And playing the part of robert driscoll, who represents accused russian secret agent maria butina, as her defense attorney, that part will also be played by me. I know that sounds cheap. Its a delicate balance here. What were saving on the salaries of actors with speaking roles, were making up for in terrible acting by me. So whats going on here is that accused russian secret agent, maria butina, has been in jail a week and half. She was arrested last weekend right before the trumpputin summit in helsinki. She was actually arrested before the summit started even though we didnt find you about it at the time. The court didnt unseal the case against her until a few hours after the summit was concluded. The coincidence of those two events is interesting because she is accused of being an agent of the russian federation, right, secretly mounting an operation in this country on behalf of the russian government to influence the Republican Party around the 2016 president ial election. Since t
Salaries of actors with speaking roles, were making up for in terrible acting by me. So whats going on here is that accused russian secret agent, maria butina, has been in jail a week and half. She was arrested last weekend right before the trumpputin summit in helsinki. She was actually arrested before the summit started even though we didnt find out about it at the time. The court didnt unseal the case against her until a few hours after the summit was concluded. The coincidence of those two events is potentially interesting because shes accused of being an agent of the russian federation, right . Secretly mound aginfluence operation in this country on behalf of the russian government to influence the Republican Party around the 2016 president ial election. Since they unsealed her case, we have learned a lot of interesting stuff about what exactly the government is accusing her of. Its all fascinating. I think we are hardwired as humans to think that secret agent stuff is inherently
That. I mean successfully or not, they would at least try. You remember like george w. Bush trying to sell his privatized Social Security plan, right . He did this traveling road show on that. Which ended up making that idea less popular every time he did a new event. But at least he tried. You might remember president obama and Vice President biden going off on a road trip and making appearances with preschoolers to try to promote the prekindergarten initiative from one of the obama state of the Union Addresses at the start of his second term. And who knows if these kinds of hammer home the message tours actually do anything after a state of the Union Address in terms of persuading congress to pass legislation to effectuate that president ial idea and pass appropriations to fund it. But at least those stunts, those trips, they did at least have the effect of keeping the press focused on the president s message from the speech. For a few more days after the biggest speech of the year w
Bus tour or any other kind of political event somewhere out in the country, trying to sell the elements of his state of the Union Address from last night. President s always used to do that. I mean, successfully or not, they would at least try. You remember like george w. Bush trying to sell his privatized Social Security plan, right . He did this traveling road show on that. Which ended up making that idea less popular every time he did a new event. But at least he tried. You might remember president obama and Vice President biden going off on a road trip and making appearances with preschoolers to try to promote the prekindergarten initiative from one of the obama state of the Union Addresses at the start of his second term. And who knows if these kinds of hammer home the message tours actually do anything after a state of the Union Address in terms of persuading congress to pass legislation to effectuate that president ial idea and pass appropriations to fund it. But at least those
Ahead of the anniversary of the tragedy, Seth Tupper joins us to discuss his documentary of the 1972 flood. We learn about collecting the stories of survivors.