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Scaramucci Repealed & Replaced

Scaramucci repealed and replaced

Comics PAUL PROVENZA, BEN GLEIB & BRUCE SMIRNOFF Plus Down With Tyranny’s HOWIE KLEIN on General Kelly replacing General Chaos, Scaramucci leaving White House to spend more time without his family, and who to watch at the Montreal Just For Laugh’s festival.

Paul Provenza directed The Aristocrats and hosts The Green Room on Showtime. Ben Gleib hosts Idiotest on The Game Show Network. His Showtime special is Neurotic Gangster. Howie Klein writes the Down With Tyranny blog and is the country’s leading authority on progressive politics. Bruce Smirnoff is one of comedy’s greatest storytellers.

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The Mattis Waiver


What is the Mattis Waiver? In order for General James Mattis to be confirmed for Secretary of Defense both houses of congress must pass a law reducing the number of years an officer must be away from the military in order to run the pentagon. Mattathias Schwartz from The Intercept joins us from Capitol Hill to tell us why civilian rule of the military is enshrined into our constitution.

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