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Thursday's Daily Stack

Article: "'Shock Doctrine' Author Naomi Klein Worries 'What Next?' If Trump Succeeds in Inventing a 'National Emergency'" by Jon Queally.

Article: "California's Gov. Newsom hits Trump over threat to pull FEMA money after fires, accuses president of playing 'games with lives'" by Lukas Mikelionis.

Tweet: "Billions of dollars are sent to the State of California for Forest fires that, with proper Forest Management, would never happen. Unless they get their act together, which is unlikely, I have ordered FEMA to send no more money. It is a disgraceful situation in lives & money!" by Donald J. Trump.

Article: "Bookmaker pays out hundreds of thousands to people who bet on Trump lying a lot in White House address" by Clark Mindock.

Article: "Here's why Trump doesn't have the power to end the shutdown — only Fox News can" by Amanda Marcotte.

Article: "Lou Dobbs and Sean Hannity advised Trump on shutdown strategy. His Oval Office speech reflected it." by John Kerr.

Article: "The American crises Trump has ignored" by Stef W. Kight.

Tweet: "The United States has strongly informed the President of Honduras that if the large Caravan of people heading to the U.S. is not stopped and brought back to Honduras, no more money or aid will be given to Honduras, effective immediately!" by Donald J. Trump.

Article: "Analysis: Unredacted Paul Manafort filing hints at collusion" by Marshall Cohen.

Article: "CBS CEO: “...may not be good for America, but it's damn good for CBS”" by Lee Fang.

Article: "Donald Trump's Border Speech Gets A Savage Instant Fact-Check On Fox News" by Ed Mazza.

Article: "Laura Ingraham to End Radio Show for Daily Podcast" by Jon Levine.

Article: "Grigori Rasputin" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Berlin Wall" by Wikipedia.

Tweet: "An empty Capitol, but Mitch McConnell is receiving visitors. Rupert Murdoch in this case." by Nicholas Fandos.

Tweet: "Whoa. Fox News could end the whole thing by declaring that Trump has, in fact, started building his wall. Why are they keeping Trump cranking along?" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "MSNBC beats Fox in key ratings for first time in 17 years" by Emily Birnbaum.

Video: Botched redactions expose new details of Mueller's Manafort case.

Article: "Trump's government was a very bleak workplace for many. Then it shut down." by Avi Selk and Ellen McCarthy.

Hour Two: The Economics of Lowering Prices on Big Pharma & NYC's Medicare for All
- Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Democracy At Work/Capitalism's Crisis Deepens Essays on the Global Economic Meltdown

Article: "Sen. Sanders, Rep. Cummings to introduce bill to lower U.S. drug prices" by Yasmeen Abutaleb.

Article: "Healthcare guaranteed for all New Yorkers, says Bill de Blasio" by Will Pavia.

Article: "Rand Paul Supports Free-Market Principles in Health Care and the Repeal of Obamacare" by Rand Paul.

Article: "Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Monopsony" by Wikipedia.

Site: The Stephanie Miller Show.

Site: Democracy Now!

Article: "Wendi Deng Murdoch" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Elaine Chao" by Wikipedia.

Video: Trump's full speech from Oval Office on shutdown and border wall (Full national address), Jan 8, 2019.

Article: "Pres. Trump threatens emergency declaration ahead of border visit" by Catherine Lucey, Lisa Mascaro, Laurie Kellman.

Article: "Don't Just Impeach Trump. Annul His Presidency" by Robert Reich.

Article: "Former Apprentice Staffer Claims Trump Was ‘Speed Freak,' Invited Teen Beauty Queens to His Suite" by Tommy Christopher.

Article: "Made-in-America Steel Includes Mills Owned by Russians, Mexicans" by Joe Deaux.

Article: "'It's not going to change a d**n thing': Trump 'said he did NOT want to do the Oval Office address and blamed Sarah Sanders and Kellyanne Conway for making him' during off-record lunch with TV news anchors" by Keith Griffith.

Tweet: "Gave an OFF THE RECORD luncheon, somewhat of a White House tradition or custom, to network anchors yesterday - and they quickly leaked the contents of the meeting. Who would believe how bad it has gotten with the mainstream media, which has gone totally bonkers!" by Donald J. Trump.

Talk Media News Segment:
- Bob Ney

Site: "Goats for the old Goat".

Book: Loving What You Do: The Elements of a Great Working Life by Ellen Ratner.

Book: "Sideswiped: Lessons Learned Courtesy of the Hit Men of Capitol Hill" by Robert Ney.

Article: "Construction Authority in the Event of a Declaration of War or National Emergency (10 U.S.C. §2808)".

Article: "Declaring an Emergency to Build a Border Wall: The Statutory Arguments" by Margaret L. Taylor.

Tweet: "Incidentally, Trump's syntax is enormously revealing: “I have the absolute right to do national emergency if I want.” Not “to declare a national emergency” but “do national emergency” - make it out of whole cloth. Even I'm bored of the Shock Doctrine but this is a bit extreme." by Naomi Klein.

Article: "Trump admin to moms suing for mental health counseling costs following family separation: nope" by Gabe Ortiz.

Article: "Voter preference for Trump linked to bullying in middle schools" by American Educational Research Association.

Article: "Fairness Doctrine" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Number of Undocumented Immigrants in the U.S. Has Dropped, a Study Says. Here Are 5 Takeaways." by Jose A. Del Real.

Article: "Why a GOP congressman who represents more of the border than anyone in Congress opposes Trump's wall" by John Haltiwanger.

Video: ‘They'll make adjustments': Trump to government workers.

Article: "Nuremberg trials" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Constitution of the United States" Article 3.

Article: "Discharge petition" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Constitution of the United States" Article 2, section 4. "The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors."

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