ITT Extra: The White Mayors' Club

In The Thick

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News, Politics

4.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2018

⏱️ 12 minutes

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After a busy week of live shows in Chicago, Maria and Julio catch up on the week's two biggest headlines: anti-austerity protests in Puerto Rico and former New York City mayor, Rudy Giuliani, exposing President Trump's lies by saying in a TV interview that Trump reimbursed his attorney, Michael Cohen, for the Stormy Daniels hush money payment. They also chat about how Giuliani fits into the white men's mayor club, which The Atlantic staff writer, Russell Berman, wrote about recently detailing how of the 15 most major cities in the U.S., all but three are run by white male mayors.

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0:00.0	Welcome to In the Thick in a Chicago edition, right?
0:03.5	Like it's all Chicago Friday, yeah.
0:05.6	Chicago, yeah. My kind of town.
0:07.4	Do you want to say who you are?
0:08.6	Oh, right, I'm Mariena Hosa.
0:09.9	And I'm Holy Huricalo-Barela.
0:10.9	And this is in the thick, in case thick in case you didn't realize that.
0:14.0	By now.
0:15.0	By now.
0:16.0	And we're a little giddy because it's Friday.
0:19.0	It's Friday. It's Friday.
0:20.0	And, uh, okay, reveal.
0:22.0	We did have deep dish pizza last night.
0:24.4	Yes, a lot of it.
0:25.4	You ate how many slices?
0:26.4	I had three.
0:27.4	I thought it was four.
0:28.5	It was three and a half.
0:30.5	We've got a lot to get to today on our in the thick extra. We need to first check in on
0:35.9	Puerto Rico. I just don't want to do another recording of in the thick without talking about
0:39.7	Puerto Rico. There were massive protests. Yeah. That were very
0:42.9	very upsetting really really violent on the on the part of the authorities.
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