Part 1:
We talk with Anjeannette Damont, who covers government accountability issues at the local, state and federal level in the Southwest. At Pro Publica, her work has included uncovering COVID-19 testing contracts awarded to the Nevada governors friends with disastrous results, documenting how a city council empowered a wealthy developer to raze motels and displace hundreds of low-income residents, and investigating how the countrys largest house-flipping company cashed in on homeowners desperation. Prior to Pro Publica, she was a government watchdog reporter and regional investigative editor for the USA Today Network.
We discuss the damage done by a We Buy Ugly Houses Franchise Left a Trail of Financial Wreckage Across Texas
https://www.propublica.org/article/homevestors-fraud-charles-carrier-texas

Part 2:
We talk with Bill Curry and Harold Meyerson.
Bill Curry was a Connecticut state senator, comptroller and two time Democratic nominee for governor who served as Counselor to the President in the Clinton White House. He has written for Salon, the Daily Beast, the Huffington Post and the Hartford Courant and has provided commentary on National Public Radio, MSNBC and many other news outlets.
Harold Meyerson is editor at large of The American Prospect.
We discuss how Trump uses policy as a political weapon. The 'bait and switch' approach that gets voters' attention for popular issues, on which he never delivers, but for which he takes credit.
We also discuss the Qatar government's 'gift' to Trump of a $4 M airplane. 

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Music: David Rovics