The Young Turks 01.19.18: Opioid Crisis, Carl Higbie, and Tom Cotton

The Young Turks

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🗓️ 20 January 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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A portion of our Young Turks Main Show from January 19th, 2018. For more go to http://www.tytnetwork.com/join.

Hour 1:

Donald Trump is planning to slash the budget of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, in what marks his administration’s second attempt to gut the top office responsible for coordinating the federal response to the opioid crisis. The plan would shift the office’s two main grant programs, the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas grant and the Drug Free Communities Act, to the Justice and Health and Human Services departments.

Hour 2:

Cenk, Ana, & Jayde Lovell. Trump appointee, Carl Higbie, resigns over racist comments he made one his radio show in 2013 & 2014--talks about Black people & their “lax” morality. Carl also talks about not liking Muslim people. Senator Tom Cotton sending out “seize and desist” letters to stop trying to contact Tom Cotton.

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0:21.8	Just as delayed is just as denied, but power panel delayed is not power panel denied. Drop it.
0:40.7	All right. Jankyger. John Ireland. Oh no, here comes Abby Mourney off the top rope.
0:55.4	What's going on? Happy good to have you here. Good to be here. All right, Rock and Roll.
0:59.8	I've got a lot of story for you guys. I'm going to read two quick tweets for you.
1:03.9	I do have a read slow tweets. They're always quick tweets.
1:06.9	Davey M says Republicans talk as if Puerto Rico is some foreign country.
1:11.2	If you ask them, I bet you if you're pulled them.
1:14.9	I think Americans at large, 13% would say that.
1:20.0	Higher. Okay. Anyway, Sarah Max says this is the second media poll that emits Senator Sanders.
1:27.2	Sounds like there's a new strategy for marginalizing him by pretending he doesn't matter.
1:31.5	Although to be fair, at least in what I saw, none of the other likely more establishment candidates
1:36.4	were on there either other than I guess Biden, but you didn't have any of the others.
1:39.9	You didn't have Jill Brand or Booker.
1:41.3	No, I didn't see them. Com Liars.
1:42.8	No, okay. Got you. I don't know if you saw this book or yelled at people earlier.
1:46.2	I did see them. Okay. Man splined.
1:50.8	So they claim. All right. So we got a lot more stories for you guys. So John, take it away.
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