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The Bakari Sellers Podcast

Dana Milbank Discusses ‘The Destructionists’

The Bakari Sellers Podcast

The Ringer

Politics, News

4.8966 Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Bakari Sellers is joined by author and Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank to discuss his NYT best-selling book ‘The Destructionists’ (5:02), the political narrative coming out of Georgia (9:33), and the 2024 primary outlook of the GOP vs. Trump (16:27). Host: Bakari Sellers Guest: Dana Milbank Producer: Donnie Beacham Jr. Executive Producer: Jarrod Loadholt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I won't tell you that it's gonna be okay.

0:07.0

I won't tell you that it's to be okay.

0:18.0

Welcome to another episode of Bekari Sellers podcast. Today we have none other than Dana Milbank.

0:21.0

How you feeling today?

0:22.0

I'm very well, B Bakari, how are you?

0:24.0

Man, I ain't got no complaints,

0:26.0

at least none you really want to hear about.

0:28.0

You know, we start my show, each show decently unique because we ask our guests to walk us through the

0:36.6

arc of their career and so my question is how did you get involved in covering

0:40.1

national politics and after the last four six years what keeps you going.

0:45.8

Yeah, I was going to say it's what I always wanted to do and then it's a case of being

0:50.0

careful what you wish for.

0:51.0

Because things have changed a bit but you know I was always

0:56.0

interested in politics just as a consumer and I was always interested in writing in storytelling.

1:05.0

And then, you know, I just, it just came to realize in college,

1:11.0

I got some internships and realized people would pay me to write in journalism.

1:16.5

Now admittedly they don't pay you that much, but still you can make you can make a living

1:20.8

it.

1:21.8

I was like pay is pay you.

1:24.0

They pay me, they pay me to do what I like.

1:27.9

And so I made my way.

1:29.4

I started out at the Wall Street Journal.

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