Bunker Politics

Trump paraphrased: "The 'Fake Media' is a witch hunt, but if there's one thing you need to know about my administration, it's that Comey was looking for justice, and I obstructed it."

• The science of exercise according to Trump
• Comey Timeline
• When it comes to Impeachment, the kids table matters
• U.S. Presidential line of Succession

Journalist of the week: Maggie Haberman of The New York Times

Charity of the week: The Drug Policy Alliance

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Hash tag But Her Emails

• Trump fires FBI Director James Comey
• Sally Yates' testimony scorched everyone
• The Senate doesn't care what the kids table is up to with the AHCA

Journalist of the week: Katy Tur of NBC News

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I didn't think we'd have to be in the Bunker this long

• Trump "thought it would be easier"
• 2nd failed Obamacare repeal
• Mnuchin Tax plan would heighten a "mountain of debt"
• Sessions recuses himself from Flynn investigation, Rosenstein takes over the Senate Russia probe
• Sessions says DREAMers are subject to being deported, Trump says they should "rest easy"
• Flynn is somehow Obama's fault

Charity of the week: Teach for America

Journalist of the week: Daniel Dale of the Toronto Star

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Day 92 of Trump's presidency and there's only 8 days left to meet your terrible goals!!!

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It's Day 85 of Trump's presidency and the Russian connections keep coming

No detailed show notes this week as Red is sick and he barely crawled to the mic to record this podcast.

Charity of the week: The White Helmets

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We're going to War and it's only the 78th Day of the Trump Administration!

• Oh yeah the Senate legislative Filibuster is dead and Neil Gorsuch was confirmed, but 538 says it may not be that bad?
• We have a notoriously slapdash crash course of Syrian history, and it's depressing.
• The deal with Syria & Russia
• The scale of the crisis in Syria
• RadioLab's episode on Nuclear Control and Command (Nukes)
• Eric Schlosser's book Command and Control
• Trump's tweets and so much more

Charity of the week: The White Helmets

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Day 69 of the Trump Presidency

• Trump approval rating drops
• A new EO dismantling the Clean Power Plan
• New 2020 census modified to not count LGBTQ
• Breitbart hounds Paul Ryan who threatens the Freedom Caucus
• Republicans move from complicated health care to… tax reform?
• What's going on with Senate Republicans and Gorsuch?
• Meanwhile in Russia, people take to the streets while back home the administration tries to silence Sally Yates
• House Dems propose MAR-A-LAGO act

Charity of the week: The White Helmets

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An episode on the rise and fall of Trumpcare

• Outline of the AHCA, AKA Trumpcare
• Congressional Budget Office: Costs more, insures less
• Pete Souza, Obama's photographer and instagram hero
• Republicans have forgotten how to govern
• Republicans talk consequences of Trumpcare failure

Journalist of the week: Glenn Thrush

Charity of the week: The White Helmets

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Federal judge institutes Travel Ban Ban, GOP Health Care Plan isn't, Scott Pruitt continues to be a nightmare

• Hawaiian Federal judge freezes Trump's Travel ban
• Congressional Budget Office releases report on Trumpcare
• Trump challenged on Americans losing coverage
• Only 24% of voters support Trumpcare
• His budget it also a nightmare
• The stupid Rachel Maddow tax story
• Scott Pruitt is unfit to teach high school science
• Comey will PUBLICLY testify on Russia investigation next week
• Also Kellyane can turn microwaves into cameras, Rex Tillerson used the email alias "Wayne Tracker", and Breitbart is taking a hit out on Paul Ryan

Journalist of the week: Michelle B. Van Dyke

Charity of the week: Action Against Hunger

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Trumpcare, Obama tappin' them wires, and more

• Republican plan clears committee at 4:30 in the morning
• AMA opposes Republican plan
• Pre-emptively criticizing the Congressional Budget Office report, which doesn't yet exist
• The new plan restricts abortion coverage drastically
• The poor could afford healthcare if they just didn't buy so many iPhones
• New Travel Ban Executive Order is in place
• Trump accuses Obama of wiretapping his phones, apparently referencing a Breitbart article
• Obama denies he wiretapped any citizen, Trump doesn't believe it
• Trump is FURIOUS at Jeff Sessions recusing himself
• Supreme Court will not hear Transgender Rights case

Activist of the week: Pro Publica

Charity of the week: Planned Parenthood

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