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The Al Franken Podcast

154: Olivia Nuzzi - Washington Correspondent for New York Magazine

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4.67.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Tales from the Campaign Trail


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0:00.0

Hey everybody, we've got a great one today, you know, for a change.

0:10.1

Olivia Nutsi is my guest.

0:12.9

She is the great Washington correspondent for New York Magazine, hence a great one.

0:19.6

She's been out covering the presidential candidates this cycle.

0:23.7

There's more than you might think because in addition to the president and Dean Phillips

0:31.4

on the Democratic side, and that one looks good for Biden right now.

0:36.4

A little bit more on that in a couple minutes.

0:39.5

But there's, of course, a former President Donald Trump and Nikki Haley,

0:44.1

and that's looking good for Trump as well.

0:46.8

But there's also Jill Stein running for the Green Party.

0:52.2

Why do you want to win this for Trump again like you did in 2016?

0:59.4

There's Cornell West running as an independent. Please don't vote for him. There's Robert Kennedy,

1:06.1

Jr., who Olivia profiled in her magazine, don't vote for him either.

1:18.0

He was a very good riverkeeper for the Hudson River, but he is a big anti-vaxxer. He just got the prize endorsement of the American Association for the promotion of measles,

1:23.9

mumps, and rubella.

1:26.5

Wait, I think I used that joke in my conversation with Olivia.

1:31.4

Ah, you can hear it twice.

1:33.5

In a report released Thursday, Special Counsel Robert Hurr said that he has declined to prosecute

1:42.1

President Biden for his handling of classified documents, even though

1:46.3

Biden's practices in handling them, quote, present serious risks to national security and added

1:55.0

that part of the reason he wouldn't charge Biden was that the president could portray himself as an

2:02.5

quote elderly man with a poor memory who would be sympathetic to a jury. What the fuck?

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