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Week 13: Ethics Schmethics

It’s a vacation-shortened episode of The Trump Scorecard, and for once I’m the one going on vacation, not the president. But let’s take a quick dive into a few big issues: ethical violations, despotism, and the Mystery of the Missing Aircraft Carrier.

The White House Will Keep Its Visitor Logs Secret

Ted Nugent’s Jailbait Problem

With Trump Appointees, a Raft of Potential Conflicts and ‘No Transparency’

Ivanka’s Biz Prospers as Politics Mixes With Business

Trump Congratulates Erdogan for Referendum Win

Senior Administration Officials Praise President Donald J. Trump’s Buy American, Hire American Executive Order

Aircraft Carrier Wasn’t Sailing to Deter North Korea, as U.S. Suggested

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Week 12: The Most Beautiful Slice of Fear

It’s OK to be afraid when a giant orange toddler is in charge of your nuclear arsenal, especially when he seems more focused on cake than on diplomacy. We answer the age-old question, which is more disgusting: Jeff Sessions or Mar-a-Lago?

Segment 1:  No Pivot! No Pivot!

Trump Flips on Four Policies in One Day

Trump Won’t Definitively Say He Still Backs Bannon

Segment 2: Mother of All Fuckups

Eighteen Syrian Fighters Allied With U.S. Are Killed in Coalition Airstrike

U.S. Drops ‘Mother of All Bombs’ on ISIS Caves in Afghanistan

U.S. May Launch Strike if North Korea Reaches for Nuclear Trigger

Segment 3: How Un-Manafortunate

FBI Obtained FISA Warrant to Monitor Trump Adviser Carter Page

Manafort Firm Received Ukraine Ledger Payout

British Spies Were First to Spot Trump Team’s Links With Russia

Segment 4: Jeff Sessions Is Still Terrible

Sessions Orders Justice Dept. to End Forensic Science Commission, Suspend Review Policy

Prosecutor: Jeff Sessions’s New Immigration Plan Is ‘Fucking Horrifying’

Segment 5: Quick Hits

Sean Spicer’s Idiotic Hitler Remark Wasn’t the Worst Thing He Did This Week

Trump Administration Halts Obama-Era Rule Aimed at Curbing Toxic Wastewater From Coal Plants

Trump Taps Salesman to Run Military Draft

Tillerson Asks Why U.S. Taxpayers Should Care About Ukraine

Trump Threatens Coverage of Millions if Democrats Won’t Negotiate on ACA Repeal

Segment 6: Mar-a-LaGross

Undercooled Meat. Dangerous Fish. Health Inspectors Ding Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Kitchen

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Week 11: This Is Super Syrious

Donald Trump launched an attack on an air base in Syria, and we hear from Win Without War’s Stephen Miles on the horror that could be coming our way. We’re still stuck in Russia, Kushner and Bannon have a slap fight, and we go a little nuts with the quick hits.

Segment 1: Syriously You Guys

Dozens of U.S. Missiles Hit Air Base in Syria

Segment 2: Guys No Joke I Am Sick of Russia

Trump, Citing No Evidence, Suggests Susan Rice Committed Crime

House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes Recuses Himself From Russia Probe

Segment 3: C’mon Guys, Break It Up

Bannon Removed From National Security Council Role

Steve Bannon Calls Jared Kushner a ‘Cuck’ and ‘Globalist’ Behind His Back

In Battle for Trump’s Heart and Mind, It’s Bannon vs. Kushner

Segment 4: Happy National Sexual Assault  Awareness Month

President Donald J. Trump Proclaims April 2017 as National Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month

Trump Pulls Back Obama-Era Protections for Women Workers

Donald Trump Defunds Global Maternal Health Organization

Bill O’Reilly Thrives at Fox News, Even as Harassment Settlements Add Up

Partial Transcript: Trump’s Interview With the Times

Segment 5: Quick Hits

Controversial Trump Aide Sebastian Gorka Backed Violent Anti-Semitic Militia

Trump Eases Combat Rules in Somalia Intended to Protect Civilians

Blackwater Founder Held Secret Seychelles Meeting to Establish Trump-Putin Back Channel

Trump Signs Measure to Let ISPs Sell Your Data Without Consent

Trump Lawyer Confirms President Can Pull Money From His Businesses Whenever He Wants

The New GOP Obamacare Replacement Could Have a Fatal Flaw

Jeff Sessions’s Blind Eye

Trump Picks Tennessee’s Most Anti-LGBTQ Lawmaker to Replace Gay Army Secretary

Trump’s EPA Moves to Dismantle Programs That Protect Kids From Lead Paint

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Week 10: Dinner for One

Mike Pence dines alone, Devin Nunes is caught in a lie, Rex Tillerson says “nah we’re good” on human rights violations, and I do my first ever listener call-in segments. And did you know Donald Trump never makes mistakes?

