Devil's Bargains (with David Remnick)

Stay Tuned with Preet

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Society & Culture, Politics, Government, News

4.8 • 32.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2019

⏱️ 68 minutes

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On this episode of Stay Tuned, "Devil's Bargains," host Preet Bharara answers your questions about: -- Enlisting an outside counsel to conduct an impeachment trial -- Congress invoking its long dormant inherent contempt power -- The reluctance in the news media to use the word “lies” when discussing the president’s “false statements” David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker, joins Preet for a wide-ranging conversation as he gears up for the magazine’s annual ideasfestival. The discussion covers 2020 candidates, interviewing controversial figures, “elitism,” whether President Trump is a “racist,” American’s deepest flaws, what we should understand about the Russian people, “inventing” The New Yorker, and more. To hear bonus clips from the interview, try two free weeks of CAFE Insider membership. Sign up to receive free references and supplemental materials for Stay Tuned episodes, a weekly newsletter, and updates from Preet. As always, tweet your questions to @PreetBharara with hashtag #askpreet, email us at [email protected], or call 699-247-7338 to leave a voicemail. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:55.9	From Cafe, welcome to Stay Tuned.
0:59.9	I'm Pete Barara. I even think a lot of the supporters think and know that he's a racist.
1:06.9	What's bewildering is excusing him. We see this all the time. You see the interview
1:11.7	on television, you read it in the newspaper, I've talked to people. Basically, a lot of
1:15.7	people are thinking, okay, I know this guy's a bad guy. His character is not at the highest,
1:21.9	but they're getting something from him, so people make devils bargains.
1:28.9	That's David Remnick. A journalist and author, he lived in Moscow for years covering the
1:33.4	dissolution of the Soviet Union for the Washington Post. Remnick got his start at the New Yorker
1:38.1	in 1992 and in just six years, got promoted to the top job, Editor of the magazine. As they
1:44.5	gear up for the upcoming annual New Yorker Festival, I joined Remnick at his studio in
1:48.7	the World Trade Center. We talked about his experiences interviewing Obama and the White
1:52.3	House, the discovery of the New Yorker, why it's pointless to block out the president's
1:56.7	communications, even his tweets, and which news outlet is a form of political popcorn?
2:03.1	But first, let's get to your questions. That's coming up, Stay Tuned.
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