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The Gist

How Quickly We Forget

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

On The Gist, Scott Pruitt is out as the head of the Environmental Protection Agency because it turns out someone really can be too corrupt for Trump. Let us next turn to the Supreme Court—not in America, but Poland, where the rightwing government is forcing nearly 40 percent of judges into retirement. Eurasia Group president Ian Bremmer says the country's latest swerve toward authoritarianism proves that democracy can erode just about anywhere. In the Spiel, Michael Moore claims to know where the Democratic Party has gone wrong and what it needs to do to change direction, but how reliable is he? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

You've already achieved so much during things your own way.

0:04.6

So why should your leadership development be any different?

0:07.4

At Warwick Business School, you can choose your preferred pathway

0:11.2

with subject-specific courses and study at your own pace.

0:15.6

With world-leading experts, this is stackable learning.

0:19.6

This is your career your way.

0:22.0

This is Warwick Business School in the Shard, London.

0:25.6

Visit wbs.ac.uk now.

0:30.0

Let me be explicit.

0:31.8

Right now, in this podcast, there's some explicit language.

0:34.8

It's Thursday, July 5, 2018, from slated to the just-time Mike Pesca.

0:43.0

The year was 1991.

0:44.8

The Gulf War had been settled before.

0:47.6

We knew to call it the first Gulf War in acknowledgment

0:50.2

that it hadn't really been settled.

0:51.6

Hannibal Lecter was horrifying us on the big screen

0:54.6

and on the airwaves of balloon-pensed impresario from Oakland

0:59.4

was teaching us that he was too legit to quit.

1:12.2

Cut to today, and the man who's doing the teaching is Scott Pruitt.

1:16.6

Because we find a person who is actually too corrupt, too corrupt for Trump.

1:23.0

That's a long way of saying that Scott Pruitt is out.

1:26.8

In the resignation letter that he submitted,

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