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The Muckrake Political Podcast

Is This CNN's Downfall?

The Muckrake Political Podcast

CLNS Media Network

News, Politics

4.6530 Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Co-hosts Jared Yates Sexton and Nick Hauselman discuss the damning profile written in the Atlantic about CNN's CEO Chris Licht and how it has revealed the deep issues surrounding our media in the modern political era. They then shift to Chuck Todd's hilarious self pat on the back as he announces his departure as long time host Meet The Press before finishing on Mark Zuckerberg's public work out routines.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everybody. Welcome to the Muckraig podcast. I'm Jared Yates Sexton. I'm here with Nick

0:07.5

Alson. I am not lying when I say that I have been champing at the bit for this show, the content,

0:15.9

the segments on this show that we're going to get into. We're saying goodbye to Friend of the Pod, Chuck Todd.

0:21.6

We're talking about Mark Zuckerberg in a story that I can't wait to tell everybody about.

0:27.4

This giant blowout article about Mark Licked at the Atlantic, we got to talk about this thing.

0:36.5

I'm so excited. I called him Mark Lick. His name is Chris Lick. What in the hell am I doing? Nick, before we get going, can you confirm to our audience that you don't know what I'm getting ready to tell you in terms of breaking news?

0:52.2

I will attest and infer, whatever that word is, a ver, I think is the word I'm looking

0:59.1

for, that I have no idea what this is.

1:01.7

You mentioned something before we recorded.

1:03.2

I don't know anything about anything.

1:04.6

So right before we started recording, we're recording on Monday, June 5th. Right before we got started.

1:11.8

And of course, there's hubbub, Nick.

1:14.2

There's scuttlebutt that Trump's lawyers are meeting with the Department of Justice.

1:18.6

There's the possibility that there might be charges filed.

1:21.5

We're not sure.

1:22.3

We have no idea what's going on.

1:23.5

We take a wait and see approach at this show.

1:26.5

CNN is now reporting that, Nick, there was a flood at Mar-a-Lago after the feds visited Mar-a-Lago looking for documents.

1:37.7

And would you believe it?

1:39.2

The flood, which came from the swimming pool at Mar-a-Lago, flooded where all of their surveillance equipment was,

1:46.2

destroyed all of their records,

1:47.7

destroyed all of their tapes.

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