In This Episode
Trump’s lawyer argues that collusion with a hostile government isn’t a crime after reports that Michael Cohen might implicate the president, and both parties fight to define the stakes of the 2018 midterms. Then Vox’s Dara Lind joins Jon and Jon to talk about the latest developments in the family separation crisis.
Show Notes:
No Collusion!:
- CNN: Cohen claims Trump knew in advance of 2016 Trump Tower meeting
- Huffington Post: Carl Bernstein: Trump Tower Meeting Was ‘Convened For The Purpose Of Collusion’
- Crooked Media: Donald Trump Knew, Even If Michael Cohen Is Lying
Weekend Trump tweets and Giuliani’ moves the goal posts:
- New York Times: Mueller Examining Trump’s Tweets in Wide-Ranging Obstruction Inquiry
- Washington Post: Rudy Giuliani just obliterated the goal posts on Trump-Russia collusion
- Talking Points Memo: Rudy’s Big Admission?
- Axios: Rudy Giuliani: “Collusion is not a crime”
- Think Progress: After insisting there were no contacts with Russians, team Trump now argues collusion isn’t a crime
- New York Times: New York Times Publisher and Trump Clash Over President’s Threats Against Journalism
- The Atlantic: Trump’s Increasingly Desperate Attacks on Mueller
- Axios: Rudy on Mueller probe: “They don’t have a goddamn thing”
- Washington Post: Is Giuliani actually making the case Trump wants to hear?
- Politico: Giuliani: Cohen and Trump’s legal teams have severed ties
- Washington Post: Giuliani won’t explain the ‘very nasty’ business relationship Trump says he had with Mueller
- Daily Beast: Russian Hackers’ New Target: a Vulnerable Democratic Senator
- FiveThirtyEight: Russians Are Targeting Private Election Companies, Too
Trump’s shutdown threat and the Midterms:
- Washington Post: Trump threatens again to shut down federal government over border-wall funding
- Vox: Trump threatens another government shutdown — this one, a month before midterms
- New York Times: G.O.P. Faces Another Midterm Threat as Trump Plays the Shutdown Card
- Bloomberg: Republican Lawmakers Ignore Trump’s Shutdown Threat
- FiveThirtyEight: Is Trump Facing Any Political Fallout For The Family Separation Crisis?
- New York Times: 99 Days to Go, and the 2018 Midterm Battleground Is Not What Was Expected
- Washington Post: Trump’s latest rage-tweets about Mueller and border wall reveal GOP weakness
- Politico: POLITICO Playbook: Democrats are ‘substantial favorites’ to win the House
- Vox: The Virginia House race at the center of the “Bigfoot erotica” controversy, explained
- FiveThirtyEight: Here Are All The Republicans Retiring From Congress In 2018
- New York Times: Trump Owns the Booming Economy. Republicans on the Trail Barely Mention It.
- cleveland.com: How will the midterms play out? Ohio’s 12th Congressional District special election should provide some clues
Tuesday Elections:
- Vox: Progressives want Abdul El-Sayed’s campaign for Michigan governor to be their next big victory
- New York Times: There Is a Revolution on the Left. Democrats Are Bracing
Long term:
Dara Lind:
- Washington Post: Trump threatens again to shut down federal government over border-wall funding
- Los Angeles Times: Opinion: Why haven’t all the families been reunited? Cruelty, pure and simple
- Washington Post: ‘Deleted’ families: What went wrong with Trump’s family-separation effort
- The Atlantic: The Lost Ones – What will happen to the 463 migrant children whose parents have been deported?
- NBC News: Poll: Trump immigration policies remain unpopular in battleground districts
- New York Times: How a Texas Bus Terminal Became the Backdrop for Powerful Immigration Reporting
- New York Times: Judge Allows Lawsuit Trying to Block Citizenship Question From Census
- Vox: Exclusive: Trump’s travel ban is supposed to make exceptions for worthy cases. A new lawsuit alleges it isn’t.
- Vox: ICE agents pressured parents to be deported with their children — then separated them again when they refused
- Vox: At court deadline, more than half of separated migrant families have been reunited
- Vox: Americans are stepping up to show reunited migrant families there’s more to their country than Trump
- Vox: Hundreds of families could be deported almost as soon as they’re reunited
- Vox: New evidence suggests Trump’s border crackdown isn’t just cruel — it’s likely ineffective
- Vox: Jeff Sessions is pushing asylum officers to reject more migrants. Will they go along?
- Vox: Birthright citizenship, explained: why some on the right want to end it, and what they get wrong
- Vox: Denaturalization, explained: how Trump can strip immigrants of their citizenship
