“The Clown Prince of CPAC.”
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🗓️ 25 February 2021
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Trump tightens his grip on the GOP ahead of this weekend’s CPAC speech, Texas Democrats analyze why they came up short in November, and new Data for Progress/Vote Save America polling shows overwhelming bipartisan support for voting and democracy reforms. Then ProPublica’s Dara Lind talks to Dan about Biden’s immigration moves and the influx of unaccompanied minors at the border.
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| 0:00.0 | [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ |
| 0:20.1 | Welcome to Plot's Ava America, I'm John Fabra. |
| 0:22.0 | I'm Dan Fifer. |
| 0:22.9 | On today's pod, Joe Biden's strategy for dealing with the star of this week's CPAC? |
| 0:27.8 | Texas Democrats analysis of why they came up short in November and new polling on a democracy |
| 0:32.4 | reform bill that may be even more popular with voters than the COVID relief bill. |
| 0:37.7 | Then Dan talks to expert immigration reporter Dara Lind about what's really going on at |
| 0:42.0 | the border with unaccompanied migrant children. |
| 0:44.9 | Two quick housekeeping notes before we start. |
| 0:47.2 | Very cool pod save the world this week. |
| 0:48.7 | Tommy interviews Ugandan musician and member of parliament Bobby Wein about his presidential |
| 0:52.9 | campaign against a military dictator. |
| 0:54.9 | And then Ben and Tommy talk about the line between legitimate criticism of Israel and anti-Semitism |
| 0:59.9 | and how right-wing hacks like Mike Pompeo demagogue the issue to attack their political opponents. |
| 1:05.8 | It seems like they might have strong views on Mike Pompeo. |
| 1:09.7 | As do I. |
| 1:10.7 | I was I had it written that he was attacking him because he's lying sack of shit, but |
| 1:14.6 | they wanted to be a little more honest and professional. |
| 1:18.2 | So that's the difference between pot save the world and pot save America right there. |
| 1:22.4 | Also check out the 200th episode of with friends like these. |
| 1:29.1 | One of the very first shows we launched a crooked with our friend Annamarie Cox who always |
| 1:32.6 | offers some of the most thought provoking conversations you'll hear on any podcast. |
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