Trump Isn't Draining the Swamp, He's Filling it With His Own Alligators, Perez Says
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🗓️ 7 November 2017
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Thomas Edward Perez, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, discusses today's elections and says President Trump is filling the swamp with his own alligators. Prior to that, Ted Alden, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, says the U.S. is a reasonably low-taxed country. Ralph Northam, the lieutenant governor of the state of Virginia, says Trump has released detrimental policies in Washington. Finally, Stephen Kotkin, a professor of history and international affairs at Princeton University, says Russia is at a weak point right now.
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| 0:00.0 | Osage County, Oklahoma is getting a lot of attention right now. |
| 0:04.4 | It's the setting of Martin Scorsese's latest film, |
| 0:07.8 | Killers of the Flower Moon. |
| 0:10.0 | The movies based on a book about the 1920s Osage murders, |
| 0:14.1 | when white men poured into Osage County |
| 0:16.4 | and killed Osage people for their oil wealth. |
| 0:20.1 | I'm Rachel Adams Heard, the host of InTrust, a podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Media. |
| 0:26.8 | For over a year I was reporting a different story about other ways white people got |
| 0:32.1 | Osage, land, land and wealth and how a prominent ranching family in Osage County became one of the biggest landowners here. |
| 0:40.0 | Their ranching empire was built on land that at the turn of the century was all owned by the Osage Nation. |
| 0:47.0 | So how did they get it? |
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| 1:28.0 | This is a lovely book, Failure to Adjust. |
| 1:35.0 | All you need to know is Sebastian Malibi and Michael Spence |
| 1:38.0 | said shut up and read it. |
| 1:39.0 | That's a pretty good group. |
| 1:40.0 | Mr Ratner here as well, Stephen Rat weighing in how Americans got left behind in the |
| 1:46.0 | global economy it is a heartbreaking book at Ted Alden takes it forward with the |
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