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Political discussion about Senator Amy Klobuchar and Democratic candidates for 2020. And a few other political topics too.
Trump declared a national emergency and then took a golf trip to Florida.
If questions about Senator Kamala Harris’s blackness sound familiar, that may be because you heard them all before during Barack Obama’s first run for president.
Discussed Donald Trump and Anti-Semitism tonight
Tired of Republicans who race to condemn Ralph Northam or Ilhan Omar but who won’t condemn Donald Trump’s racism or Kevin McCarthy’s anti-Semitism.
Keith Boykin tells Erin Burnett that Democrats should speak with moral clarity against racism: Virginia Governor Ralph Northam should resign, regardless of the issues surrounding other top officials in the state.
After the news that racist photos appeared on the medical school yearbook page of Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, Keith Boykin says Northam should step down and let Lt. Governor Justin Fairfax step up.
Video from our discussion on Senator Kamala Harris’s announcement for president today.
Republicans had full control of Congress for two years and never approved Trump’s border wall. We had an election last November and voters rejected the GOP approach. To shut down the government now to build a wall is effectively to stage a coup to overturn the will of the people.
Vice President Mike Pence compared Trump’s push for a border wall to Dr. King’s message. No sir.
Democrats in the House of Representatives have voted nine times to reopen the government, but Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell refuses to allow any of those bills to come to a vote. He and Donald Trump are responsible for 800,000 federal workers who are not being paid because of the Trump Shutdown.
What used to be a dog whistle has now become a human whistle as Trump’s Republican Party has emboldened racists like Rep. Steve King of Iowa.
The man who goes on stage and uses the “MF” word has no right to complain about the woman who uses the same word. Ted Nugent went on stage and said obscene things about President Obama and Hillary Clinton and Trump welcomed him to the White House.
Today marks the end of two years of unified Republican control of the executive and legislative branches of the federal government. As Democrats take control of the House of Representatives, that means we will finally see oversight and accountability of the president, and for the first time in Donald Trump’s adult life, he will finally have someone to say no to him.
For the last time, Nancy Pelosi is not the Speaker of the House. Until she becomes Speaker on January 3, 2019, she cannot convene the House, schedule a vote or open the government. Republicans control all three branches of government. The #TrumpShutdown is entirely on them.
The Daily Beast reported today that Donald Trump and the White House want the government shutdown to continue well into January to serve as a distraction from the new Democratic House agenda and to take the focus off of new investigations into Trump.
Keith Boykin and Rob Astorino discuss the Christmas chaos surrounding the White House with the government shutdown, market turmoil, White House resignations and firings, attacks on the Fed and missteps from the Treasury Secretary, along with Trump’s whining about being alone in the White House and telling a 7-year-old girl that Santa doesn’t exist.
The reason we’re in this crisis is because Trump had two years to get the Republican Congress to fund his border wall (which Mexico was supposed to pay for) and didn’t. So right before Christmas he shuts down the government to divert our attention from the colossal failure of his presidency.
The New York Times reports today that Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey has hired undocumented immigrants. A housekeeper who made Trump’s bed, cleaned his toilet and dusted his trophies tells the Times that she’s had enough of her famous boss. “We are tired of the abuse, the insults, the way he talks about us when he knows that we are here helping him make money.”
Keith Boykin and Steve Cortes discuss on CNN.
