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The Politics Guys

Democratic Diversity, Pulling Security Clearances, Strzok Fired, Predator Priests, For-Profit Schools

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

Politics, News

4.5772 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2018

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Mike and Jay open the show with a look at the recent primary elections in Vermont, Connecticut, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Kansas. Mike is pleased to see his Democrats nominating diverse candidates, while Jay points out that while diversity is a good thing, being well-qualified, regardless of race, creed, or color is what’s most important. Next is a look at President Trump pulling former CIA Director John Brennan’s security clearance, with the administration planning more security clearance revocations in the future. Mike argues that this politicizing of security clearances is essentially unprecedented and is yet another example of how President Trump’s disregard for custom and unwritten law is damaging the United States. Jay doesn’t disagree, though he points out that what the president has done is not legally impermissible. After that, the Guys discuss the sickening revelations concerning predator priests coming out of a Pennsylvania grand jury report. Mike hopes there will be similar investigations in every state that shake the Catholic Church to its core and force a change in what many say is a deeply corrupt culture of cover-up. Jay agrees that the Church’s culture needs to change, but he feels that some of the legislative proposals aimed at helping victims may have serious unintended consequences. The show closes with a look at Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’ plan to rescind a rule that forces for-profit colleges and vocational schools to demonstrate that graduates are able to get decent-paying jobs. Mike argues that this rule has gone a long way to cleaning up the fraudulent excesses of for-profit education and should be maintained. Jay counters that there should be one rule to cover both for-profit and not-for-profit schools. Listener support helps make The Politics Guys possible. If you’re interested in supporting the show, go to politicsguys.com/support. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-politics-guys/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome to the politics guys, a place for a bipartisan, rational, and civil debate on

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American politics and policy. I'm Michael Baranowski, a political scientist at Northern

1:05.4

Kentucky University. With me today is my regular co-host, Cleveland area attorney and Republican

1:10.4

fact totem Jay Carson.

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Good morning, Mike. Good morning. Jay. How are you today? I'm pretty good. Yeah, well, me too. We have a lot to talk about

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today. So why don't we just get right to it. Starting with some of the more important results from the

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latest round of primary elections, which

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