2486 - Trump's Assault on the Regulatory State & Canada's Elections w/ Rohit Chopra & Luke Savage

04/29/25 • 84 min

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It's Newsday Tuesday. Up top, Sam and Emma take in the White House's angry response to the news that Amazon had started to display the cost of tariffs on it's orders on one of its websites, before Amazon quickly back-peddled and apologized.

Sam and Emma then talk to the former head of the CFPB and the FTC Rohit Chopra on the Trump administration taking a sledgehammer to regulations and consumer protections.

After that, Canadian writer and podcaster Luke Savage breaks down the results of Canada's elections and what it means for the future of Canada-U.S. relations.

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As well as his delightful film podcast Michael and Us: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/michael-and-us/id1120756155

In the Fun Half, Emma and Sam check in on Trump's nominee for U.S. attorney in Washington, DC Ed Martin and his efforts to distance himself from his right wing media appearances, including his repeated praise of a January 6th rioter and apparent Nazi sympathizer. Meanwhile, Chuck Schumer says he's sent a strongly worded letter to the Trump administration over their crackdown on academia, but also goes out of his way to denounce what he said were antisemitic incidents on college campuses. Andrew Callaghan tries to talk some sense into Patrick Bet-David regarding the relationship between homelessness, social welfare programs and taxation, to no avail.

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Sam and Emma then talk to the former head of the CFPB and the FTC Rohit Chopra on the Trump administration taking a sledgehammer to regulations and consumer protections.

After that, Canadian writer and podcaster Luke Savage breaks down the results of Canada's elections and what it means for the future of Canada-U.S. relations.

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Previous Episode

2485 - Trump's Tariff Blowback & Battles In The Courts w/ Elie Mystal

It was a busy news weekend so it's a pretty jam-packed show today. First Emma and Sam take in the latest Trump administration spin on the blowback from their self-imposed tariff disaster. After that, they're joined by The Nation's legal analyst and justice correspondent Elie Mystal who breaks down some of the overarching legal issues that have emerged in Trump's first 100 days.

Elie also has a new book out, “Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining America" which is available here: https://thenewpress.org/books/bad-law/

Also check out Elie's writing in The Nation:

In a Normal World, Harvard’s Lawsuit Against Trump Would Be a Slam Dunk: https://www.thenation.com/authors/elie-mystal/

Did the Supreme Court Just Grow a Spine? https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/did-the-supreme-court-just-grow-a-spine/

After that, Sam and Emma react to the news that Rep. Gerry Connolly is stepping down as ranking member of the House Oversight Committee due to his worsening health. Basically at this point there's no good reason that the party shouldn't back AOC to replace him. In the Fun Half, Sam, Emma and Matt react to "Mr. Wonderful" attacking AOC by saying she's against the American dream because she's rallying tens of thousands of people against oligarchs. Then, Republican congressman Mike Lawler gets shouted out by a room full of his constituents over his acquiescence to Donald Trump. Meanwhile, Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker is in New Hampshire (gee, I wonder why) where he gave a fiery speech where he calls for mass protests against the Trump administration, saying that Republicans "must not know peace."

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Next Episode

2487 - Economy Shrinks In Trump's First 100 Days; GOP War on Social Security w/ Martin O'Malley

The U.S. economy shrunk by 0.3% in the first quarter of 2025 according to the Commerce Department. That's a huge splash of cold water on the Trump administration's celebrations marking his first 100 days in office. In addition to that, Trump gave an interview to ABC News last night where he acknowledges he could bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back from El Salvador if he wanted to, seemingly flouting the Supreme Court's order to do just that. So what is Chuck Schumer up to? He's put out a video literally clapping back against the administration's planned tax on cars. Great to see he's always on point!

Sam is joined by Biden's former Social Security administrator Martin O'Malley, who has been raising the alarm about Republicans' assault on his former agency in a variety of ways.

In the Fun Half, Sam look at more clips from Trump's 100 day celebrations, including a chilling moment at a rally in Michigan where Trump plays footage of prisoners in El Salvador's prison are paraded around for the cameras and have their heads shaved. The crowd chants U-S-A in response. Trump also apparently believes that the photoshopped version of Kilmar Abrego Garcia's hands with the letters MS13 imposed on them is a real photograph, and insists as much in his interview with ABC's Terry Moran. Meanwhile, Tim Pool tries to dispel what the right has come to call the "Maryland Man Hoax," which is the way they try to distract people from paying attention to the very real injustices at play in Abrego Garcia's deportation and imprisonment.

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