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Is Trump's Chaos Beating the Press?

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News, News Commentary, Politics

4.66K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2018

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Jacob Weisberg is joined by the media critic, Jay Rosen, to talk about why he thinks Trump is winning and the press is losing. Plus, Rod Rosenstein has been under fire for so long that he's prepared himself for the phone call. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You may be the first president in history to go down because you can't stop

0:05.4

inappropriately talking about an investigation. I can definitively say the

0:09.4

presence by the liar. I think it's frankly insulting that that question would be

0:13.6

asked. Up to now we have no profiles in courage among the Republicans.

0:18.1

Somebody really speaking out saying Trump is bad to the country.

0:24.0

Hello and welcome to Trumpcast. The show about the man who doesn't think his

0:29.4

lawyer will flip and tell the truth to the authorities. Don Trump. I'm Jacob

0:35.0

Oysberg. So Mick Mulvaney, president and Trump's budget director, who

0:39.9

moonlights his head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, did

0:43.6

something amazing this week. He spoke the truth in public. He did it at a

0:49.2

conference of bank executives in lobbyists. He told them that Republican

0:53.3

politics in the Trump era is strictly paid to play. Until recently Mulvaney

0:58.8

was a congressman. Quote, if you're a lobbyist who never gave us money, I

1:02.8

didn't talk to you. He said, but if you gave him money, you got a chance to

1:07.4

influence legislation. Mulvaney called this one of the fundamental underpinnings

1:12.3

of our representative democracy. And he warned the lobbyists that if they wanted

1:16.8

a voice and deregulating their industry, they'd better come bearing checks. And

1:21.4

then if that weren't enough bracing honesty for one speech, Mulvaney went on to

1:26.3

tell the truth about his efforts to undermine the government agency he's

1:29.7

supposed to be running, the CFPB. And this was my favorite part. Quote, I'm trying

1:35.2

to get in the habit of now saying the BCFP, he said, it's really, really hard to

1:40.8

do that when you said CFPB for so long. In other words, this agency he's trying to

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