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THE OFFICIAL MEA CULPA WITH MICHAEL COHEN ARCHIVE

The GOP Puts Trump in the Corner + A Conversation with Bakari Sellers

THE OFFICIAL MEA CULPA WITH MICHAEL COHEN ARCHIVE

Audio Up Media

Politics, News

4.88.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2022

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Mea Culpa welcomes back, Bakari Sellers, a CNN political commentator who made history as the youngest-ever member of the South Carolina State legislature at the age of just twenty-two. Sellers has been named one of the nation's most influential African Americans and became a New York Times best-selling author with his memoir, “My Vanishing Country”. Sellers is known for his sharp political and social analysis informed by his first-hand experience both inside the Democratic Party and as a practicing lawyer and lobbyist. Sellers has tirelessly worked on progressive policies that address issues ranging from education and poverty to preventing domestic violence and childhood obesity. He is seen as one of the rising stars in politics and a sought-after public speaker, who has addressed hundreds of organizations including the NAACP, and the 2008 Democratic National Convention. Michael and Bakari discuss, antisemitism, racism, the new GOP majority in the house, and the direction of the leadership in the Democratic party.

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0:00.0

This is Michael Cohen and you're listening to the Mayer called the podcast.

0:26.7

So you're either a Catholic or you're a Jew. You're either a Catholic, you're with the Jews.

0:31.8

That's how it is. That's the way the world is. So anyway, that's that. And when our

0:37.3

Catholics are going to start asserting their control, I want Catholics to run this country,

0:43.0

not Jews. I want this country to be run by Catholics, not Jews. And I don't think that's

0:48.6

controversial.

0:49.6

Last night, Trump issued his like 400th statement attempting to cover his R&J. So ever so

0:54.9

slightly trying to distance himself from this white supremacist Nick Fuentes. Trump said

1:00.4

that if Fuentes had expressed his views at the dinner, it wouldn't have been accepted.

1:05.5

And if he'd known about them, the dinner wouldn't have happened in the first place. Which,

1:09.6

okay, that makes sense. What about Kanye? He expressed his anti-Semitic views well ahead

1:14.3

of the dinner. Repeatedly. Did you not see that?

1:17.4

As volcanoes erupt in Hawaii and went to Stormsbeard down on parts of the South in Midwest,

1:23.3

they found changes in the weather and the planet in general are no longer the exception. They

1:28.5

are the rule. And that's a lot to deal with. Americans attired, was stressed out. And

1:34.7

if the midterms are any indication, there's been a clear shift away from the Maga-Shit Show

1:40.1

back to something more akin to sanity. In the grand scheme of things, most of us would

1:45.4

rather fight climate change than the culture wars. Most of us would rather fight Nazis

1:51.0

than have dinner with them. And most of us average Americans are simply done with the

1:56.1

mess at Mar-Ralardo and moving on.

2:23.0

I'm pleased to report that it looks like Democrats have a renewed commitment to we the people.

2:29.5

After narrowly losing the house in the midterms, Democrats have not wasted any time making

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