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🗓️ 22 June 2018
⏱️ 31 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Nazi Germany, concentration camps, human rights violations, Laura Bush's weighed in, |
| 0:05.2 | Michelle Obama, Rosalind Cardigan, all the first ladies going back to Eleanor Roosevelt, |
| 0:09.1 | she's apparently weighed in as well. General Sessions, what's going on here? |
| 0:15.0 | Well, it's a really exaggeration. Of course, in Nazi Germany, they were keeping the Jews from |
| 0:20.8 | leaving the country. They want us to take care of the miners, and that's fine, |
| 0:25.5 | but they don't want to give us the money to take care of. |
| 0:27.9 | There are some who would like us to look the other way when dealing with families at the |
| 0:31.5 | border and not enforce the law. The whole world is laughing at the United States and they |
| 0:36.4 | happen for years. Hello and welcome to Trumpcast. I'm Jim Albuy, |
| 0:44.3 | slated Chief Political Correspondent in your host for today's episode. |
| 0:48.4 | Last month, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced a zero tolerance policy for legal border |
| 0:52.8 | crossings. If detained, migrants would face criminal charges, even if they were asylum |
| 0:57.7 | seekers who tried to access official ports of entry. If they came with children, the government |
| 1:02.4 | would remove them to separate facilities. On Wednesday, the White House pulled back from this |
| 1:07.3 | position in favor of a new one. It would detain all members of families together, itself a |
| 1:12.6 | violation of federal law. And all of this, critics have blashed at the Trump administration as cruel |
| 1:17.8 | and humane. They've also made provocative analogies, calling the center's concentration camps, |
| 1:23.6 | the description that for many Americans evokes the third Reich. |
| 1:27.1 | Administration officials have pushed back. It's a real exaggeration, |
| 1:30.8 | said Jeff Sessions during an interview with Fox News reporter Laura Ingram. In Nazi Germany, |
| 1:35.0 | they were keeping the Jews from leaving the country, but this is a serious matter. |
| 1:39.2 | Constraint of defenders have done the same, condemning the analogy of hyperbolic and beyond the |
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