The Weekly List

By Amy Siskind

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The Weekly List is a podcast hosted by Amy Siskind, author of The List. It will supplement the popular Weekly List on our website, www.theweeklylist.org. The podcast will give greater context to the "not normal" news items from the previous week, and will highlight a few stories that you may have missed.

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02.10.2020 Week 169 - Trump's Vendetta This was one of the most frightening weeks, as Trump seized on his impeachment acquittal to retaliate against his perceived enemies. Within 48 hours, Trump’s Department of Homeland Security suspended the Global Entry program for New York residents, Trump’s Treasury ...
02.03.2020 Week 168 - No Witnesses This week, despite explosive new allegations implicating Trump in leaked portions of the manuscript for John Bolton’s upcoming book, the Senate voted 51–49 on Friday not to call witnesses, all but ensuring Trump will be acquitted in the impeachment trial. ...
01.27.2020 Week 167 - The Trial Begins This week the Senate impeachment trial of Donald J. Trump began, even as evidence continued to trickle out. House Democrat impeachment managers made their case for the two articles over three days, laying out their argument with an intricate presentation ...
01.20.2020 Week 166 - Articles of Impeachment This week the articles of impeachment were transmitted to the Senate, and the impeachment trial formally began. Senators were sworn in, but it was unclear if they planned to follow the oath they swore to deliver impartial justice. This week ...
01.13.2020 Week 165 - Unintended Consequences This week as the country was on the brink of war with Iran, we stood alone, with the Trump regime having neglected to consult with our allies in Europe or the region. Reporting indicated the decision to strike that precipitated ...
01.07.2020 War With Iran? Throughout my time keeping the list, I have been concerned that since Trump would do anything to stay in power, when he felt he was losing his grip, we risked him taking extraordinary actions. This week, Trump assassinated Iran’s top ...
12.30.2019 Week 163 - Losing the Evangelicals? This was the quietest week in months as Congress left Washington for a two-week holiday break. After House Speaker Nancy Pelosi refused to transmit articles of impeachment to the Senate, Trump spent the week stewing and repeatedly attacking her on ...
12.23.2019 Week 162 - Third in History In this historic week, Trump became the third president in U.S. history to be impeached. Unlike his recent predecessors who faced the process, Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton, Trump showed no remorse; rather as the vote was occurring, Trump blasted ...
12.16.2019 Week 161 - Articles of Impeachment This week, the House Judiciary Committee debated and voted to approve two articles of impeachment against Donald J. Trump, for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. After two fiery days of debate, the panel took a somber vote Friday, ...
12.09.2019 Week 160 - Laughingstock of the World This week, Trump traveled to London for the NATO summit as impeachment hearings got underway in the House Judiciary Committee, and Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee issued a scathing 300-page report. While Trump sought to display strength abroad, and ...
12.02.2019 Week 159 - Donald Balboa This week, more conspiracy theories were debunked, as a draft of the Department of Justice Inspector General report found the FBI did not try to place spies in Trump’s 2016 campaign, nor did Obama wiretap him. Trump allies continued to ...
11.25.2019 Week 158 - Impeachment Hearings Continue This was a remarkable week in impeachment hearings as nine witnesses testified. By week’s end, it was clear that there was a coordinated effort that included multiple senior Trump officials “in the loop” seeking investigations from Ukraine in exchange for ...
11.18.2019 Week 157 - Impeachment Hearings Begin This week public impeachment hearings started, with three career diplomats testifying before the House Intelligence Committee. Senate Republicans were notably quiet in their defense of Trump, while Republican House members focused mostly on the process, especially for the third witness, ...
11.11.2019 Week 156 - Democratic Victories This week, House Democrats released transcripts of eight depositions, and announced a schedule for public hearings next week. As support for impeachment plateaued, Democrats tentatively planned to fast-track hearings, with a vote on articles of impeachment before the holiday break. ...
11.04.2019 Week 155 - "Lock Him Up!" This week, further testimony in the impeachment probe brought the fifth and sixth public confirmation of a quid pro quo between Trump and Ukraine, including so far William Taylor, Gordon Sondland, Sen. Ron Johnson, Mick Mulvaney, Alexander Vindman and Tim ...
10.28.2019 Week 154 - Republican Sit-In This week marked a major shift in the world order, as Trump finalized the evacuation of troops on Turkey-Syria border, and the void of leadership was instantaneously filled by Russia. Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ...
