Biden's gatekeepers

The Conversation with Dasha Burns

POLITICO

News, Politics, Government

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🗓️ 5 February 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Gone are the late night tweets of yore. In their place? Meticulously managed calendars. White House correspondent Anita Kumar takes Scott Bland inside the West Wing to see who is managing President Biden's time and what that tells us about the administration — and how it plans to achieve its goals. Scott Bland is a politics editor at POLITICO.Anita Kumar is a White House correspondent and associate editor at POLITICO. Annie Rees is a producer for POLITICO audio.Jenny Ament is senior producer for POLITICO audio.Irene Noguchi is the executive producer of POLITICO audio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Okay, we're live.
0:02.0	It's called No Walking Lock-End!
0:07.0	Yeah, go, yeah, go.
0:09.0	That's the name of your podcast?
0:11.0	Yeah.
0:12.0	Welcome to Nerdcast.
0:13.0	I'm Scott Bland.
0:15.0	And that's my son, Sam.
0:18.0	It's just Sammy.
0:19.0	He's recently taken to playing podcast host.
0:23.0	What's it about?
0:24.0	It's a pretty long podcast.
0:27.0	And I know it was a podcast host myself
0:30.0	that Sam's gonna need a podcast guest.
0:33.0	And so the other day I asked him,
0:35.0	if he could have anyone on his bizarrely named podcast,
0:40.0	who would he book?
0:41.0	Oh, my favorite guest to do.
0:44.0	My three-year-olds first pick is going big.
0:47.0	It's the leader of the free world, President Joe Biden.
0:50.0	It's Joe Biden.
0:52.0	Oh, a real newsmaker, huh?
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