Charities across the country are now helping federal employees with groceries and food here in DC today.

Full-load workers and contractors lined up for a free meal from humanitarian and chef Jose Andres

as the Department of Agriculture revealed it may not have funding for food stamps if the shutdown

continues past February. The president says he's been tough on Russia than any president ever

just want to narrow-vote in the Senate to ease sanctions on companies tied to a Russian billionaire

with close connections to the Kremlin. This president has said and done so many

and sensitive and figurative and racist plans. If you support him, people like me want to

understand why you ignored so much.

Hello, welcome to Trumpcast. I'm Yasha Monk. It can get tiring to follow everything that's going on

in the unpleasant mind of Donald Trump day after day. It's easy to feel like it's just one great

sea of shit washing over us. One day it is a nasty tweet that is inflammatory, that insults people

that is utterly unpresidential. And the next day it is bloating the idea of a national

emergency in response to the shutdown. Well folks, one of the pieces of really hard intellectual

work that we have to do in order to keep clear about what the situation is, is to distinguish

between those kinds of things. There are all of an nasty tweets and all of the ways in which

Donald Trump is a deeply unpleasant human being and a deeply irresponsible politician.

And then there are the things which should make all of our alarm bells go up.

The national emergency absolutely is one of them. If you talk to any historian, any political

scientist, any scholar who has studied the rise of authoritarian movements, the crises of democracy

long before our particular moment, they will tell you that calling national emergencies

for spurious reasons is one of the absolutely key tactics which will for a terrain leaders

employ. That doesn't mean that Donald Trump is going to succeed. We can stand up to him in the

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