"There's a lot of just confusion over who exactly is representing the press to the president. We don't have a press secretary right now," Lumetta said. "The president said that he bans these outlets not over any particular story, but just cumulative-that he called lying-and they said there was no particular reason; I just don't like their lying."

The panel agrees Trump will probably back down. "But it would be better for him if Trump did it himself as opposed to doing it because a court ordered him to do it," Cannon added.

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21:04 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N78RAPOZwjA&t=1264s) - Angel Dad Leads Revived "VOICE" Office

Joe Abraham explains how the revived ICE Victims Of Immigration Crime Engagement (VOICE) Office
program is helping victims navigate criminal cases, immigration issues, notifications, and social-service resources.

"Certainly I'd rather just be back home and with Katie than out here trying to create an office that's really going to help victims of immigration-related crime," he said. "Wouldn't it have been great for me when that happened to call one number that could help me navigate a lot of the complexities of this?"

"If one shooting by ICE gets this much attention, what about tens of thousands of Angel families?" he said. "Is it just too many for people to get their arms around?"

"I don't like the one-sided ledger and the selective compassion and the blind empathy and compassion I have to have on one side," he said. "I don't know how I decouple the policies and the politics of an environment that was created by policy and politics that helped kill my daughter."

"Enough of the slogans. That means nothing."

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36:41 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N78RAPOZwjA&t=2201s) - Ellisons Get CNN

The panel questions California's claim of an antitrust victory and considers the future of CNN under David and Larry Ellison's Paramount.

"CNN was innovative in 1980. It's not so innovative anymore," Cannon said. "I'd like them to get back to their roots and have less commentary and more news, but that's just me."

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42:22 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N78RAPOZwjA&t=2542s) - Susan Collins & the FBI?

The episode ends with a report about a shelved FBI investigation involving people connected to Sen. Susan Collins, questioning the timing of the story coming out a few weeks before an election.

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"It seems like a partisan hit. It just does, this close to the election.




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