In This Episode
The President loses his wall but keeps the issue, kicks off his re-election campaign in El Paso with a new screed against Democrats, and gets a boost from potential independent candidate Howard Schultz. Then journalist Marcy Wheeler talks to Dan about the latest Paul Manafort revelations, Andrew McCabe’s return to the spotlight, and whether we’ll see a Mueller report. Also – Pod Save America is going on tour! Get your tickets now: crooked.com/events.
Show Notes:
Shutdown
- Washington Post: Trump suggests he’s open to border deal as lawmakers scramble to resolve late snags
- Politico: Congress rushes to finish spending deal
- New York Times: Trump Says He Does Not Want a Government Shutdown as He Moves Toward Embracing Border Deal
- Washington Post: The bill to avert a shutdown has few eager to claim parentage
- Washington Post: The shutdown deal could still fall apart. But that’s unlikely.
- NBC News: Trump says you’d have to be able to ‘climb Mt. Everest’ to scale his wall
- Washington Post: Trump’s wall of lies and illusions just cracked again – Plumline
- New York Magazine: Trump Has Willed the Wall Into Existence With His Mind
- Vox: The government shutdown got conservatives nothing on the wall. Now they’re stuck.
- The Atlantic: Why Trump Isn’t Sweating a Shutdown This Time
- Washington Post: Trump’s failed shutdown strategy produced an even worse deal than he started with
- Washington Post: The shutdown deal could still fall apart. But that’s unlikely.
- Vox: Congress’s deal on immigration detention, explained
- Washington Post: Why immigration detention beds became a new issue in Trump border wall fight
- Washington Post: President Trump installed a room-sized golf simulator at White House
- NBC News: Trump blocking contractor back pay in gov’t funding deal, lawmaker says
- Vox: Democrats are pushing for a bill guaranteeing back pay for federal contractors in a border security deal
- Washington Post: Federal employees would receive 1.9 percent raise under spending agreement
Trump kicks off 2020 in El Paso
- New York Times: Trump Takes Border Wall Fight to El Paso; Beto O’Rourke Fires Back
- Washington Post: Trump, O’Rourke face off at border as 2020 campaign gears up
- Texas Tribune: Donald Trump and Beto O’Rourke go head-to-head in El Paso
- New Yorker: In El Paso, Donald Trump Attacks Beto O’Rourke—and All Democrats
- Washington Post: Trump, the first president in a century with no dog, explains why: ‘I don’t have any time.
- New York Times: Trump Repeats False Claim About El Paso Crime, This Time in El Paso
- Roll Call: Trump: Green New Deal sounds like a ‘high school term paper that got a low mark’
- Axios: Trump mocks Democrats’ Green New Deal – President Trump mocked
- CNN: How Democrats are handing Donald Trump a viable path to a second term
- Los Angeles Times: Why the ‘Green New Deal’ is a gift to President Trump’s reelection campaign
- Vox: Why Mitch McConnell is holding a vote on the Green New Deal
- CNN: Trump rails against Green New Deal and ‘socialism’ in 2020 rally
- FiveThirtyEight: Is Socialism Still An Effective Political Bogeyman?
- NPR: Trump’s ‘Socialism’ Attack On Democrats Has Its Roots In Cold War Fear
- Observer: Socialism Is Living Rent-Free in Trump’s Head—And It’s Only Helping the Movement
- Washington Post: Trump’s war on socialism will fail
- CNN: Trump clearly has a game plan for socialism in 2020
- Washington Post: Donald Trump Jr.: ’You don’t have to be indoctrinated by these loser teachers that are trying to sell you on socialism’
- Vanity Fair: DON JR. TELLS CONSERVATIVES TO FIGHT THEIR “LOSER” TEACHERS
- Time: Trump Made False Claims About ‘Late-Term Abortion.’ Here Are the Facts
- Vox: Trump’s misleading comments about Gov. Ralph Northam and infanticide, explained
- USA Today: Five takeaways from Trump’s El Paso rally on border wall, shutdown talks
- Politico: ‘He was in his face’: Trump fumes over abortion, courts evangelicals
- Politico: White House says Trump raised abortion, fracking in meeting with Cuomo
- CNN: Trump, Cuomo discuss abortion, taxes, infrastructure in Oval Office meeting
- New York Times: Without Pelosi as a Foil, Trump Tries Out Some Alternatives
- Washington Post: On El Paso’s Shelter Place, an American divide over immigrants and immigration
Beto’s response
- New York Times: Trump Takes Border Wall Fight to El Paso; Beto O’Rourke Fires Back
- Politico: ‘This is where we make our stand’: Beto O’Rourke finally looks like a 2020 candidate
- Vox: Beto O’Rourke fact-checked Trump’s rally live from across the street in El Paso
- Texas Tribune: Beto O’Rourke spoke in El Paso in a counter-rally to Donald Trump’s event
- Texas Tribune: Beto O’Rourke turbocharges 2020 buzz with response to Trump rally in El Paso
- New Yorker: Beto O’Rourke’s Radical Vision of the Border
- Austin American-Statesman: Did Trump jump-start a Beto O’Rourke campaign for president?
