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May 10, 2017

05/10/2017: Is this what running the government like a business looks like?

Kellyanne Conway went on CNN this morning to talk about President Trump’s bombshell firing of FBI director James Comey and said this: “You want to question the timing of when he hires, when he fires. It’s inappropriate. He’ll do it when he wants to.” Um, asking questions is exactly what a free press in a representative democracy is supposed to do, and we still have a lot of them. Questions like: what’s gonna happen with health care? Tax reform? Trump’s trillion-dollar infrastructure package? And there’s a broader question that’s unique to this president: Is this how you run a business? Is it how you run the government like a business? We’ll talk about it. Plus: the state of schools in Erie County, Pennsylvania and the second part of our interview with Susan Burton.

President Donald Trump shakes hands with FBI Director James Comey during an Inaugural Law Enforcement Officers and First Responders Reception in the Blue Room of the White House on January 22, 2017 in Washington, DC.
President Donald Trump shakes hands with FBI Director James Comey during an Inaugural Law Enforcement Officers and First Responders Reception in the Blue Room of the White House on January 22, 2017 in Washington, DC.
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Kellyanne Conway went on CNN this morning to talk about President Trump’s bombshell firing of FBI director James Comey and said this: “You want to question the timing of when he hires, when he fires. It’s inappropriate. He’ll do it when he wants to.” Um, asking questions is exactly what a free press in a representative democracy is supposed to do, and we still have a lot of them. Questions like: what’s gonna happen with health care? Tax reform? Trump’s trillion-dollar infrastructure package? And there’s a broader question that’s unique to this president: Is this how you run a business? Is it how you run the government like a business? We’ll talk about it. Plus: the state of schools in Erie County, Pennsylvania and the second part of our interview with Susan Burton.