Former White House Press Secretary Joe Lockhart

DSR's Words Matter

Riley Fessler

News, Government

4.6 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2019

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Joe Lockhart served as the 19th White House Press Secretary under President Bill Clinton from 1998-2000. In 1999, Joe became the only White House Press Secretary in American history to serve during the Senate Impeachment Trial of a US President. Later Joe co-founded the Glover Park Group and went on to serve as Senior Vice President of the National Football League. Joe is currently a CNN political analyst and Vice Chairman of Edelman Public Relations. We talk to Joe about his recent CNN appearance with former Independent Counsel Ken Starr and how far he thinks Donald Trump is on the path toward Impeachment. And Katie has a Final Word on legendary journalist and civil rights pioneer Charlayne Hunter-Gault. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/words-matter. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Words Matter with Katie Barlow.
0:09.2	Welcome to Words Matter, I'm Katie Barlow.
0:12.8	Our goal is to promote objective reality.
0:15.8	As a wise man once said, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, not their own facts.
0:22.1	Words have power and words have consequences.
0:29.4	Welcome to this week's episode of Words Matter.
0:32.4	Today we are joined by Joe Lockhart.
0:35.4	Joe was the 19th White House Press Secretary under President Bill Clinton from 1998 to 2000.
0:43.2	He is also the former Senior Vice President of the National Football League, and today
0:47.5	is an entrepreneur, businessman, and CNN political commentator.
0:52.4	Also joining me today is my co-host Adam Levine.
0:55.9	Joe, thanks for joining us.
0:57.4	Great to be here.
0:58.7	So last week you sat down across the table from Ken Star.
1:04.3	Was that the first time you had met after 20 years, and what was it like to sit face to face
1:10.2	with him?
1:11.2	It's the first time we've met, person to person.
1:13.4	I think we've talked at each other over television over the years, but it's the first time
1:20.0	I had a chance to see him face to face.
1:25.0	You know, it was intense.
1:27.0	These are issues that I think both of us feel very strongly about most of the time.
1:31.6	I don't want to think about these anymore, but it's very important to me, I think, to
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