George H.W. Bush, Cohen Plea, Mississippi Senate Runoff, GM Layoffs, Tear Gassing Children

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

Politics, News

4.5 • 772 Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2018

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s show, Will and Mike begin by speaking about the legacy of President George H. W. Bush and their memories of his career. The first story discussed from the week is the guilty plea entered by Michael Cohen in federal court. Will and Mike use the plea to discuss the status of the Mueller investigation and the impact Cohen’s plea could have on Trump. Both agree that impeachment is likely off the table as neither expect a smoking gun to emerge. But they disagree on how helpful the investigation may be to the Democrats in 2020.Next, they discuss the results of the Mississippi Senate run-off election on Tuesday. Neither were surprised by the results. Will explained that the results suggest there are areas of the country where even moderate Democrats are going to struggle due to demographics and history. Mike points out how elections like this help Republicans in the Senate—especially considering recent judicial confirmation challenges.The next topic is the decision by General Motors to idle five plants in North America. Will—who grew up near GM Lordstown—discussed the impact of the closure on local communities and the potential reasons for GM’s decision while Mike reminds listeners of Trump’s promises regarding no plant closures under his administration. Both agree the response by politicians to GM will be worth monitoring. They close with a discussion of the role and impact of unions on the closures.Lastly, Will and Mike talk about the situation on the San Diego-Tijuana border last weekend. While neither directly challenge the use of tear gas, they differ on how to best handle asylum processing and the expectation on Mexico to house refugees while they await a response from the United States. 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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0:00.0	Welcome to the politics, guys, a place for bipartisan, rational, and civil debate on American
0:03.5	politics and policy. I'm Will Miller, political scientists now employed as an associate vice president
0:07.8	with campus labs. And with me today is Michael Baranowski, a political scientist at Northern
0:11.6	Kentucky University. How are you doing today, Mike? I'm doing, I'm doing okay, Will. How about
0:15.9	yourself? I'm doing pretty well. It's been obviously a pretty busy week, so it should be a fun show today, of course.
0:21.4	Yeah, absolutely. But before we get to that, you know, I realized for a while now, when the show, actually from the very beginning,
0:28.6	for some reason, I made this bizarre decision to thank all of our new supporters and do that kind of stuff,
0:35.4	like right in the middle of the show. And I thought,
0:38.5	why exactly did I do that? Honestly, I don't know. I must have had a reason at the time,
0:43.2	but I was thinking it probably would make more sense and be better to everyone listening.
0:47.5	If we did that at the beginning, so it doesn't break up the flow of what we're doing. So that's,
0:53.3	that's what I thought we'd start doing today, if that's okay
0:56.0	with you, Will? That sounds perfect to me. And listeners, if you don't like that, if you per the other
1:02.0	way, let us know, I'm happy to do it either way. But for today, here's what we'll do. We'll do
1:07.1	it right at the beginning. And so ever since I announced that 100 patron drive,
1:15.2	well, you folks have just responded in a great way. Been so appreciative in this last week.
1:20.3	We've had Andrew, Eric, Paul, Mark, Will, Francois, John, and Scott all become new patrons.
1:29.8	We've had a number of people increase their pledge amounts, Dakota, Brian, Amanda. We've had two new one-time generous supporters on PayPal,
1:36.4	Vincent, and John. And it's just, the response has just been really overwhelming and gratifying.
1:43.0	And we have a lot of great responses as well. Eric wrote in to say,
1:47.4	to prove I'm a lover and not a fighter, I've just become a Patreon supporter. I really like that.
1:53.6	And our anonymous, we had one anonymous supporter. He said, had a suggestion actually for us. Well,
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