Segment 1: No Girls Allowed!

Karen Pence Is the Vice President’s ‘Prayer Warrior,’ Gut Check and Shield

Pence Casts Tiebreaking Senate Procedural Vote on Funding for Abortion Providers

Segment 2:  I’m Running Out of Clever Headlines About the Russia Scandal

Two White House Officials Helped Give Nunes Intelligence Reports

Mike Flynn Willing to Be Interviewed in Return for Immunity

Segment 3: Give Me Sanctuary

Attorney General Jeff Sessions Repeats Trump Threat That ‘Sanctuary Cities’ Could Lose Justice Department Grants

Department of Justice: Grants

Segment 4: J/K

Trump Taps Kushner to Lead New White House Office of American Innovation

Segment 5: Miners and  Minors

Trump’s Big New Executive Order to Tear Up Obama’s Climate Policies, Explained

Coal Mining Jobs Trump Would Bring Back No Longer Exist

Segment 6: Singing in the Bahrain (I’m So Sorry)

Rex Tillerson to Lift Human Rights Conditions on Arms Sale to Bahrain

U.S. Priority on Syria No Longer Focused on ‘Getting Assad Out’: Haley

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Week 9: Time to Get Your Hearings Checked

The news just kept coming in Trump’s ninth week. Russia! Health care! And because we’re talking about Donald Trump: inappropriate sexual comments! I talk to Ian Millhiser of Think Progress about Trump’s SCOTUS nominee Neil Gorsuch. (He’s bad.)

Segment 1: Take a Leaker

Before Trump Job, Manafort Worked to Aid Putin

US Officials: Info Suggests Trump Associates May Have Coordinated With Russians

Segment 2:  I Couldn’t Trumpcare Less

Trump to GOP Critics of Health-Care Bill: ‘I’m Gonna Come After You’

What Are ‘Essential Benefits’ in GOP Health Care Bill Debate?

Segment 3: Out of Birth Control

Trump Sends Anti-Birth Control Delegates to UN Commission on Women

Segment 4: Quick Hits

Trump’s Vegas Partner Says Business Is Not Dividing Profits From Foreign Governments as Promised

Businesswoman Who Bought Trump Penthouse Is Connected to Chinese Intelligence Front Group

China Grants Trump Dozens of New Trademarks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tB_Y6U2WZJQ

Trump Withdraws Reappointment Nomination of Popular Whistleblower Advocate

Segment 5: Gorsuch a Nice Boy

The Judge Gorsuch Who Spoke in the Senate Today Is Nothing Like the Man Who Wrote His Opinions

Injustices: The Supreme Court’s History of Comforting the Comfortable and Afflicting the Afflicted

Segment 6: My Eyes Are Up Here, Mr. President

The Trump Presidency Is Already a Joke

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Week 8: The Meals on Wheels Come Off

Was this the worst week yet for the Trump presidency? Health care is off the rails. His Muslim ban gets blocked. His budget is evil. And he gets into a fight with Snoop Dogg. I talk to Summer Brennan about how Trump wants cripple the United Nations.

Segment 1: Wow That’s a Bad Budget

Trump Officially Proposes to Slash HUD Budget by $6.2 Billion

https://twitter.com/ByRosenberg/status/842375113756426241

Trump Administration Picks Strange Fight With Meals on Wheels

Mulvaney Justifies Budget: We Can’t Ask a Coal Miner to Pay for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting

Segment 2: Extreme(ly Bad) Vetting

White House’s Spicer Calls Flynn’s Foreign Agent Work a ‘Personal Matter,’ Not ‘a Business Matter’

Trump Appointee Who Tweeted About “Some Muslim Piece of Shit” Is Out From Energy Department

Nazi-Allied Group Claims Top Trump Aide Sebastian Gorka as Sworn Member

Segment 3: Not Very Efficient

Trump’s Review of Car Fuel Standards Could Lead to Fight With California, Environmentalists

Segment 4: You Want to Do What Now, Jeff Sessions?

