Ep. 109 - Mark Shriver

The Axe Files with David Axelrod

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4.6 • 7.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2017

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Mark Shriver, the author and children’s rights advocate, talks with David Axelrod about the enduring legacies his parents left on the nation and on the wider world, why losing a Congressional race became a great personal development for him, what compelled him to write a book about Pope Francis, and why the policy priorities of the Trump administration could be detrimental to at-risk communities. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	And now, from the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and CNN, the Axviles, with your
0:12.5	host, David Axelrod.
0:14.9	Almost 15 years ago, I worked with Mark Schriver, who was a young legislator in Maryland
0:24.5	running for Congress, and a member of the Kennedy family, son of Sergeant Schriver and
0:32.2	Unis Schriver, and imbued with their same spirit of service.
0:38.5	We lost that campaign, I take full credit for it.
0:43.0	But that opened up a whole nother chapter in Mark's life.
0:47.3	His latest book, Pilgrimage, My Search for the Real Pope, Francis, is not only revealing
0:52.9	about the Pope, but also about Mark's own questions, struggles, and embrace of his own
1:01.7	Catholic faith.
1:03.1	He dropped by the Institute of Politics the other day, and we had a chance to talk about
1:08.1	his life, career, and the Pope.
1:16.9	Mark Schriver, welcome.
1:17.9	Thank you for having me.
1:19.9	You know, I do a lot of these with people whose stories, Harry Reid, for example, we just
1:27.9	did one with him, and talking about, you know, search light in Nevada and what a difficult
1:35.9	place it was in his hard scrap.
1:38.4	You've got a sort of different family story.
1:40.6	So let's start off by a little different.
1:43.6	But it had, but it probably had its own challenges.
1:47.3	I've actually had a couple of your cousins on the show, Caroline and Patrick were on this
1:55.6	podcast.
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