded Americans will tune in to hear the deceitful braying, and vote for political charlatans who could not care less about truth or fairness", "lE_TY-As46g-00016-00017320-00018310": "This entire ordeal is terribly bad for America.  Honesty in reporting has collapsed and partisan loathing is now the coin of the realm", "lE_TY-As46g-00017-00018310-00018931": "This is not really about President Trump, although his election lighted the fuse", "lE_TY-As46g-00018-00018931-00020384": "”.Correct. Then Bill dropped the hammer:No, this is about a Republic that has granted the press the power to make billions of dollars but, under the Constitution, is not accountable to anyone on how they derive profit", "lE_TY-As46g-00019-00020384-00021047": "And we now know beyond any doubt exactly how many media operations are making money", "lE_TY-As46g-00020-00021047-00021703": "That is by peddling false narratives and rank hatred.Paging Edward R. Murrow.”"}}, {"audio_id": "lHBWaRSwGAE", "text": {"lHBWaRSwGAE-00000-00000571-00001710": "What on earth is Donald Trump even talking about? That’s a daily challenge for anyone who has the misfortune to encounter his increasingly incoherent words", "lHBWaRSwGAE-00001-00001710-00002679": "But now, in addition to being incomprehensible, Trump is also throwing violent threats into the mix, or at least we think they’re violent threats", "lHBWaRSwGAE-00002-00002679-00003789": "Here’s what Donald Trump said to white supremacist propaganda site Breitbart: “I have the support of the police, the support of the military, the support of the Bikers for Trump", "lHBWaRSwGAE-00003-00003789-00004768": "I have the tough people, but they don’t play it tough, until they go to a certain point, and then it would be very bad, very bad", "lHBWaRSwGAE-00004-00004768-00006106": "” Okay, wait a minute here, because this just doesn’t sound good.If you wanted to give Trump the benefit of the doubt, you could argue that he’s merely threatening to have the police enforce the law against anyone who breaks it", "lHBWaRSwGAE-00005-00006106-00007945": "But then you get to the part about the military, which isn’t allowed to do domestic law enforcement, so what is he even talking about? Once he throws in the part about the bikers being on our side, it seems he’s talking about having bikers beat us all up if we don’t vote for him, or something", "lHBWaRSwGAE-00006-00007945-00008778": "And if he’s saying that about bikers, is he also saying he’s going to sic the police and military on us if we don’t vote for him?", "lHBWaRSwGAE-00007-00008778-00009852": "Donald Trump just made the argument for why he absolutely must be ousted for his crimes, and his violent mental instability, before the end of his current term", "lHBWaRSwGAE-00008-00009852-00011064": "He can’t be in a position to even try to order the police and the military to carry out whatever violent fantasies he’s imagining for the transition period if he loses the 2020 election", "lHBWaRSwGAE-00009-00011064-00011824": "There aren’t the votes to impeach Trump today, but he must be impeached and removed before the end of the current term"}}, {"audio_id": "lLNRmtMnav0", "text": {"lLNRmtMnav0-00000-00000513-00002216": "Preet Bharara is the former US Attorney for the Southern District of New York. He was abruptly fired by Donald Trump, after he refused to take a personal call from the President he felt was inappropriate, considering his office was investigating Trump", "lLNRmtMnav0-00001-00002216-00003156": "Bharara appeared on Morning Joe this morning, and he discussed Geoffrey Berman, his replacement as the US Attorney for the SDNY", "lLNRmtMnav0-00002-00003156-00004452": "Berman was hand-picked by Donald Trump to lead the SDNY. Berman was a law partner of Rudy Giuliani, who is famously part of Donald Trump’s legal defense team", "lLNRmtMnav0-00003-00004452-00005622": "Bharara discussed how aggressively the SDNY has pursued investigations against Donald Trump, despite Trump having fired Bharara and hand-picked his replacement", "lLNRmtMnav0-00004-00005622-00006654": "Bharara described the pressure his replacement is under to do the right thing, and he later likened Berman’s situation to that of Attorney General William Barr", "lLNRmtMnav0-00005-00006654-00007848": "Bharara stated that the SDNY, like the Department of Justice, is filled with dedicated, professional prosecutors, totally committed to the rule of law", "lLNRmtMnav0-00006-00007848-00009321": "If Berman interfered with any rightful attempt to investigate and prosecute crimes, the law enforcement community and the public would know about it within days, and Berman’s professional reputation would suffer irreparable harm", "lLNRmtMnav0-00007-00009321-00011189": "While a lawyer such as Berman might initially come into the SDNY with the intent of interfering in an ongoing investigation, once inside the organization, Berman would be hit with the realization that dozens of lawyers and reporters are actively watching him, and looking for any sign of interference", "lLNRmtMnav0-00008-00011189-00011972": "Berman, quickly and wisely, recused himself on all matters related to Donald Trump", "lLNRmtMnav0-00009-00011972-00012923": "The pressure that Berman faces in the SDNY is less than the pressure on Donald Trump’s hand-picked Attorney General, William Barr", "lLNRmtMnav0-00010-00012923-00013594": "His decisions and actions will be recorded in history books and he surely knows it", "lLNRmtMnav0-00011-00013594-00014942": "While he declined to recuse himself, which probably would have gotten him fired on the spot, there are clearly signs that Barr, like Berman, is not willing to be seen as a puppet for Donald Trump", "lLNRmtMnav0-00012-00014942-00015749": "The latest sign is today’s announcement of the continued employment of Rod Rosenstein as the Deputy Attorney General", "lLNRmtMnav0-00013-00015749-00017097": "Barr declared under oath during his confirmation hearings, that he spoke with Rosenstein and expected him to depart DOJ after a transition period, which was expected to be mid-March", "lLNRmtMnav0-00014-00017097-00017933": "Today, it was announced that Rosenstein would stay on “longer.” This will not make Donald Trump happy at all", "lLNRmtMnav0-00015-00017933-00019459": "Rosenstein retained control of the day-to-day management of the Mueller investigation throughout Jeff Sessions’ tenure as Attorney General, throughout Matt Whittaker’s tenure as Acting AG, and now through William Barr’s tenure as Attorney General", "lLNRmtMnav0-00016-00019459-00020464": "It would be highly unusual, and would attract attention, for the Attorney General to interfere and be involved in the day-to-day management of the Mueller investigation", "lLNRmtMnav0-00017-00020464-00021718": "Instead, the normal way for Barr to impact the day-to-day management of the Mueller investigation would be for him to replace Rod Rosenstein with his own hand-picked Deputy Attorney General"}}, {"audio_id": "leBiDrYy6YA", "text": {"leBiDrYy6YA-00000-00000117-00000364": "Beware of fake churches, pastors and prophesies"}}, {"audio_id": "m7LRgEZdm6k", "text": {"m7LRgEZdm6k-00000-00000571-00002120": "Earlier this week, when New York subpoenaed financial records in relation to specific acts of bank fraud and insurance fraud committed by Donald Trump, Palmer Report explained that the state was embarking on a plan to take Trump’s assets from him", "m7LRgEZdm6k-00001-00002120-00003209": "The violations in question can result in massive monetary fines, which cash-poor Trump can’t pay, meaning the state can then begin seizing his assets", "m7LRgEZdm6k-00002-00003209-00004520": "Now, New York is moving further ahead on this plan.Today the New York Attorney General brought new legal action against Donald Trump over the charitable fraud and election fraud he committed with regard to his Trump Foundation", "m7LRgEZdm6k-00003-00004520-00005294": "Between restitution and damages, New York is seeking about eight million dollars from Donald Trump", "m7LRgEZdm6k-00004-00005294-00006229": "Maybe he can come up with eight million dollars in cash (or steal it from his reelection campaign) to pay off this one infraction", "m7LRgEZdm6k-00005-00006229-00007224": "But this is just one of the numerous areas in which the state is targeting Trump with financial penalties, and it’s not even one of the larger ones", "m7LRgEZdm6k-00006-00007224-00008318": "By the time you finish adding up the expected fines in the various cases New York is pursuing against Donald Trump, they could quickly total in the hundreds of millions of dollars", "m7LRgEZdm6k-00007-00008318-00009807": "Trump can’t finagle his way into getting his hands on that much cash. So this is where New York can start seizing his bank accounts in the state, his properties in the state, and whatever else the state courts end up signing off on", "m7LRgEZdm6k-00008-00009807-00010792": "What can Donald Trump do to stop this? Nothing. He can’t fire anyone, or pardon himself, in a state level case", "m7LRgEZdm6k-00009-00010792-00012119": "This is going to happen to Trump. His only way out would be to negotiate a resignation deal in exchange for reduced criminal charges and reduced financial penalties, from both the Feds and New York State"}}, {"audio_id": "muHsIKtZipM", "text": {"muHsIKtZipM-00000-00000571-00002499": "There were many who believed it could never happen. But ever since the day Donald Trump came parading down the escalators at Trump Tower, his base supporters, primarily white, have been steadfastly behind him no matter what comes to the light about his behavior, his politics, his finances, or his character", "muHsIKtZipM-00001-00002499-00003225": "This base has been nearly unshakable in its united front FOR Trump and AGAINST anyone that is not", "muHsIKtZipM-00002-00003225-00004842": "But four new surveys may show a crack in the glass.Pew Research Center released a survey that shows Trump’s approval rating at just 37 percent nearing the lowest point recorded and 15 points different from the Pew poll just a year ago", "muHsIKtZipM-00003-00004842-00006210": "Carroll Doherty, the Pew Research Center’s director of political research, said the big news of this poll is the disapproval ratings among white people with no college degree, and added “This obviously is a key group for the president,”", "muHsIKtZipM-00004-00006210-00008167": "Another survey, the SSRS poll for CNN found Trump’s job approval rating in the same category (white, no college degree) down to 45 percent down 9 from just over a month ago, while yet another survey from Quinnipiac showed his numbers in the same category slipping away, as well", "muHsIKtZipM-00005-00008167-00010053": "Finally, a recent survey from Marist Institute for Public Opinion conducted for NPR and PBS NewsHour shows Trump’s approval ratings dropping as well, surprisingly even seeing this downward trend in Republicans, white evangelicals, and other groups usually polling strong in favor for Trump", "muHsIKtZipM-00006-00010053-00011205": "Lee Miringoff, who runs the Marist poll, said.“It’s the first time that there’s been significant erosion in the base… An erosion of the base is the last thing he needs", "muHsIKtZipM-00007-00011205-00012367": "His whole strategy has been base-focused''.Many polls conducted in just recent weeks show that more Americans blame Trump for the government shutdown than they do democrats", "muHsIKtZipM-00008-00012367-00013357": "Furthermore, even with the normal ebb and flow of polling and data, Trump’s numbers are on the lowest ebb we have seen in most of the surveys", "muHsIKtZipM-00009-00013357-00014757": "The question begs, will the crack in Trump’s base lead to a shattering of his support system or will they be able to ignore the damage and hold themselves together for the remainder of his term and into another election?"}}, {"audio_id": "mvNu8uVv2y4", "text": {"mvNu8uVv2y4-00000-00000513-00001370": "Sarah Sanders sparred with CNN’s Jim Acosta during the first White House press briefing in 42 days on Monday", "mvNu8uVv2y4-00001-00001370-00002811": "The exchange was prompted after NBC’s Hallie Jackson initially asked Sanders if Trump truly believes that “Democrats hate Jews,” following Trump's declaration last week that Democrats are \"anti-Israel\" and \"anti-Jewish", "mvNu8uVv2y4-00002-00002811-00003692": "\" The White House press secretary declined to answer directly, noting that the president has laid out his position on the matter in the past", "mvNu8uVv2y4-00003-00003692-00004872": "“Democrats have had a number of opportunities to condemn specific comments and have refused to do that,” Sanders said, referring to the ongoing controversy surrounding Rep", "mvNu8uVv2y4-00004-00004872-00006040": "Ilhan Omar for making allegedly anti-Semitic remarks.Sanders eventually called on Acosta, whom she has feuded with on a regular basis during past press briefings", "mvNu8uVv2y4-00005-00006040-00007017": "CNN’s chief White House correspondent opened with a question about whether Trump tried to block AT&T’s merger with Time Warner", "mvNu8uVv2y4-00006-00007017-00008320": "After Sanders said she was not aware of any such conversation, Acosta circled back to the situation with “Democrats and Jewish people,” asking if Trump’s rhetoric is “beneath” the American people", "mvNu8uVv2y4-00007-00008320-00010617": "“Do you think that the president has thought, at all, going into the 2020 campaign that the rhetoric just needs to be lowered? Whether it’s talking about Democrats, the media, immigrants, or should we just plan on hearing the president use the same kind of language that we heard in 2016 and all through the first couple years of this administration?” Acosta asked", "mvNu8uVv2y4-00008-00010617-00011358": "Sanders responded that it’s a shame Democrats won’t come together and condemn anti-Semitic remarks", "mvNu8uVv2y4-00009-00011358-00012484": "“I think that is a great shame,” Sanders said. “The president has been clear on what his position is, certainly what his support is for the people and the community of Israel", "mvNu8uVv2y4-00010-00012484-00013341": "”.Acosta then asked if it “drags down the rhetoric of a debate” when someone says something that is “patently untrue", "mvNu8uVv2y4-00011-00013341-00014420": "” Sanders tried to answer, and the CNN correspondent continued to talk over her.“Democrats don’t hate Jewish people, that’s just silly,” Acosta said", "mvNu8uVv2y4-00012-00014420-00015452": "“It’s not true.”.Sanders told Acosta that Democrats should call out their members by name if they don’t want to be aligned with anti-Semitic rhetoric", "mvNu8uVv2y4-00013-00015452-00016311": "Acosta tried to respond, but Sanders cut him off.“Sorry, Jim,” she said before calling on the next reporter", "mvNu8uVv2y4-00014-00016311-00017489": "Acosta asked his question anyway, reminding Sanders that Trump once said there were “very fine people” on both sides of the violent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia", "mvNu8uVv2y4-00015-00017489-00018153": "“Essentially suggesting that there were very fine people in the Nazis,” Acosta said", "mvNu8uVv2y4-00016-00018153-00019707": "Sanders fired back, “That’s not at all what the president was stating.”.“The president has been incredibly clear in consistently and repeatedly condemning hatred, bigotry and racism in all of its forms, whether it’s in America or anywhere else", "mvNu8uVv2y4-00017-00019707-00020992": "To say otherwise is simply untrue,” Sanders said.Last year, Acosta was briefly banned from the White House after he engaged in a contentious back-and-forth with Trump during a Nov", "mvNu8uVv2y4-00018-00020992-00021888": "7 press conference. During the now-infamous moment, Acosta refused to pass the microphone to a female White House aide", "mvNu8uVv2y4-00019-00021888-00023024": "Acosta’s press pass was restored on Nov. 19 after CNN argued that keeping him out of the White House violated the network and Acosta’s First and Fifth Amendment rights", "mvNu8uVv2y4-00020-00023024-00024030": "To coincide with Acosta being allowed to return to the White House, Sanders implemented a series of rules to govern White House press conferences going forward", "mvNu8uVv2y4-00021-00024030-00025030": "Last month, Acosta was scolded by Trump during a Rose Garden announcement and was subsequently confronted by angel moms in attendance"}}, {"audio_id": "mI8PYgLlAUA", "text": {"mI8PYgLlAUA-00000-00000571-00001349": "Many Republican leaders vowed to eliminate the Welfare state. But only Donald Trump is doing it", "mI8PYgLlAUA-00001-00001349-00002522": "Thanks to Obama, food stamp usage reached record highs during his administration.President Trump, as in so many other areas, is fixing Obama’s mistake", "mI8PYgLlAUA-00002-00002522-00003206": "Thanks to him, record numbers of people are working and no longer need food stamps", "mI8PYgLlAUA-00003-00003206-00005103": "We just reached a major milestone, and we’re sure Trump is proud of it.From Daily Wire:''Enrollment in the [food stamp] program has dropped by 3,899,257, according to the latest data released by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)", "mI8PYgLlAUA-00004-00005103-00006035": "That means SNAP enrollment is the lowest its been in a decade''.This drop has saved taxpayers more than $5 billion A MONTH", "mI8PYgLlAUA-00005-00006035-00006725": "That’s $60 billion a year.That could pay for the border wall over and over each year", "mI8PYgLlAUA-00006-00006725-00007451": "That’s nearly 4 million Americans no longer taking tax dollars to put food on the table", "mI8PYgLlAUA-00007-00007451-00008177": "They are getting off government programs and earning a living.That’s the American way, after all", "mI8PYgLlAUA-00008-00008177-00008883": "Nobody wants people sitting at home, living off the taxpayer’s dime. Where is the dignity in that?", "mI8PYgLlAUA-00009-00008883-00009716": "President Trump has tightened work requirements so able-bodied people can’t cheat the system (looking at you, millennials!)", "mI8PYgLlAUA-00010-00009716-00010612": "That also ensures the elderly and sick aren’t lost in the cracks.Now, only people who really need food stamps will get them", "mI8PYgLlAUA-00011-00010612-00011375": "Everyone else can seek out good-paying jobs, affording food for themselves and their families", "mI8PYgLlAUA-00012-00011375-00012244": "And Democrats have no excuse to say we don’t have the money to build a wall.That’s something every American can celebrate"}}, {"audio_id": "mR4wjIEWV4c", "text": {"mR4wjIEWV4c-00000-00000513-00001221": "“President” Donald Trump repeatedly talks about the great economy and how hot and on fire it is", "mR4wjIEWV4c-00001-00001221-00002493": "During his 2016 campaign, he derided Obama’s GDP growth as being anemic and terrible, promising that the growth would exceed 3% a year when he became president", "mR4wjIEWV4c-00002-00002493-00003433": "Well, turns out, the “Greatest Negotiator of All Time” (“GNAT”) and the “Art of the Deal” man is not so great after all", "mR4wjIEWV4c-00003-00003433-00004248": "In late February, the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis reported that the 2018 growth was 2", "mR4wjIEWV4c-00004-00004248-00005390": "9%, matching Obama’s peak year of 2015. Some economists have predicted that 2.9% will be the peak for Trump in his first term", "mR4wjIEWV4c-00005-00005390-00007017": "On Wednesday, the news of a stagnating economy continued. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell had promised several rate hikes in 2019, causing him to be in the cross hairs of Trump’s proverbial venom when he did so", "mR4wjIEWV4c-00006-00007017-00007769": "On Wednesday, Powell promised there would be no more rate hikes and noted the economic growth rate will be 2", "mR4wjIEWV4c-00007-00007769-00009530": "1%. They have reduced the economic growth forecasts through 2021 to less than 2%.These grim economic forecasts throw Trump and the GOP’s assertions about how the trillion-dollar tax cut would stimulate the economy onto the trash heap", "mR4wjIEWV4c-00008-00009530-00011076": "In addition to the revised forecasts and less than stellar growth predicted, Trump has been feverishly trying to get GM to reverse its decision announced last year to close its plant in Lordstown, Ohio, blaming that on a local union leader", "mR4wjIEWV4c-00009-00011076-00012278": "What Donald Trump and his administration fail to understand, apparently, is that his tariff positions have done harm to not only farmers, but to the automobile industry", "mR4wjIEWV4c-00010-00012278-00013725": "This comes at the same time that reports from Politico and elsewhere describe an undisclosed report that Trump has that would justify significant tariffs on automobile imports, which would again hit the auto industry hard", "mR4wjIEWV4c-00011-00013725-00014516": "Trump once again shows that he and the GOP stomp like elephants but their business approach stings like a GNAT", "mR4wjIEWV4c-00012-00014516-00014851": "Winning, Trump style"}}, {"audio_id": "mbGe9KyugVE", "text": {"mbGe9KyugVE-00000-00000571-00002060": "On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “All In,” House Financial Services Committee Chairwoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) stated that President Trump committed an impeachable offense with his hush money payments", "mbGe9KyugVE-00001-00002060-00003470": "Host Chris Hayes asked if there is already “evidence that he has — he’s implicated in at least one criminal conspiracy, [which] has to do with the hush money payments, and is that not, in your mind, a high crime or misdemeanor?”", "mbGe9KyugVE-00002-00003470-00004690": ".Waters answered, “Oh certainly, absolutely. This president has lied. He said that he had not — the president said he has not paid off anybody, but he certainly has''"}}, {"audio_id": "mdjm3h0V2tu", "text": {"mdjm3h0V2tu-00000-00000513-00002007": "As special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation is reportedly coming to an end, elderly and sick Americans are trying to hold on to their lives so they can read the highly-anticipated report that has been nearly two years in the making", "mdjm3h0V2tu-00001-00002007-00003350": "World War II veteran Mitchell Tendler—a man who survived numerous historic milestones, including the Korean War, Vietnam, Watergate and President BIll Clinton’s impeachment—fell sick on Dec", "mdjm3h0V2tu-00002-00003350-00004810": "29, at 93 years old, reported NPR.\"I got a call at 11 o'clock. My mom said, 'Well, Dad's not feeling well—he really can't stand,'\" Tendler's son, Walter, recalled", "mdjm3h0V2tu-00003-00004810-00005541": "\"Within a couple of hours they called 911 and got him into the ER because it wasn't getting any better", "mdjm3h0V2tu-00004-00005541-00006364": "\".Tendler survived two implantable defibrillators throughout his life. But while on his third, he started to fade", "mdjm3h0V2tu-00005-00006364-00008467": "After he was provided painkillers by doctors, Tendler voiced his final thoughts.\"It just was quiet for a little while,\" Walter Tendler told the news outlet, \"and then he just sits up in bed halfway and looks at me and he goes, 'S***, I'm not going to see the Mueller report, am I?' And that was really the last coherent thing that he said", "mdjm3h0V2tu-00006-00008467-00009300": "\".Richard Armstrong, a 94-year-old currently in hospice care in New Jersey, related to Tendler’s sentiments", "mdjm3h0V2tu-00007-00009300-00010321": "\"I know exactly how he feels. I feel the same way. I've been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer,\" Armstrong told NPR", "mdjm3h0V2tu-00008-00010321-00011181": "\"I was hoping to live to see the outcome of what I think it should be—justice. I'll be surprised and disappointed if it isn't", "mdjm3h0V2tu-00009-00011181-00012678": "”.After seeing Tendler’s words—shared on Twitter by Benjamin Wittes, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution—Kristina Makansi, who lives in Arizona, thought about her mother who passed away at the age of 94 in January", "mdjm3h0V2tu-00010-00012678-00013806": "\"When I saw that tweet about the Mueller report and the old man on his deathbed, I thought, Oh my gosh, that's the kind of thing that my mother would say,\" she said", "mdjm3h0V2tu-00011-00013806-00014801": "\"I think she really wanted to see that justice was done. and that the investigation was allowed to proceed without any shenanigans and obstruction", "mdjm3h0V2tu-00012-00014801-00016159": "\".Amid reports that Mueller’s investigation is nearing its end, former White House lawyer Ty Cobb called Mueller an “American hero” this week during an interview on ABC News’ The Investigation podcast", "mdjm3h0V2tu-00013-00016159-00017021": "“I don’t feel the investigation is a witch hunt,” Cobb said, adding that he hoped the probe “had happened on a quicker time frame", "mdjm3h0V2tu-00014-00017021-00017121": "”"}}, {"audio_id": "met1MCt7gzg", "text": {"met1MCt7gzg-00000-00000571-00002156": "Former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach says President Trump’s delivery of wage hikes through stricter immigration enforcement in the interior of the United States has been a “massive accomplishment” for America’s blue-collar and working-class communities", "met1MCt7gzg-00001-00002156-00003287": "During a debate for IntelligenceSquared, Kobach touted Trump’s “Hire American” economy, which has delivered increased blue-collar and working-class wages by between 3", "met1MCt7gzg-00002-00003287-00004489": "4 percent and four percent in the last 12 months.“By reducing illegal immigration, you drive up wages, especially in unskilled labor categories,” Kobach said", "met1MCt7gzg-00003-00004489-00005103": "“Therefore, [blue-collar workers] have seen those wage gains, and [Trump] has delivered", "met1MCt7gzg-00004-00005103-00006014": "”.Kobach said:.In terms of wages, in the last 12 months, we’ve seen a 3.4 percent increase in nominal wages", "met1MCt7gzg-00005-00006014-00007574": "That’s extraordinary, the largest wage gains in the last 12 years. It is a massive achievement for the working, blue-collar voter, and that’s why blue-collar voters in exit polls voted 66 percent for Donald Trump in the last election", "met1MCt7gzg-00006-00007574-00008896": "He’s the only one that can pull it off again. [Emphasis added].[The wage gains are] a direct result of his positions and his policies on his signature campaign issue, which of course is immigration", "met1MCt7gzg-00007-00008896-00009974": "President Trump has done what no other presidential candidate has done in recent years, made that a centerpiece issue and has governed with that as a centerpiece issue", "met1MCt7gzg-00008-00009974-00010800": "He has recognized that illegal immigration really does affect all of us. Every state is a border state now", "met1MCt7gzg-00009-00010800-00012649": "[Emphasis added].Those wage hikes for America’s working and lower middle class and a populist-nationalist agenda are what must continue for Trump to capture states like Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan — as he did in 2016 — in the upcoming 2020 presidential election", "met1MCt7gzg-00010-00012649-00013835": "“I don’t know if any Republican can do what Trump did in those blue-collar states [of Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin] and break through the Rust Belt,” Kobach said", "met1MCt7gzg-00011-00013835-00014752": "“The party, after Trump, we may be toast if we don’t find somebody who has his special sauce who can connect with voters in those three states", "met1MCt7gzg-00012-00014752-00015831": "”.Wage hikes for blue-collar and working-class Americans, though, are increasingly threatened by the record levels of illegal immigration coming across the U", "met1MCt7gzg-00013-00015831-00017069": "S.-Mexico border, as well as the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) mass release of border crossers and illegal aliens into the interior of the country in recent months"}}, {"audio_id": "mn5s3h8sIS0", "text": {"mn5s3h8sIS0-00000-00000571-00001796": "President Trump and Kim Jong-un prematurely concluded their summit in Vietnam on Thursday after reaching an impasse related to the lifting of existing international sanctions against North Korea", "mn5s3h8sIS0-00001-00001796-00002449": "“Sometimes you have to walk,” Trump said during a press conference in Hanoi Thursday afternoon", "mn5s3h8sIS0-00002-00002449-00004024": "Trump went on to explain that negotiations collapsed after Kim demanded that all international sanctions be lifted immediately in exchange for the closure of one major North Korean nuclear facility, but not an end to the nuclear program in its entirety", "mn5s3h8sIS0-00003-00004024-00004941": "“It was about the sanctions,” Trump explained. “Basically they wanted the sanctions lifted in their entirety, but we couldn’t do that''", "mn5s3h8sIS0-00004-00004941-00006448": "Negotiations have remained stalled since the last time the two leaders met in Singapore in June 2018 for a summit that produced a communique rife with vague commitments, but lacking in timelines and specific, verifiable action items", "mn5s3h8sIS0-00005-00006448-00007885": "The US continues to demand the complete shutdown of North Korea’s nuclear facilities as well as it its warhead and missile programs, while Kim continues to demand the US act first by working to lift US and UN sanctions", "mn5s3h8sIS0-00006-00007885-00009405": "7\t.Though Trump failed to secure additional commitments from Kim, he said Thursday that Kim agreed to continue the moratorium he imposed last year on nuclear and ballistic missile testing, and emphasized that the two remain friendly", "mn5s3h8sIS0-00007-00009405-00010123": "“This wasn’t a walkaway like you get up and walk out,” he said. “No, this was very friendly", "mn5s3h8sIS0-00008-00010123-00010766": "We shook hands''.“There’s a warmth that we have and I hope that stays,” he added", "mn5s3h8sIS0-00009-00010766-00011991": "South Korean president Moon Jae-in, who has been working aggressively in the last year to improve relations with his neighbor to the north, praised the two leaders for their attempt at negotiations", "mn5s3h8sIS0-00010-00011991-00012829": "“It is regrettable that they could not reach a complete agreement,” Kim Eui-kyeom, a spokesman for Mr Moon, said Thursday", "mn5s3h8sIS0-00011-00012829-00013472": "“But it also seems clear that both sides have made more significant progress than ever", "mn5s3h8sIS0-00012-00013472-00013572": "”"}}, {"audio_id": "n8PZly0Ovak", "text": {"n8PZly0Ovak-00000-00000513-00001411": "President Trump was clearly having a blast during his speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC)", "n8PZly0Ovak-00001-00001411-00002464": "He soaked up his time in front of the television cameras to offer fans some crowd-pleasers in what was surely a preview of his upcoming presidential campaign", "n8PZly0Ovak-00002-00002464-00004128": "The speech, clocking in at over two hours, was his longest as President.Going after the Green New Deal, the \"sleaze on top\" of the FBI and descriptions of the crowd size at his inauguration in 2017, Trump waxed philosophical the way that he does", "n8PZly0Ovak-00003-00004128-00005243": "When he insisted that he was being sarcastic about asking Russia to hack Hillary Clinton's emails, the crowd started chanting their usual refrain of, \"Lock her up!\"", "n8PZly0Ovak-00004-00005243-00006463": "The conference itself was as interesting and relevant as the speaker. For many decades, CPAC was a meeting place where the right tried to promote its most exciting ideas", "n8PZly0Ovak-00005-00006463-00007978": "CPAC was created in 1974 by conservatives who believed that they had to do a better job selling their vision to the public after Senator Barry Goldwater's devastating landslide defeat to Lyndon Johnson in 1964", "n8PZly0Ovak-00006-00007978-00009384": "Conservatives were also distraught at what was happening in Richard Nixon's administration and hoped to boost morale given the accelerating investigations into the president's wrongdoing and Vice President Spiro Agnew's disgraceful resignation", "n8PZly0Ovak-00007-00009384-00011463": "The American Conservative Union, the Young Americans for Freedom and Human Events brought together fellow conservatives in an effort to transform the Republican Party The featured speaker was California Governor Ronald Reagan who invoked Puritan settler John Winthrop when he spoke about the United States and envisioned it as a \"city upon a hill", "n8PZly0Ovak-00008-00011463-00012176": "\".During the early decades, CPAC was a key stop on the conservative talking circuit", "n8PZly0Ovak-00009-00012176-00014180": "The goal of organizers like Paul Weyrich and Richard Viguerie was to make space for the most interesting voices to shop their ideas about deregulation, tax cuts, reproductive rights, hawkish policies toward the Soviet Union, cultural values and more in an era when their movement was at the cutting edge of American politics", "n8PZly0Ovak-00010-00014180-00014953": "At a moment when liberals were still reeling from the fallout over Vietnam, conservatives were driving the debate", "n8PZly0Ovak-00011-00014953-00016147": "CPAC was part of a large ecosystem that produced conservative ideas, along with journals like The National Review and think tanks like the Heritage Foundation", "n8PZly0Ovak-00012-00016147-00017257": "A high point came in the 1981 conference, when Reagan returned triumphantly as President to say, \"Fellow citizens, fellow conservatives, our time is now", "n8PZly0Ovak-00013-00017257-00017912": "Our moment has arrived. We stand together shoulder to shoulder in the thickest of the fight", "n8PZly0Ovak-00014-00017912-00019041": "\" After he was re-elected in a landslide victory against Walter Mondale, Reagan told the gathering in 1985, \"The tide of history is moving irresistibly in our direction", "n8PZly0Ovak-00015-00019041-00019853": "Why? Because the other side is virtually bankrupt of ideas.\".Reagan's comments should now haunt conservatives", "n8PZly0Ovak-00016-00019853-00020874": "The tone and tenor of this meeting has changed dramatically in recent decades. Although the fringe was always a part of the conference, now they have taken over", "n8PZly0Ovak-00017-00020874-00022844": "In 2007, Ann Coulter gave the nation a good flavor of what these gatherings are all about when she said, \"I was going to have a few comments on the other Democratic presidential candidate, John Edwards, but it turns out that you have to go into rehab if you use the word 'f-----,' so I'm -- so, kind of at an impasse", "n8PZly0Ovak-00018-00022844-00023918": "\" Quite a moment for the party of ideas.Before he became president, Donald Trump made several appearances at CPAC to see what this conference was all about", "n8PZly0Ovak-00019-00023918-00024623": "In 2011, Trump floated out birtherism when he said, \"Our current president came out of nowhere", "n8PZly0Ovak-00020-00024623-00025618": "Came out of nowhere. In fact, I'll go a step further: The people that went to school with him, they never saw him, they don't know who he is", "n8PZly0Ovak-00021-00025618-00027149": "It's crazy.\".In 2014, he bragged about his good relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin, telling the audience that \"I was in Moscow a couple of months ago, I own the Miss Universe Pageant and they treated me so great", "n8PZly0Ovak-00022-00027149-00028408": "Putin even sent me a present, a beautiful present.\".The CPAC that has been on display this week is a far cry from what some of the more serious conservatives of the 1970s had in mind", "n8PZly0Ovak-00023-00028408-00029215": "The event has become a political circus filled with conspiracy theories, cranks and far-right extremism", "n8PZly0Ovak-00024-00029215-00030142": "The past few days have featured speakers from Fox News and the Trump world spewing out the most outrageous statements they could think of making", "n8PZly0Ovak-00025-00030142-00031822": "One of the oddest moments came when Trump's former deputy assistant, Sebastian Gorka, warned against supporters of the Green New Deal and told the crowd, \"They want to take your pickup truck, they want to rebuild your home, they want to take away your hamburgers", "n8PZly0Ovak-00026-00031822-00033099": "This is what Stalin dreamt about but never achieved.\" The podium had the feel of a \"safe space\" where conservatives could speak their minds and trot out zany ideas without fear of attack", "n8PZly0Ovak-00027-00033099-00033789": "So it was not a surprise that Trump returned to form today and that the crowd loved it", "n8PZly0Ovak-00028-00033789-00035246": "The conference is a reminder of how much the world of conservatism has changed since the 1970s, and how it produced a Republican candidate like Donald Trump, who seems like a pretty safe political bet going into 2020", "n8PZly0Ovak-00029-00035246-00036532": "If anyone believes that Trumpism will go away soon, the conference shows how difficult it will be for the GOP to remake the kind of conservatism that now inhabits the White House"}}, {"audio_id": "nIBg1aj2hmQ", "text": {"nIBg1aj2hmQ-00000-00000513-00001275": "President Donald Trump baselessly accused Rep. Adam Schiff of leaking to CNN on Sunday", "nIBg1aj2hmQ-00001-00001275-00002017": "Trump’s accusation, framed with a question mark at the end, came on a busy day of tweeting for the president", "nIBg1aj2hmQ-00002-00002017-00004057": "At one point, Trump seemed to blame Democrats in some way for his lackluster North Korean summit, writing: “For the Democrats to interview in open hearings a convicted liar & fraudster, at the same time as the very important Nuclear Summit with North Korea, is perhaps a new low in American politics and may have contributed to the ‘walk", "nIBg1aj2hmQ-00003-00004057-00005421": "’ Never done when a president is overseas. Shame!”.Then, in response to a tweet by conservative journalist and member of the Wall Street Journal editorial board Kimberley Strassel, he slammed Democrats and Sen", "nIBg1aj2hmQ-00004-00005421-00006868": "Chuck Schumer for “hurting” the country.Finally, Trump commented on a second Strassel tweet suggesting Schiff seems to be doing a lot of “freelancing” by writing: “And also illegally leaking to Fake News CNN & others?”", "nIBg1aj2hmQ-00005-00006868-00007931": "On Sunday, Schiff — a frequent Trump adversary — said on CBS’s Face The Nation there was “direct evidence” of collusion in regards to Trump’s team", "nIBg1aj2hmQ-00006-00007931-00008811": "It is unclear what exactly, though, prompted Trump’s tweet, however, the president has made similar claims before", "nIBg1aj2hmQ-00007-00008811-00010789": "Back in February 2018, Trump tweeted this:\"Little Adam Schiff, who is desperate to run for higher office, is one of the biggest liars and leakers in Washington, right up there with Comey, Warner, Brennan and Clapper! Adam leaves closed committee hearings to illegally leak confidential information", "nIBg1aj2hmQ-00008-00010789-00011562": "Must be stopped!\".Schiff replied back then by telling Trump to turn off his TV.\"Mr", "nIBg1aj2hmQ-00009-00011562-00013046": "President, I see you’ve had a busy morning of “Executive Time.” Instead of tweeting false smears, the American people would appreciate it if you turned off the TV and helped solve the funding crisis, protected Dreamers or", "nIBg1aj2hmQ-00010-00013046-00013390": "really anything else.\""}}, {"audio_id": "nRJCBsYrx5y", "text": {"nRJCBsYrx5y-00000-00000571-00001250": "They thought they could block him – but Donald pulled the rug out from under the Democrats", "nRJCBsYrx5y-00001-00001250-00002143": "The 9th Circuit Court is notoriously liberal. The California court was a big adversary to Trump’s America first agenda", "nRJCBsYrx5y-00002-00002143-00002901": "Emphasis on “was.”.Because recently, Trump has taken steps to balance this crooked court", "nRJCBsYrx5y-00003-00002901-00003606": "And despite strong opposition by Democrats, he just got a big win this week. From Fox News:", "nRJCBsYrx5y-00004-00003606-00005461": "ANOTHER OF PRESIDENT TRUMP’S NOMINEES TO THE SAN FRANCISCO-BASED 9TH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS CLEARED A KEY PROCEDURAL HURDLE IN THE SENATE ON MONDAY, AS THE WHITE HOUSE CONTINUES ITS PUSH TO TRANSFORM THE KEY LEFT-LEANING APPELLATE COURT THAT THE PRESIDENT REPEATEDLY HAS DERIDED AS HOPELESSLY BIASED AND “DISGRACEFUL", "nRJCBsYrx5y-00005-00005461-00006714": "”.You get ’em, Donald!.A 77-20 Senate vote ended the debate on Trump’s nomination of Arizona-based Magistrate Judge Bridget Bade to the court, clearing the way to appoint her", "nRJCBsYrx5y-00006-00006714-00007958": "Trump has 51 more judges to confirm on federal courts across the country.The Supreme Court might be the big one, but there are many appeals courts that decide the fate of our country", "nRJCBsYrx5y-00007-00007958-00008971": "They rule on some cases that never make it to the Supreme Court. Obama and Democrats have stacked these courts with radicals who will sit on them for their entire lives", "nRJCBsYrx5y-00008-00008971-00010288": "Thus, giving far-left Democrats an advantage for decades to come.Not anymore.Trump has seen through their scheme and has been appointing conservative, Constitutional judges at a record pace", "nRJCBsYrx5y-00009-00010288-00011205": "Thanks to support in the Senate, these judges are getting speedy appointments.The age of judicial activism is quickly coming to an end", "nRJCBsYrx5y-00010-00011205-00011826": "Democrats won’t be able to reshape our society through the tyranny of radical judges", "nRJCBsYrx5y-00011-00011826-00012563": "In the future, Trump’s lawful authority will not be undermined by a judge who has an ax to grind", "nRJCBsYrx5y-00012-00012563-00013072": "All thanks to your support of the President, he’s getting it done"}}, {"audio_id": "neiTjMgXiEI", "text": {"neiTjMgXiEI-00000-00000513-00001419": "President Trump is pushing back against Democrats, who are launching a new expansive investigation that includes his businesses and family", "neiTjMgXiEI-00001-00001419-00002083": "The Hill reported that the House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N", "neiTjMgXiEI-00002-00002083-00003237": "Y.) on Monday issued document requests to 81 individuals and entities as part of a sweeping investigation into President Trump’s campaign, business and administration", "neiTjMgXiEI-00003-00003237-00004185": "The investigation will focus on three key areas, Nadler said: obstruction of justice, public corruption and abuses of power", "neiTjMgXiEI-00004-00004185-00005084": "The greatest overreach in the history of our Country. The Dems are obstructing justice and will not get anything done", "neiTjMgXiEI-00005-00005084-00006058": "A big, fat, fishing expedition desperately in search of a crime, when in fact the real crime is what the Dems are doing, and have done!", "neiTjMgXiEI-00006-00006058-00007283": "President Donald Trump angrily reacted Tuesday morning to House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler’s document requests of 81 individuals connected to the White House and the Trump campaign", "neiTjMgXiEI-00007-00007283-00008710": ".Nadler revealed Monday that he is opening an investigation “into the alleged obstruction of justice, public corruption, and other abuses of power by President Trump, his associates, and members of his Administration", "neiTjMgXiEI-00008-00008710-00010718": "”.The Judiciary Committee continued that “as a first step, the Committee has served document requests to 81 agencies, entities, and individuals believed to have information relevant to the investigation,” specifically spanning administration officials, entities connected to the Trump 2016 campaign, and even the FBI", "neiTjMgXiEI-00009-00010718-00012299": "Nadler’s broad list of parties which he requested documents from indicates he is launching a broad-based inquiry ranging from Trump’s conduct in the FBI’s Russia investigation to the $130,000 payment to a porn star alleging an affair with him", "neiTjMgXiEI-00010-00012299-00013814": "The Judiciary Committee’s requests are particularly noteworthy because it is responsible for originating articles of impeachment against the president, though Nadler has said he is merely launching an investigation and will see where the facts lead", "neiTjMgXiEI-00011-00013814-00014613": "Republicans on the committee charge that Nadler is baselessly pursuing investigations towards impeachment", "neiTjMgXiEI-00012-00014613-00016071": "Ranking Member Doug Collins said in a statement that “after recklessly prejudging the president for obstruction, Chairman Nadler is pursuing evidence to back up his conclusion because, as he admits, ‘We don’t have the facts yet", "neiTjMgXiEI-00013-00016071-00017858": "’”.White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders issued another blistering lengthy statement Monday night, saying, “Chairman Nadler and his fellow Democrats have embarked on this fishing expedition because they are terrified that their two-year false narrative of ‘Russia collusion’ is crumbling", "neiTjMgXiEI-00014-00017858-00019276": "”.She continued, “their intimidation and abuse of American citizens is shameful. The Democrats are more interested in pathetic political games and catering to a radical, leftist base than on producing results for our citizens", "neiTjMgXiEI-00015-00019276-00019856": "The Democrats are not after the truth, they are after the President.”"