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Pantsuit Politics

Michael Cohen, Mark Zuckerberg, Paul Ryan, and more from Major Jason Baker

Pantsuit Politics

Lemonada Media

News, Politics, Society & Culture, News Commentary

4.54.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2018

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

A description of this week's headlines would sound a little like "We Didn't Start the Fire" lyrics. We tackle some of the many news stories of the week including the FBI raid of Michael Cohen's office, Mark Zuckerberg's testimony before Congress, and Paul Ryan's resignation announcement. Plus, we share the second half of Beth's conversation about military policy with Air Force Major Jason Baker.  Thanks to our sponsors: Acer and Tripping.com. Recommended Resources:  Donald Trump Relied on Michael Cohen Mark Zuckerberg Hearing Highlights Good Riddance, Paul Ryan How Donald Trump Upended Paul Ryan's Plans Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

A description of this week's headlines would sound a little like the opening of We Didn't Start the Fire.

0:05.6

We discuss a whirlwind week and share a part two of our military policy discussion with Major Jason Baker.

0:11.6

This is Sarah from the Left and Beth from the Right. You're listening to Pantsuit Politics.

0:16.2

No shouting, no insults, plenty of nuance.

0:31.0

Thank you for joining us for another episode of Pantsuit Politics.

0:35.0

We really have appreciated everyone's comments on Tuesday's episode.

0:39.0

We would love to get into feedback with you today, but not going to have time because we've lived approximately seven years in the past three days.

0:47.0

So we'll talk about all of the news before we dive into that.

0:50.0

We want to remind you that if you sign up at PantsuitPoliticsShow.com right now to receive our weekly emails,

0:57.0

you will also get an ebook containing all of our foreign policy primers to date.

1:02.0

So we hope that you'll do that. You'll also get our Friday messages where we include listener feedback as well as links to articles and podcasts and shows that we're enjoying and would recommend.

1:13.0

So PantsuitPoliticsShow.com to sign up for our email.

1:16.0

So I just want to offer a small correction. We don't even have time to do all the news.

1:20.0

It's so true.

1:21.0

So we're going to have to limit some things like the Trump Amazon Washington Post discussion.

1:26.0

I have to bump that to a later time because the FBI rated Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, which seems like a big deal.

1:35.0

I think it's a very big deal.

1:38.0

When I think about this from a legal perspective, the only thought that I can sort of get my brain around right now is I so hope that every single bit of this was done by the book.

1:50.0

Zero mistakes, no overreaching because to seize evidence from a lawyer is a very big deal.

1:59.0

And I just think we're in such a fragile place with how we trust our institutions and what we believe is true.

2:08.0

I just hope that this was done with impeccable precision.

2:13.0

It seems to me that there's so many layers to get through before they could execute this search warrant that it would have to be executed with a lot of precision.

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