#47: "It's Crackling Out There"
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2017
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
A Muslim ban, a constitutional crisis and sanctuary cities in danger. Maria Hinojosa and Julio Ricardo Varela lead a conversation about this crazy week of news with Michelle Wu, President of the Boston City Council, and Angela Maria Kelley, Executive Director of the Center for American Progress Action Fund.
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| 0:00.0 | Today's show is brought to you by Hello Fresh. |
| 0:02.6 | Please visit Hello Fresh.com and use the promo code In The Thick to save $35 off your first week of deliveries. |
| 0:09.2 | Now, this week's episode of In The Thick. |
| 0:11.6 | We are throwing all of our American values out the |
| 0:15.5 | window right now for some immoral sense of fear and anxiety for political |
| 0:20.1 | purposes. |
| 0:22.1 | Hey welcome to In The Thicke a podcast about politics, race and culture from a POC perspective. |
| 0:28.9 | I'm Juhu Rico-Lorella. |
| 0:30.4 | And I'm Maria Inu Hosa. |
| 0:31.8 | And today, Michelle Wu joins us. She's the president of the Boston City Council. |
| 0:36.4 | Welcome back to the show Michelle. |
| 0:37.8 | Thanks for having me. |
| 0:38.8 | And joining us from Washington, D.C. is Angela Maria Kelly. |
| 0:41.6 | She is the executive director of the Center for American Progress |
| 0:44.8 | Action Fund, part of their progressive think tank. Hey Angie, welcome back to the show. |
| 0:49.8 | Thank you so much. Happy to be here. |
| 0:51.6 | So we recorded this episode on Monday afternoon but of course |
| 0:55.2 | some major news broke on Monday night. Donald Trump fired Sally Yates the |
| 1:00.3 | acting attorney general after she refused to defend his immigration |
| 1:03.9 | ban in court. This is just a cherry on top of a crazy few days in the news. |
| 1:08.7 | Anyway, let's get on to the show. All right, so let's start this week with the craziness that has been unfolding after |
| 1:15.4 | President Donald Trump issued his executive order suspending admission to |
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