PG135: GOP vs FBI, State of the Union, Immigration, Infrastructure

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

Politics, News

4.5 • 772 Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2018

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

This week's show opens with Mike and Jay's discussion of the 'Nunes Memo', in which the GOP majority of the House Intelligence Committee suggests that the FBI obtained a FISA warrant to spy on Trump campaign associate Carter Page using highly questionable evidence. Jay believes that it's important for this information to come out, while Mike argues that the GOP was wrong to release what he believes to be partial and misleading information. Next is a look at President Trump's State of the Union address. Both Mike and Jay agree that the SOTU is painful and largely pointless political theater - after explaining why they move on to discuss the two major substantive policy proposals in the speech: a four-point immigration plan and an outline of an upcoming $1.5 trillion infrastructure proposal. **What Jay's Reading:** [Polarization is an Old American Story](http://on.wsj.com/2FInPWp). (Wall Street Journal - paywall) **What Mike's Reading:** [TV Gave Us the Modern State of the Union. Then It Killed It](http://politi.co/2FFU2gV). (Politico) **We hope you'll check out the sponsors of today's show:**[**Policygenius.com**](http://www.policygenius.com) - the easy way to compare and buy life insurance online. **SeatGeek** - Politics Guys listeners get $20 off their first SeatGeek purchase. Just download the SeatGeek app and enter promo code **POLITICSGUY** **Listener support helps make The Politics Guys possible.** If you’re interested in supporting the show, go to [politicsguys.com](http://www.politicsguys.com) and click on the Patreon or PayPal link.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	Welcome to the politics guys. I'm Michael Baranowski, a political scientist at Northern Kentucky University.
0:28.0	Before we get started with the news for this week, I wanted to make an announcement.
0:29.9	Jay, we have an intern.
0:31.3	That's fantastic.
0:37.0	Yeah, it's a student of mine at the Northern Kentucky University, Christian Carey.
0:38.3	And so welcome aboard, Christian. We're glad to have you as part of the team.
0:41.3	And so Christian will be helping us...
0:43.3	Where's my coffee?
0:44.3	Exactly.
0:45.3	Well, I think we'll try to make it a little more engaging for him than that.
0:49.3	But Christian's going to be helping us build up the bipartisan political education project, which is the
0:55.2	nonprofit that we're transitioning into. And the goal will be to give you more in-depth policy
1:03.1	analysis from both the right and the left. And so I have Christian working on a project or two that
1:08.9	I think will help make that happen.
1:12.7	So again, welcome aboard.
1:15.1	We're really glad to have our first official intern.
1:15.8	There we go.
1:16.6	All right.
1:23.2	So we start today's show with the latest in the conflict between the FBI and a number of Republican not lawmakers as well as President Trump.
1:26.5	This week, the House Intelligence Committee voted to
1:28.8	release a four-page memo detailing alleged FBI abuses related to the Russian investigation. The vote
1:35.6	was along party lines with all of the committee's Democrats voting to not release the memo,
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