FBI Investigating an Apparent ‘Attempted Assassination’ of Donald Trump

We're officially fewer than 50 days out from Election Day. While most of the attention has been on the five states that decided the 2020 race for President Joe Biden – Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Georgia, and Arizona — there's another state that went for former President Donald Trump that Democrats are putting back in play this year: North Carolina. Trump won the state by a little more than a point four years ago, but polls now Harris has a chance of becoming the first Democrat since Barack Obama in 2008 to turn the state blue. Anderson Clayton, chair of the state Democratic Party, joins us to talk about what Harris needs to do to win North Carolina in November.

And in headlines: The FBI is investigating another apparent assassination attempt targeting former President Trump, Republican Vice Presidential Nominee J.D. Vance seemed to admit to making up racist stories about Haitian immigrants eating dogs and cats in Ohio, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will retaliate against the Yemen-based Houthi militia after the group claimed responsibility for launching a missile into the country.

CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
00:10 Headlines
04:10 North Carolina and the Upcoming Election
07:37 Anderson Clayton Interview
16:26 Trump and TikTok
18:41 Closing

Show Notes:

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[desireeeeam]

I’m 37 and have also never felt so patriotic, inspired and moved by a candidate. Oh I love that girl for sharing that!

[MarioJaker]

JD is disgusting. Thanks for showing that clip of him reading to Dana’s follow-up, I hadn’t seen that. Not a fan of Dana or CNN but credit where it’s due, she bothered to call a candidate out to his face.

[peggyvansickle]

Great exposure for North Carolina!!! What a great show. What a great leader of the Democratic Party. Young. That is what we need to get more younger generations involved in the party to draw in more young care and voters!!! Thank you for bringing this state and its bad candidates into light. It is so important. Anderson knows her shit and knows how how to express it well! You go girl!!

[robertrodriguez]

I smelled JD’s brain catching on fire. He literally froze and lost his hearing. 😂

[shelshele]

Stumbled on this channel today, I’m so glad I did! I’m 57 and love to see young people advocating for themselves!

[story]

Ok the pause was hilarious. You could literally hear him say "oh shit" in his head. 😆 This was always my favorite part of teaching freshman writing too. Presentation day was so much fun, both for seeing great presentations from my strong students and watching the coasters crash and burn especially in the Q&A section. Same dead silence, slow cogs moving in the head, and panicked looks ROFL!! Good times, I miss that.

[arcticgoddess]

Great show. Loving Jane and Treville. Big ups.👍

[Peeved]

I love hearing those enthusiastic young voices.

[vanessawhitneypro]

This is the third time I've seen Just Dumb Vance try this... It's a lame "wait until they speak, then pretend you can't hear them" attempt...

[nicnic]

The only way to keep him safe is to ban him from ever playing golf again

[CrowCaw]

I’m 72 and being with enlightened young people is my Medicine. Still fighting, I’ll sleep when I die! 💙 just found you and Subscribed

[teddykgb]

Oh, my God - I love her: a young Democrat with a Southern drawl. More, please.

[auroraa]

I get the security concerns with TikTok... But why are there none of the same concerns with Meta, Twitter, Snapchat, Google or any American owned social media company? Why is it okay for the privacy concerns with those platforms to go unchecked?

[acidrain]

Seriously North Carolina residents need to sue Kennedy to get their money back. For him making them reprint ballot. He sued to get on the ballot then he sues to get off the ballot this is ridiculous. Make him pay for it!!

[johnwickey]

I like this show—the anchor is good and I think a more newsy frame balances the Crooked output. Most of the other vids that the YouTube algo feeds me (MTN, BTC etc) are fine but I’m tired of the clickbait titles and the outrage stream. Mainstream seems to miss or purposely avoid the point. Like when you went back and reminded us about 2017 and why CCP getting our data is a thing. Keep doing that. It’s really helpful.

[tbrowder]

Trump has more lives than a Springfield cat.

[bcfortenberry]

Thoughts and prayers. Not the right time to discuss gun violence. These things are just a fact of life.

[FlamingSwordOfWisdom]

I gave Diana a lot of credit. I would not have the patience to do with these people do…

[thomthom]

The story transition from eating pets to Israel was so abrupt, my head swam. Something to work on.

[alldayyeverydayy]

We sure did watch "Tiger King 😂🤣🤣