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It's a twitter feed called the st. louis manifest and each tweet names a passenger and tells the life story and the death story of a passenger aboard the "st. louis" that ship i mentioned earlier in the show carrying 900 jewish refugees who were fleeing nazi germany which we nevertheless turned away from the u.s. in 1939. this is a holocaust remembrance day project but it has, of course, taken on sharp new resonance in the face of the president's executive order today, today of all days, banning refugees from the united states. runs on intel?

And now we get a couple of very interesting, very big tests of that new principle we have discovered about our new president and this new administration. a couple really big tests. one of them, of course, is the wall. when the new president signed his "build the wall" order a couple days ago, we were not exactly sure if it was another one of these symbolic campaign promise style orders he has put out this week. these things that make it look like he's acting and keeping a campaign promise but it's an order that has no effect, like today, for example, he made a big show out of signing an execut...

Is that he sometimes makes a big deal out of doing nothing. he signs stuff, big sharpie signature, makes a big show out of doing stuff that is substantively meaningless. he doesn't have the power to order it by executive order or it's so unclear that nobody in the agent sill acts on it or has plans to. he's proclaimed he has done a bunch of things that don't affect the great changes he claims to be affecting. when he signed that order on building the wall on the southern border, we didt know if it was going to be an aspirational statement about something he wants. we didn't know whether it was...

That was nothing. one of the things we have learned with this new president is that he sometimes makes a big deal out of doing nothing. he signs stuff, big sharpie signature, makes a big show out of doing stuff that is substantively meaningless. he doesn't have the power to order it by executive order or it's so unclear that nobody in the agent sill acts on it or has plans to. he's proclaimed he has done a bunch of things that don't affect the great changes he claims to be affecting. when he signed that order on building the wall on the southern border, we didn't know if it was going to be an ...

When they could not bear the pressure. pressure sometimes works. and now we get a couple of very interesting, very big tests of that new principle we have discovered about our new president and this new administration. a couple really big tests. one of them, of course, is the wall. when the new president signed his "build the wall" order a couple days ago, we were not exactly sure if it was another one of these symbolic campaign promise style orders he has put out this week. these things that make it look like he's acting and keeping a campaign promise but it's an order that has no effect, lik...