"James Comey needed to be ousted, whoever was in the White House," Miller Center Senior Fellow Saikrishna Prakash, a constitutional law expert, tells POLITICO Magazine
In this week's episode, Niki, Natalia, and Neil discuss the causes of the Fyre Festival fiasco, the anniversary of the LA uprisings, and the history of US-North Korea relations.
It was a bad week for wannabe-fascists. The American alt-right tried to throw the French presidential election into chaos, spreading stolen emails from the campaign of socialist-turned-centrist Emmanuel Macron. It failed spectacularly.
President Lyndon Johnson talked with advisors about violent civil rights demonstrations around the country and Congressional opposition to proposed tax increases and to more spending for the war in Vietnam. Marc Selverstone talked about events from July 1967.
"Really this should have happened a long time ago. The Republicans have been saying for seven years they were going to do this, and I don't know what took so long. And I think a lot of people felt like I did. Like, you keep promising you're going to do it - well, time to do it. And so good for them for getting it done."