}}, {"audio_id": "o8H3fUhzqZU", "text": {"o8H3fUhzqZU-00000-00000571-00001383": "Donald Trump started his Sunday morning with yet another assault on the media, demanding to be praised for his “accomplishments", "o8H3fUhzqZU-00001-00001383-00002296": "”.Writing on Twitter, the president called the press “hostile and corrupt,” and listed off what he believes are his achievements", "o8H3fUhzqZU-00002-00002296-00003308": "“Despite the most hostile and corrupt media in the history of American politics, the Trump Administration has accomplished more in its first two years than any other Administration", "o8H3fUhzqZU-00003-00003308-00005029": "Judges, biggest Tax & Regulation Cuts, V.A. Choice, Best Economy, Lowest Unemployment & much more!” he wrote, before adding, “More people are working today in the United States, 158,000,000, than at any time in our Country’s history", "o8H3fUhzqZU-00004-00005029-00005433": "That is a Big Deal!”"}}, {"audio_id": "oy36TrmvXkA", "text": {"oy36TrmvXkA-00000-00000571-00001556": "Former National Intelligence Director James Clapper was joined by former CIA chief John Brennan at the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado", "oy36TrmvXkA-00001-00001556-00002556": "The forum is an annual gathering of leading present and former intelligence officials in which relevant security issues are discussed and debated", "oy36TrmvXkA-00002-00002556-00004087": "James Clapper, the first director of defense intelligence within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI),  told  attendees on Friday that he often wonders whether President Trump’s ultimate goal is to make “Russia great again", "oy36TrmvXkA-00003-00004087-00005599": "”.The wide-ranging discussion included some strong criticisms of the president for downplaying Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election, and the extent to which the president appears – at best – unconcerned about future interference", "oy36TrmvXkA-00004-00005599-00007025": "CNN’s Wolf Blitzer asked Mr. Clapper if he thought the president was taking Russia’s interference seriously enough, to which Clapper responded with a play on the Trump administration’s slogan, “Make America Great Again", "oy36TrmvXkA-00005-00007025-00007657": "” It was then that Clapper said, “Sometimes I think he’s about making Russia great again", "oy36TrmvXkA-00006-00007657-00009363": "”.John Brennan, who served as CIA director from 2013-2017 joined Clapper in criticizing the president casting doubt on the intelligence community’s investigation into Russia meddling in the 2016 election, calling such comments “disgraceful", "oy36TrmvXkA-00007-00009363-00011330": "”.The pair also called out Donald Trump Jr., former campaign chief Paul Manafort and the president’s son-in-law and top adviser, Jared Kushner, for having attended the now-notorious June 2016 meeting with a Kremlin-linked lawyer who had promised damaging information about Hillary Clinton obtained by the Russian government", "oy36TrmvXkA-00008-00011330-00012529": "Mr. Clapper said Jared Kushner should have his security clearance at least suspended pending further investigation, while Brennan called the decision to meet “profoundly baffling", "oy36TrmvXkA-00009-00012529-00013809": "”.Clapper, whose term concluded on Jan. 20 of this year, testified before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee in May about about Russia’s meddling in the 2016 presidential election", "oy36TrmvXkA-00010-00013809-00014598": "He qualified the matter as “critically serious,” and he outlined the findings of the intelligence community", "oy36TrmvXkA-00011-00014598-00015818": "Clapper said he said concluded “first that President Putin directed and influenced a campaign to erode the faith and confidence of the American people in our presidential election process", "oy36TrmvXkA-00012-00015818-00016549": "Second, that he did so to demean Secretary Clinton, and third, that he sought to advantage Mr", "oy36TrmvXkA-00013-00016549-00016823": "Trump.”"}}, {"audio_id": "oGogyPd80xg", "text": {"oGogyPd80xg-00000-00000571-00001757": "President Donald Trump spent the last 18-plus months attacking the investigation into Russian interference and the possibility of collusion between his campaign and the Russians", "oGogyPd80xg-00001-00001757-00003300": "On Sunday, that same investigation, led by special counsel Robert Mueller, gave Trump something he wanted -- and needed badly: A dismissal on the question of collusion and no charges of obstruction against either the President or his team", "oGogyPd80xg-00002-00003300-00004578": "\"The special counsel's investigation did not find that the Trump campaign or anyone associated with it conspired or coordinated with Russia in its efforts to influence the 2016 U", "oGogyPd80xg-00003-00004578-00005563": "S. Presidential Election,\" read a summary of Mueller's conclusions by Attorney General William Barr sent to Congress on Sunday afternoon", "oGogyPd80xg-00004-00005563-00007498": "On the question of obstruction, Mueller, according to Barr, was less conclusive. While he said there was not enough evidence to say that Trump committed a crime by seeking to slow or end the Mueller investigation, he also didn't provide Trump the full clearance the President and his inner circle likely wanted", "oGogyPd80xg-00005-00007498-00008470": "\"While this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him,\" Barr wrote, quoting Mueller", "oGogyPd80xg-00006-00008470-00009713": "Still, taken in the main, the conclusions of Mueller's report -- via Barr -- are a huge gift to a President who has spent 85% of his time in office with the Mueller probe hanging over his head", "oGogyPd80xg-00007-00009713-00011210": "Trump had spent the better part of the past 22 months -- since the inception of the Mueller probe at the behest of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein -- seeking to undermine confidence not only in the report but also in Mueller (and his team)", "oGogyPd80xg-00008-00011210-00012200": "Trump called the probe a \"witch hunt\" more than 170 times, according to statistics maintained by CNN's own Marshall Cohen", "oGogyPd80xg-00009-00012200-00013584": "He tried to raise questions about the political motivations of Mueller, a lifelong Republican, and his investigators -- some of whom made contributions to Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign and other Democrats", "oGogyPd80xg-00010-00013584-00015860": "Trump even went as far as to say the investigation was illegal (it wasn't).Given the level of vitriol Trump -- and his lead attack dog and lawyer Rudy Giuliani -- leveled at Mueller and the broader report, the President finds himself in an odd situation: The investigation that he spent so much time undermining has now turned out a result that is broadly favorable to him", "oGogyPd80xg-00011-00015860-00016570": "In characteristic Trumpian fashion, he took to Twitter to overstate what Mueller had found", "oGogyPd80xg-00012-00016570-00017424": "\"No Collusion, No Obstruction, Complete and Total EXONERATION. KEEP AMERICA GREAT!\" Trump tweeted", "oGogyPd80xg-00013-00017424-00018103": "(Reminder: Barr, quoting Mueller, said that the report \"does not exonerate\" Trump", "oGogyPd80xg-00014-00018103-00018963": ").Trump's exaggeration aside, the general strokes of the Mueller report should work -- and work strongly -- in Trump's favor", "oGogyPd80xg-00015-00018963-00020083": "While he is not exonerated -- in his words -- by Mueller, the key conclusion of the report is that there was no collusion or coordination between the Trump campaign and the Russians"}}, {"audio_id": "oNwC-mOQR28", "text": {"oNwC-mOQR28-00000-00000571-00001226": "People associated with the current president of the United States are now wishing they’d never met him", "oNwC-mOQR28-00001-00001226-00002211": "From Roger Stone to Paul Manafort, people are finding out quickly that doing business with Donald Trump will get them one place in life", "oNwC-mOQR28-00002-00002211-00003018": "Federal prison. That hasn’t stopped these weasels from trying to save their pathetic hides in any way possible", "oNwC-mOQR28-00003-00003018-00004356": "Exhibit A: Paul Manafort. Manafort, as well as Stone, are living on a prayer that the president will pardon them of their many crimes, and up until now, a pardon has been floated as a possibility", "oNwC-mOQR28-00004-00004356-00006014": "That’s all over now, however.According to Bloomberg:.“New York state prosecutors have put together a criminal case against Paul Manafort that they could file quickly if the former chairman of Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign receives a presidential pardon", "oNwC-mOQR28-00005-00006014-00007532": "”New York County District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. has compiled enough evidence of even more Manafort crimes, and is prepared to use that evidence against Manafort if the president tries to pardon him from the crimes of which he’s already been convicted", "oNwC-mOQR28-00006-00007532-00008551": "The report reads:.“Manafort was convicted of eight felonies, pleaded guilty to two more and is scheduled to be sentenced next month for those federal crimes", "oNwC-mOQR28-00007-00008551-00009721": "Prosecutors working for Special Counsel Robert Mueller have recommended as long as 24 years, a virtual life sentence, for the 69-year-old political consultant", "oNwC-mOQR28-00008-00009721-00010544": "”“The president, who has bemoaned Manafort’s treatment at the hands of Mueller, said in November that he has not ruled out a pardon", "oNwC-mOQR28-00009-00010544-00011502": "He has frequently talked of his broad pardon power, possibly extending even to himself, and acted to liberate two political allies previously", "oNwC-mOQR28-00010-00011502-00012756": "”.Vance’s office, as well as Manafort’s people have refused to comment on the Bloomberg report, but many on the inside say this will end very badly for the white-collar criminal", "oNwC-mOQR28-00011-00012756-00013519": "Vance has been investigating Manafort’s crimes even before Robert Mueller brought charges against him", "oNwC-mOQR28-00012-00013519-00014582": "The crimes that Vance is investigating include evasion of taxes in New York, and violating laws that require businesses to keep accurate records", "oNwC-mOQR28-00013-00014582-00015230": "“Much of the evidence against Manafort has emerged through Mueller’s prosecutions", "oNwC-mOQR28-00014-00015230-00015925": "But Vance’s office can’t cut and paste Mueller’s charges into a state indictment", "oNwC-mOQR28-00015-00015925-00017103": "It must avoid New York’s double jeopardy law, which provides protections for defendants even stronger than those guaranteed by the US. Constitution’s Fifth Amendment.”.", "oNwC-mOQR28-00016-00017103-00018445": "These concerns are apparently not new, as former NY Attorney General Eric Schneiderman worked last year to get NY’s double jeopardy laws adjusted to allow someone pardoned by the president to be charged", "oNwC-mOQR28-00017-00018445-00019487": "Unfortunately, it didn’t work.However, Vance believes there is still plenty of opportunity to charge Manafort without violating double jeopardy laws", "oNwC-mOQR28-00018-00019487-00020668": "As the report states, “New York law allows defendants who have already been convicted of evading federal taxes to be charged with the same conduct as it applies to state taxes", "oNwC-mOQR28-00019-00020668-00022147": "As a part-time resident of New York, Manafort has some exposure.”.“While Mueller charged bank fraud based on this conduct, Vance could hit Manafort with state charges of falsifying books and records, according to one of the people", "oNwC-mOQR28-00020-00022147-00022841": "”.Attorney John Moscow has been putting away money launderers in NY for quite some time", "oNwC-mOQR28-00021-00022841-00023915": "He had this to say about what Vance is doing:.“My suggestion is to change the double jeopardy statute in New York to permit prosecutions with this kind of conduct in mind", "oNwC-mOQR28-00022-00023915-00024500": "As interpreted, the statute is too broad and needs to be rethought.”"}}, {"audio_id": "oVVivyz4pD0", "text": {"oVVivyz4pD0-00000-00000571-00001694": "Los Angeles artist and photographer Sam Morrison, 27, has always liked to create thought provoking art and now he’s taken that passion to a whole new level", "oVVivyz4pD0-00001-00001694-00003042": "In September 2017, Morrison decided to use President Trump’s flip-flopping on serious issues as inspiration for his next project: actual flip-flops based on Trump’s famous contradictory tweets", "oVVivyz4pD0-00002-00003042-00005761": "Morrison began in high school, where he made secret compartment silk-screen shirts but he has evolved since then and has relied on a newer digital medium for most of his projects in recent years, untMorrison began in high school, where he made secret compartment silk-screen shirts but he has evolved since then and has relied on a newer digital medium for most of his projects in recent years, until he had the idea to make the brilliant Presidential flip-flops", "oVVivyz4pD0-00003-00005761-00006777": "il he had the idea to make the brilliant Presidential flip-flops.Morrison told Business Insider the idea came to him from scrolling through Twitter", "oVVivyz4pD0-00004-00006777-00007767": "“Take a scroll through Donald Trump’s 40,000 tweets, and you’re sure to catch some contradicting opinions… I wanted to highlight this hypocrisy", "oVVivyz4pD0-00005-00007767-00009416": "”Sam Morrison.Morrison said that although the flip-flops, which retailed for around $30 a pair, sold out to customers all over the US in under a month, this was a one time venture because of the time and effort it took to create such a project", "oVVivyz4pD0-00006-00009416-00010053": "He donated 10% of every purchase to the American Civil Liberties Union"}}, {"audio_id": "oa2AHzkQI_c", "text": {"oa2AHzkQI_c-00000-00000571-00001626": "Ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, Representative Adam Schiff, gave voice to what many Americans been thinking about President Donald Trump recently", "oa2AHzkQI_c-00001-00001626-00002757": ".Schiff stated, “…we have a seriously flawed human being in the Oval Office.”  Further, Schiff made it clear that most of the members of Congress have the same concerns", "oa2AHzkQI_c-00002-00002757-00004447": "“I don’t think there is anyone in Congress, frankly, of either party who does not concur at least privately with those observations and concerns…Certainly, very few are willing to express them publicly in Congress, and I think that’s to the detriment of our institution", "oa2AHzkQI_c-00003-00004447-00005719": "”. .I’m not sure how anyone could be surprised by Schiff’s remarks.  To review some of the highlights of his political career: He’s made promises he hasn’t come close to keeping", "oa2AHzkQI_c-00004-00005719-00006474": "He works short days and golfs nearly every other weekend.  He tweets like a toddler having a tantrum", "oa2AHzkQI_c-00005-00006474-00007527": "He is disrespectful to foreign leaders.  Any criticism of his actions is met with a loud recitation of his now infamous cry of “fake news”", "oa2AHzkQI_c-00006-00007527-00008141": "He seems no idea what he is doing, and bucks the opinions of those around him who do", "oa2AHzkQI_c-00007-00008141-00008995": "Most of the people who still support Donald Trump, likely do so for two reasons.  One, because he was an outsider", "oa2AHzkQI_c-00008-00008995-00010027": "As someone who hasn’t spent his life in politics or public service, his supporters thought that perhaps he would change the “business as usual” attitude of Washington leaders", "oa2AHzkQI_c-00009-00010027-00010808": "The other reason, repeated over and over again by his supporters, is that Trump “tells it like it is”", "oa2AHzkQI_c-00010-00010808-00011986": "But there are flaws in both those thoughts.I understand the desire to elect a politician who is going to change the way the game is played, someone who can bring fresh ideas to the table", "oa2AHzkQI_c-00011-00011986-00012597": "But because Trump had never served in a public office, he had no idea what he was doing", "oa2AHzkQI_c-00012-00012597-00014091": "Being a leader in business isn’t the same as being the leader of a country.  Even if one ignores all of Trump’s bankruptcies and failures in the business world, he still didn’t have the experience necessary for the job he aspired to do", "oa2AHzkQI_c-00013-00014091-00015301": "I watch a lot of television, but I’m not prepared to be the CEO of Netflix.As far as telling it like it is… that’s the dumbest reason I’ve ever heard for electing someone to public office", "oa2AHzkQI_c-00014-00015301-00016379": "I mean, if your drunk uncle Joe probably tells it like it is.  Drunk uncle Joe will gladly euphemistically discuss the size of his genitalia", "oa2AHzkQI_c-00015-00016379-00017861": "Drunk uncle Joe will talk about grabbing women by their crotches.  But I can’t think of a single person who would want drunk uncle Joe in any type of leadership position or elected to office, much less become the leader of the US", "oa2AHzkQI_c-00016-00017861-00018683": "We all have flaws.  That’s part of being human.  But we knew what Trump’s flaws were when he was elected to office", "oa2AHzkQI_c-00017-00018683-00019647": "He had flaunted them for decades, with clearly no intention of changing them.  The problem is no longer that we have a flawed leader", "oa2AHzkQI_c-00018-00019647-00020086": "The problem is, what are we going to do about it now?"}}, {"audio_id": "oaHDYQf8Bv4", "text": {"oaHDYQf8Bv4-00000-00000571-00002462": "For a few days there, Donald Trump thought he was winning. Much of the media was reporting William Barr’s laugh out loud “summary” of the Mueller report as if it were the Mueller report, Trump was getting away with falsely claiming he had been exonerated, and he was giddily seeking revenge against, well, everyone", "oaHDYQf8Bv4-00001-00002462-00003313": "But as the past week has gone on, things have gotten gradually darker for Trump – and today everything hit the fan at once", "oaHDYQf8Bv4-00002-00003313-00004160": ".Things began ominously enough today for Donald Trump, when the House Judiciary Committee voted to subpoena the Mueller report", "oaHDYQf8Bv4-00003-00004160-00005677": "That alone was bad news for Trump. But even as that battle was gearing up throughout the day, Mueller’s team began leaking that the report is actually rather bad for Trump, and that Attorney General William Barr is misrepresenting what the report says", "oaHDYQf8Bv4-00004-00005677-00006636": "This gives House Democrats precisely what they need when it comes to winning the inevitable subpoena battle in the court of law and the court of public opinion", "oaHDYQf8Bv4-00005-00006636-00008391": "But that was only the half of it. . .In what appears to be a well-timed coordinated effort by House Democrats, the House Ways and Means Committee formally requested this afternoon that the Treasury Department turn over Donald Trump’s tax returns within the next seven days", "oaHDYQf8Bv4-00006-00008391-00009635": "This came even as the Miami Herald revealed today that the FBI has secretly been running a counterintelligence probe for some time now into what Chinese operatives have been doing at Mar-a-Lago", "oaHDYQf8Bv4-00007-00009635-00010429": "And of course yesterday, the House Oversight Committee served subpoenas in Trump’s White House security clearance scandal", "oaHDYQf8Bv4-00008-00010429-00011364": ". .Donald Trump is now getting hit from all sides. His attempt at misrepresenting and burying the Mueller report has now failed", "oaHDYQf8Bv4-00009-00011364-00011996": "We’re about to find out what he’s been so desperately hiding in his tax returns all this time", "oaHDYQf8Bv4-00010-00011996-00013122": "We’re also about to learn precisely what Trump’s top advisers and family members did to get themselves rejected for security clearances before he overruled them", "oaHDYQf8Bv4-00011-00013122-00013576": "This is getting uglier for Trump by the hour"}}, {"audio_id": "ogqxtiFuBBY", "text": {"ogqxtiFuBBY-00000-00000571-00002467": "By now we know the drill. Most major polls have Donald Trump’s approval rating pegged at around forty percent, but each time the widely discredited Rasmussen poll laughably claims that Trump’s approval rating is around fifty percent, Trump shamelessly tweet-brags about it, as if it were legitimate", "ogqxtiFuBBY-00001-00002467-00004089": "Today we saw Trump try something different – and it promptly blew back on him. .This morning Donald Trump tweeted a Fox Business Channel graphic which claimed that he had a 55% overall approval rating in a new Georgetown Politics poll", "ogqxtiFuBBY-00002-00004089-00005547": "Wait a minute, that polling entity is legitimate. So what’s going on here? It took all of a few minutes for Mo Elleithee, the director of Georgetown Politics, to post this tweet in response: “This graphic is incorrect", "ogqxtiFuBBY-00003-00005547-00006715": "The Battleground Poll shows 58% approval on the economy. But it shows only 43% overall approval, & 52% disapproval", "ogqxtiFuBBY-00004-00006715-00007605": "The 55% number is the President’s unfavorable rating. (Only 40% favorable.)” Ouch", "ogqxtiFuBBY-00005-00007605-00008480": ". .Later in the morning, Fox Business Channel issued an on-air correction, explaining that it had indeed jumbled the numbers", "ogqxtiFuBBY-00006-00008480-00009092": "But as of this afternoon, Donald Trump still hasn’t deleted or corrected his errant tweet", "ogqxtiFuBBY-00007-00009092-00010372": "By now Trump and his people have surely been made aware that the polling graphic is false, which means at this point Trump is knowingly promoting fake poll numbers by leaving the tweet intact", "ogqxtiFuBBY-00008-00010372-00011288": ".So there you have it. Donald Trump has even lower ethical standards than Fox News, which has no ethical standards to begin with", "ogqxtiFuBBY-00009-00011288-00012294": "We suppose next time Trump will have to stick to quoting the laugh-out-loud Rasmussen poll if he wants to pretend he’s popular with the American people"}}, {"audio_id": "p92N7XMRRkM", "text": {"p92N7XMRRkM-00000-00000571-00001913": "Donald Trump is now trying to fend off the inevitable release of the Mueller report, his tax returns, his banking records, and other things that are soon going to help expose him for what he really is", "p92N7XMRRkM-00001-00001913-00002982": "His strategy now consists of firing a bunch of his own people for who knows what reason, and partaking in a mind bending amount of good old fashioned delusion", "p92N7XMRRkM-00002-00002982-00004134": ".For instance, take this new Trump tweet: “Everybody is now acknowledging that, right from the time I announced my run for President, I was 100% correct on the Border", "p92N7XMRRkM-00003-00004134-00004894": "Remember the heat I took? Democrats should now get rid of the loopholes. The Border is being fixed", "p92N7XMRRkM-00004-00004894-00006312": "Mexico will not let people through!” What is this guy even talking about? Polling data across the board shows that most Americans think that Trump is wrong on immigration and that his border wall idea is stupid", "p92N7XMRRkM-00005-00006312-00009295": ". .What on earth could have convinced Donald Trump that Americans have somehow come around to agree with him on immigration? On what planet have Americans decided that Trump was right all along about anything, let alone immigration? In what alternate reality is this guy living? We suppose it’s the same delusional haze that’s allowed him to convince himself that his imaginary wall is already being built, and that a majority of Americans now somehow approve of his historically unpopular presidency", "p92N7XMRRkM-00006-00009295-00010369": ".The question is where Donald Trump goes from here. His purge at Homeland Security suggests that he’s gearing up to commit even more atrocities against immigrants", "p92N7XMRRkM-00007-00010369-00011612": "Yet this guy is so delusional, for all we know, he might have his new DHS people keep doing the same old thing, even while telling himself that he’s somehow taken things to the next level", "p92N7XMRRkM-00008-00011612-00011957": "Trump belongs in a rubber room"}}, {"audio_id": "ptnA7atckto", "text": {"ptnA7atckto-00000-00000571-00001545": "In a surprising move, Donald Trump let it be known that he had declined James Mattis’ offer to stay on as Secretary of Defense through February", "ptnA7atckto-00001-00001545-00002318": "As a result, he named Patrick Shanahan as Acting Secretary of Defense effective next week", "ptnA7atckto-00002-00002318-00003149": "However, if you base this news off the words of the late John McCain, it arrives with a great deal of concern", "ptnA7atckto-00003-00003149-00004951": "Back in 2017 during Patrick Shanahan’s Senate confirmation hearings for Deputy Secretary of Defense, John McCain took to the microphone and questioned Shanahan over his relationship with Russia’s Vladimir Putin, particularly in regards to his dealings with Ukraine", "ptnA7atckto-00004-00004951-00006568": "According to the Washington Post: The late Arizona Republican, then the committee chairman, questioned how Shanahan would run day-to-day operations at the Pentagon despite his deep ties to the defense contractor Boeing, and then lit into him for something specific", "ptnA7atckto-00005-00006568-00007681": "In prepared answers to questions, Shanahan had said he would review whether the United States should send Ukraine weapons to defend itself against Russian-backed separatists", "ptnA7atckto-00006-00007681-00008653": "Shanahan amended his response to say that he would support the idea, but McCain still threatened to stop a vote on his confirmation", "ptnA7atckto-00007-00008653-00009711": "“That’s not good enough, Mr. Shanahan,” McCain said. “I’m glad to hear you changed your opinion from what was submitted, but it’s still disturbing to me", "ptnA7atckto-00008-00009711-00010463": "It’s still disturbing to me after all these years that you would say that you would have to look at the issue", "ptnA7atckto-00009-00010463-00011842": "Have you not been aware of the issue? Have you not been aware of the actions of the Senate Armed Services Committee? Have you not been aware of the thousands of people that have been killed by [Russian President] Vladimir Putin?”", "ptnA7atckto-00010-00011842-00013566": "Regardless of how your political leaning or opinion of John McCain, this information raises questions as to why Donald Trump would even consider choosing Shanahan to be Deputy Secretary of Defense at the time, or much less, to be Acting Secretary of Defense now", "ptnA7atckto-00011-00013566-00014619": "His resume, which includes no prior experience serving in, or overseeing, the military in any capacity certainly doesn’t answer those questions either", "ptnA7atckto-00012-00014619-00015930": "In fact, the only thing we have that are remotely close to answers at this point suggest Shanahan’s rise in the defense ranks appear to directly correlated to his willingness to appease Vladimir Putin’s interests", "ptnA7atckto-00013-00015930-00016784": "And considering Trump’s looming and inevitable trouble in the Trump-Russia scandal, a puppet in the Pentagon is exactly what he needs"}}, {"audio_id": "pxDjfFIBzmY", "text": {"pxDjfFIBzmY-00000-00000513-00001981": "The DNC has given no sign it will back down from its commitment to withholding the Democratic message from the largest political news viewing demographic by refusing to allow Fox News Channel to carry their primary debates", "pxDjfFIBzmY-00001-00001981-00002694": "The rest of the major media, too, is generally on board. Fox, for their part, objects", "pxDjfFIBzmY-00002-00002694-00003574": "But maybe since we’re in a mood for excluding networks, President Trump and the GOP should take a move from this playbook and reciprocate", "pxDjfFIBzmY-00003-00003574-00004222": "Here is a proposal: Trump should refuse to debate on CNN ahead of next year’s election", "pxDjfFIBzmY-00004-00004222-00005575": "First, let’s be clear about exactly what the DNC did. As a guest on CNN’s Reliable Sources noted on Sunday, the DNC was already not in the business of handing their debates to Fox News", "pxDjfFIBzmY-00005-00005575-00006411": "They had no primary debates there in 2016, for example. Their candidate town halls aren’t there either", "pxDjfFIBzmY-00006-00006411-00007116": "What’s different this time is that instead of simply not going to FNC, they made a public statement of shunning", "pxDjfFIBzmY-00007-00007116-00008365": "DNC Chair Tom Perez, using the timely trigger of a New Yorker article calling Fox News propaganda, stated publicly his and the DNC’s intent to exclude FNC", "pxDjfFIBzmY-00008-00008365-00010013": "In return, the rest of the press, especially CNN and Fox themselves, have granted Perez the very boon he was seeking: a big splashy story that lets the #Resistance know how committed Democrats are to catering to their vengeful desires", "pxDjfFIBzmY-00009-00010013-00011131": "Honestly, Perez should be sending gift baskets to the cable networks. His name recognition probably shot up a few hundred percent into the whole single digits range", "pxDjfFIBzmY-00010-00011131-00011810": "Of course, simply getting the word out to their leftier elements wasn’t the only aim here", "pxDjfFIBzmY-00011-00011810-00013751": "It actually is a matter of exclusion.On that same Reliable Sources on Sunday, veteran analyst Jeff Greenfield made the argument that Democrats are excluding a big, blue collar portion of voters (he didn’t say “white” voters but it was in the air) in failing to share their own message on Fox News", "pxDjfFIBzmY-00012-00013751-00014462": "But sharing their message on Fox is exactly what they want to avoid ahead of 2020", "pxDjfFIBzmY-00013-00014462-00015820": "What bigger disaster could there be for a Democratic primary debate than that a huge swath of America actually sees them standing on a radical left agenda? To put it bluntly, they don’t want to be seen", "pxDjfFIBzmY-00014-00015820-00016888": "Not by everyone, anyway.It’s a truism that the parties must tilt to their respective corners in the primary, and toward the center in the general", "pxDjfFIBzmY-00015-00016888-00018006": "In this particular election, that tilt is exceedingly pronounced, with the GOP pandering to the Trump-right and the DNC pandering to the Ocasio-Cortez left", "pxDjfFIBzmY-00016-00018006-00019291": "Except in the case of the GOP, there is no corner yet un-penetrated by news of their farthest right tendencies, whereas the DNC is still trying to walk the line between left and center", "pxDjfFIBzmY-00017-00019291-00020759": "(A fact that AOC herself has noted and complained about.).For that conquest of every corner with the farthest right elements of the GOP, one need look no further than CNN to find out how that was accomplished", "pxDjfFIBzmY-00018-00020759-00022726": "Granted, one could look further –to the Washington Post, the New York Times, MSNBC, the Daily Show, every late night TV monologue, movies, the Oscars, music, entertainment magazines, teen magazines, and every area of sports and tech reporting, for example — but one doesn’t need to", "pxDjfFIBzmY-00019-00022726-00024158": "It is sufficient to look at CNN to see how every bad step, bad choice, and bad person on the right is amplified, attacked, contradicted, exposed, and generally carried routinely over the airwaves to voters", "pxDjfFIBzmY-00020-00024158-00026167": "That kind of sunlight is exactly what the DNC does not want ahead of 2020, and it’s definitely the main reason they don’t want to be openly debating one another on left-wing premises to the biggest cable news audience, and one that skews far more to the right and center than the younger, more liberal audiences of CNN and MSNBC", "pxDjfFIBzmY-00021-00026167-00028625": "It’s a no-brainer, really.So by avoiding Fox they accomplish several things: They dodge getting exposed for advocating radical and unpopular policies, they get the media buzz for their candidates on Fox News anyway as its opinion hosts and its anchors raise hell at being excluded, and they deliver supreme satisfaction of the liberal left’s need to exact vengeance on Trump and all who are tied to him", "pxDjfFIBzmY-00022-00028625-00029777": "It’s a win-win-win.So Trump should do the same thing.That is, President Trump should refuse to participate in presidential debates moderated by CNN journalists", "pxDjfFIBzmY-00023-00029777-00030605": "There isn’t going to be a Republican primary contest, no matter procedural voting, and therefore no primary debates", "pxDjfFIBzmY-00024-00030605-00031814": "And the general election debates are carried on a million channels and outlets. So the best he can do to respond in kind is refuse to participate in debates moderated by CNN personalities", "pxDjfFIBzmY-00025-00031814-00032525": "He’s already floated the idea, actually.But it’s something to get behind despite his embrace", "pxDjfFIBzmY-00026-00032525-00033515": "Not because of revenge, or even because it would be good for the country, but because the DNC hiding from voters is bad for the country", "pxDjfFIBzmY-00027-00033515-00034437": "And if Trump does what he always does anyway and acts like a spoiled brat about it, it would take the manufactured conflict to new heights", "pxDjfFIBzmY-00028-00034437-00035785": "For one thing, might force the Democrats to relent and give up the ban, meaning they could face genuinely hard-to-answer questions about what exactly their platform and beliefs are, rather than just argue from the left", "pxDjfFIBzmY-00029-00035785-00037054": "Assuming the game of chicken resolved with everyone attending every debate, it would also expose a much larger share of American votes to the breadth of information and spectrum of choices they have next year", "pxDjfFIBzmY-00030-00037054-00037796": "Most importantly, it would be hilarious.Well, okay, that’s not the most important part", "pxDjfFIBzmY-00031-00037796-00040293": "What is important is that Fox viewers might, just as Jeff Greenfield said this morning, see their network challenged over facts and bias, and CNN/MSNBC viewers might come to understand that it’s not just Donald Trump, or even Donald Trump-ists, who think the hard news folks at CNN and MSNBC are equally indulgent when it comes to editorializing and slanted reporting", "pxDjfFIBzmY-00032-00040293-00041171": "There are, in fact, millions of Americans who think that.In short, it would be like bringing the whole media vs", "pxDjfFIBzmY-00033-00041171-00041981": "media debate to a head while bringing the presidential debates to our TVs.And also it would be hilarious", "pxDjfFIBzmY-00034-00041981-00042252": "Carpe Amentiam"}}, {"audio_id": "pzmcvFHHRgk", "text": {"pzmcvFHHRgk-00000-00000571-00001260": "For decades Republicans have railed against the size and scope of the federal government", "pzmcvFHHRgk-00001-00001260-00002713": "GOP candidates regularly promise to eliminate government agencies, cut waste and fraud in spending and get government out of decisions that, they say, should be left to states, markets and individual families", "pzmcvFHHRgk-00002-00002713-00003703": "They argue for smaller, more efficient and better government.But since Donald Trump's election that principle has turned sideways", "pzmcvFHHRgk-00003-00003703-00004591": "Trump and his Republican backers now don't want smaller and better; they seem to want to sabotage the actual work of government", "pzmcvFHHRgk-00004-00004591-00005205": "They appear hell-bent on making it less transparent, less responsive and less effective", "pzmcvFHHRgk-00005-00005205-00006472": "And this effort is accelerating.It was somewhat subtle at first: Trump Republicans started early by trying to strangle the Affordable Care Act without offering a viable alternative to replace it", "pzmcvFHHRgk-00006-00006472-00007331": "Courts have repeatedly blocked these attempts, and so the administration and Republicans have worked to kill the law with a thousand cuts", "pzmcvFHHRgk-00007-00007331-00008070": "They've cut the advertising budget, making it harder for people to find the plan and sign up", "pzmcvFHHRgk-00008-00008070-00009188": "They removed the individual mandate, have undermined -- at every turn -- a program aimed at attracting young people to the ACA, and shortened the enrollment period for consumers to sign up", "pzmcvFHHRgk-00009-00009188-00010160": "And late last month, Trump's Justice Department said it would file a legal brief with a federal appeals court to wipe out the entire law", "pzmcvFHHRgk-00010-00010160-00011098": "One might argue that these are just policy differences between the parties. You can make no such argument about another series of moves", "pzmcvFHHRgk-00011-00011098-00011928": "Trump publicly berated Jeff Sessions, then his attorney general, for not being loyal and eventually fired him", "pzmcvFHHRgk-00012-00011928-00013741": "He fired FBI Director James Comey for doing what the FBI does: investigate. He fired his secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, for actually practicing diplomacy, and forced out his defense secretary, James Mattis, and national security adviser -- H", "pzmcvFHHRgk-00013-00013741-00014404": "R. McMaster -- for the crime of providing professional advice.That's just the start", "pzmcvFHHRgk-00014-00014404-00015219": "He's arguably used his office to continue to build his private business (see Trump's Washington, D", "pzmcvFHHRgk-00015-00015219-00016238": "C., hotel), and reportedly overruled his intelligence officials to give daughter Ivanka Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner security clearances", "pzmcvFHHRgk-00016-00016238-00017403": "And as long as we're on the subject of national security, he has repeatedly given more weight to the word of foreign adversaries over the professionals in the US government's intelligence community", "pzmcvFHHRgk-00017-00017403-00018707": "It's not just Vladimir Putin and Russia. When it came to who killed Jamal Khashoggi, the President was quick to side with and defend Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and the Saudis", "pzmcvFHHRgk-00018-00018707-00019360": "What is even more startling is who the President now wants to bring in to run the government", "pzmcvFHHRgk-00019-00019360-00020713": "Matt Whitaker, despite having none of the requisite qualifications to be attorney general, was nonetheless made acting attorney general -- violating longstanding procedure at a critical time for the Department of Justice", "pzmcvFHHRgk-00020-00020713-00022413": "Appointing William Barr as attorney general after Whitaker was no better. Remember: Barr sent the White House an unsolicited 19-page memo outlining, in effect, how the attorney general could, and should, protect the President from Robert Mueller's investigation", "pzmcvFHHRgk-00021-00022413-00023466": "It was one hell of an audition for Trump and secured Barr the job whose accurate description should have cited Roy Cohn -- the toadying counsel to \"Red Scare\" Sen", "pzmcvFHHRgk-00022-00023466-00024140": "Joseph McCarthy and later mentor to Trump -- not the giants of justice from American history", "pzmcvFHHRgk-00023-00024140-00026755": "Now we look to who is going to lead the effort to protect the homeland. Department of Homeland Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen was forced out for, among other things arguing that the President had to follow the law and not close the border at El Paso, Texas, and objecting to restarting the administration's odious policy (which she had supported) of separating immigrant children from their parents at the border, citing concerns about court challenges", "pzmcvFHHRgk-00024-00026755-00027692": "Indeed, there is nothing that has reduced trust in government among many Americans than the President's erratic and outrageous policies around immigration", "pzmcvFHHRgk-00025-00027692-00028531": "Last week the President told border agents to defy the law and not let migrants in, two sources told CNN", "pzmcvFHHRgk-00026-00028531-00029782": "(The agents' supervisors told them afterward that they had to follow the law.) When the President makes this kind of move, the infrastructure that supports our democracy doesn't crack, it crumbles", "pzmcvFHHRgk-00027-00029782-00031005": "Now the President again is defying procedure and is looking to install a loyalist and immigration hard-liner to run the agency created after 9/11 to fight against terrorism in America", "pzmcvFHHRgk-00028-00031005-00031595": "That should warm the hearts of any group planning to attack our homeland"}}, {"audio_id": "pGMBjiHgQXk", "text": {"pGMBjiHgQXk-00000-00000571-00001885": "Paul Manafort, the former chairman of Donald Trump’s campaign, has been jailed for nearly four years for bank and tax fraud uncovered during the special counsel investigation into Russian election interference", "pGMBjiHgQXk-00001-00001885-00003436": "Wearing a green prison jumpsuit, Manafort sat still in a wheelchair and betrayed little emotion as the US district judge TS Ellis of the eastern district of Virginia pronounced the sentence, which will be partially offset by nine months already served", "pGMBjiHgQXk-00002-00003436-00004478": "“Mr Manafort, you stand accused of very serious crimes,” said Ellis, noting that these included concealing $6m from the Internal Revenue Service", "pGMBjiHgQXk-00003-00004478-00005847": "“In essence, that’s a theft of money from everyone who pays their taxes''.The sentence was far shy of federal sentencing guidelines, which call for 19 and a half to 24 years in prison for these types of offenses", "pGMBjiHgQXk-00004-00005847-00006866": "Ellis described the guidelines as “excessive” and “out of whack”, saying Manafort had no prior criminal history and had lived “an otherwise blameless life''", "pGMBjiHgQXk-00005-00006866-00007571": "The judge acknowledged: “I don’t expect the sentence I’m about to announce to meet with everyone’s approval", "pGMBjiHgQXk-00006-00007571-00008303": "” He told Manafort: “Life is making choices, Mr Manafort, and living with the choices you make", "pGMBjiHgQXk-00007-00008303-00009018": "You made choices and engaged in criminal conduct and there will be consequences for that decision", "pGMBjiHgQXk-00008-00009018-00009820": "”.The judge also chided Manafort not for expressing regret in a statement he made to the court minutes earlier", "pGMBjiHgQXk-00009-00009820-00010920": "“You did not say, ‘I really, really regret not doing what the law required.’ It will not affect that sentence I impose but I hope you will reflect on that", "pGMBjiHgQXk-00010-00010920-00012605": "”.In a hushed, packed courtroom, with the clock close to 7pm, Ellis then handed down concurrent sentences totalling 47 months for the eight charges on which the veteran Republican political consultant was convicted in Alexandria, Virginia, last August", "pGMBjiHgQXk-00011-00012605-00013279": "But he said Manafort would receive credit for the nine months he has already spent incarcerated", "pGMBjiHgQXk-00012-00013279-00014572": "The judge imposed a fine of $50,000 on Manafort – who still owns a house in Alexandria, worth about $3m, and another in Palm Beach, Florida, worth an estimated $1", "pGMBjiHgQXk-00013-00014572-00015397": "25m – noting that he was already obliged to pay restitution of $24m to his victims", "pGMBjiHgQXk-00014-00015397-00016687": "“I think what I’ve done is sufficiently punitive.”.Outside of the courtroom, Ellis’s ruling and his comments that Manafort had lived “an otherwise blameless life” drew sharp criticism", "pGMBjiHgQXk-00015-00016687-00018004": "“I’ve rarely been more disgusted by a judge’s transparently preferential treatment to a rich white guy who betrayed the law and the nation,” tweeted Laurence Tribe, a constitutional law professor at Harvard", "pGMBjiHgQXk-00016-00018004-00019482": "“A federal judge in Virginia gave Paul Manafort less prison time for eight counts of bank fraud, tax fraud, and failing to file a foreign bank account report than Crystal Mason got in Texas for voting once while on probation", "pGMBjiHgQXk-00017-00019482-00020924": "America,” noted the writer Jamil Smith.The 69-year-old was convicted after prosecutors accused him of hiding from the US government millions of dollars he earned as a consultant for Ukraine’s former pro-Russia government", "pGMBjiHgQXk-00018-00020924-00022706": "After the pro-Kremlin Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych was ousted, prosecutors said, Manafort lied to banks to secure loans and maintain an opulent lifestyle with luxurious homes, designer suits and even a $15,000 ostrich-skin jacket"}}, {"audio_id": "q1Iga9CBfjY", "text": {"q1Iga9CBfjY-00000-00000571-00002101": "Now that the news that Special Counsel Mueller’s report has finally been delivered to the Department of Justice, the media and the public are clamoring for any kind of assurance that we’ll actually be able to see the results of the probe for ourselves", "q1Iga9CBfjY-00001-00002101-00003998": "Under the rules governing how the Special Counsel works, his report is only submitted to the Department of Justice, where it will be reviewed by Attorney General William Bar and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who then gets to decide what parts of it, if any, will be sent to Congress and revealed to the public", "q1Iga9CBfjY-00002-00003998-00005795": "The fear is that Barr, a Trump appointee, will decide to simply bury the report and make sure that none of the important parts ever see the light of day — but Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA), who has spearheaded the House’s probe into the myriad misdeeds of Donald J", "q1Iga9CBfjY-00003-00005795-00006607": "Trump, quickly made it clear on Friday night that there was no way in hell that the Mueller report was going to stay hidden", "q1Iga9CBfjY-00004-00006607-00008261": "During an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, Schiff announced that should it come down to it, his committee would subpoena anyone necessary, including Mueller and Attorney General Barr himself, to testify under oath and tell the American people about what the Mueller report contains", "q1Iga9CBfjY-00005-00008261-00010231": "On top of that, Schiff made it clear earlier in the day that while the Mueller report may not contain any new recommendations for indictments, that does not prevent other law enforcement bodies to take up the charge — especially at the state level, which are immune from the exonerating powers of the presidential pardons", "q1Iga9CBfjY-00006-00010231-00011111": "In other words, this is only just beginning — and no matter what, Trump and his cronies are not going to be escaping scot-free"}}, {"audio_id": "q60P74RGoA4", "text": {"q60P74RGoA4-00000-00000571-00001396": "President Donald Trump has banked his North Korea policy on selling Kim Jong Un a future of prosperity and riches", "q60P74RGoA4-00001-00001396-00002603": "But legislation Trump signed bars companies from investing in the country because of its abysmal record on human rights, an issue the president has given scant attention in talks with Pyongyang", "q60P74RGoA4-00002-00002603-00003703": "Heading into his second meeting with the North Korean leader, the president is planning to pitch him on a vision of North Korean modernization, White House officials have said", "q60P74RGoA4-00003-00003703-00004946": "Trump dangled the prospect of material wealth for Kim’s impoverished homeland on Monday, telling reporters, “I think he’ll have a country that will set a lot of records for speed in terms of an economy''", "q60P74RGoA4-00004-00004946-00005557": "It’s not clear how the president is proposing to help Kim realize his economic goals", "q60P74RGoA4-00005-00005557-00006889": "A provision Trump signed into law as a part of a 2017 sanctions bill cracking down on Iran, Russia and North Korea could prove a crippling obstacle to any American overture, experts said", "q60P74RGoA4-00006-00006889-00007937": "The law prohibits imports of anything produced or manufactured by a North Korean citizen — and it would fall on Congress, not the president, to repeal the measure", "q60P74RGoA4-00007-00007937-00009507": "“Because of US. law today, the general counsel of any U.S. company is not going to recommend going into North Korea because of human rights abuses,” said Victor Cha, who served as President George WBush’s top adviser on North Korea", "q60P74RGoA4-00008-00009507-00010361": "The Trump administration, he said, “needs to talk about human rights if they’re going to achieve what they want to achieve''", "q60P74RGoA4-00009-00010361-00012226": "That means Trump could ink a nuclear deal with North Korea that lifts some sanctions in exchange for Kim’s promise to give up his nation’s nuclear weapons, but he would have to rely on Congress to repeal the 2017 law in order for any American company to significantly invest in North Korea", "q60P74RGoA4-00010-00012226-00012853": "That’s unlikely, barring a deal that addresses human rights in a substantive manner"}}, {"audio_id": "qtRHLodFUFI", "text": {"qtRHLodFUFI-00000-00000571-00002391": "“Spoke to Tiger Woods to congratulate him on the great victory he had in yesterday’s Masters, and to inform him that because of his incredible Success & Comeback in Sports (Golf) and, more importantly, LIFE, I will be presenting him with the PRESIDENTIAL MEDAL OF FREEDOM!” Trump wrote on Twitter", "qtRHLodFUFI-00001-00002391-00003204": ".Woods’ victory was described by sports commentators as the greatest comeback in the history of sports", "qtRHLodFUFI-00002-00003204-00004216": "A big fan of the sport, the president has had a long personal and business relationship with Woods and even golfed with the champion on several occasions", "qtRHLodFUFI-00003-00004216-00005029": "Trump celebrated Woods’ victory on Sunday on Twitter.“Love people who are great under pressure,” Trump wrote", "qtRHLodFUFI-00004-00005029-00006141": "“What a fantastic life comeback for a really great guy!”.The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the highest honor provided to a civilian in the United States"}}, {"audio_id": "qGykqSF7e4M", "text": {}}, {"audio_id": "qpbGTBTqUkY", "text": {"qpbGTBTqUkY-00000-00000571-00002553": "Donald Trump is making money from the government. It’s not speculation anymore. Story after story of the Trump brand colliding with the government in ways that benefit Trump personally are released on a regular basis, which continues to bring the Emoluments Clause and other conflicts of interest further into question", "qpbGTBTqUkY-00001-00002553-00003465": "Reuters has released a report, again busting Trump for personally profiting from the government: Public pension funds in at least seven U", "qpbGTBTqUkY-00002-00003465-00004687": "S. states have invested millions of dollars in an investment fund that owns a New York hotel and pays one of President Donald Trump’s companies to run it, according to a Reuters review of public records", "qpbGTBTqUkY-00003-00004687-00005435": "That arrangement could put Trump at risk of violating an obscure constitutional clause, some legal experts say", "qpbGTBTqUkY-00004-00005435-00007164": "The funds in the states of California, New York, Texas, Arizona, Montana, Michigan and Missouri have more than 5 million members, including state lawmakers in California, teachers in Texas, and police officers in New York, just to name a few", "qpbGTBTqUkY-00005-00007164-00008010": "The fund also includes  the California Public Employees’ Retirement System, the largest public pension fund in the nation", "qpbGTBTqUkY-00006-00008010-00008995": "Jed Shugerman, a law professor at Fordham University explains how Trump is in violation of the constitutions’ Emoluments Clause:", "qpbGTBTqUkY-00007-00008995-00010502": "The report point out, “it could put Trump at risk of falling foul of a little-known constitutional rule prohibiting the flow of money from states to the pockets of a sitting president, five ethics and constitutional law experts interviewed by Reuters said", "qpbGTBTqUkY-00008-00010502-00010602": "”"}}, {"audio_id": "qSEpYBRlZ14", "text": {"qSEpYBRlZ14-00000-00000571-00002715": "Even amid growing buzz that the federal prosecutors for the SDNY could be gearing up to criminally indict Donald Trump while he’s still in office, one of the SDNY’s star witnesses – Trump’s former longtime fixer Michael Cohen – has finally been cleared by prosecutors to publicly testify about Trump’s crimes this upcoming Wednesday", "qSEpYBRlZ14-00001-00002715-00004661": "Now we’re learning about the dirt that Cohen has given the SNDY on Trump.In what appears to be an attempt at laying the groundwork through the media for Michael Cohen’s upcoming public testimony, someone (read: the SDNY itself) has given the New York Times the lowdown on what Cohen has given the SNDY", "qSEpYBRlZ14-00002-00004661-00005526": "It turns out Cohen has blabbed about “irregularities” in the Trump Organization, including something involving “insurance claims", "qSEpYBRlZ14-00003-00005526-00006526": "” This comes shortly after the House Oversight Committee announced that Cohen will be testifying about, among other things, Trump Organization financial fraud", "qSEpYBRlZ14-00004-00006526-00007736": "But there’s more.Michael Cohen has also dished to SDNY about payments made to Donald Trump’s inauguration fund, which are widely suspected to have been thinly disguised personal bribes", "qSEpYBRlZ14-00005-00007736-00008888": "In other words, this NY Times expose confirms the specifics of what we already knew in general terms: Cohen has given the SDNY everything he knows about Trump’s crimes", "qSEpYBRlZ14-00006-00008888-00010168": "But here’s the interesting part.As of right now there are no publicly visible court filings, indictments, or legal documents of any kind to support what’s being reported by the NY Times", "qSEpYBRlZ14-00007-00010168-00011440": "It’s difficult to imagine that the SDNY has cleared Michael Cohen to publicly testify about these matters next week, unless it plans to file something somewhere to support it", "qSEpYBRlZ14-00008-00011440-00012278": "Are we looking at more SDNY indictments between now and Wednesday? Something has to give here, and soon"}}, {"audio_id": "qUL9GMs7L7u", "text": {"qUL9GMs7L7u-00000-00000571-00001898": "The United States has by far the most relaxed gun laws in the developed worlds. The United States also has by far the most mass shootings and deaths as a result of gun crime among all developed countries", "qUL9GMs7L7u-00001-00001898-00003366": "It is therefore perfectly obvious to anyone with even an ounce of common sense that the solution hear is to regulate the arms trade more strictly like the rest of the developed worlds, and possibly even ban guns altogether", "qUL9GMs7L7u-00002-00003366-00005764": "However, President Donald Trump and the rest of the crony Republicans who somehow still run the United States government cannot hear the sound of that basic logic over the sound of all that raw cash pouring into their bank accounts from the NRA and various other gun lobbies which portray themselves as fighting for rights and freedoms for ordinary people, but really just want to carry on making as much many as possible from selling guns", "qUL9GMs7L7u-00003-00005764-00007219": ".That is why we are in the totally ridiculous situation where the President of the United States and leader of the free world is seriously and repeatedly suggesting that the solution to this problem is not less but more guns", "qUL9GMs7L7u-00004-00007219-00008141": "He has claimed time and time again that the way to tackle school shootings is to bung a whole load more deadly weapons in schools up and down the country", "qUL9GMs7L7u-00005-00008141-00009230": "And his latest defense of this argument is possibly the most ridiculous yet. Here is what Donald Trump said to news reporters on the issue of gun rights recently:", "qUL9GMs7L7u-00006-00009230-00010035": "“Unless we have an offensive capability, it’s going to happen again and again. You can’t hire enough security guards", "qUL9GMs7L7u-00007-00010035-00010873": "These would be people that actually would want them. And it would be a small percentage, but it would be a lot of people", "qUL9GMs7L7u-00008-00010873-00011636": "And once you do this, you will have a situation where all of a sudden this horrible plague will stop", "qUL9GMs7L7u-00009-00011636-00012184": "I want my schools protected just like I want my banks protected''"}}, {"audio_id": "qYvAeiW7xRU", "text": {"qYvAeiW7xRU-00000-00000571-00001503": "There have been accusations across social media for years that Donald Trump was caught up in Jeffrey Epstein’s serial child rape scandal", "qYvAeiW7xRU-00001-00001503-00003120": "This notion gained new heft when it was reported months ago that it was Alexander Acosta who gave Epstein an absurdly lenient plea deal in order to make the whole thing go away, and Trump later rewarded Acosta by appointing him Secretary of Labor", "qYvAeiW7xRU-00002-00003120-00004395": "Now the whole thing just took an uglier turn.A federal judge has just ruled that Alexander Acosta and others broke the law with the deal they gave Jeffrey Epstein, according to the Miami Herald newspaper", "qYvAeiW7xRU-00003-00004395-00005416": "Why does this matter? The judge hasn’t decided yet what’s going to happen to Epstein, or whether justice will finally be served against him", "qYvAeiW7xRU-00004-00005416-00006511": "But this ruling alone will be enough to invite a full investigation into why Acosta broke the law in order to give Epstein this deal, and what his motivations were", "qYvAeiW7xRU-00005-00006511-00007305": "Alexander Acosta could end up having to cut a deal of his own in order to avoid facing punishment", "qYvAeiW7xRU-00006-00007305-00008185": "This would finally reveal why Epstein was allowed off the hook, and who was pressuring Acosta to help make the whole thing go away", "qYvAeiW7xRU-00007-00008185-00009240": "Once this thread is pulled, it’ll then lead to the question of why Trump decided to appoint Acosta of all people to his cabinet, and whether it was a form of repayment", "qYvAeiW7xRU-00008-00009240-00010358": "In other words, whatever Donald Trump’s connection is to Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes and/or Alexander Acosta’s illegal effort at making the Epstein scandal go away, it’s going to come out", "qYvAeiW7xRU-00009-00010358-00011317": "Today’s ruling by the judge has rung a bell that can’t be un-rung. We’ll see where this goes, but it’s shaping up to be Trump’s worst nightmare"}}, {"audio_id": "qaoLGxE5Sj4", "text": {"qaoLGxE5Sj4-00000-00000513-00001994": "House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) claimed on Tuesday that President Donald Trump told him that he would sign the Dream Act if Congress passes a bill to give amnesty to millions of so-called Dreamers", "qaoLGxE5Sj4-00001-00001994-00002916": "Speaking at the introduction ceremony for the Dream and Promise Act of 2019 (H.R. 6), Hoyer said he went with Sen", "qaoLGxE5Sj4-00002-00002916-00003822": "Dick Durbin (D-IL) to the White House “about a year ago” and sat to the left of Trump while Durbin sat to Trump’s right", "qaoLGxE5Sj4-00003-00003822-00004692": "“And Senator [Chuck] Grassley asked him a question. He said, ‘Mr. President, the Dreamers have not done anything wrong", "qaoLGxE5Sj4-00004-00004692-00005439": "The Dreamers have lived here almost all their lives. They know no other country. Mr", "qaoLGxE5Sj4-00005-00005439-00006646": "President, we need to make sure they can stay here,’” Hoyer said. “And Senator [Dianne] Feinstein, a Democrat, and Senator Grassley, a Republican, asked the same question", "qaoLGxE5Sj4-00006-00006646-00007840": "”.Hoyer then claimed that Trump said, “Yes, we need to take care of that. And then we’ll deal with comprehensive immigration reform, which we need to deal with", "qaoLGxE5Sj4-00007-00007840-00008757": "We need to fix a broken system.”.“And as we left, the president said, ‘You pass a bill and I will sign it,’” Hoyer recalled", "qaoLGxE5Sj4-00008-00008757-00009558": "“That’s what the president of the United States said… When he meets exceptional people, he thinks they ought to be here", "qaoLGxE5Sj4-00009-00009558-00011149": "”.Amnesty activists reportedly helped House Democrats craft the latest version of the Dream Act, which will give Dreamers who meet various requirements “conditional permanent resident status for 10 years” in addition to canceling removal proceedings", "qaoLGxE5Sj4-00010-00011149-00012492": ".In addition, the bill will allow Dreamers to access federal financial aid and even permit “eligible Dreamers deported from the United States by the Trump Administration to apply for relief from abroad", "qaoLGxE5Sj4-00011-00012492-00013560": "”.The bill will also give permanent protections to those with Temporary Protected Status (TPS) and those who have received Deferred Enforced Departure (DED)", "qaoLGxE5Sj4-00012-00013560-00015034": "House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said that she expects the Dream and Promise Act to pass the House with a “strong, bipartisan vote” and then said the House would try to pass an even more comprehensive amnesty bill after that", "qaoLGxE5Sj4-00013-00015034-00016157": ".“We look forward to a strong, bipartisan vote to pass this legislation and safeguard every child and family’s right to pursue their American dream,” Pelosi said", "qaoLGxE5Sj4-00014-00016157-00017230": "“Once we pass this bill, we will fight for a comprehensive fix to our broken immigration system which embraces the contribution of all of our newcomers", "qaoLGxE5Sj4-00015-00017230-00017907": "”.Pelosi added that “there should be nothing partisan or political in this legislation", "qaoLGxE5Sj4-00016-00017907-00018996": "Protecting Dreamers and TPS and DED Americans is about honoring and respecting the family that is at the heart of our faith and the heart of who we are as Americans", "qaoLGxE5Sj4-00017-00018996-00020736": "”.Pelosi said Democrats are acting on the Dream Act because in the 2018 midterm elections, “the American people elected a new Democratic House majority that will advance progress for all Americans and uphold our values of liberty, justice and opportunity", "qaoLGxE5Sj4-00018-00020736-00020836": "”"}}, {"audio_id": "qe-tkj-KX5Q", "text": {"qe-tkj-KX5Q-00000-00000571-00001660": "Truman Capote once said of his friend, the socialite Babe Paley, “Mrs P had only one fault: she was perfect; otherwise she was perfect", "qe-tkj-KX5Q-00001-00001660-00003287": "” Cheap borrowing or no, it’s tempting to say the same of Barack Obama. Paradoxically, I’ve noticed just about every third time someone mentions Obama these days they gratuitously remind us that, “he wasn’t perfect,” without specifying precisely why not", "qe-tkj-KX5Q-00002-00003287-00004241": "I suspect some say it is because they themselves cannot believe that someone that close to perfection was once President of the United States", "qe-tkj-KX5Q-00003-00004241-00005079": "Do I really need to state the obvious about how far from perfection the vicious hooligan currently usurping the Oval Office is?", "qe-tkj-KX5Q-00004-00005079-00006448": "And yet the myth so persistently continues that, when talking about Trump’s many crimes, “Obama wasn’t perfect, either,” or even, “Obama did it too,” gets gratuitously slipped in by the glassy-eyed Trump acolyte", "qe-tkj-KX5Q-00005-00006448-00007341": "This disgusting bit of deliberately shocking “evenhandedness” inevitably turns out to be nothing but good old-fashioned false equivalence", "qe-tkj-KX5Q-00006-00007341-00008269": "Take the separating of children from their families at the border. “Obama did it first,” has become the familiar mantra of the knee-jerk neocon", "qe-tkj-KX5Q-00007-00008269-00009520": "But did he? No, in fact, he did not. The confusion stems from the fact that, under Obama, parents at the border were sometimes charged, and convicted, of actual crimes", "qe-tkj-KX5Q-00008-00009520-00010719": "If the crime meant a custodial sentence then they were separated from their children accordingly, just as ordinary citizens serving time in prison are likewise separated from theirs", "qe-tkj-KX5Q-00009-00010719-00012025": "At other times, when there was evidence suggesting that the person appearing at the border was not, in fact, the parent of the child he or she was with, they were accordingly separated if that turned out to be the case", "qe-tkj-KX5Q-00010-00012025-00013955": ".Trump separated families as matter of policy. He did it to make the prospect of fleeing tyranny to a possible better life in the United States, by way of ordinary immigration or asylum seeking, so awful in consequence and so devastating to the family unit in prospect as to discourage future attempts", "qe-tkj-KX5Q-00011-00013955-00015350": "He stripped them of their Constitutionally guaranteed due process by declaring them guilty until proven innocent, and consequently transferred the burden of proof of their guilt from the state onto the shoulders of the refugees themselves", "qe-tkj-KX5Q-00012-00015350-00017116": ".So unpopular did this policy become that Trump actually backed away from it. Now, with his delusional belief in the Barr Summary, a newly emboldened Donald Trump once again plans to reinstate automatic and arbitrary separation of families at the border", "qe-tkj-KX5Q-00013-00017116-00018521": "Their crime? Being poor and desperate. Nobody quite loves kicking people when they are down like Donald Trump, and nobody quite loves cheering him on for doing so than the despicable craven losers who stand by him"}}, {"audio_id": "qf291VLYUfA", "text": {"qf291VLYUfA-00000-00000571-00001885": "On the heels of the New Yorker report titled, “The Making of the Fox News White House,” it appears the House Oversight Democrats have elected to formally request documents from former Fox News reporter Diana Falzone", "qf291VLYUfA-00001-00001885-00003003": "And despite the NDA that has prevented her from speaking out, she’s now prepared to tell all on the Stormy Daniels’ hush money scandal because the request “trumps” the NDA", "qf291VLYUfA-00002-00003003-00004554": "In an interview with MSNBC chief legal correspondent Ari Melber on “The Beat,” Nancy Erika Smith, the attorney who represents Falzone, said that the Oversight Committee Chair Elijah Cummings (D-MD) requested the documents in a letter", "qf291VLYUfA-00003-00004554-00005265": "“Nancy, what can you tell me about this request?” Melber asked. “Have you received it?”", "qf291VLYUfA-00004-00005265-00006500": "“I have received the request, Ari, and I want to add to what I said on air exclusively to you the other night, a valid government investigation also trumps an NDA,” Smith replied", "qf291VLYUfA-00005-00006500-00007911": "“And so do you view this — even before it ever gets to a subpoena level — this request itself as something that you can comply, with, regardless of Fox News asking for your client’s silence?” Melber asked", "qf291VLYUfA-00006-00007911-00008966": "“Yes,” she said. “This is an exception to the NDA, you can — nobody can enter an NDA that will interfere with a government investigation", "qf291VLYUfA-00007-00008966-00009066": "”"}}, {"audio_id": "qkPCwjpN4GI", "text": {"qkPCwjpN4GI-00000-00000062-00000800": "Фундаментальнае адрозненне паміж левымі і правымі датычыцца таго, як кожны ацэньвае дзяржаўную палітыку.", "qkPCwjpN4GI-00001-00000800-00001568": "Правыя пытаюцца: «Ці гэта будзе дабро?». Левыя, хутчэй за ўсё, задаюць іншае пытанне.", "qkPCwjpN4GI-00002-00001568-00002344": "Возьмем, напрыклад, мінімальную зарплату. У 1987 годзе New York Times выказалася супраць любой мінімальнай зарплаты.", "qkPCwjpN4GI-00003-00002344-00003324": "Назва галоўнага артыкула была вельмі выразнай – «Правільная мінімальная заработная плата: $ 0.00”.", "qkPCwjpN4GI-00004-00003324-00003914": "У артыкуле Таймс было напісана: «Сярод эканамістаў фактычна існуе кансэнсус пра тое,", "qkPCwjpN4GI-00005-00003914-00004457": "што мінімальная заработная плата — гэта ідэя, час якой прайшоў. Павышэнне мінімальнай заработнай платы прывядзе да таго,", "qkPCwjpN4GI-00006-00004457-00005130": "што працоўныя пакінуць рынак працы ...» Чаму аўтары New York Times выказваліся супраць мінімальнай заработнай платы?", "qkPCwjpN4GI-00007-00005130-00005698": "Таму што яны задавалі пытанне: «Ці гэта зробіць дабро?»", "qkPCwjpN4GI-00008-00005698-00006346": "Але праз 27 гадоў на галоўнай старонцы New York Times рэдактар напісаў супрацьлеглае таму,", "qkPCwjpN4GI-00009-00006346-00007178": "што было напісана ў 1987 годзе, і заклікаў да значнага павелічэння мінімальнай заработнай платы.", "qkPCwjpN4GI-00010-00007178-00007568": "За гэты час рэдакцыя Таймс стала значна больш левай,", "qkPCwjpN4GI-00011-00007568-00008596": "і цяпер заклапочана не пытаннем «ці гэта зробіць дабро?», але пытаннем «ці ад гэтага мы будзем адчуваць сябе добра?».", "qkPCwjpN4GI-00012-00008596-00009040": "І сапраўды адчуваеш сябе добра, падымаючы мінімальную зарплату бедным людзям.", "qkPCwjpN4GI-00013-00009040-00009674": "Другі прыклад – пазітыўная дыскрымінацыя. Шматлікія даследаванні – і, што больш важна, здаровы сэнс і факты –", "qkPCwjpN4GI-00014-00009674-00010280": "паказалі негатыўнае ўздзеянне, якое аказала пазітыўная расавая дыскрымінацыя на многіх цемнаскурых студэнтаў.", "qkPCwjpN4GI-00015-00010281-00010955": "Зніжэнне стандартаў прыёму ў каледжы для цемнаскурых абітурыентаў выклікала шэраг кепскіх наступстваў.", "qkPCwjpN4GI-00016-00010955-00011270": "Прывядзем адно.", "qkPCwjpN4GI-00017-00011270-00011848": "Усё больш цемнаскурых студэнтаў не могуць скончыць каледж. Чаму? Бо шмат хто быў прыняты ў каледж,", "qkPCwjpN4GI-00018-00011849-00012424": "які мае большыя акадэмічныя патрабаванні, чым яны могуць пацягнуць.", "qkPCwjpN4GI-00019-00012424-00012856": "Замест таго, каб наведваць школу, якая адпавядала б іх акадэмічным навыкам,", "qkPCwjpN4GI-00020-00012856-00013606": "школу, дзе яны маглі б мець поспех, яны часта правальваліся ў школе з большымі патрабаваннямі,", "qkPCwjpN4GI-00021-00013606-00014244": "якая зніжала стандарты, каб прыняць іх. Зразумела, што прыхільнікі пазітыўнай расавай дыскрымінацыі пытаюцца:", "qkPCwjpN4GI-00022-00014244-00014528": "«Ці мы адчуваем сябе добра?», замест таго, каб пытацца: «Ці мы робім дабро?».", "qkPCwjpN4GI-00023-00014528-00015156": "Трэці прыклад — пацыфізм і іншыя формы «барацьбы за мір».", "qkPCwjpN4GI-00024-00015156-00015634": "У многіх людзей левых поглядаў ёсць слабасць да пацыфізму – вера ў тое,", "qkPCwjpN4GI-00025-00015634-00016296": "што забойства іншага чалавека заўсёды няправільна. Не ўсе левыя – пацыфісты, але пацыфізм амаль заўсёды зыходзіць ад левых,", "qkPCwjpN4GI-00026-00016296-00016898": "і амаль усе левыя падтрымліваюць \"барацьбу за мір\", \"даследаванні праблем міру\"", "qkPCwjpN4GI-00027-00016898-00017302": "і ўсё астатняе, што ўтрымлівае слова \"мір\".", "qkPCwjpN4GI-00028-00017302-00017822": "Правыя, з іншага боку, хоць і прагнуць міру гэтак жа як і левыя,", "qkPCwjpN4GI-00029-00017823-00018523": "бо які ж кансерватыўны бацька хоча, каб яго дзіця загінула ў баі? –", "qkPCwjpN4GI-00030-00018523-00018953": "ведаюць, што пацыфізм і большасць «барацьбітоў за мір» павялічваюць шанцы на вайну, а не на мір.", "qkPCwjpN4GI-00031-00018953-00019560": "Нішто не гарантуе трыумфу зла так, як адмова ад барацьбы са злом.", "qkPCwjpN4GI-00032-00019560-00020195": "Таму вялікае зло ніколі не будзе пераможаным барацьбітамі за мір, але толькі большай ваеннай сілай.", "qkPCwjpN4GI-00033-00020195-00020846": "Перамога саюзнікаў у Другой сусветнай вайне – відавочны прыклад. І сёння радыкальныя ісламісты павінны быць забіты раней,", "qkPCwjpN4GI-00034-00020846-00021372": "чым яны абезгаловяць, зняволяць і закатуюць яшчэ больш нявінных людзей.", "qkPCwjpN4GI-00035-00021372-00021840": "Прыхільнікі пацыфізму, даследванняў міру, амерыканскага ядзернага раззбраення", "qkPCwjpN4GI-00036-00021840-00022600": "і вываду амерыканскіх вайскоўцаў з краін, у якіх яны знаходзяцца, не пытаюцца: «Ці гэта зробіць дабро?»", "qkPCwjpN4GI-00037-00022600-00022880": "Таму што ад гэтага амаль ніколі не будзе добра.", "qkPCwjpN4GI-00038-00022880-00023508": "Ці прынёс добры вынік поўны вывад амерыканскіх войскаў з Ірака? Вядома, не.", "qkPCwjpN4GI-00039-00023509-00024049": "Гэта прывяло да ўзнікнення Ісламскай Дзяржавы з масавымі забойствамі і катаваннямі.", "qkPCwjpN4GI-00040-00024049-00024737": "Ці вывад амерыканскіх войскаў з В'етнама быў на дабро? Не, гэта прывяло да гвалтоўнага захопу камуністамі Паўднёвага В'етнама.", "qkPCwjpN4GI-00041-00024738-00025451": "З іншага боку, з-за таго, што амерыканскія войскі не выходзілі з Паўднёвай Карэі, Японіі і Германіі,", "qkPCwjpN4GI-00042-00025451-00026083": "гэтыя тры краіны сталі аднымі з самых квітнеючых і свабодных краін свету.", "qkPCwjpN4GI-00043-00026083-00026760": "Такім чынам, чаму лібералы падтрымліваюць больш высокі мінімальны заробак, калі гэта не прынясе дабра работнікам?", "qkPCwjpN4GI-00044-00026760-00027502": "Таму што гэта дазваляе адчуваць сябе добра: мы, лібералы, у адрозненне ад кансерватараў, клапоцімся пра бедных.", "qkPCwjpN4GI-00045-00027502-00028030": "Чаму лібералы падтрымліваюць пазітыўную расавую дыскрымінацыю? Па той самай прычыне.", "qkPCwjpN4GI-00046-00028031-00028750": "Гэта дазваляе лібералам адчуваць сябе добра. Ім падаецца, што яны выпраўляюць памылкі расізму ў папярэднія часы.", "qkPCwjpN4GI-00047-00028750-00029308": "І тое самае можна сказаць пра левых змагароў за мір. Прыемна лічыць сябе змагром за мір.", "qkPCwjpN4GI-00048-00029308-00030122": "Усё гэта дапамагае патлумачыць, чаму маладыя людзі часцей за ўсё схіляюцца да лібералізму, чым кансерватызму.", "qkPCwjpN4GI-00049-00030122-00030589": "Яны не жылі дастаткова доўга, каб сапраўды ведаць, што насамрэч прыводзіць да дабра.", "qkPCwjpN4GI-00050-00030589-00030958": "Але яны ведаюць, ад чаго адчуваеш сябе добра.", "qkPCwjpN4GI-00051-00030958-00031520": "Паколькі грамадства схіляецца ўсё болей і болей у лібералізм, павялічваецца імкненне адчуваць сябе добра, а не рабіць дабро.", "qkPCwjpN4GI-00052-00031520-00032258": "Свет становіцца ўсё горш і горш,", "qkPCwjpN4GI-00053-00032258-00032739": "але многія людзі думаюць пра сябе ўсё лепш і лепш.", "qkPCwjpN4GI-00054-00032739-00033140": "Я Дэніс Прэгер."}}, {"audio_id": "qnP02P8kisg", "text": {"qnP02P8kisg-00000-00000571-00002415": "I don’t think there has been a day that goes by where Donald Trump hasn’t violated some form of human rights, whether it’s encouraging punitive actions towards black football players who exercise free speech during the National Anthem, or endangering the lives of Democratic members of Congress as well as members of the press", "qnP02P8kisg-00001-00002415-00003609": "Every day our country is suffering in some way because of our leaders. Now, it’s members of the transgender community who are being punished for who they are by banning them from the Military", "qnP02P8kisg-00002-00003609-00005061": "I served in the United States Army for over thirteen years. One of the first lessons I remember from Basic Combat Training is that in the Army it doesn’t matter if you are man, woman, white, black, etc", "qnP02P8kisg-00003-00005061-00006641": "; we are all American soldiers. So why can’t this be the same for the transgender community? Only around one percent of people in the United States join the military, and we are at a time we can’t afford to lose more people just because of hate", "qnP02P8kisg-00004-00006641-00007948": "Soldiers of any gender identity go through stress with various issues, and we shouldn’t let ignorance be the determining factor for separating trans people, as that does a disservice to them, and harms them in many ways", "qnP02P8kisg-00005-00007948-00009233": "Since I am not a transgender person myself, I can’t say how this would make one feel, but segregating them like they are a different species is evil, hateful, and again, a human rights violation", "qnP02P8kisg-00006-00009233-00010097": "Many have performed with exemplary merit during their time in service, and we need to do the right thing by keeping them in the military", "qnP02P8kisg-00007-00010097-00011215": "Leaders need to think about the aftermath of banning or kicking out transgender soldiers, because many had it in mind to make the military a twenty year career with no back up plan", "qnP02P8kisg-00008-00011215-00012111": "In some cases you can literally force human beings to live in the streets just because of hateful ignorance, and this is not right", "qnP02P8kisg-00009-00012111-00012885": "We need to get involved with Congress and demand a stop to this ban, because it will do more harm than good", "qnP02P8kisg-00010-00012885-00013407": "Lastly what will it take for this President to be held accountable?"}}, {"audio_id": "r7gyQ3WvSZQ", "text": {"r7gyQ3WvSZQ-00000-00000571-00001686": "The president left his club at Mar-a-Lago and traveled to his Trump International Golf Club on Saturday, but he did not tell reporters who his golfing partners were", "r7gyQ3WvSZQ-00001-00001686-00002449": ".The answer was revealed on Twitter hours later, as Kid Rock posted a picture with the president", "r7gyQ3WvSZQ-00002-00002449-00003355": "“Another great day on the links!” he wrote. “Thank you to POTUS for having me and to EVERYONE at Trump International for being so wonderful", "r7gyQ3WvSZQ-00003-00003355-00004019": "What a great man, so down to earth and so fun to be with!! KEEP AMERICA GREAT!!”", "r7gyQ3WvSZQ-00004-00004019-00004876": "Trump and Kid Rock spend time together occasionally as the famous rocker supported him for president in 2016", "r7gyQ3WvSZQ-00005-00004876-00006315": "In April 2017, Kid Rock joined rocker Ted Nugent and Sarah Palin for a visit to the White House, and in October 2018, he appeared with Trump for a signing ceremony for a music regulation bill"}}, {"audio_id": "rsVqsoWuh5M", "text": {"rsVqsoWuh5M-00000-00000571-00001360": "President Donald Trump has spent his entire life telling the world that he is the best deal maker ever to have lived", "rsVqsoWuh5M-00001-00001360-00002101": "He literally has his own reality TV show in which people compete for the privilege of making a deal with him", "rsVqsoWuh5M-00002-00002101-00004559": "He has a huge amount of money and power even before he was elected President of the United States and leader of the free world, all of which was thanks to the business empire he inherited from his father and the very low level business tricks he employed to keep on making money such as declaring bankruptcy several times and refusing to release his tax returns so that we cannot see how he has been fiddling his finances to dodge costs", "rsVqsoWuh5M-00003-00004559-00006440": "It should perhaps come as no surprise then that the greatest deal maker the world has ever seen is actually shockingly bad at managing his staff, to the point that the sheer volume of people who have resigned or been fired from his administration is genuinely incredible and almost unprecedented", "rsVqsoWuh5M-00004-00006440-00007652": "Considering that most of his senior White House staff is made up of members of his own family, it is quite amazing that the President manages to have such a high turnover rate among his staff", "rsVqsoWuh5M-00005-00007652-00009465": "The latest to go, of course, was Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen who, despite being the very person who presided over the placing of migrants children into cages away from their families, decided that Trump had become “unhinged” and that she could no longer work for him in good conscience", "rsVqsoWuh5M-00006-00009465-00010434": ".Nielsen is just the latest in a very, very long line of people who have turned their back on the Trump administration over the past two and a bit years", "rsVqsoWuh5M-00007-00010434-00011597": "All the way back at the beginning of 2016, Deputy White House Chief of Staff Katie Walsh resigned after just nine weeks in the job, which must be some kind of record", "rsVqsoWuh5M-00008-00011597-00012793": "One thing that stands out in the list of people who have quite the Trump administration is the amazing number who have one on to be indicted or associated with some extremely troubling allegations", "rsVqsoWuh5M-00009-00012793-00013906": "Take, for example, former White House National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, who fell foul of the investigation into Russian collusion led by Special Counsel Robert Mueller", "rsVqsoWuh5M-00010-00013906-00014684": "Or former adviser Steve Bannon, who has since become a sort of leader of the European far right movement", "rsVqsoWuh5M-00011-00014684-00015321": "And those are just the people who quit on this President; plenty still remain in his employ"}}, {"audio_id": "rvSsvNIg9kg", "text": {"rvSsvNIg9kg-00000-00000571-00002083": "President Trump’s incessant and effortless mendacity is a thing of legend at this point, but every so often he utters a lie so outrageous that it sends a shockwave through the blogosphere and leaves viewers stunned with the breathtaking preposterousness of it all", "rvSsvNIg9kg-00001-00002083-00003031": "Today, that lie was the idea that the daughter that he has an extremely uncomfortable obsession with has created “millions of jobs''", "rvSsvNIg9kg-00002-00003031-00004152": "On every conceivable level, the idea is absolutely ridiculous. Since becoming a “Senior Adviser to the President,” Ivanka Trump has accomplished…nothing", "rvSsvNIg9kg-00003-00004152-00006048": "Ever since abandoning the one major policy idea she wanted to push at the first roadblock (a paid family leave plan with Marco Rubio), Ivanka has remained in the shadows, plotting with her husband Jared Kushner and playing at palace intrigue power struggles against the rest of the jackals on the President’s staff", "rvSsvNIg9kg-00004-00006048-00008313": "It’s true that her “fashion company” did create many jobs in Chinese and Indonesian sweatshops, but seeing as the poor workers were treated to inhumane conditions and forced to work long hours for appallingly little pay, but since she’s shuttered her company over tanking sales, she can’t even claim that as part of her alleged incredible, record-breaking job creation streak", "rvSsvNIg9kg-00005-00008313-00009494": "It appears that the President may have been referring to his executive order last year that created the National Council for the American Worker, which is co-chaired by Ivanka Trump", "rvSsvNIg9kg-00006-00009494-00011317": "The NCAW asked over 200 companies to pledge to “committing to expand programs that educate, train, and reskill American workers from high-school age to near-retirement,” which in no way translates to actual jobs created, as pointed out by the fact-checkers at CNN", "rvSsvNIg9kg-00007-00011317-00012613": "No matter how you spin it, this is an insane assertion that it would be comical if it wasn’t such a regular occurrence in the administration of the biggest liar to ever darken the White House halls"}}, {"audio_id": "ryJeCqvesgc", "text": {"ryJeCqvesgc-00000-00000000-00001102": "Donald Trump has apparently discovered the joys of online translation apps and has posted what is probably the first tweet by an American president in the Persian language", "ryJeCqvesgc-00001-00001102-00002471": "Using the hashtag #40YearsofFailure, Trump denounced the corruption and cruelty of the Iranian regime that has brought suffering and misery to its people and has been instrumental in spreading terror around the globe", "ryJeCqvesgc-00002-00002471-00003860": "Throughout his candidacy and also his presidency, Trump has always been a vocal critic of the mullahs, opting for confrontation rather than cooperation when he unilaterally declared the Iran Nuclear Deal null and void", "ryJeCqvesgc-00003-00003860-00004558": "But is Trump, the businessman, as much of an anti-Iranian purist as Trump, the president?", "ryJeCqvesgc-00004-00004558-00005446": "A rather disturbing answer to that question may lie on the shores of the Caspian Sea, in the city of Baku, Azerbaijan", "ryJeCqvesgc-00005-00005446-00007366": "It’s a rather complicated and multi-layered story. The first layer is that in 2012, team Trump officially joined a project to build and develop what was meant to become the Trump International Hotel & Tower in a not-yet-developed part of Baku; a project that has all the markings of a money laundering operation", "ryJeCqvesgc-00006-00007366-00009469": "The Trump Organization’s partners on the Azerbaijani side were members of the Mammadov family – the family of a wealthy and powerful oligarch who was characterized by a U.S. diplomat as notoriously corrupt, even for Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan, in turn, is generally rated as one of the most corrupt nations in the world", "ryJeCqvesgc-00007-00009469-00011208": "An article in The New Yorker’s March 13, 2017 issue, entitled “Donald Trump’s Worst Deal”, carefully lays out facts that strongly suggest an involvement of the Trump family business in an operation that appears to be rife with corruption, bribery and money laundering", "ryJeCqvesgc-00008-00011208-00012561": "There are reports of large amounts of cash money changing hands on the site of the tower building, and team Trump has apparently failed to do its due diligence regarding the origin of the funds that went into the project", "ryJeCqvesgc-00009-00012561-00013925": "It seems very possible that the Trump Organization has violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977 which places a high degree of liability on U.S. businesses being active in foreign countries.", "ryJeCqvesgc-00010-00013925-00015385": "Given the information about the Mammadovs that is freely available to anyone who wants to take a closer look at this Azerbaijani family, one would have to be willfully blind to assume that doing business with any family member might be a good idea", "ryJeCqvesgc-00011-00015385-00016584": "That is, unless you’re looking for a business partner who is happy to accept your dirty money and launder it for you – perhaps because your country is subject to international sanctions", "ryJeCqvesgc-00012-00016584-00017626": "This is what takes us to the second layer of the story.The Mammadovs were not only doing business with the Trump Organization – they had other partners as well", "ryJeCqvesgc-00013-00017626-00018969": "In mid-2015, representatives of the Trump family business were informed by the U.S. State Department about