ITT EXTRA: The Enemy of the People Speaks Out

In The Thick

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🗓️ 19 October 2018

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

After another chaotic week of U.S. politics, Maria and Julio catch up on the latest. They talk about the Central American migrant caravan, Senator Elizabeth Warren's DNA test to prove her Native American heritage and the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi and the dangers that journalists are facing worldwide. ITT Staff Picks:

Check out the Democracy Now! roundtable with Native American commentators, that Maria and Julio mentioned.
Julio's recent article for NBC's Think on the Central American caravan and Trump's response.
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0:00.0	Hey, what's up? Welcome to In the Thick. I'm Marianne Hosa.
0:03.0	And I'm Juho de la and this is ITT Extra.
0:07.0	And this is the United States of this fucking country is going crazy.
0:10.0	Oh, is that our new podcast name then?
0:13.0	I mean, I'm just seriously, Julio.
0:15.0	I mean, I'm trying to process this.
0:18.0	I have begun to somehow begin to understand things just in a historical perspective, but everything that we're going to be talking about today is just pointing to the fact that we continue to go down into a collision course with authoritarianism and you know in the run-up to the midterms a lot of
0:35.9	state intervention at every level. I'm feeling very discombobulated I'm trying to keep it cool.
0:43.0	Okay. Yeah, there's a lot I mean I'm I kept it cool but I'm also in a good mood
0:47.4	Maria why? Because my Boston Red Sox are in the world series and Alex Cor is the first Puerto Rican manager to get to the
0:56.0	world series and he's from my hometown of Kaguas so we can talk about the news but
1:00.6	I got my red socks on so just letting you know you know what I'm happy about
1:03.7	yeah I'm happy about the fact that you know I was named one of the 200 people who
1:08.6	are maintaining the legacy of Frederick Douglas on his 200th anniversary of his birthday.
1:14.3	So I'm added to that list and we'll be celebrating on February 14th in Washington, D.C.
1:18.7	So I'm happy about that.
1:19.7	But other than that.
1:20.5	Yeah, we're happy, but other than that. Aye, yeah, yeah. Okay, so again, you know immigration. Yeah,
1:26.0	immigration is like front and center.
1:28.0	Surprise, surprise. Right. Trump had this latest tweetstorm. I really was just like I can't even bringing up the
1:34.4	Central American migrant caravan making its way from Honduras to the United States
1:38.5	4,000 migrants families, children, seeking asylum.
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