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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    Michael Cohen’s testimony: Political and legal analysis

    Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen described the president as a racist, a conman, and a cheat during his hearing before the House Oversight Committee today. We get highlights and analysis.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Feb 27, 2019 • 49m Listen

    Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen described the president as a racist, a conman, and a cheat during his hearing before the House Oversight Committee today. We get highlights and analysis.

    In this episode

    3 stories
    1. 0:00

      Michael Cohen implicates Trump in bank fraud, tax fraud, and campaign finance felonies

      Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen described the president as a racist, a conman, and a cheat during Cohen’s hearing before the House Oversight Committee today. We get highlights and analysis.

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      25 min
    2. 25:10

      Why is California’s attorney general trying to get reporters to destroy a list of police officers convicted of crimes?

      There’s a private list containing names of thousands of California police officers who have been convicted of a crime in the past decade. Reporters for the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley got a hold of it and wrote about it.

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      9 min
    3. 34:38

      ‘90s California bands that defined the second wave of punk rock

      Punk rock has its roots in late ‘70s New York and London with bands like the Sex Pistols, the Ramones and the Damned. But if you first learned about those bands from t-shirts from Hot Topic, you probably grew up in a different era.

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      15 min
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      Madeleine Brand

      Host, 'Press Play'

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    In this episode

    3 stories
    1. 0:0025 min

      Michael Cohen implicates Trump in bank fraud, tax fraud, and campaign finance felonies

    2. 25:109 min

      Why is California’s attorney general trying to get reporters to destroy a list of police officers convicted of crimes?

    3. 34:3815 min

      ‘90s California bands that defined the second wave of punk rock

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