Covington Catholic, the Shutdown, and House Committees

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🗓️ 22 January 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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On today's episode, we're talking about the Covington Catholic viral video from Washington DC this weekend and the fact that our government is still shutdown. In our main segment, we're talking about the power of house committees (if you haven't listened to Friday's episode, make sure that you hear the 5 things we think you need to know about house committees before this conversation). To close out, we'll talk about what's on our minds outside of politics. Recommended Resources: What the video from the incident at the Indigenous Peoples March tell us about what happened The Shutdown and School Lunches Shutdown: Day 31 Republicans Push Trump Immigration Plan, Seeking to Corner Democrats on Shutdown Compliment the Other Side: Rep. Tony Cardenas House Committees: The 10 new Democratic House committee chairs who are about to make Trump’s life hell Incoming Democratic tax chairman won't make quick grab for Trump's returns Pallone: Ban of fossil fuel donations 'wrong way to go' Maxine Waters letter House Chairmen Issue Warning After President’s Statements on Cohen Testimony Eliot Engel, House Foreign Affairs chairman, blasts Mike Pompeo over Mideast speech The International Crisis of Donald Trump We are so thankful to our wonderful patrons who support the show. If you'd like to join the ranks of our faithful supports and get access to bonus content, visit our Patreon page. Our book, I Think You're Wrong (But I'm Listening), comes out in just a few weeks at the start of February! You can See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	And we've talked about how they are still kids.
0:04.0	And, you know, maybe this is my biases
0:06.4	the mother of three boys,
0:07.4	but if oppression doesn't make a teenage boy an adult,
0:10.3	then privilege doesn't either.
0:12.2	And they're still not making great decisions at that age.
0:16.2	And that's why to me,
0:17.2	the responsibility really falls on the adult.
0:19.2	That doesn't mean that they're not responsible
0:20.5	for their actions.
0:21.4	It doesn't mean that they shouldn't learn from this
0:22.7	and suffer some consequences for their incredibly
0:25.5	disrespectful behavior.
0:27.1	But I still want us to remember that teenage boys
0:29.5	are not adults.
0:31.0	No matter the situation,
0:32.3	no matter the color of their skin,
0:33.6	they do not have the brain capacity
0:36.0	to assess the consequences of their actions
0:39.3	and like real adult ways until you're,
0:41.6	I mean, it's like 27.
0:42.8	Your brain starts working really well.
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