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4.6 • 8.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2017

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Why the Trump-Comey story is largely missing from the right-wing media. Plus, what we can learn from Montana's special election, and training citizen journalists in Syria.

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0:00.0	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Bob Garfield.
0:09.3	And I'm Brooke Gladstone. What a week it's been.
0:13.0	The New York Times reports on a dinosaur mummy that's the best preserved specimen of its kind.
0:18.0	Its skin was fossilized and the contents of its guts were intact.
0:22.9	Former CEO and chairman of Fox News, Roger Ailes, has died.
0:26.6	Chelsea Manning posting on Instagram, first steps of freedom just after her release from
0:31.3	a Kansas military prison Wednesday morning. And then there's that other stuff.
0:35.6	As the White House reacts to bombshell reports claiming President Trump shared classified intelligence with top Russian diplomat.
0:43.2	The New York Times reporting tonight that the fired FBI director, James Comey, created a paper trail.
0:48.7	Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has decided to appoint a special counsel to investigate...
0:53.4	Apparently the president told the Russians, and let me just quote the president,
0:57.9	according to the times, I just fired the head of the FBI.
1:02.0	He was crazy, a real nut job.
1:04.9	I faced great pressure because of Russia.
1:07.5	That's taken off.
1:09.8	All this adding up is you no doubt heard to a word so fraught you need to ease into it.
1:16.6	More on the I-word impeachment coming up.
1:19.6	Is it too early to be saying the word out now?
1:21.6	Some of your colleagues up on Capitol Hill have used the I-word impeachment.
1:26.6	And if you're talking about obstruction of justice, can impeachment be too far behind?
1:31.4	I mean, I hate using that word.
1:32.6	But on Fox and elsewhere on the right, the discussion was decidedly different.
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