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CLASSIC EPISODE FROM OCTOBER 2, 2017
–On the Show:
–Bill Scher, Contributing Editor to Politico Magazine, joins David to discuss his position that Democrats should not make supporting single-payer health care part of their platform
–Fifty-eight are killed and more than four hundred are wounded after a shooting at an outdoor country music festival Sunday night in Las Vegas in what is being called the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history; the perpetrator has been identified as 64-year-old Stephen Paddock who was found dead of an apparent suicide when SWAT entered the Mandalay Bay Hotel room where he committed the crime
–Tom Price, Secretary of Health and Human Services, resigns amidst controversy over the chartering of private jets at a cost of over one million dollars to the taxpayer, adding to a long list of firings and resignations just nine months into the Trump administration
–San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz calls upon President Trump to take leadership in the cleanup of Puerto Rico after Hurricanes Maria and Irma devastate the island, to which the president responded by attacking the mayor on Twitter from his golf resort in New Jersey
–Donald Trump dedicates the Presidents Cup golf trophy, a meaningless and useless symbol of privilege, to hurricane victims in Texas, Florida, and Puerto Rico
–Deportations are down under President Trump, on pace to fall behind the 240,255 immigrants deported by ICE during the 2016 fiscal year, despite Trump’s push for tougher immigration enforcement
–In the special election for US Senator from Alabama, Democrat Doug Jones trails Republican Roy Moore by only 5.7%, according to a poll conducted by Opinion Savvy and commissioned by Decision Desk HQ
–Voicemail caller weighs in on the top Hatriot Mail of the year
–On the Bonus Show: Catalonia’s independence vote devolves into chaos, Colorado bans certain edible pot shapes, ex-congressman running for his old seat after prison, and much more…
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