Barack Obama on Democracy, Gaza and 2024
It’s Election Day, with big implications for abortion, democracy, and much more in Ohio, Virginia, Kentucky, and Mississippi. It's also one year out from the 2024 presidential election, and a new set of battleground polls in the New York Times shows Donald Trump ahead of Joe Biden just about everywhere. Meanwhile, Trump takes the stand in his civil fraud case while his advisors draw up plans to use the military against protesters if he wins the election. Then, Barack Obama sits down with Jon, Tommy, Dan and Alyssa Mastromonaco for an expansive conversation on democracy, violence in the middle east, and his memories of winning the presidency fifteen years ago. For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of this episode, please email [email protected] and include the name of the podcast.
- Duration
- 1h 21m
- Broadcast on
- 07 Nov 2023
- Audio Format
- other
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(upbeat music) - Welcome to Pot State of America, I'm John Favreau. - I'm Tommy's accountability partner, John Lovett. - Oh my God, I'm Tommy Peter. That's my worst nightmare. (laughing) - On Today's Show. - We're weird. - I have a different feeling about it. (laughing) - Go. - On Today's Show, we'll get to that later. On Today's Show, Donald Trump takes the stand in his civil fraud case. His advisors draw out plans to use the military against protesters if he wins the election. A new set of battleground polls in the New York Times show Trump ahead of Joe Biden just about everywhere. Speaker Mike Johnson uses an app to monitor his son's porn intake and later our interview with Barack Obama on the 15th anniversary of his 2008 election. - Oh man. - How about that for a description of the show? - Couple accountability partners getting together in Chicago. (laughing) - Think you would have done this if we told him what was his lead in? - Probably not. - But first, it's election day, where Ohio will vote on a ballot measure that would protect abortion access. Virginia will decide whether to give Republican Governor Glenn Yunken, the Republican legislature he needs to ban abortion. Kentucky will decide what polls are now showing is a very close race between Democratic Governor Andy Beshear and Republican anti-abortion extremist Daniel Cameron. And Mississippi decides whether to elect a Democratic governor for the first time in 20 years. If you live in these states or other places with elections on Tuesday, go vote. - Pennsylvania, Supreme Court. - Thank you, Tommy. - Thank you, big election there. - There's some New York City elections as well, local elections there. There's elections, people. If you need more info, if you wanna know whether there's an election near you or how you can help, head to voteshaveamerica.com as always and we'll be breaking down all the results later this week.
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It’s Election Day, with big implications for abortion, democracy, and much more in Ohio, Virginia, Kentucky, and Mississippi. It's also one year out from the 2024 presidential election, and a new set of battleground polls in the New York Times shows Donald Trump ahead of Joe Biden just about everywhere. Meanwhile, Trump takes the stand in his civil fraud case while his advisors draw up plans to use the military against protesters if he wins the election. Then, Barack Obama sits down with Jon, Tommy, Dan and Alyssa Mastromonaco for an expansive conversation on democracy, violence in the middle east, and his memories of winning the presidency fifteen years ago. For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of this episode, please email [email protected] and include the name of the podcast.