50: Sen. Timothy E. Wirth on protecting our Republic, and Joseph Serna on the Toll of California's Wildfires

Politics War Room with James Carville & Al Hunt

Politicon

News Commentary, Politics, Government, News, National

4.7 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Whether you’re convinced that nothing stands between Trump and another four years in the White House, or you manage to keep faith in the hope Biden’s campaign provides, it behooves all of us to be fully prepared as to what might happen once the vote counts come in on Election Night. United Nations Foundation vice chair and former U.S. Senator Timothy E. Wirth shines a light on all kinds of clandestine efforts the President might pursue in order to obfuscate or nullify a Democratic victory. But as the nation focuses on the election, Los Angeles Time Joseph Serna reminds us that the threat of climate change creates all kinds of future problems, not the least of which have been manifested by the recent California wildfires.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	In the podcast, Nice White Parents,
0:02.1	reporter Hana Jaffee Walt,
0:04.1	you may know her from this American life,
0:06.5	started looking into this one school in her neighborhood
0:09.6	after her kids became school age in New York City.
0:12.8	Hana examines this public middle school
0:15.3	traditionally filled with black and brown students
0:17.9	after a number of white families arrived.
0:20.5	And then, not satisfied, she fully understood what she was seeing.
0:24.5	She went all the way back to the family of the school
0:27.3	in the 1960s.
0:28.8	And then up to the present day again.
0:31.0	Eventually, Hana realized she could put a name
0:33.6	to what was getting in the way
0:35.1	of making the school better all these years.
0:37.4	White parents, Nice White parents,
0:39.8	is a fascinating listen that's deeply relevant today.
0:43.5	It's made by serial productions,
0:45.4	a New York Times company,
0:47.1	same people who made the hit podcast, serial and STAM.
0:51.5	All episodes are now available wherever you do get your podcasts.
0:56.1	Hello and welcome to 2020 Politics War Room,
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Politicon, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Politicon and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.