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Firing Line with Margaret Hoover

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Firing Line with Margaret Hoover

@FiringLineShow

A rigorous contest of ideas in the Firing Line tradition, every week on @PBS with @MargaretHoover Pod: bit.ly/FLMH4 YouTube: bit.ly/FLMYT4

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Joined March 2018

Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
@FiringLineShow
Aug 30, 2024
"There's absolutely no evidence," says @beckerdavidj of @elonmusk's claim that Democrats are "importing" migrants to vote illegally. Michigan Sec. of State @JocelynBenson adds Musk is amplifying "unsourced or easily debunkable information" instead of listening to facts.
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Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
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Nov 12, 2021
"Certainly the United States, with today's condition, you can easily have an authoritarian," says artist and activist Ai Weiwei — @aiww — who challenged China and became a political prisoner. "In many ways, you are already in the authoritarian state. You just don't know it."
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Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
@FiringLineShow
Oct 17, 2024
Former #GOP Pennsylvania @RepCharlieDent has announced he voted for @KamalaHarris. Gov. @JoshShapiroPA says Dent's endorsement is "really meaningful." "I'm seeing more and more Republicans and independents, importantly, begin to line up behind #KamalaHarris."
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Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
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Apr 9, 2023
In his book, former Mueller prosecutor @AWeissmann_ recounts Paul Manafort meeting with a Putin ally over a proposed deal allowing Russia to take control of part of Ukraine with #Trump's implicit approval. "It was such a clear indication of what Vladimir Putin was trying to do."
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Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
@FiringLineShow
Jan 29, 2019
"It's one of the most loathsome, disgusting crimes that I prosecuted...and I was the U.S. attorney in New Jersey." @ChrisChristie talks about prosecuting Charles Kushner for tax evasion, illegal campaign contributions and witness tampering. #FiringLineShowPBS
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Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
@FiringLineShow
Sep 18, 2019
.@AndrewYang wants to move toward "human capitalism.” He tells @FiringLineShow the problem with a purely capitalistic approach is that we "assumed that human workers would be central to the process of optimizing our capital,” but he says that’s no longer the case.
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Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
@FiringLineShow
Apr 30, 2019
.@StephenMoore explains his 2016 joke about Donald Trump moving into the White House and kicking “a black family out of public housing.” Moore says, “That is a joke I always made,” adding he didn’t mean it “like a black person” lived there. “I shouldn’t have said it,” he says.
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Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
@FiringLineShow
Oct 23, 2020
.@PeteButtigieg on being on Fox News: “You're not going to win everybody over” but “you can reach people if you start with some level of good faith.” “Some of these ideas might…be something that viewers haven't heard” & “someone like me has a responsibility to present” them.
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Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
@FiringLineShow
Dec 9, 2021
NEW: @GovChristie says it’s "inexcusable" Mark Meadows didn’t reveal President Trump's positive COVID test during debate prep and "saved it for a book." So does Christie, who spent a week in intensive care with the virus, believe Trump infected him? "I think it’s undeniable."
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Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
@FiringLineShow
May 23, 2024
"She has decided that she is going to put her finger on the scale." Conservative lawyer @gtconway3d says Trump-appointed Judge Cannon has shown a "very, very disturbing" mix of "incompetence and corruption" in Trump's classified docs case. "Her behavior has been so extreme."
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Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
@FiringLineShow
May 9, 2019
"I don't want to see the country destroyed." Director @RobReiner talks about channeling his political activism into the 2020 election. He says he hopes the Dems don't pick fights with each other because he wants "the strongest person to emerge...to take on Donald Trump."
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Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
@FiringLineShow
Sep 17, 2019
Presidential candidate @AndrewYang warns of a 4th industrial revolution fueled by the rise of robotics and A.I. "Donald Trump is a symptom of this 4th industrial revolution," he tells @FiringLineShow. "The transition is going to be messy almost no matter what we do.”
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Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
@FiringLineShow
Feb 23, 2019
The rigged figure skating competition rocked the 2002 Olympics. Andrew McCabe says the Russian gangster behind it also ran a money laundering scheme out of Trump Tower and was at Miss Universe in Moscow. The ex-FBI Deputy adds, “I don’t really believe in coincidence.”
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Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
@FiringLineShow
Dec 2, 2024
#DonaldTrump intends to nominate Charles Kushner as ambassador to France. As a U.S. attorney, @GovChristie prosecuted Kushner for tax evasion and witness tampering. Christie told @MargaretHoover Kushner's case was "one of the most loathsome, disgusting crimes" he had handled.
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