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The Gist

See You in Court!

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

President Donald Trump's management style has created lots of big, messy legal questions. With his new executive order on immigration, and his calls for a congressional investigation into wiretapping, Trump is plunging the government into uncharted territory. Benjamin Wittes of the Brookings Institution is here to explain. Wittes is the editor in chief of the Lawfare blog. In the Spiel, the fight for Tom Price's old House seat has already become deeply silly. Today's sponsors: Indochino, the company that's reinventing men's fashion. Go to Indochino.com to get any premium Indochino suit for just $389, plus free shipping, when you use promo code gist at checkout. Betterment, an automated investing service that makes investing easy. For a limited time, sign up for Betterment and you may qualify for a free Canary home security system to help secure your home. Visit Betterment.com/gist for more details. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:04.0

It's Monday, March 13, 2017, from Slated to the Jess Dye Mic Pesca.

0:12.5

Now I want you to know that among the services that I provide for you is that I listen to all the Sunday shows.

0:18.3

Now watch, I listen, I could do listening on double speed, I ingest twice the info in half the time.

0:23.9

I'm not a complete martyr here, people.

0:26.0

And I normally do this for a few purposes to learn things for myself, to become a better citizen, see how the arguments are shaping up to fact-check,

0:33.5

but I also mind them for serendipitous moments, like Tom Cotton on ABC's This Week.

0:39.7

The director of the CBO is not Moses, he doesn't come down from the mountain tops with stone tablets.

0:45.0

But wouldn't it be great if he did? I am the Lord thy God.

0:49.9

I give unto you what's estimated to be these 8 to 12 commandments.

0:55.6

Do not covet thy neighbor's wife or his ox, even if you were to establish a 10-year benchmark on ox coveting,

1:02.6

thou shalt not engage in discretionary ox coveting above this baseline for I am the Lord thy God.

1:09.1

So that is the sort of fodder that I'm going for, right?

1:12.6

But this Sunday, I was struck not by one or two guests or statements or topics, but just the whole Gestalt.

1:21.0

How much crazy crap is going on?

1:24.5

Now I am planning one day to unveil the Gest's crazy crapometer,

1:29.5

but here's a sign of how crazy the crap was.

1:31.5

Okay, here was Jake Tapper.

1:33.4

This is the lead of his Sunday show.

1:37.2

Hello, I'm Jake Tapper in Washington, where the state of our union is hearing echoes of that old Trump catchphrase,

1:43.7

you're fired.

1:44.7

In the dramatic public standoff, the US attorney known for prosecuting major corruption cases in New York City,

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