January 22, 2019
Pod Save America
“Crisis actor in the White House.”
In This Episode
Trump offers the Democrats a deal they can’t accept, Buzzfeed defends its story about Trump suborning perjury, and Kamala Harris announces her candidacy for president. Then Senator Kirsten Gillibrand talks to Jon Favreau about why she’s running for president, and what she’ll do if she wins.
Find the full transcript of Sen. Gillibrand interview here.
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Show Notes:
Trump’s “compromise”
- Washington Post: Trump offers 3-year extension of protection for ‘dreamers’ in exchange for $5.7 billion for wall; Democrats call it a ‘non-starter’
- The Atlantic: Trump’s ‘Major’ Border Deal Is No Deal for Democrats
- Politico: Trump tweets 40 times on Day 30 of shutdown
- New York Times: In Trump’s Immigration Announcement, a Compromise Snubbed All Around
- New York Times: Republicans Push Trump Immigration Plan, Seeking to Corner Democrats on Shutdown
- Washington Post: Senate Republicans all but surrender to Trump on wall despite shutdown’s toll
- Washington Post: Trump voters now blame him for the government
- Washington Post: Shutdown in U.S., slowing growth in China fuel concerns over global economy
- Washington Post: Make a deal. Save the dreamers – Editorial
- Politico: Gabbard says Democrats share blame in shutdown logjam
- Politico: Manchin undecided on Trump immigration deal
- Huffington Post: George W. Bush Calls For End To Shutdown With Pizza Delivery
- New York Magazine: The ‘Both Sides’ Brigade Is Encouraging Trump to Take More Hostages
- Washington Monthly: Both Sides Are Not to Blame For the Shutdown
- Washington Post: Congress to pursue divergent paths to reopening government, but stalemate no closer to resolution
- Bloomberg: Trump, Democrats Inch Closer Amid Personal Shutdown Sniping
- Washington Post: Trump two years in: The dealmaker who can’t seem to make a deal
- Axios: Trump’s strategic planning inspiration: Mike Tyson
- Vox: Here’s Trump’s latest offer to end the shutdown — and why Democrats aren’t interested
- Daily Beast: As Shutdown Drags Into Week Four, Some Democrats Call for Drastic Measures
- New York Times: Shutdown’s Pain Cuts Deep for the Homeless and Other Vulnerable Americans
- Washington Post: The government shutdown has drawn domestic violence shelters to the brink, imperiling life-or-death services to women
- NPR: Shutdown Makes Government Websites More Vulnerable To Hackers, Experts Say
- Washington Post: 10 percent of TSA workers called out Sunday as shutdown continues
- New York Times: Shutdown Threatens to Delay Criminal Justice Reforms Signed Into Law by Trump
- Politico: How the shutdown will inflict lasting damage
- New Yorker: For a Besieged F.B.I., the Shutdown is the Latest Trump-Era Assault
- Vox: The shutdown’s effect on the US economy, explained
- New York Times: The Shutdown Shows the Weakness of the Resistance – Op Ed
Mueller investigation
- Washington Post: Inside the Mueller team’s decision to dispute BuzzFeed’s explosive story on Trump and Cohen
- New York Times: BuzzFeed News Faces Scrutiny After Mueller Denies a Dramatic Trump Report
- New York Times: BuzzFeed News in Limbo Land
- Empty Wheel: DAG ROD ROSENSTEIN INVOLVES HIMSELF IN MUELLER’S PRESS RESPONSE TO BUZZFEED STORY
- Empty Wheel: PETER CARR SPEAKS
- Washington Post: BuzzFeed’s stumble is highest-profile misstep at a time when press is under greatest scrutiny
- CNN: After BuzzFeed article, Trump legal team reached out to Mueller’s office, Giuliani says
- CNN: BuzzFeed journalist: ‘Our reporting is going to be borne out’
- Washington Post: Get used to it: The ‘I-word’ — impeachment — is about to dominate Trump coverage
- New Yorker: The High Stakes of BuzzFeed’s Story on Trump Tower Moscow
- Vanity Fair: “I’M HOLDING MY BREATH”: AMID BUZZFEED’S MUELLER SAGA, VETERAN JOURNALISTS ARE LARGELY CIRCUMSPECT—AND CONFUSED
- Politico: Week 87: Did BuzzFeed Drop a Bombshell or Just Bomb?
