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The Politics Guys

Tenet Media, U.S. Senate Races, Hunter Biden’s Guilty Plea, Carlos Del Toro’s Violation of Hatch, SAVE Act

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

Politics, News

4.5772 Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Trey is again joined by Ken and they start the show looking at the U.S. Justice Department's recent indictment of, presumably, Tenet Media. Ken argues this demonstrates the Justice Department is taking Russian election interference seriously, while Trey suggests this kind of revelation can be a place for considering one's media content consumption. Next, the duo dives into Montana's U.S. Senate Race between Republican challenger Tim Sheehy and Democratic incumbent Jon Tester. Ken believes there is a chance that Democrats pick up enough seats to offset probable losses, but agrees with Trey that that the better odds are on Republicans taking the Senate by one to two seats. Trey and Ken differ though in the end because Trey believes Republicans will hold the House and Ken argues New York is enough to tip the scales to the Democrats. After that, they move to Hunter Biden's last-minute guilty plea. Trey finds Hunter Biden's commentary to come off as whining and Trump-like and, ultimately, a win for justice. Ken believes the deck was stacked against Hunter and has more sympathy for the aggressive prosecution. Then it is a quick conversation about U.S. Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro's violation of the Hatch Act. The hosts overview what happened and the history of the Hatch Act. They also delve into Trump's attempt via Executive Order at circumventing the Hatch Act by creating a new level of employee: Schedule F. The pair close the show by discussing the SAVE Act. Here Trey muses that asking for ID, although not necessary, is not an undue burden in modern society. Ken argues that it would increase disenfranchisement. Trey counters by suggesting it would follow to eliminate ID requirements in other areas, especially in banking. The Politics Guys on Facebook | X  Check out the Sustainable Planet podcast, as well as the free Sustainable Planet Substack. 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. The Politics Guys is part of The Democracy Group, a network of podcasts that examines what's broken in our democracy and how we can work together to fix it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:45.7

on American politics and policy.

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I'm Trey Orndorf, a political scientist at Oklahoma Christian University.

0:51.2

And I'm joined by my co-host, Ken Katkin, a professor of law at Chase Law School.

0:56.8

Ken, it's wonderful to have you back as my co-host on the politics guys.

1:01.3

It's great to be back. Yeah, I mean, last week, it was, it was, you know, moderate right and

1:07.3

whatever, yeah, the rest of the right. And this week, I get to come back home to, you know, the rest of the right.

1:17.1

And this week, I get to come back home to, you know, my middle place and pulling you,

1:20.6

you know, from the left a little bit back towards the center.

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