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Capehart

A Donald Trump survival guide -- from the mouths of Obama officials

Capehart

The Washington Post

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2017

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

On this special Inauguration episode, we re-visit interviews with members of Obama's administration as they give their best advice on how to protect his legacy and maintain the progress made.

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0:00.0

Hi, welcome to the special edition of K-P-P-P-I'm Jonathan K-Part.

0:10.0

Over the last few weeks you know we've talked with a lot of members of

0:13.8

President Obama's administration so in honor of inauguration day I thought it would be

0:18.9

a good idea to revisit their best advice on how to protect the Obama legacy and how to maintain the progress

0:25.9

made.

0:26.9

Four people, four different perspectives, one conclusion, and you can hear it all right now.

0:34.0

First up is Attorney General Loretta Lynch on how you can be a voice on civil rights.

0:45.0

One of the things that I think people are fearful of is that when you go away come January 20th, 2017,

0:56.1

that that leadership that's been there

0:58.7

at the Justice Department with that

1:00.6

will go the caring concern for all the people who have come to look at the

1:05.8

Justice Department as the backstop for their rights.

1:11.6

Well, I appreciate that because I do care very deeply about these issues.

1:16.4

They're very important to me personally.

1:17.9

They're very important to me professionally.

1:20.4

Having been the beneficiary of a lot of people who worked very hard to make sure that I had the right to go to school,

1:27.0

to have the education that I was able to have, and to advance as I did.

1:32.0

It's very meaningful to me to carry on this work.

1:35.0

But what I'll say is you know leaders come from all different ranks, leaders come from

1:39.1

everywhere and at a time when people you know for whatever reason may not think they have a voice within a particular place in government,

1:47.5

that's when we see people emerging from the groups themselves to bring their voices to government to be heard.

1:55.0

That we've seen that, you know, generation after generation,

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