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The Axe Files with David Axelrod

Ep. 112 - Chris Wallace

The Axe Files with David Axelrod

CNN

News

4.67.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2017

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Chris Wallace, the longtime journalist and host of Fox News Sunday, talks with David Axelrod about why Ronald Reagan’s 1980 presidential campaign was the best he ever covered; why he thinks the Obama administration could have done better at outreach to Republicans; and how he views some of the potential changes that may be coming for the White House Press Corps. 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.

0:16.2

Chris Wallace hardly needs an introduction.

0:22.2

He's been a presence in American journalism now for more than four decades.

0:27.6

As the host of Fox News Sunday, he famously tangles with public figures every week, and

0:34.0

an interesting chat with Chris recently at the Fox News headquarters in Washington.

0:39.1

Chris Wallace, thank you so much for being here.

0:48.7

We've had many encounters over microphones and cameras, but it's great to sit down with

0:55.1

you.

0:56.1

Well, we've never done it this way, where you're asking the questions, and I have.

1:00.0

I know, and I'm not going to give you the same admonition I always got from you to keep

1:03.5

my answer your answer short, because it's a podcast, man.

1:06.5

You can expand.

1:07.5

Well, we can tell that story.

1:08.7

So I give every person, not you, everybody, I interview, I always at the very end, because

1:14.6

we only have 12 minutes, and I always say, or 10 minutes, I always say, now look, try

1:20.0

to keep your answer short so we can cover more territory.

1:22.6

And I had said that to you so often, and you're the only person in 13 years of the show

1:26.8

who's ever done it before I was going to get it out one day, you said, now, Chris, keep

1:30.5

your question short and be able to cover more territory.

1:33.5

And I laughed the way you did.

1:35.0

Yeah, which you didn't, by the way, but anyway, yes, okay.

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