ITT EXTRA: Strange Times in the USA

In The Thick

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News, Politics

4.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2018

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Maria and Julio catch up on the week's news. They chat about the saucy details from James Comey's forthcoming memoir; corruption in federal immigration agencies; the fed's raid of President Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen; Republicans who are dropping like flies; and, whether the latest attack in Syria will lead the U.S. into another war.

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0:00.0	Welcome to In The Thick, I'm Maria Inu Hossam.
0:03.6	And I'm Julio Rico Guarela and this is ITT Extra.
0:08.0	This is my chance to sing.
0:09.4	Extra, extra, read all about it.
0:12.6	Former FBI director James Comi is in the news.
0:16.8	The memoir, A Higher Loyalty, Truth, Lies, and Leadership.
0:21.2	Details are starting to emerge about the book,
0:23.0	and guess what, everybody.
0:24.8	President Donald Trump, not happy.
0:28.4	But there aren't any big reveals about the Russian investigation,
0:31.0	but still, Maria.
0:32.4	Oh my God, this memoir I got to read it I do
0:35.3	think it's interesting some of the language that Komi is using and some of the bigger
0:40.2	ideas right that Komi is using, basically comparing Trump to like a mafia boss.
0:47.1	One quote from his memoir reads,
0:49.9	this president is unethical and untethered to the truth and institutional values and the Republicans somehow are okay with living with all of this.
0:59.2	Yeah, it's like there's no outcry coming from Republicans like people are resigning
1:04.0	but people aren't you know Paul Ryan's not running anymore like that's what's
1:07.5	happening is people are kind of they're saying well I can't beat them so I might
1:11.5	as well just leave.
1:13.0	And there's still these guys like, you know, McCarthy and
1:16.7	Devon Nunez and Pompeo that are all kind of like,
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