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The Bill Press Pod

Trump's 77-Minute Disaster of a Press Conference (2.17.17)

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Fox News, Hillary Clinton, Young Turks, Donald Trump, Jamie Benson, Progressive, News, Bernie Sanders, Progressive Talk, Liberal, Cnn, Msnbc, Stephanie Miller, Bill Press, Thom Hartmann

4.7601 Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2017

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Bill Press is out so executive producer Peter Ogburn is filling in. He welcomes Ali Watkins, Matt Laslo, & Laura Bassett to discuss Trump's casual racism in the face of a black reporter at his press conference, the latest on the United States' relationship with Russia, Trump's in-person fact check, & the surge of women jumping into politics - all the big highlights from this Friday edition of the Bill Press Show! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

This is Bill Press and Friends on the district productive network.

0:12.0

There is no denying the biggest story of the day, and that is the press conference that happened yesterday with Donald Trump.

0:21.2

Now, it was supposed to start at noon.

0:22.8

It started at one.

0:24.4

It was supposed to be a press conference where he talked about his new labor secretary that he's nominating, Secretary Acosta, which he did for about five minutes. And then he went completely uncorked.

0:45.9

He went, it was the craziest thing I've ever seen. Look, I've said this for a while. I've been in radio, political news, whatever,

0:58.0

for almost 20 years, 19 years. Next year will be 20 years covering this stuff. The thing I saw

1:05.6

yesterday, it's not just like, oh, this is wild.

1:12.1

This is really different.

1:13.5

It's terrifying.

1:15.7

He is not a well man.

1:21.8

And anybody who thinks that he is, you're wrong.

1:23.9

I saw a couple of people yesterday.

1:29.6

Like, I've started reading some into some of the Republicans who are now like fully on board with Trump, right? So a lot of these guys are never Trumpers. Used to be

1:35.6

never Trumpers who now that he's a winner have gotten fully on the Trump train. And also somebody

1:41.8

going like, oh, you know the, you know, this is just the way that people talk.

1:46.8

People, they're just not used to seeing someone straight talk like this.

1:50.1

Like, this is how, like, when guys knock off from the factory, they go out for beers, this is just how they talk.

1:56.0

No, it's not.

1:58.2

No, it's not.

1:59.7

And also shows just how stupid some of these DC Republicans, these inside

2:05.2

the Beltway political dorks, think that real America talk. Look, my dad ran a contracting

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