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Here’s what we’re talking about today.
This is a quick rundown of the topics we’ll be covering on today’s show. You can hit play to listen, or read the transcript below if that’s more your style.
Transcript:
It was a genuinely disturbing weekend on planet Earth, and today’s show does reflect that.
We are going to talk about mass violence in the United States, antisemitic terrorism abroad, and really what it all says about where humanity is right now. We are also going to talk about moments that can cut through that darkness, and you’ll see what I mean very quickly on today’s program.
And then we do have to talk about the Epstein photos that are now circulating after another dump of pictures last week, because I think that some are playing their hand in a way that is not going to go well, including misleading images, very sloppy claims and a lot of lack of verification. And this may hand MAGA and Trump an easy escape hatch which I don’t think we want to give them. And I’ll talk about that.
We’re also going to get into an interesting move from the Federal Reserve, which has quietly Trump-proofed itself, even as we know, Donald Trump is seeking the replacement for Fed chairman, Jerome Powell, and it is a really interesting move. And we also learned that the people around President Trump are regularly hiding bad economic news from him. We’ll talk about how that happens, and then soon, I will speak to Sarah Matthews about it who used to work in the first Trump White House.
Plus a holiday party at the White House, during which Trump rambles incoherently, and the Erika Kirk town hall that CBS hyped for a week barely anyone watched, and is really an atrocity of journalism.
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