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Trading Meals on Wheels for Mar-a-Lago (3.17.17)

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

4.7601 Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2017

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Bill Press is out so executive producer Peter Ogburn is filling in. He welcomes Harry Stein, Tim Mak, & Joel Payne to discuss Mick Mulvaney's heartless defense of Donald Trump's disastrous budget, how Republicans will respond to the budget, Sean Spicer's belief there's "more to come" on the wiretapping claims, & what Democrats can to do fight the budget and the GOP health care plan - all the big highlights from this Friday 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.

0:12.2

Yesterday, oh God. Jamie, we're in delay, right?

0:17.0

Because there's a good chance that I will say something that I should not say.

0:21.0

Yes, sir.

0:21.9

I swear to God, this administration drives me up the wall.

0:30.9

The White House press briefing yesterday had Sean Spicer come out and he danced around the wiretapping

0:40.7

stuff and he talked a little bit more about sort of where this whole wiretaping thing

0:47.3

came from.

0:48.3

But look, I really do believe that the whole wiretaping thing is a total distraction.

0:53.3

And I don't necessarily think that Trump has this Machiavellian scheme to take attention

0:59.0

away from other things by just throwing this wiretapping bomb out there.

1:03.0

But I do think it's a distraction from what's really going on.

1:06.0

Here is what's happening in Washington, D.C.

1:10.0

Donald Trump has unveiled his budget.

1:16.1

And you'll hear a lot of people on TV and a lot of dummy-dums on CNN saying,

1:26.1

oh, well, it really doesn't matter what the president puts out as a budget

1:29.7

because Congress really makes the budget.

1:32.5

And there's some truth to that where you, Congress really is the one that marks up this

1:36.6

budget and turns it into what it is.

1:38.2

But this is where we get to see exactly what the White House thinks is important.

1:49.1

This is where we get to see what the White House wants their agenda to be.

1:55.7

This is where the rubber meets the road.

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