#92: Power Moves
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2018
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Our first show of 2018 asks: With everything that’s been going on in our government, do we still feel hopeful? Can change really happen, and if so, how? Hosts Maria Hinojosa and Julio Ricardo Varela talk with Eric Liu, founder of Citizen University, about power and whether in the end, Americans feel powerless under the current administration. But before Eric joins the show, Maria and Julio reflect on the first few days of the year—from Trump's Korea tweets to Steve Bannon's latest comments.
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| 0:00.0 | Freezing. |
| 0:02.0 | I'm so cold. |
| 0:05.0 | Well all you need is a little bit of global warming. |
| 0:08.0 | What's the matter with you? |
| 0:09.0 | Obviously you're not keeping up with the Times of 2018 where all we have to worry about is |
| 0:14.6 | dumb tweets and oh my god there's going to be World War 3 an accidental war |
| 0:20.5 | what the hell is that? |
| 0:23.0 | You're freaking out. |
| 0:24.2 | I'm freaking off. |
| 0:25.2 | I'm pissed off. |
| 0:26.2 | So do you really think that Donald Trump, you know, we're starting our third season of In The |
| 0:30.6 | Thick. |
| 0:31.6 | Do you think like we're not even going to have a third season because of all this no |
| 0:34.2 | actually I do think we're going to have a third season and I think that 2018 is going to be a |
| 0:39.7 | phenomenal year okay and I think that because in fact the true voice of America is kind of |
| 0:49.7 | rising to the top in the sense that you know the again the Democratic engagement |
| 0:55.2 | people's activism you know and again whether it's from from you know |
| 1:00.2 | from Republicans even to whatever future street protests that will be on |
| 1:06.3 | the one year anniversary of the women's march and people running for office you |
| 1:10.3 | know the midterms of 2018 so I actually think a lot I just said to my husband this |
| 1:15.0 | morning I was like you know what I am not about odd numbers I'm about 2018 like |
| 1:21.5 | 2017 the odd number thing? |
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