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The Damage Report with John Iadarola

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News, Government, Politics

4.7 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Court documents reveal the FBI thwarted a plot to violently overthrow the government and kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. At last night’s VP debate, Mike Pence evaded questions on a peaceful transfer of power, climate change, and abortion rights. Kamala Harris defended fracking despite previously supporting a ban. On CNN, Rick Santorum interrupted Gloria Borger as she tried to discuss Pence interrupting during the debate. Donald Trump says he won’t participate in the next debate if it’s virtual. Parents and other victims of the school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High school are being asked to turn over their psychiatric records as part of a lawsuit against the Broward school district. Co-Host: Yasmin Khan Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome everyone to another episode of The Damage Report in this big abandoned echoey building,
0:10.3	a day of breaking news, scary news, honestly, although thankfully it could have ended a lot worse
0:18.2	and we'll get to that very soon. I'm very excited though, also today to be joined once again on
0:24.4	the program by writer and vlogger, Yasmin Ali Akhan. Welcome back to the show.
0:29.4	Hi John, good to be back. I'm very excited to be here.
0:33.0	Good to have you here. Very excited to have you here to respond to that VP debate last night.
0:38.2	I know that you watched that. So apologies for you having to do that, but we have a few different
0:44.4	segments of that that I know we're going to want to respond to. So I'm glad to have you here.
0:48.9	Yeah, yeah, I did watch the debate. I actually, I didn't watch the presidential debate,
0:53.8	and I was very intentional and very deliberate. I did a whole run down on why I didn't watch it,
0:58.2	but I did watch the VP debate and it was painful. It sucks. But we got to talk about it.
1:04.5	We do. I just want to briefly mention one other thing because you're located in Texas right now.
1:09.0	You live in Texas, correct? I do, yes. So I used to live in Houston. Yes, so I used to live in Austin,
1:15.5	and I just want to say I know we can't devote a lot of time to it, but the voter suppression that
1:20.3	is going on in Texas right now is insane. I don't know if you saw the video of the line of cars waiting
1:26.0	to drop off their ballots at the one collection spot in Harris County. Did you see that?
1:30.9	I didn't see the video, but I've been talking about this a lot lately because it is a really big
1:35.3	problem. Governor Abbott of Texas, he basically, well, he gave us more early voting dates, right?
1:44.6	So we extended our early voting period to start October 13th, so next week. And the Texas GOP,
1:50.6	they sued him. They took him to the Texas Supreme Court for doing that. So there was no reason for
1:55.4	them to do that besides that they wanted to suppress more votes. Additionally, what they did was
2:02.6	we had all these ballot boxes set up because the Democrats were saying, if you're worried about COVID,
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