Minimum wage research showdown (also Russia)
Explain It to Me
Vox Media Podcast Network
4.4 • 8K Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2017
⏱️ 64 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to another episode of the Weeds on the Vux Media Podcast Network. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm Matthew Glacias, joined by Sarah Cliff and Ezra Klein. |
| 0:21.2 | We really want to talk today about the big study on the minimum wage that came out of |
| 0:26.9 | the University of Washington last week. |
| 0:29.4 | There's been a lot of people asking us to talk about it. |
| 0:32.2 | I'm really jazzed up about this subject, but white paper segment comes at the end. |
| 0:38.8 | We're going to save a lot of time for it. |
| 0:41.0 | We've got a lot of say on this. |
| 0:43.2 | We want to make sure that we move briskly through a couple of newsier topics. |
| 0:48.3 | Ted Cruz, as a big idea, could revolutionize the healthcare debate maybe. |
| 0:54.8 | Obviously, the elephant in the room of American politics right now is the revelation that Donald |
| 1:03.4 | Trump, Jr. got an email saying, Hey, do you want to come to a meeting where the Russian |
| 1:10.2 | government will give you to Famous information about Hillary Clinton? |
| 1:14.7 | And he said, wait, as part of the Russian government's effort to support your father's |
| 1:18.6 | presidential campaign. |
| 1:19.6 | Yes. |
| 1:20.6 | And he said, if it's what you say, it is. |
| 1:23.9 | I love it. |
| 1:25.4 | So, a couple thoughts on this. |
| 1:28.9 | One, you just, you do not see documents like this in politics just generally. |
| 1:35.2 | This is like when the James Bond villain comes out from behind the curtain. |
| 1:38.6 | He says, just to be clear, I'm going to create a super volcano. |
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