Donald Trump and the Media Temple of BOOM!

Intercepted with Jeremy Scahill

• Episode: Donald Trump and the Media Temple of BOOM!
• Website: Intercepted with Jeremy Scahill
• Feed URL: http://feeds.megaphone.fm/intercepted
• Duration: 01:19:40
• Published: 2019-01-23 12:00

Longtime investigative journalist Michael Isikoff of Yahoo! News analyzes the Buzzfeed News bombshell report that Trump ordered Michael Cohen to lie to cover up a planned Trump Tower in Moscow. Robert Mueller is disputing the report and Isikoff offers his own critique of the story and what we know to be true thus far. 

Popular economist and adviser to Bernie Sanders 2016 campaign Stephanie Kelton talks about Modern Monetary Theory, the lies told by Republicans and Democrats about deficits, and whether young workers will ever get Social Security benefits. 

Los Angeles public school teachers appear to have won some major victories as a result of their historic strike. We speak to Noriko Nakada, an 8th grade English teacher at Emerson Middle School in LA, and labor journalist Sarah Jaffe, who covered the strike for The Nation.

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