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Independent Americans with Paul Rieckhoff

35. Sarah Jessica Parker, Rachel Maddow, Marc Roberge, Malcolm Nance, Scott Campbell, Wes Moore. The Thanksgiving Special: The Best Of The What Makes You Happy Question.

Independent Americans with Paul Rieckhoff

Righteous Media | Bleav

Daily News, Veteran, News, Politics, News Commentary, National Security

4.6907 Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2019

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In this fun and inspiring special Thanksgiving episode, we go through the best of the “What makes you happy?” question. Paul has asked that same question of every single guest on the pod so far. And he picks out the best—after quirky and independently summarizing a wild week of important news. It’s a perfect pod to download for your holiday season travel or chill time.  Sarah Jessica Parker will empower you. Rachel Maddow will inform you. Marc Roberge will move you. Scott Campbell will motivate you. Malcolm Nance will make you smile. And Wes Moore will remind you what it’s all about.  It’s a massive, warm serving of mom’s best Integrity, a heaping, tasty bowl of Information, a nice white and dark meat carving of Impact, and two slices of sweet Inspiration. Despite the chaos all across America, there is still lots of goodness...and lots of reasons to be thankful. Our host, Paul Rieckhoff (@PaulRieckhoff) is a combat veteran, author and renowned activist who has recently appeared on CNN, MSNBC, Pod Save America, NPR and many more. He takes Angry Americans (@AngryAmericans) entertainingly through the latest headlines, the ones you need to know about from the firing of Navy Secretary Richard Spencer to Trump’s release of war criminals to the big winners at the Americans Music Awards.   This episode is made possible thanks to support from Oscar Mike--an innovative Veteran owned and American-Made lifestyle apparel brand. Oscar Mike creates awesome sweatshirts, t-shirts, hats and even performance gear for both men and women. High quality, affordable and made by American hands, be sure to head over to Angry Americans merch page and get yours today. If you’re not angry, you’re not paying attention. But there are also good reasons to be happy and inspired. Download the new Angry Americans podcast for free here now. Then, join the Angry Americans newsletter to get free behind-the-scenes video of recent guests including Samantha Bee, Bob Woodruff, Bradley Whitford, Soledad O’Brien, Rachel Maddow, Ron Perman, Tulsi Gabbard and more. Angry Americans is connecting, uniting and empowering people of all backgrounds nationwide. It’s changing the podcasting landscape. And powered by Righteous Media.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Angry Americans. Welcome to Episode 35. I'm your host Paul Reikoff,

0:19.9

and happy Thanksgiving.

0:21.6

There's much to be thankful about.

0:23.6

But before we get to that, there's also much to be angry about.

0:27.6

There's always, unfortunately, much to be angry about.

0:32.6

And if you're not angry, you're not paying attention.

0:35.6

It struck me one yesterday when you put up on the screen

0:39.2

Ambassador Sondland's emails and who was on these emails and he said these are the people who need

0:44.4

to know that he was absolutely right because he was being involved in a domestic political errand

0:50.2

and we were being involved in national security foreign policy and those two things had just

0:56.3

diverged so he was correct and i had not put my finger on the at that at the moment but i was irritated

1:02.9

with him and angry with him that he wasn't fully coordinating and i did say to him ambassador

1:07.6

sondland gordon i think this is all going to blow up, and here we are.

1:11.9

That's Fiona Hill, a British-born American Foreign Affairs Specialist. She worked at the National

1:18.2

Security Council specializing in Russian and European Affairs. She's a patriot, and she testified

1:24.8

before Congress this week. And she's right to be angry

1:28.6

because she was paying attention

1:30.6

when she worked in the White House.

1:33.2

And she's right to be angry

1:34.7

because she's a patriot.

1:37.3

And this holiday season,

1:39.4

knowing that patriots like her

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