- NBC News: Adam Schiff says he will subpoena Michael Cohen to testify before his committee ‘if necessary’
- Washington Post: Mueller publicly disputed the BuzzFeed report. Here’s why it’s a such rare move for a prosecutor
- Business Insider: What Mueller’s extraordinarily unprecedented move to dispute BuzzFeed’s story on the record tells us
- CNN: Giuliani tries to clean up comments about Trump Tower Moscow
- New York Times: Giuliani Clarifies Comments About Timing of Trump Tower Negotiations in Russia
- New York Times: Moscow Skyscraper Talks Continued Through ‘the Day I Won,’ Trump Is Said to Acknowledge
- NBC News: Giuliani complicates the Trump-Moscow story for the president
- Politico: Giuliani: ‘100 percent certain’ on Trump-Cohen
- New York Times: Rudy Giuliani Backs Off Remarks on Potential Collusion by Trump Aides
- Washington Post: Rudy Giuliani: ‘I never said there was no collusion’ between Trump campaign and Russia
- NBC News: No (Trump) collusion? Rudy Giuliani’s defense strategy doubles down as evidence mounts in Mueller probe
- Empty Wheel: RUDY CLAIMS CREDIT FOR PETER CARR’S CORRECTION OF BUZZFEED, WHICH HAD THE GOAL OF TAMPING DOWN IMPEACHMENT TALK
- Mother Jones: Rudy Giuliani, Explained
- Politico: Rudy Giuliani Is Not Doing His Best Work These Days
2020
- New York Times: Kamala Harris Joins Democratic Presidential Field
- Washington Post: Kamala Harris enters 2020 presidential race
- Politico: Inside Kamala Harris’ 2020 campaign plan
- Vox: Kamala Harris announces her historic 2020 presidential campaign
- Los Angeles Times: Kamala Harris makes it official: She’s running for president
- Los Angeles Times: Kamala Harris was shaped by the crucible of San Francisco politics
- Los Angeles Times: Feinstein says she supports Joe Biden for 2020, and notes that Sen. Kamala Harris is ‘brand-new here’
- Los Angeles Times: Kamala Harris’ challenge in a 2020 presidential bid? Defining herself before her opponents do
- San Francisco Chronicle: Sen. Kamala Harris of California announces 2020 presidential run
- San Francisco Chronicle: How can California’s Kamala Harris stand out in crowded 2020 race?
- Mother Jones: The Secret to Understanding Kamala Harris
- New York Times: Kamala Harris Is Hard to Define Politically. Maybe That’s the Point.
- KQED: 5 Things to Know About Kamala Harris
- CNN: What is ‘it’ and does Kamala Harris have it?
- The Atlantic: Kamala Harris’s Political Memoir Is an Uneasy Fit for the Digital Era
- Washington Post: Sen. Kamala Harris defines her story as a potential presidential campaign nears
- NPR: Book Review – Kamala Harris’ ‘The Truths We Hold’ Demonstrates What’s Wrong With Campaign Books
- Washington Post: When you read Kamala Harris’s book, you’ll come away with one thought – Op-Ed
- The Atlantic: Kamala Harris’s Anti-Trump Tour – The senator from California is talked about as the strongest Democrat to run against the president in 2020.
- New York Magazine: Kamala Harris Is Building a Network for Black Candidates
- New York Magazine: Kamala Harris Updates Obama’s Winning Strategy for 2020
- Washington Post: Sen. Kamala Harris’s 2020 policy agenda: $3 trillion tax plan, tax credits for renters, bail reform, Medicare-for-All
- CNN: Kamala Harris says she won’t conduct foreign policy by tweet
- FiveThirtyEight: How Kamala Harris Could Win The 2020 Democratic Primary
- CNN: Kamala Harris shows potential strength in 2020 primary
- The Guardian: Democratic 2020 hopefuls head south – where black voters hold the key
- NBC News: Kamala Harris: 3 strengths and 3 weaknesses in presidential bid
- Daily Beast: Kamala Harris’ Greatest 2020 Strength—And Biggest Weakness
- New York Times: Kamala Harris Was Not a ‘Progressive Prosecutor’ – Op-Ed
- New York Times: Kamala Harris, Progressive Prosecutor
- Vox: Kamala Harris has been criticized for her criminal justice record. She’s just begun to offer a response
- The Intercept: A Problem for Kamala Harris: Can a Prosecutor Become President in the Age of Black Lives Matter?
- The Guardian: Kamala Harris: can a ‘top cop’ win over progressives in 2020?
- Sacramento Bee: Kamala Harris says she focused ‘almost every day’ on justice reform. That’s not the whole story.
