PG100: Special Counsel, Trump's Trip, NAFTA Renegotiation

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

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4.5 • 772 Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2017

⏱️ 57 minutes

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This week, Mike is joined by Trey, filling in for Jay. They start the show with an overview of a tumultuous week for President Trump, featuring the president revealing classified information to Russia, allegations that Trump asked then FBI Director Comey to drop the investigation against Mike Flynn, and the appointment of former FBI Director Robert Mueller as a special counsel to head the investigation into potential ties between the Trump campaign and Russia. Then, Mike and Trey take a look at Donald Trump's first foreign trip as president, where he'll be visiting the Middle East and Europe. They discuss why those countries were chosen and what, if anything, is likely to come out of the trip. After that it's a look at NAFTA, in the wake of the Trump administration formally notifying Congress that it will be renegotiating the treaty. Mike and Trey discuss whether NAFTA is really as bad as President Trump has said it is, who's won and who's lost under the agreement, and the strange political alliances it's forged.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-politics-guys/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Good morning. Good afternoon, good evening, wherever you are. And welcome to the politics guys with your host, Jay Carson and Michael Baranowski.
0:17.3	Welcome to the politics guys. I'm Michael Barronowski, a political scientist at Northern Kentucky University.
0:23.5	My co-host this week, as always, is Cleveland Area Attorney and sometime Republican strategist Jay Carson.
0:30.6	This week, Jay's off, and I'm joined again with Trey, who's filling in.
0:35.3	Trey, how you doing this week?
0:37.0	We're doing really well. How are you doing?
0:38.4	Oh, we're really, really well in a really, really busy week.
0:42.2	And we'll start, of course, with what was perhaps, I don't know, the most astonishing
0:47.3	week of an already tumultuous Trump presidency.
0:50.5	Now, I'm going to do my best to recap the highlights such as they are. So this might
0:56.6	take a little while. So I hope, Trey, you'll bear with me and everyone else will. So here we go.
1:03.5	On Monday, it was reported that President Trump shared classified information when meeting with
1:08.3	Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov. Now, while the president has broad authority to declassify material,
1:15.6	there were too many concerns raised about this action.
1:18.6	First, that he may not have reviewed or understood the briefing material well enough to realize it was classified.
1:24.6	And second, that he may not have realized that by sharing this information,
1:29.6	he was potentially revealing a source that didn't want to be revealed. In this case, that source is
1:34.7	believed to be Israel. Then on Tuesday, the New York Times reported that in a meeting with then-FBI
1:40.9	director James Comey, President Trump asked Comey to let the Flynn investigation go.
1:47.1	And this, combined with Comey's firing shortly thereafter, has led Democrats to claim that
1:52.2	the president may be guilty of obstruction of justice with some saying that this is an impeachable
1:57.4	offense.
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