PG93: Russia, Trump vs Freedom Caucus, GOP vs EPA, NATO Slackers

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

Politics, News

4.5 • 772 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2017

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

This week, the Guys start out by looking at the latest news on the multiple Russia probes. The House investigation has slowed to a crawl amid claims from Democrats that Intelligence Committee chair Devin Nunes can't be trusted to conduct an impartial probe. The Senate investigation seems to be far more bipartisan to this point. Mike and Jay talk about why this is, along with what to make of former National Security Advisor Mike Flynn's willingness to testify - if he's given immunity. Then it's a look at what Mike calls the Republican 'circular firing squad' with President Trump calling out the House Freedom Caucus, and the Caucus and it's conservative supporters blasting right back at the president. Following an update on the Gorsuch confirmation process, the Guys get a chance to talk policy - why Republicans don't seem to like the EPA, what President Trump's new executive order on the environment means, and whether or not our NATO allies are pulling their weight.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.
0:23.4	My co-host this week, as always, is Cleveland Area Attorney and sometime Republican strategist Jay Carson.
0:30.5	Before we get to the news, I want to let everyone know that next week's show will be up a little later than normal.
0:36.0	We usually tape Sunday mornings, but next Sunday,
0:38.6	my wife and I will be driving back from the Midwest Political Science Association Conference
0:43.1	in Chicago, where we're both delivering papers. That's exciting. Oh, yeah. Well, we tend to do it
0:49.0	every year, and so this year I have a paper on how the Netflix show House of Cards affects students' view of politics.
0:58.0	And how does it affect?
0:59.5	Well, yeah, I actually taught this course where the course material, the book, as it were, was House of Cards.
1:07.0	And not surprisingly, it makes cynical students even more cynical about politics, which is
1:14.7	hard to believe because they're already pretty cynical, though they really enjoyed it a lot.
1:18.8	So they reveled in their cynicism, I guess, is the result.
1:23.5	So I don't really know if I should be trying to make students more cynical exactly but but there it is
1:28.4	so well sounds sounds interesting well let's hope so anyway so uh just want to let is there going to be
1:36.2	video of that that we can post somewhere oh god no uh that would be that would be truly truly awful
1:42.1	but if anyone's interested in the paper i'd be happy to send it to you.
1:45.4	Just send us an email, mailof politics guys.com, and you can get my, you know, my very own research paper on the politics of house of cards and how it makes cynical students even more cynical.
1:58.4	All right.
1:59.3	On to this week's show. And, you know, we start yet again,
2:02.8	yet again with the status of the ongoing Russia investigation. This week, the House Intelligence
2:08.4	Committee's probe ground to a halt, a halt engineered by the committee's chair,
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