PG137: South Florida Shooting and the FBI, Mueller’s Indictment, Senate Immigration Fails, Mitt Romney for Senate, and No Solo-Press Conferences for President Trump

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

Politics, News

4.5 • 772 Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2018

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

This week’s show opens with Trey introducing a new voice for the left: Ken Katkin, , a professor of law at Northern Kentucky University, who's stepping in to give Mike the week off (and to give listeners the week off from Mike ). The two then move into the tragedy in South Florida this week. The two open by talking about the FBI’s potential shortcomings as noted by Governor Rick Scott. They then move, briefly, to discuss the role of gun legislation. The topic is particularly difficult for Trey who lives and works in Central Florida. Next Trey brings up the Mueller’s indictment against 13 Russians. Both Trey and Ken agree a central finding is a lack of citizen awareness of information discernment. It also appears to support the claims of the Trump team that more than being pro-Trump, to this point they were anti-Hillary in all their forms. However, it is clear that more is coming from Mueller on the American side. After that Trey and Ken discuss Romney for Senate, and how wrongfully both the left and the right wrongly dismissed him as a cold warrior for focusing on Russia. Romney is a fascinating test case for how Republicans will run campaigns in the post-Trump era. Finally Ken and Trey discuss an issue near and dear to Trey’s heart: presidential communication. It has been over a year since Trump’s last solo-press conference. It is evidence in favor of a hypothesis that Trey made in academic circles in 2011: presidents will use unmediated social media channels over mediated channels of information.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.
0:38.3	Welcome to the politics guys, the deeper political podcast. I'm Trey Orndorf and I'm joined this week for the first time with me, at least, with Ken Kattenkin. Welcome to the show, Ken. How are you doing? Oh, doing great. Thank you, Trey. It's great to be on this show. Well, I'm looking forward to doing it with you, but before we kind of get started, listeners,
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1:46.3	out of the way, Ken, why don't we move on to this week's stories starting with Florida? And I think
1:52.6	that the, this is a really big deal for me because as listeners may know, I live in Central Florida.
2:00.0	And so this week, the South Florida school shooting in
2:04.2	Broward County, excuse me, has brought back a lot of really negative emotions for us because
2:12.7	we have just been kind of healing from the Orlando Pulse attack. And so now we have crews in South Florida.
2:21.3	Now, this has been kind of, there's a lot of this happening in the news, and we don't want to focus on all
2:25.6	that. But as the details of the attack and the role of gun control, they're kind of really an ever-present
2:30.5	question in the media and social media. But I think what Ken and I are going to focus here
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