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The Politics Guys

Trump-Putin Summit, Endangered Species Act, EU Fines Google, Judicial Nominations

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

Politics, News

4.5772 Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2018

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

This week, Mike and Jay open the show with a discussion of the summit between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Finland. They agree that President Trump’s performance was bizarre and awful. Mike says this, combined with everything else we’ve seen regarding Trump and Russia, is enough to convince him that President Trump is either compromised by Russia or believes he may be compromised, which amounts to the same thing in real terms. After that, the Guys discuss new rules that would make major, industry-friendly changes to the Endangered Species Act. Mike says that he’s all in favor of streamlining environmental approvals for industry, but not at the cost of endangering and destroying biodiversity. Jay has a more positive take on the proposed rules, believing they’re a much-needed corrective to a policy that’s unnecessarily hampered economic growth. Next is a look at the European Union’s latest fine against Google for engaging in anticompetitive practices. Mike says that ensuring competitive markets  is a key role of government, and that the EU is doing a better job of it then the US is doing. Jay is also all for competitive markets, but thinks that the EU’s position is overreach and that consumers have more options than EU regulators seems to believe. Finally, the Guys talk about the withdrawn nomination of Ryan Bounds to serve on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. Mike finds it disappointing that Bounds even got to this point, as both of his home-state senators returned negative ‘Blue Slips’ which traditionally meant that the nomination would be quashed. He argues that the Blue Slip tradition is yet another casualty of our hyper-partisan environment. Jay is less sad to see the Blue Slip go, arguing that it’s no longer serving its intended purpose, but he agrees with Mike that making judicial nominations filibuster-proof has been a step in the wrong direction. What Mike and Jay are ReadingWhy I’m No Longer a Russiagate Skeptic Listener support helps make The Politics Guys possible. If you’re interested in supporting the show, go to politicsguys.com/support. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-politics-guys/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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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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