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🗓️ 21 July 2018
⏱️ 60 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome to the politics, guys, a place for a bipartisan, rational, and civil debate on American politics and policy. |
0:06.3 | I'm Michael Baranowski, a political scientist at North Kentucky University. With me today is my regular |
0:11.4 | co-host, Cleveland Area Attorney and Republican Factotum Jay Carson. Good morning. Hey, Jay, how are you doing? |
0:19.2 | I'm good. I had a nice vacation. Tan, rested and ready. |
0:24.3 | Tan rested and ready as they as your, as your Nixon's, uh, t-shirt used to say. Yeah, back in a day, |
0:29.1 | I did have one of those shirts. Got another lifetime. Well, it is, uh, of course, you came back at a |
0:34.3 | great time for a huge story, which obviously will open with this week, |
0:39.2 | the story that dominated the news, certainly. |
0:42.1 | And that, of course, is the summit between Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Finland. |
0:48.7 | And, you know, by almost all accounts, I'd say, you could say it was at best a weak performance by President Trump, who I would |
0:57.1 | say most people I think would say came off as far less powerful and commanding than he did during, |
1:03.5 | say, the NATO summit the week before. And most people seem to agree. I certainly do that. |
1:08.7 | The low point was during that post-summit joint press |
1:12.3 | conference with Putin, where President Trump seemed to say that he trusted Putin's denials of Russian |
1:18.3 | tampering in the 2016 elections more than he did the assessment of the U.S. intelligence community, |
1:24.6 | which, of course, has concluded that Russia absolutely did interfere |
1:28.6 | with our 2016 elections. Now, of course, after that, the White House... |
1:33.8 | I differ with a little bit on what we talk about about what the Russians did and didn't |
1:38.4 | didn't do. But to your point, everything else, yeah, absolutely. Okay. And I think to call that |
1:43.4 | a low point is to sort of, |
1:47.3 | that's sort of underselling it. Okay. Well, yeah, I was giving it the most generous spin, |
1:54.7 | but yeah, we'll get into that in a minute because you posted a great article on the Facebook, |
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