How Jonathan Capehart Wants To Cover Politics After Trump
Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast
WNYC Studios
4.4 • 675 Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2020
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Brian Lehrer. This is my Daily Politics Podcast from WNYC Studios. It's Friday, December 11th. |
| 0:14.8 | With us now, journalist and presidential historian Jonathan Alter, who has written books about |
| 0:20.4 | FDR, Barack Obama, and now one about |
| 0:23.0 | Jimmy Carter. There's a story in there about how Carter classed with Joe Biden on the issue of |
| 0:28.7 | busing for integrating public schools. Jonathan also tweeted today that Hunter Biden could be the |
| 0:34.8 | Billy Carter of the Biden administration, he'll explain. |
| 0:38.8 | Jonathan also made the recent documentary about New York journalists Pete Hamill and |
| 0:43.1 | Jimmy Breslin that won an Emmy this year for outstanding historical documentary. |
| 0:48.3 | And Jonathan himself has been a national politics reporter for Newsweek and The Daily Beast as well. |
| 0:53.8 | So he has his eye on both the past and the present. For example, he is, also, he is not just, he tweeted this. He is not just for the Supreme Court to reject the lawsuit by 18 Republican State Attorneys General to undo the presidential election results, |
| 1:14.2 | he is calling on them to be disbarred on the grounds of sedition against the people of the United States |
| 1:20.5 | and something called Rule 11. We'll skip Rules 1 through 10 and explain that. |
| 1:26.7 | With us now is Jonathan Alter. |
| 1:28.4 | The new book is called His Very Best, Jimmy Carter, Alive. |
| 1:32.9 | Hi, Jonathan. |
| 1:33.4 | Always great to have you. |
| 1:34.3 | Welcome back to WNYC. |
| 1:36.1 | Hi, Brian. |
| 1:36.7 | Great to be here. |
| 1:37.8 | Can we start on the news? |
| 1:39.2 | What's this Rule 11? |
| 1:41.3 | Well, you know, I'm not a lawyer and I don't want to play one on the radio, but that's a |
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