I swear I thought he was pivoting this time

• Trump Rally in Arizona
• Former U.S. Director of National Intelligence worries about Trump’s access to nukes
• Mitch McConnell VS Trump
• Secret Service out of money
• Support The Juggaloes

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We discuss

• Charlottesville, Virginia
• Trump’s Many Sides
• Trump’s newly found appreciation of sculpture
• Steve Bannon fired soon after a strange interview
• Sessions criticizes Chicago’s Sanctuary City policy
• Russia

Journalist of the week: Robert Kuttner

Charities of the week: The Southern Poverty Law Center & the Anti-Defamation League

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It’s all hellfire at this point

• Trump gets positive news about himself, twice a day
• Remember the Health care bill?
• North Korea Gone Nuclear, Trump’s response inspired by prestige cable
• Mueller impanels a grand jury, issues subpeonas
• FBI raids Paul Manafort’s home
• If the Nukes don’t get us, the Climate will
• So, so much more

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He’s holding us hostage

• President threatens transgender people in the U.S. Military, and they’re OK with the backlash?
• DOJ argues the Civil Rights act does not protect gay employees
• Ivan & Red recommend Radiolab Presents: More Perfect
• The Senate gets one through then is shot down a bunch
• Trump discusses pardons
• House votes for sanctions against Russia
• The Mooch

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Charity of the week:Trans Lifeline

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Presidents and their trucks

• We go in on the latest NYT interview with Trump
• Putin & Trump’s secret meeting
• Muller gunna Mueller
• Manafort in debt to Russian Business interests
• The BRCA’s collapse
• Repeal only?
• Trump knee-capping Obamacare
• Sessions allows police to seize property without proving guilt

Journalist of the week: Maggie Haberman & Peter Baker

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Conclusion? Not Collusion! (It is absolutely collusion)

• A 29 second handshake
• Donald Trump Jr. meeting with The Russian Government and documenting it via emails, which he then released
• • A Soviet counterintelligent officer was at this meeting
• The next round of Trumpcare
• Travel ban still awful! But very slightly less so
• White House releases comments on the election commission
• K.C. tries to be meme-able

Journalist of the week: Donald Trump, Jr.

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One day “HanA**holeSolo” is going to be an answer for an AP History test

• We catch Red Up with the CNN Wrestling Gif & Hobby Lobby funding ISIS
• Donald Trump forgets to book a hotel room for the G20 summit
• He kind of admits Russia may have been involved, who knows
• Democrats try to start a war with Russia
• NPR tweets The Declaration of Independence, people lose their mind
• North Korea goes full North Korea
• A federal court does its job!

Journalist of the week: Matt Pearce

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This might not be a great President

• All the President’s tweets. Just today’s, actually
• The Supreme Court rules on the Travel Ban
• New travel restrictions take place tonight, 8PM ET
• McConnell doesn’t have the votes for the AHCA, but he hasn’t given up

Journalist of the week: Chris Geidner

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Things can’t stop happening!!!

• The Senate version of the AHCA is in the wild, differences with Obamacare can be found here
• • Speaking of Obama, he released a facebook statement about the AHCA
• Sean Spicer is doing fewer briefings
• More information about voting machines being hacked
• Trump’s bizarre Iowa Rally
• Supreme Court agrees to hear Gerrymandering case
• Trump corruption continues unabated

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The podcast Trump will eventually describe as a “Witch Hunt”

• Trump is personally under investigation for Obstruction of Justice
• Trump considered FIRING THE SPECIAL INVESTIGATOR
• Russia hacked actual voting systems?!
• Senate approved sanctions with Russia, 97-2
• The Senate AHCA “reconciliation” continues behind closed doors
• Majority Whip Steve Scalise is shot at a congressional baseball game
• Trump hires his family’s event planner to HUD

Also Sing Street is a great movie

Journalist of the week: Garrett M. Graff

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This week it’s all about Orbs, Bodyslams, and Handshakes. Ivan and Red talk:

• THE ORB
• Republican congressional candidate body-slamming a journalist the day before an election
• Special prosecutor Robert Swan Mueller III
• THE HANDSHAKE
• Attorney General Jeff Sessions committing some light federal crime
• An update on the location of 2 Nuclear Submarines from The Prezzy

Journalist of the week: Ben Jacobs of The Guardian

Charity of the week: The Drug Policy Alliance

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Trump paraphrased: “The ‘Fake Media’ is a witch hunt, but if there’s one thing you need to know about my administration, it’s that Comey was looking for justice, and I obstructed it.”

• The science of exercise according to Trump
• Comey Timeline
• When it comes to Impeachment, the kids table matters
• U.S. Presidential line of Succession

Journalist of the week: Maggie Haberman of The New York Times

Charity of the week: The Drug Policy Alliance

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Hash tag But Her Emails

• Trump fires FBI Director James Comey
• Sally Yates’ testimony scorched everyone
• The Senate doesn’t care what the kids table is up to with the AHCA

Journalist of the week: Katy Tur of NBC News

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I didn’t think we’d have to be in the Bunker this long

• Trump “thought it would be easier”
• 2nd failed Obamacare repeal
• Mnuchin Tax plan would heighten a “mountain of debt”
• Sessions recuses himself from Flynn investigation, Rosenstein takes over the Senate Russia probe
• Sessions says DREAMers are subject to being deported, Trump says they should “rest easy”
• Flynn is somehow Obama’s fault

Charity of the week: Teach for America

Journalist of the week: Daniel Dale of the Toronto Star

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Day 92 of Trump's presidency and there’s only 8 days left to meet your terrible goals!!!

