Ep. 107: 2020's Grumpy Old Men

The Josh Marshall Podcast

Talking Points Memo

Unknown

4.9 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Josh, Kate and David are joined by TPM's Executive Editor David Kurtz to talk about the upcoming South Carolina primary and Super Tuesday contests, and why Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders are emerging as the most viable candidates.

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hi, this is Josh Marshall, and this is the Josh Marshall Podcast.
0:07.0	I feel like history is coming at us really fast right now.
0:13.0	You know, and not in altogether good ways,
0:18.0	although I guess there's, there's, uh, it's some of the stuff depends on sort of who you are but we had we had the Nevada
0:26.8	caucus last Saturday which I guess is only what four or five days ago which has you know we had these three
0:38.0	successive contests that you know pushed the conventional wisdom about what is happening in the Democratic primaries
0:47.0	you know over decisively or overwhelmingly in one direction towards Bernie Sanders. And now we have this South Carolina
0:56.6	contest coming up in what three days. That's right Saturday you've got and
1:01.0	then Super Tuesday coming right after this sort of 72 hour critical 72 hours
1:09.6	so and then you know at the same time we've got President Trump kind of just you know
1:17.6	unchained and not that he was chained to start with right but like there seems to be
1:21.3	no limit on how on how much he can be
1:24.4	unchained and we have this this uh you know what's really seems like a global
1:32.4	uh... pandemic now of this of this virus and all these things are happening at once and it is just it's it's it's very intense and obviously they are kind of colliding with each other in as much as as
1:47.2	President Trump's unchainedness and weirdness is kind of you know overlapping now with you know these kind of I mean
1:55.9	yesterday was bizarre where you had I don't think she's the head of the
2:00.3	CDC this woman who is one of the top infectious disease experts at the CDC
2:08.0	basically said, look, this is going to come to the United States and we need to be ready and it may be rough and we just have to be
2:14.8	ready a very you know not a terribly welcome thing to hear but this is the kind of
2:21.3	thing that that the experts and the and the
2:25.1	relevant officials need to do and at the same time you have President Trump's
2:27.9	on nope nope nope I'll just buy more stock yeah yeah and and yeah, not just basically saying we got it covered hermetically, you know, kind of like,
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Talking Points Memo, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Talking Points Memo and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.