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The Gist

The Unpopular Vote and a Few Justices

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2018

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

On The Gist, what a Trump tweet can teach us about wine. The latest school shootings have galvanized an already politically minded generation. Harvard's John Della Volpe studies the voting habits of millennials, and how they could swing election results in 2018 and beyond. In the Spiel, the Supreme Court's support for Trump's travel ban is what happens when our checks and balances fail. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:08.8

It's Tuesday, June 26th, 2018, from slated to the gist I'm Mike Pesca,

0:14.0

Politico reporting, I like when you put in the present tense, it's how the urgent.

0:18.4

But anyway, this son that happened on Friday, and what it was is that Mark Warner was at a speech

0:23.5

slash fundraiser thing at his home on it. Martha's vineyard, and he said to the crowd,

0:28.3

give me one more glass of wine. I'll tell you stuff only Bob Mueller and I know.

0:33.3

If you think you've seen wild stuff so far buckle up, it's going to be a wild couple of months.

0:38.8

Another version of this joke would be something like, look, maybe it's just the 1987

0:46.0

re-sling rated as a 94 by wine spectator as a fruity rip and round beverage talking.

0:52.8

But how about that Bob Mueller boy? I tell you, if I had a dollar for every impropriety,

0:58.0

that guy investigated, I would not be donating it to the Trump Legal Defense Fund.

1:02.6

Look, it's Martha's vineyard. There is going to be some wine jokes made.

1:06.9

But Donald Trump never a fan of unifile humor or a drinker, pounced, tweet.

1:13.6

Why is Senator Mark Warner, Democrat Virginia? And let me pause right now to say thank you, Mr. President.

1:20.9

The D slash VA not only is it a useful orientation, it adheres to AP style.

1:27.1

The president tweets on, why is Senator Mark Warner perhaps in a near drunken state?

1:33.6

And I got to say, pausing again, that's not just a qualifier, that's a double qualifier.

1:38.7

He could have just said perhaps in a drunken state or asserted in a near drunken state if you wanted

1:43.9

to go close to the line of saying something he didn't know for sure, but the president did not want

1:48.8

to do that. So so far, this tweet is adhering to very high standards. Why is Senator Mark Warner

1:55.4

diverging you? Perhaps in a near drunken state, claiming he has information that only he and Bob

2:02.1

Mueller, the leader of the 13 angry Democrats on a witch hunt knows, isn't this highly illegal?

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