Sessions Won’t Rule Out Special Prosecutor for Obama Justice Dept

Segment 5: Quick Hits

Jeff Sessions Goes Full ‘Reefer Madness’ on Pot

White House Analysis of Obamacare Repeal Sees Even Deeper Insurance Losses Than CBO

Trump Signals His Willingness to Put Even Deeper Cuts Into Trumpcare

https://twitter.com/sarahkliff/status/841801860478574592

Tillerson: UN Human Rights Council Must Reform or US Will Leave

Segment 6: That’s Pretty UN-Cool, Donald Trump

White House Seeks to Cut Billions in Funding for United Nations

Segment 7: Donald Trump Picks the Wrong Fight

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Week 7: To Your Health… Insurance Going Away

In week seven of the Donald Trump presidency, the Republicans finally introduced their health care bill, and it’s as bad as you’d expect. I get all the gory details from Obama administration health care expert Andy Slavitt. Also, deranged Trump tweetstorms! Separating mothers and children! Abortion! Ben Carson! And much more…

Segment 1: Trump Tweets Up a Storm

Trump Flashes Anger Over Sessions Recusal, Russia Stories in Tense Oval Office Meeting

Segment 2: The New! and Improved! Muslim Ban!

US President Donald Trump Signs New Travel Ban, Exempts Iraq

Segment 3: Yes Virginia, There Really Is Global Warming

EPA Chief Scott Pruitt Says Carbon Dioxide Is Not a Primary Contributor to Global Warming

Thousands of Emails Detail EPA Head’s Close Ties to Fossil Fuel Industry

Segment 4: Yo Momma’s So Undocumented I’m Taking You Away From Her

Exclusive: Trump Administration Considering Separating Women, Children at Mexico Border

Segment 5: Let’s Make a (Terrible) Deal

Trump Tells Planned Parenthood Its Funding Can Stay if Abortion Goes

Segment 6: Quick Hits

Carson Compares Slaves to Immigrants Coming to ‘A Land of Dreams and Opportunity’

White House Plans to ‘Close Out’ Energy Star, Other Programs

https://twitter.com/harrysiegel/status/838753744716247040

Domestic (Intimate Partner) Violence Fast Facts

U.S. Suspends Obama Airline Transparency Review

Segment 7: Say Bye-Bye to Your Health Care

The Republicans’ Health Care Plan, Explained in 500 Words

Andy Slavitt: GOP Healthcare Bill Built on ‘Faulty’ Math

Advocates Call Foul on CDC Cuts in GOP Obamacare Repeal Bill

The Health Care Debate Is About Values

Segment 8: A Brain Is a Terrible Thing to Waste or Dig Around in Aimlessly

Ben Carson Told HUD Staff He Could Zap Their Brains Into Reciting Whole Books Read 60 Years Ago. What?

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Episode 6: Has Sessions Resigned Yet? How About Now?

Trump’s sixth week as president started and ended the same way: mired in scandal about his campaign’s Russia connections. I speak to Rep. Dwight Evans about why Jeff Sessions need to resign, and tell you about the worst thing Donald Trump has ever done.

Segment 1: From Russia With Love (to Everyone in the Trump Administration)

FBI Refused White House Request to Knock Down Recent Trump-Russia Stories

Sessions Met With Russian Envoy Twice Last Year, Encounters He Later Did Not Disclose

Segment 2: War, Huh, What Is a Good Way to Start One

Trump Proposes Cutting State Department Budget by 37%

Generals May Launch New ISIS Raids Without Trump’s OK

Segment 3: Deregulation Takes Coordination

Remarks by President Trump at Signing of Executive Order on Regulatory Reform

Trump Plans to Begin E.P.A. Rollback With Order on Clean Water

Trump Repeals Rule Designed to Block Gun Sales to Certain Mentally Ill People

Segment 4: Keep Out the Vote

The Sessions Effect: Trump DOJ Reverses Course in Major Texas Voter ID Case

Segment 5: Quick Hits

White House Proposes Axing 1 in 5 EPA Staffers, Cutting Programs for Minorities

Sessions Indicates Justice Department Will Stop Monitoring Troubled Police Agencies