10.21.2019 Week 153 - All Roads Lead to Putin This week they just said it out loud: Trump’s acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney scolded reporters, saying Ukraine was a quid pro quo, and “Get over it!” This was yet another in a series of unending trial balloons to ...
10.14.2019 Week 152 - Thirty-three Tweets In addition to the number of not normal items surging since the start of the impeachment inquiry, Trump’s Twitter activity has proliferated — in one 25 minute span on Friday alone, he sent 33 tweets! In past weekly lists, we ...
10.07.2019 Week 151 - Soliciting Foreign Help...Again With impeachment looming, Trump started this week by attacking the credibility of House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff and the whistleblower, both of whom he also endangered with his rhetoric. Midweek, Trump shifted strategy, openly soliciting foreign help from China ...
09.30.2019 Week 150 - The Beginning of the End? This week House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced a formal impeachment inquiry of Trump. I’ve always had the sense that when we were finally on the road to the end of the Trump regime, the weekly list would ramp up big ...
09.16.2019 Week 148 - Taliban Invite As Congress returned to session, House Democrats had conflicting messages on impeachment. The Trump regime’s Justice Department seized on the divergence, saying lawmakers were not entitled to see the full Mueller report or grand jury information — the rationale used ...
09.09.2019 Week 147 - Hurricane Dorian This week is not the longest list with Congress out on summer break for the sixth and final week, but it is perhaps the most alarming in terms of the irreverent authoritarian actions by Trump, who continues to push boundaries ...
09.02.2019 Week 146 - FEC Out of Commission This week Trump’s strange behavior towards Russia drew renewed concern as he advocated for adding Russia back at the Group of Seven summit in France, then held up military aid to Ukraine. A vacated seat unfilled by Trump at the ...
08.26.2019 Week 145 - Greenland is Not for Sale This week, renewed questions surfaced about Trump’s mental health, as he referred to himself as the “King of Israel,” the “chosen one,” and “hereby ordered” U.S. companies to change their dealings with China. Trump created another unprovoked international crisis with ...
08.19.2019 Week 144 - Bracing for a Downturn This week Trump’s beloved economy faltered under pressure from his trade war with China, a ballooning U.S. budget deficit, and other global factors. An anxious Trump, realizing a strong economy is essential to his re-election, lashed out at the Federal ...
08.12.2019 Week 143 - Mainstream White Supremacy This week has the most incidents of violence, attempted violence, and acts of hate inspired by Trump and his rhetoric since I started keeping track. The week started with two deadly mass shootings — one directly linked to the language ...
08.05.2019 Week 142 - Moscow Mitch This week started with Trump’s attacks on Black leader House Oversight Committee Chair Elijah Cummings, whose panel has several ongoing investigations targeting Trump and his family. Trump used dehumanizing language like “rats” and “infest” to disparage Cummings’ home district of ...
07.29.2019 Week 141 - Robert Mueller Testifies This week Robert Mueller testified before the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees about his 448 page report. The testimony was the first glimpse many Americans had of its findings, especially Mueller’s stark warnings on Russia’s past and ongoing interference, and ...
07.22.2019 Week 140 - Trump Attacks the Squad This week, in a shocking display of racism, Trump tweeted that four congresswomen of color should “go back” to the countries they came from. Amid Republican silence, rather than backing off, Trump ramped up his attacks, leading to a mid-week ...
07.15.2019 Week 139 - Consolidation of Power This is the longest week so far, and it felt that way. The chaos of our lives has obfuscated the damage and extremes under Trump, as each week blurs into the next week’s crises and unprecedented actions. This week’s turmoil ...
07.08.2019 Week 138 - 2020 Census Citizenship Question This week, two years after visiting France for Bastille Day and admiring its military display, Trump hosted a “Salute to America” on July Fourth, replete with an expansive array of military hardware and troops. The scenes of tanks rolling into ...
07.01.2019 Week 137 - Detention Center Realities This week as Trump backed off mass deportations, public outcry grew over conditions at detention centers for migrant children. Reminiscent of Theresienstadt Ghetto in the Nazi era, the Trump regime offered limited tours of detention centers to the media — ...
06.24.2019 Week 136 - An Almost War with Iran This week Trump manufactured two major story lines: an almost war with Iran, and mass roundups and deportations of “millions” of immigrants. The two stories occupied much of the national attention, while Trump continued to stonewall Congressional attempts at oversight. ...
