In This Episode
Trump attacks the threat assessment from his own intelligence chiefs, and a debate breaks out in the Democratic primary over Medicare for All and taxing the wealthy. Then the New Yorker’s Isaac Chotiner talks to Jon Lovett about his interviews with Trump aides Rudy Giuliani and Cliff Sims.
Show Notes:
Trump vs. Intelligence
- New York Times: On North Korea and Iran, Intelligence Chiefs Contradict Trump
- Washington Post: Testimony by intelligence chiefs on global threats highlights differences with president
- Vox: Trump’s foreign policy isn’t based in reality
- Vanity Fair: TRUMP’S SPY CHIEFS CALL B.S. ON HIS ENTIRE FOREIGN POLICY
- New York Times: Trump Calls Intelligence Officials ‘Naive’ After They Contradict Him
- Washington Post: Trump blasts U.S. intelligence officials, disputes assessments on Iran and other global threats
- Politico: Trump tells intel chiefs to ‘go back to school’ after they break with him
- Vox: Trump just admitted North Korea might keep its nuclear weapons
- Washington Post: Analysis – Trump’s slow-building war on intelligence
- Slate: Lack of Intelligence – Trump’s latest attacks on his own intelligence agencies are galling, even by his standards
- Washington Post: In latest attack on intelligence agencies, Trump ignores where they actually agree
- Time: Inside John Bolton’s Month-Long P.R. Campaign Against Venezuela’s Government
- The Atlantic: How Seriously Should the World Take Trump’s Venezuela Threat?
- New York Times: Maduro Sounds Conciliatory but Warns: U.S. Intervention Would Be Worse Than Vietnam
- Daily Beast: Venezuela Is Becoming a Putin-Trump Proxy Battleground
- Washington Post: Trump and his aides offer the public a glimpse of their private notes — no matter how revealing
- New York Times: A Growing Chorus of Republican Critics for Trump’s Foreign Policy
- Washington Post: Trump administration faces an increasingly adversarial Congress — in both parties
- Foreign Policy: How Trump Stole the Democrats’ Best 2020 Foreign-Policy Stances
- Vox: A majority of Americans disapprove of Trump’s foreign policy
- New York Times: No People. No Process. No Policy. – The Trump administration is not prepared for a foreign policy crisis. – Op-Ed
2020
- New York Times: Kamala Harris and Michael Bloomberg Clash on Medicare for All
- Washington Post: Democratic candidates face political risks and policy challenges when pressed on health-care specifics
- CNN: Democrats distance themselves from Harris’ call to eliminate private health plans
- Vox: Kamala Harris and the Democrats’ Medicare-for-all litmus test
- CNN: Kamala Harris is open to multiple paths to ‘Medicare-for-all’
- Axios: “Medicare for All” speed read
- New York Magazine: Kamala Harris Didn’t Just Flip-Flop on Medicare for All
- PBS Newshour: Compare Democrats’ many Medicare-for-All proposals with this chart
- Kaiser Family Foundation: Compare Medicare-for-All and Public Plan Proposals
- NPR: Several Democrats Eying A Presidential Run Embrace ‘Medicare-For-All’
- CNN: Schultz defends criticism of Medicare-for-all proposal
- CNN: Michael Bloomberg: Medicare-for-all ‘would bankrupt us for a very long time’
- New York Times: Kamala Harris and Michael Bloomberg Clash on Medicare for All
- CNN: Majority favor ‘Medicare-for-all,’ but with a catch
- Washington Post: The media is badly botching the Medicare-for-all debate – Plumline
- Washington Post: Harris and progressives are pitching Medicare-for-all. They could give us four-more-years – Opinion
- Vox: How to build a Medicare-for-all plan, explained by somebody who’s thought about it for 20 years
- Pacific Standard: HOW THE PRIVATE HEALTH-CARE INDUSTRY IS WORKING TO KILL MEDICARE FOR ALL
- Forbes: 2020 Democrats Face Voters Uneducated About Medicare For All
- Washington Post: Medicare-for-all is a classic primary-season conundrum
- Washington Post: The Health 202: House Democrats are divided on Medicare-for-all plans
- Politico: Democrats’ plan to neuter Medicare for All irks liberals
- NPR: Ex-Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz Says He Wouldn’t Be A Spoiler In Race For White House
- Politico: Howard Schultz rips Warren’s ‘ridiculous’ plan to tax the super wealthy
- Washington Post: Howard Schultz knocks Ocasio-Cortez, Warren and Harris for ‘extreme,’ ‘punitive’ and ‘not American’ policies
- The Atlantic: How a Ballot Initiative to Expand Medicaid in Utah May Be Denied
- New York Times: Is There Room in 2020 for a Centrist Democrat? Maybe One or Two
- Crooked: HOWARD SCHULTZ AND THE PLUTOCRAT REVOLT
Isaac Chotiner
- New Yorker: Cliff Sims Is Proud to Have Served Trump
- New Yorker: “Even If He Did Do It, It Wouldn’t Be a Crime”: Rudy Giuliani on President Trump
- New Yorker: How Journalism Survives: An Interview with Jill Abramson
- New Yorker: The Disturbing, Surprisingly Complex Relationship Between White Identity Politics and Racism
- New Yorker: How the Times Reported the F.B.I. Counterintelligence Investigation Into President Trump: An Interview with the Journalist Adam Goldman
- New Yorker: How the Times Reported the F.B.I. Counterintelligence Investigation Into President Trump: An Interview with the Journalist Adam Goldman
- New Yorker: How Predictable is Donald Trump?
- New Yorker: Why the Networks Are Broadcasting Trump
- Washington Post: The Fix: Who is Cliff Sims, the latest ex-Trump staffer to write a tell-all book?
- USA Today: Donald Trump: Aide-turned-author Cliff Sims violated non-disclosure agreement
- New York Magazine: Rudy Giuliani Is Possibly a Legal Genius, But Probably Just an Idiot
- CNN: Rudy Giuliani has no idea what he’s talking about on Trump Tower Moscow
