Episode

8/7 David Dayen: 20 Urgent Questions For President Obama

August 7, 2013

Journalist David Dayen, explained what Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac do, how the housing bubble brought us the financial crises, why Obama’s new housing policy is confused, the problem with the American obsession with home ownership and how we are creating another housing crises.

More fallout from the NSA revelations, how NSA spying is being used in domestic drug cases and how President Obama lied about the NSA program on Leno.

On The Better Half: former NSA head says that Snowden supporters are in their twenties and have not spoken to the opposite sex, did Russia access Snowden’s files? A 14 year old anti GMO activist owns a pro Monsanto propagandist on Canadian TV and your calls and IMs.

And keep the conversation going on our morning thread

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