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And Governor Pritzker says that Donald Trump essentially just declared war on the city of Chicago.

We have such a great show for you today.

Notice his own Evan McMorris Santoro stops by to talk Trump going to war on an American city. Then we'll talk to Dr. Peter Hottes and Michael E. Mann about their new book, Science Under Siege, How to Fight the Five Most

Powerful Forces that Threaten Our World. But first, we have the news.

Molly, we used to do a podcast together called The New Abnormal, and things are feeling really

fucking abnormal. I just wanted to take a minute here to talk about this moment we're in, because I think

it's really, really important.

The administration has hit a boat in international waters outside of the coast of Venezuela.

They say the boat as drug dealers, we don't know yet. It may be. It may not be.

It tends to be that the rules are that unless you're in war, you're not allowed to kill boatloads of

people, whether or not they are drug dealers. So this is a real abandonment of due process, which is one of

the things that makes America great and keeps us all safe. Then we have Donald Trump this morning

musing about going into Chicago because he wants to go to war with the city, are using a lot of excuses,

but the reality is that's what they're doing.

It is at all points a real assault on our democracy,

an assault on the way we've known.

I mean, I've never lived in a time in this country

where a political party is so out of balance, where Republicans are not

running checks and balances on their own guy, where the president is completely unfettered

and feels he can do whatever he wants and behaves basically like a Monarch.

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