18 February 2019
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Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Michael Tracey (mctracey.com)
- Bob’s take on the Roger Stone indictment . 0:06
- Why Michael is still a Russiagate skeptic . 15:55
- A broken Trump is right twice a day . 25:43
- Michael: We should’ve been immediately skeptical of Buzzfeed’s story on Cohen’s perjury . 36:50
- Why Bob thinks the BuzzFeed story is at least partly right . 48:17
- Bob and Michael debate the chances that Russiagate is a big deal . 64:52
- Are Tulsi Gabbard’s foreign policy views alarmingly weird? . 72:36
- How Michael navigated the Covington imbroglio on Twitter . 83:13
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Michael Tracey
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Recorded:Jan 23
Posted:Jan 25, 2019
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- Mindful Resistance Newsletter
- Buzzfeed’s article, “President Trump Directed His Attorney Michael Cohen To Lie To Congress About The Moscow Tower Project”
- Bob’s Wired piece, “How Trump Could Wind up Making Globalism Great Again”
- WaPo on the Buzzfeed article
- Marcy Wheeler on the Buzzfeed article
- Bob’s 2018 interview with Wheeler
- Clip of Bari Weiss on Joe Rogan
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