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The MAGA vs. Mitch McConnell battle heats up with Trump’s return to public life, Joe Biden and progressives debate how much student debt to cancel, and Texas suffers from freezing storms and rolling blackouts while Ted Cruz jets off to Cancun. Then Dr. Anthony Fauci talks to Jon about variants, vaccination timelines, and what he’s learned from this pandemic.

For resources about how to help those affected by the storms in Texas or get help, check out this Texas Tribune article.

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Donald Trump prepares his exit from the White House, leaving a failed response to the covid-19 pandemic and an attempted coup in his wake. In the final pod o. The official online store for Crooked Media and Vote Save America merchandise. Featuring t-shirts, sweatshirts, masks and accessories for podcasts like Pod Save America, Lovett.

Mitch and Trump

• The Hill: READ: Trump statement ripping into McConnell
• Politico: Trump attacks McConnell in fiery statement
• NYT: Trump, in Scorching Attack on McConnell, Urges G.O.P. to Replace Him
• Politico: Johnson: McConnell doesn’t ‘speak for the conference’ on Trump’s culpability for riot
• TPM: Ron Johnson Joins Graham In Bashing McConnell For Scolding Trump After Acquittal
• CNN: McConnell’s plan to deal with Trump: Ignore him
• Business Insider: Lindsey Graham says Republicans ‘don’t have a snowball’s chance in hell’ of regaining a Senate majority without Trump
• WaPo: County GOP chairman in Kentucky calls on McConnell to resign from leadership over remarks on Trump’s responsibility for Jan. 6 attack
• Daily Beast: Hannity Calls for McConnell to Be Replaced as GOP Senate Leader
• United States Senate: Responsibilities of Majority and Minority Leaders
• CNN: McConnell and Schumer reelected as Senate party leaders
• The Hill: Trump to appear on ‘Hannity’ in wake of Limbaugh’s death
• NPR: Trump Praises Limbaugh, Who Died Wednesday, As A ‘Legend’

Student debt

• NYT: In Milwaukee, Biden Offers Reassurance, and Tries to Avoid Mention of ‘the Former Guy’
• Politico: Biden focuses on K-8 in recasting benchmark on opening schools
• WaPo: Biden indicates he’s open to negotiation on $15 minimum wage
• CNN: Biden again rejects $50,000 student loan debt forgiveness plan pushed by other top Democrats
• Vox: The debate over Joe Biden canceling student debt, explained
• CNBC: President Biden’s executive order extends federal student loan payment freeze for 8 months—what experts say borrowers should do
• NPR: President Biden Extends Student Loan Payment Freeze Through Sept. 30
• WaPo: After Biden request, Education Department extends pause on federal student loan payments through September
• Slate: Biden Says “No” to Democrat-Backed $50,000 Student Debt Forgiveness Plan
• USA Today – Fact check: Student loan debt still exists, despite viral social media claim
• Axios: Warren, Schumer double down on push to cancel student debt after Biden rejects plan
• Bloomberg: Schumer, Warren Challenge Biden on Student Debt Cancellation
• Data for Progress: THE PRESIDENT DOESN’T NEED CONGRESS TO CANCEL STUDENT LOAN DEBT. DEMOCRATS WILL PUSH FOR ACTION IN 2021
• Reuters: Biden will ask DOJ to review his authority to cancel student loan debt – White House
• Forbes: Why Biden Can’t Cancel Student Loans—This Memo Explains All
• The Hill: Ocasio-Cortez: ‘The case against student loan forgiveness is looking shakier by the day’
• CNN: Key Democrats unhappy with Biden’s reluctance to cancel $50,000 in student debt
• Business Insider: Several top Democrats break with Biden and push back on his reluctance to cancel $50,000 in student-loan debt
• NBC: Most Black voters support eliminating student loan debt, new survey finds
• Vox: Americans want to cancel student loans — but not all of them
• CNBC: Students lament Biden refusal to cancel $50,000 in student debt
• The Cut: Biden’s Cowardly Answer on Student Debt

