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The Muckrake Political Podcast

The Incredible Incompetency Of Our Government

The Muckrake Political Podcast

CLNS Media Network

News, Politics

4.6530 Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2020

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

Co-hosts Jared Yates Sexton and Nick Hauselman discuss a Fourth of July unlike any other, featuring somber reflection of America's vices, skyrocketing coronavirus cases, and Donald Trump, an American president, going full-bore white supremacist as his reelection campaign stumbles.   Also, in an exclusive interview, security expert Josh Berthume joins for an interview about his warning "7 Hours in November" and explains his concerns about the dangers facing America in the upcoming presidential election.

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0:00.0

We are at a moment where our democracy is at stake, where our leadership role in the world is at stake,

0:08.0

where the lives of tens of thousands of Americans are on the line, lost to incompetence and callous leadership that could care less.

0:17.0

We've got to change that.

0:19.0

Let me also say a word to those in the media who falsely and consistently label their opponents

0:30.0

as racists who condemn patriotic citizens who offer a clear and truthful defense of American unity.

0:43.7

That's what our people are doing.

0:46.6

We want a clear and faithful defense of American history.

0:53.1

And we want unity.

0:57.0

Hey everybody, welcome to the Muckrake podcast. I'm your co-host, Jared Yates-Saxton. As always, I'm joined here by my co-host, Nick Houselman. We have a full episode today. We're going to welcome on Josh Berthum, later on, who is a Truman Project National Security Fellow.

1:13.8

We're going to talk about his article 7 hours in November.

1:17.6

His article that talks about how maybe the most dangerous 7 hours in American history

1:23.3

are going to be between the closing of Eastern polls on Election Day and 2 a.m.

1:29.1

where, you know, just democracy might fall apart completely.

1:33.0

So that'll be a conversation at the end of the podcast.

1:35.3

Stick around for that.

1:36.2

In the meantime, Nick, we celebrated 4th of July, Independence Day, the birth of our country.

1:42.6

And Donald Trump, for his-election campaign has gone

1:47.5

completely racist, white supremacist, not even hiding it anymore. How are you feeling right now

1:55.1

about the president of the United States just being a unrepentant white supremacist?

2:00.7

Well, I had dismissed the notion that he simply has

2:04.2

given up on winning re-election. There have been some reports about that. Maybe like they're just

2:08.7

kind of going to punt this whole thing. It doesn't sound crazy. It sounds crazy. But then you listen to

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