America's Presidential Indictment Era
The NPR Politics Podcast
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4.4 • 25.7K Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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This episode: White House correspondent Scott Detrow, senior political editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro, national justice correspondent Carrie Johnson, and political correspondent Susan Davis.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Rebecca and Minneapolis. |
| 0:02.7 | Today, the high was in the 40s, so I just got back from my first walk of the year where I wore shorts. |
| 0:08.7 | This podcast was reported at. |
| 0:10.7 | It seems like the right move. It's 12-23 Eastern on Friday, March 31st. |
| 0:15.7 | Things may have changed by the time you hear it, but I'll still be enjoying the above freezing temperatures every chance I get. |
| 0:21.6 | Okay, here's the show! |
| 0:23.4 | Oh, I'm just waiting for it to become spring here. |
| 0:30.0 | This 40 degrees in shorts does not work for my Mediterranean blood. I will tell you that. |
| 0:34.4 | Oh, free the legs, free the legs. |
| 0:36.4 | Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Scott Detro. I cover the White House. |
| 0:40.2 | I'm Dominic Amontanara, Senior Political Editor and Correspondent. |
| 0:42.8 | And I'm Kerry Johnson, National Justice Correspondent. |
| 0:45.4 | And it's worth really emphasizing this as we start. |
| 0:47.8 | The United States has never been here before. |
| 0:50.2 | We do not know exactly what the charges filed against Donald Trump and Manhattan are. |
| 0:55.0 | We do not know what else may come. |
| 0:57.4 | But we know this. |
| 0:58.4 | A former president of the United States is facing criminal charges. |
| 1:02.8 | The US has not been here before. |
| 1:05.0 | So let's start there. |
| 1:07.0 | Before Trump was the first president to face criminal charges, he was the first president to be impeached twice. |
| 1:13.2 | And I feel like those two impeachment trials and the political climate around them |
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