The "Cocoon of Bitterness and Resentment" Edition

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🗓️ 15 November 2018

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Battle lines are drawn over Matthew Whitaker’s appointment as acting attorney general. President Trump, stung by election losses, picks fights with America’s closest allies. And is North Korea deceiving the U.S. in nuclear weapons negotiations?

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0:22.4	Okay I have to read you guys the best line from the Los Angeles Times this weekend.
0:27.0	Please, please.
0:28.0	With the certainty that the incoming Democratic House majority will go after his tax returns and investigate his actions
0:34.2	and the likelihood of additional indictments by Special Counsel Robert S. Miller the third,
0:38.5	Trump has retreated into a cocoon of bitterness and resentment according to multiple administrations.
0:45.0	So my question is did they all use that exact language?
0:50.0	Did they like...
0:51.0	Can you confirm the president has retreated
0:53.8	into his bitterness?
0:54.9	Oh, yes, the cocoon, yeah, for sure.
0:58.3	You mean that one?
0:59.0	Yes, I can confirm that.
1:01.1	It's actually a room in the white house.
1:03.0	Not for retribution.
1:05.0	Because it's government, there's an acronym, it's the Corps.
1:08.0	But really, haven't we each retreated into our own?
1:12.6	I mean, I can't,
1:14.7	Can you blame him after the week he's had?
1:16.9	I mean, that sounds like a pretty nice place to me.
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