Well timed. That is how it landed. A book about the Oil And Gas Industry and a big chunk of the book was about the craziness and the corruption in the ukraine. Then it was the playing field. I didnt intend it to land it that way. Well, now of course mr. Trump is being impeached for a second time. And it is kind of uncanny, a lot of the things that i wrote about in the book that came out in the first trump impeachment. The whole reason that i wrote the book is because we were consistently underestimating the sway of this one industry. How much sway it has over politicals and governments here and around the world. I thought there was a need for a explainer and how the industry could explain. If something is happening that does not make sense on the surface it helps to look at the industry and see if they are maybe The Hidden Hand, when politics fail or governments are bad. This is a place to look. One thing to say here is the hidden power that is making it possible or impossible and call
I should have researched. Im not sure it was thats what i said when we talked on thursday, but im not so sure about that. Do you know who Scott Galloway is . I think it has a lot to do with bro culture, and i think that is its a lot more nuanced than we think. And i think its a lot of people who are online trying to get rich quick. Mmhmm. That whole, like, against the man thing. I think thats a great narrative to spin. Im not exactly sure that is what it is because as we know, listen, you used to work in finance, didnt you . Mmhmm. You know everything is its going to go back to the fundamentals no matter how hard you try. To a certain degree. Im just worried about when that happens. There are going to be very few people who are going to get rich quick, right . Most people are going to lose money. Look, again, thats the game. Yeah. And it is a game. Im just worried about this particular dynamic because weve never seen anything like it before at this scale. And, you know, i had portnoy o
Quarantine back in november. Because i had to do that back in november, i knew i could do this again so i just wheeled the whole setup back out again tonight. The roads are not fit for manor beast nor Cable News Hosts so, again, apologies for things looking a little higgledypiggledy. Ill be back in the studio tomorrow night. January 2009, when barack obama was inaugurated as the 44th president of the United States with joe biden as his Vice President , in january 2009, over 800,000 americans had just lost their jobs. The Great Recession caused by insanity in the financial industry and the accompanying Wall Street Collapse. The economy had been Hemorrhaging Jobs for months at a rate not seen since the Great Depression when President Obama was inaugurated. Unemployment was headed for 10 . The Wall Street Collapse had wiped out trillions of dollars in wealth. People were hurting. People were very scared. And one of the reasons americans had just elected obama and biden by a nearly 10 mill
Rachel, you had Jim Rutenberg on talking about that New York Times article which is just amazing, and by the way, must be said, beautifully written. I think it may be the best written yeah. Of the trump investigative pieces. Andrew weissmann is going to join us on the same subject to pick up where you left off, which for me is, are there new crimes in this reporting that were looking at . Yeah. The times uses the very gentle word, extralegal. Does that mean illegal . Andrew weissmann is going to take us through it and tell us what he sees in that reporting. Excellent. And its really well timed. Tomorrow were going to see the response from the president s defense team, such as it is, to the Impeachment Charges and the Impeachment Charges are about him inciting an insurrection against the u. S. Government. And what rutenberg and his colleagues just filled in is a lot of the details about how they knew exactly what they were setting up. How they organized it and how it was a coordinated t
California, just as President Biden prepares to survey damage on maui. This is a really hard disaster. As the Climate Crisis gets worse, is the u. S. Ready . The fema administrator will be here. And take four. Donald trump will surrender to georgia officials. Now two legal experts say hes disqualified from being president again. Gop senator bill cassidy who voted to convict trump after january 6th will be here as well as Michael Luttig and lawrence wade. It is time to put the negativity and drama behind us. David axelrod talks Debate Strategy ahead. Hello. Im casey hunt in washington. Hurricane hilary is barrelling toward the west coast of the United States and could dump more than a years worth of rain where the state has forced evacuations, closed beaches and marks and forced the governor to declare a State Of Emergency on saturday. As they also prepare for the pr president s visit to survey the devastating wildfires as they face a record breaking year of billion dollar disasters. Ad