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🗓️ 23 March 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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It's been another chaotic week in Donald Trump's America, and we're thrilled to have our good friend, Norm Ornstein, back on the podcast. We talk about Trump's Executive Order TO dismantle the Department of Education and what that could mean to communities across the country. We also break down the divisions in the Democratic Party and why Leader Chuck Schumer didn't help the situation by caving to Donald Trump. Plus, what is the future of Ukraine and America's standing in the world as we abandon our allies?
Listen to Norm's podcast "Words Matter" with fellow friend of the show David Rothkopf: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dsrs-words-matter/id1420216970
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0:00.0 | Hey, everybody, we've got a great one today, you know, for a change. |
0:08.4 | And that's because Norm Hornstein joins us once again. |
0:11.5 | Norm, of course, is in our pantheon of great guests. |
0:15.2 | And I'm going to go right to them. |
0:17.6 | But first, I want to urge listeners to tune into Netflix for The Residence. |
0:22.6 | It's an eight-episode murder mystery set in the White House residence, and it's great, |
0:28.6 | and I'm in it. |
0:30.4 | I play a senator. |
0:31.7 | I know, not a stretch. |
0:34.1 | I'm the chairman of a Senate committee that's investigating whether the death of the chief usher of the White House is a murder or a suicide. |
0:45.2 | It's a murder. |
0:46.7 | The chief usher runs the residence and ends up dead during a state dinner. |
0:52.6 | Now, the first stage direction that describes my character is a vuncular, |
0:57.1 | uncle-like. So that's how I play it. But the White House wants the committee to find that it was a |
1:03.0 | suicide, which it wasn't. So I'm really kind of a hack. So my character isn't me. I really had to |
1:09.2 | dig deep to create an evuncular hack. |
1:13.2 | Of course, I have a relatively small role, |
1:15.6 | but the cast is full of great actors, |
1:18.1 | led by Uzo Aduba, |
1:20.3 | who plays the brilliant detective Cordelia Cup. |
1:24.2 | So check out the residents on Netflix. |
1:26.4 | You'll love it, |
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