Transcript: Trump Arrest of Immigrant Shocks Small MAGA Town
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the June 2 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and…
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The following is a lightly edited transcript of the June 2 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and…
Somin: Yes, I think so. Although, it is also true that the court wasn’t completely clear whether the main emphasis of their analysis was on the words “extraordinary” and “unusual threat”…
Trump (audio voiceover): Harvard has been a disaster. They’ve taken five plus, by the way, $5 billion plus. Five billion. Nobody knew that they were making this kind of.... If we didn’t do…
Young: Right. There is a view, which I think is fairly convincing to me, that at least when Putin was starting out as the Russian leader, he didn’t necessarily have an ideology beyond…
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the May 27 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and…
At the end of the day, what is this witch hunt about? It’s about freedom of expression. It’s about these international students who have come to the U.S. and are being accused of being…
Podhorzer: Well, this is the tricky thing about being in America. He may think his base is larger than it is—but in America, it doesn’t have to be a majority anymore. And as long as it’s…
Now, that theory, if you can even call it that, is stupid. We don’t have time on this episode to describe exactly how stupid it is, but I think your listeners can figure it out—given that…
I will say it’s not just the tariffs that are potentially going to result in high prices for Americans. There are a whole host of other policies moving through Congress right now, which,…
Seligman: I think that’s the big question. It’s hard to say—and the reason is because Donald Trump is an authoritarian bully but he’s also a coward. We see this in other aspects of his…
Sargent: Well, there are basically three lanes you can criticize Vance on, and I’d like to try to work through each of them. The first is the one you just said, which is that it’s not as…
Sargent: And that is really the Trump/Stephen Miller position right now. To go back to what he said about the Supreme Court, he’s basically putting the Supreme Court on notice, If you make…
Sargent: So to bring this back to Bezos and Trump, I think what’s emerging here—the big story—is that there’s this small authoritarian core in the country, but there’s this large body of…