Trump Can Read Numbers
In The Thick
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🗓️ 23 March 2018
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Maria and Julio catch up on this week's news waterfall: President Trump's last-minute flip-flop on DACA and the spending bill, the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal, why Trump is mad about a leaky White House and Sunday's tragic Sacramento police shooting of an unarmed black man, Stephon Clark.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey I'm Marianne Hosa and I'm Holy Oracle-Lue de la. |
| 0:04.0 | Welcome to In The Thick, you know, we thought we had a certain show kind of planned out and then Friday morning |
| 0:08.6 | happened. |
| 0:09.6 | Yes. |
| 0:10.6 | Because on Thursday Congress passed a 1.3 trillion dollar spending bill to avoid another government shutdown. |
| 0:18.0 | It was expected to be signed off by Trump. |
| 0:21.0 | But then he tweeted on Friday morning that he was considering vetoing |
| 0:24.9 | the spending bill because DACA recipients were, quote, totally abandoned by the Democrats. |
| 0:30.6 | I never thought I would say this, the president was right, also because he wanted more funding for his border wall. |
| 0:37.0 | Friday afternoon, the White House announced that he would sign the spending bill and then came this really weird |
| 0:46.0 | news conference where we all learned that the president knows how to read numbers. |
| 0:51.2 | 18 E.F super hornet aircraft fighter jets. |
| 0:56.3 | Oh my God he can read numbers please. |
| 1:00.0 | P a the Poseidon's incredible stuff. |
| 1:04.4 | 1.1 billion. |
| 1:07.4 | At the press conference he said, I'm gonna sign it, |
| 1:09.3 | but let me say something about DACA and the Democrats. DACA recipients have been treated extremely badly by the Democrats. |
| 1:17.0 | We wanted to include DACA in this bill. |
| 1:20.0 | The Democrats would not do it. |
| 1:23.0 | But you make a point about DACA, like you are agreeing with President Trump. |
| 1:27.0 | Why are you agreeing with what he said? |
| 1:29.0 | So my critique of the Democratic Party, I think is right on, on which is what do you stand for? |
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