David Weigel - Political Writer for Semafor
The Al Franken Podcast
ASF Productions
4.6 • 7.7K Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
The incoming Trump administration has started announcing some of the picks for the incoming Cabinet. Somehow, they're worse than you could have imagined. We break down some of the unsavory characters who might be making policy in Trump's second term with political reporter for Semafor, David Weigel.
Weigel also explains how the right wing media ecosystem has moved away from TV and onto the internet. Right wing and right wing-adjacent programming is dominating YouTube and podcasts. How did they build such a network? And how do Democrats counterprogram those voices?
Read Weigel's latest for Semafor: https://www.semafor.com/author/david-weigel
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| 1:01.0 | David Weigle, who writes for Semaphore, is my guest today. |
| 1:04.8 | Here to talk about some of President-elect Trump's nominations for his administration. |
| 1:10.3 | Some really odd ones topping off that list. |
| 1:13.8 | Matt Gates for Attorney General. Gates went to law school. |
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| 1:24.1 | official in our nation. But that's it. But there's a long list of reasons not |
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