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The New Abnormal

Trump May Tank U.S. Economy Faster Than Any Other President

The New Abnormal

The Daily Beast

News & Politics

4.67.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

The New Abnormal hosts Andy Levy and Danielle Moodie are not confident

about Trump’s economy. Then, ProPublica investigative reporter, Mica Rosenberg, joins us to

break down a recent piece, “ICE Enforcement Official Tapped to Lead Unaccompanied Migrant

Children Office, Triggering Alarms.” Then journalist and author, Eoin Higgins is here to tell us

about his new book, “Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices on

the Left.”



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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Andy Levy, former Fox News and CNN-HLN guy and current cable news conscientious objector.

0:06.1

I'm a former libertarian who now sits pretty comfortably on the left.

0:09.6

Hi, I'm Danielle Moody, former educator and recovering lobbyist.

0:13.4

But today, I'm an unapologetic, woke commentator on America's threats to democracy.

0:18.5

And I'm producer Jesse Cannon, and I'm here to make sure things don't go too far off the rails. We're here to have fun, smart conversations with some of

0:25.6

the most knowledgeable and entertaining people in politics, media, and beyond. Our goal is to try

0:30.8

and make sense of our current crazy world, our new abnormal, and hopefully even make you laugh

0:36.3

through the tears. What an excellent show we have today.

0:39.6

ProPublica investigative reporter Micah Rosenberg joins us to break down a recent piece,

0:44.4

ICE enforcement official tapped to lead unaccompanied migrant children office, triggering alarms.

0:50.2

Then journalist and author Owen Higgins is here to tell us about his new book,

0:53.8

Owned, How Tech Billionaires on the Right bought the loudest voices on the left.

0:57.7

But first, let's have some fun.

1:00.9

So we're being booed while we're being cooed, it feels like, here.

1:09.9

We've got basically a coup going on in Washington, D.C., which we're going to get to some of that stuff in a bit.

1:15.6

But let's start with the tariffs that were announced over the weekend.

1:19.6

And when I say we're being booed, what I mean is that pretty much every sporting event that took place in Canada over the weekend where the

1:29.3

American National Anthem was played, hockey, basketball, our national anthem got booed by the

1:35.7

Canadians. And I guess it pains me to say this as an American, but I'm with them. Yeah. These tariffs are

1:42.7

insane. They have been immediately responded to in kind by Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau and by some of the provinces in Canada.

1:54.1

And yeah, go ahead, Daniel.

1:56.1

Here's what I will say.

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