Friday News Dump!

Lovett or Leave It

Comedy, News

4.7 • 25.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

McCabe gets axed, Tillerson is dethroned, Conor Lamb wins in an upset, and students walk out to protest gun violence. Plus Elizabeth Holmes is very good at seeming like she’s not a criminal and United Airlines seems to be run by a house cat. LeVar Burton and comedians Marcella Arguello and Jamie Lee join Jon to break down the week’s news. And Westworld’s Shannon Woodward stops by to help us understand what’s gone wrong with Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Music
0:22.0	Everybody!
0:24.0	Great to be back at the improv.
0:28.0	How are you guys doing tonight?
0:31.0	See a friend of the pod right up there?
0:34.0	Guys, we have breaking news.
0:40.0	I always like to see what I can tell you Twitter animals.
0:45.0	Shortly before we started the show, we learned that Jeff Sessions fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe.
0:54.0	How many of you saw that?
0:57.0	Oh, you just addicts.
1:00.0	You news addicts.
1:03.0	Thank you for raising your hands. It's a podcast.
1:08.0	Very helpful for giving the people at home a sense of what's up.
1:14.0	We also learned today for reasons that escape understanding that Rex Tillerson was on the toilet
1:26.0	when he found out that he was no longer going to be US Secretary of State,
1:34.0	which I think is interesting in and of itself.
1:38.0	It's a fun fact that will follow him forever.
1:43.0	But also, we found out that the nation's chief diplomat was fired while taking a shit.
1:52.0	And it's the second most mean spirited firing of the day.
1:59.0	Work for Trump.
2:02.0	McCabe was two days away from getting his pension.
2:07.0	He was eligible for his pension on Sunday.
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