Melanie Sloan & Ned Resnikoff (11.30.16)

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🗓️ 30 November 2016

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Bill Press welcomes David Jackson, Melanie Sloan, Ned Resnikoff, & Daniel Newhauser to discuss the 1st amendment right to burn an American flag, Donald Trump's tweets on his conflicts of interest, what a Trump presidency means for democracy, & the House Democrats' leadership vote - all the big highlights from this Wednesday edition of the Bill Press Show! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	This is Bill Press and Friends on the district productive network.
0:11.7	In the sense of what's important and what's nice, there's no better day to talk about that
0:16.4	than the day that we have been, a day after we've been consumed and still are by Donald Trump's comments about flag burning.
0:26.7	I mean, let's, can we all agree, this is nonsense, total nonsense.
0:33.5	Look, so with all the serious problems and issues facing this country today, right, during this period of transition, like what is going on with ISIS?
0:45.6	Like, what are we going to do about climate change? What are we going to do about opening up relations with Cuba?
0:54.0	What are we going to do about opening up relations with Cuba?
1:02.8	What are we going to do about health care when you've got the arch enemy of universal health care in as a new HHS secretary?
1:08.6	What are we going to do about public education when you have the arch enemy of public schools,
1:11.0	Betty DeVos in as a new education secretary.
1:18.1	What's the Democratic Party going to do to rebuild itself? All of these major issues that we ought to be talking about in the media and among ourselves as Americans. And what are we
1:25.6	talking about? We're talking about flag burning. And whether or not
1:30.2	somebody who burns the flag should go to jail for a year or pay a hundred thousand dollar fine
1:36.5	or maybe even lose their citizenship. How the hell did we get sidetracked into this? You know what happened because Donald
1:46.8	Trump tweeted about it yesterday and we found out that everybody was wondering, well, where did that
1:54.2	tweet come? Where'd that come from? Why all of a sudden are we talking about flag burning? And it
1:58.9	turns out that there was a, because there hasn't been any rash of flag burning lately at any of these rallies.
2:05.3	Well, it turns out that Fox News ran a story yesterday morning about 6.35 a.m. East Coast time.
2:13.0	About somewhere, somewhere, somehow in some little rally, somebody had tried to burn an American flag.
2:22.5	So Trump, obviously, up sitting in bed in his jommies, sees this report,
2:28.4	picks up his phone and then tweets out, and he tweets out, quote,
2:32.6	"'Nobody should be allowed to burn the American flag. If they do,
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