Elizabeth Warren and Adam Schiffs' Urgent Plans to Investigate Trump’s Coronavirus Disaster
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🗓️ 15 April 2020
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
On today’s show, Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Adam Schiff provide an urgent roadmap for how to check presidential power in a pandemic. Mother Jones Washington DC bureau chief David Corn interviews the top Democrats about investigating what Trump knew about the potential pandemic, when he knew it, and how to track the taxpayer dollars being dished out from Trump’s $500 billion coronavirus "slush fund". Few people know more about financial oversight during a crisis than Warren. She led the congressional panel that monitored how billions in federal bailout funds were spent—and misspent—following the 2008 crash. And Rep. Adam Schiff has been a relentless chaser of Trump corruption. He ran the House impeachment hearings, and led the House impeachment managers during the Senate trial. Schiff says he is now on the coronavirus case.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Mother Jones Podcast. |
| 0:03.0 | I'm Jamila King in New York. |
| 0:05.0 | On today's show, |
| 0:12.0 | on today's show, two top Democrats, Senator Elizabeth Warren and |
| 0:17.6 | Representative Adam Schiff, on investigating what Trump knew and when he knew it. |
| 0:23.2 | It's a model, I think, of incompetence. |
| 0:25.8 | And when you're dealing with a pandemic, |
| 0:27.2 | incompetence kills. |
| 0:28.5 | And tracking the billions and billions and billions |
| 0:31.2 | and billions of dollars being doled out from Trump's coronavirus slush fund. |
| 0:37.0 | Oversight is really important and I urge everyone, stay engaged, attention pay attention pay attention. |
| 0:44.4 | As recession looms, unemployment soars. |
| 0:47.8 | What happens next? |
| 0:49.2 | Your guide to checking presidential power in a pandemic. |
| 0:53.1 | Stick around. |
| 0:56.8 | Few people know more about financial oversight |
| 0:59.3 | during a crisis than Senator Elizabeth Warren. |
| 1:02.6 | She led the congressional panel that monitored how billions in federal bailout funds were spent and misspent following the 2008 crash. |
| 1:15.0 | Recently, the senator and former presidential candidate hopped on, what else, a Zoom call, |
| 1:21.0 | with Mother Jones's Washington DC Bureau Chief David Corn from the back porch of |
| 1:26.0 | her Cambridge home with her golden retriever Bailey by her side. |
| 1:30.0 | Warren discussed what could go wrong with the Trump administration's $500 billion bailout, |
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