the possibility of ties between their Azerbaijani partners and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps", "ryJeCqvesgc-00014-00018969-00020223": "Regardless of this information, the Trump Organization stayed on the Baku project for about another 18 months before severing ties in December 2016, shortly after the election", "ryJeCqvesgc-00015-00020223-00021450": "It is hard to imagine that the Special Counsel currently investigating Trump’s many foreign entanglements is unaware of the questions raised by the Trump Organization’s involvement in the Baku project", "ryJeCqvesgc-00016-00021450-00022258": "Perhaps Robert Mueller is saving the best for last in his thorough effort to end a presidency that should never have happened"}}, {"audio_id": "ryY3YiB0Fry", "text": {"ryY3YiB0Fry-00000-00000571-00001540": "Recently on Fox News, Chris Wallace interviewed far-right talk show host Rush Limbaugh to discuss the influence Limbaugh has over Donald Trump", "ryY3YiB0Fry-00001-00001540-00003183": "While Limbaugh denied that he has the ability to affect policy, Wallace commented on Trump’s own statements where he said, “Rush Limbaugh, I think he’s a great guy … He’s got one of the biggest audiences in the history of the world, I mean this guy is unbelievable''", "ryY3YiB0Fry-00002-00003183-00004293": "As if trying to confirm that he considers Limbaugh a top advisor, Trump tweeted Limbaugh verbatim a few hours later, “These guys, the investigators, ought to be in jail", "ryY3YiB0Fry-00003-00004293-00004978": "What they have done, working with the Obama intelligence agencies, is simply unprecedented", "ryY3YiB0Fry-00004-00004978-00005738": "This is one of the greatest political hoaxes ever perpetrated on the people of this Country, and Mueller is a coverup''", "ryY3YiB0Fry-00005-00005738-00007005": "During the interview, Wallace pushed Limbaugh on whether his recent statements promoting Trump’s power grab were indeed hypocritical, given his past statements criticizing President Obama", "ryY3YiB0Fry-00006-00007005-00008172": "“I want to ask you about the game you say we play in Washington,” Wallace said. “Because the fact is when President Obama took executive actions, you were outraged", "ryY3YiB0Fry-00007-00008172-00009395": "And as you would expect, I’ve got a couple of examples''.Wallace went on to point out that Limbaugh claimed Obama flushed the Constitution “down the toilet” when he created protections for DACA children", "ryY3YiB0Fry-00008-00009395-00010638": "Instead of accepting the criticism and admitting the hypocrisy, Limbaugh doubled down on his inherent racism by saying what Trump is doing is acceptable stating “You may look at it that way", "ryY3YiB0Fry-00009-00010638-00011871": "I don’t. I look at it, right and wrong. And what Obama was doing was furthering this existing problem and politicizing this using whatever executive powers he wanted to use''", "ryY3YiB0Fry-00010-00011871-00013851": "It is beyond clear that people like Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and others of that ilk will continue to spew racist and hateful rhetoric in an attempt to convince Donald Trump’s dwindling base that any hateful and illegal actions are somehow justified if it prevents people of color from gaining any human rights", "ryY3YiB0Fry-00011-00013851-00014804": "This despicable, yet unsurprising, narrative will only continue and get worse as long as hateful people like Trump are in power", "ryY3YiB0Fry-00012-00014804-00015463": "This is just another reason why the resistance to such hate is so necessary"}}, {"audio_id": "r-050BK79aI", "text": {"r-050BK79aI-00000-00000571-00001438": "Donald Trump is losing his mind today, over and above his usual whining, crying, and soiling his pants", "r-050BK79aI-00001-00001438-00002512": "There are multiple reasons for this. Obviously the first is that in his mind, the world revolves around him, and he doesn’t care about anyone who isn’t a white Christian", "r-050BK79aI-00002-00002512-00003300": "(Keep representing on that one, Trump. You’re doing a stellar job there. See *New Zealand*", "r-050BK79aI-00003-00003300-00004131": "The second and most glaring is that Robert Mueller is stalking Donald Trump like a boss, and Trump is feeling the heat", "r-050BK79aI-00004-00004131-00004745": "Congress doesn’t make much of an impression on Trump, as he doesn’t understand how it works", "r-050BK79aI-00005-00004745-00005319": "But words like “RICO” and “New York State Attorney” make a big impression on him", "r-050BK79aI-00006-00005319-00006176": "Those words are starting to creep inside his gold-electroplated false sense of security, and he’s freaking out", "r-050BK79aI-00007-00006176-00008049": "Yes, Trump lives in a bubble. But every now and then, he gets the real news. Rick Gates needing another 60 days before sentencing isn’t sitting well with The Donald, nor is the fact that Mueller really does not seem to be winding up what must be a very complicated and wide-reaching probe", "r-050BK79aI-00008-00008049-00008882": "The rumors of Mueller’s demise are exaggerated. And, I suspect, largely generated from inside the White House", "r-050BK79aI-00009-00008882-00009878": "The worst news of all: the House unanimously voted to make public the Mueller Report, and the Senate will also pass it by a veto-proof majority", "r-050BK79aI-00010-00009878-00010789": "So there’s no stifling it. The Donald’s bubble is getting ready to burst. Will he create another distraction? You bet", "r-050BK79aI-00011-00010789-00011596": "Will it work? No. We’ve been waiting too long and too patiently to see what Trump & Co", "r-050BK79aI-00012-00011596-00012544": "have been up to. There is no way to keep a lid on this.But will the Deplorables rise up to defend him? No", "r-050BK79aI-00013-00012544-00013158": "All we will have to do is run a marathon of Honey Boo Boo episodes, and we’re good"}}, {"audio_id": "rLbwvb_NXkI", "text": {"rLbwvb_NXkI-00000-00000000-00001306": "President Donald Trump's allies are mounting a stiff defense of his declaration of a national emergency amid increasing signs that the biggest threat to his border wall now comes not from Congress, but the courts", "rLbwvb_NXkI-00001-00001306-00002685": "One of the President's top policy advisers, Stephen Miller, on Sunday indicated that Trump would cast the first veto of his presidency to defend the highly contentious declaration if lawmakers seek to terminate it", "rLbwvb_NXkI-00002-00002685-00004398": "Democrats argued that Trump had launched an unconstitutional power grab because Congress refused to grant his request for billions of dollars in wall funding, and he decided to fund it anyway with money appropriated for other purposes including military construction projects", "rLbwvb_NXkI-00003-00004398-00005788": "And California's Attorney General Xavier Becerra promised to \"definitely and imminently\" launch a legal challenge to the emergency declaration, one of an expected flurry of suits against Trump's aggressive executive power move", "rLbwvb_NXkI-00004-00005788-00006815": "Trump's announcement, made during a rambling news conference Friday, came after he admitted defeat in his bid to get Congress to pay $5", "rLbwvb_NXkI-00005-00006815-00008539": "7 billion in wall funding, but avoided triggering a second government shutdown.During that event, the President appeared to undermine his own arguments in several ways by saying he \"didn't need\" to declare the emergency but wanted to go faster than Congress on border security", "rLbwvb_NXkI-00006-00008539-00010341": "Miller tried to clean up that remark in an appearance on \"Fox News Sunday.\".\"What the President was saying is, is that unlike past presidents, he could choose to ignore this crisis, choose to ignore this emergency as others have, but that's not what he's going to do,\" Miller said", "rLbwvb_NXkI-00007-00010341-00012230": "The senior adviser, one of the most hardline voices on immigration in the White House, also made clear that if Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi initiates an effort to wipe out the declaration, using a clause in the National Emergencies Act of 1976, Trump would respond", "rLbwvb_NXkI-00008-00012230-00012857": "\"He's going to protect his national emergency declaration, guaranteed,\" Miller said", "rLbwvb_NXkI-00009-00012857-00014421": "Once the House acts, Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell is unlikely to be able to prevent a termination effort from coming to the floor, and given skepticism among some Republicans, it's possible a majority could be assembled against Trump's gambit even in the Senate", "rLbwvb_NXkI-00010-00014421-00015923": "Republican Rep. Will Hurd, who represents a vast district along the southern border in Texas, said he would back a measure in the House that prevents Trump taking money away from military construction projects for the wall", "rLbwvb_NXkI-00011-00015923-00016712": "\"I'm always open to making sure that Congress takes back some of this power as a co-equal branch of government", "rLbwvb_NXkI-00012-00016712-00017472": "And I'm sure there's going to be a lot of conversations,\" Hurd said Sunday on \"Face the Nation\" on CBS", "rLbwvb_NXkI-00013-00017472-00018927": "But one of the President's closest congressional allies, Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, predicted that Trump's critics would not be able to put together a two-thirds majority in each chamber of Congress to override any presidential veto", "rLbwvb_NXkI-00014-00018927-00019695": "\"I think there are plenty of votes in the House to make sure that there is no override of the President's veto", "rLbwvb_NXkI-00015-00019695-00020343": "So it's going to be settled in court,\" Jordan said Sunday on ABC News \"This Week", "rLbwvb_NXkI-00016-00020343-00022098": "\".Republican Sen. Ron Johnson expressed concern about Trump's claim of authority to act on the wall — which some of his colleagues have warned could establish a precedent for a future Democratic president to take aggressive executive action on an issue like climate change or gun control", "rLbwvb_NXkI-00017-00022098-00023167": "\"I wish he wouldn't use it in this case,\" Johnson told NBC's \"Meet the Press\" Sunday and warned that a \"diminished\" Congress had ceded power to the presidency and the courts", "rLbwvb_NXkI-00018-00023167-00024557": "But the Wisconsin senator also appeared to offer himself an out from voting against Trump's assertion of power, suggesting there is a good chance that the GOP will, as is often the case, decline to constrain its president", "rLbwvb_NXkI-00019-00024557-00025183": "\"We're going to take a very careful look at what he's doing here in this instance,\" Johnson said", "rLbwvb_NXkI-00020-00025183-00025931": "\"But, again, I have to stress this president's been thwarted in his attempt to keep this nation safe and secure", "rLbwvb_NXkI-00021-00025931-00027067": "To secure our borders.\"Let's face it, if this president can claim a mandate on anything he ran on, it's exactly this issue: better barriers and securing our border", "rLbwvb_NXkI-00022-00027067-00028982": "\".While polls show a majority of Americans oppose the wall and don't support a declaration of national emergency to fund it, a CNN/SSRS survey released this month showed that 64% of Republicans do support a national emergency to get a wall and 72% of conservative GOPers back it", "rLbwvb_NXkI-00023-00028982-00030308": "Democrats sought to portray Trump's action as a gross abuse of power, arguing that it differs from emergency declarations by previous presidents and could reshape the relationship between the executive and Congress", "rLbwvb_NXkI-00024-00030308-00031973": "\"This is the first time a President has tried to declare an emergency when Congress explicitly rejected funding for the particular project that the president is advocating,\" House Democratic Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff said on CNN's \"State of the Union\" Sunday", "rLbwvb_NXkI-00025-00031973-00032790": "\"If we surrender the power of the purse, which is our most important power, there will be little check and no balance left", "rLbwvb_NXkI-00026-00032790-00033853": "It will not be a separation of powers anymore, just a separation of parties. So this is going to be a moment of truth for my GOP colleagues", "rLbwvb_NXkI-00027-00033853-00034692": "\".Another Democrat, Hawaii Sen. Brian Schatz, resorted to humor to mock Trump's use of executive power", "rLbwvb_NXkI-00028-00034692-00035802": "\"Day 3 of Emergency. Checking in from Oahu. Light rain, 66 degrees. Be careful out there,\" Schatz wrote on Twitter on Sunday", "rLbwvb_NXkI-00029-00035802-00037354": "On a more serious note, Becerra said that the California court challenge would use Trump's own remarks to undermine his declaration and would argue that he has created an artificial emergency that does not meet historic standards of such declarations", "rLbwvb_NXkI-00030-00037354-00038438": "\"We are prepared, we knew something like this might happen.  And with our sister state partners, we are ready to go,\" said Becerra on ABC's \"This Week", "rLbwvb_NXkI-00031-00038438-00039796": "\".\"There is enough evidence to show that this is not the 9/11 crisis that we faced back in 2001, it's not the Iran hostage crisis we faced in 1979,\" Becerra said", "rLbwvb_NXkI-00032-00039796-00040890": "\"It's not even the type of national emergency where we are trying to take action against a foreign enemy or to avoid some type of harm befalling Americans abroad", "rLbwvb_NXkI-00033-00040890-00042042": "\".Trump is unrepentant. An emergency declaration in many ways is a neat political device that allows him to move on from his defeats in Congress over the wall", "rLbwvb_NXkI-00034-00042042-00043043": "Even if his declaration is blocked by the courts, it will give him a crusade with which he can rally his base in his 2020 re-election fight", "rLbwvb_NXkI-00035-00043043-00044422": "In a sing-song refrain, Trump said Friday that he believed his effort would be quickly rejected in court but seemed to pin his hopes on an eventual favorable ruling in the Supreme Court with its new conservative majority", "rLbwvb_NXkI-00036-00044422-00045736": "Until then, Trump is insisting, without evidence, that he is getting on with fulfilling the campaign promise that lit a fire under his 2016 campaign — and which he seems to be betting could deliver him a second term", "rLbwvb_NXkI-00037-00045736-00046598": "\"BUILDING THE WALL!\" the President tweeted out of the blue on Saturday during his long weekend at his private Florida resort"}}, {"audio_id": "rMO1mBOPo9g", "text": {"rMO1mBOPo9g-00000-00000513-00002106": "President Donald Trump was just doing what he could to raise spirits when he signed Bibles at an Alabama church for survivors of a deadly tornado outbreak, many religious leaders say, though some are offended and others say he could have handled it differently", "rMO1mBOPo9g-00001-00002106-00002861": "Hershael York, dean of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary School of Theology in Louisville, Ky", "rMO1mBOPo9g-00002-00002861-00003961": ", said he didn't have a problem with Trump signing Bibles, like former presidents have, because he was asked and because it was important to the people who were asking", "rMO1mBOPo9g-00003-00003961-00005013": "\"Though we don't have a national faith, there is faith in our nation, and so it's not at all surprising that people would have politicians sign their Bibles,\" he said", "rMO1mBOPo9g-00004-00005013-00005651": "\"Those Bibles are meaningful to them and apparently these politicians are, too.\"", "rMO1mBOPo9g-00005-00005651-00007221": "But the Rev. Donnie Anderson, executive minister of the Rhode Island State Council of Churches, said she was offended by the way Trump scrawled his signature Friday as he autographed Bibles and other things, including hats, and posed for photos", "rMO1mBOPo9g-00006-00007221-00008075": "She viewed it, she said, as a \"calculated political move\" by the Republican president to court his evangelical voting base", "rMO1mBOPo9g-00007-00008075-00008981": "Presidents have a long history of signing Bibles, though earlier presidents typically signed them as gifts to send with a spiritual message", "rMO1mBOPo9g-00008-00008981-00009692": "President Ronald Reagan signed a Bible that was sent secretly to Iranian officials in 1986", "rMO1mBOPo9g-00009-00009692-00010569": "President Franklin Roosevelt signed the family Bible his attorney general used to take the oath of office in 1939", "rMO1mBOPo9g-00010-00010569-00011507": "It would have been different, Anderson said, if Trump had signed a Bible out of the limelight for someone with whom he had a close connection", "rMO1mBOPo9g-00011-00011507-00012359": "\"For me, the Bible is a very important part of my faith, and I don't think it should be used as a political ploy,\" she said", "rMO1mBOPo9g-00012-00012359-00013252": "\"I saw it being used just as something out there to symbolize his support for the evangelical community, and it shouldn't be used in that way", "rMO1mBOPo9g-00013-00013252-00014448": "People should have more respect for Scripture.\".York said that he, personally, would not ask a politician to sign a Bible, but that he has been asked to sign Bibles after he preaches", "rMO1mBOPo9g-00014-00014448-00015381": "It feels awkward, he said, but he doesn't refuse.\"If it's meaningful to them to have signatures in their Bible, I'm willing to do that,\" he said", "rMO1mBOPo9g-00015-00015381-00016117": "Trump visited Alabama on Friday to survey the devastation and pay respects to tornado victims", "rMO1mBOPo9g-00016-00016117-00017439": "The tornado carved a path of destruction nearly a mile wide, killing 23 people, including four children and a couple in their 80s, with 10 victims belonging to a single extended family", "rMO1mBOPo9g-00017-00017439-00018844": "At the Providence Baptist Church in Smiths Station, Ala., the Rev. Rusty Sowell said, the president's visit was uplifting and will help bring attention to a community that will need a long time to recover", "rMO1mBOPo9g-00018-00018844-00019881": "Before leaving the church, Trump posed for a photograph with a fifth-grade volunteer and signed the child's Bible, said Ada Ingram, a local volunteer", "rMO1mBOPo9g-00019-00019881-00020871": "The president also signed her sister's Bible, Ingram said. In photos from the visit, Trump is shown signing the cover of a Bible", "rMO1mBOPo9g-00020-00020871-00021467": "Trump should have at least signed inside in a less ostentatious way, said the Rev", "rMO1mBOPo9g-00021-00021467-00022632": "Dr. Kevin Cassiday-Maloney.\"It just felt like hubris,\" said Cassiday-Maloney, pastor at the First Congregational United Church of Christ in Fargo, North Dakota", "rMO1mBOPo9g-00022-00022632-00023384": "\"It almost felt like a desecration of the holy book to put his signature on the front writ large, literally", "rMO1mBOPo9g-00023-00023384-00024547": "\".He doesn't think politicians should sign Bibles, he said, because it could be seen as a blurring of church and state and an endorsement of Christianity over other religions", "rMO1mBOPo9g-00024-00024547-00025767": "It would have been out of line if Trump had brought Bibles and given them out, but that wasn't the case, said James Coffin, executive director of the Interfaith Council of Central Florida", "rMO1mBOPo9g-00025-00025767-00026420": "\"Too much is being made out of something that doesn't deserve that kind of attention,\" he said", "rMO1mBOPo9g-00026-00026420-00027347": "Bill Leonard, the founding dean and professor of divinity emeritus at the Wake Forest University School of Divinity in Winston-Salem, N", "rMO1mBOPo9g-00027-00027347-00028619": "C., woke up to Facebook posts Saturday morning by former students who were upset about Trump signing the Bibles because they don't view him as an appropriate example of spiritual guidance", "rMO1mBOPo9g-00028-00028619-00029541": "But, Leonard said, it's important to remember that signing Bibles is an old tradition, particularly in southern churches", "rMO1mBOPo9g-00029-00029541-00030215": "Leonard said he would have viewed it as more problematic if the signings were done at a political rally", "rMO1mBOPo9g-00030-00030215-00031563": "He doesn't see how Trump could have refused at the church.\"It would've been worse if he had said no because it would've seemed unkind, and this was at least one way he could show his concern along with his visit,\" he said", "rMO1mBOPo9g-00031-00031563-00032443": "\"In this setting, where tragedy has occurred and where he comes for this brief visit, we need to have some grace about that for these folks", "rMO1mBOPo9g-00032-00032443-00032543": "\""}}, {"audio_id": "rSMSfh0qwF0", "text": {"rSMSfh0qwF0-00000-00000571-00002822": "It’s been in the works for years under the cloak of intersectionality -- in truth little more than an effort to ingather voting blocs of illegal immigrants, Palestinian supporters, socialists, blacks locked in the ghettoes of their minds, sexual outliers – LGBT (and \"whatever other gender” now included), and malcontent women delighted that even post-birth abortion will be legal", "rSMSfh0qwF0-00001-00002822-00005881": ".The three harpies -- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, and Rashida Tlaib -- have stripped the veil from the Democratic tango dancers and presented House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with a dilemma: Who to bow to -- the Congressional Black Caucus without whose votes she would not have her position, or the weak-spined moderates and Jewish House members who might mouth objections but still will continue to vote with the party? From the standpoint of her own interests she chose wisely by endorsing an outrageous resolution", "rSMSfh0qwF0-00002-00005881-00006762": "I believe and hope that she chose poorly from the standpoint of American voters.Here’s the kitchen-sink resolution", "rSMSfh0qwF0-00003-00006762-00007846": "You won’t see Omar mentioned in it. The Democrats instead state a full-blown disagreement with hate of every kind from the Japanese internment to Dreyfus and so on", "rSMSfh0qwF0-00004-00007846-00008789": "Everything except broccoli and kale.Far too many reform and conservative congregations are partners in this betrayal", "rSMSfh0qwF0-00005-00008789-00010178": "My own former synagogue, which professes love of Israel and Judaism, held a cry- in when Trump was elected, and since the election sports banners welcoming refugees, the latest banner reading “Love your neighbor", "rSMSfh0qwF0-00006-00010178-00011100": "Stand Against Hate,” equating an effort to assure immigrants come here legally, have skills we can use and share our values, with hate", "rSMSfh0qwF0-00007-00011100-00011858": "When, in fact, bringing in culturally incompatible immigrants like Omar, is bringing in hate", "rSMSfh0qwF0-00008-00011858-00013707": "They’re not alone. There’s the Israel-hating rabbis of J-Street, HIAS, once a religiously supported immigrant aid society which under Obama turned into a cash-rich government railroad that advocates for culturally incompatible immigrants and parks them in poorer conservative communities to alter the voting", "rSMSfh0qwF0-00009-00013707-00014870": "At the same time that HIAS is filling its coffers, its work further impoverishes the overtaxed welfare, legal, and educational resources of those places", "rSMSfh0qwF0-00010-00014870-00016442": "And there’s the Jonathan Greenblatt-led ADL, now an even stronger arm of the Democratic Party, which can be counted upon to downplay or shove anti-Semitism under the carpet, though fighting such discrimination was once its very purpose"}}, {"audio_id": "rmpCzu5yBl8", "text": {"rmpCzu5yBl8-00000-00000571-00001519": "President Donald Trump responded to Democrat demands for a glut of document requests announced by the House Judiciary Committee on Monday", "rmpCzu5yBl8-00001-00001519-00003013": "Trump was asked by White House reporters if he planned to cooperate with Democrat requests of documents from 81 different people and organizations connected with his administration and his businesses, including family members Donald Trump Jr", "rmpCzu5yBl8-00002-00003013-00004361": ", Eric Trump, and his son-in-law Jared Kushner.“I cooperate all the time with everybody,” Trump replied, during an event with North Dakota football players at the White House celebrating their championship", "rmpCzu5yBl8-00003-00004361-00005382": "“You know the beautiful thing? No collusion. It’s all a hoax''.Some of the college players in the audience laughed as Trump continued speaking", "rmpCzu5yBl8-00004-00005382-00006678": "“You’re going to learn about that as you grow older, it’s a political hoax, there’s no collusion, there’s no anything,” he said in front of a huge spread of fast food sandwiches brought to the White House for the occasion", "rmpCzu5yBl8-00005-00006678-00007569": "“Folks go and eat up!”.Earlier in the week, Trump expressed frustration at the mounting investigations launched by Democrats", "rmpCzu5yBl8-00006-00007569-00008316": "“Presidential Harassment by ‘crazed’ Democrats at the highest level in the history of our Country,” he wrote on Twitter", "rmpCzu5yBl8-00007-00008316-00009021": "“Likewise, the most vicious and corrupt Mainstream Media that any president has ever had to endure''"}}, {"audio_id": "soFTXbc6aFk", "text": {"soFTXbc6aFk-00000-00000513-00002501": "Three powerful House Democratic chairmen sent letters on Monday to the White House and the State Department requesting detailed information on communications between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, the latest effort by House Democrats to investigate the administration and its relationship to Russia", "soFTXbc6aFk-00001-00002501-00004593": "Democratic Reps. Adam Schiff of California, the chair of the House Intelligence Committee, Eliot Engel of New York, the chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and Elijah Cummings of Maryland, the chair of the House Oversight Committee, signed the letters, which were sent to acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo", "soFTXbc6aFk-00002-00004593-00006307": "The letters ask for the White House and the State Department to provide documents related to contacts between the US President and Putin as well as for interviews with personnel at the White House, the Executive Office of the President and the State Department with knowledge of those contacts", "soFTXbc6aFk-00003-00006307-00008652": "The Democratic chairmen outline a wide range of topics related to communication between Trump and Putin that they are seeking information on, including whether the President or anyone acting on his behalf engaged in any attempt to \"conceal,\" \"obscure\" or \"misrepresent\" the nature of his contacts with Putin as well as if any of his communications with the Russian president have had an impact on foreign policy", "soFTXbc6aFk-00004-00008652-00010896": "They write that they are seeking information on \"the substance of President Trump's communications with President Putin, including any discussion between the two individuals -- during in-person encounters and phone calls -- on matters that are within the committees' jurisdiction\" and \"whether any such communications have provided a basis for reconsideration, modification, or implementation of foreign policy", "soFTXbc6aFk-00005-00010896-00013046": "\".The chairmen write that they also want to know whether the President \"or any person(s) acting at his behest or with his knowledge sought to conceal, obscure, or otherwise misrepresent the substance of those communications to other federal officials, departments, or agencies, and/or to shield President Trump from scrutiny by Congress or law enforcement", "soFTXbc6aFk-00006-00013046-00014893": "\".CNN has reached out to the White House for comment.The State Department confirmed through a spokesperson that it received the letters from the chairmen and said that while it \"will work cooperatively with the committees\" the department does not comment publicly on its \"engagement with oversight committees", "soFTXbc6aFk-00007-00014893-00016241": "\".The wide-reaching request comes on the same day that Democratic House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler announced a sweeping investigation into the President's campaign, businesses, transition and administration", "soFTXbc6aFk-00008-00016241-00017714": "As part of that investigation, the Judiciary committee on Monday sent letters to 81 people and entities -- including the White House, the Justice Department, senior campaign officials, Trump Organization officials and the President's sons", "soFTXbc6aFk-00009-00017714-00018811": "The requests also come as special counsel Robert Mueller is soon expected to conclude his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election", "soFTXbc6aFk-00010-00018811-00019796": "Schiff, Engel and Cummings say they are giving the White House and State Department a deadline of March 15 to comply with their requests", "soFTXbc6aFk-00011-00019796-00020548": "The letter asks for documents related to in-person meetings as well as phone calls between the President and Putin", "soFTXbc6aFk-00012-00020548-00022688": "It also requests that the White House and State Department make individuals who have knowledge of those communications available for interviews, including \"linguists, translators, or interpreters who participated in attended, or in any way listened in on President Trump's in-person meetings with Putin, as well as President Trump's phone calls with President Putin", "soFTXbc6aFk-00013-00022688-00023393": "\".The letters reference -- among other events -- the 2018 summit between Trump and Putin in Helsinki", "soFTXbc6aFk-00014-00023393-00024986": "At the conclusion of the summit, the President sent shockwaves through Washington when he sided with Putin over US intelligence agencies by declining to endorse the US government's own assessment that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election", "soFTXbc6aFk-00015-00024986-00025898": "Standing next to Putin at a press conference, Trump said that the Russian President was \"extremely strong and powerful in his denial", "soFTXbc6aFk-00016-00025898-00026909": "\".The press conference during which Trump defended Putin came after he spent about two hours in a room alone with Putin, save for a pair of interpreters", "soFTXbc6aFk-00017-00026909-00027732": "What exactly the President and Putin discussed at that summit has long been the subject of questions from congressional Democrats", "soFTXbc6aFk-00018-00027732-00029045": "A few days after the summit, Trump's own top intelligence official, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, said that he himself did not know what had transpired during the meeting between the President and the Russian leader", "soFTXbc6aFk-00019-00029045-00030683": "The letters sent on Monday by Schiff, Engel and Cummings note that they also sent a letter to the White House last month asking for what they describe as \"basic information about whether the President in fact destroyed records relating to his conversations with President Putin", "soFTXbc6aFk-00020-00030683-00031739": "\".The chairmen write that \"the White House failed to provide any response to our inquiry,\" and say, \"As a result, we are now expanding our investigation", "soFTXbc6aFk-00021-00031739-00031839": "\""}}, {"audio_id": "sruiNrVG--c", "text": {"sruiNrVG--c-00000-00000513-00001944": "President Trump on Friday claimed that he was “misinterpreted” when he said he took Kim Jong Un “at his word” when the dictator denied knowing what happened to US college student Otto Warmbier’s while he was in a North Korean prison", "sruiNrVG--c-00001-00001944-00002691": "“I never like being misinterpreted, but especially when it comes to Otto Warmbier and his great family", "sruiNrVG--c-00002-00002691-00004091": "Remember, I got Otto out along with three others. The previous Administration did nothing, and he was taken on their watch,” Trump wrote on Twitter after increasing criticism of his acceptance of Kim’s denial", "sruiNrVG--c-00003-00004091-00005029": "“Of course I hold North Korea responsible for Otto’s mistreatment and death. Most important, Otto Warmbier will not have died in vain", "sruiNrVG--c-00004-00005029-00005928": "Otto and his family have become a tremendous symbol of strong passion and strength, which will last for many years into the future", "sruiNrVG--c-00005-00005928-00006641": "I love Otto and think of him often!” he continued, without mentioning Kim or his denial", "sruiNrVG--c-00006-00006641-00007451": "Earlier Friday, Warmbier’s parents directly blamed Kim for their son’s death and blasted his “evil regime", "sruiNrVG--c-00007-00007451-00009023": "”.“We have been respectful during this summit process. Now we must speak out. Kim and his evil regime are responsible for the death of our son Otto,” Fred and Cindy Warmbier said in a scathing statement that rebuked Trump’s assertion", "sruiNrVG--c-00008-00009023-00010413": "“Kim and his evil regime are responsible for unimaginable cruelty and inhumanity. No excuses or lavish praise can change that,” added the couple, who were Trump’s guests at his 2018 State of the Union address", "sruiNrVG--c-00009-00010413-00011727": "The president drew criticism when he praised Kim’s leadership and said he believed the despot’s claims that he was unaware of how the 22-year-old college student from Ohio had been treated in a North Korean prison", "sruiNrVG--c-00010-00011727-00013153": "“Some really bad things happened to Otto — some really, really bad things. But he tells me that he didn’t know about it, and I will take him at his word,” Trump said during a press conference after his summit with Kim broke down", "sruiNrVG--c-00011-00013153-00013997": "“I really don’t think it was in his interest at all,” he said, adding that Kim felt “very badly” about the young man’s death"}}, {"audio_id": "sE0yl4KbAGQ", "text": {"sE0yl4KbAGQ-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", "sE0yl4KbAGQ-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", "sE0yl4KbAGQ-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", "sE0yl4KbAGQ-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", "sE0yl4KbAGQ-00004-00006952-00007842": "Trump hopes to use subsequent executive power from the declaration to procure billions in funding for his southern border wall", "sE0yl4KbAGQ-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", "sE0yl4KbAGQ-00006-00008968-00009841": "Although the Senate remains in the hands of the GOP and even Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky", "sE0yl4KbAGQ-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", "sE0yl4KbAGQ-00008-00011217-00012411": "Those to express opposition to that level have included Republican Sens. Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), Susan Collins (Maine), Rand Paul (Ky", "sE0yl4KbAGQ-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", "sE0yl4KbAGQ-00010-00013430-00014263": "Trump personally lobbied for Republican Senators to support his national emergency declaration on Twitter this Wednesday, posting:", "sE0yl4KbAGQ-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", "sE0yl4KbAGQ-00012-00015360-00016097": "We have a MAJOR NATIONAL EMERGENCY at our Border and the People of our Country know it very well!’", "sE0yl4KbAGQ-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", "sE0yl4KbAGQ-00014-00017134-00017933": "Neither Congressional chamber have a two-thirds, veto-proof majority in favor of the cancellation", "sE0yl4KbAGQ-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", "sE0yl4KbAGQ-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", "sE0yl4KbAGQ-00017-00021958-00022917": "Still, Trump remains undeterred. In his recent budget proposal for the 2020 fiscal year, he asked for a whopping $8", "sE0yl4KbAGQ-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": "sG3cssqlxsg", "text": {"sG3cssqlxsg-00000-00000571-00001877": "President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign has implemented a variety of precedent-setting rigorous ethics standards for a presidential campaign’s staff and consultants, Breitbart News has learned exclusively", "sG3cssqlxsg-00001-00001877-00004001": "Most importantly, the employee manual that all campaign employees, vendors, volunteers, and consultants agree to before signing on to officially help Trump’s re-election chances bars them from any financial benefits from outside vendors, lobbyists, or Political Action Committees (PACs) without the approval of the campaign treasurer", "sG3cssqlxsg-00002-00004001-00005416": ".The campaign confirmed the new standards to Breitbart News in a number of exclusive statements and by providing an excerpt from the Trump campaign staff employee manual that has not been previously publicly reported", "sG3cssqlxsg-00003-00005416-00007903": "They are part of a larger effort by President Trump to “drain the swamp,” his campaign’s national spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany said, and fit with the president’s ethics pledge executive order for executive branch employees that he signed at the beginning of the administration—and with the fact that the president does not take a salary from the taxpayers but, instead, donates it back to a different part of the government every quarter", "sG3cssqlxsg-00004-00007903-00008608": "“As a candidate, Donald Trump promised to drain the swamp,” McEnany told Breitbart News", "sG3cssqlxsg-00005-00008608-00009481": "“As president, he has done just that, setting new precedents for how both government and presidential campaigns should operate", "sG3cssqlxsg-00006-00009481-00011155": "”. .The employee manual excerpt, provided to Breitbart News exclusively this week, specifically bars campaign staff, consultants, vendors, and volunteers from receiving payment or financial benefit from lobbyists, PACs, and outside vendors", "sG3cssqlxsg-00007-00011155-00012832": "“No Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. employee, consultant, staff, or volunteer shall accept payment or other financial benefit from a vendor, lobbyist, or Political Action Committee without approval from the Campaign Treasurer,” the manual reads", "sG3cssqlxsg-00008-00012832-00014713": "“Without limiting this policy, no employee, consultant, staff, or volunteer shall accept compensation of any kind, whether money, fees, commissions, credits, or gifts, for the purpose of influencing the award of a contract or other business relationship with the Campaign", "sG3cssqlxsg-00009-00014713-00015972": "”.Perhaps the biggest-name staffer who has led the way on these standards is Trump’s re-election campaign manager Brad Parscale—who made the choice to forgo getting a cut of digital ad buys", "sG3cssqlxsg-00010-00015972-00017158": "Parscale decided he would not be taking a percentage of the ad buys, and to facilitate that decision, the campaign created American Made Media Consultants (AMMC)", "sG3cssqlxsg-00011-00017158-00019297": "AMMC handles digital media buys for the Trump campaign—the Trump campaign has already made a significant amount of media buys through it, and next week’s Federal Election Commission (FEC) reports are likely to show more—but Parscale has no financial stake in it whatsoever and receives no kickback whenever the campaign does so", "sG3cssqlxsg-00012-00019297-00020841": "AMMC has an independent managing board. .Notably, Parscale would forgo taking a cut from the ad buys because he comes from the digital world—the first-ever presidential campaign manager from a digital marketing background", "sG3cssqlxsg-00013-00020841-00021959": "“As President Trump’s campaign manager, I wanted to set a high mark, and the best start was to remove myself from accepting a percentage,” Parscale told Breitbart News", "sG3cssqlxsg-00014-00021959-00023001": "“As the first digital media campaign manager, I set a precedent. I don’t do this for a percentage; I do this for my country and for President Trump", "sG3cssqlxsg-00015-00023001-00024224": "”.Barring the financial benefits and payments to campaign staffers is not the only new standard that the Trump campaign has implemented per the employee manual excerpts provided to Breitbart News", "sG3cssqlxsg-00016-00024224-00025352": "The campaign also requires disclosure of conflicts of interest and requires staff to push for maximum value of each dollar when making decisions with campaign cash", "sG3cssqlxsg-00017-00025352-00026695": "“In addition, all Campaign employees, consultants, staff, and volunteers shall disclose any conflict of interest that may exist with the Campaign,” the Trump employee manual reads, continuing:", "sG3cssqlxsg-00018-00026695-00028735": "Other than a consulting company with which the Campaign contracts explicitly for the services of a principal in that company, Campaign employees, consultants, staff, and volunteers agree to disclose any financial interest they may have in a transaction between the Campaign and a vendor prior to requesting a transaction with that vendor", "sG3cssqlxsg-00019-00028735-00030535": "All Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. Campaign employees, consultants, staff, and volunteers are expected to strive to obtain the maximum value for each dollar of expenditure and decline personal gifts or gratuities which might affect their decision-making process", "sG3cssqlxsg-00020-00030535-00031546": "All are expected to conduct business with potential and current suppliers in an atmosphere of good faith and devoid of intentional misrepresentation", "sG3cssqlxsg-00021-00031546-00033157": "Michael Glassner, the chief operating officer (COO) of the Trump re-election campaign and a veteran of six different presidential campaigns, added in a statement that he believes these new ethics standards are the “highest possible” that a campaign has implemented", "sG3cssqlxsg-00022-00033157-00034278": "“Having worked on six presidential campaigns, I can attest to the fact that the Trump campaign has the highest possible ethical standards,” Glassner told Breitbart News", "sG3cssqlxsg-00023-00034278-00035190": ".These new ethics standards for the Trump campaign come as part of a bigger push by the president and his team for a cleaner Washington, D", "sG3cssqlxsg-00024-00035190-00036874": "C. At the beginning of his presidency, Trump penned an executive order requiring all executive branch appointees to sign an ethics pledge banning lobbying for five years after leaving the federal government—and banning appointees from ever lobbying for a foreign government", "sG3cssqlxsg-00025-00036874-00038852": "The ethics pledge that federal appointees must sign, thanks to Trump’s executive order, also includes a ban on accepting gifts from registered lobbyists and lobbying organizations during the appointees’ time in government and stipulates that hiring decisions and other decisions must be made on merit, not for other reasons", "sG3cssqlxsg-00026-00038852-00039910": "In addition to the ethics pledge for federal employees and the Trump campaign ethics guidelines, President Trump does not take a salary from the taxpayers", "sG3cssqlxsg-00027-00039910-00040552": "According to Reuters, he is only the third president in history not to take a salary", "sG3cssqlxsg-00028-00040552-00041495": "Presidents John F. Kennedy and Herbert Hoover, who were both, like Trump, independently wealthy, also refused salaries", "sG3cssqlxsg-00029-00041495-00042932": "While Trump takes the $1 nominal salary he is legally required to take, he donates the rest of the presidential $400,000 annual salary in quarterly installments back to the Treasury to fund different departments and agencies"}}, {"audio_id": "sIZy8CS-NGA", "text": {"sIZy8CS-NGA-00000-00000571-00001650": "On Tuesday, the Washington Post reported that North Korea has begun rebuilding a satellite launch site, either right before the summit that “President” Donald J", "sIZy8CS-NGA-00001-00001650-00002608": "Trump attended, or just after. There was a photo that was an overhead satellite image showing such developments in the story", "sIZy8CS-NGA-00002-00002608-00003736": "However, Trump, who has told his Cult 45 followers not to believe what they see or hear, but trust him only, has now stated that he does not believe such reports", "sIZy8CS-NGA-00003-00003736-00005126": "According to Kaitlin Collins on Twitter, citing pool reporter Peter Baker, we have a president who is once again denying that one of his BDFF (Best Dictator Friends Forever) is doing something that is wrong", "sIZy8CS-NGA-00004-00005126-00006310": "Asked about the report of North Korea rebuilding missile test facilities, President Trump said he would “be very disappointed if that is happening,” but added, “It’s a very early report", "sIZy8CS-NGA-00005-00006310-00007057": "” Per pooler.Trump: “I would be very disappointed in Chairman Kim but I don’t think I will be''", "sIZy8CS-NGA-00006-00007057-00008499": "Why Trump refers to it as “a very early report” is beyond comprehension. Not only is the Washington Post reporting from sources who have reviewed the activities, but they literally have a satellite photo showing there has been activity", "sIZy8CS-NGA-00007-00008499-00010194": "For example, Jeffrey Lewis, a scholar quoted in the referenced article, noted that some imagery that was “low-resolution imagery” showed some activity in the period between February 18 and February 22, but that the satellite images make clear what was happening", "sIZy8CS-NGA-00008-00010194-00010951": "Lewis stated, “It’s not great news. They may have known the summit was not going to go well''", "sIZy8CS-NGA-00009-00010951-00012931": "Again, we have Donald Trump arguing that what we see is not what is happening, presumably because his BDFF Kim Jong-Un told him so and what reason would he have to lie? We continue to be under the leadership of a dangerous man who apparently will not believe calamity is about to hit until too late to address"}}, {"audio_id": "sKoGiLXfjiU", "text": {"sKoGiLXfjiU-00000-00000571-00002266": "During a Sunday interview on New York AM 970 radio’s “The Cats Roundtable,” former White House chief of staff Reince Priebus weighed in on the 2020 presidential election, saying President Donald Trump is “actually in very good shape right now", "sKoGiLXfjiU-00001-00002266-00003760": "”.Priebus predicted that Democrats are going to hand over the election to Trump “on a silver platter” because the major candidates will “have a hard time” selling socialist policies in states like Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania", "sKoGiLXfjiU-00002-00003760-00004387": ".