Unwise alliances or practical deal making
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2017
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
President Trump has suddenly struck up a cross-party alliance with leading Congressional Democrats. Outraged Republicans want to know: is he playing the Democrats or are the Democrats playing him?
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI, Public Radio International, this is To the Point. |
| 0:08.0 | Is the president negotiating a new deal? |
| 0:14.6 | Hello again, I'm Orin Alney, and this is To the Point. |
| 0:17.6 | At a moment of historic division, President Trump told reporters yesterday the people of the |
| 0:21.9 | United States want to see coming together. Specifically, he's coming together with Democrats on Capitol |
| 0:27.2 | Hill, stepping over Republican leadership in the House and the Senate. As always with this president, |
| 0:32.9 | the question is, how long will it last? But one Trump biographer says his love bombs have always had |
| 0:39.1 | fallout. What's in store for Obamacare, tax cuts, the border wall, and next year's midterm |
| 0:44.9 | elections. Later on today's talking point, opening weekend for the NFL, police abuse, |
| 0:50.7 | and patriotism. First, here's the news. |
| 1:01.7 | Music abuse and patriotism. First, here's the news. Check out KCRW's All News Channel News 24, programming from KCRW, NPRW, NPR, the BBC, |
| 1:08.5 | and more 24 hours a day. Go to KCRW.com slash News 24, or you can listen on KCRW's app. |
| 1:22.3 | Support for To The Point comes from the members of KCRW and from the Public Radio International Program Fund. |
| 1:29.1 | Hello again, Mormon. I'll knee back with To the Point. President Trump has suddenly truck up a cross-party alliance with leading congressional Democrats. Outraged Republicans want to know, is he playing the Democrats or are the Democrats playing him? |
| 1:41.3 | We'll talk about that. On our talking point later, Seattle Seahawks' defensive end, |
| 1:45.6 | Michael Bennett, says once again, he won't stand for the Star-Spangled Banner after police |
| 1:50.1 | pointed a gun at his head in Las Vegas. Unlike 49ers, former quarterback Colin Copernick, |
| 1:55.5 | at least Bennett is working. First, this news update, as Florida hunkers down for Hurricane Irma, |
| 2:00.6 | another reminder of the power of nature. |
| 2:03.6 | Mexico's most powerful earthquake in decades killed at least 34 people last night. |
| 2:08.6 | At magnitude 8.1, it triggered alerts as far away as Southeast Asia. |
| 2:15.1 | Dave Graham is Chief Mexico correspondent for Reuters. Dave, good to have you with us. |
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