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Truth Politics & Power: Big Government Edition

Truth Politics & Power is a weekly series where host Neal Conan engages with historians, journalists, scholars, poets and even comedians to explore the context and meaning of the Trump era.

Brian Balogh

Trump administration leaves room for uncertainty in economy, despite 'very solid' jobs report

Regardless of policy, the president's difficulty maintaining his composure is leading to "storm clouds on the horizon," said Chris Lu, deputy Labor secretary under former President Barack Obama. While the president's legislative agenda on repatriation, tax reform and health care may have trouble getting through the Hill, Lu said the president is his own worst enemy.

Chris Lu

Opening Bell July 7, 2017

Miller Center Senior Fellow Chris Lu talks to Cheddar about the latest jobs report

Chris Lu

Lu Says U.S. Wage Growth ‘Troubling’

Miller Center Senior Fellow Chris Lu is interviewed by Bloomberg Markets about recent U.S. wage growth statistics

Chris Lu

Why Trump should not swap prisoners with Erdogan

Rumors are swirling in Washington about a potential prisoner swap with Turkey. The Turks want the United States to release a Turkish-Iranian millionaire awaiting trial in Manhattan, in return for which they might free a North Carolina pastor being held in a prison in Izmir. Both men are accused of threatening national security. Yet a trade would be a grave mistake, one that would help Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to export his contempt for the rule of law to the United States.

Eric Edelman

Trump and Russia: A guide to the many investigations into 2016’s election-meddling

The Miller Center's Barbara Perry points to the investigations of Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton in forming a rough timeframe: In Mr. Nixon’s case, it took a little more than two years from the Watergate break-in to his resignation; in the case of Mr. Clinton, the investigations began shortly after he took office in 1993 and culminated with his Senate trial in early 1999. So somewhere between two and six years is the timeline. “Two years is about as fast as the American system would allow. And the founders wanted it that way: They didn’t want quick action by an authoritarian government,” she said.

Barbara Perry