It's Hard to Defend the Indefensible

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Politics, News, News Commentary

4.5 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2016

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Jacob Weisberg talks to Slate's Mark Joseph Stern about the Vice Presidential debate and Mike Pence's record on abortion, evolution, and dinosaurs. Trumpcast is brought to you by Wunder Capital. Earn up to 8.5% annually, while diversifying your portfolio, curbing pollution and combating global climate change. Create an account for free at WunderCapital.com/trumpcast. Wunder Capital. Do well and do good. Panoply SurveyWe want you to tell us about the podcasts you enjoy, and how often you listen to them. So we created a survey that takes just a couple of minutes to complete. If you fill it out, you'll help Panoply to make great podcasts about the things you love. And things you didn’t even know you loved. To fill out the survey, just go to www.megaphone.fm/survey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:03.3	Are you ready to make America great again?
0:06.3	Bernie Sanders doesn't get it. Hillary Clinton doesn't get it.
0:09.0	Barack Obama, he really don't get it.
0:10.8	The next time we see him, we might have to kill him.
0:13.2	Donald Trump has a lot of work to do, telling us what he's going to do specifically.
0:17.4	I continue to believe Mr. Trump will not be present.
0:20.0	And the reason is because I have a lot of faith in the American people.
0:23.0	Donald Trump! Donald Trump! Donald Trump! Donald Trump! Donald Trump! Donald Trump!
0:32.9	Hello and welcome to Trumpcast. The show about the National Nightmare known as Donald Trump.
0:38.2	I'm Jacob Weisberg. I haven't done that one in a while.
0:41.5	Sometimes it's good just to play it straight.
0:44.0	So last night was the vice presidential debate. Here's what happened.
0:48.0	Tim Kain tried to make Mike Pence defend Donald Trump's positions.
0:51.9	Mike Pence wouldn't even acknowledge them, let alone defend them.
0:55.3	Instead, he stated his own positions, which are at odds with Trump's on a whole bunch
0:59.4	of important issues like Russia.
1:02.2	In the past, there's always been an assumption that a vice presidential candidate should
1:06.3	agree to support the major policy positions of the person heading the ticket.
1:11.6	But that's out the window this year, namely because Trump doesn't have normal policy positions.
1:17.4	Instead, he's got a bunch of applause lines, old grudges, personal grievances, and ridiculous
1:22.7	suggestions. It's like trying to pin down hot air.
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