Kavanaugh, Nafta 2.0, Hacks, Trump Money

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

Politics, News

4.5 • 772 Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

This week Trey Orndorff and The Politics Guys is excited to introduce Athena King, a political scientist from Virginia State University. The Politics Guys asks that listeners listen to Athena and send us your feedback on what you think of the show. After introduction Trey and Athena again dress the newest developments concerning Brett Kavanaugh. Specifically the two discuss Kavanaugh’s Washington Post Op-Ed in defense of his hearings and the Friday cloture vote that opens the possibility of a vote on Kavanaugh’s nomination on Saturday or Sunday. Both Trey and Athena agree that Kavanaugh is likely to be confirmed, but Trey thinks it will be a wider margin with limited Democratic support and Athena believes Mike Pence will be necessary to cast a tie-breaking vote. Trey and Athena the address “Nafta 2.0” or more properly USMCA. Athena argues that American supply chains need more open markets. Trey agrees but is willing to concede that this is a win for the Trump Presidency and a fulfillment of a large campaign promise. Athena gets into the details of automobiles while Trey focuses on the international economic questions of the shift. Only time will tell if and when the Senate will take up the issue. Next the pair move to an underreported story out of Bloomberg on the possibility of a Chinese hardware hack on American company servers. Apple and Facebook have denied the allegations, but it appears that China has been trying to infiltrate servers in the U.S. Trey wonders if this might not be an argument for a more nationalist economic policy and is, at a minimum, a question that free marketeers like himself must answer. Athena questions what the Chinese motive is. Finally Trey and Athena discuss the issue of Trump’s finances in wake of a New York Time story highlighting the dubious — and potentially fraudulent — money policies the Trump family used. Athena and Trey agree that this is unlikely to move the needle of support for Trump, but wonder what the broader picture will continue to be as more information slowly drips out. Listener support helps make The Politics Guys possible. If you’re interested in supporting the show, go to politicsguys.com/support. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-politics-guys/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the politics, guys, a place for bipartisan, rational, and civil debate on American politics and policy.
0:05.9	I'm Trey Ornortha political scientist at Oklahoma Christian University, and I'm joined by the first time this week by Athena King, a political scientist at Virginia State University.
0:16.1	Athena, it's wonderful having you on this show. Welcome.
0:19.3	Thank you so much. It is an honor to be here. Oh, I appreciate that. We're happy that you
0:25.3	decided to come on the show, kind of offer a different perspective. And I know that Ken is probably
0:31.4	just happy that he's not having to get up early in the morning to do the show. He is not a
0:36.4	morning person at all.
0:37.5	So I just wanted to welcome you to the politics guys.
0:40.6	And listeners, I hope you enjoy this week's show.
0:43.8	And what we're going to kick off with this week, Athena, is, you know, originally we
0:48.7	weren't sure if we were going to take on the Kavanaugh issue, the show.
0:52.7	We've done it a bunch of times now.
0:54.3	I know listeners, this has been a big issue for us on social media, on Facebook specifically.
1:00.6	We've had a lot of debates going on about this.
1:04.2	But we really needed to come back to it today because this week we have an op ed piece in the wall street
1:14.1	journal from kevinel himself and he's making the argument that he's an independent impartial
1:22.8	judge and he just had this emotional day the other day, and that basically it's because of all these
1:29.3	unconstantiated claims, and so that we need to kind of look past this.
1:33.7	The other big news that happened on Friday is that the Senate passed the first vote to move
1:41.5	forward the Kavanaugh final vote. So in the Senate, we have the, we have a
1:47.8	filibuster possibility. And so you have to then have a cloture vote. And so we have passed
1:52.4	cloture. And it was fascinating because it comes in 51. A Democrat crosses over and makes it
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