Tonight's guests are Sue Turton on The Daily Show and Nancy Pelosi on The Colbert Report.
Sue Turton is a reporter for Aljazeera. She covered the revolutions in Egypt where she was tried and convicted in absentia for reporting on the Muslim Brotherhood.
SUE TURTON: I think all of the verdicts left us all here at Al Jazeera quite stunned. We dared to believe that the verdict would be not guilty, because we had sat and watched the court sessions over the past few months, and we’d seen absolutely no evidence that the prosecution had brought that proved in any way, shape or form the charges against us, these charges that we supposed aided and abetted the Muslim Brotherhood, which the Egyptian authorities have now deemed a terrorist organization.
Just to slightly take you one step back, that decision to deem them terrorists wasn’t made until December. A very basic point, I left Egypt in November. I had been covering the country since the coup last summer that removed the Muslim Brotherhood from power, like many international journalists. And I had been covering all sorts of different stories, including the protests and the politics, but I hadn’t reported anything differently to all the other international journalists. And the very fact that I had left the country before the Muslim Brotherhood was even deemed a terrorist organization makes it ridiculous that I should have been seen as aiding and abetting this group.
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It is worth reading, watching or listening to the entire interview.
Nancy Pelosi is, of course, the representative from the 12th district in California, former Speaker of the House and current Minority Leader.
It appears they have many topics they could be discussing such as her goal to win
to win 25 seats. Here’s how she thinks it can happen
"The enthusiasm is there, and our grassroots, we have members, we have grassroots and we have major donors. That’s solid for us. The concern we have of course is the outside PACs, which are endless and undisclosed. But we’ll have to be good enough there, we’ll never match them. This whole thing is just ridiculous. I can out raise almost anybody, but it’s not the way we should go.
"My money is really idealistic, progressive money from around the country. It’s not any pragmatic money. They don’t give to me. I’m the last place they would come. But having said that, we have the most important thing and that are the candidates. They’re top-notch. We can hold our own or at least do better on the money, we have a message that we’re rallying around that has consensus and support in our caucus, we have a mobilization second to none to own the ground.
"I feel very certain that we will win the 17 seats we need. We have to net that though, which means we have to hold everything else. And right now, members are telling me now that the Koch Brothers are just pouring money into their districts. That has an impact, there’s just no question."
Apparently the rightwingers are really, really angry (I know, what else is new :D) about her position on the immigrant children coming across the border.
Under pressure from Hispanic lawmakers and outside immigration advocates House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi has changed her position on a key flashpoint in the debate over the border crisis.
Pelosi indicated Wednesday she opposes altering a 2008 immigration law that would expedite the deportation of children crossing the southwest border from Central American countries.
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This Week's Guests
THE DAILY SHOW WITH JON STEWART
Tu 7/22: Richard Linklater
We 7/23: George Takei
Th 7/24: Fareed Zakaria
THE COLBERT REPORT
Tu 7/22: JR
We 7/23: Mary Mazzio, Oscar Vazquez
Th 7/24: Elon Musk