Texas / Winter weather

• Bloomberg: Texas Power Crisis Is Getting Worse With Millions Left in Dark
• AP: Millions endure record cold without power; at least 20 dead
• NYT: Texans are still waiting for power to return, with more snow on the way.
• WaPo: Live updates: Deaths mount, millions still without power amid new snow, ice storm
• Texas Tribune: “We’re in it alone”: Power outages leave millions of Texans desperate for heat and safety
• NYT: Texas Blackouts Hit Minority Neighborhoods Especially Hard
• WaPo: Freezing temperatures and power outages hurt Texas’s most vulnerable yet again
• NY Mag: Extreme Winter Weather Wreaks Havoc Across U.S.
• AP: Crippling storm hampers vaccinations as FEMA opens new sites
• Texas Tribune: How to help and get help in Texas as the winter storm causes power outages
• Austin American Statesman: How to help, and what to do if you need it, during Texas’ historic freeze
• Texas Tribune Analysis: Analysis: Working political angles instead of solving problems
• Houston Chronicle: Perry says Texans willing to suffer blackouts to keep feds out of power market
• WaPo: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott blames wind turbines, Green New Deal policies for outages. Critics call that ‘a lie.’
• ABC News: Texas blackouts fuel false claims about renewable energy
• WaPo: The Texas grid got crushed because its operators didn’t see the need to prepare for cold weather
• Vox: Why the Texas power grid is struggling to cope with the extreme cold
• NY Mag: No, the Green New Deal Did Not Cause the Texas Power Outage
• Media Matters: How Fox News is exploiting Texas’ power outages to fearmonger about clean energy
• The New Republic: Conservatives Are Seriously Accusing Wind Turbines of Killing People in the Texas Blackouts
• The Hill: ‘I got no defense’ Ted Cruz admits in controversy over energy policies in California and Texas
• Salon: Texas Republicans mocked California for blackouts. Now their tweets are coming back to haunt them
• The Hill: Texas lawmakers’ tweets mocking California power outages resurface amid winter storm
• Axios: Biden administration sending generators to Texas amid power outages
• The Guardian: Kamala Harris promises federal relief for Texas victims of winter storms
• The Hill: Biden speaks with governors of states hit by severe weather
• NYT: A Glimpse of America’s Future: Climate Change Means Trouble for Power Grids
• Politico: Biden gets his first energy crisis — and an opening
• LA Times: Texas blackouts show the power grid isn’t ready for climate change
• Joe Biden.com: THE BIDEN PLAN TO BUILD A MODERN, SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE AND AN EQUITABLE CLEAN ENERGY FUTURE
• Bloomberg: Biden’s Plea to Remake Grid Gets a Boost on Texas Power Crisis
• WSJ: Biden to Meet With Unions Pushing for Infrastructure Spending
• NBC News: Biden prepares to move to next phase of his agenda with infrastructure push
• Politico: Biden administration talks infrastructure — but not a price tag
• WaPo Analysis: What Does a Green Grid Mean, and Can Biden Make One?
• The Atlantic: I’m Freezing Cold and Burning Mad in Texas
• WaPo Analysis: The politics of energy generation don’t always line up with actual energy generation
• WaPo Opinion: Opinion: Insane GOP lies about Texas offer a depressing preview of coming climate debates
• Texas Tribune: Texas lawmakers have denounced Joe Biden’s energy moves, but experts say they could benefit the state

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Pod Save America is an American progressivepolitical podcast produced and distributed by Crooked Media.^[1][2][3] The podcast debuted in January 2017 and airs twice weekly, with the Monday edition hosted by former Barack Obama staffers Jon Favreau, Tommy Vietor, and Jon Lovett, and the Thursday edition by Favreau and Dan Pfeiffer.^[4][5][6][7]

It is the flagship podcast of Crooked Media, a media company founded by Favreau, Vietor, and Lovett.^[8] The show averages more than 1.5 million listeners an episode, and has been downloaded more than 120 million times as of November 2017.^[9]

Four Pod Save America one-hour HBO TV specials aired in fall 2018 to cover the U.S. midterm elections.^[10][11] Crooked Media also films the podcasts and releases them on their YouTube channel.^[12]

History[edit]

The podcast debuted in January 2017 as a successor to Keepin' it 1600, a political podcast produced by Bill Simmons' The Ringer and hosted by Favreau, Vietor, Lovett, and Pfeiffer which ran from March to December 2016. Pod Save America maintained the basic format of its predecessor.^[13]

In an interview with Recode's Kara Swisher, the hosts have stated that, rather than continue the previous podcast, the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States spurred them to create a progressive media company with a network of podcasts. Their goal is to inform their millions of fans and viewers that trust them as a reliable source.

