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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    Searching for clarity in Trump’s chaotic week

    On Thursday night at a campaign rally in Texas, President Trump played to his base by calling multiple investigations into his conduct as a personal attack on his supporters and the GOP: “Now they continue the outrageous impeachment witch hunt with…

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    KCRW placeholderBy Barbara Bogaev • Oct 18, 2019 • 1 min read

    On Thursday night at a campaign rally in Texas, President Trump played to his base by calling multiple investigations into his conduct as a personal attack on his supporters and the GOP: “Now they continue the outrageous impeachment witch hunt with nothing. With nothing. They come after me, but what they’re really doing is they’re coming after the Republican Party. And what they’re really, really doing is they’re coming after and fighting you. And we never lose.”

    It came after Turkey agreed to a ceasefire in Syria, then said it wasn’t so and resumed fighting. And Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney tried to walk back his apparent admission of quid pro quo in the Ukraine saga.

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    The full episode

    1 of 4
    Lessons from San Diego’s planned blackouts
    1. 0:00Searching for clarity in Trump’s chaotic weekYou’re reading this
    2. 11:08What can California’s utilities learn from San Diego’s planned blackouts?
    3. 20:04Alexander Skarsgård on playing an Army captain who forces his platoon to murder civilians
    4. 34:50‘Jojo Rabbit’ finds absurd humor in the Holocaust
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