111: Rep. Katie Porter - On Her New Book & Jeremy Peters On Dominion

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🗓️ 23 April 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Porter discusses I Swear: Politics Is Messier than My Minivan and also swears a bit.

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody, a great one today, you know, for a change.
0:09.3	Representative Katie Porter is with us to talk about her fun new book.
0:13.4	I swear, politics is messier than my minivan and about her candidacy for U.S. Senate in California. Porter, of course, represents part of
0:23.6	Orange County, formerly a solidly red county, now purple. She won her district in 2018 and
0:30.5	2020. In redistricting, it was made more difficult for her in 22, but she pulled it out. So she could win in tough districts.
0:40.2	California, of course, not tough for Democrats in the U.S. Senate race, and she's up against
0:46.1	some tough competition. Adam Schiff from the Hollywood area of California, well known for its
0:52.5	prominent role in the entertainment industry.
0:56.3	Barbara Lee, who represents Oakland, California, only member of the House to vote against
1:02.2	the war in Afghanistan. So I'm not endorsing anybody, but of course, Katie Porter, a great
1:08.5	member of Congress with a wonderful sense of humor and a single mom
1:12.9	with three kids and hence a very messy minivan. I know you really enjoy our discussion,
1:21.1	you know, for a change. Instead of doing a monologue this week, I decided to invite Jeremy Peters of the New York Times,
1:29.8	who joined us a few weeks ago to talk about the Dominion case against the Fox News Channel,
1:37.1	which he had been covering for the paper, and still is. And we know how that turned out, but I want to get his
1:45.8	perspective on the settlement, but also on the cases Fox will be facing going forward. Of course,
1:51.6	there's the Smartmatic case. Smartmatic is a voting software company about whom several Fox hosts,
1:59.9	Maria Bartaromo, Janine Piro, Lou Dobbs helped spread
2:04.2	false claims that Smartmatic had been the software in the Dominion machines that changed
2:10.5	Trump votes to Biden votes stealing the 2020 election. Smartmatic filed a $2.7 billion defamation suit against Fox for knowingly
2:23.0	spreading these false claims. Now, one of my favorite aspects of the suit is that smart
2:29.5	manic was not the software in the Dominion voting machines in question. In fact, Smartmatic says
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