“I think Joe Biden will be a tough candidate, in spite of these recent troubles he’s having", "sKoGiLXfjiU-00003-00004387-00005134": "I think he’d be a very tough candidate for the Democrats. … Tim Ryan I think is interesting", "sKoGiLXfjiU-00004-00005134-00006809": "But other than that, I think running against Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, I think some of those folks that are out there right now … these guys are going to have a hard time in Wisconsin, and Michigan and Pennsylvania,” Priebus told host John Catsimatidis", "sKoGiLXfjiU-00005-00006809-00007561": "“I don’t see that resonating on top of this universal healthcare talk and talk about socialism and free everything", "sKoGiLXfjiU-00006-00007561-00008308": "This isn’t going to work for them. They’re really going to hand the silver platter over to the Republicans", "sKoGiLXfjiU-00007-00008308-00008658": "And for that I’m grateful.”"}}, {"audio_id": "spgA3mgMB7u", "text": {"spgA3mgMB7u-00000-00000571-00001448": "Donald Trump has been on the attack against late Senator John McCain for the past week and on Wednesday it wasn’t any different", "spgA3mgMB7u-00001-00001448-00002308": "The president spoke at the Lima Army Tank Plant on Wednesday where he decided to go on a long rant attacking McCain", "spgA3mgMB7u-00002-00002308-00003110": "“So I have to be honest, I’ve never liked him much. Hasn’t been for me,” Trump said while speaking to the crowd", "spgA3mgMB7u-00003-00003110-00003959": "“I really probably never will,” he added.“John McCain received a fake and phony dossier,” Trump continued", "spgA3mgMB7u-00004-00003959-00004990": "“It was paid for by crooked Hillary Clinton. He got it. He didn’t give it to me, he turned it over to the FBI,” Trump said", "spgA3mgMB7u-00005-00004990-00005996": "“I’m a very loyal person,” he added.Trump then went on to take credit for McCain’s Funeral, saying that it was because of him that it was possible", "spgA3mgMB7u-00006-00005996-00007075": "We should note that Trump was not invited to the funeral.“I gave John McCain the kind of funeral that he wanted, which as president, I had to approve,” Trump said", "spgA3mgMB7u-00007-00007075-00007806": "“I don’t care about this, I didn’t get a thank you — that’s okay. We sent him on the way", "spgA3mgMB7u-00008-00007806-00008135": "But I wasn’t a fan of John McCain''"}}, {"audio_id": "seU_-yLmAVo", "text": {"seU_-yLmAVo-00000-00000571-00001793": "President Donald Trump was practically thrown under the bus by Putin’s regime when it revealed the real reason Trump canceled their scheduled G20 meeting had nothing to do with any aggression toward Ukraine", "seU_-yLmAVo-00001-00001793-00002540": "Instead, it had everything to do with the ever-developing scandals Trump seems to find himself in these days", "seU_-yLmAVo-00002-00002540-00004317": "As bad as that news sounds, it appears it got much worse when a spokesman for Putin came forward with information suggesting the Trump Tower Moscow project was a one-sided deal with no interest on the Kremlin’s part, and that the Trump-Russia conspiracy was all Trump’s idea", "seU_-yLmAVo-00003-00004317-00004993": "Michael Cohen has now pleaded guilty to lying to Congress about the real estate deal", "seU_-yLmAVo-00004-00004993-00005709": "Cohen first said that he killed the real estate proposal after talking to Peskov’s office", "seU_-yLmAVo-00005-00005709-00006699": "However, Cohen has now confessed to continuing to pursue the deal on Trump’s behalf during the heat of the 2016 presidential campaign", "seU_-yLmAVo-00006-00006699-00008078": "“Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman has displayed what he says are two emails from President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer asking for help getting the Trump Tower Moscow project off the ground", "seU_-yLmAVo-00007-00008078-00009436": "Of course, the “former personal lawyer” the spokesman mentions is Michael Cohen, who has teamed up with Special Counsel Robert Mueller and began shining a much uglier light on Trump’s role in the Trump-Russia scandal", "seU_-yLmAVo-00008-00009436-00010450": "Based on the timing, it’s interesting to see that Russia, which certainly played an integral role as well, has suddenly decided to use Cohen’s emails against Trump", "seU_-yLmAVo-00009-00010450-00011205": "While there’s no telling what Vladimir Putin’s long-term angle is here, it’s obvious he isn’t messing around", "seU_-yLmAVo-00010-00011205-00013002": "And you can’t help but wonder how Trump responds to this. Considering he is a creature of habit, and knowing how badly he appears to be drowning, you know the response will be delivered in an epic, rant-like fashion, and it will more than likely throw some shade back in Russia’s direction", "seU_-yLmAVo-00011-00013002-00013644": "And it will probably contain some inadvertent confessions somewhere along the way"}}, {"audio_id": "sg-TII7RiJA", "text": {"sg-TII7RiJA-00000-00000513-00001602": "Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Tuesday that he plans to cooperate with the House Judiciary Committee's probe into President Donald Trump", "sg-TII7RiJA-00001-00001602-00002503": "\"I will do everything to facilitate this investigation, and there's nothing I have to hide,\" Spicer said in an interview on Fox News", "sg-TII7RiJA-00002-00002503-00003765": "He is one of 81 individuals and entities that the committee sent letters to Monday requesting documents relating to the President's campaign, businesses, transition and administration", "sg-TII7RiJA-00003-00003765-00004630": "The requests began a broad probe into possible corruption, abuses of power, hush money payments and collusion with Russia", "sg-TII7RiJA-00004-00004630-00005661": "Although Spicer intends to cooperate with the probe and said he respects the committee's authority, he called it a \"fishing expedition\" by the Democrats", "sg-TII7RiJA-00005-00005661-00006505": "He said Democrats in the House are searching for wrongdoing by the President rather than pursuing a legislative agenda", "sg-TII7RiJA-00006-00006505-00007957": "\"What the Democrats have started to realize is that, from all the tea leaves that we've seen, is that while some people did some bad things, that there were some people who clearly interfered with the last election, that there was no collusion,\" Spicer said", "sg-TII7RiJA-00007-00007957-00008671": "\"And so they've started to move on and go on, what appears to be at least, a potential fishing expedition", "sg-TII7RiJA-00008-00008671-00009708": "\".Spicer did not say whether he had received his letter from the Judiciary Committee yet, but he said he had learned he was on the committee's list through news reports", "sg-TII7RiJA-00009-00009708-00010797": "The committee requested documents from multiple Trump allies including family members, campaign officials and longtime employees of the Trump Organization", "sg-TII7RiJA-00010-00010797-00011865": "Many of the people the committee is seeking documents from have already cooperated with special counsel Robert Mueller or other investigations related to the President", "sg-TII7RiJA-00011-00011865-00013179": "House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler told CNN on Monday that the purpose of the investigation is to follow through on oversight that he says Congress neglected in the first two years of Trump's presidency", "sg-TII7RiJA-00012-00013179-00014038": "\"We have to find out what's been going on,\" the New York Democrat said, \"and we have to lay out a case to the American people and reveal it", "sg-TII7RiJA-00013-00014038-00014618": "\".Spicer resigned from his White House post in July 2017"}}, {"audio_id": "sih-kocXRpu", "text": {"sih-kocXRpu-00000-00000571-00001856": "Here is an incontrovertible fact: the NRA spent four times as much money in support of Donald Trump and congressional republican campaigns in 2016 than it spent in 2012", "sih-kocXRpu-00001-00001856-00002593": "Where did they get all of that extra money? It did not come in from some massive fund-raising effort", "sih-kocXRpu-00002-00002593-00003431": "There is widely reported evidence that the money came in from Russia. This is part of the reason Maria Butina was arrested", "sih-kocXRpu-00003-00003431-00004149": ".Let’s compare this one little factual nugget from the Trump/Russia scandal to the Hillary email scandal", "sih-kocXRpu-00004-00004149-00005743": "Hillary’s emails are words that are burned into the minds of most Americans, but fair-minded people agree there is more evidence of serious wrongdoing on the part of Trump’s 2016 election bid, than there is evidence of Hillary Clinton’s wrongdoing with emails", "sih-kocXRpu-00005-00005743-00006921": "Yet, in 2015, the year before the 2016 election, one poll showed 75 percent of Americans thought Clinton’s use of private emails was a big deal", "sih-kocXRpu-00006-00006921-00007921": "Now, in 2019 none of Trump’s many scandals show the same level of concern among the American public that Hillary’s emails did", "sih-kocXRpu-00007-00007921-00009159": ". .While many many Democratic pundits believe it is because Trump’s base is loyal, and nothing he could do will dissuade them from their support of him, this is not necessarily true", "sih-kocXRpu-00008-00009159-00009974": "The many Trump supporters I know do not understand the Trump-Russia scandal, and they believe he has been exonerated", "sih-kocXRpu-00009-00009974-00010813": ".Republicans developed simple and short talking points about Hillary’s emails, and they repeated the points often", "sih-kocXRpu-00010-00010813-00011576": "Whenever exonerating information came out about Hillary, they doubled down instead of backing off", "sih-kocXRpu-00011-00011576-00013480": "This is how they effectively shape public opinion. Yet, with all the damning information rolling in every day about the Trump administration, many Democrats think it is better for Democrats to move off of the Trump corruption and the Trump-Russia connections and instead concentrate solely on the Democratic platform", "sih-kocXRpu-00012-00013480-00015039": "Keep in mind this is advice that Republicans never follow. . .If the tables were turned and this type of scandal affected a Democratic President, Fox News would not be so easily dissuaded from nonstop coverage and pronouncements of guilt", "sih-kocXRpu-00013-00015039-00016139": "Democrats and liberal leaning media outlets have not done a good job driving home the message of the corruption of the 2016 election and the Trump administration", "sih-kocXRpu-00014-00016139-00017051": "Democrats need to distill the Trump corruption message into a few key, understandable talking points, and they need to drive the message home", "sih-kocXRpu-00015-00017051-00017735": "This corruption is too big, too important and too deep to let Trump get away with it"}}, {"audio_id": "t5QCmjNlbd0", "text": {"t5QCmjNlbd0-00000-00000513-00002038": "A Democratic congressman said Monday he disagrees with his party's decision to not hold 2020 presidential primary debates on Fox News, arguing that it's important for the candidates to share their views with the network's audience", "t5QCmjNlbd0-00001-00002038-00002973": "\"Well, with all due respect to the (Democratic National Committee), no, I don't think it was the right decision,\" Connecticut Rep", "t5QCmjNlbd0-00002-00002973-00005202": "Jim Himes said to CNN's John Berman on \"New Day.\".Last week, the DNC announced that \"Fox News will not serve as a media partner for the 2020 Democratic primary debates,\" citing recent reporting in The New Yorker about the mutually beneficial relationship between Fox and the Trump administration, which DNC chair Tom Perez called \"inappropriate", "t5QCmjNlbd0-00003-00005202-00006275": "\".\"You know, look, it's no surprise to anybody, including Fox News watchers, that Fox is largely an instrument of the right wing -- of the Republican Party", "t5QCmjNlbd0-00004-00006275-00007811": "It's a propaganda arm for the White House,\" Himes said, adding that he makes appearances on the network because he believes if you put Democratic ideas \"against whatever the nonsense is on the other side,\" Democrats \"will have the appealing ideas", "t5QCmjNlbd0-00005-00007811-00008963": "\".The first debate of the Democratic primary season will take place in June with NBC, MSNBC and Telemundo, while the second will air in July on CNN", "t5QCmjNlbd0-00006-00008963-00009778": "Himes told Berman that \"a debate is a very highly structured moment.\".\"It is, in some senses, fair", "t5QCmjNlbd0-00007-00009778-00010627": "It's not like, you know, (Fox News host) Sean Hannity can jump in and challenge Bernie Sanders,\" he said", "t5QCmjNlbd0-00008-00010627-00011358": "\"As they say, 'You don't need to persuade your friends, you need to persuade people who disagree with you", "t5QCmjNlbd0-00009-00011358-00011766": "' So I would've made a different decision,\" Himes said"}}, {"audio_id": "t6wLWNH3J-u", "text": {"t6wLWNH3J-u-00000-00000571-00002694": "Donald Trump now has a chance to recast the story of his presidency.Just as he did on election night in 2016, the President has won a victory over the conventional wisdom of his critics, this time after special counsel Robert Mueller found there was no evidence that Trump had conspired with a hostile foreign nation -- Russia -- to win power", "t6wLWNH3J-u-00001-00002694-00003930": "The finding, delivered in a summary of the Mueller report by Attorney General William Barr, means Trump can finally try to move on from an intrigue that strangled his presidency from the start", "t6wLWNH3J-u-00002-00003930-00005100": "The report offered personal vindication to Trump and a powerful new political weapon to fire at his critics in the Democratic Party and the media at the start of his re-election campaign", "t6wLWNH3J-u-00003-00005100-00006323": "But the Democratic victory in November's midterm elections will guarantee that the report is not the final word, as it might have been if the Republican still had a monopoly on power in Washington", "t6wLWNH3J-u-00004-00006323-00007300": "Democratic leaders are already demanding the full release of the report and are challenging Barr's interpretation of Mueller's findings", "t6wLWNH3J-u-00005-00007300-00008402": "Though Barr's summary suggests that Mueller's report is nuanced and does not completely exonerate the President on obstruction, the political symbolism is undeniable", "t6wLWNH3J-u-00006-00008402-00009664": "The findings clearly lack the kind of bombshell that could have shifted lukewarm public sentiment about a potential impeachment process and will therefore have a profound impact on his presidency", "t6wLWNH3J-u-00007-00009664-00010400": "Trump's critics will feel that the special counsel has handed the President a huge political gift", "t6wLWNH3J-u-00008-00010400-00011805": "And it is. But another interpretation of the report is that if the President is not guilty of the crime he was accused of committing, the special counsel's verdict would amount to Trump getting his rightful due after a legal process", "t6wLWNH3J-u-00009-00011805-00012542": "Partisanship aside, Mueller's conclusion ought to come as a moment of huge national relief", "t6wLWNH3J-u-00010-00012542-00013422": "An opposite assessment would have meant that the current President cheated with a hostile foreign power to subvert US democracy", "t6wLWNH3J-u-00011-00013422-00014692": "So the nation has likely escaped a long political nightmare that would have tested the constitutional system and worsened the current acrimony in politics, which sometimes feels like it is tearing the country apart", "t6wLWNH3J-u-00012-00014692-00015969": "The adamant clarity of Trump's \"no collusion\" message, delivered almost daily in person and on Twitter in the last two years makes the political impact of Mueller's findings even more potent for the President", "t6wLWNH3J-u-00013-00015969-00017521": "One big question now is how Trump will react. Will he seize the chance to reset his presidency, drop the inflammatory rhetoric that helped lose voters in crucial suburban swing districts in the midterm elections and try to broaden his support?", "t6wLWNH3J-u-00014-00017521-00018398": "It seems more likely that Trump, freed from the shadow of the Russia scandal, will seek vengeance on those who targeted him", "t6wLWNH3J-u-00015-00018398-00019430": "Fierce attacks on the journalism outlets that covered the Mueller investigation are already escalating among Trump aides and sympathetic media personalities", "t6wLWNH3J-u-00016-00019430-00020431": "One Trump adviser who speaks to the President regularly told CNN's Jim Acosta that Trump could be expected to \"slam and shame the media", "t6wLWNH3J-u-00017-00020431-00021478": "\".In his initial reaction to Barr's letter to Congress summarizing Mueller's conclusions, Trump said it was a shame he had to endure \"an illegal takedown that failed", "t6wLWNH3J-u-00018-00021478-00022951": "\".Then he seemed to suggest that his victory lap could soon turn to retribution, even into an attempt to go after the Obama administration that was in power when the FBI first became concerned with Russian election meddling", "t6wLWNH3J-u-00019-00022951-00023748": "\"Hopefully somebody is going to be looking at the other side . complete exoneration, no collusion,\" Trump said", "t6wLWNH3J-u-00020-00023748-00024623": "But while Trump has won the initial battle over the report, the Washington warfare over its implications is only just beginning", "t6wLWNH3J-u-00021-00024623-00025692": "Democrats in Congress are already demanding full publication of the report and promise to pick up the pace of their investigations now Mueller has left the stage", "t6wLWNH3J-u-00022-00025692-00027071": "The next political showdown is already centering on Barr's decision making. Trump picked Barr knowing that he had produced a memo arguing that Mueller's obstruction investigation was \"fatally misconceived", "t6wLWNH3J-u-00023-00027071-00028560": "\".It was Barr, along with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, not Mueller, who decided that despite what appears to be some evidence of obstruction in the report, it was not sufficiently strong to lead to a slam dunk case", "t6wLWNH3J-u-00024-00028560-00029618": "The decision is likely to earn both men a trip up to Capitol Hill to testify before Democrats who are deeply suspicious of Barr's decision making"}}, {"audio_id": "ts6FIV6MBdu", "text": {"ts6FIV6MBdu-00000-00000513-00001649": "Meghan Markle had a luxury New York baby shower in February and is reported to have told friends she is due to have a baby boy, according to a Mail on Sunday source", "ts6FIV6MBdu-00001-00001649-00002401": "The Duchess could have told friends the gender for two reasons, according to royal expert Melanie Bromley", "ts6FIV6MBdu-00002-00002401-00003890": "The E! News royal correspondent said Meghan could have, firstly, revealed the gender to find out which friends are leaking information about her to the media, and, secondly, because she has decided to break from royal tradition", "ts6FIV6MBdu-00003-00003890-00004629": "Ms Bromley said: “Traditionally, the royals don’t really find out the sex of their baby", "ts6FIV6MBdu-00004-00004629-00005802": "“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’", "ts6FIV6MBdu-00005-00005802-00007320": "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", "ts6FIV6MBdu-00006-00007320-00008380": "A source who is familiar with one of those that attended the baby shower allegedly told The Mail On Sunday that Meghan was telling guests the sex of her unborn baby", "ts6FIV6MBdu-00007-00008380-00009232": "“She was talking openly about it,” said the source.Meghan has previously said that she does not want to know the baby’s gender", "ts6FIV6MBdu-00008-00009232-00009911": "She was seen at the high-end store Bonpoint and enjoying lunch in the city on Saturday", "ts6FIV6MBdu-00009-00009911-00011008": "Despite a Hollywood guest list at the lavish baby shower, the lavish event was \"an intimate gathering\" of her closest friends who have helped her through her first year of royal life", "ts6FIV6MBdu-00010-00011008-00012252": "Meghan’s longtime friend and wedding make-up artist Daniel Martin said the party was all baby talk and she was getting lots of advice from her friends during the event which took place on February 20", "ts6FIV6MBdu-00011-00012252-00013268": "Mr Martin told People magazine: “It was exactly what she needed, and was a reunion for us, too, who hadn’t seen each other since the wedding", "ts6FIV6MBdu-00012-00013268-00014077": "\"Snow was falling outside, and it was so cosy - we all sat on couches or on the floor and told stories and caught up", "ts6FIV6MBdu-00013-00014077-00015488": "“It was like a family reunion. The baby is going to be loved by us all.\".Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are expected to welcome their first child sometime in April, with the Duchess of Sussex preparing to enter her eighth month"}}, {"audio_id": "tzJZ_vbWbTE", "text": {"tzJZ_vbWbTE-00000-00000513-00001926": "Donald Trump has ushered in an era of sexual misconduct. POTUS was accused of paying off two women he had sex with while Melania Trump was recuperating from their son’s, and numerous women have sued him", "tzJZ_vbWbTE-00001-00001926-00003653": "He was taped telling a TV host he likes to grab women by their genitals. The president’s cabinet contains a former attorney general who gave a monstrous billionaire molester of vast numbers of girls 13-years-old and above virtually no sentence", "tzJZ_vbWbTE-00002-00003653-00004269": "It came as no surprise that such immoral behavior has filtered down to the state level", "tzJZ_vbWbTE-00003-00004269-00005178": "Pennsylvania’s Inquirer newspaper does not give the name of victims of alleged sexual assaults unless they are willing to do so", "tzJZ_vbWbTE-00004-00005178-00006369": "What we do know is that an unidentified woman who works for the state government has named a state representative in an alleged rape case, and she has filed a formal complaint", "tzJZ_vbWbTE-00005-00006369-00007119": "The woman made her complaint to a state GOP caucus attorney and the Republican members of the Ethics Committee", "tzJZ_vbWbTE-00006-00007119-00008380": "Only they can removed anyone from the House and impose any number of sanctions.She wrote that she had gone to a bar in Harrisburg along with one of her friends in October 2015", "tzJZ_vbWbTE-00007-00008380-00009151": "Although she said she only had two drinks and possibly less, she:.‘…was in a state of blackout’", "tzJZ_vbWbTE-00008-00009151-00009762": "When she awakened the next morning, the woman found herself in Representative Ellis’ bed", "tzJZ_vbWbTE-00009-00009762-00010548": "The state employee asked him to explain himself, but the representative just said that the two had sex", "tzJZ_vbWbTE-00010-00010548-00011747": "According to the complaint, she accused him of rape.Pennsylvania state victim advocate Jennifer Storm took on the role of spokesperson for the woman who accused Ellis", "tzJZ_vbWbTE-00011-00011747-00012513": "Storm said this about the lawmakers decision to resign: it indicated “a new day in Harrisburg:”", "tzJZ_vbWbTE-00012-00012513-00013712": "‘We finally saw a survivor come forward, and she was believed, and treated with dignity and respect by the House — and we are seeing a real-life consequence to that", "tzJZ_vbWbTE-00013-00013712-00014652": "In cases involving allegations against public officials, unfortunately, the M.O. has just been to kind of ride it out", "tzJZ_vbWbTE-00014-00014652-00015958": "That didn’t happen here.’.Pennsylvania House Republican leaders had called for Ellis’ resignation at the first of the year as soon as a Dauphin County district attorney had opened an investigation into the alleged rape", "tzJZ_vbWbTE-00015-00015958-00016815": "The district attorney indicated that late in 2015, Ellis had sex with this woman while she was incapacitated", "tzJZ_vbWbTE-00016-00016815-00017612": "She had not given her consent either. The district attorney’s investigation is still under way", "tzJZ_vbWbTE-00017-00017612-00018408": "Six days after the complaint, Ellis sent his state speaker of the House a brief letter of resignation", "tzJZ_vbWbTE-00018-00018408-00019189": "It was effective immediately. He wrote that “my own health” was one of the reasons he decided to resign:", "tzJZ_vbWbTE-00019-00019189-00021044": "‘It is with immense gratitude to the sacrifices made by my family, the support of my constituents, and the friendship of my colleagues that I have concluded that it is in the best interests of my family, the residents of the 11th House District, and my own health that I resign from the General Assembly’", "tzJZ_vbWbTE-00020-00021044-00021836": "A spokesperson for the House Republicans indicated that the representative had been on medical leave the entire year", "tzJZ_vbWbTE-00021-00021836-00022844": "There was no reason given about Ellis’ medical leave.Last week Ellis’ law firm Myers, Brief & Kelly LLP released a statement on his behalf", "tzJZ_vbWbTE-00022-00022844-00023980": "They said the accusations against him were “just plain false” (and an attempt to) “generate sensational press coverage” .The firm has no comment at this time"}}, {"audio_id": "tGFNYqxCQCk", "text": {"tGFNYqxCQCk-00000-00000513-00001124": "Maybe Donald Trump believes that he can control all of the Republicans at once by Tweet", "tGFNYqxCQCk-00001-00001124-00002260": "He appears to be trying to do so. In the past, one negative tweet could take out a senator, which is probably why the GOP is so subservient to POTUS", "tGFNYqxCQCk-00002-00002260-00002971": "When the president tries to manipulate the Democrats via tweet, they just go “yeah, yeah” and move on", "tGFNYqxCQCk-00003-00002971-00003634": "Check out the commander-in-chief attempting his gravity-defying mind control tweets now", "tGFNYqxCQCk-00004-00003634-00004392": "Of course, most of the Democrats think that Trump’s fake national emergency is just a joke", "tGFNYqxCQCk-00005-00004392-00005264": "First of all, to be an emergency, an event must be timely, and his wall fetish has been going on for years", "tGFNYqxCQCk-00006-00005264-00006343": "Secondly, everyone knows that a wall is useless, because people can go over it — sometimes in airplanes, under it, through it, and around it — say by boats", "tGFNYqxCQCk-00007-00006343-00008114": "Trump tweeted out his threat to the Republican senators. If they vote for the halt to Trump’s national emergency wall, the president will say they are like the Dems, “for open borders and crime:‘Democrats will have a unanimous vote on a 20% issue in opposing Republican Senators tomorrow", "tGFNYqxCQCk-00008-00008114-00009258": "The Dems are for Open Borders and Crime!’.Then, Trump got really serious. He tweeted that the “Republican senators are “overthinking (sic)” the upcoming vote:", "tGFNYqxCQCk-00009-00009258-00010355": "‘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", "tGFNYqxCQCk-00010-00010355-00011092": "We have a MAJOR NATIONAL EMERGENCY at our Border and the People of our Country know it very well!’", "tGFNYqxCQCk-00011-00011092-00012056": "Even the Secretary of Border Security Kirstjen Nielsen had to admit that most of the drugs come through the current, legal border crossings", "tGFNYqxCQCk-00012-00012056-00012672": "The Democrats nailed her on that one in a recent hearing.Tomorrow should be interesting", "tGFNYqxCQCk-00013-00012672-00013471": "Maybe the great Trump remote control experiment of controlling all of the Republican senators will work", "tGFNYqxCQCk-00014-00013471-00013748": "Maybe it will not"}}, {"audio_id": "tHI_8SqRlwo", "text": {"tHI_8SqRlwo-00000-00000571-00001234": "If there is one thing that President Trump loves more than self-aggrandizement, it’s golf", "tHI_8SqRlwo-00001-00001234-00002660": "Well, almost as much anyway.The president spends every available free weekend at one of the multiple golf courses that he owns, at considerable expense to the American taxpayer while pocketing the profit for himself", "tHI_8SqRlwo-00002-00002660-00004223": "He uses his golf excursions to reward his favored Republican legislators with valuable facetime, to hobnob with celebrities and sports figures, and to fill his “executive time” with something other than TV watching and tweeting about it", "tHI_8SqRlwo-00003-00004223-00005390": "Knowing Trump’s intimate relationship with the sport, Politico just published a lengthy article looking at one of the most sacred bonds a golfer can have, his connection with his caddy", "tHI_8SqRlwo-00004-00005390-00006592": "Written by Rick Reilly, a sportswriter who has worked with Sports Illustrated and ESPN, the article is an excerpt from his new book Commander-in-Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump", "tHI_8SqRlwo-00005-00006592-00008028": "In his Politico piece, Reilly relates the insights into the president that he found from interviewing the people who have served as his caddy, a job that provides a close up look at Trump in the element in which he feels most comfortable", "tHI_8SqRlwo-00006-00008028-00009951": "Trump’s social media director, Dan Scavino, famously began his career as 16‑year-old summer caddy for Trump in 1990 at Briar Hall Golf and Country Club, the property that is now the Trump National Golf Club in Westchester New York, so it is a job that can lead to boundless opportunity", "tHI_8SqRlwo-00007-00009951-00010852": "Trump’s current regular outdoor caddy is an ex-Marine in his 60s who prefers to be identified by just his first initials A", "tHI_8SqRlwo-00008-00010852-00011516": "J. and who works out of the Trump National Golf Club Washington in Northern Virginia", "tHI_8SqRlwo-00009-00011516-00012226": "In between helping to choose and retrieving the right golf club to take a particular shot, A", "tHI_8SqRlwo-00010-00012226-00013242": "J. gets to witness Trump in all his duffer’s glory.As one would expect of someone who needs the president’s trust to continue to hold his position, A", "tHI_8SqRlwo-00011-00013242-00014175": "J. is fiercely loyal to Trump and says that he has even gotten into fights with other caddies on the course over negative comments they’ve made about his boss"}}, {"audio_id": "tLLO2jL3v6u", "text": {"tLLO2jL3v6u-00000-00000571-00001446": "Omar is once again making headlines after President Donald Trump blasted her anti-Semitism to the GOP Jewish Coalition", "tLLO2jL3v6u-00001-00001446-00002206": "“Special thanks to Rep. Omar of Minnesota,” the president said. “Oh, I almost forgot", "tLLO2jL3v6u-00002-00002206-00003274": "She doesn’t like Israel … I’m so sorry!” Well, that caused Omar to cite Islamic texts toward the president, and it made Americans angry", "tLLO2jL3v6u-00003-00003274-00004021": "You don’t want to miss this.The mainstream media is outraged that President Trump alluded to Rep", "tLLO2jL3v6u-00004-00004021-00005158": "Omar’s blatant anti-Semitism on Saturday. Last month, she was criticized for hurling the ugly stereotype that Jews have an “allegiance to a foreign country", "tLLO2jL3v6u-00005-00005158-00006589": "”.And earlier this year, she tweeted that U.S support for Israel was “all about the Benjamins, baby” — money in the form of $100 bills — and that AIPAC was paying policymakers to support the Jewish state", "tLLO2jL3v6u-00006-00006589-00007428": "These aren’t the only anti-Semitic remarks she has made.The Minnesota Congresswoman’s anti-Semitism goes back years", "tLLO2jL3v6u-00007-00007428-00009857": "“Last year, before she was elected to the House of Representatives, before she emerged from a crowded Democratic field in Minnesota’s liberal 5th Congressional District, leaders of Minneapolis’ Jewish community fashioned what could be described as an anti-Semitic intervention of Omar, a rising star of the left whose remarks had made many fellow Democrats in the Jewish community uncomfortable,” reports TwinCities", "tLLO2jL3v6u-00008-00009857-00011200": "com.So, while she was a state representative, Omar had already made a name for herself as a raging anti-Semite, so perverse was she that the local Jewish community stepped in and tried to educate her", "tLLO2jL3v6u-00009-00011200-00011874": "But, Omar’s hatred of all things Jewish isn’t a lack of education, it’s indoctrination", "tLLO2jL3v6u-00010-00011874-00013180": ".The 37-year-old is a far-left Islamic extremist. However, it’s President Trump making her anti-Semitism a lighthearted joke that is causing Omar to play the victim card", "tLLO2jL3v6u-00011-00013180-00013984": "Speaking before the Republican Jewish Coalition’s annual convention in Las Vegas on Saturday, Trump mockingly thanks Rep", "tLLO2jL3v6u-00012-00013984-00014337": "Omar in front of the Jewish crowd"}}, {"audio_id": "tb4GgQUFNac", "text": {"tb4GgQUFNac-00000-00000000-00020101": "Как вы додумались их включить? Что вы надеялись здесь увидеть? Да я из беларуси )))) ....."}}, {"audio_id": "tg7zrq12EnE", "text": {"tg7zrq12EnE-00000-00000571-00002007": "On Wednesday, March 27, Sean Hannity devoted three-quarters – 45 minutes – of his prime-time Fox News channel program which was commercial-free to an exclusive telephone interview with President Donald Trump", "tg7zrq12EnE-00001-00002007-00002867": "It was the president’s first interview since the completion of the Mueller Report and its delivery to the Department of Justice last Friday", "tg7zrq12EnE-00002-00002867-00003614": "The major points arising from the interview included:.President Trump vowing to release the FISA documents", "tg7zrq12EnE-00003-00003614-00004797": "The president accusing FBI officials of committing “treason” and describing former FBI Director James Comey as a “terrible guy” and former CIA Director John Brennan as “sick”", "tg7zrq12EnE-00004-00004797-00005999": "Mr. Trump raising doubts about the secretive airport tarmac meeting between then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch and former President Bill Clinton on June 27, 2016", "tg7zrq12EnE-00005-00005999-00008230": "The president commenting on the Democrats’ push for a Green New Deal.When President Trump mentioned Jeanine Pirro, who has been absent from her top-rated Fox News channel Saturday evening program for the past two weeks, Sean Hannity made news by confirming that she would be back on her show Justice with Judge Jeanine next Saturday, March 30 at 9 PM ET/PT", "tg7zrq12EnE-00006-00008230-00009541": "In response to comments Pirro made about Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) on March 9, Fox News criticized and distanced itself from Pirro and she has not appeared on the channel since then", "tg7zrq12EnE-00007-00009541-00011019": "Below is a transcript of the highlights of the interview – approximately 30% of the total – between Hannity and the president, with minor editing by the author from a “rushed transcript” provided by Fox News Media Relations"}}, {"audio_id": "tla6mt7hDmo", "text": {"tla6mt7hDmo-00000-00000571-00002044": "As the evidence against Donald Trump continues to pile up in his criminal scandals, and the nation increasingly demands his ouster, Palmer Report has consistently pointed out that it’s going to come down to math", "tla6mt7hDmo-00001-00002044-00003063": "At some point twenty Republican Senators will selfishly decide that their own odds of reelection are better if they kick Trump out, and that’ll be the end of him", "tla6mt7hDmo-00002-00003063-00004541": "Over the past two weeks, Senate Republicans have been increasingly voting against Donald Trump on legislation he cares about, in the clearest sign yet that they think he’s going down, and that they’re trying to avoid going down with him", "tla6mt7hDmo-00003-00004541-00005503": "Perhaps in retaliation, Trump has decided that his number one goal in life is to attack John McCain as often and as offensively as possible", "tla6mt7hDmo-00004-00005503-00006239": "This is finally resulting in GOP Senators pushing back, or at least one of them in particular", "tla6mt7hDmo-00005-00006239-00007054": "Republican Senator Johnny Isakson said last year that if anyone attacked John McCain, they deserved a “whipping” for it", "tla6mt7hDmo-00006-00007054-00008104": "Sure enough, after Donald Trump spent the past few days attacking McCain, Isakson said today that “I want to do what I said that day on the floor of the Senate", "tla6mt7hDmo-00007-00008104-00009630": "” In other words, he wants to deliver a “whipping” against Trump. We’re assuming he means the metaphorical kind, and that he’s not actually talking about physically beating Trump up, but this is nonetheless quickly dissolving into a food fight", "tla6mt7hDmo-00008-00009630-00011025": "We’ll see what happens next. Donald Trump will surely hear about Isakson’s remarks and fire back on Twitter, which will only serve to give more exposure to what Isakson said about Trump", "tla6mt7hDmo-00009-00011025-00012550": "Interestingly, it appears that Isakson made his remarks today before he was aware that Trump had just unleashed on McCain yet again, this time criticizing McCain for not having come back from the dead to thank Trump for throwing him a big funeral", "tla6mt7hDmo-00010-00012550-00012968": "This will only get uglier for Trump an the GOP"}}, {"audio_id": "uBYFeW521IQ", "text": {"uBYFeW521IQ-00000-00000571-00001757": "President Donald Trump is not a man of great moral upstanding. He does not believe in any principles, even basic ones like democracy, freedom and the rule of law", "uBYFeW521IQ-00001-00001757-00002885": "All of that is perfectly obvious from his track record across the two and a bit years that he has spent so far in the high office of President of the United States and leader of the free world", "uBYFeW521IQ-00002-00002885-00004492": "Nothing is too low for him. However, recent reports suggest that he has now taken this to a whole new level by beginning to encourage his officials to break the law to achieve things that are convenient to him, and promising to pardon them if they get caught:", "uBYFeW521IQ-00003-00004492-00006231": "President Donald Trump told Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan he would grant McAleenan a pardon if he were sent to jail for having border agents block asylum seekers from entering the US in defiance of US law, senior administration officials tell CNN", "uBYFeW521IQ-00004-00006231-00007012": "Trump reportedly made the comment during a visit to the border at Calexico, California, a week ago", "uBYFeW521IQ-00005-00007012-00008969": "It was not clear if the comment was a joke. Two officials briefed on the exchange say the President told McAleenan, since named the acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, that he “would pardon him if he ever went to jail for denying US entry to migrants,” as one of the officials paraphrased", "uBYFeW521IQ-00006-00008969-00010317": ".This is incredible to see. This is the man who rules over us from the Oval Office, and here he is saying that the law does not matter at all and that breaking it is fine, because he can pardon his friends", "uBYFeW521IQ-00007-00010317-00011526": "Perhaps this should not be a huge surprise for someone who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, this particular spoon being the multi billion dollar business empire he inherited from his father", "uBYFeW521IQ-00008-00011526-00012325": "Trump seems to find it impossible to think of anyone but himself, even when it comes to breaking the law", "uBYFeW521IQ-00009-00012325-00013449": "The President has, of course, tried to deny these allegations. But in keeping with his character, he has done it in a way that makes him look much more guilty than innocent", "uBYFeW521IQ-00010-00013449-00014958": "Taking to Twitter, he blasted the issue as “a fake story” and instead of offering any evidence in his favor, he simply laid into journalists and incited more violence against them by alleging that the entire mainstream media is corrupt against him"}}, {"audio_id": "uEtqhhrMX6Q", "text": {"uEtqhhrMX6Q-00000-00000000-00001750": "As Donald Trump’s presidency continues to drag on and becomes more disastrous and destructive, even those closest to the Tweeter in Chief are concerned about what’s yet to come, especially as Trump crumbles under the pressure of the upcoming 2020 election and Robert Mueller’s investigation", "uEtqhhrMX6Q-00001-00001750-00002957": "This couldn’t have been more apparent than when Vanity Fair‘s Gabriel Sherman releaseda damning reporta while ago, stating that Trump was having one of the most dramatic meltdowns of his presidency", "uEtqhhrMX6Q-00002-00002957-00004268": "Trump’s anger and panic was caused by Bob Woodward’s new bookFear: Trump in the White House,and it was so intense that his entire family and aides were paralyzed with fear and concern for the unraveling POTUS", "uEtqhhrMX6Q-00003-00004268-00005274": "Since then, things have only gotten worse.Following a terrible morning in which Trump blasted Woodward’s book repeatedly, Trump threw a silent temper tantrum", "uEtqhhrMX6Q-00004-00005274-00006081": "Sherman reported that Trump “isn’t talking to anyone,” as the president was furious about the leaked info in the book", "uEtqhhrMX6Q-00005-00006081-00007180": "What a source told Sherman painted a very disturbing picture of what’s happening in the White House right now:  Woodward’s book triggered Trump’s wrath on several levels", "uEtqhhrMX6Q-00006-00007180-00008243": "Two sources told me Trump is furious at the portions of the book that describe administration officials questioning his intelligence and emotional stability", "uEtqhhrMX6Q-00007-00008243-00010247": "Woodward reports that Chief of Staff John Kelly called Trump ‘an idiot’ and the West Wing ‘Crazytown’; Defense Secretary Jim Mattis compared Trump to a ‘fifth- or sixth-grader’; and Trump’s former personal lawyer called Trump a ‘fucking liar’ who would end up in ‘an orange jumpsuit’ if he testified to special counsel Robert Mueller", "uEtqhhrMX6Q-00008-00010247-00011294": "” Sherman noted that Trump “is also outraged that the book portrays aides as believing they are the grown-ups protecting the country from his dangerous impulses", "uEtqhhrMX6Q-00009-00011294-00012449": "”And in a surprising change of heart, the president blamed the book’s publication on White House special counselor Kellyanne Conway, despite all her dedication to lying for him", "uEtqhhrMX6Q-00010-00012449-00013617": "Sherman quoted one White House staffer:  Trump’s unhinged, antisocial behavior got to the point where his family was extremely worried about his declining mental health", "uEtqhhrMX6Q-00011-00013617-00014695": "Sherman reported:  The crazy thing is, so many more tell-all books have come out since then – and Trump has only become more unhinged with every release", "uEtqhhrMX6Q-00012-00014695-00015727": "Trump cannot take much more of this, and now would be a really great time for the Republican Party to step up and bring forth concerns about Trump’s mental stability", "uEtqhhrMX6Q-00013-00015727-00016576": "Unfortunately, we all know that spineless GOPers don’t have it in them to protect the country while Trump melts down"}}, {"audio_id": "uPkmA91UT94", "text": {"uPkmA91UT94-00000-00000571-00001407": "Democrats have played the obstructionist game for two long years in Senate. And Republicans are finally over it", "uPkmA91UT94-00001-00001407-00002162": "Trump has struggled to appoint most of his judges through because the Left dragged out the confirmations endlessly", "uPkmA91UT94-00002-00002162-00003541": "But Mitch McConnell just went NUCLEAR on the Democrats—literally. From Politico:.Senate Republicans used the “nuclear option” Wednesday to unilaterally reduce debate time on most presidential nominees…", "uPkmA91UT94-00003-00003541-00004573": "Way to step up, Mitch!.McConnell used the nuclear option to eliminate the 30-hour debate time for each nominee, cutting it down to 2 hours", "uPkmA91UT94-00004-00004573-00005215": "Now they’ll fly through, and the Democrat minority cannot block good judges anymore", "uPkmA91UT94-00005-00005215-00005884": "Democrats are crying foul, of course, but the nuclear option has been used before", "uPkmA91UT94-00006-00005884-00006615": "In fact, it was implemented in Obama’s time to prevent Republicans from blocking his judges", "uPkmA91UT94-00007-00006615-00007305": "I guess Democrats never expected a Republican to enter the White House again – ha!", "uPkmA91UT94-00008-00007305-00008284": "Thanks to McConnell’s boldness, Republicans and Trump are turning the tables, and they’ll set an even higher record for conservative judges", "uPkmA91UT94-00009-00008284-00009274": "For at least the next couple years, they have put an end to liberal activists taking over the courts, and twisting our laws and Constitution", "uPkmA91UT94-00010-00009274-00009640": "Get ready, liberals"}}, {"audio_id": "uRwlDgf9bA0", "text": {"uRwlDgf9bA0-00000-00000513-00001902": "Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) told CNN’s Brianna Keilar on Friday that President Donald Trump is more than willing to take the word of dictators and murderers over the information from his own intel community", "uRwlDgf9bA0-00001-00001902-00002898": "Keilar, who was filling in for Wolf Blitzer, asked for Hirono’s reaction to Trump saying his comments about Otto Warmbier were misinterpreted", "uRwlDgf9bA0-00002-00002898-00003671": "She then played a clip of Trump saying this at the press conference: “I did speak to him [Kim Jong Un about Warmbier]", "uRwlDgf9bA0-00003-00003671-00004541": "He felt very badly. He knew the case very well. He knew it later. Got a lot of people, big country", "uRwlDgf9bA0-00004-00004541-00005400": "A lot of people. In those prisons and those camps, you have a lot of people. Some really bad things happened to Otto", "uRwlDgf9bA0-00005-00005400-00006259": "”.After the clip ended, Keilar noted that Trump responded to the rebuke from the Warmbeirs by saying he blames North Korea", "uRwlDgf9bA0-00006-00006259-00007064": "However, Keilar stressed, he still did not blame Kim Jong Un directly. She then asked the senator’s thoughts", "uRwlDgf9bA0-00007-00007064-00007960": "Hirono noted that when it came to these matters “North Korea is Kim Jong Un.”