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Obstructing and Burning

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News, News Commentary, Politics

4.66K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2018

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Virginia Heffernan is joined by Renato Mariotti, a former federal prosecutor, to discuss the recent revelations with regards to the President possibly obstructing justice. Plus, Asawin Suebsaeng, a politics reporter at The Daily Beast, joins us to discuss the Wolff story & his experience reporting on the White House. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Do you have any questions about his mental fitness?

0:02.0

Describe your relationship with him because some people would think it's

0:06.0

for his tweets and stuff. It's not a very good relationship.

0:10.0

I've never questioned his mental fitness. I have no reason to question his mental fitness.

0:14.0

If we're being honest, this isn't news. Everyone already knew that Trump isn't the fastest

0:19.0

fidget spinout.

0:20.0

Correct. The president wanted to be personally protected by the attorney general

0:24.0

with regard to the Russia Pro.

0:26.0

The truth is, Mr. President, you made your bed. Now eat your cheeseburger and it's...

0:38.0

Hello and welcome to Trumpcast. I'm Virginia Heffernin. Welcome to 2018. We're in sleepy, snowy January now.

0:44.0

So we're held up with Coco and the president definitely did not spend the week trying to erase human kind

0:50.0

by talking about his hefty wide-gurth nuclear button on Twitter and how he's ready to use it on North Korea.

1:02.0

Okay, that one's not funny. Someone should just send Trump images of his face

1:06.0

and this wouldn't be trolling just facts with radiation sores which would peel off

1:10.0

not just every layer of dermis but also his toner, his moisturizer, his skin bomb, his primer, his silicon color correcting primer,

1:18.0

and seven layers of ochre base makeup plus ochre powder.

1:22.0

And it would leave deep sores like the one he's been inflicting on the hearts of the American people for low this whole year.

1:29.0

Anyway, that was Tuesday. By Wednesday we had leaks from Michael Wolf's new book about the Trump White House fire and fury,

1:36.0

named of course for Trump's other reckless comments about what he'd do to North Korea.

1:40.0

And then we had a whole excerpt in New York magazine followed by the circulation of the actual book, which I myself,

1:46.0

your stalwart co-host of Trump cast, Virginia Hauffron, and reviewed in my new opinion column in the LA Times yesterday.

1:54.0

Yes, in spite of the snow I managed to score, fire, and fury check out my column. It's called Why Believe Michael Wolf.

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