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🗓️ 21 July 2018
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Ralph talks to Reverend Graylan Hagler about, among other things, the criminalization of poverty, right wing Christianity, and The Poor People’s Campaign to fight all of that. Then, conservative Constitutional scholar, Bruce Fein, joins us to express his reservations about Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, especially his views on executive power.
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0:00.0 | From the K-P-F-K Studios in Southern California, |
0:03.6 | it's the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. |
0:05.7 | Stand up, stand up. |
0:07.8 | You've been sitting great to long. |
0:17.8 | Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Wower. My name is Steve Scrovan along with my co-host David Feldman. Hello David. Good morning. Good morning. We also have the man of the hour. Ralph Nader. Hello, |
0:26.5 | Ralph. Hello, this is going to be a jolting program. Get ready for it, listeners. |
0:31.7 | A very jolting program. on today's show we welcome the |
0:35.4 | Reverend Graylin Hagler who is senior pastor of Plymouth United Church of |
0:39.7 | Christ in Washington DC, a long-time social justice advocate Reverend Hagler is going to |
0:46.6 | tell us about the poor people's campaign, which was inspired by the work of the late |
0:50.4 | Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. Economic justice, social justice, ecological justice, all of these things affect the poor in ways the rest of us may find hard to imagine and Reverend Hagler is going to talk to us about that in the first half of the show. |
1:06.4 | In the second half we welcome back constitutional scholar Bruce Fine, who is going to give us |
1:11.0 | his take on Donald Trump's pick for the Supreme Court Brett Kavanaugh. |
1:15.0 | Regular listeners will remember Mr. Fine from previous episodes when he pulled no punches |
1:20.0 | and described how Congress has advocated its responsibility to declare war and at Bush, Cheney, |
1:26.1 | and Hillary Clinton, according to the Constitution technically could be tried as war criminals. |
1:30.9 | More recently, he argued that John Bolton should not be named National |
1:33.7 | Security Advisors of President Trump and how that position which has become so |
1:37.8 | powerful should be subject to Senate approval like other cabinet positions. |
1:42.4 | We're interested in his take on Kavanaugh's |
1:44.3 | reported deference to executive power, especially in light of the Mueller |
1:49.2 | investigation. As usual, somewhere in the middle we'll duck out for a minute to the National Press Building in Washington, D.C. |
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