Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine One Year Later, Kevin McCarthy & Tucker Carlson

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

Politics, News

4.4 • 783 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Mike & Jay open the episode with an update on their segment from last week on candidate cognitive health in the wake of comments from Nikki Haley and Donald Trump this week. Following that is an extended discussion of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine one year in, and then a look at why Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy would give Fox News host Tucker Carlson exclusive access to thousands of hours of January 6th surveillance footage. Mike’s Recommendation We All Got COVID! (Except for Linus) Nerf Herder The Politics Guys on Facebook | Twitter Listener support helps make The Politics Guys possible. You can support us or change your level of support at patreon.com/politicsguys or politicsguys.com/support. On Venmo, we’re @PoliticsGuys. Interested in starting your own podcast? Check out RedCircle, home of The Politics Guys. 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	Atheists, agnostics, long-haired, weirdos, short-haired widows, vandal,
0:05.6	Gula.
0:05.8	I'm the government, hug the government, love the government, hug the government, love the government.
0:12.0	Welcome to the politics, guys, a place for bipartisan, rational, and civil debate on American politics and policy.
0:17.7	I'm Michael Baranowski, Professor of Political Science at Northern Kentucky University.
0:22.1	I'm joined today by my conservative counterpart, Cleveland area attorney and defender of
0:26.9	freedom, Jay Carson. Hey, good morning, Mike. Hey, Jay. How are you doing this morning?
0:31.5	Oh, I got nothing really, I'm afraid. Nothing, nothing witty. Um, all right, well, but you know,
0:37.2	we have a lot we want to get to today.
0:40.3	It is the one-year anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
0:46.2	I want to talk a little about Speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy's interesting deal with Fox News is Tucker Carlson on those January 6th surveillance tapes and a couple of
0:57.6	interesting Supreme Court cases as well. So as always, we have a lot we want to talk about
1:03.6	and we're going to get to it in just one second. So Jay, before we start with Russia's invasion at the one-year mark, there's sort of an update.
1:13.6	Last week on the show, listeners might recall that one of the topics we talked about was
1:19.0	mental health cognitive capabilities of elected officials.
1:24.4	And it's in the light of the John Fetterman thing, Diane Feinstein, and Joe Biden concerns about, at least from the right, about his cognitive abilities.
1:33.7	Well, Nikki Haley and her presidential announcement last week said, in the America, I see, the permanent politician will finally retire, will have term limits for Congress, and mandatory mental
1:45.5	competency tests for politicians over 75 years old.
1:51.1	Now, Donald Trump responded to this on truth social by saying, anybody, all caps, running for
1:57.8	the office of president of the United States should agree to take a full
2:01.4	and complete mental competency test simultaneously or before with the announcement that he or she
2:08.9	is running and likewise but to a somewhat lesser extent agree to a test which would prove
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