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Pod Save America

"We had plenty of ethical fun."

Pod Save America

Crooked Media

News, Politics

4.683.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2017

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Jon and Dan talk about Obama's farewell and Trump's press conference. Then, former Obama ethics czar Norm Eisen joins to talk about Trump's decision to retain ownership of his business empire. For a closed-captioned version of this episode, please visit crooked.com/podsaveamerica. For a transcript of this episode, please email [email protected] and include the name of the podcast.

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0:00.0

Welcome to PodSave America. I'm John Fabro. I'm Dan Fyfer. Dan, welcome to PodSave America.

0:15.2

Your first episode. I'm excited to be part of the Crooked Media Family.

0:19.5

Absolutely. Today on the pod we have Ambassador Norma Eisen who was the former Obama Special

0:26.2

Council for ethics in the White House. Norm kept us on a straight narrow when we were

0:31.4

in the White House. So we will be talking to Norm all about the press conference yesterday

0:35.3

in Trump's conflicts of interest and his attempts to rectify that situation, which I don't

0:41.6

think went very well. First before we get into it, we'll housekeeping. Thank you to everyone

0:48.3

who listened, who reached out, who rated us on iTunes for our first episode. PodSave America

0:54.3

currently right now is still number one in the iTunes store, which is thanks to all you guys.

0:58.6

So please keep giving us good ratings if you haven't already in the iTunes store. Telefriend,

1:03.5

there's still a lot of people who listen to us on keeping it 1600, who I see on Twitter,

1:07.6

who didn't know that we've moved over yet. So still trying to get our audience back. So if you

1:11.5

guys would tell some people to listen in, if you like our program, we'd be very appreciative.

1:16.6

Telefriend people, telefriend.

1:18.0

Dan, let's start with the farewell address. Obama's farewell address on Monday in Chicago.

1:25.2

Neither of us were there. I was very sad about it.

1:27.3

I know, me too. I didn't realize how sad I would be about not being there until

1:32.1

you, like, went on Instagram or Facebook and basically every person we know was there,

1:37.0

like, seeing people that haven't seen in, you know, eight or ten years. It was pretty amazing.

1:41.2

And I was pretty sad about it.

1:43.0

I was too. We were focused on the first episode in the launch. And like, I was like physically happy

1:49.5

that I wasn't getting on a plane to Chicago and staying out to like two in the morning that night.

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