- New York Times: Kamala Harris, a ‘Top Cop’ in the Era of Black Lives Matter
- New York Times: Biden Expresses Regret for Support of Crime Legislation in the 1990s
- CNN: Michael Bloomberg avoids talking ‘stop and frisk’ during MLK breakfast
Kirsten Gillibrand
- Washington Post: Kirsten Gillibrand wants to harness the power of women. Her ‘spark plug’ grandmother showed her how
- Vanity Fair: POLITICAL WEATHER VANE KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND IS (PROBABLY) RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT
- FiveThirtyEight: What Is Kirsten Gillibrand Up To?
- WNYC: Kirsten Gillibrand’s Path to Power
- GQ: Kirsten Gillibrand, the Senator From the State of #MeToo
- New Yorker: Why Is the Trump Campaign Attacking Senator Kirsten Gillibrand?
- New York Times: As Gillibrand Pushes Left, Her Economic Agenda Tilts to Populism
- 60 Minutes: As the New York Senator announces her bid for president, take a look back at her February 2018 interview with Sharyn Alfonsi
- Politico Magazine: Kirsten Gillibrand’s Moment Has Arrived
- New York Times: Kirsten Gillibrand, Long a Champion of Women, Finds the Nation Joining Her
- Vogue: Senator Kirsten Gillibrand on Trump, Feminism, and Hitting Her Stride in Washington
- Washington Post: Already on the 2020 radar, Kirsten Gillibrand catapulted into the spotlight by President Trump
- New York Magazine: Kirsten Gillibrand Is an Enthusiastic No
- New Yorker: Strong Vanilla – The Relentless Rise of Kirsten Gillibrand
- The Atlantic: Kirsten Gillibrand’s Improbable Path to Liberal Stardom
- CNN: Gillibrand: Previous immigration stances weren’t ’empathetic,’ ‘kind’
- CBS: Face The Nation – Gillibrand rejects Trump’s immigration offer: “I don’t take him on his word on anything”
- ABC News: Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand: Democrats ‘willing to talk about’ pathway to citizenship for ‘Dreamers’
- Huffington Post: Kirsten Gillibrand Highlights Rural Roots In Iowa Debut
- Bloomberg: Eyeing 2020, Gillibrand Rejects Earlier Immigration Stance
- New York Times: In Iowa, Gillibrand Uses Small-Town Roots to Sell Electability
- Washington Post: ‘I will stand up for what I believe in’ Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand says — but what she believes quickly changed as she moved from House to Senate
- Business Insider: Kirsten Gillibrand broke down what her ‘Abolish ICE’ proposal would look like during a campaign visit to Iowa
- BuzzFeed: Kirsten Gillibrand’s First Iowa Endorsement Is Inspired By Her Call For Al Franken’s Resignation
- CNN: Gillibrand defends her statement before Franken’s ouster: ‘Enough was enough’
- The Guardian: Kirsten Gillibrand urges Iowans to ‘take back this democracy’ in 2020
- Politico: The ‘I’m sorry’ 2020 Democratic primary
- Des Moines Register: Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand in her first Iowa visit: ‘We are planning on spending a lot of time in Iowa’
- Washington Post: The Daily 202: ‘I was callous.’ Apologizing for apostasies, 2020 Democrats illustrate the party’s leftward drift.
- PBS Newshour: What does Kirsten Gillibrand believe? Where the candidate stands on 11 issues
- Vice: Will Progressives Buy Gillibrand’s Crusade Against Big Money in Politics?
- The Hill: Gillibrand touted work to hasten ‘removal of illegal aliens’ in 2008 mailer: report
- CNN: How Kirsten Gillibrand went from pushing for more deportations to wanting to abolish ICE
- Washington Post: On Day One, Kirsten Gillibrand faces the ‘likable’ question
- New York Times: Gillibrand Road Tests 2020 Campaign Themes, at a Diner Close to Home
- Associated Press: Now a 2020 candidate, Gillibrand builds campaign on gender
- Politico: Gillibrand plans first Iowa visit.
- Chicago Tribune: New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand making moves toward a 2020 presidential run.
- CBS: “60 Min: Kirsten Gillibrand: The #MeToo Senator”
- MSNBC: Senator Kirsten Gillibrand: I Believe Brett Kavanaugh’s Accuser
- AM-NY: Gillibrand, Sharpton rally in support of No Cash Bail Act.
- The Atlantic: Kirsten Gillibrand’s Invocation of ‘Intersectionality’ Backfires
