Michael Moynihan
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842 appearances
21 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard May 2025
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You can't, I don't think, shut down USAID without having an act of Congress. It is statutorily authorized by Congress twice.
Walter Kern. Yeah.
It's an 80-20 issue. I once interviewed Rand Paul. He's like, in politics is a search for 80-20 issues to be on the right side of. And he was using it at that time talking about both foreign aid, U.S. foreign aid, and also in his opposition to the Syrian war back when Barack Obama and John Kerry opposed. We're drawing red lines.
They wanted to intervene into Syria, but the American public did not have an appetite for that back in 2013. I predict that we're not going to hear much about this beginning in about 24 hours because precisely it is an 80 to 20 issue. And also he does have broad authority under Title IX.
This is the fourth successive presidency that has changed Title IX, the interpretation of Title IX, beginning with Barack Obama, disastrously, in my view, changing the due process requirements to adjudicate campus sexual assault cases back in 2013, I think it was, or 14, which Trump, to his credit, changed back. And then Biden changed back and then Trump changed back.
But Title IX is about like the big portion of it is about women's sports in college. So it kind of makes sense to interpret it to have to do with women. So yeah.
Because it's an 80-20 issue, because it's sort of been like a paper tiger, it's been based on the pushing through these things has been based on people's silence in not taking the JK Rowling approach because it wasn't worth the hassle to raise your voice about it. Megan, I don't know if you know that sometimes you get blowback if you bring this up in certain areas of the media.
So I think it's going to take place. It's not going to be challenged at all. I don't think legally there's not going to be a leg to stand on it. And people are going to take the L just like the word they're removing pronouns very quietly from their Twitter bios.
Was Edward Snowden a traitor to the United States of America?
This is not a moment for social media. It's not a moment to propagate theories, conspiracy theories or attacks on journalism in the United States. This is when you need to answer the questions of the people whose votes you're asking for. As my colleague said, this is not about you. It's about the people that serve the intelligence agencies of the United States.
Is Edward Snowden a traitor to the United States of America? That is not a hard question to answer when the stakes are this high.
Is Edward Snowden a traitor to the United States of America?
Apparently you don't.
Are you aware that your comments about proxy wars and Russia's legitimate security concerns, to quote your own words, are in alignment with what the Russians have said to justify their invasion of Ukraine?
You basically said that Putin was justified in rolling over the peaceful border of Ukraine the first time since World War II that a free nation had been invaded by a totalitarian state, and you were there at 11.30 p.m. that night. To say that you are with them, not us. Can't we do better than somebody who doesn't believe in 702?
Can't we believe that somebody who can't answer whether Snowden was a traitor five times today? Who made excuses for Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine? I'm questioning her judgment. That's the issue that's at stake here.
Yeah, it's not just it's not just energy, Megan. I mean, he has all of these impromptu flourishes of showmanship. Did you see how he handled the signing of these executive orders? He pulled his staff secretary into the frame and had him describe, hey, just tell us a little bit about what I'm signing here. Oh, yeah, that sounds great. That sounds great. OK, what's this one?
It was incredible. And the press is like, oh, this is not how it's supposed to work. The staff secretary is supposed to be seen but not heard. We shouldn't be the ones talking, not Trump. And it's like, no, idiots. Trump is here and he is different. He's exactly what people wanted.
Right now, I think the headline is a triumph. And I think it is because Trump earned that. I mean, if you think about all of the ups and downs of the last 10 years, nobody in some like back room decided that they were going to engineer Trump into that job. No, everybody was against him the entire time. And he kept coming back and he kept fighting.
And now he's got the press basically crying uncle on the front page. I think it's a triumph.
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