meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
The Conversation with Dasha Burns

A 'slap fight' and a court fight

The Conversation with Dasha Burns

POLITICO

News, Government, Politics

4.01.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

This week, Scott talks to healthcare reporter Susannah Luthi about the Supreme Court punting consideration of a high-stakes legal challenge to Obamacare. Plus, politics editor Charlie Mahtesian talks to Scott about Bernie, Biden, and their long-simmering slap fight on Social Security. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Hello listeners. Welcome to Politico's Nurdcast. I'm Scott Bland, your host. Guess what

0:06.6

this isn't? This is not another podcast on impeachment.

0:11.0

We've already got one of those. on impeachment

0:15.0

but as I'm sure you know there's a lot of

0:18.0

but as I'm sure you know there's a lot of other stuff going on this week

0:22.0

this month this year that you

0:23.7

Nurdcast listeners care a lot about. So for our regular weekly episode

0:28.6

today we are going to jump onto the campaign trail for an update on the

0:32.3

big fight roiling the Democratic race just

0:34.8

days before the Iowa caucuses.

0:36.5

20 former Vice President Joe Biden is demanding an apology from Senator Bernie Sanders

0:41.4

for circulating what he called a

0:43.1

doctored video misconstruing his record on Social Security.

0:47.6

But first we're going to bring you a big health care story you might have missed

0:51.8

amid all the campaign and impeachment

0:53.6

news this week. A new challenge to Obamacare is winding through the federal court

0:57.8

system but the Supreme Court says it won't hear the case until after the

1:02.0

2020 election. We'll talk about what it means and why it matters.

1:05.9

As always a quick note we're taping this on Thursday January 23rd so if anything

1:10.3

breaking happens after that we will talk about it next week.

1:16.6

All right, let's jump right into that health care story.

1:19.7

Have here in the studio one of Politico's health care reporters Susanna luthie.

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

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

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

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.