My great honor to be with greg jarrett. My friend and someone is made me smarter. Your most recent bestseller, is the witchhunt. It is a fascinating read that tells us all details that weve been goingls through since 2016. This is the follow on to your bestseller the russia hopes, which was a New York Times number one bestseller. Im sure this will be as well. [laughter] brought to the races near already number three. Maury number three. It is great to be with you. Thank you for your having me. When i first heard the present used the term witchhunt, and a tweet. Much like he used fake news and the fact the election to be raped, all of these things for your people like me who is that most of myhi adult life professional life in washington dc, and recoil. Because they are bold phrases. They have borrowed this phrase three book wife. Because it is very telling what people tend to forget about witchhunts, is that there are no real witches. But, this overwhelming irrational desire to believe
Country and overseas. And the opportunity to have, you know, big ideas oen tn the agen and bring people together in o e order to, an address those big s is just endlessly appealing to me. And were at a time, i think, in this country where the anxiety economically, socially that you see abroadth is something that very familiar to me having grown up on the south side of chicago. You know, we saw the steel millt up and moveve and all of the at calamity and unease and disruption that that left in peoples live, the way that opioids and other unhappy thinge came in and destructive things p came in to fill the void. The overpolicing, the sense thaa the attention paid to those issues and to us came at campaign time, if then, and thee disappeared from the agenda in between. Those are those are things he folks are feeling in a lot morer places than thetu south side of chicago. We have that in common, in fact. And so the opportunity to have broad and focused and sustained attention in solving tho
Since the election of brazils farright president Jair Bolsonaro last year. We will go to brazil for the latest. Then we look at the homeless crisis in San Francisco. Absolutely a national responsibility. First and foremost, federal responsibility to make sure our basics tove the thrive, not only survive. Homeless people are victimized are poor decisions at multiple levels in the government. Amy then people gather in greensboro, north carolina, this week and to mark the 40th anniversary of the greensboro massacre, when Ku Klux Klans attackedric and nazis, a group of antiracist protesters in broad daylight in 191979, killing fifive people e and injg 10. I wish that mike and jim ad caesar hads sandy and in 1979 s sacrificed because of their intense believe wage ande and a livining dignity. Amy the greensboro massacre 40 years later. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In news from washington, all four white h
You have borrowed this phrase for your buck, why connect. Because its telling what people tend to forget about with witchhunts there are no real witches but this overwhelming irrational desire to believe that witches exist is what propels the witchhunt and that is what happened here in an astonishing array of theoretically smart people convince themselves and millions of others that the president had committed the most noxious crime there is in the criminal code treason. Treason is conspiracy with flat amir putin hatched in the bowels of the kremlin to steal the 2016 election and it was based on not a shred of credible evidence and the book explains how now we know through testimony of those involved they never had any possible evidence to launch the original fbi investigation in 2016 and nine months later when the special counsel was appointed they still had no evidence and implement itself violated the regulations authorizing the opponent and i explained how, in the book, one of the
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