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🗓️ 16 April 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Evil Geniuses author Kurt Andersen examines Trump crossing new lines of lawlessness.
Documentarian Alex Gibney details his latest documentary, The Dark Money Game, which explores the money that influences our politics.
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0:29.5 | $90 billion. We have such a great show for you today. Evil Genius's author Kurt Anderson stops by to talk about Trump |
0:41.6 | crossing the lines of lawlessness. Then we'll talk to documentarian Alex Gibney about his |
0:49.1 | latest documentary, The Dark Money Game, a documentary about how dark money influences our politics. |
0:57.4 | But first, the news. |
0:59.3 | Smalley, many people are saying that now we're in the lawless rubicon, that we've really, |
1:06.9 | really, really stepped in it with Trump giving the middle finger to the Supreme Court and saying that this is a foreign affair that they don't have oversight on. |
1:15.6 | So this is again, like one of the parlor games we play now is, are we in a constitutional crisis? |
1:23.0 | I like to call it Schrodinger's constitutional crisis. |
1:26.5 | That's right. Both in and out, alive and dead. Even having to ask that question, I think, |
1:32.2 | is a pretty good sign that you're in a lot of trouble. What we have here is like a semantic argument |
1:37.4 | that we see the Trump administration doing, which is exploiting the law as much as possible. |
1:43.2 | So they have been told to bring Garcia back |
1:47.9 | to the United States, but they hadn't been quite clearly told how and sort of the timetable. |
1:55.2 | So they're kind of obfuscating and trying not to do everything that they should be doing. |
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