#16: Crossing the Line
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2016
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
This week Hillary Clinton crosses a finish line that not all Democrats feel she’s reached, while Donald Trump crosses a different line that is challenging Republican support. Maria Hinojosa leads a discussion with Jason Johnson, Politics Editor for The Root and Julio Ricardo Varela, Political Editor with the Futuro Media Group.
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| 0:00.0 | You're calling Donald Trump a racist just because you're Mexican and it's like actually no and no you think I'm doing this because I'm Mexican |
| 0:07.4 | Hey, you know why I'm doing this because I'm a journalist and because I'm an American journalist. |
| 0:12.6 | Hey, welcome to In The Thick. |
| 0:17.0 | This is the podcast about politics and the race to the White House in 2016. |
| 0:20.6 | We are the show that looks at this week's political coverage through a diverse lens that we own |
| 0:25.9 | We bring you the different perspectives that you're probably not hearing everywhere else. I'm your host Mariaino-Josa |
| 0:31.4 | Joining us from Atlanta back again is Jason Johnson. |
| 0:35.4 | He's the politics editor for The Root. |
| 0:37.4 | Welcome back to the show, Jason, all the way from Atlanta. |
| 0:40.0 | Yes, I'm very excited to be here. |
| 0:41.4 | And joining us right here in our Harlem studio is Julio Ricardo Barella. |
| 0:44.8 | He's the political editor for the Futuro media group. |
| 0:47.2 | And you're right here in Harlem, hey, Julio? |
| 0:48.8 | I'm in the studio, yay! |
| 0:50.3 | You're in the thick in the studio. |
| 0:53.0 | All right, Hillary Clinton, winning California |
| 0:56.2 | and cementing her victory as the first female |
| 0:58.8 | presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party. |
| 1:01.3 | In our country, it's started right here in New York a place called Seneca Falls in 1848. |
| 1:09.9 | When Obama won in 2008, he actually did not reference the fact that he was the first |
| 1:14.2 | African-American candidate, but Hillary at this point is clearly placing herself |
| 1:19.1 | in a revolutionary historical tradition of the United States. So what do you think about this |
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