In This Episode
Trump obstructs justice via Twitter, Manafort faces a jury, and the Koch brothers pick a fight with Trump Republicans on trade. Then Dan talks to Nick Thompson of Wired about the fantastic job Facebook has been doing lately. And Jason Kander joins Lovett and Dan to talk about protecting the vote and his new book, “Outside the Wire.”
Show Notes:
Trump tweets:
- Washington Post: Trump calls Manafort prosecution ‘a hoax,’ says Sessions should stop Mueller investigation ‘right now
- New York Times: Trump Tells Sessions to ‘Stop This Rigged Witch Hunt Right Now’
- Politico: Trump calls on Sessions to stop Mueller probe
- New York Times: Mueller Examining Trump’s Tweets in Wide-Ranging Obstruction Inquiry
- Washington Post: Mueller is looking at Trump’s tweets for obstruction of justice. And Trump just handed him more potential evidence
- Los Angeles Times: Trump calls on Sessions to stop Mueller’s Russia probe, raising specter of attempted obstruction
- Axios: 1 big thing: Reality check on Trump’s Mueller tweets
Trump’s Manafort and Al Capone tweets:
Why did he tweet this?:
- New Yorker: What the Paul Manafort Trial Could Tell Us About the Mueller Investigation
- Washington Post: Mueller offers to limit investigators’ questions for Trump in special counsel’s latest effort to secure presidential interview
The Paul Manafort trial:
- New York Times: Paul Manafort’s Defense Team Opens Trial by Blaming Associates
- Washington Post: Paul Manafort trial: Executive at ‘most expensive store’ testifies that Manafort paid for suits via wire transfers
- The Atlantic: How the government plans to take down Paul Manafort
Trump’s dishonesty:
The fake Koch-Trump feud:
- New York Times: Charles Koch Takes On Trump. Trump Takes On Charles Koch
- Washington Post: Trump feud with Koch network exposes rift between populist forces and establishment GOP
- Washington Post: Analysis – Inside the Koch strategy to spurn squishy Republicans in key Senate races
North Dakota Polling:
- New York Magazine: Most ‘Trump Ten’ Democratic Senators Doing Better Than Trump in Their States
- Cook Political Report: 2018 Senate Race ratings
- Roll Call: Ratings Change: Two Top Senate Races Shift Out of Toss-Up
- Roll Call: Election Guide 2018: North Dakota
- Politico: Heitkamp: No Koch endorsement for me
- Wall Street Journal: Trump Attacks Koch Brothers After GOP Donors Shy Away From Candidate
- Politico: Koch network snubs key GOP Senate candidate
- NBC News: Trump’s the issue in Heitkamp re-election battle in North Dakota,
- New York Times: A Supreme Court Vote Is Just One of Heidi Heitkamp’s Headaches
- CNN: GOP Senate candidate Kevin Cramer: I told Trump to avoid ‘affirmative action pick’ for Supreme Court
- New York Times: For Heitkamp, a Lift From an Unlikely Source: The Koch Brothers
Trump’s awesome executive order tax cut idea:
- New York Times: Trump Administration Mulls a Unilateral Tax Cut for the Rich
- The Hill: Trump asked Treasury to look into capital gains tax cut, Sanders says
- Politico: Push for another upper-income tax cut gets Treasury’s attention
- Slate: Trump Might Cut Taxes Without Congress. It’s His Ultimate Heist for the Rich
- Quartz: A new proposed tax break for the ultra-rich is illegal, the DOJ said 26 years ago
- Washington Post: The administration’s pitch to lower capital gains taxes is another trickle-down sales job designed to deliver a fat pay packet to its donors
- Washington Post: The biggest driver of income inequality: capital gains
Ohio’s 12th Congressional District:
- Vox: Poll: Democrats could be primed for another big special election win in Ohio
- Politico: Poll: Balderson, O’Connor in dead heat in Ohio special election
- Politico: Trump jumps into Ohio special election as GOP alarm grows
- USA Today: How Donald Trump turned a safe Republican seat in Ohio into a toss-up
Trump in Florida:
- AP: Promoting voter ID, Trump claims ID needed to buy groceries
- Vox: Trump approvingly tweets video of his rally crowd harassing a journalist
Jason Kander:
- New York Times: 99 Days to Go, and the Midterm Elections Battleground Is Not What Was Expected
- Video: All In With Chris Hayes (July 30, 2018): Kander at 37:40
- The Kansas City Star: 5 things you may not know about Jason Kander, KC’s newest mayoral candidate
- In Kansas City: An In-Depth Interview with Mayoral Candidate Jason Kander
- News-Press Now: Kander book points to lessons in ‘everyday courage’
- St. Louis Post Dispatch: Jason Kander has written a book that’s more philosophy than politics
- Politico: Kander sets his sights on city hall instead of the White House
- Kander Mayoral Campaign Announcement Video
Nick Thompson:
- Washington Post: Senate Republicans shoot down extra funds for election security
- The Verge: Congress just showed us what comprehensive regulation of Facebook would look like
- Axios: Scoop: 20 ways Democrats could crack down on Big Tech
- USA Today: Facebook discovery of covert activity shows ‘aggressive’ anti-U.S. campaign, senior GOP senator says
- NBC News: Facebook’s new foreign influence report excluded most divisive rhetoric
- Politico: White House quiet on Russia after Facebook axes propaganda pages
- New York Times: Facebook Identifies an Active Political Influence Campaign Using Fake Accounts
- The Wall Street Journal: Pence Blames Russia for 2016 Election Interference, Vows to Tighten Cybersecurity
- Video: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (July 30, 2018): Facebook
- CNBC: Democratic Sen. Warner has a new policy paper with proposals to regulate Big Tech companies
- New York Times: Facebook Is Failing to Aid Inquiry Into ‘Fake News,’ British Lawmakers Say
- Washington Post: The Trump administration is talking to Facebook and Google about potential rules for online privacy
