Trump promises a foreign leader something so alarming that an intelligence staffer becomes a whistleblower, Corey Lewandowski launches his Senate campaign during an impeachment hearing, and the President wages war on California. Then Obama campaign manager David Plouffe joins Jon and Dan to talk about the 2020 election and his new podcast, Campaign HQ.

Show notes

Lewandowski / Trump Corruption

• The Atlantic: “Corey Lewandowski Tried to Make a Mockery of the House”
• HuffPo: “Corey Lewandowski Refuses To Answer Questions At House Hearing”
• Washington Post: “The Daily 202: White House restrictions on Corey Lewandowski’s testimony push the limits of executive privilege”
• CNN: “White House tells Lewandowski not to answer questions and asserts immunity for Dearborn and Porter”
• Politico: “Lewandowski ‘very, very close’ to announcing Senate decision”
• The Hill: “Trump slams Democrats as ‘shameful’ after Lewandowski hearing”
• Washington Post: “Corey Lewandowski tells the truth (gasp!) about lying to the news media”
• Washington Post: “Corey Lewandowski debuts his Senate campaign theme: Unbridled nastiness”
• Washington Post: “It was chaos, and then a real lawyer showed up”
• Politico: “Dems see Lewandowski’s combativeness as Trump impeachment fuel”
• New York Times: “Key Moments From Corey Lewandowski’s Testimony Before Congress”
• New York Times: “Lewandowski Tells Congress ‘I Wasn’t Asked to Do Anything Illegal’”
• Vox: “Corey Lewandowski’s chaotic congressional testimony, explained”
• Washington Post: “Pelosi says she would have held Lewandowski in contempt ‘right then and there’”
• Politico: “’Feel free to leak this’: Inside the Pelosi-Nadler impeachment schism”
• NBC News: “Nadler: Judiciary too busy impeaching Trump to focus on Kavanaugh claims”
• CNN: “Nadler: ‘Personally, I think the President ought to be impeached’ but public has to be on board”
• The Hill: “Nadler: Impeachment inquiry a ‘made-up term’ but it’s essentially ‘what we are doing’”
• CNN: “Acting spy chief agrees to testify on whistleblower complaint before House intel panel”
• Politico: “Schiff: Top intel official has refused to turn over ‘urgent’ whistleblower complaint”
• New York Times: “Acting Intelligence Chief Refuses to Testify, Prompting Standoff With Congress”
• Washington Post: “Mystery of Adam Schiff and whistleblower takes dangerous new turn”
• Washington Post: “A whistleblower filed a complaint to the intelligence IG. Why is it being withheld from Congress?”

EPA Waiver

• Vox: Trump just started a huge legal battle with California over lowering car emission standards
• NYT: Trump to Revoke California’s Authority to Set Stricter Auto Emissions Rules
• Mother Jones: The Trump Administration Will Prevent California From Setting Its Own Fuel Efficiency Standards
• Grist: It’s California vs. Trump in ‘the fight of a lifetime’ over emissions standards
• WaPo: The Energy 202: Trump administration not so interested in states’ rights when it comes to California
• NYT: Trump Defends Plan to Kill California’s Auto-Emissions
• Bloomberg: California Vows Fight as Trump Takes Aim at Clean-Car Authority
• Vox: Many businesses oppose Trump’s deregulatory agenda. Here’s why.
• Vox: The University of California system is ending its investment in fossil fuels
• Grist: Berkeley triggered a chain of anti-gas laws
• Grist: Greta Thunberg to Congress: ‘You’re not trying hard enough. Sorry.’
• NY Mag – It’s Greta’s World But it’s still burning. The extraordinary rise of a 16-year-old, and her Hail Mary climate movement.
• WaPo: The Energy 202
• Daily Beast – McConnell Said No to Money for Miners, Yes to Russian-Backed Plant
• WaPo: Trump: Homeless people hurt the ‘prestige’ of Los Angeles, San Francisco
• WaPo: Trump reveals a motivation for his anti-homelessness push: Foreign real estate tenants
• NYT: Trump and California See Same Homeless Problem, but Not the Same Solutions
• City Lab – The White House Is Planning a Federal Intervention on California Homelessness
• Politico: Newsom to visiting Trump: Help us on homelessness
• Guardian: Trump administration exploring police crackdown on homeless people
• WaPo: Trump pushing for major crackdown on homeless camps in California, with aides discussing moving residents to government-backed
• LA Times: Is Trump trying to make this historic building a homeless shelter? Locals are ‘baffled’
• LA Times – Bernie Sanders’ ‘housing for all’ plan aims to add millions of homes — and a rent cap
• KABC: Beto O’Rourke makes campaign stop in LA, visits Skid Row
• LA Times: Trump, no fan of big cities and their Democratic leaders, unleashes his derision on L.A.
• LA Times: In California vs. Trump, the state is winning nearly all its environmental cases
• NYT: Trump v. California: The Biggest Legal Clashes
• CNN: Trump vs. California, again and again and again
• Politico: Trump’s California fundraisers are drenched in cash — and secrecy – Donors are snapping up tickets, even if they don’t know exactly where the events are being held.
• WaPo: The Daily 202: Ignore the circus. Look at what Trump is doing to the environment, immigrants and health care.
• LA Times – Trump arrives in San Diego for another border visit amid protests