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The Bill Press Pod

Tom LoBianco & Josh Lederman (1.17.17)

The Bill Press Pod

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Fox News, Hillary Clinton, Young Turks, Donald Trump, Jamie Benson, Progressive, News, Bernie Sanders, Progressive Talk, Liberal, Cnn, Msnbc, Stephanie Miller, Bill Press, Thom Hartmann

4.7601 Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2017

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Bill Press welcomes Tom LoBianco, Josh Lederman, & Jason Dick to discuss the 40+ Democrats that plan to skip the inauguration, the divide within the Democratic party, the future of the White House press corps, & Donald Trump's 'rigged' approval numbers - all the big highlights from this Tuesday edition of the Bill Press Show! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

This is Bill Press and Friends on the District Productive Network.

0:11.9

One consequence of Donald Trump's attack on John Lewis is that the latest count that we've seen here is 38 Democrats, congressional Democrats who now say they will not be there on Friday. Donald Trump at noon may be sworn in, but they are not going to be in the crowd. They'll not even show up, may not even be in Washington. And, of course, they are led by John Lewis himself.

0:41.8

So another question for you.

0:43.4

Are they doing the right thing?

0:46.3

Send your comments on Twitter.

0:47.7

At BP Show.

0:48.8

I got to tell you, my answer, absolutely doing the right thing.

0:52.2

Should they show up?

0:53.3

Hell, no, they should not show up.

0:56.1

And it's interesting now that some of them, and I would be one of these, I wouldn't show

1:01.2

if I remember Congress. Well, it started out with people who just say, look, I disagree with

1:06.8

what Donald Trump has said. I disagree with what he wants to do.

1:13.1

I don't think he's fit to be president.

1:15.7

So it's not something I want to celebrate.

1:18.9

Well, that changed once he attacked John Lewis,

1:22.0

and John Lewis said he was not going to the inauguration.

1:26.7

Now it has really become, I think, a question of taking sides.

1:31.1

Who do you stand with? Do you stand on Friday with Donald Trump or do you stand with John Lewis? Hey, boys and girls, that's a no-brainer. That's a

1:41.4

no-brainer for, I think, for any Democrat in Congress.

1:45.7

And some of the brave ones have stood up, good friends of ours, John Yarmouth from Kentucky

1:50.7

saying it wasn't an easy decision, but he's making the right one.

1:54.1

It's a tough decision to actually say you're boycotting the inauguration.

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