Chaos and rivalries in the White House and the cabinet
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2017
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Republicans in the Senate say President Trump has gone off the tracks with attacks on their former colleague, Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Meantime, top White House aides are battling each other in public.
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI, Public Radio International, this is To the Point. |
| 0:08.2 | Chaos and rivalries in the White House and the Cabinet. |
| 0:14.9 | Hello again, I'm Aronnelly, and this is To the Point. |
| 0:17.8 | Washington veterans agree no president has ever attacked his own attorney general the way Donald |
| 0:22.6 | Trump has gone after Jeff Sessions. One former Senate colleague predicts holy hell to pay if Trump |
| 0:28.6 | fires the nation's top law enforcement officer. Meantime, the new communications director says he |
| 0:34.3 | and the chief of staff are brothers, like Kane and Abel, suggesting one won't survive. |
| 0:40.5 | Early in the president's term, is he heading for a constitutional crisis. |
| 0:44.9 | Later on today's talking point, plans for a massive new factory with thousands of solid American jobs. |
| 0:50.6 | Will that good news get lost in all the political turmoil? First, here's the news. |
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| 1:22.2 | Support for To the Point comes from the members of KCRW and from the Public Radio International Program Fund. |
| 1:31.2 | Hello again, I'm on only back with To The Point. |
| 1:33.3 | Republicans in the Senate say President Trump has gone off the tracks with attacks on their former colleague Attorney General Jeff Sessions. |
| 1:39.5 | Meantime, top White House aides are battling each other in public. |
| 1:43.2 | We'll hear about the possibility of a |
| 1:44.9 | constitutional crisis. Today's talking point, President Trump promised jobs, jobs, jobs, |
| 1:50.4 | and one of the world's largest companies has unveiled plans for a massive new factory in Wisconsin. |
| 1:56.3 | It's good news for Republicans from Washington to Milwaukee if it doesn't get lost in the drumbeat of political |
| 2:01.7 | discord. First is news update. Bill Gates of Microsoft is no longer the world's richest person. A surge |
| 2:08.2 | this morning in shares of Amazon.com, Inc. means that Jeff Bezos is now worth an estimated |
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