How to handle a scandal

The Conversation with Dasha Burns

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🗓️ 26 June 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

House Democrats are wrestling with how hard to go after President Donald Trump's laundry list of alleged abuses. With just weeks to go until Election Day, could aggressive oversight undermine the party's political prospects? Congress reporter Heather Caygle talks with Scott Bland about lawmakers' game plan. Scott Bland is the host of Nerdcast and a politics editor at POLITICO.Heather Caygle is a Congress reporter for POLITICO.Adrienne Hurst is an associate producer for POLITICO audio.Jenny Ament is the senior producer of POLITICO audio.Irene Noguchi is the executive producer of POLITICO audio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sammy, guess what? It's podcast time.
0:04.0	I'm ready for my podcast.
0:07.0	Yeah, you're ready to record your podcast?
0:10.0	I'll let you to do another podcast.
0:13.0	Can do, pal.
0:15.0	Hello, nerd-casters.
0:20.0	It's me again.
0:21.0	Stop land.
0:22.0	Like President Trump is a politician like any other that we have ever seen and maybe won't see again
0:27.4	in our lifetime.
0:28.4	Democrats still don't completely know how to run against him and so they try different things it's
0:34.3	kind of like throwing spaghetti at the wall and hoping some of it sticks.
0:38.0	And speaking of throwing spaghetti at the wall. I'm back from paternity leave. Yeah, welcome back. And
0:47.8	Congress reporter Heather Kegel is here to catch me up on one of the biggest
0:50.7	questions facing Democrats right now,
0:53.1	less than 20 weeks out from November.
0:55.5	How to address the Trump administration scandals
0:57.7	that just keep piling up?
1:00.4	There's the firing of the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan last weekend under
1:04.7	unusual circumstances. There's the presidential misconduct allegations in
1:09.0	that new book from Trump's former National Security Advisor John Bolton.
1:12.4	There was the tear-gassing of protest. from Trump's former national security advisor John Bolton.
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