Border Deal: Action Item Or Campaign Fodder?
The NPR Politics Podcast
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4.4 • 25.7K Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2024
⏱️ 20 minutes
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This episode: senior White House correspondent Tamara Keith, national political correspondent Mara Liasson, and the Texas Newsroom's capitol reporter Sergio Martinez-Beltrán.
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| 0:17.0 | Hi, this is Caitlin and Coe and Jasper in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, where we are enjoying our bike ride to school |
| 0:28.0 | after a week of snowy conditions. |
| 0:31.6 | This podcast was recorded at 1.33 PM Eastern Time on Monday, January 29th. |
| 0:38.0 | Things may have changed by the time you hear it, but we will continue to be grateful to live where we can bike almost all year around. |
| 0:45.6 | Okay. |
| 0:46.6 | Here's the show, enjoy it. |
| 0:49.0 | Pretty cute. That was very cute though. I don't believe that their weather is |
| 0:56.1 | actually good for biking all the time. Don't they have a lot of rain? I think they |
| 0:59.9 | do, but maybe that doesn't stop them. I bet that doesn't stop them. |
| 1:04.1 | Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. |
| 1:06.5 | I'm Tamar Keith. |
| 1:07.3 | I cover the White House. |
| 1:08.5 | And I'm Marilayason, national political correspondent. |
| 1:11.5 | And we are joined by Texas Newsroom reporter Sergio Martinez Beltran from Austin, Texas. |
| 1:17.0 | Sergio, thank you for joining us. |
| 1:20.0 | So happy to be here with y'all. |
| 1:21.8 | After months of negotiations, a bipartisan group of senators say they could release language of a |
| 1:27.0 | deal to secure the U.S. Mexico border soon. |
| 1:31.0 | But on the House side, Speaker Mike Johnson says the deal is dead on arrival. |
| 1:35.0 | It is clear that immigration is a hot presidential campaign issue with both President |
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