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We’re going to War and it’s only the 78th Day of the Trump Administration!

• Oh yeah the Senate legislative Filibuster is dead and Neil Gorsuch was confirmed, but 538 says it may not be that bad?
• We have a notoriously slapdash crash course of Syrian history, and it’s depressing.
• The deal with Syria & Russia
• The scale of the crisis in Syria
• RadioLab's episode on Nuclear Control and Command (Nukes)
• Eric Schlosser's book Command and Control
• Trump’s tweets and so much more

Charity of the week: The White Helmets

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Day 69 of the Trump Presidency

• Trump approval rating drops
• A new EO dismantling the Clean Power Plan
• New 2020 census modified to not count LGBTQ
• Breitbart hounds Paul Ryan who threatens the Freedom Caucus
• Republicans move from complicated health care to… tax reform?
• What’s going on with Senate Republicans and Gorsuch?
• Meanwhile in Russia, people take to the streets while back home the administration tries to silence Sally Yates
• House Dems propose MAR-A-LAGO act

Charity of the week: The White Helmets

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An episode on the rise and fall of Trumpcare

• Outline of the AHCA, AKA Trumpcare
• Congressional Budget Office: Costs more, insures less
• Pete Souza, Obama’s photographer and instagram hero
• Republicans have forgotten how to govern
• Republicans talk consequences of Trumpcare failure

Journalist of the week: Glenn Thrush

Charity of the week: The White Helmets

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Federal judge institutes Travel Ban Ban, GOP Health Care Plan isn’t, Scott Pruitt continues to be a nightmare

• Hawaiian Federal judge freezes Trump’s Travel ban
• Congressional Budget Office releases report on Trumpcare
• Trump challenged on Americans losing coverage
• Only 24% of voters support Trumpcare
• His budget it also a nightmare
• The stupid Rachel Maddow tax story
• Scott Pruitt is unfit to teach high school science
• Comey will PUBLICLY testify on Russia investigation next week
• Also Kellyane can turn microwaves into cameras, Rex Tillerson used the email alias “Wayne Tracker”, and Breitbart is taking a hit out on Paul Ryan

Journalist of the week: Michelle B. Van Dyke

Charity of the week: Action Against Hunger

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Trumpcare, Obama tappin’ them wires, and more

• Republican plan clears committee at 4:30 in the morning
• AMA opposes Republican plan
• Pre-emptively criticizing the Congressional Budget Office report, which doesn’t yet exist
• The new plan restricts abortion coverage drastically
• The poor could afford healthcare if they just didn’t buy so many iPhones
• New Travel Ban Executive Order is in place
• Trump accuses Obama of wiretapping his phones, apparently referencing a Breitbart article
• Obama denies he wiretapped any citizen, Trump doesn’t believe it
• Trump is FURIOUS at Jeff Sessions recusing himself
• Supreme Court will not hear Transgender Rights case

Activist of the week: Pro Publica

Charity of the week: Planned Parenthood

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This week on the #1 Fake News Podcast

• Jeff Sessions did not disclose meeting with Russians. Sidebar, Al Franken as a presidential candidate?
  • Sessions recuses himself from any Russia investigation
• NY Times listicle on Trump's Speech, & fact check
• Republican health care plan, which only Republicans are allowed to see
• News on the delayed and modified Travel ban E.O.
• Ben Carson CONFIRMED as HUD Secretary
• Ryan Zinke CONFIRMED to lead Department of the Interior, rides in on horse
• Betsy DeVos and HBCUs, her top twitter photo featuring her surrounded with African American students in an attempt to literally shield her from criticism
• Trump ok'd Spicer checking aides' phones

Activist of the week: Resistance Recess by MoveOn

Charity of the week: The White Helmets

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Enemy of the American People was our 2nd favorite title for this podcast. This week's episode discusses:

• Trump reverts bathroom protections for transgender students
• Last week's Trump press conference
• Trump confidante Roger Stone admits ties to wikileaks
• Scott Pruitt is confirmed as EPA administrator
• Trump's 3rd choice for National Security Advisor
• Deportations and DACA
• Clarence Thomas and the Travel Ban
• The wait for a new travel EO
• Christie getting power moved to death

Journalist of the week: https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com by @matt_kiser

Charity of the week: Lambda Legal

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SHOW NOTES!

• #TrumpShake
• State of the Executive Order Travel Ban 1 week later
  • Lawfare blog quoted by Trump
• Trump and the "New START" Nuclear Treaty
• Confirmation of Jeff Sessions, Betsy DeVos, and Tom Price
• Michael Flynn and the Logan Act
• Trump vexed by the scale of the presidency

Journalist of the week: Chris Geidner

Charity of the week: Coalition For Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles

SHOW NOTES

• Donald Trump's first 100 days plan
• 538's profile on Neil Gorsich
• Up-to-date information on Trump's immigration ban

Journalist of the week: Maggie Haberman

Ad-hoc bonus journalist of the week: Lewis Wallace, especially his article "I was fired from my journalism job ten days into Trump"

Charity of the week: National Immigration Law Center