Top U.S. & World Headlines — June 26, 2019

Interview:
https://youtu.be/UqtUIYr5eaI

Fed up Fox host TRASHES Pence after he refuses to answer question

Fox News’ Shep Smith just trashed Mike Pence over the dismal conditions at the border facilities for migrants...
Interview:
https://youtu.be/retm4NzVJ9k

Trump Almost Started a War with Iran: A Closer Look

Seth takes a closer look at President Trump creating a bunch of problems and then turning around and pretending he “solved” those problems...
Interview:
https://youtu.be/nPr_P2OEsjg

Fact-checking Trump's false US history lesson on debt, tariffs and building highways with 'CASH' - CNN Politics

Arguing in favor of his tariffs, President Donald Trump claimed on Twitter Sunday that the US had "no debt" and "a big system of tariffs" when it built "everything from Highways to the Military with CASH."
https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/25/politics/fact-check-trump-tweets-debt-building-highways/index.html

Sanders adviser on student debt plan: 'If we can bail out Wall Street, we can bail out kids' - The Hill

A senior adviser for Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-Vt.) 2020 presidential campaign touted the Democratic hopeful’s proposal that would erase all outstanding student loan debt and pay for it by implementing a tax on Wall Street...
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/450111-sanders-adviser-on-student-debt-proposal-if-we-can-bail-out-wall-street-we-can

Mike Pence just revealed something important about Trump’s Iran decisions - The Washington Post: Opinion

The Vice President's unintentionally revealing concession about Trump's cancellation of Iran strikes.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/06/24/mike-pence-just-revealed-something-important-about-trumps-iran-decisions/

Conscience-Stricken Billionaires Beg 2020 Candidates: Take Our Money -- Vanity Fair

George Soros, Abigail Disney, and 17 other zillionaires say a wealth tax is "the least we can do."....
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/06/wealth-tax-open-letter

The looming superbug crisis: Politics, profit, and Big Pharma | Matt McC...

Here's how we stop a health crisis before it wreaks havoc on us...
Interview:
https://youtu.be/8jyx7OPI4d4

Trump Claims Administration Doing 'Fantastic Job' Housing Migrant Kids At Border - HuffPost

President Donald Trump claimed his administration is doing a "fantastic job"at the country's southern border days after a Justice Department lawyer argued against providing detained migrant children with toothbrushes or beds. NBC's Chuck Todd discussed the horrifying conditions at some of the immigrant detainment facilities in the U.S. during an interview with the president that aired Sunday on "Meet the Press."...
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-southern-border-migrants_n_5d0f75e6e4b0a3941863ef91

Cop Caught on Body Cam Arresting a Man for Talking

The illegal arrest by a Baltimore City cop has lead to charges of false imprisonment and misconduct, but also reveals a deep-rooted reason why police seek to silence critics https://youtu.be/7VwlyFdpRxY

Robert Reich: Why We Need to Break Up Big Tech

Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich explains why it's time to break up Facebook, Google, Amazon, and other tech companies. ....
https://youtu.be/ora9KUXR7DY

Democrats talk up tax credits to counter Trump law - The Hill

Democratic lawmakers and presidential candidates are offering a slew of proposals to expand tax credits benefiting workers and families, as a way to counter President Trump's 2017 tax-cut law.
https://thehill.com/policy/finance/449815-democrats-talk-up-tax-credits-to-counter-trump-law

Top U.S. & World Headlines — June 24, 2019

Interview:
https://youtu.be/1Mp-WnljquM

Chuck Todd’s Trump interview, and the backlash to it, explained - Vox

The NBC anchor wasn't prepared, and Trump took advantage.
https://www.vox.com/2019/6/24/18715361/trump-chuck-todd-meet-the-press-interview-explained

“Somebody Is Going to Die”: Lawyer Describes Chaos, Illness & Danger at Migrant Child Jail in Texas

Outrage is mounting over a shocking Associated Press report published late last week revealing that at least 250 migrant infants, children and teenagers have been locked up for nearly a month without adequate food, water or sanitation at a Border Patrol station in Clint, Texas, near the city of El Paso. Lawyers who visited the facility described a scene of chaos and sickness, with children unable to shower or change into clean clothes for weeks on end. The AP report came the same week that the Trump administration argued in federal court that the government is not required to provide toothbrushes, soap or beds to children detained at the border, and as other reports found similarly squalid conditions at a number of immigration jails. We speak with Warren Binford, a lawyer who interviewed children detained at the Clint, Texas, facility...
https://youtu.be/d2_cLzl98zo

Star-Studded Cast to Perform Live Reading of "The Mueller Report" - Variety

Haven't perused the "The Mueller Report" yet? A star-studded cast including Annette Bening, Kevin Kline, and John Lithgow, can read it to you. For one night only on Monday, stars will perform a live reading of passages from "The Mueller Report" for a live streamed event found on the Law Works website...
https://variety.com/2019/legit/news/annette-bening-john-lithgow-mueller-report-1203251423/

No Wonder Trump’s White House Is a Total Dumpster Fire - Vanity Fair

The slapdash nature of the administration's vetting process, confirmed by a new tranche of leaked documents, set the tone for two years of messy and avoidable staffing drama. More worryingly it reveals how little Trump cares...
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/06/trump-white-house-vetting-process

Mike Pence is just helpless - The Washington Post: Opinion

But the Trump administration is not powerless in fixing appalling conditions at detention centers, and Pence knows it.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/06/23/mike-pence-is-just-helpless/

Fact-checking Mike Pence on CNN's State of the Union - CNN Politics

In an interview Sunday with CNN's Jake Tapper, Vice President Mike Pence made a few incorrect statements over US air and water quality, job growth, and the President's claims about going to the FBI should a foreign government offer dirt on a political opponent.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/23/politics/mike-pence-jake-tapper-fact-check/index.html

Trump, Pence falsely blame Democrats for detained children suffering at the border - ThinkProgress.org

President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence both tried to blame Democrats for the inhumane conditions suffered by children and families detained on the southern U.S. border during interviews that aired on Sunday. Reports this week revealed migrant children detained in U.S. custody for weeks without sufficient food, water, or sanitation...
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-pence-falsely-blame-democrats-for-detained-children-suffering-at-the-border-ef6875464db7/