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🗓️ 14 August 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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This week, Matt and Brian survey the news periphery for various black swans and Chekhov’s guns that might change the trajectory of the race. They discuss:

* How Kamala Harris’s joy-themed campaign might affect economic sentiment, and whether the economy itself is at risk of contraction;

* Donald Trump’s coverup of a $10 million bribe (or attempted bribe) dangled during the 2016 campaign by the Egyptian government;

* The campaign press corps’ increasing impatience with Harris over press access.

Then, behind the paywall, a deep dive into the apparent hack and theft of Trump campaign emails, and why the news outlets that have obtained them have so far not published any stories about their contents. Is the political media establishing a new set of rules meant to benefit Donald Trump? Will these emails eventually appear online, unfiltered, just as Clinton campaign emails did eight years ago? Can mainstream outlets quietly decide to show restraint over Trump emails, without bothering to explain to the public why their standards changed and what they got wrong in 2016?

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0:00.0	I want to be frank like yes like send me the emails I will read through them I will
0:04.6	publish the ones that I think reflect poorly on Donald Trump and then a week or so
0:10.1	after that I'll just put them all on the internet and I will be frankly more
0:14.8	responsible than the media was in 2020.
0:19.4	Hey everyone you're listening to a free preview of the politics podcast.
0:25.2	We're in a brief campaign lull between last week's running made announcement,
0:30.1	Tim Walsh joining the Harris ticket, and next week's Democratic National Convention.
0:35.0	And so we wanted to survey the periphery of the news for various Black Swans or
0:42.1	Chekhovs guns that might knock us out of this holding
0:46.2	pattern that we're in. So the Trump campaign's emails have apparently been
0:50.6	hacked. There is also apparently classified evidence
0:54.1	that Trump accepted a $10 million bribe
0:56.6	from Egypt during the 2016 campaign.
1:00.0	And then there's the press corps's palpable frustration with Kamala Harris for not submitting to a hostile interview or press conference on their schedule.
1:09.0	All of these things could turn into something, so we wanted to survey them.
1:14.0	I hope you enjoy the conversation, and if you want to hear the whole thing, you can upgrade your
1:17.4	subscription to paid at politics.fm. Hey everyone welcome to the politics podcast I'm Brian Boiler. I'm Matthew
1:28.3	Glacius. So we've been in this sort of steady-of goes phase of the election. I think really since
1:34.5	Kamala Harris began her campaign but for at least a couple weeks right where
1:39.8	she has sort of gained steadily in the polls she she built a lead. And so most of the news coverage
1:46.0	of the election is in some way about that. Like, how did she upend the race? How is Donald
1:52.0	Trump reacting to the upending of the race?
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