Trickle Down Now

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2017

⏱️ 29 minutes

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On The Gist, it seems that congressional investigators have nabbed a big fish: Jill Stein. Plus, New York Times columnist David Leonhardt explains why the Republicans absolutely had to pass the tax bill, even if polls suggest it could be an albatross around their necks during the midterms. Leonhardt authors the Times' absolutely essential Opinion Today newsletter. In the Spiel: Income inequality may not be the perfect descriptor for what ails us, but it's the best term we've got. And the Republican tax bill makes our inequality problem worse. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language by which we mean potty talk.
0:07.2	It's Wednesday, December 20th, 2017.
0:14.9	From slated to the gist, I'm Mike Pesca.
0:17.2	Still a little, uh, lingually challenged.
0:20.3	Gotta admit that, put that out right there.
0:22.6	Mary doesn't like when I say that.
0:24.3	The word lingu- if someone could be a linguist, you shouldn't get all jammed up about linguism.
0:29.8	It's okay.
0:30.8	I got the little thing going on still.
0:32.6	We're gonna power through because I've got big news.
0:35.8	Have everyone.
0:36.8	Don't worry about it.
0:37.8	Don't worry about the Russia thing.
0:39.7	It seems like Congress has nabbed the big fish, at least fingered the big fish.
0:46.5	And her name is Jill Stein.
0:48.1	Jill Freakin Stein.
0:49.1	Here's MSNBC.
0:50.1	Two Senate committees investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election are now
0:55.4	looking at the campaign of third party candidate Jill Stein.
1:00.0	Third party candidate.
1:01.6	That certainly elevates the green party, doesn't it?
1:03.6	Don't tell the libertarians they're the third party.
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