Trump Plays Politics With the Department of Justice
The Bill Press Pod
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4.7 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2018
⏱️ 113 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump again sets out to discredit his own Attorney General and suggests that his role should be to help protect Republicans in the coming midterms. How can Jeff Sessions survive? Will he? Plus, Rudy Giuliani admits that the Trump team will try to squash the findings of Robert Mueller. Kaili Joy Gray from Shareblue, Chris Cadelago from Politico and Andrew Prokop from Vox are all in studio to discuss!
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| 1:13.1 | Can Democrats stop him? |
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| 1:18.0 | It is a great big Tuesday, September 4th, the day after Labor Day. |
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| 1:58.3 | Yes, indeed, the Brett Kavanaugh hearings open today in the Senate Judiciary Committee, |
| 2:03.6 | where Democrats will be raising the issues, certainly, of health care and reproductive rights |
| 2:11.9 | and presidential power in an uphill battle to stop that nomination. |
| 2:18.1 | Meanwhile, Robert Mueller scores yet another cooperative witness in a former lobbyist, |
| 2:25.2 | well, actually a lobbyist who may soon be a former lobbyist, |
| 2:29.7 | Sam Patton, who says, yes, indeed, he was using his influence to snare tickets to the Trump |
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