America At A Tipping Point

What A Day

Crooked Media

News, Daily News

4.6 • 12K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

President Donald Trump still hasn’t hit the 100-day mark of his second term, but it feels like the country is already hitting some kind of inflection point. On Saturday, we saw a second day of mass protests against the Trump administration’s agenda. Massachusetts Democratic Gov. Maura Healy compared this moment to the start of the Revolutionary War, saying, ‘Our freedoms are once again under attack.’ Even New York Times conservative columnist David Brooks wrote about how it’s ‘time for a comprehensive national civic uprising.’ Amid all these proverbial alarm bells, it might seem a little perverse for some Democrats to advocate for a return to a kind of New Deal-era of politics, where more centralized power allowed the government to do big things. But that’s exactly the argument made in the new book 'Abundance.' Co-author Derek Thompson joins us to talk about how America can go back to building and inventing new things, and how Democrats can get people to trust the government again. And in headlines: The Supreme Court issued an emergency decision blocking more flights of alleged Venezuelan gang members to an El Salvador super prison, Vice President JD Vance got an audience with the Pope, and the Israeli military admitted to several “professional failures” when it killed 14 Gaza rescue workers and a U.N. staffer last month.

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0:00.0	It's Monday, April 21st. I'm Aaron Ryan in for Jane Koston, and this is What a Day,
0:07.2	the show that hopes you had a lovely weekend, protesting, attending religious services,
0:12.3	getting higher than Maureen Dowd on Colorado Edibles, or ideally, a combination of all three things.
0:28.4	Thank you. of all three things. On today's show, the Supreme Court issues an emergency decision blocking more flights of alleged
0:33.4	Venezuelan gang members to an El Salvador super prison, and Vice President J.D. Vance gets a lecture
0:39.0	on Catholicism from the Vatican, and an audience with his frenemy, the Pope. Did he even say
0:44.4	thank you, Holy Father, once? It was a good weekend for events that have nothing to do with the
0:49.0	news. Sometimes you just have to zone out and eat an entire chocolate bunny while watching your
0:53.9	nieces and nephews fight over plastic eggs. And for music fans and influencers, it was a you just have to zone out and eat an entire chocolate bunny while watching your niece's and
0:54.3	nephews fight over plastic eggs. And for music fans and influencers, it was the second weekend of
0:59.2	Coachella. But if tuning out doesn't seem like the move, it was also a good weekend to make some
1:03.9	noise about the unraveling of the American experiment. President Donald Trump still hasn't hit the
1:08.8	100-day mark of his presidency. But it feels like we're hitting some kind of inflection point, maybe just the first of many to come.
1:16.1	Because, again, we're not even 100 days into this cluster fuck.
1:19.8	We're a little more than one Kardashian-Humphrey's marriage in.
1:24.1	On Saturday, we saw a second day of mass nationwide protests against the Trump administration's agenda.
1:29.6	People hit the streets to demonstrate against Trump's tariffs, the firing of tens of thousands of federal workers, his anti-climate actions, funding cuts to universities that won't bend to his will, and the deportations of migrants without any due process.
1:43.0	In D.C., thousands marched in front of the White
1:45.2	House. Trump must go now. Trump must go now. Two months go now. Trump must go now. In Massachusetts,
1:54.4	Democratic Governor Maura Healy compared this moment to the start of the Revolutionary War
1:58.4	during a speech to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the Battle
2:02.5	of Concord on Saturday.
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