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The NPR Politics Podcast

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News, Daily News, Politics

4.4 • 25.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2017

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

The implications of President Trump's reported request to then-FBI Director James Comey, plus the President's upcoming overseas trip. This episode: host/White House correspondent Tamara Keith, congressional correspondent Susan Davis, justice correspondent Carrie Johnson, and national political correspondent Mara Liasson. More coverage at nprpolitics.org. Email the show at nprpolitics@npr.org. Find and support your local public radio station at npr.org/stations.

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0:22.8	Hello, this is Smile Oma from Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia.
0:28.8	This podcast was recorded at 3.11pm on Wednesday the 17th.
0:34.4	Things may have changed by the time you hear it.
0:37.3	Keep up with all the NPR's political coverage at NPR.org on the NPR1 app and on your local
0:45.4	public radio station.
0:46.9	All right, here's the show.
0:50.0	It's the NPR Politics podcast here to talk about the most dramatic week yet of Donald Trump's
0:58.2	presidency.
0:59.2	As reports surface, he asked FBI director James Comey to stop investigating former national
1:04.4	security adviser Michael Flynn.
1:06.4	I'm Tamer Keith.
1:07.4	I cover the White House for NPR.
1:08.8	I'm Susan Davis.
1:09.8	I cover Congress.
1:10.8	I'm Mara Lias and National Political Correspondent.
1:13.9	And Sue, you are up in your radio booth on Capitol Hill.
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