A Constitutional Crisis Is Just a Tweet Away
The Mother Jones Podcast
Mother Jones
4.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2018
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
On this week's episode, inside the fight for Medicaid expansion at the polls in November. The fate of Obamacare is on the ballot—and now up to voters in Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, and Utah. Meet one campaigner in this Red State Resistance trying to expand coverage to those who need it the most. We give you the state-by-state nitty gritty. Also on the show: chaos reigns in Washington D.C. Everything you need to know about the dueling news stories of Kavanaugh and Rosenstein, and more importantly, how to understand them, with our Supreme Court expert Stephanie Mencimer, and Russia guru, David Corn. And finally: we asked, and you told us. Stories about a year in limbo awaiting a final decision about DACA—the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Mother Jones podcast. |
| 0:03.0 | I'm Jamila King in New York. |
| 0:05.0 | Your midterm countdown continues on this week's |
| 0:10.0 | on this week's show |
| 0:14.5 | Obamacare on the ballot again. |
| 0:16.8 | Activists are putting Obamacare directly up to voters and so far it's actually proved to be pretty popular. |
| 0:23.7 | How the fight for affordable health care is being waged around the country, state by state, in November. |
| 0:29.4 | Meet one campaigner in the Red State Resistance trying to halt the onslaught and expand coverage to |
| 0:35.0 | coverage to those who need it most. |
| 0:36.0 | I think one of the things that I've learned that most |
| 0:38.0 | is just how many people in Utah have been fighting so hard for so long. |
| 0:44.4 | Also on the show, Chaos. |
| 0:46.4 | Constitutional crisis is just one tweet away 24-7. |
| 0:52.0 | Kavanaugh, |
| 0:53.0 | Rosenstein, wow, I mean, it's almost unprecedented. |
| 0:57.0 | What you need to know and more importantly, how to understand it. |
| 1:01.0 | That's all ahead. |
| 1:02.0 | Stick around. But first, Chaos in DC. |
| 1:08.3 | We believe Debbie Ramirez. Protests at the Capitol against Brett Kavanaugh's nomination. |
| 1:15.0 | After another woman comes forward in the New Yorker to accuse the Supreme Court nominee of sexual misconduct, |
| 1:21.0 | with all eyes on the testimony of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford on Thursday, another front in Trump chaos. |
| 1:30.1 | Rumors spread like wildfire on Monday. Trump was planning to fire the man in charge of overseeing the Russian investigation. |
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