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Welcome everybody to another episode of The Damage Report. It's Tuesday. I'm Johnny Rola and

we've got a gigantic show. It's one of those awesome shows where we have a great balance of both

important news stories to get to and awesome guests to discuss the news with.

So in the first section, we are going to be talking about the US Defense budget. It's a massive

hypocrisy coming for the president on how much we should actually be spending on defense.

And I want to put it in a little bit of context both in terms of US military spending over the

past decade or so and the international sort of military economic environment that we live in.

Later on in the show, we've got some announced reforms coming from the DNC on attempting to strip

some of the bias that was evident in the 2016 primary process. We're going to be going over

those proposed reforms and AOC, under fire from Fox News again. I want to compare just briefly

how they deal with Alexandria Castigrotez versus others. More respected politicians.

We'll talk about that. We also have guests. We have Emma Viglin coming on the show in not long.

Actually the next block, she's going to be talking about her reporting in DC at the Sunrise

Movement's protests yesterday. We're also going to be breaking down all of the news on Beto

Rark and his apparently imminent run for the Democratic nomination for the presidency for 2020.

Later on in the show, Sarah Blasovic is going to be joining us. She is one of the co-founders

of the Sunrise Movement. She was at the protest. She's going to be breaking down what they were

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