Ep. 75: Inside A ‘Damaging’ Story For Republicans In Texas

The Josh Marshall Podcast

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🗓️ 7 August 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Josh Marshall, this is the Josh Marshall podcast. David.
0:08.1	Hello Josh. How are you doing? Good, how are you? I'm good. So it good. So it's kind of a I'm I'm okay, but it's a it's kind of a bleak time. Yeah, it really is. I mean it's hard to say like oh, I'm doing great. I'm waiting for the next like horrific gun massacre.
0:23.2	Yeah, that's true.
0:23.8	But some good news, we're joined by a very special guest,
0:26.0	Kate Riga, breaking news writer at TPM.
0:28.3	Hey, Kate.
0:28.8	Hello everyone.
0:29.5	How are you doing?
0:30.4	Very excited to make my podcast debut.
0:32.3	Yes, we're excited to have you here.
0:34.0	Yeah, so over the weekend, you know, we have the news on Saturday of this shooting in
0:40.1	El Paso, happened at a Walmart, you know. The death toll really shot up pretty quickly.
0:45.3	And, you know, started kind of the way these things usually go,
0:47.7	multiple fatalities and then over the course of the day
0:50.2	and into the evening, you know, I think it maybe crept up to about 18 or 19.
0:55.0	As of yesterday, the police have confirmed 22 fatalities in that shooting.
1:00.0	Then you wake up Sunday morning, basically, you know, while the El Paso News is still fresh to yet another mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio this time, nine people killed in that.
1:09.2	And, you know, in a way, these shootings just, there's sort of a routine nature to the coverage it's
1:14.6	kind of like the death toll creeps up and the the suspects details start to come
1:19.8	out you know we remember the victims in their in their details but it's sort of it's hard to
1:24.4	know how to approach them differently in a way when they become so commonplace and so
1:29.2	that's really the thing I mean they are I mean the reporting follows a certain kind of
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