Majority Report

Feb 27 2025 159 mins 5

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It's an EmMajority Report Thursday! She speaks with Trita Parsi, Executive Vice President at the Quincy Institute For Responsible Statecraft, to discuss the U.S.'s recent turn against its allies and towards Russia and other world powers. Then, she speaks with Hanno Hauenstein, independent journalist based in Berlin, to recap the German election results from this past Sunday and what to look for going forward. First, Emma runs through updates on the decimation of USAID, Trump’s attacks on the EPA, DOGE’s fraud/waste/abuse, the looting of HUD, the FAA’s new pitch for Elon’s Starlink, the IRS, the GOP’s Medicaid cuts, RFK’s first US-based measles death, a new illness out of the Congo, and Israel’s escalations in the West Bank, before watching Trump make the whole cabinet bend the knee to Elon Musk in front of the press. Trita Parsi then joins, as he and Emma dive right into Trump’s immediate pivot on US-Russia and Ukraine relations, including siding with Russia and Israel on the UN stage and blanket rejecting criticism of Russia or a diplomatic track for the invasion of Ukraine, and the obvious and direct parallels with Biden’s unapologetic support for Israel, with Trump acting much more as an accelerant – rather than an opposite – to Democratic Party foreign policy. After touching on Sleepy Joe’s expansions on the Trump-era Abraham Accords, Parsi parses through Biden’s general effort on the global stage to undermine international law and American soft power in the lead up to a second Trump Administration, before wrapping up the interview with the impending response to Trump’s Gaza ethnic cleansing plan from Arab leaders in the region, and the importance of meeting Trump’s extreme plan with a bolder response: a Palestinian State. Hanno Hauenstein then joins, first briefly running through the rise and fall of Germany’s “Traffic Light coalition” between Social Democrats, Greens, and Neoliberals in the vacuum of Merkel’s coalition, until the growing threat of the far-right over the past few years saw the centrist coalition – like many other centrist governments in the West – attempt to co opt the extremist AfD’s talking points under softer, liberal language, unfortunately gutting their own popularity instead of AfD’s, with the party winning 20% of the vote. After expanding on AfD’s recent evolution, and the rest of the German right’s theoretical refusal to go into coalition with AfD, Hanno and Emma briefly touch on the genuine boost felt by the Left party in the recent election, dive much deeper into the collapse of the Social Democrats and Greens, and the major anti-Palestinian crackdown that has faced the German left over the last year and a half, before wrapping up by emphasizing the threat posed by a growing far-right in Germany.

And in the Fun Half: Emma is joined by Brandon Sutton and Matt Binder as they unpack New York’s ongoing Democratic Primary for Mayor, from Zohran Mamdani separating himself from the progressive pack to the ever-developing Eric Adams crashout. They also listen to Ben Shapiro brazenly lie to his listeners about Medicaid, and discuss Trump’s release of the Tate brothers to the shagrin of… Ron DeSantis? Plus, your calls and IMs!

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2/27 Trump & The Axis Of Aggressors; German Election Results w/ Trita Parsi, Hanno Hauenstein (M)

Feb 27 2025 159 mins 5