Trump Manages To Find New Ways to Debase the Presidency
The Bill Press Pod
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4.7 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2019
⏱️ 112 minutes
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In a Rose Garden event yesterday, Donald Trump essentially shut down ANY bipartisan efforts to get anything done until the investigations into him cease. It's going to be a looooong several months until we throw him out of the White House in 2020.
We talk to Rep John Yarmuth, Rep Mark Pocan and Chairman of the DNC Tom Perez!
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| 1:27.8 | How's that working out? Whoa, blew up yesterday, that's for sure. What do you say, folks? Can you believe it? It's a Thursday. May 23rd. Thursday, May 23rd, 2019, the Bill Press show. |
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| 1:36.2 | We'll be romping through the news of the day with the help of some great guests today, |
| 1:41.7 | two leading members of the Democratic, two members of the Democratic leadership in the House, |
| 1:45.3 | Congressman John Yarmouth, chair of the Budget Committee, |
| 1:52.9 | and Congressman Mark Pocan, who is co-chair of the Progressive Caucus, John Yarmouth from Kentucky, |
| 1:58.8 | of course, Mark Pocan from Wisconsin, and then the chair of the Democratic National Committee, |
| 2:01.7 | Tom Perez, here again as well. |
| 2:06.1 | So all of that coming up on a day, we've never seen a day like this. |
| 2:13.3 | I don't think ever in Washington, where Donald Trump threw a little temper tantrum, |
| 2:21.6 | stormed out into the Rose Garden, stalked out of a meeting with Nancy Pelosi, just like he stalked out of a meeting with Kim Jong-un. |
| 2:35.4 | This is the old real estate tycoon trying to up to his old tricks, stormed into the Rose Garden for a very much like a campaign rally and lit into members of the media, into Nancy Pelosi, into Chuck Schumer, |
| 2:43.3 | into Congress in general, and it looks like the whole thing fell apart and there's no way to put Humpty Dumpty back together. That's what we'll be talking about for the next couple of hours |
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