Tour[edit]

Crooked Media took the podcast on its first live tour, Pod Tours America, in the fall of 2017. Live shows were recorded and released as podcasts.^[14] An international tour, Pod Tours the World, was announced for 2018, with live shows in Stockholm, Oslo, Amsterdam, and London.^[15]

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Content[edit]

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The podcast typically covers recent news items relating to politics, including the Trump administration, the US government and the Democratic Party, as well as progressive grassroots activism.^[16]

The show typically features interviews with politicians, activists and journalists, including Obama's last interview as president.^[17] Other guests have included president Joe Biden, former secretary of state Hillary Clinton^[18] and senators Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker, Kamala Harris, and Chris Murphy. They have interviewed several former 2020 Democratic presidential candidates, including Sanders, Booker, Harris, Beto O'Rourke, Andrew Yang, Pete Buttigieg, Marianne Williamson, and Amy Klobuchar.^[19] Guests are often referred to as 'friends of the pod'.^[20]

Reception[edit]

The show averages more than 1.5 million listeners an episode, and had been downloaded more than 120 million times by November 2017.^[9]

The New York Times described the podcast as 'one of the big breakout hits of the nascent resistance movement',^[5] Drivers atheros bluetooth. and 'the left's answer to conservative talk radio.. with a shoestring budget and no organizational backing, its hosts seem to have created something that liberals have spent almost two decades, and hundreds of millions of dollars, futilely searching for'.^[9]

The San Francisco Chronicle called it 'one of the nation's most popular podcasts'.^[21]GQ called it one of the 'most popular strategies for coping with the looming death of the republic'.^[22]

Newsweek wrote that the show's hosts 'do something far more rare [than political analysis], which is to make politics entertaining and even fun, without ever downplaying what they see as the threat posed to American democracy by the man elected to defend it.'^[23]

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References[edit]

1. ^Stuart, Gwynedd (August 14, 2019). 'Pod Save America Has Moved Political Discourse to the Left..Coast'. Los Angeles Magazine. Retrieved August 17, 2020.
2. ^'Obama-inspired 'Pod Save America' hosts can't wait to visit deep-red Utah'. The Salt Lake Tribune. Retrieved August 17, 2020.
3. ^Politics, Ernest Luning, Colorado. 'Tommy Vietor talks 'Pod Save America,' 2020 political landscape ahead of podcast's Denver show'. Colorado Politics. Retrieved August 17, 2020.
4. ^Gillies, Craille Maguire (January 18, 2017). 'Pod save America: 12 podcasts to get you through the Trump presidency'. The Guardian.
5. ^ ^abRutenberg, Jim (March 20, 2017). 'Opposition and a Shave: Former Obama Aides Counter Trump'. The New York Times. ISSN0362-4331. Retrieved March 22, 2017.
6. ^Willis, Jay (April 6, 2017). 'The Pod Save America Guys Have Some Ideas About What President Obama Should Do Next'. GQ. Retrieved June 11, 2017.
7. ^'Crooked Media Fights Trump with 'Pod Save America''. Newsweek. March 26, 2017. Retrieved June 11, 2017.
8. ^Wilstein, Matt (January 9, 2017). 'The 'Keepin' It 1600' Guys Launch Crooked Media to Counter Trump'. The Daily Beast. Retrieved January 3, 2018.
9. ^ ^abcZengerle, Jason. 'The Voices in Blue America's Head'. Retrieved November 22, 2017.
10. ^'- HBO Announces Pod Save America Podcast Specials'. HBO.
11. ^''Pod Save America' Getting HBO Treatment With Election Specials'. hollywoodreporter.com.
12. ^'Crooked Media'. YouTube. Retrieved April 8, 2019.
13. ^''Keeping It 1600' Podcast's Obama Alums Launch New Show and 'Crooked Media' Company'. The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved January 3, 2018.
14. ^'Pod Save America announces nationwide tour'. Consequence of Sound. August 16, 2017. Retrieved January 3, 2018.
15. ^'Pod Save America and Lovett or Leave It are coming to London in January, here's how to get tickets'. The List. December 1, 2017. Retrieved January 3, 2018.
16. ^Sawyer, Miranda (March 19, 2017). 'The week in radio: Pod Save America; The Long View'. The Observer. ISSN0029-7712. Retrieved January 3, 2018.
17. ^Verdier, Hannah (January 26, 2017). 'Pod Save America – the podcast that won Obama's last interview'. The Guardian. ISSN0261-3077. Retrieved January 3, 2018.
18. ^'Hillary Clinton says Donald Trump 'is a clear and present danger to America''. The Independent. September 12, 2017. Retrieved January 3, 2018.
19. ^'Pod Save America Archives'. Crooked Media. Retrieved June 24, 2019.
20. ^'Podcasts are becoming the left's right-wing talk radio'. VICE News. Retrieved January 3, 2018.
21. ^''Pod Save America' about to take its next step'. San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved January 3, 2018.
22. ^Willis, Jay (April 6, 2017). 'The 'Pod Save America' Guys Gave Donald Trump His Best, Weirdest Nickname Yet'. GQ. Retrieved January 3, 2018.
23. ^'How the Crooked Media trio is taking on Donald Trump with 'Pod Save America''. Newsweek. March 26, 2017. Retrieved January 3, 2018.

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