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🗓️ 10 September 2019
⏱️ 41 minutes
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The least surprising episode of The Al Franken Podcast. Veteran DC watchdog Melanie Sloan tells us Trump is very corrupt. Also Ivanka and Jared. And Don Jr. and Eric. Plus the EPA, Interior, and Commerce. And, finally this week, the National Weather Service!
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0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. |
0:05.8 | Well, we've got a great show today, you know, for a change. |
0:11.2 | Melanie Sloan is with us, and you're probably thinking, I don't know that name. |
0:16.2 | I don't know that name, Melanie Sloan. |
0:18.2 | Well, you should. |
0:19.3 | You really should because she has had her eye on |
0:24.1 | corruption in Washington, D.C. for decades. And she used to actually be on my radio show in Air |
0:32.7 | America. Every week she had corruption in Washington to report. and a lot of that was happening in Iraq and Afghanistan. |
0:44.7 | Melanie was at that time the head of citizens for responsibility and ethics in Washington. |
0:51.3 | Now it's crew, and they still exist, And they're a watchdog. And now she is |
0:57.5 | senior advisor to another watchdog group called American Oversight. American Oversight. And this has just |
1:07.3 | been her career. She really is doing God's work, and she knows all the ins and outs of corruption in Washington, D.C. |
1:22.1 | And, you know, now that I think of it, she could just use that knowledge and just go to town in the last few years of her career and make a mint. |
1:36.6 | Her dream is to move to Napa and get a vineyard, and she's gathered all this knowledge on corruption and boom you're |
1:49.1 | going to see her you go to St. Helena California and you'll see her making a fine |
1:56.0 | chardonnay so Melanie Sloan is coming up after this musical interlude. |
2:08.4 | Are you a lawyer? |
2:09.8 | I am, in fact, a lawyer. |
2:11.0 | Okay. |
2:11.5 | How convenient. |
2:13.2 | It is. |
2:14.5 | Yes. |
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