Eddie Jason & Chris: Interviews and Current Events

Analaysis of the secret Trump / Cohen tape that alludes to campaign finance violations, America's CEOs enjoy the GOP's tax "reform" with giant bonuses, and Jeff Sessions announces a #ReligiousLibertyTaskForce

On this special edition of It's News to Us, Eddie and Jason avoid hard politics and depressing stories to catch up on the wacky news they haven't had time for. For their mental health and yours, this episode is doctor recommended.*

Is DJT reshaping the Federal Judiciary branch? Attorney General Jeff Sessions gets rid of legal protections for minorities. And, musicians are getting hurt on stage an awful lot.  Brought to you by Google Play, now with audiobooks! Go to g.co/play/newstous to get $10 off your first one. Sources (raw link dump): http://fortune.com/2018/07/08/trump-supreme-court-nominee-appellate-judges/ https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/07/trump-supreme-court-nomination-180709104541613.html https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/05/06/trumps-judges-ruling-politics-prayer-executions-race/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2018/03/12/trump-appoints-lots-of-white-men-to-be-federal-judges-heres-why-it-matters/ http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/380878-trump-blasts-obama-for-leaving-so-many-judicial-vacancies […]

The trade war has begun, what does that do to your savings account and free trade? CNN creates a beautiful montage of President Trump verbally attacking journalists. Does this behavior incite and encourage violence against journalists? NBA’s LeBron James goes west for more fame and fortune.  Sources (raw link dump): https://www.marketwatch.com/story/stop-the-trade-war-businesses-are-shouting-to-trump-2018-07-02 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-01/trump-s-trade-war-arrives-in-the-data-as-china-awaits-tariffs https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-29/shots-fired-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-trade-war https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/evkyyw/trump-hopes-fart-will-get-congresss-attention https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-01/trade-war-is-giving-bmw-ford-and-tesla-a-whiplash-in-china https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/jul/01/trump-will-soon-find-that-winning-a-trade-war-is-not-that-easy https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/jul/01/trump-will-soon-find-that-winning-a-trade-war-is-not-that-easy https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-07-02/401-k-s-could-be-a-casualty-of-trump-s-trade-war […]

DJT tweeted Sunday morning that migrants are to be “immediately” deported without a trial. Has he ever heard of fucking The 14th Amendment? Awarded and talented musician and women’s/LGBTQ rights activist, Otep Shamaya joins the show. Finally, DJT said he demands the immediate process necessary to create a…Space Force?? Otep: https://www.facebook.com/otepofficial https://twitter.com/otepofficial https://instagram.com/otepofficial Merch: http://otepsaves.me SnapChat: […]

Children are being ripped from their parents inside the USA’s immigration processing centers. The meeting between Lil Kim Jong and DJT. And finally, we covered former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort on our last episode. We have a little update on this story. Sources (raw link dump): https://nypost.com/2018/06/18/how-children-live-inside-cramped-immigration-detention-centers/ https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/mcallen-texas-immigration-processing-center-largest-u-s-n884126 https://www.democracynow.org/2018/6/18/whistleblower_i_quit_my_child_detention http://www.newsweek.com/g00/donald-trump-jr-likes-tweet-suggesting-children-separated-parents-border-are-981126?i10c.encReferrer=&i10c.ua=1&i10c.dv=14 https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/trumpcamps-goes-viral-on-twitter-to-describe-kids-immigrant-centers-1.6181446 https://www.propublica.org/article/children-separated-from-parents-border-patrol-cbp-trump-immigration-policy http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/392801-manchin-becomes-final-democrat-to-back-bill-preventing-separation https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-family-separate-homeland-security-kirstjen-nielsen-immigration-children-a8404671.html […]

Robert Muller places a witness tampering indictment against Paul Manafort (Donald Trumps ex-campaign chair). The FCC repeals net neutrality and it’s currently in effect. What now? Finally, police shut down a lemonade stand run by a group of children.  Sources (raw link dump): https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/08/special-counsel-robert-mueller-files-new-indictment-against-paul-manafort-nbc-news.html https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/3k4j7n/konstantin-kilimnik-photos-russia-manafort https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-manafort/ex-trump-campaign-aide-manafort-to-be-arraigned-on-new-charges-friday-idUSKBN1J725M https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/may/17/paul-manafort-jeffrey-yohai-son-in-law-robert-mueller https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/08/politics/paul-manafort-response-mueller/index.html https://medium.com/@fightfortheftr/ajit-pais-repeal-of-net-neutrality-officially-goes-into-effect-today-6e03a8991b95 https://thenextweb.com/opinion/2018/06/11/rip-net-neutrality-ajit-pais-fuck-you-to-the-american-people-becomes-official/ https://thenextweb.com/us/2018/02/16/fcc-chief-ajit-pai-is-being-investigated-for-corruption-by-his-own-agency/ https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/11/17439456/net-neutrality-dead-ajit-pai-fcc-internet http://denver.cbslocal.com/2018/05/29/lemonade-stand-shut-down/

The New York Times published two confidential memos President Donald Trump’s legal team sent to Special Counsel Robert Mueller. The question: can Trump pardon himself? The worst congressional candidate in history (he’s a pedophile). Will the robots take YOUR job? 

Another school shooting, and now the “Elected Idiots” come out to comment and lend their half-assed solutions.  ZTE and DJT…Representative Adam Schiff believes DJT is violating the Constitution’s emoluments clause. And, The Supreme Court struck down a federal law that prohibits sports gambling. 

  Pay-to-Play, that’s the name of the game for Trump’s administration through Michael Cohen’s shady shell company. A special team at the Education Department that had been investigating abuses by for-profit colleges (DeVry and others) replaced by former employees of the same for-profit colleges that were under investigation. A Democratic congressional candidate drops a hard F-Bomb […]

Who is Michael Cohen? A little background on Trump’s personal attorney. An origin story no one asked for.  The Europe General Protection Regulation places regulations on the internet companies that mine our data. Will it come to the USA? The depths of Depp: the once beloved actor is now being sued, and is no longer considered to […]

  In 1984, an official from the Trump Organization called to tell reporter Jonathan Greenberg (then working for Forbes) how loaded Donald Trump was…the man’s name was John Barron, Donald Trump’s alter ego. We have the audio.  Plus, is Trump’s travel ban constitutional? Legal expert Joseph Tartakovsky joins It’s News to Us to discuss. And, […]

Former FBI Director James Comey sits down with ABC News, his first interview since being fired by Donald Trump. We digest it and review his recent controversy in Washington. Plus, what happened in Syria and will it lead to World War III? And, good looking guys can say vile things to women on Twitter…and get away […]

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Secretary Scott Pruitt is spending your hard earned coin on flying first class (with caviar wishes and champagne dreams, we assume), swanky Washington DC condos, and giving his bros huge raises. Time to answer some Q’s.   President Trump Twitter vomited on Amazon, accusing the online retailer of evading taxes and making […]

The first episode of the Roseanne revival premiered last week on ABC, a record-setting 26 million people tuned in, with the aim of getting a politically divided country to talk to each other.  Local TV news stations owned by Sinclair gave the same mandated speech to their anchors. Some say this is using the trust built […]