Ep. 454 — Amy Walter

The Axe Files with David Axelrod

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4.6 • 7.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Cook Political Report editor-in-chief and publisher Amy Walter grew up in a bipartisan household. Her mother was a Democrat, and her father was a Republican, a dynamic that her mother said primed Amy for a career in political journalism. Amy joined David to talk about running a contentious congressional campaign at just 25 years old, the importance of approaching interviews with empathy and curiosity, diminished trust in American institutions, and what—if anything—the Ohio special election results mean for the future of the Democratic Party.

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0:00.0	And now, from the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and CNN Audio, the Axe Files, with
0:12.5	your host, David Axelrod.
0:19.0	For two decades, Amy Walters has been a bright light in the world of political journalism
0:23.3	and analysis.
0:24.7	She's become something of an institution in Washington, but she's never been a subscriber
0:29.2	to the sometimes smothering conventional wisdom that's so prevalent in that town.
0:34.4	I sat down with her this week to talk about our current politics, her life and career,
0:39.3	and a recent appointment as editor-in-chief and publisher of the Venerable Cook Report,
0:44.0	which has for years provided some of the smartest coverage of politics and campaigns in our
0:49.5	country.
0:50.5	Here's that conversation.
0:58.5	Amy Walters newly minted editor-in-chief and publisher of the Cook Report, which is a Washington
1:07.4	institution.
1:08.4	Congratulations, my friend, on your ascension to the Throne.
1:12.7	Thank you, David.
1:14.9	This institution that Charlie Cook built.
1:18.3	He built it.
1:19.5	He had the idea of it.
1:22.4	Explain the idea of it.
1:24.2	Yeah, it's a great question.
1:26.0	So you have to go all the way back to 1984.
1:29.1	I won't tell you how old I was.
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