In This Episode
Trump throws a tantrum over the wall in the Oval Office, Michael Cohen is sentenced to three years in prison, and more Democrats throw their support behind a Green New Deal. Then Stacey Abrams talks to Jon about her race for governor in Georgia, her new lawsuit to uphold voting rights, and her future plans.
Show Notes:
Oval Office Showdown
- NPR: Poll: Americans Want Trump To Compromise On Border Wall To Avoid Possible Shutdown
- New York Times: Trump Threatens Shutdown in Combative Appearance With Democrats
- Washington Post: Trump welcomes a shutdown during Oval Office squabble with Pelosi, Schumer
- New York Times: Playing by His Own Rules, Trump Flips the Shutdown Script
- Reuters: Top Democrats say Trump has made clear he wants government shutdown
- Washington Post: ‘It’s now or never’: Trump faces a moment of truth on his border wall
- Vox: The fiery meeting between Trump, Schumer, and Pelosi about the border wall, explained
- Vox: How Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer got Trump to own a government shutdown
- Daily Beast: Nancy Pelosi Had to Play Mom Because Donald Trump and Chuck Schumer Acted Like Babies
- Daily Beast: Everybody’s Wrong: Donald Trump Won the Chuck-n-Nancy Meeting, and Here’s Why
- NBC News: ‘Cocoon of his own mistruth’: Schumer says that’s where Trump lives
- Washington Post: Schumer calls on McConnell to pull Trump ‘back from the brink’ on wall fight
- New York Times: The Chuck and Nancy and Donald Show
- Vox: Trump doesn’t want the wall. He wants a fight about the wall.
- CNN: The foundation of Trump’s coalition is cracking
- The Atlantic: Exclusive – Trump Moves to Deport Vietnam War Refugees
- Vox: Trump is pushing Vietnam to accept deportees who have lived in the US for over 20 years
Pelosi
- Washington Post: The people love a feisty grandma, so Nancy Pelosi gave them one
- Esquire: Nancy Pelosi Just Mocked the President* to His Face in the Oval Office
- Washington Post: Pelosi strikes deal with rebels, will step aside by 2022 to win speaker votes
- Vox: Pelosi officially has the votes to be the next speaker — if she steps down in 2022
- Axios: Nancy Pelosi to support term limits for Democratic leaders
- Politico: Pelosi on verge of deal with rebels to reclaim speakership
- New York Times: Pelosi Nears Deal With Dissident Democrats to Limit Her Speakership to 4 Years
- Roll Call: House Democrats to Wait ’Til Next Year in Term Limit Discussion
The Takes
- Washington Post: ‘This has spiraled downward’: Democrats introduce Trump to divided government
- Associated Press: AP Analysis: A rancorous first glimpse of new Trump-Democrats dynamic
- The Atlantic: Trump’s Reality Show in the Oval Office
- CNN: The reality TV president just got beat at his own game
- Washington Post: The border security reality show is a net positive for Trump – Op-Ed
Hot Tub Crime Machine II
- Washington Post: Michael Cohen sentenced to three years in prison for crimes committed while working for Trump
- Axios: Michael Cohen sentenced to 3 years in prison
- The Atlantic: Michael Cohen Pays the Price for His ‘Blind Loyalty’ to Trump
- The Atlantic: ‘Today Is the Day I Am Getting My Freedom Back’
- Politico Magazine: Did Trump Just Move a Step Closer to Unindicted Co-conspirator?
- Washington Post: Michael Cohen just fell into the bottomless pit of Trump’s corruption
- Lawfare: Does Trump’s Involvement in the Cohen Payments Constitute an Impeachable Offense?
- Reuters: Exclusive: Trump says he is not concerned about being impeached, defends payments to women
- Reuters: Key quotes from the Reuters interview with Trump
- New Yorker: What America Gets From Michael Cohen’s Three-Year Deal
- New York Times: Prosecutors Announce Deal With Tabloid Company in Trump Hush-Money Inquiry
- Washington Post: The campaign finance threat to Trump just got more severe
- Wall Street Journal: Prosecutors Bolster Case for Trump’s Involvement in Hush-Money Payments
- New York Times: Neal Katyal: Can’t Indict a President? That Could Hurt Trump
- Politico: Top Democrat: DOJ ‘needs to re-examine’ guidance that a sitting president shouldn’t be indicted
Climate lessons
- New York Times: Tear Gas Still Lingering, France’s President to Address the Nation
- Bloomberg: France to Probe Possible Russian Influence on Yellow Vest Riots
- France 24: As it happened: More than a thousand arrested in Paris ‘Yellow Vest’ protests
- New York Times: Macron’s Proposal to Mollify Yellow Vest Protesters Fails to Impress
- Washington Post: Why are the ‘yellow vests’ still protesting in France? His name is Macron.
- Bloomberg: Macron Just Doesn’t Get It – Op-Ed
- Vanity Fair: “TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE”: CAN MACRON SURVIVE HIS NATION’S RAGE?
- Vox: Trump is using the Paris protests to push his anti-Paris Agreement agenda
- Washington Post: Trump administration resists global climate efforts at home and overseas
- The Guardian: US and Russia ally with Saudi Arabia to water down climate pledge
- Politico: Why greens are turning away from a carbon tax
- New York Times: ‘Yellow Vest’ Protests Shake France. Here’s the Lesson for Climate Change
- Seattle Times: Electric ferries, no more coal power: After carbon-fee defeat, Inslee rolls out clean-energy proposals
- Nature: Global warming will happen faster than we think
- Vox: Greenland’s ice sheet is melting at its fastest rate in centuries
- Washington Post: The Energy 202: Why climate activists stormed Nancy Pelosi’s office again
- Washington Post: Here’s how to win on climate-change policy – Op-Ed
Stacey Abrams
- Atlanta Journal Constitution: Inside Stacey Abrams’ $42M campaign for governor
- San Francisco Chronicle: Stacey Abrams takes on voter suppression in Georgia
- Vox: Republican Brad Raffensperger wins Georgia secretary of state runoff
- Politico: Stacey Abrams eyeing Senate, governor campaigns
- Los Angeles Times: Voting rights activists file major federal lawsuit against Georgia election officials
- Slate: Stacey Abrams’ New Lawsuit Against Georgia’s Broken Voting System Is Incredibly Smart
- NPR: Georgia Set To Remain A Battleground For Voting Rights Ahead Of 2020
- NPR: Stacey Abrams Says She Was Almost Blocked From Voting In Georgia Election
- Vanity Fair: “DEMOCRACY FAILED GEORGIA”: STACEY ABRAMS ENDS GOVERNOR RUN WITHOUT CONCEDING
