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Ralph Nader Radio Hour

John Bolton Must Be Stopped/How To Buy a Car

Ralph Nader Radio Hour

Ralph Nader

Government, News

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2018

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Ralph welcomes conservative Constitutional scholar, Bruce Fein, who argues against the appointment of John Bolton as National Security Advisor and why that should be a position confirmed by the Senate. Plus, Jack Gillis, co-author of “The Car Book,” gives us tips on how to buy the safest, most reliable car. And, a listener asks, “Did Ralph pave the way for Citizens United?”



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0:00.0

From the K-P-F-K Studios in Southern California,

0:03.6

it's the Ralph Nader Radio Hour.

0:05.6

Stand up, stand up.

0:07.7

You've been sitting ready to song.

0:10.4

Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. My name is Steve Scrove and David Feldman is feeling

0:19.0

a little under the weather today, but we do have the Iron Man, the Lou Gehrig of Justice and Democracy, the Humanity

0:26.0

Hour, Ralph Nader.

0:27.0

Hello, Ralph.

0:28.0

Good to be with our listeners.

0:30.0

These are two very important subjects.

0:32.0

Yes, and before we get going, I... These are two very important subjects.

0:37.2

Yes, and before we get going, I want to give a shout out to our new affiliate, W. P.F.W. in Washington, D.C.

0:40.8

Thanks to General Manager Jerry Paris and Program Director Katia Stitt for making that happen.

0:46.0

We're on Thursday 6 to 7 PM in DC. Welcome DC.

0:51.0

On last week's show, those of you who heard that, you know we talked to journalist

0:56.5

Gareth Porter about the menace that is John Bolton, Donald Trump's choice to replace H.R. McMaster as National Security Advisor.

1:06.5

And I did a little research, which I want to do every once in a while, and found out that the role

1:11.9

of National Security Advisor came into being in

1:14.3

1953 during the Cold War. And it's an important position because he or she works in

1:20.5

the West Wing with easy access to the President and the ability to control the flow of

1:26.1

information to the President.

1:28.5

So in our interview with Mr Porter, Ralph referenced an article by constitutional scholar Bruce Fine about how this

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