Betsy DeVos Is Under Fire After Saying Historically Black Colleges Are “Pioneers” Of School Choice

FCC Chief Doesn’t Plan to Review AT&T-Time Warner Merger

Segment 6: Trump’s Big Boy Speech

Editorial: Trump’s Silence on Deadly Olathe Shooting Is Disquieting

Trump Says “Sometimes It’s the Reverse,” When Asked About Anti-Semitic Threats and Attacks

Segment 7: The Worst Thing Trump Has Ever Done

Inside Trump’s Secret Dinner: A Side of the President You Don’t Ever See

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Episode 5: On the Phone With Alex Jones

We’ve passed the one-month mark under Donald Trump, and somehow we’ve survived. This week I take a look at his terrifying relationship with Alex Jones. We go on a magic budget roller coaster and meet Trump’s two black friends. I also talk with Sarah McBride of the Human Rights Campaign about Trump’s attacks on transgender children.

Segment 1: Trump and Alex Jones

In Trump’s Volleys, Echoes of Alex Jones’s Conspiracy Theories

https://twitter.com/BrettLoGiurato/status/832709489409134592

Segment 2: The Deportation Force

AP Exclusive: DHS Weighed Nat Guard for Immigration Roundups

The Government Just Put Out the Blueprint for President Trump’s Immigration Crackdown

Lawyers: ICE Detainee With Brain Tumor Removed From Hospital

Segment 3: The Magical Roller Coaster of Excitement

Popular Domestic Programs Face Ax Under First Trump Budget

National Endowment for the Arts Appropriations History

Department of Defense Releases Fiscal Year 2017 President’s Budget Proposal

Trump Administration Forecasts Rosier Growth Than CBO

Segment 4: My Own Private Prison

U.S. Reverses Obama-Era Move to Phase Out Private Prisons

Segment 5: Quick Hits

McMaster May Reorganize Trump’s Foreign Policy Team Once Again

White House: Feds Will Step Up Marijuana Law Enforcement

Segment 5: Trump’s Attacks on Transgender Children

Trump Admin to Rescind Trans Student Protections: Source

Segment 6: Slavery Is Really Bad

Trump Visits Smithsonian’s African American Museum With a King

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Episode 4: Out Like Flynn

In the fourth episode of The Trump Scorecard, Trump faces his first big resignation and his first Cabinet nominee withdrawal and holds the craziest press conference of all time. I talk to Gabe Ortíz of America’s Voice about the rash of ICE raids and deportations.

Segment 1: Michael Flynn Resigns

Flynn Is Said to Have Talked to Russians About Sanctions Before Trump Took Office

Michael Flynn’s Troubling Penchant for Conspiracy Theories

Trump Campaign Aides Had Repeated Contacts With Russian Intelligence

Segment 2: The Bonkers Press Conference

In 77 Chaotic Minutes, Trump Defends ‘Fine-Tuned Machine’

Segment 3: Trump Signs Pro-Bribe Bill

Trump Signs Bill Killing SEC Rule on Foreign Payments

Segment 4: The Vaccine-Autism Conspiracy

Donald Trump Just Broadcast a Dangerous Misconception About Autism Rates

Feds’ Disability Education Website: Still Down, Still No Response From Devos

Segment 5: Quick Hits

At Mar-A-Lago, Trump Tackles Crisis Diplomacy at Close Range

Register for Trump’s Orlando Rally

The Justice Department Is Taking a Step Back From Efforts to Protect Transgender People Under Existing Law

White House Posts Wrong Versions of Trump’s Orders on Its Website

Two-Thirds of Women Who Work for Andy Puzder’s Companies Say They’ve Been Sexually Harassed

Exclusive: Puzder’s Ex-Wife Told Oprah He Threatened ‘You Will Pay for This’

Segment 6: ICE Raids

ICE Agents Arrest Men Leaving Alexandria Church Shelter

ICE Detains Alleged Domestic Violence Victim

Deported Arizona Mom’s Lawyer: Trump Order ‘Declaration of War’ on Immigrants

The First Immigration Raids of the Trump Era, Explained

Informed Immigrant

Segment 7: The Missing Quotes

How to Read (and How Not to Read) Today’s 9th Circuit Opinion