4/15/25: Deporting citizens goes mainstream as dictatorship in focus

Apr 15, 2025

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-- On the Show:

-- Jonathan Allen, senior political reporter for NBC News and co-author alongside Amie Parnes of the new book "Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House," joins David to discuss the book, Biden's failed re-election campaign, the election of Donald Trump, and much more. Get the book: https://amzn.to/3Y2mwMF

-- Donald Trump's America is becoming a dictatorship, and we deep dive into why that term is not hyperbole

-- Presidents Donald Trump and Nayib Bukele of El Salvador hold a dystopian, terrifying press event at the White House

-- A shouting Stephen Miller melts down on Fox News and defends a deportation that the Trump administration has already admitted was a mistake

-- At the latest AOC/Bernie Sanders rally in Nampa, Idaho, Ocasio-Cortez refers to Donald Trump as a rapist and criminal

-- Donald Trump gets the epitome of the softball question, asked how he manages to be so healthy

-- On the Bonus Show: Bill Maher visits the White House, Social Security wrongly lists thousands of migrants as dead, Trump admin announces freeze to billions for Harvard, much more...

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