Episode

8/16 Casual Friday: Cliff Schecter & Isabel Gillies

August 16, 2013

Cliff Schecter explained why Republicans are freaking out about Obama putting Solar Panels on the White House, an internal audit shows the NSA violated privacy protections thousands of times, why Snowden’s leaks of done a big service to the country, what options do we have in Egypt? Eric Holder’s bold steps on sentencing reform and the movement towards prison reform.

Isabel Gillies loves Bill de Blasio’s momentum, Isabel explained why Christine Quinn is a Republican, talked about the new Netflix show Orange Is The New Black and Isabel recommended the documentary Jig on kids who practice Irish step dancing.  

Crazy Christian right radio host claims Obama was photoshopped into the Bin Laden raid Situation Room photo and your calls and IMs.

And keep the conversation going on our morning thread

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