Chatter: Politicians and White House Plumbers with Olivia Nuzzi
The Lawfare Podcast
The Lawfare Institute
4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2023
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Olivia Nuzzi gets Washington in a way many journalists don’t. As the Washington correspondent for New York magazine, she has written perceptive, piercing, and enduring portraits of Donald Trump and the bizarre characters in his orbit. Now she’s turning her reporter’s eye to history, hosting a companion podcast to HBO's “White House Plumbers,” a five-part series that imagines the Watergate scandal through the lives of two notorious Nixon operatives, E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy.
Olivia came up as a journalist writing about politics in New Jersey. She began covering Trump at The Daily Beast, where she worked with Shane Harris. They discussed her career, what fascinates her about politics, and the prospects for the 2024 presidential campaign, where Trump appears likely to be the Republican nominee.
They also discussed Hollywood and Washington’s mutual fascination with each other, and why they’d both rather live in L.A. than New York.
Olivia’s work at New York magazine: https://nymag.com/author/olivia-nuzzi/
The White House Plumbers podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/white-house-plumbers-podcast/id1682542231
The White House Plumbers series on HBO: https://www.hbo.com/white-house-plumbers
Olivia on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Olivianuzzi?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
Garrett Graff’s new book on Watergate, which serves as a history companion to the podcast and was just named a Pulitzer Prize finalist: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Watergate/Garrett-M-Graff/9781982139179
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| 1:21.0 | I'm Avery Schmetz, intern at LawFair, in an episode of chatter. |
| 1:25.0 | From May 14, 2023. |
| 1:28.0 | For today's episode, the LawFair team decided to cross-post this week's episode of chatter, |
| 1:33.0 | a podcast from David Perice and Shane Harris, featuring in-depth discussions with fascinating people |
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| 1:47.0 | In the episode, Harris sat down with Olivia to discuss her career, |
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