ITT FYI: Code Red

In The Thick

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🗓️ 16 February 2018

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Wednesday's shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, shook the core of many, including all of us here at In The Thick. In this latest ITT FYI, host Julio Ricardo Varela tries to make sense out of America's latest mass shooting with Terrell Jermaine Starr, a reporter for The Root and an In The Thick All-Star. In addition, an update on the DACA debate, while we wonder what will happen next in the Mueller investigation.

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0:00.0	Hey I'm Jugu Ricalo-Barela checking in with an ITT FYI.
0:04.0	Joining us in the Harlem studio is Terrell Germain Star, senior reporter at the Root.
0:08.6	Hey Terrell, hey I'm happy to be here.
0:10.6	I'm going to be honest with you Ter to rail the news is really heavy this week.
0:14.1	The high school shooting in Florida on Wednesday has shaken me to the core but before we
0:20.6	dive into that we need to give our listeners a few news updates.
0:25.6	Because there's really big news from the Robert Mueller investigation.
0:30.5	On Friday afternoon, the Justice Department has indicted 13 Russian
0:35.1	nationals and three Russian companies. They're being accused of
0:39.3	conspiring to interfere with US political and election processes, including the presidential
0:45.4	election of 2016.
0:48.1	And on Thursday, the Senate had an opportunity to vote on four different plans to save DACA. The plans included compromises like
0:55.0	funding for the border wall and an eventual path to citizenship for dreamers. Some
1:00.0	extreme, some more bipartisan, but they couldn't pass any of them.
1:06.1	Why is Trump in the White House opposing these bipartisan deals?
1:09.8	The reason why we're in this situation is because of Donald Trump.
1:12.8	He's really hell bent on this wall, which you don't need.
1:17.0	It plays into this law enforcement aspect of,
1:21.7	we are going to protect you from them.
1:24.0	Any bill that has these aspects of it in it,
1:28.0	even if no resolution comes out of it,
1:30.0	Trump to his base wins because he can say I try even though what he tried to win with was
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