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By my last count, I subscribe to around 50 podcasts — more than enough captivating chatter to occupy my New York City commutes and jogs around the neighborhood. So when I came to TPM in the winter of 2017, I jumped at the opportunity to help bring yet another podcast into the world.
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Chris Wallace reported this morning on Fox News that two other names you’ll know have been working with Rudy Giuliani on his mission to strong-arm Ukraine into intervening in the 2020 election and help exonerate Paul Manafort: the husband and wife team of Joe diGenova and Victoria Toensing. The two are frequent Hannity guests and at various points have been reported to be either joining or working with the President’s legal team. In this sense, working with Giuliani — the President’s so-called “private lawyer” — makes a fair amount of sense.
But there’s a bit more to this.
This morning Tom Bossert, President Trump’s first Homeland Security Advisor, went on the ABC Sunday morning show. He said a lot about the most important charges against President Trump still not being proven, in his view. He repeated “no evidence of collusion” in the Russia probe. But it couldn’t be too reassuring to the President. The gist of his comments is that Rudy Giuliani’s nonsense is going to get Trump impeached and if President Trump “continues to focus on that white whale, it’s going to bring him down.”
Kurt Volker, the special envoy on Ukraine, has resigned. Meanwhile, the first House Republican, Rep. Mark Amodei (R-NV) has come out in support of an impeachment inquiry, albeit in a somewhat mealy-mouthed way. “Let’s put it through the process and see what happens.” Amodei would not say whether he believes the President committed an impeachable offense.
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I often complain about foreigners who write about American politics without knowing the first thing about our history. I know something, but not a lot, about British politics, so don’t take as gospel my observations about the Labour Party and its convention this last week in Brighton, which I attended as research for a book on the left in the U.S. and Europe. I may have gotten things wrong, but as an outsider, I may have seen a few things not so obvious to a native partisan. Read More
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But a few months ago, we relaunched our Cafe section, and I now find myself thinking harder about the news and learning more. As the special projects editor, I’ve been helping solicit these contributions, so I now spend a lot of my time digging around for experts on topics like the history of busing and natural disasters. It’s been really refreshing, and I’ve enjoyed the smart analysis we’ve published.
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