54: Andrew Weissman on Trump's criminality and Kathleen Belew on the hidden threat of white supremacy

Politics War Room with James Carville & Al Hunt

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🗓️ 8 October 2020

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

The President and his team have been infected with the Coronavirus, giving new significance to the phrase October Surprise. But even though James and Al think an electoral blow out is coming, it’s too early for Democrats to get comfortable— there are too many threats. Guest Professor Kathleen Belew details the rise of white supremacist movements and their plans for overthrowing the United States, while former DOJ Fraud Section Chief Andrew Weissmann tells us that Bill Barr has downplayed the foreign plans to affect our elections. Is our country at risk once again?

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Latest Books By Our Guests:

Kathleen Belew: Bring the War Home

Andrew Weissmann: Where Law Ends

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TIMELINE:

00:00 - Intro
01:30 - One incredibly long week

04:00 - Disease in the White House

08:00 - House and Senate predictions

11:45 - Crunching the voting numbers

19:00 - The hidden threat of white supremacy

23:30 - Pent-up frustation

29:30 - Oklahoma as a flash point

34:00 - The post-war bump in hate

38:30 - The banality of evil

42:30 - Bob Mueller’s failures

47:15 - Republican law and order

54:45 - Why did you lie to Congress?

1:00:45 - The Dunham investigation

1:08:00 - Audience Q&A

Transcript

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0:00.0	Dad, I'm hungry!
0:01.5	Right, what do I cook for tea?
0:03.0	Er, McCain chips. These will be good.
0:05.2	You know they'll come out nice and crispy if you cook them in a rye fryer.
0:08.1	Just say, Alexa, open McCain and Alexa will help you.
0:12.0	What? You mean if I say Alexa, open McCain, Alexa will open the bag of chips for me.
0:16.4	Not literally open the bag of chips for your dad, but Alexa can tell you how to cook them
0:20.5	and give you ideas for tea.
0:21.9	Ah, okay. Alexa, open McCain.
0:24.4	Well done, dad. Such a tech wizard.
0:26.5	Chip, chip, hooray.
0:27.6	Crispy a fry perfection with McCain.
0:30.0	MUSIC
0:35.4	Hello and welcome to Politics War Room with James Carville and I'm Al Hunt.
0:40.8	We have a new segment this week where we answer your questions, that's if we're able to.
0:45.6	So if you have a question you want to ask us right to us at Plitticon on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook,
0:52.0	for next week's show. We've been inundated with questions and we'll try to get to most of them.
0:56.8	This episode is sponsored by Hydrant, Magic Spoon and Steady MD.
1:01.6	We thank them for their support of the podcast and we thank you for listening and please tell
1:06.4	your friends and remind them to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher or wherever you get
1:13.6	your podcast. James, we got a lot to talk about, but was it really a week ago that we did this podcast?
1:21.2	It seems like a year so much. I mean polls, national and state show, it's time to rev up the bus.
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