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The Gist

A Bunch of Dopes and Babies

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

On the Gist, revisiting the travel ban. In the interview, we talk with Susan Hennessey and Benjamin Wittes, the editors of Lawfare, about their new book, Unmaking the Presidency: Donald Trump's War on the World's Most Powerful Office. They discuss the precedents that Trump has broken as POTUS and paint a stark picture of the future of the executive office if he is re-elected. In the spiel, "a bunch of dopes and babies." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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france.co.uk. The following recording may contain explicit language. I can't get more explicit

0:35.0

than May. Let's just say it may. It's Wednesday January 22nd, 2020 from slated to the

0:44.7

Gisdai Mike Pasca, the president of the United States, these United States held a press conference

0:49.4

upon departing from Davos today. He was totally unperturbed by the impeachment trial he said,

0:54.4

taking time to laud his perfect phone call call Adam Schiff, corrupt, incredibly corrupt, and said

1:00.4

he was unfazed and unperturbed by these proceedings which were a hoax, a total hoax. He was then

1:07.0

asked about expanding his travel ban. So we have a travel ban. It's a very powerful ban. And a

1:13.9

powerful ban has he. It bans most of Iran and Libya and Yemen and every last wandering Somali.

1:20.6

Well, that's okay because visitor is not okay, but in context visitors from those countries that

1:26.6

are currently under the ban, they do come to America in the low thousands every year. But Trump is

1:32.6

now considering banning people from political reports, Belarus, Myanmar, Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Sudan,

1:40.5

and Tanzania. Okay. Again, I mean Sudan and Myanmar have many people living in them, but just not

1:45.3

many people who come to the United States, mostly because poverty. But there was another country

1:49.6

on the ban, Nigeria. The president is saying he might expand his powerful ban, his third version of

1:58.0

which actually passed court muster to include Nigerians. All right. In the first 10 months of 2019,

2:06.2

127,000 Nigerians visited the United States for some context. In the 20 years between 1997 and

2:13.7

2016, the US issued 15 H1B visas to North Koreans, which are also part of the ban. So not all

2:22.4

North Koreans came here with the H1B visa for talented people, but many thousand Nigerians did.

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