Aid to Yemen/Trump Above the Law?
Ralph Nader Radio Hour
Ralph Nader
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2020
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Ralph talks to Hassan El-Tayyab, from the Friends Committee on National Legislation, about how the US urgently needs to resume food and medical aid to Yemen in order to avert an even more serious humanitarian tragedy. And James Zirin, author of “Donald Trump in 3,500 Lawsuits” comes back to update us on the status of Trump’s legal issues, and why they are taking so long to resolve.
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. |
| 0:05.0 | Stand up, stand up. |
| 0:07.0 | You've been sitting way too long. |
| 0:10.0 | Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. My name is Steve Scrove |
| 0:16.4 | analog with my co-host David. Hello David. Good morning. And we also have |
| 0:20.6 | the man of the hour, Ralph Nader, low Ralph. |
| 0:22.8 | Hello. |
| 0:23.8 | All right, the gang's all here. |
| 0:25.0 | Let's put topics on the table. |
| 0:26.8 | After five years of war, Yemen's health infrastructure is in ruins. |
| 0:31.3 | After these many years of hunger, disease, and violence, much of their population is |
| 0:35.9 | immunocompromised and now coronavirus is spreading quickly through Yemen and taking a huge toll. |
| 0:43.0 | As if this wasn't enough, |
| 0:45.0 | recently the Trump administration slashed the food and medical aid |
| 0:49.0 | that went to Yemen. |
| 0:51.0 | Our first guest is Hassan-El- Taebe, who is an expert in Middle Eastern policy, |
| 0:56.5 | and part of a peace advocating lobby called the Friends Committee on National Legislation. |
| 1:02.1 | He was on our show last October to talk about what the U.S. could have done to stop |
| 1:06.8 | the killing in Yemen. Now he'll be able to tell us with even greater urgency what we need to do to stop this added tragedy. |
| 1:15.0 | Also on the show today we welcome back James Zyrin. He was on the show just a few months ago to tell us about |
| 1:19.7 | his book, Plaintiff in Chief, a portrait of Donald Trump and 3,500 lawsuits. |
| 1:25.0 | His book details the many ways President Trump has taken advantage of the legal system. |
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