In This Episode
Trump wastes America’s time with his primetime address, throws a temper tantrum during shutdown negotiations, and claims not to know that his campaign chairman was sharing internal polling with Russian intelligence. Then Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer talks to Jon and Dan about the Democratic strategy to end the shutdown. Also – Pod Save America is going on tour! Get your tickets now: crooked.com/events
Show Notes:
Oval
- New York Times: Trump’s National Address Escalates Border Wall Fight
- Washington Post: On Capitol Hill, prime-time speeches only pushed parties further apart
- Vox: “Immigrants are coming over the border to kill you” is the only speech Trump knows how to give
- New Yorker: Trump’s Speech Was a Big Non-Event
- The Atlantic: Trump’s Oval Office Address Was Classic Stephen Miller
- The Atlantic: Trump Has Defeated Himself
- The Intercept: There Is a Real Border Crisis. A Wall Would Only Make It
- The Guardian: Trump’s border wall address was so lame, was it in fact a distraction? – Op-Ed
- Vox: Trump’s immigration speech was an insult to the nation’s intelligence
- Slate: Trump’s Speech Was Too Effective for Comfort
- The Nation: Trump Absolutely Failed to Make a Case That His Border ‘Crisis’ Is a National
- Washington Post: The Trailer: On immigration, Democrats are the party of 2018 and Trump is the candidate of 2016
- The Atlantic: Trump Is Using the Opioid Crisis to Build His Wall
- Washington Post: Trump’s claim that black Americans are hurt most by illegal immigration gets pushback
- Washington Post: The administration is manipulating the shutdown to mitigate Trump’s most harmful PR problems
- New York Times: Trump’s National Address Escalates Border Wall Fight
- The Atlantic: There’s No Winning for the Networks
- Washington Post: Trump’s Oval Office address was a pure propaganda opportunity. Networks shouldn’t allow it next time
- The Hill: Trump fundraises off prime-time address
- Vox: The New York Times and AP bungled their fact checks of Trump’s speech — badly
- New York Times: Anchors Scramble to Fact-Check Trump After Prime-Time
- Wired: AFTER TRUMP’S SPEECH, TWITTER FACT-CHECKS THE FACT-CHECKERS
- New York Times: Schumer and Pelosi, Responding to Trump’s Speech, Call to Reopen Government
- Washington Post: ‘Chuck and Nancy’ present a united front in challenging Trump on border wall
- Time: People Can’t Stop Sharing Jokes About Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer Sharing One Podium
- The Hill: Pelosi, Schumer response tops Trump speech in preliminary ratings
- New Yorker: Searching for a Substantive Response to Trump’s Hateful Speech
Shutdown forever
- New York Times: Trump Storms Out of White House Meeting with Democrats on Shutdown
- CNN: Trump walks out of shutdown meeting, calling talks ‘total waste of time’
- Washington Post: Shutdown impasse: Trump walks out of White House meeting with Democratic leaders
- Vox: What’s actually happening at the US-Mexico border, explained
- Washington Post: ‘He’s a gut politician’: Trump’s go-to negotiating tactics not working in shutdown standoff
- Huffington Post: Senate Republicans Won’t Fund The Government If It Means Defying
- Washington Post: Shutdown impasse: 8 House Republicans break with Trump on shutdown strategy, back Democrats’ plan to reopen Treasury without new border wall
- Politico: Vulnerable GOP senators feel the heat of protracted shutdown
- Politico: Graham launches last-ditch push to end shutdown
- CNN: The majority of Americans are against Trump on the wall and the shutdown
- FiveThirtyEight: How Will The Shutdown End?
- Vox: Here’s the offer Trump is making to Democrats to end the shutdown
- NBC News: House Democrats investigate HUD’s ‘failure’ to act as shutdown threatens affordable housing
- Washington Post: Trump just undermined his own border-wall ‘national emergency’
- Vox: Sarah Sanders’s strangely unconservative argument for the wall
- New York Times: Democrats Focus on Shutdown’s Cost and Steer Away From Trump’s
- Vice: There’s a Simple Way Out of the Shutdown Democrats Could Offer Trump – They should pull a page from the Mitch McConnell playbook.
- Washington Post: Trump’s speech was full of lies. But it also gives Democrats an opening.
- Vox: This Friday, hundreds of thousands of federal workers will miss their first paycheck
- Huffington Post: Already reeling from tariff war, some farmers aren’t receiving government support checks amid shutdown
- Washington Post: With inspectors furloughed, reduced FDA inspections ‘put our food supply at risk’
- Politico: Federal shutdown threatens programs for sexual assault victims
- Washington Post: Coast Guard families told they can have garage sales to cope with government shutdown
- Washington Post: Food stamps, housing subsidies and other services for America’s poor at risk as shutdown drags on
- Politico: NTSB investigators largely furloughed, halting accident work
- New York Times: A Shut Down Government Actually Costs More Than an Open One
- Vox: When I was furloughed, I couldn’t pay for child care. It set off a financial chain reaction.
Manafort
- New York Times: Manafort Accused of Sharing Trump Polling Data With Russian Associate
- Vox: The past 24 hours in Trump-Russia news, explained – Manafort’s redaction fail, Veselnitskaya indicted, Rosenstein’s reported exit, and more.
- The Atlantic: Manafort’s Own Lawyers May Have Hastened His
- Washington Post: Where the investigations related to President Trump stand
- Empty Wheel: ROBERT MUELLER FINALLY FOUND A WAY TO GET PAUL MANAFORT TO KEEP A SECRET
- Empty Wheel: MANAFORT’S REDACTION FAIL TELLS TRUMP THAT MUELLER CAUGHT HIM LYING ABOUT HIS RUSSIAN HANDLER, KONSTANTIN KILIMNIK
- Empty Wheel: MANAFORT CLAIMS HE CAN’T BE A WITNESS TO TRUMP’S CONSPIRACY WITH RUSSIA BECAUSE HE MANAGED THE CAMPAIGN
- Lawfare: So How Big a Deal Are Those Manafort Disclosures?
- Washington Post: The Daily 202: The new Russia revelations are more consequential than Trump’s newsless immigration speech
Rosenstein
- New York Times: Rod Rosenstein Expected to Leave Justice Dept. Once Attorney General Is Confirmed
- ABC News: Rosenstein expected to depart DOJ in coming weeks if new attorney general confirmed
- NBC News: Rod Rosenstein, who oversaw Mueller probe, leaving Justice Department
- Vanity Fair: ROD ROSENSTEIN IS LEAVING THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION OF HIS OWN FREE WILL
- Politico: Schumer calls on Trump to withdraw Barr nomination
- Vox: Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein is reportedly headed out the door. What does it mean for Mueller?
- Politico: Mueller protection bill likely to get new committee vote
- New York Times: Democrats Start Investigative Gears, but Slowly
- New York Times: Congress Summons Mnuchin to Explain Russian Sanctions Removal
- New Yorker: How the Charge Against Natalia Veselnitskaya Could Lead Back to the Trump Campaign
- NBC News: House Democrats now asking questions about Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin
- Washington Post: A beefed-up White House legal team prepares aggressive defense of Trump’s executive privilege as investigations loom large
Chuck Schumer
