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The NPR Politics Podcast

Comey FAQ/Listener Mail

The NPR Politics Podcast

NPR

News, Daily News, Politics

4.425.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2017

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Your questions, answered — on the firing of James Comey and other political news. This episode: host/congressional reporter Scott Detrow, justice correspondent Carrie Johnson, political reporter Danielle Kurtzleben, and White House correspondent Scott Horsley. More coverage at nprpolitics.org. Email the show at nprpolitics@npr.org. Find and support your local public radio station at npr.org/stations.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, this is Steve Held from Santa Rosa, California.

0:03.0

This podcast was recorded at 205 on Monday, May 15th.

0:07.7

Things may change by the time you hear it.

0:10.0

Keep up with all of NPR's political coverage at npr.org

0:13.8

or the NPR-1 app and on your local public radio station.

0:17.9

Okay, here's the show.

0:22.4

Hey there, it's the NPR Politics podcast.

0:24.4

Here with some answers to your questions about the firing of James Comey

0:28.7

and a few other topics.

0:30.0

I'm Scott Detro, I cover Congress for NPR.

0:32.0

I'm Danielle Kurtzlavin, political reporter.

0:33.8

I'm Scott Horsley, I cover the White House.

0:35.3

And I'm Carrie Johnson, the Justice Correspondent.

0:37.6

All right, everybody, it has been less than a week since President Trump fired

0:41.3

FBI director James Comey, but Washington news cycles are even more advanced than dog years.

0:46.9

So it already feels like it's been months.

0:50.0

You've all said in tons of questions about what happened,

0:52.4

what it could mean, what comes next.

0:54.0

And Carrie Johnson is just the person to answer them, how's it going?

0:57.5

More or less okay, I guess we're halfway through the afternoon and who the heck knows what

1:02.7

else might happen today.

1:03.9

I feel like news a clock usually is a little later in the day.

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