Michael Flynn, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, CVS and Aetna, and What Our Priorities Say About Our Care for Children

Pantsuit Politics

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🗓️ 5 December 2017

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Michael Flynn has entered a guilty plea and is cooperating with the Mueller investigation, and the Senate took a big step toward tax cuts. With very few days left in the legislative year, we’re considering how our national priorities measure up to our professed love of children. Thanks to Crane & Canopy, Away, Zola, and ModCloth for sponsoring today's episode. Thanks as always to our patrons; if you would like to support Pantsuit Politics, please visit our Patreon page. We were thrilled to appear on KCRW's One Year Later with Jennifer Rubin this week and hope you'll check out that conversation along with our new podcast, The Nuanced Life. Michael Flynn entered a guilty plea to lying to the FBI. Legal experts seem to agree that this relatively minor offense must mean he has valuable information to offer to the Mueller investigation. They disagree about what, if anything, it means about criminal acts by other Trump transition team officials. Here is the double jeopardy/pardon theory Sarah discussed, as well as Jared Kushner's financial interest in Israel. Beth reflects on whether you can vote for the candidate's policy and not character (aka we talk about Roy Moore again). The Senate passed a version of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and we share what we don't mind and what we hate about it. We also discuss growth and this episode of Freakonomics. We discuss the process and meaning of the vote. Meanwhile, the government still needs to be funded. And, CVS and Aetnahave announced plans to merge. In our main segment, we talk about how our national priorities square with our expressed love for children through the prism of three topics: the funding of the Children's Health Insurance Program, 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	Michael Flynn has been indicted and is cooperating with Mueller's investigation.
0:03.6	The Senate took a big step toward tax cuts.
0:06.8	With very few days left in the legislative year, we're considering how our national priorities
0:12.1	measure up to our professed love of children. This is Sarah from the left and Beth from the right.
0:18.0	You're listening to Pantsuit Politics. No shouting, no insults, plenty of nuance.
0:30.4	Welcome to our Tuesday episode of Pantsuit Politics. We're so glad that you're here. And we especially
0:50.5	want to welcome any new listeners who might have heard us with Jennifer Reuben on KCRW. We had such a
0:56.9	good time being with Jennifer and reflecting on her conversation with Bill Crystal and sort of
1:01.8	where the Republican Party is today. If you haven't heard that, we'll post a link in the show
1:05.6	notes so you can check it out. We also really appreciate everyone who is checking out the
1:10.5	nuanced life, our new podcast. We love your feedback and appreciate all your subscription and
1:15.2	reviews. Finally, if you haven't yet, the Pantsuit Politics Gift Guide is up on our blog and we
1:22.2	would love your thoughts and any other great holiday giving ideas. Also, can I add an addendum to
1:27.7	our Jennifer Reuben interview, which is something I wish I'd said on the air for all of those who
1:31.2	have listened or going to listen. We followed Bill Crystal and he had some really nice things to say
1:38.5	about being a centrist and what it's like to be sort of a traditional conservative in Trump's
1:43.6	America. You know, Bill Crystal sort of became the favorite of the left and we were talking about
1:48.7	diverse views and moving forward in our polarized age. I wish I'd said, because you mentioned
1:54.4	the Potsayb America guys, didn't you? No, I didn't. You mentioned them on our podcast. What I really
1:59.6	wish I'd said in that interview is specifically with reference to Bill Crystal. At the end of the
2:03.5	Potsayb Americas feature in the New York Times magazine they said they had this exchange of
2:10.5	Bill Crystal and at the end they'll be like, well, we'll just forget and a few years we'll go back
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