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The Axe Files with David Axelrod

Ep. 64 - Maggie Haberman

The Axe Files with David Axelrod

CNN

News

4.67.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2016

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Maggie Haberman, presidential campaign correspondent at The New York Times, chats with David about her family’s journalism background, her time on the City Hall beat, what it was like covering 9/11, the 2016 race, and more. 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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And now, from the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and CNN, the Axviles, with your

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host, David Axelrod.

0:14.5

I first met Maggie Haberman when I was the strategist for a Freddie Ferreira mayoral candidate

0:21.2

in New York in 2001, and she was a young reporter.

0:24.3

I've since read her religiously and kept in touch with her as she's emerged as one of

0:29.7

the great political reporters in our country.

0:32.8

She now works for the New York Times, covering this campaign.

0:36.0

But because of her New York ties, no one knows more about the two nominees of the parties

0:42.1

for president this year, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.

0:46.2

So it's great to sit down with Maggie the other day, talk about them and about her career

0:51.3

and journalism.

0:55.8

Maggie, it's good to have you here.

0:58.2

You have a special place with me because I am an old, ink stained, wretch, having started

1:07.2

as a newspaper man, and you come from a newspaper family.

1:12.3

Your dad is a bit of an institution around the New York Times, around journalism in this

1:19.8

town.

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Talk a little about him.

1:22.5

First of all, what kind of name is Clyde for a nice Jewish boy?

1:26.8

That's what I want to know.

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Thank you for having me.

1:29.8

So I'll add to the newspaper family bit and then talk about the interestingly named Clyde.

1:36.2

But my mother's father was also a newspaper man.

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