- Vanity Fair: DID TRUMP JUST TURN BETO INTO A 2020 FRONT-RUNNER?
- New York Times: Who can split screen Donald Trump?
- Salon: The best way to resist Trump? Beto and El Paso show us how it’s done
2020
- Huffington Post: Howard Schultz Slams Both Parties But Fails To Nail Down Any Positions In Town Hall
- Daily Beast: Howard Schultz Tells CNN Town Hall He Doesn’t ‘See Color’
- CNN: 13 strange and awkward lines from Howard Schultz’s CNN town hall
- Crooked: HOWARD SCHULTZ IS A SPOILER FOR TRUMP—HERE’S PROOF
- Vox: Howard Schultz’s campaign is based on 3 ideas, and they’re all wrong
- Washington Post: Analysis – Howard Schultz’s campaign about nothing
- Vox: Howard Schultz’s CNN town hall revealed the emptiness of elite centrism
- Huffington Post: Democrats Lambaste CNN’s Howard Schultz Town Hall As 2016 All Over Again
- Daily Beast: CNN Under Fire for Howard Schultz Town Hall
- The Hill: CNN faces liberal backlash for Howard Schultz town hall: ‘This is how we ended up with Trump’
- New York Times: Citing Detective’s Death, de Blasio Scraps Political Trip to New Hampshire
- Politico: De Blasio heads to New Hampshire as he contemplates run for president
- FiveThirtyEight: Everyone’s Running — And That Could Be Dangerous For The Democrats
- CNN: The 2020 Democratic field is more liberal than past years
- CNN: 2020 Democrats face the most diverse electorate in history
- New York Times: Kamala Harris Was Accused of Lying About Listening to Tupac and Snoop Dogg. The Truth Is More Complicated.
- Washington Post: ‘It’s the metric, 100 percent.’ Democratic presidential hopefuls increasingly see small-dollar donations as a sign of viability.
- Washington Post: The Trailer: Tulsi Gabbard finds her people in Iowa
- Washington Post: The Trailer: What we learned about Booker 2020 this weekend
Marcy Wheeler
- Empty Wheel: AMY BERMAN JACKSON RULES THAT MANAFORT LIED ABOUT POSSIBLE CRIMINAL ACTIVITY RELATED TO DONALD TRUMP’S CAMPAIGN
- Empty Wheel: ON SSCI’S INVESTIGATION: MANAFORT “CONSPIRED” WHETHER OR NOT TRUMP ALSO “COLLUDED”
- Empty Wheel: NYT CONTINUES TO TELL PAUL MANAFORT’S LIES FOR HIM
- Vox: Judge rules that Manafort deliberately lied to Mueller’s team during cooperation
- New York Times: Manafort Found to Have Lied to Prosecutors While Under a Cooperation Agreement
- CNN: Judge voids Paul Manafort plea deal, says he ‘intentionally’ lied to the FBI, special counsel and grand jury
- Los Angeles Times: Judge agrees that Paul Manafort lied in Russia investigation
- Washington Post: Federal judge finds Manafort lied to Mueller probe about contacts with Russian aide
- Politico: Judge rules Manafort lied to Mueller about contacts with Russian
- The Hill: Judge rules Manafort lied multiple times to FBI, Mueller
