Stop Going Nuclear

The Gist

Mike Pesca

News, Politics, Arts, Daily News

4.4 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

On The Gist, ’twas an eventful news day (William Barr, opioid fatality statistics, Brexit … ), but Mike’s got a big Spiel to fry. In the interview, Greg Jaczko served as chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission under Obama—and soon grew disillusioned with nuclear energy technology itself. He joins us to explain what changed his thinking and where to turn for tomorrow’s energy. Jaczko’s new book is Confessions of a Rogue Nuclear Regulator. In the Spiel, a thought experiment in which Trump is given the benefit of the doubt regarding Russia … and still comes out looking like a scoundrel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	this episode could contain profanity, it's up to me, I guess.
0:03.5	Your Saturday could contain a just newsletter.
0:07.0	To sign up for it or once a week newsletter, go to slate.com slash just news.
0:16.6	It's Tuesday, January 15th, 2019 from Slate.
0:19.6	It's the gist I'm Mike Pesca, a court rule today that asking about immigration status
0:25.5	on census forms was unconstitutional.
0:27.9	William Barr spent the day talking to senators and as attorney general, the phrase,
0:34.5	best we could hope for out of this president came to mind.
0:39.3	Also poisoning from opioids specifically passed car crashes as the likeliest form of accidental death.
0:47.6	Okay, I thought maybe it's because car crashes went down.
0:51.0	So it's actually secretly a good thing.
0:52.8	I mean, no, that's not what happened.
0:54.1	Both went up the last year for which they have stats.
0:57.8	Opioids just went up by more.
0:59.8	Oh, yeah.
1:00.7	And the Brexit deal went over like a lead meringue, but I'm not here to talk about that.
1:05.8	You see, I have an extra long spiel today when I've been thinking about for a little while,
1:09.7	ever since the report came out that President Trump might be an agent of the Russians.
1:15.6	And I got to thinking, well, what if he wasn't?
1:18.9	What have he's been doing all this stuff and acting this way, not as an agent,
1:23.8	not even as someone who knew the Russians were trying to help him?
1:27.7	What have we took Trump at his word that he had no knowing interactions with the Russians?
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