Ep. 338 - David Remnick

The Axe Files with David Axelrod

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4.6 • 7.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2019

⏱️ 59 minutes

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David Remnick is a journalist, author, and editor of The New Yorker magazine. He joins the show to talk about the New Yorker’s feature on Hunter Biden, covering Russia as a young reporter for the Washington Post, his philosophy as an editor, and the life lessons he’s learned from caring for his child with autism. 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 Audio, the Ax Files, with
0:12.5	your host, David Axelrod.
0:14.5	I had a really great conversation the other day with David Remnick, the brilliant Pulitzer
0:21.2	Prize winning journalist and author, editor of the New Yorker magazine, and host of the
0:26.8	New Yorker Radio Hour about a wide range of things, including a story that they broke
0:32.0	this morning, a poignant, powerful profile of Hunter Biden, the troubled son of the
0:39.0	former vice president.
0:40.6	And now here's my conversation with David Remnick.
0:50.0	David Remnick, it's great to see you.
0:52.2	It's great to see you.
0:53.2	As always, so much to talk about.
0:55.6	Usually, I would start by talking about you.
0:57.5	I'm usually the inquisitor.
0:59.3	I know.
1:00.3	We're sitting actually in your place at the New Yorker, except I've got you in the opposite
1:06.8	chair.
1:07.8	That's right.
1:08.8	We're literally on the other side of the table.
1:10.0	This is where we do the New Yorker Radio Hour, so we can manage it.
1:13.8	It's right here in the, I don't know, do we call it a newsroom in the magazine, but it's
1:17.2	what it is.
1:18.2	Well, we'll talk about that because it actually is a newsroom now.
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