February 19, 2019
Pod Save America
“Let a thousand obstructions bloom.”
In This Episode
Trump’s fake national emergency gets legal and legislative challenges, Andrew McCabe reveals the panic at the FBI and DOJ over the president’s potential criminality, and Bernie Sanders enters the 2020 race. Then the Washington Post’s Dave Weigel talks to Jon Lovett about Bernie and the 2020 primary. Also – Pod Save America is going on tour! Get your tickets now: crooked.com/events.
Show Notes:
Fake National Emergency
- New York Times: Trump Declares a National Emergency, and Provokes a Constitutional Clash
- Washington Post: Trump declares national emergency on southern border in bid to build wall
- Washington Post: Trump’s national emergency press conference, annotated
- Washington Post: What exactly is a national emergency? Here’s what that means and what happens next.
- Washington Post: White House defends Trump’s emergency declaration as lawsuits and political battles mount
- Washington Post: Defense Department to start examining projects in hunt for border wall funds
- Washington Post: Trump’s national emergency and its massive unintended consequences
- New York Times: Trump’s Emergency Declaration Is the First Since 9/11 to Authorize Military Action
- New Yorker: A Weak and Rambling President Declares a Fake National Emergency
- Washington Post: Trump’s national emergency declaration once again highlights his affinity for strongmen — and authoritarianism
- Vox: Trump declared a national emergency at the border. I asked 11 experts if it’s legal.
- The Atlantic: Trump’s Bizarre, Rambling Announcement of a National Emergency
- New York Times: Former Deputy Chief of Staff to Harry Reid – How Mitch McConnell Enables Trump – Op-Ed
- Washington Post: In declaring a national emergency, Trump reminds Republicans: It’s all about him
- The Atlantic: Trump’s Emergency Declaration Is a Test Republicans Didn’t Want to Take
- Bloomberg: GOP Splits Over Trump’s Emergency Declaration for Wall Money
- Vanity Fair: REPUBLICANS MELT DOWN OVER TRUMP’S NATIONAL EMERGENCY
- New Yorker: The New Republican Strategy for Dealing with the Emergency That Is Trump: Pray
- CNN: Why Trump’s threat to declare a national emergency freaks out Republicans
- Washington Post: A secure border is ‘better for the middle school kids’ than a new school, Lindsey Graham says
- FiveThirtyEight: Could Congress Block Trump’s Emergency Declaration?
- Washington Post: House Democrats to challenge Trump’s emergency declaration; Republicans divided on action
- Washington Post: To fight Trump’s national emergency, Democrats will rely on a 67-year-old legal precedent
- New York Times: 16 States Sue to Stop Trump’s Use of Emergency Powers to Build Border Wall
- USA Today: First lawsuits filed against President Donald Trump’s national emergency order
- Washington Post: Will the president’s emergency declaration stand? Here are three (and a half) reasons it may not.
- Los Angeles Times: California to sue Trump administration over national emergency declaration
- Al Jazeera: ‘Fake’: Thousands rally in US against Trump’s national emergency
- CBC: How California is building its own wall of resistance against Trump
- Mercury News: Demonstrators protest Trump’s emergency declaration
Trump’s 2020 message
- Washington Post: ‘Finish that wall’: Trump seeks to turn his failure to build the wall into campaign rallying cry
- Washington Post: ‘Off the rails’: Inside Trump’s attempt to claim victory in his border wall defeat
- CNN: Trump keeps trying to win a base he’s already won, while forgetting everyone else
- Politico: Trump on Ann Coulter: ‘I don’t know her’
- Washington Post: ‘A recipe for disaster’? Trump’s border emergency drags the GOP into a risky fight ahead of 2020
- New York Magazine: Trump’s Emergency Declaration Proves He Isn’t a Political Savant — He’s Just Addicted to Fox News
- NBC News: It’s not a national emergency for Trump, it’s a political one
- Associated Press: Border wall could be tricky issue, especially for Beto O’Rourke
- Business Insider: Republicans are hammering Beto O’Rourke for saying he would tear down the border wall
- USA Today: An illegal immigrant killed my daughter. Trump’s right — we must complete the border wall.
The Investigations
- Vox: Former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe vs. President Trump, explained
- The Atlantic: Every Day Is a New Low in Trump’s White House
- 60 Minutes: Andrew McCabe: The full 60 Minutes interview
- New York Times: Book Review – In ‘The Threat,’ Andrew McCabe Issues the Latest Warning Call About Trump’s America
- The Guardian: ‘I believe Putin’: Trump dismissed US advice on North Korea threat, says McCabe
- Daily Beast: Andrew McCabe on Trump’s ‘Bizarre’ Job Interview, ‘Astounding’ Putin Comments
- NPR: Andrew McCabe, Ex-FBI Deputy, Describes ‘Remarkable’ Number Of Trump-Russia Contacts
- Lawfare: Thoughts on Andrew McCabe’s 60 Minutes Interview
- Washington Post: ‘Illegal and treasonous’: Trump says Rosenstein was part of a ‘coup attempt’
- CNN: Former acting FBI director: Rosenstein ‘offered to wear a wire into the White House’
- Washington Post: Senate panel will probe McCabe’s claim that Rosenstein raised possibility of ousting Trump through 25th Amendment, Graham says
- Washington Post: Analysis By Philip Bump – Why allegations of a ‘coup’ against Trump are unfounded
- Empty Wheel: FOUR SENTENCES: WHAT THE LEGAL SYSTEM HAS SAID ABOUT THE SUSPECT LOYALTY OF TRUMP’S AIDES
- Vox: The 25th Amendment, explained: how a president can be declared unfit to serve
- Vox: Mueller recommends a very lengthy sentence for Paul Manafort
- Axios: Mueller says Paul Manafort should serve 19-24 years in prison
- Washington Post: Special counsel calls Manafort’s crimes ‘serious, longstanding, and bold’ but recommends no specific sentence
- Slate: Paul Manafort and the Heart of Collusion
- Vanity Fair: ROBERT MUELLER MAY HAVE HANDED PAUL MANAFORT A LIFE SENTENCE
- Associated Press: Where the investigations related to President Trump stand
- Politico: Mueller’s Case for Collusion Comes Into View
- Daily Beast: Mueller May Find ‘No Collusion,’ but Still Find Crimes
- Politico: ‘Evidence in plain sight’ of Trump collusion with Russia, Schiff says
- The Atlantic: The Senate’s Russia Probe Is Facing a Reckoning
- Politico: Cummings: 2 Trump attorneys may have lied about Cohen payments
- Politico: Trump can’t run the Mueller playbook on New York feds
- Washington Post: White House press secretary Sarah Sanders joins list of those interviewed by Mueller team
David Weigel
- Washington Post: Sen. Bernie Sanders will seek the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020
- Washington Post: The Trailer: What we learned about Harris 2020 this weekend
- Washington Post: The Trailer: The centrists are entering the Democratic primary
- Washington Post: The Trailer: What we learned about Booker 2020 this weekend
- FiveThirtyEight: How Bernie Sanders Could Win The 2020 Democratic Nomination
- New York Times: Sanders on the Issues: Where He Stands and What Could Derail Him
- Daily Beast: Bernie Sanders Bests Kamala Harris’ First-Day Donor Total in Four Hours
- CNN: 5 reasons to be skeptical of Bernie Sanders’ 2020 bid
- USA Today: Bernie Sanders stuns no one with 2020 bid, but there are some surprises as the field unfolds
- NBC News: Sanders enters 2020 presidential race: ‘Complete the revolution’
- CNN: Bernie Sanders launches second presidential campaign
- The New Yorker: Bernie Sanders Is Back