06.17.2019 Week 135 - No Protection for the 2020 Election This week in an interview with ABC News, Trump suggested he would take damaging information from foreign governments on political adversaries without reporting it to the FBI, setting off alarm bells. The Chair of the Federal Elections Commissions took the ...
06.10.2019 Week 134 - Trump's Trip to London This week Trump traveled to the U.K., where he was met with mass protests which he denied existed, then to his property in Ireland en route to the 75th anniversary of D-Day ceremony in Normandy, where he attacked Robert Mueller ...
06.03.2019 Week 133 - Robert Mueller's Resignation This week, special counsel Robert Mueller addressed the nation for the first time since the start of his investigation. Notably, Mueller said, “If we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said ...
05.28.2019 Week 132 - Support for Impeachment This week the first Republican, Rep. Justin Amash, came out for impeaching Trump. While Trump allies sought to attack and punish Amash to avoid further defections, momentum grew among the House Democratic caucus for impeachment hearings. Feeling the pressure Speaker ...
05.20.2019 Week 131 - Attacks on Abortion Rights This week, in a letter, White House counsel Pat Cipollone issued a blanket refusal of records and testimony from Trump and dozens of current and former White House staff, saying Trump did not recognize Congress as a law enforcement body ...
05.13.2019 Week 130 - Constitutional Crisis This week marked a subtle shift in House Democrats’ position on impeachment, as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her committee chairs cited a “constitutional crisis,” and argued Trump was “goading” them and giving them no choice with his continued stonewalling. ...
05.06.2019 Episode 47 - Leaked Mueller Letter to Attorney General William Barr This week a leaked letter sent from special counsel Robert Mueller to Attorney General William Barr days after Barr released his four-page “summary” indicated Mueller did not believe that Barr captured the “context, nature, and substance” of his work. Mueller’s ...
04.29.2019 Week 128 - The Redacted Mueller Report This week Trump’s White House refused all requests by House Democrats to interview current or former members of the regime, or to turn over records, including those requested by subpoena. The NYT Editorial Board noted Trump “is effectively declaring lawmakers ...
04.22.2019 Week 127 - The Mueller Report This week Attorney General William Barr publicly released a redacted version of the Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report, almost a month after he delivered it to Barr. The redacted report differed substantially from Barr’s March 24 letter, as well as ...
04.15.2019 Week 126 - Stephen Miller: Immigration Czar This week, Trump’s frustration with migrants coming to the southern border boiled over, as he purged the Department of Homeland Security, and empowered immigrant hardliner Stephen Miller to be in charge of the regime’s immigration policy. As the week ended, ...
04.08.2019 Week 125 - Waiting on the Mueller Report This week, two weeks after Mueller had sent his final report to Attorney General William Barr, members of the special counsel anonymously broke their silence, indicating to the Times and the Post that their findings were more troubling than Barr’s ...
04.01.2019 Week 124 - William Barr's Letter on the Mueller Report This week was dominated by news of the Mueller report, which was delivered to Attorney General William Barr last Friday, but has yet to be given to Congress or the American people. On Sunday, AG Barr sent a four-page letter ...
03.25.2019 Week 123 - Trump's Conspiracy Theory Tweets This week started with maniacal tweeting by Trump: more than 50 tweets over the weekend on a variety of unrelated topics, including multiple retweets of conspiracy theorists. The week’s news was overshadowed by Trump’s daily attacks against deceased Senator John ...
03.18.2019 Week 122 - Trump's National Emergency Trump issued his first veto after the House and Senate voted to block his emergency declaration. The veto followed Trump’s declaration of a national emergency after Congress refused to fund his wall, which was unprecedented. Taken together, Trump irreverently thumbed ...
03.11.2019 Week 121 - Fox News: State TV? This week a bombshell exposé by Jane Mayer on the ties between Trump and Fox News sparked questions of whether America had its first version of state TV. The piece had broad fallout, and sparked a renewed conversation on the ...
03.04.2019 Week 120 - Michael Cohen's Testimony This week the country was riveted by the public testimony of Michael Cohen, Trump’s long-time attorney and fixer, before the House Oversight Committee — the first public testimony in the new Democrat-controlled Congress. Cohen’s testimony overwhelmed the spectacle of Trump’s ...
02.25.2019 Week 119 - The Continuing Rise of White Nationalism This week the FBI thwarted a major domestic terrorism plot by a white nationalist serving as a lieutenant in the U.S. Coast Guard, who had called for the establishment of a “white homeland.” His target list included Democratic politicians and ...

