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THE OFFICIAL MEA CULPA WITH MICHAEL COHEN ARCHIVE

Why CNN is Kissing Trump's A$$ + A Conversation with Tara Setmayer

THE OFFICIAL MEA CULPA WITH MICHAEL COHEN ARCHIVE

Audio Up Media

Politics, News

4.88.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2023

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Mea Culpa welcomes one of our favorite people from the Lincoln Project, Tara Setmayer. Setmayer is a former CNN political commentator, a contributor to ABC News, and a former GOP Communications Director on Capitol Hill. She's appeared on ABC's The View, ABC's Good Morning America, and HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher. Setmayer was named a Harvard Institute of Politics Spring 2020 Resident Fellow. Also in 2020, she joined The Lincoln Project as a senior advisor. Setmayer hosts the live show "The Breakdown" alongside co-founder Rick Wilson, on the organization's streaming channel, LPTV. Michael and Tara dig deep into the media and its effect on the elections, Trump's denials, and George Santos.

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A dimmathon that's front by me is this my triangle ball.

0:37.9

This is Michael Cohen and you're listening to the Mayacolpa podcast.

0:42.2

The pandemic is officially over or at least the state of emergency we've been living under

0:47.4

has been remanded according to the Department of Health and Human Services.

0:52.1

And if you're listening to this right now, well congratulations you made it.

0:56.9

If you're one of the millions who lost friends or family like I did,

1:01.2

I'm sorry for your loss I really am. But now that the COVID crisis is coming to an end,

1:07.3

so are some of the measures put in place to help us deal with the pandemic.

1:12.0

And last Friday at the Southern border, they braced for the worst as Title 42 came to an end as well.

1:19.6

Back in March of 2020, the Trump administration put Title 42 in place to turn migrants back

1:26.6

at the border. Well, they came anyway. Title 42 didn't really work and now it's back to business

1:34.1

as usual, which means back to a broken system with no end in sight. Several judges tried to keep

1:41.9

Title 42 from ending, but they failed. But let's be real. Republicans would love to keep the

1:49.0

emergency law in place rather than fix the problem. Those who have embraced the great replacement

1:55.6

theory don't want any migrants to be allowed into our country, period, end of story.

2:02.2

Now that they want to go out into the fields and do the jobs of migrant workers,

2:06.4

they just don't want their white nationalism challenged by asylum seekers. As far as I'm concerned,

2:12.9

any whatever, what the fuck it makes no sense. From day one, President Biden sent an immigration

2:19.8

bill to Congress to modernize and fund immigration processes because we are seeing unprecedented

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