Moscow Mules and Piña Colludas (LIVE at the Troubadour!) (Lovett of Leave It episode)

Moscow Mules and Piña Colludas (LIVE at the Troubadour!) is the seventeenth episode of Lovett or Leave It, hosted by Jon Lovett.

Description
Rainn Wilson, Max Silvestri, Milana Vayntrub, and Laurie Kilmartin join Jon to discuss Junior's meetings, health care, humanitarian work, and Dwight Schrute. Plus a new game ends in a little collusion you won't want to miss.

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Interview with Rainn Wilson
(2:21 - 14:18) 4:24 Can he talk about his initiative in Haiti and what led him to be part of it? 6:25 He has experience two types of responses: positive outpouring of people who want to support the work of Lide and people who wonder what are you doing in the United States? 7:06 Clip of Lide initiative (video to be shown on SoulPancake and Participant Media) 10:02 Baby boomers are the worst and millennials are going to carry those people until they’re gone 10:38 A chunk of ice the size of Delaware broke off from Antarctica 10:41 Where can people see the video? 12:55 Rant Wheel Spin 13:12 I’m not Dwight

What a Week
(16:12 - 42:19) 17:39 The Washington Post report on Sergey Ryabkov quote with Interfax about contracts with the Trump team 17:56 Donald Trump Jr.’s tweets about his email chain setting up a meeting with a Russian lawyer. 23:47 Donald Trump’s tweet about Donald Trump Jr.’s appearance on Hannity 26:15 Ari Fleischer statement on Donald Trump Jr. meeting with Russian-government officials 26:31 What do we think the Right Wing Media would be saying if a Democrat took that meeting? 28:23 Chris Geidner reporting and Chris Hayes reporting that the Donald Trump Jr. meeting included a phone call that was not reported 31:39 Visit TrumpCareTen.org/Crooked to find out how to call your congressmen and senators about healthcare 32:30 Mitch McConnell statement that the Senate GOP would delay a summer recess to work on healthcare 33:45 Kaiser Family Foundation statement providing data on number of people with pre-existing conditions 41:02 Why is Mitch McConnell not as disgusting to Republicans as he is to Democrats?

Let’s Collude
(45:37 - 50:44)

This game involves audience participation. There have been a lot of deeply strange and incomplete defenses of Donald Trump Jr. Jon Lovett is going to read the quotes and the audience member needs to fill in the blank with the word that was used.

Rep. Dana Rohrbacher’s statement
 * “We should listen to everybody, no matter who they are. Especially if they say they’ve got information that’s very volatile, yeah, you want to hear what that is. So the idea that somebody’s trying to make a big deal out of it, again, unfortunately, fake news is making a lot of big deal out of it. This is not a big deal. It’s a ______ ________.”
 * ’’Answer - Nothing Burger’’

Speaker Paul Ryan’s statement
 * “I think it’s very important that these professionals and these committee do their jobs so that we can get to the bottom of all this.” When he was asked if he would ever take such a meeting, he said, “I’m not going to go into ______.”
 * ’’Answer - Hypotheticals’’

Question from audience member’s boyfriend, Robert
 * ”Rachel, you are the most amazing person. You are smart, you are politically engaged, you are gorgeous, you are the straightest shooter that i know. And I think you know how this statement ends. Pause for applause. Will you marry me?”
 * ’’Answer - Yes’’

===Rant Wheel === (52:23 - 1:03:00)

53:16 Amazon Prime Day

55:15 David Brooks

59:38 Audience Choice - Game of Thrones

Q & A
(1:03:00 - end)

1:03:10 Will Brown’s tweak to the Cruz amendment gain traction and become a hindrance?

1:04:53 What sort of social responsibility do you feel for providing your audience news?
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