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The Weekly List episodes:

Week 169 - Trump's Vendetta

Week 168 - No Witnesses

Week 167 - The Trial Begins

Week 166 - Articles of Impeachment

Week 165 - Unintended Consequences

War With Iran?

Week 163 - Losing the Evangelicals?

Week 162 - Third in History

Week 161 - Articles of Impeachment

Week 160 - Laughingstock of the World

Week 159 - Donald Balboa

Week 158 - Impeachment Hearings Continue

Week 157 - Impeachment Hearings Begin

Week 156 - Democratic Victories

Week 155 - "Lock Him Up!"

Week 154 - Republican Sit-In

Week 153 - All Roads Lead to Putin

Week 152 - Thirty-three Tweets

Week 151 - Soliciting Foreign Help...Again

Week 150 - The Beginning of the End?

Week 148 - Taliban Invite

Week 147 - Hurricane Dorian

Week 146 - FEC Out of Commission

Week 145 - Greenland is Not for Sale

Week 144 - Bracing for a Downturn

Week 143 - Mainstream White Supremacy

Week 142 - Moscow Mitch

Week 141 - Robert Mueller Testifies

Week 140 - Trump Attacks the Squad

Week 139 - Consolidation of Power

Week 138 - 2020 Census Citizenship Question

Week 137 - Detention Center Realities

Week 136 - An Almost War with Iran

Week 135 - No Protection for the 2020 Election

Week 134 - Trump's Trip to London

Week 133 - Robert Mueller's Resignation

Week 132 - Support for Impeachment

Week 131 - Attacks on Abortion Rights

Week 130 - Constitutional Crisis

Episode 47 - Leaked Mueller Letter to Attorney General William Barr

Week 128 - The Redacted Mueller Report

Week 127 - The Mueller Report

Week 126 - Stephen Miller: Immigration Czar

Week 125 - Waiting on the Mueller Report

Week 124 - William Barr's Letter on the Mueller Report

Week 123 - Trump's Conspiracy Theory Tweets

Week 122 - Trump's National Emergency

Week 121 - Fox News: State TV?

Week 120 - Michael Cohen's Testimony

Week 119 - The Continuing Rise of White Nationalism

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