ITT Sound Off: Eccentric Circles

In The Thick

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🗓️ 26 January 2019

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Nathan Phillips, a Native American elder man, sang a prayer song to make peace between a group of MAGA hat-wearing white Catholic high school students and members of the Black Hebrew Israelites. Maria and Julio talk about the aftermath and the context in which the video of the confrontation occurred. They also discuss the arrest and indictment of one of President Trump's top aides, Roger Stone and the unfolding political crisis in Venezuela and the involvement of the U.S. government. ITT Staff Picks:

An analysis of the coverage of the Lincoln Memorial incident and the overcorrection of the media in the Trump era, from The Atlantic.
Where Will Venezuela Go Next? An analysis of the latest, by Latino Rebels.
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0:23.0	Grazias.
0:26.0	Hey it's Julio and before we start today's sound off just a quick note that we recorded this Friday morning
0:32.0	before Trump's press conference
0:34.8	announcing he'll reopen the government for three weeks, ending the longest
0:39.1	shutdown in American history.
0:40.9	Trump uses usual anti-immigrant racist language in the presser going on and on about
0:46.7	the wall and MS-13 and human trafficking.
0:51.2	But just so y'all know, we're going to discuss this and more on our Tuesday roundtable
0:56.9	In the meantime let's sound off
1:01.2	Hey, what's up? Welcome to In The Thick. I'm Marianne Hosa.
1:04.4	And I'm Jureka Loberella and this is ITT sound off.
1:08.6	All right, people.
1:09.6	No, we weren't necessarily planning on starting the show like this today, but you know, there's
1:14.5	been a little bit of news because on Friday morning, Roger Stone, one of Trump's confidence
1:20.2	and AIDS, was arrested after the Mueller indictment on allegations that he
1:25.2	obstructed the investigations of Russia and its interference in the 2016
1:30.2	election. Now you know we all have a sense of Roger Stone we have a sense of the guy he
1:38.6	seems a little slippery to put it nicely. A little...
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