.“Once again, the president tries to walk back", "uRwlDgf9bA0-00008-00007960-00008691": "We all know what we heard,” Hirono continued on. “Don’t trust our lying ears, our lying eyes", "uRwlDgf9bA0-00009-00008691-00010175": "Give me a break. This whole thing was very tragic.”.The senator then said this: “Again, points out how the president is more than willing to take the word of dictators or murderers over the information that he gets from his own Intel community", "uRwlDgf9bA0-00010-00010175-00010275": "”"}}, {"audio_id": "uTY3vWNJlUI", "text": {"uTY3vWNJlUI-00000-00000571-00002292": "Attorney General William Barr’s self-serving and shortsighted answers to the questions asked of him during his public testimony on Wednesday were predictably favorable to Donald Trump, but might have served an unintended purpose – unchaining the inner mounting wrath of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi", "uTY3vWNJlUI-00001-00002292-00004100": ".Nancy Pelosi said this to reporters on Wednesday: “How very, very dismaying and disappointing that the chief law enforcement officer of our country is going off the rails,” likely a response to Barr’s bizarre echoing of a Trump fantasy that the Obama administration had spied on the Trump team", "uTY3vWNJlUI-00002-00004100-00005210": "As though he believed his blind monarchical loyalty insufficient in cementing his manifestly partisan stance, he admitted that he had no evidence to corroborate this claim", "uTY3vWNJlUI-00003-00005210-00006127": "Now that there’s no shadow of a doubt that our Attorney General is an utter stooge, where in the system do we look for a check on his bias?", "uTY3vWNJlUI-00004-00006127-00007822": ". .Nancy Pelosi is not withholding her thoughts on the situation. On Wednesday she also said “I don’t trust Barr, I trust Mueller,” which is a firm comment from someone whose political acumen and clout cannot be ignored in the context of this statement", "uTY3vWNJlUI-00005-00007822-00008901": "Pelosi isn’t saying these things just to solidify her opposition to Trump’s gaggle of buffoons; she’s saying it because she’s preparing a substantive countermove", "uTY3vWNJlUI-00006-00008901-00009731": "How exactly this takes shape is anyone’s guess, but there’s a good chance it’ll have nothing to do with Bill Barr directly", "uTY3vWNJlUI-00007-00009731-00011787": "There’s been chatter about House Democrats subpoenaing Robert Mueller, for example, a move that would likely not come until after Barr’s latent redacted report is released, but a move that would illuminate Barr’s corrupt agenda and would result in his reputation as the top law enforcement official heavily bruised, if not mortally wounded", "uTY3vWNJlUI-00008-00011787-00013368": "Pelosi is demonstrably sick of these schmucks.Nancy Pelosi’s next moves will be useful in forecasting the House Democrats’ near-future direction in handling the Trump ordeal, and will perhaps be enough to understand their endgame strategy", "uTY3vWNJlUI-00009-00013368-00014462": "Trump is presently in the deepest shit of his life for what seems like an unending laundry list of reasons and he’s consequently panicking, stumbling, and weakening", "uTY3vWNJlUI-00010-00014462-00015194": "Trump might not be at his power nadir yet, but now is a great time to push him along that trajectory", "uTY3vWNJlUI-00011-00015194-00015773": "The best part? Nancy Pelosi is keenly aware of it"}}, {"audio_id": "uWX_db2fLL0", "text": {"uWX_db2fLL0-00000-00000571-00002026": "His presidency under siege at home and with his own open musing about the prospects of a Nobel prize, President Donald Trump flew to the other side of the world to meet one of the world's most notorious tyrants on a long-shot peace mission", "uWX_db2fLL0-00001-00002026-00003585": "But his Hail Mary pass didn't work.He needed a win and a distraction given a day-long congressional hearing at home in which his ex-lawyer Michael Cohen painted a devastating picture of the President's character and effectively accused him of crimes on Wednesday", "uWX_db2fLL0-00002-00003585-00004408": "For once, Trump's attempt at counter-programming failed when the summit with Kim Jong Un broke up early with no agreement", "uWX_db2fLL0-00003-00004408-00005139": "It left the North Korea initiative -- on which Trump has played huge political capital -- in doubt", "uWX_db2fLL0-00004-00005139-00006529": "It was embarrassing for the President and a big disappointment to anyone who understands how devastating a war on the Korean peninsula would be and would like to see the world's last Cold War confrontation consigned to history", "uWX_db2fLL0-00005-00006529-00007945": "Washington's decision to offer Kim equal billing with the world's most powerful man -- a priceless propaganda coup -- in two major summits and Trump's entire impromptu and ego-centric negotiating style is now open to question", "uWX_db2fLL0-00006-00007945-00008924": "Criticism that Trump is engineering summits with North Korea as big photo-ops that are devoid of substance looks more valid after his Hanoi trip", "uWX_db2fLL0-00007-00008924-00010238": "And his \"art of the deal\" diplomacy has come up empty-handed again.The President's repeated insistence going in, for instance, that he was in \"no rush\" to get a deal may have undercut his own negotiating strategy", "uWX_db2fLL0-00008-00010238-00011106": "Trump tried to play down the collapse of the summit, saying that Kim had agreed to maintain his halt to missile and nuclear tests", "uWX_db2fLL0-00009-00011106-00011816": "\"This wasn't a walk away like you get up and walk out,\" Trump told reporters of the end of the summit", "uWX_db2fLL0-00010-00011816-00013059": "Secretary of State Mike Pompeo revealed that the US had wanted the North Koreans to \"do more\" to show it was sincere in giving up its nuclear weapons program and that Kim had refused", "uWX_db2fLL0-00011-00013059-00014261": "A case can be made that the US was playing hardball in ending the meeting when it didn't get what it wanted and refusing to lift sanctions before there is significant denuclearization", "uWX_db2fLL0-00012-00014261-00015379": "The summit's failure does not spell immediate disaster. Negotiating with a regime as isolated and intractable as the one in Pyongyang was always going to be tortuous", "uWX_db2fLL0-00013-00015379-00017085": "No President before Trump has managed to end its nuclear threat -- and prolonging the status quo as the current commander in chief did, is a far better scenario than a slide towards war, which was one possibility when Trump was threatening to rain \"fire and fury\" on North Korea"}}, {"audio_id": "uZt2uFUcQjc", "text": {"uZt2uFUcQjc-00000-00000571-00001608": "The Liberal CEO of a California-based clothing company has publicly stated that her company is working towards leading a “resistance” against President Trump", "uZt2uFUcQjc-00001-00001608-00003167": "The anti-Republican company is led by CEO Rose Marcario, who attacked President Trump after he explained his plans to reverse former President Obama’s campaign of seizing millions of acres of land from states and dubbing them “national monuments", "uZt2uFUcQjc-00002-00003167-00004110": "”.In a Huffpost article back in May, Marcario was quoted saying, “we have to fight like hell to keep every inch of public land", "uZt2uFUcQjc-00003-00004110-00005432": "I don’t have a lot of faith in politics and politicians right now.” Marcario is taking it as far as threatening to sue the Trump administration because of their scale back efforts of Obama’s land seizure", "uZt2uFUcQjc-00004-00005432-00006529": "What Marcario is actually fighting for is the ability to tell the inhabitants of these western states that they will never have a say in what goes on with their own land", "uZt2uFUcQjc-00005-00006529-00007276": "A poll taken amongst residents of Utah showed that 60% were against Obama’s land grab", "uZt2uFUcQjc-00006-00007276-00008483": "Only a mere 33% supported it.Marcario also stated that Patagonia would utilize profits to support pro-environmental candidates in states all over the West", "uZt2uFUcQjc-00007-00008483-00009120": "This isn’t the first time that the Liberal company has supported and funded political matters", "uZt2uFUcQjc-00008-00009120-00009954": "In 2016,the company spent more than $1 million for a get-out-the-vote campaign aimed to taken down Donald Trump", "uZt2uFUcQjc-00009-00009954-00010690": "Patagonia has a dark history of being tied to human trafficking and child labor within their supply chain", "uZt2uFUcQjc-00010-00010690-00012375": "Not really a company I would trust.The Patagonia company hasn’t only displayed their Liberal ideologies through their environmentalism efforts, but it has also been reported that the company donated $60,000 to Planned Parenthood, an infamous abortion mill", "uZt2uFUcQjc-00011-00012375-00014230": "The breakdown is as follows. Around $30,000 was donated by Patagonia to Planned Parenthood in 2012, then in 2013 the company donated another $25,000 to the baby killing clinic, and another $12,000 donation came in 2014", "uZt2uFUcQjc-00012-00014230-00016426": "Executive Director of Watchdog, Lance Wray, explained that Patagonia is a HUGE supporter of the Liberal agenda and will go to any means to try to take down President Trump Wray stated, “Patagonia’s Rose Marcario is the perfect example of why conservatives are sick and tired of CEOs using their position to push a political agenda", "uZt2uFUcQjc-00013-00016426-00017521": "Not only is she leading a lawsuit against the Trump administration, but her company provides financial support for the liberal agenda far beyond environmental activism", "uZt2uFUcQjc-00014-00017521-00018534": "”.I couldn’t agree with Wray more, and it’s about time that CEOs shut their mouths and run their businesses rather than putting their noses into politics", "uZt2uFUcQjc-00015-00018534-00019428": "When over half of the United States’ population voted for this man, Marcario’s company stands to lose a TON of business", "uZt2uFUcQjc-00016-00019428-00020640": "She is essentially shooting herself in the foot.Wray went on to say, “our research has found Patagonia uses its charitable giving arm to funnel tens of thousands of dollars to Planned Parenthood", "uZt2uFUcQjc-00017-00020640-00021611": "This means a portion of every customer dollar helps fund a gruesome business that performs over 300,000 abortions every year", "uZt2uFUcQjc-00018-00021611-00022842": "”.It’s time that we come together as Americans to take down companies like Patagonia and prove to them that we will not stand for their sick and twisted Liberal agenda"}}, {"audio_id": "uZRJnSc7D7M", "text": {"uZRJnSc7D7M-00000-00000571-00001992": "London’s left-wing mayor Sadiq Khan has said that neither independent Vermont senator Bernie Sanders, nor any of the Democrats who have announced a run for president, will beat incumbent Donald J Trump in 2020", "uZRJnSc7D7M-00001-00001992-00002833": "“I think the next president hasn’t declared yet,” Mr Khan said in an interview with HuffPost UK published Tuesday", "uZRJnSc7D7M-00002-00002833-00004081": ".The Labour progressive, highly critical of the America First President and demanded his summer 2018 UK visit be cancelled, added, “And I think, it’s not going to be Trump", "uZRJnSc7D7M-00003-00004081-00005100": "It can’t be Trump''.Amongst the Democrats who have thrown their hat in the ring that Khan has dismissed includes former Texas congressman Robert ‘Beto’ O’Rourke", "uZRJnSc7D7M-00004-00005100-00006080": "Mr O’Rourke, married to a real estate heiress, launched his presidential campaign last week and has come out in support of socialist Rep", "uZRJnSc7D7M-00005-00006080-00006832": "Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal and third trimester abortions if women want them", "uZRJnSc7D7M-00006-00006832-00008044": "It was revealed Tuesday that after losing his 16th district congressional seat to Republican Ted Cruz, O’Rourke reportedly ate dirt fabled to possess “regenerative powers''", "uZRJnSc7D7M-00007-00008044-00009517": "Aware that champagne socialists lack the common touch, Mr Khan went on to advise any progressive Democrat planning to run against President Trump that they would need to work to develop an “emotional connection” with the average American", "uZRJnSc7D7M-00008-00009517-00011085": "“What one of the challenges — and I’ve said this, I’ve got some friends in the Democratic party in America — is you’ve got to recognise the reasons why people supported [President Trump] and why people still support him,” Mr Khan said", "uZRJnSc7D7M-00009-00011085-00011839": ".“One of the mistakes we make as politicians is we only spend time with like-minded people", "uZRJnSc7D7M-00010-00011839-00013890": "We are like an echo chamber,” he added.Mr Khan has come under fire from the President for saying there was no reason “to be alarmed” in reaction to a deadly Islamist terror attack on London Bridge in June 2017, the President saying, “We must stop being politically correct and get down to the business of security for our people", "uZRJnSc7D7M-00011-00013890-00015029": "If we don’t get smart it will only get worse… At least 7 dead and 48 wounded in terror attack and Mayor of London says there is ‘no reason to be alarmed!'”", "uZRJnSc7D7M-00012-00015029-00015954": "The President has also highlighted London’s spiralling crime under Khan’s watch, saying the Labour mayor has done a “terrible job in London", "uZRJnSc7D7M-00013-00015954-00018093": "”. .President Trump, an Anglophile and patriot-nationalist, has consistently backed Brexit and the choice of the British people to leave the EU, while the British capital’s own mayor is holding out high hopes that in these turbulent past few weeks in British politics the UK will reverse the people’s decision and remain in the bloc"}}, {"audio_id": "uak3MJHggdA", "text": {"uak3MJHggdA-00000-00000571-00001950": "Oleg Deripaska is a Russian oligarch. At his peak, he was worth more than $20 billion, but during the financial crisis and since, he is reportedly only worth approximately $3 billion", "uak3MJHggdA-00001-00001950-00002796": "Deripaska is connected to Paul Manafort, who recently was sentenced twice in one week, then indicted by New York", "uak3MJHggdA-00002-00002796-00004651": "In April 2018, the United States imposed sanctions on Deripaska and more than twenty other Russian nationals, citing evidence that Deripaska “has been accused of threatening the lives of business rivals, illegally wiretapping a government official, and taking part in extortion and racketeering", "uak3MJHggdA-00003-00004651-00005931": "” In January 2019, the United States Treasury, per instructions from Steve Mnuchin and Trump, removed sanctions against Deripaska’s companies, but the ones on him personally remained", "uak3MJHggdA-00004-00005931-00006816": "Deripaska, not liking being addressed with constraints, has on Friday filed a lawsuit against Mnuchin and others", "uak3MJHggdA-00005-00006816-00008334": "Deripaska claims in his suit that the sanctions are devastating to him, claiming in one paragraph: “The consequence of Defendants’ unlawful action has been the utter devastation of Deripaska’s wealth, reputation, and economic livelihood", "uak3MJHggdA-00006-00008334-00009661": "As a result of his designations and the sanctions risk to foreign parties dealing with him or his businesses, Deripaska has been effectively shut out from the international business community and the global financial system", "uak3MJHggdA-00007-00009661-00010803": "Indeed, banks and businesses have terminated existing contracts and agreements with him, and businesses refuse to enter into any further dealings with him out of fear of exposure to U", "uak3MJHggdA-00008-00010803-00011766": "S. sanctions.”.Funny, we have some Russians fighting jurisdiction, such as in the secret grand jury proceedings in Washington, D", "uak3MJHggdA-00009-00011766-00012709": "C., while we now have a very bad hombre from Russia using that very same judicial system to try to get any remaining sanctions lifted"}}, {"audio_id": "uaqMKDuE9oc", "text": {"uaqMKDuE9oc-00000-00000571-00001529": "It is now well over two years ago since the Justice Department found itself forced to commission former Director of the FBI Robert S", "uaqMKDuE9oc-00001-00001529-00004270": "Mueller to be a Special Counsel and set up a probe in order to investigate claims that the 2016 campaign to elect then GOP candidate Donald Trump to the White House as President of the United States actually colluded with Russian state actors in order to steal the result of the election from rival Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton and then committed obstruction of justice afterwards in a desperate attempt to cover up what they had done during the election campaign cycle", "uaqMKDuE9oc-00002-00004270-00005301": "The unfolding situation surrounding the shocking and explosive testimony of Michael Cohen seems to get more and more baffling by the hour", "uaqMKDuE9oc-00003-00005301-00006944": "Who could have predicted back in 2016 that this former senior attorney and close adviser to President Donald Trump would now be testifying in amazingly strong terms against the Republican President of the United States and leader of the free world with such verve and vigor?", "uaqMKDuE9oc-00004-00006944-00008083": "The irony of the current situation is that Cohen, a famed liar and longtime Trump associate, is now one of the Left’s greatest allies in trying to take down Trump", "uaqMKDuE9oc-00005-00008083-00009369": "This was expressed brilliantly by Anderson Cooper live on CNN.“When Cohen testifies, yes, it’ll be a known liar who lied for another known liar because the liar told him to lie and paid him to lie", "uaqMKDuE9oc-00006-00009369-00010578": "Michael Cohen might lie tomorrow, we don’t know. But you can also argue the liar doesn’t actually have to lie anymore because he’s already been convicted of lying and he’s heading to prison", "uaqMKDuE9oc-00007-00010578-00011508": "How much more does he really have to lose? Now, keeping them honest, there is no doubt Michael Cohen has lied and lied a lot", "uaqMKDuE9oc-00008-00011508-00012435": "He lied about working for Donald Trump or his company. He lied on TV promoting Trump’s campaign and he lied under oath to Congress", "uaqMKDuE9oc-00009-00012435-00012796": "He’s a convicted felon"}}, {"audio_id": "ulbnKUm04MU", "text": {"ulbnKUm04MU-00000-00000571-00001778": "The Trump administration is not known for its attention to detail or accuracy. For a team that cries “fake news” and “lying media,” it should check its own work product", "ulbnKUm04MU-00001-00001778-00003603": "In what can only be described as perhaps an early April Fools joke, or perhaps someone seeing if they could slide one past Donald Trump, the Economic Report of the President from March 2019 lists alongside some real-life interns some fictional characters", "ulbnKUm04MU-00002-00003603-00004617": "The list in the Report is:nterns Student interns provide invaluable help with research projects, day-to-day operations, and fact-checking", "ulbnKUm04MU-00003-00004617-00006686": "Interns during the previous year were Brittany Amano, Jackson Bailey, Rana Bansal, Christian Brown, Lydia Byrom, John Cleese, Alexis Cirrotti, Jesse Dennis, Mackenzie Dickhudt, Adam Donoho, Troy Durie, Michael Everett, Isabelle Holland, Wesley Huang, J", "ulbnKUm04MU-00004-00006686-00009530": "T. Hutt, Kathryn Janeway, Mostafa Kamel, Ayesha Karnik, David Laszcz, John Leo, Eugene Liu, Kacey Manlove, Aunt May, Kevin Nguyen, Katherine Olsson, Sarah Park, Peter Parker, Pragya Parthasarathy, Arjun Ramani, Kriyana Reddy, Steve Rogers, Jake Rosen, Joshua Siegel, John Snow, Nirali Trivedi, Bruce Wayne, Amanda Wilcox, and Jacob Ziemba", "ulbnKUm04MU-00005-00009530-00011257": "Perhaps the Janeway listed is real and not really the Star Trek character. Same for Bruce Wayne (Batman), Peter Parker (Spiderman), John (sic) Snow (Game of Thrones), and JT Hutt (Jabba the Hut from Star Wars)", "ulbnKUm04MU-00006-00011257-00012109": "Martha Gimbel took a screenshot and posted it on Twitter so when it is corrected, it will remain for posterity", "ulbnKUm04MU-00007-00012109-00012973": "But this is not the only area where the Trump administration is not doing a great job of accuracy or quality control", "ulbnKUm04MU-00008-00012973-00014587": "For example, according to a Washington Post report, Trump is winning only 6 percent of federal lawsuits trying to implement his policies, well below the normal win percentage in these kinds of suits, which is around 70 percent", "ulbnKUm04MU-00009-00014587-00016019": "Donald Trump likes to talk about how unprecedented his first two years have been. Once again, like a clock right twice a day, he is right – the work product is sloppy on a level not seen before", "ulbnKUm04MU-00010-00016019-00016607": "Maybe he needs superheroes Spell Checker Super Lawyer to help him out"}}, {"audio_id": "v5A1Pfu8eG8", "text": {"v5A1Pfu8eG8-00000-00000513-00001419": "Robert Mueller’s report has been submitted, and at least some version of it is supposed to be made public as soon as this weekend", "v5A1Pfu8eG8-00001-00001419-00002840": "Mueller reportedly won’t indict anyone else, but as we’ve explained, Democratic leaders in Congress are expecting additional indictments from federal prosecutors such as SDNY, and those could come very soon", "v5A1Pfu8eG8-00002-00002840-00003697": "To that end, SDNY just made a major new prosecutorial hire.Geoffrey Berman is the current U.S", "v5A1Pfu8eG8-00003-00003697-00004724": "Attorney for the Southern District of New York, but he recused himself from all Trump-related investigations from day one, due to his past ties to Trump", "v5A1Pfu8eG8-00004-00004724-00005630": "That left the number two person at SDNY, Robert Khuzami, in charge of the criminal case against Michael Cohen", "v5A1Pfu8eG8-00005-00005630-00006952": "We would have expected Khuzami to also lead the way on any Trump-related SDNY indictments that could soon be unsealed – except that Khuzami is retiring, and he’s been replaced by a big name", "v5A1Pfu8eG8-00006-00006952-00008106": "The new #2 at SDNY is Audrey Strauss, who has a storied career. Back in the day she defeated Donald Trump’s mentor Roy Cohn in taking down a mafia leader", "v5A1Pfu8eG8-00007-00008106-00008754": "Since that time her career has been focused on aggressive white collar criminal enforcement", "v5A1Pfu8eG8-00008-00008754-00010214": "Keep in mind that Audrey Strauss is going to have authority over any Trump related criminal prosecutions by the SDNY going forward – and her specialty consists of taking down crime families and white collar criminals", "v5A1Pfu8eG8-00009-00010214-00010987": "Read into that whatever you like. We’ll all find out SDNY’s next moves soon enough"}}, {"audio_id": "v5b0peBwfR8", "text": {"v5b0peBwfR8-00000-00000513-00001803": "President Trump’s recent remarks about the Otto Warmbier case are the latest example of a “chronic problem” Trump has yet to overcome, Washington Post opinion writer Charles Lane argued Friday", "v5b0peBwfR8-00001-00001803-00003606": "During a news conference Thursday in Hanoi, Trump told reporters that he took North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at his word that he was unaware about the imprisonment of  Warmbier, an American college student who was detained for 17 months -- and then died one week after his release", "v5b0peBwfR8-00002-00003606-00005084": "During Friday's \"Special Report\" All-Star panel, Lane -- as well as Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Riley and Washington Free Beacon editor-in-chief Matthew Continetti -- weighed in on the political fallout of Trump’s rhetoric regarding Warmbier’s death", "v5b0peBwfR8-00003-00005084-00006453": "Lane began by noting that during Trump’s tribute to the Warmbier family in his 2018 State of the Union address, the president never directly placed blame on Kim, but on the Pyongyang \"dictatorship", "v5b0peBwfR8-00004-00006453-00007247": "\".“He’s been trying to sort of shield Kim from blame for this all along,\" Lane argued, referring to Trump", "v5b0peBwfR8-00005-00007247-00008294": "\"The thing that was different this time, he seemed to go an extra step at assert that, ‘Oh he wouldn’t have wanted to do that because it wouldn’t have been to his advantage", "v5b0peBwfR8-00006-00008294-00009629": "' It was almost like [Trump was] lawyering on his [Kim's] behalf.”.Lane added that Trump has had a “chronic problem” with how he talks about human rights abuses ever since his 2016 presidential campaign", "v5b0peBwfR8-00007-00009629-00010682": "He pointed to Trump's defense of Saudi Arabia after the death of writer Jamal Khashoggi and to Russia’s efforts to disrupt the 2016 election", "v5b0peBwfR8-00008-00010682-00012108": "After Trump made this week's Warmbier remarks, Riley told the panel, the White House realized it had to “walk this back,” especially because Warmbier’s family issued a statement that placed blamed squarely on Kim", "v5b0peBwfR8-00009-00012108-00012926": "“Kim Jong Un basically took the position that the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia took, which is, ‘These were rogue underlings", "v5b0peBwfR8-00010-00012926-00014336": "I really didn’t know anything about it. I’m very, very sorry,'\" Riley said. \"But we all know that in countries like North Korea and Saudi Arabia, nothing happens without the leadership at the top knowing about it", "v5b0peBwfR8-00011-00014336-00016183": "So they’re obviously lying about this.\".Meanwhile, Continetti said that with the collapse of the Hanoi summit, Trump has now experienced the “limits” of personal diplomacy -- and instead of denuclearization, the president may view a “ratcheting down of tensions” as a more realistic end goal with North Korea", "v5b0peBwfR8-00012-00016183-00016922": "“He has to keep in mind who Kim is, who the North Korean regime are,\" Continetti told the panel", "v5b0peBwfR8-00013-00016922-00017484": "\"And they are the world’s most chronic and terrible violators of human rights.\""}}, {"audio_id": "v76s1cJ9h94", "text": {"v76s1cJ9h94-00000-00000571-00001634": "President Donald Trump visited a new barrier on the Southern border on Friday, touting success for his campaign promise to build a “big, beautiful wall", "v76s1cJ9h94-00001-00001634-00002318": "”.“This is the wall,” Trump said to reporters who joined him on the trip. “It looks great", "v76s1cJ9h94-00002-00002318-00003454": "”.A U.S. Customs and Border Protection vehicle sits near the wall as President Donald Trump visits a new section of the border wall with Mexico in Calexico, Calif", "v76s1cJ9h94-00003-00003454-00004873": ", Friday April 5, 2019. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin).Breitbart TV.Play Video.The steel border barriers were at the Mexican border of Calexico, replacing existing fencing", "v76s1cJ9h94-00004-00004873-00005926": "“It’s better and much more effective than the previous wall. And we actually can do it faster and it’s less expensive if you can believe it,” Trump said", "v76s1cJ9h94-00005-00005926-00007232": "“So it’s better, faster, and less expensive.”. .Trump spoke in front of a concrete barrier that was shorter but pointed to a barrier constructed of steel slats that could be up to 30 feet high", "v76s1cJ9h94-00006-00007232-00007994": "President Donald Trump visits a new section of the border wall with Mexico in Calexico, Calif", "v76s1cJ9h94-00007-00007994-00009073": ", Friday April 5, 2019. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin).“This is – the majority I would say would be in this style,” he said", "v76s1cJ9h94-00008-00009073-00010633": "Border Patrol chief Gloria Chavez explained to reporters that the wall had already made a big difference on the border, noting that illegal entries had dropped by 75 percent and that assaults against border patrol agents had dropped by 65 percent", "v76s1cJ9h94-00009-00010633-00011435": "Trump supporters came out to celebrate the president’s trip, waving flags and signs next to the road to the border", "v76s1cJ9h94-00010-00011435-00012388": "As seen from the press vehicle accompanying President Donald Trump, people line the road as Trump heads to the border with Mexico in Calexico, Calif", "v76s1cJ9h94-00011-00012388-00013613": ", Friday April 5, 2019. Trump headed to the border with Mexico to make a renewed push for border security as a central campaign issue for his 2020 re-election", "v76s1cJ9h94-00012-00013613-00014768": "(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin).Earlier in the afternoon, Trump hosted a roundtable to highlight the crisis at the border and told migrants an illegal immigrants to turn around", "v76s1cJ9h94-00013-00014768-00015988": "“The system is full whether its asylum, whether its illegal immigration, our country is full, our area is full, the sector is full, we can’t take you anymore,” he said", "v76s1cJ9h94-00014-00015988-00016481": "“I’m sorry, so turn around, that’s the way it is.”"}}, {"audio_id": "vqiNoSoVDwA", "text": {"vqiNoSoVDwA-00000-00000571-00002164": "In a recent report from The Wall Street Journal, we have learned that Michael Cohen, former personal attorney to President Donald Trump, hired a small polling company prior to the 2016 presidential election to rig two online polls in the president’s favor", "vqiNoSoVDwA-00001-00002164-00004936": "And then he stiffed the company he hired out of most of the money he owed them.Jon Gauger, owner and director of RedFinch Solutions, LLC and also Chief Information Officer for Liberty University, told the newspaper that he was owed approximately $50,000 for the job but when he arrived at Trump Towers to collect the money, he was given just over $12,000 in a plastic Walmart shopping bag and “randomly, a boxing glove that Mr", "vqiNoSoVDwA-00002-00004936-00005816": "Cohen said had been worn by a Brazilian mixed-martial arts fighter''.It was also during this bizarre exchange that Cohen asked Mr", "vqiNoSoVDwA-00003-00005816-00006733": "Gauger to create the @WomenForCohen Twitter account, which is still active today, to paint Cohen as a staunch supporter and booster for Mr", "vqiNoSoVDwA-00004-00006733-00007843": "Trump and moreover, to encourage his standing as a “sex symbol”. The account has the following description in its Twitter bio: “Women who love and support Michael Cohen", "vqiNoSoVDwA-00005-00007843-00008637": "Strong, pit bull, sex symbol, no nonsense, business oriented, and ready to make a difference!”", "vqiNoSoVDwA-00006-00008637-00010021": "Of course, since the time of this deal, Cohen has been sentenced to three years in prison for various financial crimes, including tax fraud, false statements to a bank, campaign finance violations and more", "vqiNoSoVDwA-00007-00010021-00011139": "Surely there is no surprise that yet another one-time close ally to President Trump is involved in so many underhanded and seedy business interactions"}}, {"audio_id": "vDDWFOAX5xA", "text": {"vDDWFOAX5xA-00000-00000571-00001764": "The Trump administration announced Thursday that it plans to change labor regulations so that more salaried workers are eligible for overtime pay when they work long hours", "vDDWFOAX5xA-00001-00001764-00002760": "But its proposal would benefit far fewer middle-class workers than the stalled plan that the Obama administration put forward just three years ago", "vDDWFOAX5xA-00002-00002760-00003833": "Unlike hourly employees, very few U.S. workers paid on salary are guaranteed time-and-a-half pay when they work more than 40 hours in a week", "vDDWFOAX5xA-00003-00003833-00005139": "The Trump plan, developed by the Labor Department, would expand protections to more workers by raising what’s known as the overtime salary threshold ― the salary below which all workers are assured overtime pay", "vDDWFOAX5xA-00004-00005139-00006618": "For more than a decade, that threshold has remained a measly $23,660. That means if your salary is greater than that, you can work unlimited hours in a week and earn nothing more than your base salary", "vDDWFOAX5xA-00005-00006618-00007597": "The Trump proposal would raise the threshold to roughly $35,000, expanding the universe of workers entitled to time-and-a-half pay", "vDDWFOAX5xA-00006-00007597-00008629": "“Our economy has more job openings than job seekers and more Americans are joining the labor force,” Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta said in a statement", "vDDWFOAX5xA-00007-00008629-00009376": "“[T]oday’s proposal would bring common sense, consistency, and higher wages to working Americans''", "vDDWFOAX5xA-00008-00009376-00010356": "But worker advocates say the administration is doing the employer lobby a favor, by proposing a threshold that they say is still too low", "vDDWFOAX5xA-00009-00010356-00011476": "By not raising it even higher, they say, companies will still be allowed to work many of their employees excessive hours knowing they won’t have to pay them anything extra for it", "vDDWFOAX5xA-00010-00011476-00012730": "Democrats piled on the plan before it was even officially released. “If the Trump administration follows through on this rule, it would be breaking its promise to hardworking Americans,” Sen", "vDDWFOAX5xA-00011-00012730-00013916": "Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) said in a statement. .The Obama administration tried to reform the overtime rules in a more aggressive and worker-friendly way", "vDDWFOAX5xA-00012-00013916-00014875": "In 2016, they released a plan to roughly double the salary threshold, to $47,476", "vDDWFOAX5xA-00013-00014875-00015995": "It was one of the most ambitious economic reforms of Obama’s presidency, a plan he said would restore higher wages and leisure time to overworked Americans", "vDDWFOAX5xA-00014-00015995-00016826": ".And yet it never made its way into law. Most employers despised the plan, calling it a job killer", "vDDWFOAX5xA-00015-00016826-00017826": "The proposal would have left them with an unpleasant choice: either cap their workers at 40 hours, or start paying them more for their extra work", "vDDWFOAX5xA-00016-00017826-00019111": "They sued to stop it from going into effect. A federal judge in Texas granted an injunction in 2016, saying Obama’s Labor Department exceeded its authority the way it wrote the new rule"}}, {"audio_id": "vIT8b5vVXiY", "text": {"vIT8b5vVXiY-00000-00000571-00002188": "Bullies always reveal themselves to be cowards in the end. Roger Stone, who is essentially Donald Trump with more proverbial clown paint and less real clown paint, spent forty years corruptly running roughshod across the American political landscape", "vIT8b5vVXiY-00001-00002188-00002867": "Yet there he was yesterday, a pathetic and broken man, begging a federal judge for mercy", "vIT8b5vVXiY-00002-00002867-00004243": "It’s a roadmap for where Donald Trump is heading.We still don’t know how accurate these major media reports are about Special Counsel Robert Mueller issuing a report next week about Donald Trump’s crime spree", "vIT8b5vVXiY-00003-00004243-00004954": "We don’t know precisely how quickly thereafter House Democrats will initiate the impeachment process", "vIT8b5vVXiY-00004-00004954-00006069": "We still don’t know the exact timetable in which entities like SDNY and the Attorney General of New York might move on Trump’s kids in relation to this report", "vIT8b5vVXiY-00005-00006069-00006816": "But it’s becoming more clear by the day that these things are all happening sooner rather than later", "vIT8b5vVXiY-00006-00006816-00007428": "This is the part where Trump cracks.Trump thinks he can throw down with the best of them", "vIT8b5vVXiY-00007-00007428-00009024": "But all he really does is try to isolate his adversaries so he can very publicly pick on them one at a time, either because they have a particular vulnerability he thinks he can exploit, or because they’re in a position where they can’t publicly fight back", "vIT8b5vVXiY-00008-00009024-00010019": "Trump’s approach is that of a coward. He never even tries to fight all of his adversaries at once, because, well, he’s never had to", "vIT8b5vVXiY-00009-00010019-00011139": "That’s about to change wholesale.Donald Trump is the kind of attention deficit brute force bully who can just barely manage to focus on one simplistic tactic at a time", "vIT8b5vVXiY-00010-00011139-00012425": "How do you take down the big dumb ogre? You attack him from all sides, all at once, not simply to overpower him, but to leave him confused and thus unequipped to properly fight back at all", "vIT8b5vVXiY-00011-00012425-00013420": "That attack is coming soon. In the end, Trump will be just another Roger Stone: broken, pathetic, and begging for mercy", "vIT8b5vVXiY-00012-00013420-00013660": "Bring it on"}}, {"audio_id": "vRP4qQT1Rt0", "text": {"vRP4qQT1Rt0-00000-00000000-00000200": "д8щб 0", "vRP4qQT1Rt0-00001-00000200-00000400": "ж68", "vRP4qQT1Rt0-00002-00000400-00000600": "6ж", "vRP4qQT1Rt0-00003-00000600-00000800": "76ж", "vRP4qQT1Rt0-00004-00000800-00001000": "жюш7н", "vRP4qQT1Rt0-00005-00001000-00001200": "6 ме", "vRP4qQT1Rt0-00007-00001400-00001600": "6юже", "vRP4qQT1Rt0-00009-00001800-00002000": "ю6ж", "vRP4qQT1Rt0-00010-00002000-00002200": "егжщ", "vRP4qQT1Rt0-00011-00002200-00002400": "юпгшн.ш", "vRP4qQT1Rt0-00012-00002400-00002600": "ню", "vRP4qQT1Rt0-00015-00003000-00003200": "ш", "vRP4qQT1Rt0-00019-00003800-00004000": "ро.