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It seems the closer we get to Election Day, the crazier the news gets and this week was no exception.  From more attention focused on Hillary Clinton’s health to capping this week off with Donald Trump saying the President was born in the US, we need  EleanorClift, the Washington correspondent for The Daily Beast, where she covers the White House and writes about politics and culture to help us close out the week and make sense of this all!

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Today on The Michelangelo Signorile Show on SiriusXM PROGRESS ch.127

Noah Michelson, the Voices Editorial Director and Executive Editor of Queer Voices at The Huffington Post as well as the co-host of the Love + Sex Podcast returns to the show as he does every Thursday to help us close out the week with the stories making headlines over at Queer Voices.  Be sure to follow Noah of Twitter!

Earlier this week, the Treasury Department released a new study looking into the number of gay and lesbian married couple in the country.  The study is the first of its kind in the years since key Marriage Equality decisions were handed down from the Supreme Court.  Lee Badgett, a Professor of Economic and Director of the School of Public Policy at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst as well as a distinguished scholar at the Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy at UCLA's School of Law, joins us to go through what the data tells us about same-sex couples getting married in the US.

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Yesterday, Democratic members on the House Judiciary Committee urged Attorney General Loretta Lynch to open an investigation into the alleged donations made by Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump to Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi.  Joining me today to talk about this inquiry into wrongdoing by Trump and Bondi is Congressman Jerry Nadler (D-NY), one of the members of the House Judiciary Committee.

Earlier this week, the NCAA announced it would move all its championship games from North Carolina over their discriminatory HB2 law, or what some have come to call the "bathroom law" and it was announced today that the ACC would "move neutral site championships for this academic year".  This comes as a blow to Gov. Pat McCrory who is currently in a re-election campaign for Governor and is trailing his opponent in the polls.  What does this mean for North Carolina moving forward?  Chris Sgro, Executive Director with Equality North Carolina, joins us today to discuss.

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Throughout this election, Donald Trump has bragged about a number of things – his wealth, his businesses success, the size of his…  hands – and he and his campaign have also made the claims that he’s given “tens of millions” to charity, yet they offer no evidence.

We’re joined today by a man who has been digging into Trump’s charitable donations and what he’s found from contacting these groups directly are that many Trump’s assertions are bogus.

David Fahrenthold is a reporter with The Washington Post and joins us now to talk about what he’s uncovered.  

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Last night, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump appeared on NBC’s Commander-in-Chief Forum, answering questions on national security from moderator Matt Lauer and audience members, and one person who was in the room as well and got to ask a question was former US Army Captain and West Point Graduate, and a friend of the show, Sue Fulton who played a key role in the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell and the military's ban transgender people serving openly.  Sue joins me on the show today to talk all about the forum and the candidates performances.  Welcome back to the show!

This sure has been another crazy week in politics what with Trump/Bondi Pay-To-Play scandal starting to get coverage, last night’s Commander-in-Chief Forum, and the passing of conservative stalwart Phyllis Schlafy. Joining me today to help us wrap up the week in politics is Eleanor Clift the Washington correspondent for The Daily Beast, where she covers the White House and writes about politics and culture.  

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According to the latest reports it appears that Donald Trump and the Trump Foundation have broken the law by giving $25,000 to a political group supporting Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi in an effort to discourage her office from investigating Trump University, thus using the Foundation for Trump’s personal benefit, according to an IRS complaint filed today by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW). The complaint calls for an investigation into the Foundation for violating the tax code by providing a private benefit to Trump and his business interests and falsely representing its political giving on its tax returns. The complaint further calls for an investigation into Trump for engaging in prohibited self-dealing.  Joining me today to talk all about the corrupt pay-to-play relationship between the Republican Presidential nominee and the Florida Attorney General is Noah Bookbinder the Executive Director of CREW. 

Earlier today it was reported that a federal judge brokered a temporary agreement in an emergency hearing over the construction of the Bakken pipeline, or Dakota Access pipeline. The temporary deal between The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and the pipeline’s builders, as well as the Army Corps of Engineers will halt construction on some, but not all, of the 1,172-mile pipeline that would pump oil from the fracked shale deposits in North Dakota to an oil hub in Illinois.  Joining me today to talk all about the pipeline and the protests against it which turned violent on Saturday is anti-pipeline activist Jane Fleming Kleeb who is also the Nebraska Democratic Party Chair and the Founder of the group Bold Nebraska. 

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A little over a month ago, a federal appeals court struck down North Carolina’s voter suppression law, which was widely viewed as the most aggressive law of its kind in the nation.  When the law was struck down the court explained that it was intentionally designed to maximize its impact on African-American voters. Then, last Wednesday, the Supreme Court announced that it would not disturb this decision, yet despite this, much of the state still hopes to implement parts of the law’s racially discriminatory agenda. Joining me today to talk about how this could end very badly for the state is Ian Millhiser who is a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress Action Fund and the Editor of ThinkProgress Justice and the author Injustices: The Supreme Court's History of Comforting the Comfortable and Afflicting the Afflicted.

 With the exception of some outliers, Donald Trump continues to do very poorly in national polls, which makes it seems more and more likely that we may see Hillary Clinton win the general election in November and make history as our country’s first female President.  However, even if she does not win, the shear fact that she was the first woman to win a major party’s presidential nomination is historic; yet for some people it just doesn’t seem like that big of deal.  Joining me today to talk all about Hillary Clinton’s historic run for President, the way the media covers her campaign, and how she is changing the way we think about the highest elected office in the land is Rebecca Traister who is writer at large for New York magazine and the author of All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation.

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