The Tabloidization of America
Beg to Differ with Mona Charen
The Bulwark
4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2024
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Damon: Anxious Parents Are the Ones Who Need Help (NYT)
Patrick: Famed photographer quits Ford board over Liz Cheney snub (Politico)
Linda: A Region Reordered by Autocracy and Democracy (Freedom House)
Mona: Cass review: Health secretary criticises gender care 'culture of secrecy' (BBC)
Bill: High interest rates, rising inflation: The economy still isn’t normal (WaPo)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Beg to Beg to Differ, the Bullworks weekly roundtable discussion featuring civil |
| 0:14.3 | conversation across the political spectrum. We range from center left to |
| 0:18.5 | center right. I'm Mona Charon, policy editor of the Bullwork and syndicated columnist and I'm joined by our regulars Bill Galston of the Wall Street Journal and the Brookings Institution, |
| 0:29.4 | Damon Linker, who writes the sub-stack newsletter, Notes from the Middle Ground, |
| 0:33.4 | and Linda Chavez of the Niskanin Center. |
| 0:37.2 | Our special guest this week is Patrick Fry, |
| 0:40.8 | who writes the Sub-Stak Paterico has been a long time a blogger and is also a deputy |
| 0:48.0 | district attorney in Los Angeles. He is not going to join us on video because of problems with criminals, which I'm |
| 0:55.9 | sure everybody can understand, but we are delighted to have his voice with us. So welcome one and all. All right, we are headed into the start of Donald |
| 1:08.7 | Trump's first and possibly only criminal trial that will be held before the 2024 election and that will |
| 1:16.6 | start on Monday. |
| 1:18.6 | It is the case in Manhattan regarding falsification of business records and or what some people call the Hush Money case, Stormy Daniels. |
| 1:30.0 | So, Patrick, a lot of people think that this is the weakest of all the cases against |
| 1:37.0 | Trump. So I'd like to know whether you agree with that and beyond that whether you think the weakness of the case has been overstated I've |
| 1:46.6 | read you on this yes thanks for having me I should say at the outset and so have been identified as a deputy DA that I'm |
| 1:54.8 | obviously not speaking on behalf of my office that's something they required me to |
| 1:58.5 | say of course I don't know that I would say the weakest but it's the least significant of the four cases. |
| 2:06.6 | I think that's kind of obvious when you look at what's at issue with the other three. |
| 2:12.1 | But given that, I'm used to hearing people saying that this is clearly |
| 2:18.0 | a political hit job and I disagree with that. I think that this is a significant case in what's being alleged. |
| 2:27.4 | I think the best way to sum that up is to just quote the judge who has told the parties how he's going to describe what |
| 2:38.8 | the case is about to the jury and what he says is quote the allegations are in substance that |
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