г"}}, {"audio_id": "vg9KKcTL14I", "text": {"vg9KKcTL14I-00000-00000571-00002214": "A US District Court judge ruled on Friday that President Donald Trump overreached his authority when he previously reversed an Obama-era ban on offshore drilling in parts of the Atlantic and Arctic oceans and the Obama restrictions are now back in place", "vg9KKcTL14I-00001-00002214-00003478": "Judge Sharon Gleason gave her ruling late Friday and said that while presidents have a federal law authority to remove certain lands from development, they do NOT have the authority to revoke those removals", "vg9KKcTL14I-00002-00003478-00004635": "Judge Gleason’s decision saw to the tossing of Trump’s executive order to lift the Obama bans on the drilling, now restoring an important part of Obama’s environmental legacy", "vg9KKcTL14I-00003-00004635-00005599": "While the Department of Justice has declined to comment on the matter, one defendant in the case, The American Petroleum Institute, offered a statement", "vg9KKcTL14I-00004-00005599-00007198": "“In addition to bringing supplies of affordable energy to consumers for decades to come, developing our abundant offshore resources can provide billions in government revenue, create thousands of jobs and will also strengthen our national security", "vg9KKcTL14I-00005-00007198-00008663": "”.The American Petroleum Institute.Environmental groups everywhere are reveling in the judge’s decision, including the numerous environmental groups who have sued the Trump administration over Trump’s 2017 order to reverse the drilling bans", "vg9KKcTL14I-00006-00008663-00010588": "Erik Grafe is an attorney with Earthjustice, who represents several of those environmental groups and he was pleased with the ruling and stated that it “shows that the president cannot just trample on the Constitution to do the bidding of his cronies in the fossil fuel industry at the expense of our oceans, wildlife and climate", "vg9KKcTL14I-00007-00010588-00012420": "”.Acting Assistant US Attorney General Jeffrey Wood previously stated that he thought the environmental groups were wrong in their understanding the intent of the original law written in 1953 and that the law is meant to be flexible as the realities of offshore drilling and potential needs change over time", "vg9KKcTL14I-00008-00012420-00013263": "He believes that presidents should not be bound by the decisions made by other presidents if they see a different need arise", "vg9KKcTL14I-00009-00013263-00014776": "President Obama made important decisions like banning exploration and withdrawing leases in the Arctic to protect animals like the walrus, the ice seal, the polar bear, and other animals that Alaska Native villages depend on for survival", "vg9KKcTL14I-00010-00014776-00015677": "In the Atlantic, he banned the exploration of over 5k square miles to protect the underwater infrastructure there as well"}}, {"audio_id": "vj54Wj7DH9U", "text": {"vj54Wj7DH9U-00000-00000513-00002245": "Donald Trump’s latest pipe dream for saving himself from prison apparently involves stealing the Mueller report from Robert Mueller, putting a big red X through the parts that incriminate him, and waving a magic wand, all while hurling some more insults at the late John McCain", "vj54Wj7DH9U-00001-00002245-00003399": "Back in the real world, Trump’s latest pipe dream just got shattered.Trump told reporters today that he thinks the public should get to see Robert Mueller’s full report", "vj54Wj7DH9U-00002-00003399-00004225": "But along the way, Trump slipped in one rather absurd detail: he should get to see the report before Congress does", "vj54Wj7DH9U-00003-00004225-00005706": "We all know why. Trump is hoping to find a way to prevent Congress from seeing the ugliest parts of the report, or at least get the opportunity to lie about these things before Congress can reveal it all to the public", "vj54Wj7DH9U-00004-00005706-00006565": "But nothing works that way, and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler just reminded everyone of as much", "vj54Wj7DH9U-00005-00006565-00007874": "He tweeted “The law here is very clear. When he finishes his work, Special Counsel Mueller is required to report to the Attorney General, who is required to report to the House and Senate Judiciary Committees", "vj54Wj7DH9U-00006-00007874-00008916": "”.In other words, Attorney General William Barr would be committing a crime by letting Donald Trump see the Mueller report before he gives it to Congress", "vj54Wj7DH9U-00007-00008916-00009593": "Trump would run his big mouth about it, Barr would get caught in the act, and he’d end up in prison", "vj54Wj7DH9U-00008-00009593-00010640": "We don’t think Barr is that reckless or stupid – and Nadler just reminded Barr that he would face consequences if he were tempted to do something that stupid"}}, {"audio_id": "w0xVMS6krlI", "text": {"w0xVMS6krlI-00000-00000571-00001177": "Michael Cohen, the longtime lawyer and aide to Donald Trump, testified before the Senate intelligence committee on Tuesday in the first of three congressional appearances this week that could contain explosive testimony about how Trump allegedly broke the law while in office, according to US media reports", "w0xVMS6krlI-00001-00001177-00001783": "Cohen, who once said he would “take a bullet” for Trump but has since turned against his former boss, appeared before the Senate panel in a closed session", "w0xVMS6krlI-00002-00001783-00002389": "Over the course of the hearings, NBC News said Cohen plans to “provide evidence of alleged criminal conduct by Trump since he became president”, while the New York Times reported Cohen “will use documents and his personal experiences to support his statements''", "w0xVMS6krlI-00003-00002389-00002995": "Cohen will appear in another closed session before the House intelligence committee on Thursday", "w0xVMS6krlI-00004-00002995-00003601": "But all eyes will be on what the former Trump aide reveals on Wednesday, when he is to testify before the Houseoversight and reform committee in a public hearing", "w0xVMS6krlI-00005-00003601-00004207": "Tensions rose ahead of the long-awaited session, when the Florida lawmaker Matt Gaetz on Tuesday appeared to threaten Cohen on Twitter", "w0xVMS6krlI-00006-00004207-00004813": "Cohen’s lawyer, Lanny Davis, said his team would not respond to Gaetz’ allegations, “except to say we trust that his colleagues in the House, both Republicans and Democrats, will repudiate his words and his conduct”", "w0xVMS6krlI-00007-00004813-00005419": "Cohen will be testifying under penalty of perjury but will probably be met with skepticism from Republicans who will seek to draw attention to a track record of dishonesty", "w0xVMS6krlI-00008-00005419-00006025": "The White House sought to discredit Cohen on Tuesday before the hearings began.The White House spokeswoman, Sarah Sanders, issued a statement saying he was “going to prison for lying to Congress and making other false statements''"}}, {"audio_id": "wLGUs4l3Vho", "text": {"wLGUs4l3Vho-00000-00000571-00002002": "A panel on CNN’s Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer reacted live on air to news that the Mueller report has concluded and resulted in no new indictments by admitting that President Trump has won a “huge victory", "wLGUs4l3Vho-00001-00002002-00002613": "”.“He’s been vindicated by them,” Evan Pérez said of President Trump and the Mueller report", "wLGUs4l3Vho-00002-00002613-00003739": ".“And then he’s now vindicated, exactly,” Gloria Borger said.“You know–how do you manage that politically? I mean, we obviously can’t jump the gun here", "wLGUs4l3Vho-00003-00003739-00005009": "We have to see what comes out from Barr, and what’s in the report. But if I’m at Mar-A-Lago with the president, as Pamela has been reporting, the lawyers are … that I would be very happy,” she added", "wLGUs4l3Vho-00004-00005009-00005792": "Later, a panel member concluded that the Mueller report was in fact a “huge victory” for President Trump", "wLGUs4l3Vho-00005-00005792-00006607": "“A couple of victories here,” CNN’s Shimon Prokupecz said.“The president did not have to sit down for an interview", "wLGUs4l3Vho-00006-00006607-00007276": "They were so concerned about that, because he’d get caught up in lies–and there’d be perjury traps", "wLGUs4l3Vho-00007-00007276-00008162": "Okay, so that’s now over. No more people being indicted. Sealed, unsealed–no more indictments", "wLGUs4l3Vho-00008-00008162-00009572": "Mueller is done. Huge victory for the president,” he said. .Special counsel Robert Mueller concluded the Russia investigation and turned over his report to Attorney General Willian Barr Friday afternoon", "wLGUs4l3Vho-00009-00009572-00010351": "According to multiple reports, there will be no further indictments in the report, sealed or unsealed"}}, {"audio_id": "wQBvy-Y_kgU", "text": {"wQBvy-Y_kgU-00000-00000571-00001845": "Michael Cohen's attorney Tuesday clarified his client's public testimony that he didn't ask for a pardon from President Donald Trump, arguing that Cohen's statement was true even if it could have been clearer", "wQBvy-Y_kgU-00001-00001845-00003609": "Cohen has been under fire from Republicans and Trump for testifying that he had \"never asked for, nor would I accept\" a pardon from the President, amid reports that Cohen's attorneys discussed the prospect of a pardon with Trump's legal team while Cohen was still a part of the Trump joint defense agreement", "wQBvy-Y_kgU-00002-00003609-00004452": "\"In retrospect, while the sentence could have been clearer regarding the time frames, the sentence is true, and Mr", "wQBvy-Y_kgU-00003-00004452-00005547": "Cohen stands by his statement,\" wrote Michael Monico, Cohen's attorney, in a letter to House Oversight Chairman Elijah Cummings that was obtained by CNN", "wQBvy-Y_kgU-00004-00005547-00006195": "Monico argued in the letter that Cohen's statement was written \"in the context of Mr", "wQBvy-Y_kgU-00005-00006195-00007127": "Cohen's decision in June 2018\" to leave the joint defense agreement, and not the discussions that occurred about pardons beforehand", "wQBvy-Y_kgU-00006-00007127-00007963": "\"At no time did Mr. Cohen personally ask President Trump for a pardon or did the President offer Mr", "wQBvy-Y_kgU-00007-00007963-00009188": "Cohen the same,\" Monico wrote.But the new letter from Monico is unlikely to satisfy Republicans, who have charged Cohen may have committed perjury in his testimony"}}, {"audio_id": "wYKlye4i6PM", "text": {"wYKlye4i6PM-00000-00000513-00001918": "On Tuesday, House Democrat Elijah Cummings clashed with the White House, alleging that the Trump administration had refused to comply with Democrats’ repeated investigations into the process of issuing security clearances", "wYKlye4i6PM-00001-00001918-00003261": "Cummings and Democrats have drawn criticism from Republicans and the White House for their repeated probes and investigations, with the security clearance probe specifically appearing to target President Trump’s family", "wYKlye4i6PM-00002-00003261-00004078": "White House counsel Pat Cipollone has, in turn, accused the House Oversight and Reform Committee, of which Rep", "wYKlye4i6PM-00003-00004078-00004692": "Cummings is the Chairman, of “unprecedented and extraordinarily intrusive demands", "wYKlye4i6PM-00004-00004692-00005909": "”.As the two sides have continued to clash, Cummings has accused the White House of stonewalling attempts at furthering the probe into security clearances, and has vowed to keep the investigation going", "wYKlye4i6PM-00005-00005909-00007610": "House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) on Tuesday criticized the White House for failing to comply with requests for documents and interviews in connection with his panel’s probe into the Trump administration’s security clearance process", "wYKlye4i6PM-00006-00007610-00009344": "Cummings, who said he would consult committee lawmakers to “determine our next steps” to obtain those materials, also released a new letter written by White House counsel Pat Cipollone in which he accused the committee of making “unprecedented and extraordinarily intrusive demands” in the course of its probe", "wYKlye4i6PM-00007-00009344-00010893": "Cipollone also argued that the committee was overstepping its oversight powers with the requests, writing that the “decision to grant or deny a security clearance is a discretionary function that belongs exclusively to the Executive Branch", "wYKlye4i6PM-00008-00010893-00012173": "”.Cummings on Tuesday blasted the White House counsel’s argument as “[defying] the Constitutional separation of powers, decades of precedent before this Committee, and just plain common-sense", "wYKlye4i6PM-00009-00012173-00013986": "”.“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", "wYKlye4i6PM-00010-00013986-00015661": "“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,” the top Democrat said"}}, {"audio_id": "wZd2YsB6Mr0", "text": {"wZd2YsB6Mr0-00000-00000571-00001498": "A former ESPN writer has penned a new book in which he claims that President Trump is a notorious cheat, when it comes to the game of golf", "wZd2YsB6Mr0-00001-00001498-00002977": "Longtime Sports Illustrated and ESPN sportswriter Rick Reilly, includes interviews and stories from a large group of people who have played with Trump, to put together a book titled: Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump", "wZd2YsB6Mr0-00002-00002977-00003674": "“To say ‘Donald Trump cheats’ is like saying ‘Michael Phelps swims,’” Reilly explains in the book", "wZd2YsB6Mr0-00003-00003674-00004358": "“He cheats at the highest level. He cheats when people are watching and he cheats when they aren’t", "wZd2YsB6Mr0-00004-00004358-00005293": "He cheats whether you like it or not. He cheats because that’s how he plays golf … if you’re playing golf with him, he’s going to cheat", "wZd2YsB6Mr0-00005-00005293-00006600": "”.Reilly himself has played with Trump on several occasions.The former ESPN scribe takes particular exception with Trump’s claim to possess a handicap of 2,8, an excellent score", "wZd2YsB6Mr0-00006-00006600-00007297": "“If Trump is a 2,8, Queen Elizabeth is a pole vaulter,” Reilly quips.According to the Hill:", "wZd2YsB6Mr0-00007-00007297-00008070": "The book also details Trump allegedly exaggerating or creating facts and figures about his golf courses", "wZd2YsB6Mr0-00008-00008070-00009206": "According to the Post, Reilly writes that Trump’s course at Bedminster boasts a plaque with a quote from course architect Tom Fazio that says ‘This is the best design I’ve ever done", "wZd2YsB6Mr0-00009-00009206-00009985": "’.Fazio told Reilly, ‘I don’t believe I said it exactly like that.’.Actor Samuel L", "wZd2YsB6Mr0-00010-00009985-00010975": "Jackson claims, “We clearly saw him hook a ball into a lake at Trump National [Bedminster, New Jersey], and his caddy told him he found it!”", "wZd2YsB6Mr0-00011-00010975-00011610": "Reilly also takes shots at the commander-in-chief for his shunning of golf etiquette", "wZd2YsB6Mr0-00012-00011610-00012325": "Specifically, Trump’s apparent habit of not removing his hat during handshakes after rounds", "wZd2YsB6Mr0-00013-00012325-00013388": "In addition to not taking his hat off in the clubhouse.Reilly’s best explanation for these, and other alleged failings?: “Golf, is like bicycle shorts", "wZd2YsB6Mr0-00014-00013388-00014020": "It reveals a lot about a man.”.The book will be available in bookstores on Tuesday"}}, {"audio_id": "wbBS3ig4bEk", "text": {"wbBS3ig4bEk-00000-00000571-00001394": "“Obamacare is a disaster, it’s too expensive by far, people can’t afford it and the deductible is horrible,” Trump said", "wbBS3ig4bEk-00001-00001394-00002182": "The president responded to questions from White House reporters about health care during an appearance in the Oval Office", "wbBS3ig4bEk-00002-00002182-00003013": "He said that his administration had improved Obamacare during his presidency, but that he wanted to ultimately replace it", "wbBS3ig4bEk-00003-00003013-00004013": "“It’s still horrible, no good, it’s something that we can’t live within this country, because it’s far too expensive for the people,” Trump said", "wbBS3ig4bEk-00004-00004013-00004818": "He noted that premiums were too expensive and that in many cases, deductibles were over $7,000 annually", "wbBS3ig4bEk-00005-00004818-00005818": "“The premiums are too expensive, people are going broke trying to pay for it,” he said, adding that he understood the problems with health care better than before", "wbBS3ig4bEk-00006-00005818-00006482": "The president reaffirmed that the Republicans would be the party of “great health care” in the future", "wbBS3ig4bEk-00007-00006482-00007192": "“The Democrats aren’t, they’ve let you down, they came up with Obamacare, its terrible,” Trump said", "wbBS3ig4bEk-00008-00007192-00008104": "Trump said he was pleased that he repealed Obamacare’s individual mandate, as people across the United States repeatedly thanked him for it", "wbBS3ig4bEk-00009-00008104-00008927": "The Justice Department’s announced on Monday they would side with a Texas judge’s ruling that Obamacare was unconstitutional", "wbBS3ig4bEk-00010-00008927-00009721": "In response, Democrats argued that Trump was trying to take away coverage for pre-existing medical conditions", "wbBS3ig4bEk-00011-00009721-00010758": "Trump said the White House and Republicans in Congress were already exploring options to replace Obamacare if it was struck down by the Supreme Court", "wbBS3ig4bEk-00012-00010758-00011635": "“If the Supreme Court rules that Obamacare is out, we will have a plan that is far better than Obamacare,” he said"}}, {"audio_id": "x4W86el_njU", "text": {"x4W86el_njU-00000-00000571-00001409": "“President” Donald “Dictator Donnie” Trump must be in trouble again. Something big must be about to blow", "x4W86el_njU-00001-00001409-00002898": "How do we know this? His tweets, lashing out at the media. On Sunday, he once again labeled the media the “enemy of the people,” emphasizing the attribution in all caps: “THE RIGGED AND CORRUPT MEDIA IS THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!”", "x4W86el_njU-00002-00002898-00005254": ".This followed his attacks on Saturday Night Live, calling for retribution for daring to make fun of Corruptus Maximus: “Nothing funny about tired Saturday Night Live on Fake News NBC! Question is, how do the Networks get away with these total Republican hit jobs without retribution? Likewise for many other shows? Very unfair and should be looked into", "x4W86el_njU-00003-00005254-00006903": "This is the real Collusion!”Notwithstanding that the statement on its face is absurd, that a political satire program can somehow be a form of collusion (which Trump and his legal team repeatedly state when it comes to him is not a thing), the tweets are dangerous", "x4W86el_njU-00004-00006903-00008141": "They are the ramblings and wishes of a dictator, someone who is not open to criticism or questioning, sort of the treatment his idols Putin and Kim and MBS get from their home media outlets", "x4W86el_njU-00005-00008141-00009264": ".At one point in our nation’s history, not long after we established our new nation under the United States Constitution, Congress passed laws known as the Alien and Sedition Acts", "x4W86el_njU-00006-00009264-00010445": "Passed in 1798, the laws focused on certain behaviors by immigrants. The alien parts of the laws remain in effect today, more than 200 years later", "x4W86el_njU-00007-00010445-00011662": "However, the sedition acts, which prohibited public opposition to the government, including parody and criticism, and imposed liability against those who “write, print, utter, or publish", "x4W86el_njU-00008-00011662-00012498": ". . any false, scandalous and malicious writing” against the government, expired in the early 1800s", "x4W86el_njU-00009-00012498-00013250": "Over the decades, the laws have changed, and we are permitted to criticize the President and others", "x4W86el_njU-00010-00013250-00014308": "(If that were not permissible, the 24/7 channels including CNN, Fox, and MSNBC, would quickly be out of business", "x4W86el_njU-00011-00014308-00015727": ")The real enemy of the people, the one who is most dangerous to our nation and who has poisoned his base against the media, against federal law enforcement, against all our cherished institutions and bedrocks, is “Dictator Donnie", "x4W86el_njU-00012-00015727-00016322": "” His language is dangerous, and we must all call him out for the danger it is"}}, {"audio_id": "x7zJOkCbJDI", "text": {"x7zJOkCbJDI-00000-00000513-00001197": "House Democrats are vowing to get their hands on President Trump’s past tax returns", "x7zJOkCbJDI-00001-00001197-00002077": "And according a spokeswoman for Speaker Nancy Pelosi, they will “take all necessary steps” -- including litigation -- to get them", "x7zJOkCbJDI-00002-00002077-00004149": "“Every day the American people and Congress learn more about President Trump’s improprieties, from conflicts of interest to influence peddling, potential tax evasion and violations of the Constitution – all roads leading back to President Trump’s finances,” Ashley Etienne, a spokeswoman for Pelosi, told Fox News on Friday", "x7zJOkCbJDI-00003-00004149-00005275": "“These improprieties, and the lack of transparency around them, give the House legitimate legislative, oversight and legal reasons to review the president’s tax returns", "x7zJOkCbJDI-00004-00005275-00006192": "”.The topic has been a contentious one for the president since his time on the campaign trail in 2016, and throughout his administration", "x7zJOkCbJDI-00005-00006192-00007309": "Trump has claimed that his tax returns are complicated, and has maintained that he will not release them while they are under audit by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)", "x7zJOkCbJDI-00006-00007309-00008448": "Fox News is told the request for years of Trump’s past tax returns is expected to go to the IRS “as early as the next few weeks,” according to aides close to the process", "x7zJOkCbJDI-00007-00008448-00009175": "“We will take all necessary steps, including litigation, if necessary, to obtain them", "x7zJOkCbJDI-00008-00009175-00010564": "Given President Trump’s recalcitrance, the committees with jurisdictional and legislative equities are working with the Ways and Means Committee to ensure the House is able to present the strongest possible case,” Etienne said", "x7zJOkCbJDI-00009-00010564-00011327": "A source told Fox News that Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal, D-Mass", "x7zJOkCbJDI-00010-00011327-00012900": ", has also reached out to fellow chairs of other House investigative committees – including Financial Services, Intelligence, Judiciary, and Oversight -- asking them to lay out in detail why they need to review the president’s tax returns for their own efforts", "x7zJOkCbJDI-00011-00012900-00013900": "Democrats signaled during hearings this week with Trump’s former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, that they are working to get the tax returns", "x7zJOkCbJDI-00012-00013900-00015378": "Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., on Wednesday asked Cohen if Trump had intentionally devalued his real estate assets to reduce his tax bills, to which Cohen responded, \"Yes", "x7zJOkCbJDI-00013-00015378-00016789": "\".Ocasio-Cortez, a member of the House Oversight Committee, sought to lay the groundwork for lawmakers to potentially subpoena employees of the Trump Organization -- including its chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg", "x7zJOkCbJDI-00014-00016789-00018354": "Cohen said Weisselberg was privy to Trump's various money maneuvers and who received immunity from federal prosecutors in New York to testify against Cohen prior to the attorney's guilty plea on federal campaign finance violations last August", "x7zJOkCbJDI-00015-00018354-00019743": "\"What you do is, you deflate the value of the asset and then you put in a request to the tax department for a deduction,\" Cohen said when Ocasio-Cortez asked how Trump attempted to reduce his tax burden", "x7zJOkCbJDI-00016-00019743-00020838": "\"And would it help for the committee to obtain federal and state tax returns from the president and his company to address that discrepancy?\" Ocasio-Cortez asked", "x7zJOkCbJDI-00017-00020838-00021917": "\"I believe so,\" Cohen answered.In response to questioning from another lawmaker, Cohen said that he had seen Trump's tax returns, but had not gone through them"}}, {"audio_id": "xsqFxzSWULA", "text": {"xsqFxzSWULA-00000-00001678-00001778": "музыка Міхася Хахлова, вершы Ігара Барысевіча,", "xsqFxzSWULA-00001-00001778-00001878": "Усё бліжэй апошняя бітва У перамозе сумневу няма", "xsqFxzSWULA-00002-00001878-00001978": "І ў сэрцы гучыць, як малітва -", "xsqFxzSWULA-00003-00001978-00002078": "Ідзе аперацыя zет.", "xsqFxzSWULA-00004-00002078-00002552": "Дачакаліся мы гэтай гадзіны Гатовы ворагу даць адказ,", "xsqFxzSWULA-00005-00002552-00003403": "За мір і волю Данбаса Ідзе аперацыя zeт.", "xsqFxzSWULA-00006-00003403-00003509": "прыпеў.", "xsqFxzSWULA-00007-00003509-00004360": "Сыходзіць за ротаю рота, Сыходзяць хлопцы на досвітку", "xsqFxzSWULA-00008-00004360-00004891": "- Для іх ёсць мужчынская праца,", "xsqFxzSWULA-00009-00004891-00005210": "Ідзе аперацыя zет.", "xsqFxzSWULA-00010-00005210-00006060": "Каб мірнае сонца ўставала Каб зямлю пазбавіць ад", "xsqFxzSWULA-00011-00006060-00006592": "бед Баёў яшчэ будзе нямала", "xsqFxzSWULA-00012-00006592-00006909": "Ідзе аперацыя zет.", "xsqFxzSWULA-00013-00006909-00007761": "Расія вялікая з намі І лунаюць сцягі перамог,", "xsqFxzSWULA-00014-00007761-00008611": "Каб узвіліся яно над капрамі Ідзе аперацыя zет.", "xsqFxzSWULA-00015-00008611-00009461": "Сыходзіць за ротаю рота, Сыходзяць героі досвіткам", "xsqFxzSWULA-00016-00009461-00010310": "Для іх ёсць мужчынская праца, Ідзе аперацыя zет."}}, {"audio_id": "xyk8zCHqve4", "text": {"xyk8zCHqve4-00000-00000571-00001313": "There are so many Democrats trying to take Trump’s job, it’s becoming a joke—but the joke’s on them", "xyk8zCHqve4-00001-00001313-00002250": "Seriously, the Democratic Primary is shaping up to be one of those clown cars. Open the door and watch them all tumble out!", "xyk8zCHqve4-00002-00002250-00002982": "The first poll about the 2020 race has come out. Looks like the clowns are in big trouble", "xyk8zCHqve4-00003-00002982-00004136": "Boom – looks like Americans aren’t feeling the Bern!.Bernie may be leading the other Democrats, but according to Rasmussen, Trump is beating Sanders with 47%", "xyk8zCHqve4-00004-00004136-00005220": "What’s even more amazing? Bernie is only getting 74% of his own party! Trump is actually scoring 19% support from Democrats", "xyk8zCHqve4-00005-00005220-00006367": "That’s 1 in 5!.I mean, how bad can you be that you can’t get three-quarters of your own party’s support? Trump is enjoying a nice fat Republican lead of 83%", "xyk8zCHqve4-00006-00006367-00007534": "Biden seems to have a better chance, but wait! In a matchup with Trump, Donald apparently loses 49% to 44%, but there’s one big problem:", "xyk8zCHqve4-00007-00007534-00008603": "Democrats have spent the last few weeks trying to sabotage Biden’s chances. They were the ones who came out with all those touchy, feely accusations", "xyk8zCHqve4-00008-00008603-00009298": "Looks like Democrats are throwing overboard the only guy who might have a chance against ‘The Donald", "xyk8zCHqve4-00009-00009298-00010371": "”.Ouch. See you later, Creepy Uncle Joe!.With 18 (and counting) Democrats running for the top spot, the money is getting spread thin", "xyk8zCHqve4-00010-00010371-00011356": "And former Starbucks CEO Schultz is running as a moderate Independent, probably stealing even more votes from left-wing Democrats", "xyk8zCHqve4-00011-00011356-00012020": "Democrats in a very weak starting position—and they only have themselves to blame", "xyk8zCHqve4-00012-00012020-00012733": "Meanwhile, Trump and the GOP are rocking the fundraising with millions coming in from regular Americans", "xyk8zCHqve4-00013-00012733-00013872": "But Trump needs everyone’s help – he needs them to show up and get out the vote if they really want 4 more years of the Trump Train (and not the Democrat clown car!)"}}, {"audio_id": "xy-VmkKH_gA", "text": {"xy-VmkKH_gA-00000-00000571-00001582": "As Israelis prepare to head to the polls on April 9, Benjamin Netanyahu faces perhaps the toughest election campaign of his long political career", "xy-VmkKH_gA-00001-00001582-00002360": "The Prime Minister faces multiple corruption investigations, not to mention a formidable opponent", "xy-VmkKH_gA-00002-00002360-00003478": "Netanyahu's Likud party, which has held power since 2009, has trailed in some election polls the Blue and White party led by the former military general Benny Gantz", "xy-VmkKH_gA-00003-00003478-00004698": "But Netanyahu, in office continually during this latest stint for a decade, has received plenty of help for his reelection bid from his good friend, US President Donald Trump", "xy-VmkKH_gA-00004-00004698-00006051": "Here's what you need to know.How does it work and who are the contenders?.In this election, 40-odd political parties are vying for a spot in the Knesset, Israel's 120-seat parliament", "xy-VmkKH_gA-00005-00006051-00007399": "But only about 10 to 14 are expected to secure enough votes to make it in. And two parties are certain to stand head and shoulders above the rest: Netanyahu's Likud, and Gantz's Blue and White", "xy-VmkKH_gA-00006-00007399-00008122": "Likud is a party on the right of Israeli politics, while Blue and White has positioned itself as centrist", "xy-VmkKH_gA-00007-00008122-00009039": "Israel election campaign: Polls, rumors and upheaval.Both of these parties are expected to win about 30 seats", "xy-VmkKH_gA-00008-00009039-00010087": "In most election polls, Gantz has shown a consistent lead over Netanyahu, albeit by only a handful of seats, but that's not the end of the story", "xy-VmkKH_gA-00009-00010087-00010761": "Both leaders know they will need to rely on the support of smaller parties to form a coalition", "xy-VmkKH_gA-00010-00010761-00012331": "Here, Netanyahu has a clear advantage. A number of smaller right-wing parties have already pledged their support for him -- including one with its roots in a party banned in the 1980s for being racist -- likely giving him an easier path to building a coalition", "xy-VmkKH_gA-00011-00012331-00013015": "However, those smaller parties still need to cross Israel's electoral threshold of 3", "xy-VmkKH_gA-00012-00013015-00014308": "25% of the national vote. If they fail to do this, securing no representation in the next parliament, then Netanyahu's path to another term as Prime Minister may look more difficult", "xy-VmkKH_gA-00013-00014308-00015138": "Is Benny Gantz a breath of fresh air? Or more of the same?.Benny Gantz is a rookie to Israeli politics", "xy-VmkKH_gA-00014-00015138-00016450": "He finished his four-year term as Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces in 2015, and then waited for the required \"cooling-off period\" to elapse before entering politics late last year", "xy-VmkKH_gA-00015-00016450-00017296": "The party he founded, called Israeli Resilience, consisted entirely of candidates who had never served in the Knesset before", "xy-VmkKH_gA-00016-00017296-00018443": "But to boost his chances of unseating Netanyahu, he merged his new party with two others, to form the Blue and White party, the name chosen to reflect the colors of Israel's flag", "xy-VmkKH_gA-00017-00018443-00019874": "The merger brought into the fold many who had previously served, not just in the Knesset, but in government as well, including Yair Lapid, who was once Finance Minister, and Moshe Ya'alon, who had been Defense Minister", "xy-VmkKH_gA-00018-00019874-00020621": "In addition, Gantz's time as Chief of Staff has already made him a known commodity in Israel", "xy-VmkKH_gA-00019-00020621-00021959": "He was often photographed during high-level meetings with political leaders, including Netanyahu, especially after leading the Israeli military through two wars in Gaza in 2012 and 2014", "xy-VmkKH_gA-00020-00021959-00022852": "Because of the country's emphasis on defense and security, it is not at all uncommon for military leaders to enter politics", "xy-VmkKH_gA-00021-00022852-00023617": "Former Prime Ministers Ehud Barak and Yitzhak Rabin both served as the Israeli army's Chief of Staff", "xy-VmkKH_gA-00022-00023617-00024349": "If Gantz is a breath of fresh air, it is because some voters see him as untainted by Israeli politics", "xy-VmkKH_gA-00023-00024349-00025224": "Even so, with his long career in public service, and centrist leanings, it would be wrong to see him as anti-establishment", "xy-VmkKH_gA-00024-00025224-00026177": "Rather, his platform is far more anti-Netanyahu, which just adds to the sense that this is very much a two-horse race"}}, {"audio_id": "xem6-HueLuk", "text": {"xem6-HueLuk-00000-00000513-00001244": "Donald Trump has launched two berserk attacks against the late John McCain in the past two days", "xem6-HueLuk-00001-00001244-00002072": "In an alternate universe where Lindsey Graham is still Lindsey Graham, he’s surely throwing fire at Trump as we speak", "xem6-HueLuk-00002-00002072-00003368": "But back in this universe, where Lindsey Graham is now behaving like some kind of meth-addled Kremlin asset who’s been ordered to protect Trump at all costs, he’s responding in rather different fashion", "xem6-HueLuk-00003-00003368-00005933": "Four hours after Donald Trump hurled his second series of false and misleading insults at John McCain, his longtime “best friend” Lindsey Graham finally spoke up and said something about the matter: “As to @SenJohnMcCain and his devotion to his country: He stepped forward to risk his life for his country, served honorably under difficult circumstances, and was one of the most consequential senators in the history of the body", "xem6-HueLuk-00004-00005933-00007022": "Nothing about his service will ever be changed or diminished.”.Unfortunately for Graham, that’s not the kind of response that anyone was looking for", "xem6-HueLuk-00005-00007022-00008028": "Though his words about John McCain seem heartfelt, he’s clearly afraid to criticize Donald Trump for attacking McCain, or even mention Trump’s name", "xem6-HueLuk-00006-00008028-00009425": "Various observers pointed out that while Graham made a point of tagging @SenJohnMcCain in the hope of getting the attention of McCain’s followers, he didn’t dare tag @RealDonaldTrump for fear that Trump might see it", "xem6-HueLuk-00007-00009425-00011340": "We’ve seen Lindsey Graham take people’s heads off on a regular basis. But when it comes to defending his best friend in life, who happens to be a recently deceased American war hero, it’s clear that Graham is at least as worried about offending Putin’s man Donald Trump as he is about honoring America’s man McCain"}}, {"audio_id": "xjng-4fWtuu", "text": {"xjng-4fWtuu-00000-00000571-00001939": "Tuesday on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360,” Rep. Maxine Waters (CA) claimed “the public” was demanding Democratic lawmakers fight to see President Donald Trump’s tax returns", "xjng-4fWtuu-00001-00001939-00002658": "Waters said, “Let me just say this: We cannot believe anything that’s been said by this president or by Mr", "xjng-4fWtuu-00002-00002658-00003596": "Mnuchin. Let me just refer you back to the president of the United States, who has said over 16 times that he would release his tax returns", "xjng-4fWtuu-00003-00003596-00004384": "He confuses it by saying it’s under audit. It does not make any difference if it is under audit", "xjng-4fWtuu-00004-00004384-00005218": "He could release those tax returns.”. .Copper asked, “The president has reportedly vowed to take this to the Supreme Court", "xjng-4fWtuu-00005-00005218-00006265": "Is the president’s tax returns, is that worth this kind of a fight? ”.Waters said, “I think that’s a fight that the public wants us to fight", "xjng-4fWtuu-00006-00006265-00007208": "They want to see those tax returns. He said he would give those tax returns. Every other president has released those tax returns", "xjng-4fWtuu-00007-00007208-00007603": "And that’s a fight that we should have.”"}}, {"audio_id": "y1Jed88NZig", "text": {"y1Jed88NZig-00000-00000571-00002122": "We could all see it coming…During the second presidential debate way back in the fall of 2016, Anderson Cooper pressed Trump on his braggartly claim that he sexually assaulted women, and that his celebrity status gave him the entitlement to do so", "y1Jed88NZig-00001-00002122-00003000": "Trump eventually said that the brag was nothing but locker-room talk, and that no such assaults ever took place", "y1Jed88NZig-00002-00003000-00003818": ".Maybe if he had never told that lie, the women he actually did assault wouldn’t have started lining up to tell the truth", "y1Jed88NZig-00003-00003818-00004570": "Because they have.The New York Times broke a damning story of two such women on recently", "y1Jed88NZig-00004-00004570-00005829": "It told the creepy details of a egomaniac who lived out the stories he told to Howard Stern and Billy Bush, and reflected the disgusting fantasies he helped create in a number of Playboy videos", "y1Jed88NZig-00005-00005829-00007122": "You can read the original story in the New York Times here.Being the bully Trump is, however, he thought he could strong-arm the NY Times into retracting the story by threatening a yuuuge lawsuit", "y1Jed88NZig-00006-00007122-00008637": "According to the Times, “Donald J. Trump threatened to sue The New York Times for libel…in response to an article that featured two women accusing him of touching them inappropriately years ago, but the newspaper defended its reporting and told Mr", "y1Jed88NZig-00007-00008637-00009243": "Trump’s lawyer that “we welcome the opportunity to have a court set him straight", "y1Jed88NZig-00008-00009243-00010249": "”.The Times was going to have none of his bullying tactics, and shot back with one of the most powerful responses to a lawsuit threat we have ever heard", "y1Jed88NZig-00009-00010249-00011461": "“The Times stood by the article… ”We stand by the story, which falls clearly into the realm of public service journalism,” Eileen Murphy, a spokeswoman for The Times, said in a statement", "y1Jed88NZig-00010-00011461-00012281": "David McCraw, vice president and assistant general counsel of The New York Times, followed up in a letter to Mr", "y1Jed88NZig-00011-00012281-00013386": "Kasowitz and said that the article would not be retracted. “The women quoted in our story spoke out on an issue of national importance – indeed, an issue that Mr", "y1Jed88NZig-00012-00013386-00014070": "Trump himself discussed with the whole nation watching during Sunday night’s presidential debate,” Mr", "y1Jed88NZig-00013-00014070-00014964": "McCraw wrote. “It would have been a disservice not just to our readers but to democracy itself to silence their voices", "y1Jed88NZig-00014-00014964-00015758": "” Mr. McCraw also made the case that the crux of a libel claim is that a person’s reputation has been damaged", "y1Jed88NZig-00015-00015758-00016583": "However, Mr. Trump has repeatedly boasted in public about his “non-consensual sexual touching of women,” Mr", "y1Jed88NZig-00016-00016583-00018433": "McCraw said.”.If that’s not clear, let me summarize: The Times said that libel could not possibly be a factor in this situation, because Trump’s reputation was already down the toilet! Brilliant come back, and kudos to the New York Times for having the guts to stand up to such nonsense!"}}, {"audio_id": "ytGX0pMV80y", "text": {"ytGX0pMV80y-00000-00000513-00001986": "Several media outlets got their way today when they successfully forced the SDNY to publicly release a partially redacted copy of the search warrant that was used for the year-ago raid of Michael Cohen’s residence and office", "ytGX0pMV80y-00001-00001986-00002960": "Various parts of the document seem to spell out bad news for Donald Trump. But one part in particular should truly scare him", "ytGX0pMV80y-00002-00002960-00004123": "It’s not the revelation that Robert Mueller appears to have been investigating everyone in Donald Trump’s inner circle a year before the Michael Cohen raid, though that’s pretty ugly", "ytGX0pMV80y-00003-00004123-00005243": "It’s not even that during the election, foreign money was paid into the hush money account that Trump and Cohen were using to pay off Trump’s mistresses, though that’s really ugly", "ytGX0pMV80y-00004-00005243-00006717": "Instead, it’s a different stretch of the documentation entirely.CNBC pointed out that when it comes to the documents that were used to obtain the search warrant, it’s a big deal that nineteen pages are blacked out", "ytGX0pMV80y-00005-00006717-00007362": "We agree that it’s a big deal, and not simply due to the generic fear of the unknown", "ytGX0pMV80y-00006-00007362-00008746": "These pages are blacked out because they relate to an ongoing SDNY criminal investigation, a year after the Cohen raid, and several months after the case against Cohen was fully put to bed", "ytGX0pMV80y-00007-00008746-00009446": "Multi-tier criminal investigations like this tend to only progress sideways and/or upward", "ytGX0pMV80y-00008-00009446-00010428": "So those nineteen blacked out pages are almost certainly evidence against a fish who is equal to, or bigger than, Michael Cohen", "ytGX0pMV80y-00009-00010428-00011450": "Some of it could theoretically be about the likes of Elliott Broidy, as we just learned this week that his office was raided a couple months after the Cohen raid", "ytGX0pMV80y-00010-00011450-00012529": "But really, the blacked out parts are most likely about Donald Trump – and that would mean that the SDNY is building a massive criminal case against him"}}, {"audio_id": "yE-AI_ChGx4", "text": {"yE-AI_ChGx4-00000-00000571-00001540": "Some of you are reading the headline of this article and thinking, “Hasn’t Lindsey Graham been off the deep end for awhile?” That’s correct, of course", "yE-AI_ChGx4-00001-00001540-00002418": "But today the once-reasonable Republican Senator decided to crank his level of corrupt derangedness all the way up to eleven", "yE-AI_ChGx4-00002-00002418-00003556": ".By now you’ve surely heard that the House voted unanimously in favor of a resolution stating that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report should be publicly released", "yE-AI_ChGx4-00003-00003556-00004562": "That’s right, this is legislation that calls for a report about Donald Trump’s crimes to be made public, and not a single House Republican voted against it", "yE-AI_ChGx4-00004-00004562-00005646": "Translation: they think Trump is toast, and when they run for reelection, they don’t want to have to answer questions about how they tried to protect him in the end", "yE-AI_ChGx4-00005-00005646-00007078": "That of course means that the legislation now moves over to the Senate.This next part should be easy, right? If House Republicans unanimously supported it, then most Senate Republicans are going to vote for it as well", "yE-AI_ChGx4-00006-00007078-00007851": "Even if Mitch McConnell wanted to scuttle a vote, his own GOP ranks would force his hand", "yE-AI_ChGx4-00007-00007851-00009146": "But now Lindsey Graham is trying to hold up the vote by insisting that an amendment be added that appoints a second Special Counsel to investigate the people who are investigating Trump’s crimes", "yE-AI_ChGx4-00008-00009146-00009920": "That’s right, Lindsey Graham has now gone full tinfoil hat conspiracy theorist demon", "yE-AI_ChGx4-00009-00009920-00011257": "We think a Special Counsel should be appointed to investigate how Donald Trump and the Kremlin have managed to turn Graham, and whether the personal emails he admits were hacked in 2016 are being used to blackmail him"}}, {"audio_id": "yJ6Q-wL0ICU", "text": {"yJ6Q-wL0ICU-00000-00000571-00001326": "“We’re going to win so much, you’re going to be so sick and tired of winning.” -Trump 2016", "yJ6Q-wL0ICU-00001-00001326-00002415": "Well I’m not sick of it yet, Mr. President!.One of the leading Democrat Super PACs in the country just made a historic 2020 Swing State announcement", "yJ6Q-wL0ICU-00002-00002415-00003470": "“A report from Priorities USA…significantly downgrades Ohio’s targetability, listing it as a “GOP Watch” state along with Texas and Iowa''", "yJ6Q-wL0ICU-00003-00003470-00004429": "This Democrat Super PAC spent around $133 Million in support of Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election", "yJ6Q-wL0ICU-00004-00004429-00005043": "If they are removing Ohio as a priority, it could mean very good things for Trump", "yJ6Q-wL0ICU-00005-00005043-00006338": "Does this mean Ohio will vote Red for sure?.Absolutely not.The last thing we want to do is pull a Hillary and think we have things locked up, when they are anything BUT locked up", "yJ6Q-wL0ICU-00006-00006338-00007182": "Ohio is being downgraded as ‘not a priority’ for one important reason….Its American Patriots like you and me", "yJ6Q-wL0ICU-00007-00007182-00007919": "The only way a swing state turns one color or the other is from Americans going out to the polls and voting", "yJ6Q-wL0ICU-00008-00007919-00008848": "There’s no way around it.The PAC says if they win Ohio, its because they will have won in easier states first", "yJ6Q-wL0ICU-00009-00008848-00009964": "I’d like to see them try!.We still need FULL support to win Ohio and keep it Red and we need to go after the other states with just as much patriotism", "yJ6Q-wL0ICU-00010-00009964-00010515": "I know we can do it, just make sure you are doing your part!"