Trump Immunity, Border Bill, Economic Surge, Zuck on the Hill

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🗓️ 6 February 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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A federal appeals court ruled that Trump does not have presidential immunity in the January 6 case. This ruling sets the stage for a spring court date. Isaac Saul from Tangle joins Ravi to discuss what happens next, and if the Supreme Court will take up the case. On Sunday, Senate negotiators released the text of their $118 billion bill aimed at improving security on the U.S.-Mexico border while providing funding for Ukraine and Israel. Ravi and Isaac dissect what’s in the bill, the winners and losers, and how politics may tank this latest effort. In the fourth quarter of 2023, the U.S. economy grew more rapidly than expected while inflation slowed. Will this positive economic news impact Biden's chances at reelection? Finally, Congress recently grilled the heads of Meta, TikTok, Snap, Discord, and X in a heated Judiciary Committee hearing over the threats of social media and child exploitation. Was it all a stunt or will there be real change that comes out of this latest hearing? Timestamps: Trump Immunity - 00:01 Border Bill - 13:25 Economic Surge - 28:24 Zuck on the Hill - 40:15 Leave us a voicemail with your thoughts on the show! 321-200-0570 Subscribe to our feed on Spotify: http://bitly.ws/zC9K Subscribe to our Substack: https://thelostdebate.substack.com/ Follow The Branch on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebranchmedia/ Follow The Branch on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thebranchmedia Follow The Branch on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thebranchmedia The Branch website: http://thebranchmedia.org/ Lost Debate is also available on the following platforms: Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-lost-debate/id1591300785 Google: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vTERJNTc1ODE3Mzk3Nw iHeart: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-the-lost-debate-88330217/ Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/752ca262-2801-466d-9654-2024de72bd1f/the-lost-debate

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0:00.0	Welcome to The Lost Debata Show for Politically Ecclectics.
0:03.2	I'm Ravi Gupta, and we're welcoming back our friend Isaac Saul from Tangle.
0:07.5	If you have not yet, please subscribe to his newsletter at readatangle.com.
0:13.0	And as I've mentioned before, there's a lot more going on there than just the newsletter.
0:17.1	Isaac, a lot of news to talk about today. How are you doing?
0:20.3	I'm doing well. Yeah, it's crazy. We were about to hop on and we get this Trump immunity thing.
0:25.3	And also this ruling in Michigan, this mom in Michigan just got convicted of manslaughter charges in the case.
0:33.9	Well, I didn't even see that. Have you done your Isaac treatment on that case?
0:37.8	Because it's funny, when I was reading a little bit about it last week, I thought of it as a perfect topic for us because my instinct, before I knew anything, was to react based on the headline.
0:48.4	I feel like it's the perfect thing where people form opinions without doing a lot of work on like, well, what actually were the facts and what
0:56.7	should the law be? Have you done your sort of nuanced sort of review of this situation yet?
1:02.1	We actually haven't. We've been waiting for this. So I'm super excited to jump in. I would say
1:08.6	there are some wrinkles to it. I mean, first of all, I am, I've said before
1:14.0	in the past writing about a lot of the mass shooting stuff that happens in the U.S. that I fundamentally
1:19.4	believe there is kind of this blame pyramid and that, you know, at the top is the person who
1:25.9	decides to inflict an act of mass violence on people. And kind of
1:30.2	right underneath that is the family and friends in the social circle. Because in almost every story,
1:36.7	there are always all these signs. There are people who had opportunities to warn folks to go to
1:42.9	law enforcement, whatever. And like nearly every story has
1:47.0	that. And so I've written a lot about that. And now we have this case where there's this mom who,
1:53.1	you know, my understanding is she had some involvement in getting in the gun. There were things on
1:57.8	like the day of the shooting that were kind of clear red flags.
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