}}, {"audio_id": "yUVtF1K2_tc", "text": {"yUVtF1K2_tc-00000-00000000-00000218": "Беларусь - гэта дыктатура,", "yUVtF1K2_tc-00001-00000218-00000600": "дзе грамадзянская супольнасць дзесяцігоддзямі сутыкаецца з рэпрэсіямі.", "yUVtF1K2_tc-00002-00000678-00001352": "Але пасля жнівеньскіх выбараў мінулага года мы сталі сведкамі ўзмоцненых рэпрэсій", "yUVtF1K2_tc-00003-00001352-00001861": "і ўсё больш цяжкіх ўмоваў працы для праваабаронцаў.", "yUVtF1K2_tc-00004-00001899-00002439": "На сёння ў Беларусі налічваецца больш за 670 палітвязняў -", "yUVtF1K2_tc-00005-00002439-00002792": "лічба, якая няўхільна расце на працягу многіх месяцаў.", "yUVtF1K2_tc-00006-00002871-00003273": "Адна з іх - Марфа Рабкова з Праваабарончага цэнтра \"Вясна\".", "yUVtF1K2_tc-00007-00003311-00003648": "Марфа - маладая і адважная валанцёрка,", "yUVtF1K2_tc-00008-00003648-00003848": "якую год таму пасадзілі ў турму за тое", "yUVtF1K2_tc-00009-00003848-00004152": "што яна выконвала сваю законную працу ў галіне правоў чалавека.", "yUVtF1K2_tc-00010-00004222-00004755": "З тых часоў акрамя яе за кратамі апынуліся яшчэ шэсць яе калег з \"Вясны\",", "yUVtF1K2_tc-00011-00004755-00005056": "у тым ліку кіраўніцтва арганізацыі.", "yUVtF1K2_tc-00012-00005082-00005539": "Ім пагражаюць сфабрыкаваныя абвінавачванні і доўгія тэрміны зняволення", "yUVtF1K2_tc-00013-00005539-00005807": "як спосаб прымусіць іх замаўчаць,", "yUVtF1K2_tc-00014-00005828-00005973": "зламаць", "yUVtF1K2_tc-00015-00005973-00006372": "і ізаляваць іх ад беларускага народа і міжнароднай супольнасці.", "yUVtF1K2_tc-00016-00006450-00006763": "Таму, сёння мы далучаемся да кампаніі #FreeViasna", "yUVtF1K2_tc-00017-00006763-00007165": "разам з беларускімі і міжнароднымі партнёрамі.", "yUVtF1K2_tc-00018-00007222-00007422": "Мы патрабуем вызвалення Марфы", "yUVtF1K2_tc-00019-00007422-00007622": "і нашых калег з «Вясны»", "yUVtF1K2_tc-00020-00007622-00007929": "і ўсіх іншых палітвязняў у Беларусі.", "yUVtF1K2_tc-00021-00007993-00008334": "Мы настойліва заклікаем міжнародную супольнасць", "yUVtF1K2_tc-00022-00008334-00008675": "выкарыстоўваць усе адпаведныя сродкі для дасягнення гэтай мэты.", "yUVtF1K2_tc-00023-00008732-00009104": "Таксама важна, каб беларускія ўлады панеслі адказнасць", "yUVtF1K2_tc-00024-00009104-00009694": "за сур'ёзныя і сістэмныя парушэнні правоў чалавека ў мінулым годзе.", "yUVtF1K2_tc-00025-00009734-00009888": "Таму, калі ласка,", "yUVtF1K2_tc-00026-00009913-00010067": "дзейнічайце зараз!"}}, {"audio_id": "ymaN19bVBNY", "text": {"ymaN19bVBNY-00000-00000513-00001816": "Since 50 Muslims were murdered while praying last Friday in New Zealand, the entire world has been informing themselves on the background of the killer who live-streamed his assault on innocent people", "ymaN19bVBNY-00001-00001816-00003107": "With that knowledge comes some, not-so-shocking, yet utterly devastating facts. White nationalism is on the rise around the world, and leaders like Donald Trump are giving them strength", "ymaN19bVBNY-00002-00003107-00003963": "Now, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee just announced they are going to hold a hearing on the rise of white nationalism", "ymaN19bVBNY-00003-00003963-00005654": "According to The Daily Beast:.“The House Judiciary Committee is planning on hosting a hearing in the coming weeks addressing the rise of white nationalism in the U.S. and the hate crime and hate speech surrounding the movement, according to two sources with direct knowledge of the committee’s schedule”", "ymaN19bVBNY-00004-00005654-00006714": "The white terrorist in New Zealand listed Trump as a person he admired in his killer’s manifesto that he posted on the internet before carrying out the brutal attacks", "ymaN19bVBNY-00005-00006714-00007537": "Trump himself has called himself a nationalist, but would not elaborate on whether or not he thought that made him a white nationalist", "ymaN19bVBNY-00006-00007537-00008548": "The Beast continues:.“Addressing the rise of white nationalism and related movements has been a tricky proposition for government officials in the past", "ymaN19bVBNY-00007-00008548-00010105": "When the Obama administration’s Department of Homeland issued a warning in 2009 about the rise of right-wing extremism, the political backlash was so intense that then Secretary Janet Napolitano had to issue a formal apology", "ymaN19bVBNY-00008-00010105-00011257": "During the last few years, Republican committee chairs resisted calls to hold hearings on the rise of white supremacy even as Congress pass ceremonial votes condemning it”", "ymaN19bVBNY-00009-00011257-00012892": "This is a joke, right?.Unfortunately, no.This hearing is a long time coming, and now that the black man is out of the White House, maybe we can force politicians to grow a backbone and stand up to the obvious power white people have in this country", "ymaN19bVBNY-00010-00012892-00013728": "Can you imagine black people complaining about a political move and the government issuing an apology? No", "ymaN19bVBNY-00011-00013728-00015951": "Because it would never happen. Ever.The Beast reported that:.“Individuals familiar with the FBI’s focus on the rise of domestic terrorism and the increasing hate speech affiliated with white nationalism told The Daily Beast that the agency is actively working with faith leaders from across the nation to address the threats facing houses of worship”", "ymaN19bVBNY-00012-00015951-00017061": "“One individual said the FBI’s Office of Partner Engagement was heading up the effort to engage with religious communities and educate them on how to secure their facilities", "ymaN19bVBNY-00013-00017061-00018270": "The agency is also engaging with local law enforcement agencies to help develop protocols for identifying individuals who may have the motivations for carrying out attacks on religious institutions”", "ymaN19bVBNY-00014-00018270-00019229": "So, for right now, we are just asking the religious people to turn their places of worship into barbed wire fortresses with armed guards", "ymaN19bVBNY-00015-00019229-00019924": "You know, the kind of place you look forward to going to every week. So peaceful", "ymaN19bVBNY-00016-00019924-00020950": "White people are coddled in this country to the point of everyone else having to make accommodations just so that they can continues hating everyone who isn’t porcelain", "ymaN19bVBNY-00017-00020950-00022604": "The FBI released the following statement:.“The FBI regularly assesses intelligence regarding possible threats to the U.S. and will continue to work closely with our federal, state, and local law enforcement partners should there be any potential threat to public safety", "ymaN19bVBNY-00018-00022604-00023304": "The attacks in New Zealand serve as a reminder of the need for all of us to be vigilant", "ymaN19bVBNY-00019-00023304-00024252": "The FBI asks members of the public to maintain awareness of their surroundings and to report any suspicious activity to law enforcement”"}}, {"audio_id": "z9g7Md1e6qY", "text": {"z9g7Md1e6qY-00000-00000571-00001618": "The highest tax-writing committee in the House is planning to make a request to the Internal Revenue Service for years of Donald Trump’s personal tax returns in the next week", "z9g7Md1e6qY-00001-00001618-00002760": "According to congressional aides involved in the process, Democrats are fully prepared to take any and all steps necessary to obtain the tax returns, including legal action", "z9g7Md1e6qY-00002-00002760-00004298": ".Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal has asked the committee’s attorneys to work on the request and contacted several House investigative committees to provide detailed reasons for why the president’s tax returns are necessary to conduct their probes", "z9g7Md1e6qY-00003-00004298-00006359": "Ashley Etienne, the spokeswoman for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, told reporters.''Every day the American people and Congress learn more about President Trump’s improprieties, from conflicts of interest to influence peddling, potential tax evasion and violations of the Constitution — all roads leading back to President Trump’s finances''", "z9g7Md1e6qY-00004-00006359-00007185": "The Ways and Means Committee is the only congressional committee with the power to deliver a request for Trump’s tax returns", "z9g7Md1e6qY-00005-00007185-00008232": "Neal has said he may wait to deliver the request until special counsel Robert Mueller has completed his investigation of the Trump campaign’s alleged ties to Russia", "z9g7Md1e6qY-00006-00008232-00009342": "Congressional aides involved in the request said Michael Cohen’s testimony in front of the House Oversight Committee earlier this week sparked the decision to include multiple committee stakeholders", "z9g7Md1e6qY-00007-00009342-00010301": "Several pieces of information Cohen provided in his testimony apparently strengthen the House’s argument for Congress to obtain the records", "z9g7Md1e6qY-00008-00010301-00011416": "In one of many breaks from presidential tradition, Trump has aggressively refused to release his tax returns since the issue was addressed during his campaign for the presidency", "z9g7Md1e6qY-00009-00011416-00012297": "He’s the first U.S. president going all the way back to Richard Nixon who has refused to disclose his taxes to the general public", "z9g7Md1e6qY-00010-00012297-00013530": "While the Ways and Means Committee has the power to obtain any U.S. taxpayer’s returns, they are preparing for a legal challenge from the president that would drag the process on longer than necessary"}}, {"audio_id": "zr0-zYxwmuA", "text": {"zr0-zYxwmuA-00000-00000571-00001898": "Jay Sekulow, an attorney for President Donald Trump, said Monday he does not want the written answers the President submitted to special counsel Robert Mueller to be released, describing them as \"confidential", "zr0-zYxwmuA-00001-00001898-00003794": "\".\"Well, that would not be a position that I would want, to just make a statement where we would release confidential communications that took place between the President of the United States and the Department of Justice or the special counsel's office,\" Sekulow told CNN's Alisyn Camerota on \"New Day", "zr0-zYxwmuA-00002-00003794-00004972": "\".Sekulow continued, \"as a lawyer, you don't waive privileges and you don't waive investigative detail absent either a court order or an agreement between the parties", "zr0-zYxwmuA-00003-00004972-00005547": "And you'd have to weigh a lot of factors there on how that affects other presidencies", "zr0-zYxwmuA-00004-00005547-00006649": "\".Sekulow called such a move \"very inappropriate,\" and added that it'll \"be a decision (Attorney General William Barr) makes, but I've some strong opinions about that", "zr0-zYxwmuA-00005-00006649-00007744": "\".On Sunday, Barr delivered a summary to Congress detailing the principal conclusions of Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election", "zr0-zYxwmuA-00006-00007744-00008728": "For months, Mueller's team had requested a sit-down interview with Trump, but the President's lawyers refused to commit and negotiations continued", "zr0-zYxwmuA-00007-00008728-00009883": "Eventually, the special counsel submitted written questions to the President last fall concerning the time frame before the 2016 election, which Trump answered in late November", "zr0-zYxwmuA-00008-00009883-00011819": "Barr's letter to Congress stated that Mueller did not find that the Trump campaign conspired with Russia to influence the 2016 election and said that based on the report, Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein determined there was not enough evidence to prosecute the President for obstruction of justice"}}, {"audio_id": "zxIU_DIg-IA", "text": {"zxIU_DIg-IA-00000-00000513-00001834": "Rudy Giuliani has spent the past year operating under the assumption that acting as Donald Trump’s criminal defense attorney would somehow shield him from the numerous criminal scandals that have his own fingerprints all over them", "zxIU_DIg-IA-00001-00001834-00003383": "But apart from Rudy’s own admission last summer that the DOJ Inspector General was investigating how he knew the FBI’s actions in advance during the election, we haven’t had any proof that Rudy is under investigation – until now", "zxIU_DIg-IA-00002-00003383-00005016": "Now that the House Judiciary Committee has finished sending its initial round of document requests, which it said were merely an effort to catch up with similar requests that have already been made by other investigators, the committee is launching into its next round", "zxIU_DIg-IA-00003-00005016-00006022": "That’ll include subpoenas for those who failed to comply with the first round. It’ll also include some new names, including Rudy Giuliani", "zxIU_DIg-IA-00004-00006022-00007597": "This is according to the Wall Street Journal, which says that the committee is about to request documents from Rudy Giuliani and others who are alleged to have been involved in Donald Trump’s plot to dangle a pardon at Michael Cohen, in an effort to keep Cohen from cooperating", "zxIU_DIg-IA-00005-00007597-00008587": "We think this is significant for two reasons. First, the committee clearly isn’t worried about the fact that Rudy is Trump’s attorney", "zxIU_DIg-IA-00006-00008587-00009509": "Nor should they be, as dangling a pardon to keep someone from testifying is an act of felony obstruction of justice", "zxIU_DIg-IA-00007-00009509-00010316": "When an attorney and client conspire together to commit a crime, it isn’t covered by attorney-client privilege", "zxIU_DIg-IA-00008-00010316-00011429": "Second, this means the House Judiciary Committee plans to publicly make a big deal out of the fact that Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani conspired together to commit crimes", "zxIU_DIg-IA-00009-00011429-00012207": "We won’t be shocked if the committee ends up forcing Rudy to testify in front of the TV cameras", "zxIU_DIg-IA-00010-00012207-00013208": "Rudy doesn’t appear to be taking the news well, as he tweeted last night that the investigation was a “Witchunt.” Wait, what?"}}, {"audio_id": "zyKxTUBUOBI", "text": {"zyKxTUBUOBI-00000-00000571-00001707": "As with many disastrous second dates, the collapse of Donald Trump’s summit with Kim Jong-un was made inevitable by the misreading of each other’s intentions at their first encounter", "zyKxTUBUOBI-00001-00001707-00002864": "Since their initial meeting in Singapore last June, the US president had become fixated on what he saw as a close personal bond with the North Korean dictator half his age", "zyKxTUBUOBI-00002-00002864-00004217": "He told his supporters: “We fell in love . He wrote me beautiful letters''.Those hand-delivered missives appear to have flattered Trump without offering concrete proposals of what Kim was going to do as part of a bargain", "zyKxTUBUOBI-00003-00004217-00005544": "A joint statement issued in Singapore stated North Korea’s commitment to the “complete denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula”, which Trump appears to have understood as a pledge of complete unilateral nuclear disarmament", "zyKxTUBUOBI-00004-00005544-00006968": "In North Korea, however, the phrase is a routine regime slogan that refers to a gradual defusing of tensions on the peninsula and phased multilateral disarmament, during which North Korea would be treated as a nuclear power", "zyKxTUBUOBI-00005-00006968-00008564": "For his part, Kim appears to have come away from Singapore interpreting Trump’s gushing behaviour as sign of a desperation to strike a deal, which would potentially leave most of his arsenal in place while normalising relations with the US and lifting sanctions", "zyKxTUBUOBI-00006-00008564-00009570": "These wildly different perceptions collided painfully in Hanoi, where the two leaders discovered each other not to be the ideal partner they had previously imagined", "zyKxTUBUOBI-00007-00009570-00011213": "“It was obvious from the beginning that they would get stuck on the questions of how much denuclearisation there should be and how much sanctions relief,” said Joseph Yun, former US special representative for North Korea policy now at the US Institute of Peace thinktank", "zyKxTUBUOBI-00008-00011213-00012490": "“Both Kim and Trump are now in a very difficult position. I think Trump now has to realise that complete denuclearisation, however charming Kim may be, is not on the cards''", "zyKxTUBUOBI-00009-00012490-00013585": "Yun said that Trump’s room for manoeuvre was constrained by the timing of the summit, coinciding with a furious denunciation by his former lawyer in congressional hearings", "zyKxTUBUOBI-00010-00013585-00014405": "The president’s embattled position in Washington meant he had to deliver something spectacular in Hanoi or nothing at all"}}, {"audio_id": "zBr1NNZGskI", "text": {"zBr1NNZGskI-00000-00000513-00001607": "Everyone knows that Donald Trump loves being #1 (even though he’s a failure at almost everything) and will throw a colossal fit if there’s anyone in front of him", "zBr1NNZGskI-00001-00001607-00002681": "That’s why a recent poll by the Economist/YouGov just might tear the Trump family apart and get the president to resent his wife, First Lady Melania Trump", "zBr1NNZGskI-00002-00002681-00003653": ".The Economist/YouGov poll asked America to rate each member of the Trump family and unsurprisingly, Trump did not come out on top", "zBr1NNZGskI-00003-00003653-00004966": "In fact, the President of the United States was forced into the #2 spot by his own wife! Melania was rated the most-liked member of the Trump family, with a 51 percent likability rating", "zBr1NNZGskI-00004-00004966-00006024": "The president, on the other hand, only scored at 44 percent, which was almost tied with the “very unfavorable” (42 percent) view of him", "zBr1NNZGskI-00005-00006024-00006850": "Not surprisingly, Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner was the least-liked, trailing just behind Eric Trump", "zBr1NNZGskI-00006-00006850-00008028": "While she certainly didn’t deserve such a high score, part of the reason that Melania scored so high is likely due to the fact that she has hidden for most of Trump’s presidency", "zBr1NNZGskI-00007-00008028-00009180": "Sure, she makes occasional appearances to talk about her pathetic cyberbullying campaign and to defend her husband, but for the most part she’s away from the spotlight and hiding", "zBr1NNZGskI-00008-00009180-00009919": "However, most recently she’s been taking Trump-like stances on things such as media coverage", "zBr1NNZGskI-00009-00009919-00010872": "During her “Be Best” tour where she spoke about drug overdose deaths, Melania blasted the press for not covering the epidemic more", "zBr1NNZGskI-00010-00010872-00012220": "The First Lady said:\"I challenge the press to devote as much time to the lives lost and the potential lives that could be saved by dedicating the same amount of coverage that you do to idle gossip or trivial stories", "zBr1NNZGskI-00011-00012220-00012320": "”"}}, {"audio_id": "zTFnFnHUMdg", "text": {"zTFnFnHUMdg-00000-00000513-00002736": "Over the past few days, British Prime Minister Theresa May’s government has been dealt a devastating series of defeats in their attempts to pass a flawed and highly unpopular Brexit deal, forcing Parliament to vote on a request to the European Union to delay withdrawal for another three months while they figure out some way to get themselves out of this disastrous quagmire", "zTFnFnHUMdg-00001-00002736-00004201": "Ever the reliable friend and staunch ally, President Donald “Deals” Trump decided to kick the Tory Prime Minister while she was down and ribbing her for her one crucial mistake — failing to take his advice on the Brexit negotiations", "zTFnFnHUMdg-00002-00004201-00005998": "“I’m surprised at how badly it’s all gone from the standpoint of a negotiation,” said Trump in a statement that immediately made it clear he has no idea what’s been happening with the Brexit negotiations and had only just learned what was happening moments ago, or else he would not have been surprised", "zTFnFnHUMdg-00003-00005998-00007367": "He then told the assembled reporters that things could have gone differently if she had just “listened to his ideas” about Brexit and asserted that actually, he could have negotiated a much better deal if it was he was in charge of it:", "zTFnFnHUMdg-00004-00007367-00008078": "“I gave the Prime Minister my ideas on how to negotiate it. She didn’t listen to that and that’s fine", "zTFnFnHUMdg-00005-00008078-00008874": "She’s got to do what she’s got to do. I think it could’ve been negotiated in a different manner, frankly", "zTFnFnHUMdg-00006-00008874-00011029": "I hate to see everything being ripped apart right now.”.Given that his latest “dealmaking” venture with the North Koreans consisted of him desperately fawning over Chairman Kim Jong-un before returning home empty-handed and his obvious ignorance of everything related to the Brexit negotiations, the United Kingdom is very lucky that Trump isn’t their leader right now", "zTFnFnHUMdg-00007-00011029-00012652": "Of course, Theresa May is as bad as any American Republican, and has seemingly been doing everything she can to tank her own party’s chances of escaping this mess without drastic economic, political and social upheaval, so it’s hard to feel too sorry for her"}}, {"audio_id": "zXDG-9bRW4A", "text": {"zXDG-9bRW4A-00000-00000571-00001213": "Fox News and outlets like it are full of conspiracy theories that are highly inaccurate", "zXDG-9bRW4A-00001-00001213-00002002": "That’s why it’s so important to place value on actual journalism and stories on the Trump situation", "zXDG-9bRW4A-00002-00002002-00002804": "Pulitzer Prize winner David Cay Johnston has covered Trump for decades and has served as his biographer", "zXDG-9bRW4A-00003-00002804-00003564": "Johnston was recently interviewed about the Trump administration and the current situation Trump finds himself in", "zXDG-9bRW4A-00004-00003564-00004384": "Johnston’s recent book is called, “It’s Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America", "zXDG-9bRW4A-00005-00004384-00005184": "”.The interview includes Johnston being asked about Trump’s campaign lies and his response is telling", "zXDG-9bRW4A-00006-00005184-00005988": "Cay said.“In 2012, the bottom 90 percent of Americans reported a smaller income than in 1967", "zXDG-9bRW4A-00007-00005988-00006868": "Donald tapped into that problem, but he’s a con artist who promised to drain the swamp and then stocked it with swamp monsters''", "zXDG-9bRW4A-00008-00006868-00007691": "Johnston goes on to explain that there are many connections to the mafia and known criminals throughout Trump’s entire life", "zXDG-9bRW4A-00009-00007691-00009222": "Johnston even goes back as far as his grandfather who “made his fortune running whorehouses in Seattle and in the Yukon Territory”, to his father who “had a business partner named Willie Tomasello, who was an associate of the Gambino crime family", "zXDG-9bRW4A-00010-00009222-00009917": "”.Trump’s new found claim of being religious is also interesting to Johnston. He said:", "zXDG-9bRW4A-00011-00009917-00010977": "“I’ve followed Donald for 30 years. I don’t see any evidence that he has changed, and he certainly hasn’t repented, which is a fundamental Christian obligation", "zXDG-9bRW4A-00012-00010977-00011967": "He is a racist through and through.”.Cay also goes on to say that Trump exhibits clear signs of malignant narcissism and sociopathy", "zXDG-9bRW4A-00013-00011967-00012884": "Johnston says out of all the other presidents Trump is the only one who is not concerned with America at all and only focused on himself"}}, {"audio_id": "zZ8v72ZbGFM", "text": {"zZ8v72ZbGFM-00000-00000513-00001866": "President Donald Trump marveled that any Senate Republican could vote against his decision to declare a National Emergency on the Southern border in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News in the Oval Office on Monday", "zZ8v72ZbGFM-00001-00001866-00002602": "But Trump vowed again that he would veto the measure regardless of whether it passes the Senate", "zZ8v72ZbGFM-00002-00002602-00003893": "Trump suggested that Democrats in the Senate and the handful of Republicans planning to vote to block the national emergency declaration are on the losing side of the immigration issue in the eyes of the public", "zZ8v72ZbGFM-00003-00003893-00005324": "He argued that, generally speaking, immigration is an 80/20 issue, meaning that 80 percent–or the vast majority of Americans–want the border secured, whereas just 20 percent support continued mass illegal immigration", "zZ8v72ZbGFM-00004-00005324-00006704": "“We have a vote coming up on this whole national emergency thing it’s an 80/20 issue in our favor, it’s border security, a wall, no crime versus open borders and nothing but crime,” Trump said", "zZ8v72ZbGFM-00005-00006704-00007542": "“Forty-seven Democrats will probably vote for the 20 percent issue, and with the Republicans, we have some that don’t vote for it", "zZ8v72ZbGFM-00006-00007542-00008561": "It’s hard to believe actually.”.Currently, it would only take four Senate Republicans to oppose the president’s declaration to send the bill to his desk", "zZ8v72ZbGFM-00007-00008561-00010361": "The vote is schedule for Thursday in the U.S. Senate.Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), and Rand Paul (R-KY) have already signaled their decision to join Democrats by opposing the president’s border national emergency declaration", "zZ8v72ZbGFM-00008-00010361-00011267": "Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) has also stated his opposition, but has signaled that he might be open to changing his mind", "zZ8v72ZbGFM-00009-00011267-00011972": "Vice President Mike Pence met with Republican Senators on Tuesday to help drum up support for the president", "zZ8v72ZbGFM-00010-00011972-00013453": ".Trump reserved judgment when asked in Monday’s Oval Office interview by Breitbart News senior White House reporter Charlie Spiering if he was satisfied with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s handling of the Senate vote", "zZ8v72ZbGFM-00011-00013453-00014660": "“Well I can’t tell you until I see what happens,” he replied. “But I can tell you this, in Republican circles … I know what the people want and they want border security and they want walls", "zZ8v72ZbGFM-00012-00014660-00015582": "They want border security, you can’t have it without the wall, or without the barriers, or whatever, you can call it whatever you want", "zZ8v72ZbGFM-00013-00015582-00016416": "”.The president repeated his promise to veto the legislative effort led by Democrats to check his executive power", "zZ8v72ZbGFM-00014-00016416-00017327": ".“I’ll have to let you know, I mean we’ll have to see what happens, in any event, it’s going to be vetoed, ok?” he replied", "zZ8v72ZbGFM-00015-00017327-00018027": "Trump appeared proud of House Republicans for uniting behind his border security agenda", "zZ8v72ZbGFM-00016-00018027-00019012": "“The House–unfortunately, they don’t have quite the numbers yet–has been unbelievable in how they’ve been, you notice the support has been unwavering?” he asked", "zZ8v72ZbGFM-00017-00019012-00019913": "“They have been, it’s like a different place. The spirit in the House has been great and some senators have been fantastic", "zZ8v72ZbGFM-00018-00019913-00020013": "”"}}, {"audio_id": "zZp-g2aBUB8", "text": {"zZp-g2aBUB8-00000-00000513-00001265": "Mitch McConnell announced the Senate will not be able to stand behind President Trump and his emergency declaration", "zZp-g2aBUB8-00001-00001265-00002059": "4 Senators voted with Democrats, giving them the 51 votes they need to block Trump’s emergency order", "zZp-g2aBUB8-00002-00002059-00002864": "The 4 Senators are.Susan Collins of Maine.Lisa Murkowski of Alaska.Thom Tillis of North Carolina", "zZp-g2aBUB8-00003-00002864-00003958": "and Rand Paul of Kentucky.This move will be merely symbolic as President Trump will veto the resolution and there will not be enough Senators to override this veto", "zZp-g2aBUB8-00004-00003958-00005042": "Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell acknowledged Monday that the Senate will pass a resolution blocking President Donald Trump’s emergency declaration on the southern border", "zZp-g2aBUB8-00005-00005042-00006338": "The Kentucky Republican’s comments underscore his inability to shield the president from a bipartisan rebuke, though McConnell added that he expected the House to uphold the president’s veto", "zZp-g2aBUB8-00006-00006338-00007821": "McConnell’s Kentucky GOP colleague Rand Paul became the fourth Republican senator to join 47 Senate Democrats in supporting the House-passed disapproval resolution, which needs a simple majority to go to Trump’s desk", "zZp-g2aBUB8-00007-00007821-00008712": "The Senate will vote later this month on the measure to stop Trump from unilaterally redirecting billions toward his border wall", "zZp-g2aBUB8-00008-00008712-00010256": "“What is clear in the Senate is that there will be enough votes to pass the resolution of disapproval, which will then be vetoed by the president and then in all likelihood the veto will be upheld in the House,” McConnell said at an event in Louisville, Ky", "zZp-g2aBUB8-00009-00010256-00011251": "McConnell said Senate Republicans are studying whether it can amend the resolution but that “it’s never been done before,” and their options are unclear", "zZp-g2aBUB8-00010-00011251-00012829": "McConnell also made clear he tried to dissuade Trump from declaring the emergency, arguing that future Democratic presidents could use it to further liberal policy proposals: “That’s one reason I argued without success that he not take this route", "zZp-g2aBUB8-00011-00012829-00013591": "”.“I was one of those hoping the president would not take the national emergency route,” McConnell said", "zZp-g2aBUB8-00012-00013591-00014388": "“Once he decided to do that I said I would support it, but I was hoping he wouldn’t take that particular path", "zZp-g2aBUB8-00013-00014388-00014488": "”"}}, {"audio_id": "Z0SAVNwN_HE", "text": {"Z0SAVNwN_HE-00000-00000571-00001764": "It seems like Russian President Vladimir Putin may be deciding that Donald Trump is more trouble than he’s worth, after he failed to lift US sanctions against Russia multiple times", "Z0SAVNwN_HE-00001-00001764-00002694": "Russian officials are speaking out against Trump, mocking him, taunting, and now, talking about releasing blackmail material", "Z0SAVNwN_HE-00002-00002694-00003517": "A Russian debate took place on Russian state-run television where several Russian officials discussed various political issues", "Z0SAVNwN_HE-00003-00003517-00004269": "One of which was was Nikita Isaev, the Director of the Russian Institute of Contemporary Economics", "Z0SAVNwN_HE-00004-00004269-00005625": "He said, “Let’s hit Trump with our Kompromat!”, which certainly looks like a reference to the infamous Pee Pee Tape or, at the very least, some type of other blackmail material the Kremlin is holding over Trump’s head", "Z0SAVNwN_HE-00005-00005625-00007044": "(NOTE: In Russian politics,kompromat, short for “compromising material” is damaging information about a politician or other public figure used tocreate negative publicity, forblackmail, or for ensuring loyalty", "Z0SAVNwN_HE-00006-00007044-00008044": ")  The host asked, “Do we have it?” Isaev responded “Of course we have it!”  You can watch the hour-long Russian-language video can be watched here", "Z0SAVNwN_HE-00007-00008044-00008864": "Julia Davis brought this to our attention when she pointed out Nikita Isaev’s call for the release of Kompromat", "Z0SAVNwN_HE-00008-00008864-00009985": "The interested part here is that someone in Isaev’s position wouldn’t have said something like this on Kremlin-controlled TV unless Vladimir Putin gave him permission to say it", "Z0SAVNwN_HE-00009-00009985-00011395": "Could it be that Putin has grown tired of Trump and wants to do everything he can to finish him off quickly and stop the bleeding? And why not? Putin wanted Trump in the White House, he should be the one to push him out", "Z0SAVNwN_HE-00010-00011395-00012106": "We will be eagerly awaiting the release of this thing, as it will be explosive, without question"}}, {"audio_id": "ZvzkbsvezBI", "text": {"ZvzkbsvezBI-00000-00000571-00001323": "Donald Trump’s declaration of a national emergency over his vanity wall has already triggered several lawsuits", "ZvzkbsvezBI-00001-00001323-00002086": "Now, three Texas landowners have filed suit against Trump’s fake national emergency declaration", "ZvzkbsvezBI-00002-00002086-00003298": "According to Al Jazeera, they are joined in the suit by Frontera Audobon Society, an environmental nonprofit “that acts as a haven for birds, butterflies and other wildlife", "ZvzkbsvezBI-00003-00003298-00004147": "” The three citizens who are part of the suit are residents of Starr County, which sits on the Texas border with Mexico", "ZvzkbsvezBI-00004-00004147-00005272": "The county’s immediate proximity to the Mexican border puts it directly in the path of the proposed border wall, which if built, would deprive them of access to their lands", "ZvzkbsvezBI-00005-00005272-00007200": "As I pointed out earlier, California is filing suit and California’s Attorney General told ABC’s George Stephanoplous that the state is “ready to go” with its case and expects to be joined by several other states, including New Mexico, Oregon, Minnesota, New Jersey, Hawaii and Connecticut", "ZvzkbsvezBI-00006-00007200-00007895": "Becerra believes that the states have “clear legal standing” and that Trump “knows he’s going to lose", "ZvzkbsvezBI-00007-00007895-00008689": "” So, why do it?.It’s difficult to understand Trump’s moves amid his faltering attempts at governing the country", "ZvzkbsvezBI-00008-00008689-00010246": "He has been an unapologetic failure since the inception of his presidency. It’s obvious that he’s pandering to his base (or what’s left of it these days), but just how stupid does he really think they are? That wall is not going to be built", "ZvzkbsvezBI-00009-00010246-00010894": "Perhaps he thinks he can just give them another dog and pony show and they’ll be happy", "ZvzkbsvezBI-00010-00010894-00012464": "In the meantime, the rest of us are suffering. .He cost the American people well in excess of the $5.7 billion he initially requested when he shut down our government for 35 days, causing damage to many American families", "ZvzkbsvezBI-00011-00012464-00013731": "He will expend additional funds defending the already-filed and coming lawsuits against his fake emergency, which will ultimately be stricken down by his own words: “I didn’t need to do this", "ZvzkbsvezBI-00012-00013731-00014898": "But I’d rather do it much faster.”.Trump has no clue about running our government, or much of anything else for that matter, as evidenced by his multiple bankruptcies", "ZvzkbsvezBI-00013-00014898-00015791": "And to what end? It has been shown time and again that the bulk of drugs in this country do not come across the Mexican border", "ZvzkbsvezBI-00014-00015791-00017301": "Governor Gavin Newsom summed it up best when he referred to the wall as a “vanity project” and a “monument to stupidity” and further characterizes Trump’s move as “a blatant political ploy that he engineered after being embarrassed by House Speaker Pelosi", "ZvzkbsvezBI-00015-00017301-00018260": "”.Rather than learning to do the job for which he was not legitimately elected to begin with, Donald Trump thrives on being a bully", "ZvzkbsvezBI-00016-00018260-00019613": "The American people will not be bullied by him. We will stand together and see that he is out of office as soon as humanly possible while we pray that he doesn’t do so much damage that it can’t be undone"}}, {"audio_id": "ZveA-4--HTk", "text": {"ZveA-4--HTk-00000-00000571-00001822": "The ill feeling between Former FBI Director James Comey and the President who fired him burst back into the open in dueling interviews on Wednesday that followed the end of the Robert Mueller investigation", "ZveA-4--HTk-00001-00001822-00003165": "Their fresh clash revived the mystery of their short, disastrous relationship at the beginning of President Donald Trump's term, which plunged the administration into crisis and led to the appointment of the special counsel", "ZveA-4--HTk-00002-00003165-00004202": "In retrospect, Trump's move in firing Comey was the start of a long-term power play that established the President's dominance over the judicial establishment", "ZveA-4--HTk-00003-00004202-00005445": "Trump on Wednesday blasted Comey as \"a terrible guy\" and slammed his leadership team at the FBI as \"not clean, to put it mildly,\" in an interview on Fox News' \"Hannity", "ZveA-4--HTk-00004-00005445-00007932": "\".William Barr's statement Sunday quoting Mueller as saying the \"investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities\" and the attorney general's personal determination that \"the evidence developed during the Special Counsel's investigation is not sufficient to establish\" obstruction of justice represented a huge political win for the President", "ZveA-4--HTk-00005-00007932-00008843": "But it puzzled Comey that Mueller punted on the question of obstruction, which was largely rooted in his dismissal in May 2017", "ZveA-4--HTk-00006-00008843-00009713": "Trump had said on television he was motivated to fire Comey over the then-FBI director's oversight of the Russia investigation", "ZveA-4--HTk-00007-00009713-00010975": "\"I'm not prejudging it -- I'm just saying it doesn't make sense on its face, and so I have a lot of questions,\" Comey said in an interview that aired Wednesday on NBC's \"Nightly News", "ZveA-4--HTk-00008-00010975-00011821": "\".At the time, Trump's sudden decision to fire Comey was widely mocked as the most disastrous political call in decades", "ZveA-4--HTk-00009-00011821-00012728": "But it now appears like the President will escape paying a lasting political consequence for a move that significantly consolidated his own power", "ZveA-4--HTk-00010-00012728-00013553": "Comey's firing is just one of the stunning twists in the Russia drama that are beginning to take on a new complexion", "ZveA-4--HTk-00011-00013553-00014337": "The late emergence of Barr -- who moved swiftly to manage the end of the Russia investigation -- is another such twist", "ZveA-4--HTk-00012-00014337-00015859": "In the short term, Trump's dismissal of Comey rid him of a troublesome, powerful figure who assessed that the President wanted to co-opt him into a patronage-style relationship and to infringe ethical barriers between the White House and Justice Department", "ZveA-4--HTk-00013-00015859-00017348": "In the long term, by exploiting ill-defined norms governing the limits of executive authority, Trump, either by accident or design, may have expanded the power of the presidency itself, setting a significant precedent for the future", "ZveA-4--HTk-00014-00017348-00018704": "Presidents have the authority to dismiss anyone in the executive branch -- but the situation becomes constitutionally murky if the move appears to be an effort to derail a criminal investigation into their own conduct", "ZveA-4--HTk-00015-00018704-00019543": "A future unscrupulous commander in chief could use Trump's treatment of Comey as justification for nefarious ends", "ZveA-4--HTk-00016-00019543-00020846": "\"It could send a signal to future presidents that they could do this and get away with it and I think that is a very disturbing possibility,\" said Jens David Ohlin, vice dean at Cornell Law School", "ZveA-4--HTk-00017-00020846-00022042": "\"It seems to be creating a precedent that if a President doesn't like an investigation that is getting close to the President, they can just dismiss the attorney general or the FBI director", "ZveA-4--HTk-00018-00022042-00022142": "\""}}, {"audio_id": "ZCq76ZejHRA", "text": {"ZCq76ZejHRA-00000-00000571-00001349": "“After three years of lie and smears and slander, the Russia hoax is finally dead,” Donald Trump said", "ZCq76ZejHRA-00001-00001349-00002433": "“The collusion delusion is over.”.The crowd roared with approval as the president berated everyone invested in the “hoax” they thought would bury his presidency", "ZCq76ZejHRA-00002-00002433-00003744": "“The crazy attempt by the Democrat party and the fake news media right there and the deep state to overturn the results of the 2016 election have failed,” he said as the crowd shouted, “Lock Them UP!”", "ZCq76ZejHRA-00003-00003744-00004714": "The president noted that the investigation was always about his political opponents and the establishment trying to reverse the 2016 election", "ZCq76ZejHRA-00004-00004714-00005437": "“The Russia hoax proves more than ever that we need to finish exactly what we came here to do,” he said", "ZCq76ZejHRA-00005-00005437-00006526": "“DRAIN. THE. SWAMP.”.Trump said he would continue fighting for their agenda, despite Democrats trying to stop their historical political movement", "ZCq76ZejHRA-00006-00006526-00007428": "“We defeated a very corrupt establishment and we’re keeping our promise to the American people and it’s driving them crazy,” he said", "ZCq76ZejHRA-00007-00007428-00008428": "He challenged Democrats to move on from the Russia investigation despite their continuing efforts to keep pushing the idea in the old media", "ZCq76ZejHRA-00008-00008428-00009906": "“The Democrats have to decide whether they will continue to defraud the public with ridiculous bullshit, partisan investigations or whether they will apologize to the American people and join us to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure", "ZCq76ZejHRA-00009-00009906-00010967": "”.Later in the evening, Trump described the Democrat party as the party of “radicalism, resist, and revenge,” mocking their protest signs that read “Resist!”", "ZCq76ZejHRA-00010-00010967-00011581": "“Resist?” he asked. “What the hell? Let’s get something done, right?”"}}, {"audio_id": "ZXQfD1XW4Bc", "text": {"ZXQfD1XW4Bc-00000-00000571-00001809": "In hope of deflecting some the recent negative light off Donald Trump, it’s practically given that a heavily redacted version of the Mueller report will be strategically released by the Trump regime later this week", "ZXQfD1XW4Bc-00001-00001809-00002935": "However, what won’t be released this week — or anytime soon for that matter — are Trump’s tax returns, thanks to the support he seems to have within the Treasury Department", "ZXQfD1XW4Bc-00002-00002935-00005032": "Nevertheless, based on the latest news, it appears none of that really matters, as various House committees have begun issuing friendly subpoenas to the likes of Deutsche Bank, JP Morgan Chase, Mazars, and Capital One, in order to obtain Donald Trump’s financial records, particularly those pertaining to financial dealings with Russia", "ZXQfD1XW4Bc-00003-00005032-00006613": "If obtaining those records happens to shed anymore negative light on Trump, his money trail, and/or his loyalties to foreign enemies of the United States, then his tax returns won’t really be required to confirm how truly corrupt they must be", "ZXQfD1XW4Bc-00004-00006613-00008143": "Seriously, folks. The news of these subpoenas is huge, as they suggest House Democrats have the clear upper hand in the on-going battle, even if Trump’s Treasury Department continues to illegally block the release of his tax returns", "ZXQfD1XW4Bc-00005-00008143-00010471": "Also, considering it was first publicly revealed last week that Capital One had been working with House Democrats for more than a month, who’s to say it and the other three named institutions are the only ones involved? Even if they are, with these four lining up in full cooperation and illustrating a willingness to turn over Trump’s records, surely the scandal is on the verge of exposure"}}]