Jen Psaki On Talking, Politics, And Talking Politics
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🗓️ 9 May 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
She's the former press secretary for the Biden administration. She's out with a new book called "Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World."
In it, she points to deteriorating communication skills as one source of our intractable political disagreements.
We talk to Psaki about talking, politics, and talking politics.
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| 0:00.0 | When voters talk during an election season, we listen, we ask questions, we follow up, and we bring you along to hear what we learned. |
| 0:09.0 | Get closer to the issues, the people, and your vote at the NPR Elections Hub. |
| 0:13.6 | Visit NPR.org slash elections. Think back to the last time you had a conversation about politics with someone you disagreed with. |
| 0:32.0 | Maybe they were a neighbor or someone in your family. |
| 0:35.0 | How did it go? |
| 0:36.0 | How did it feel to talk to them and come across a difference in your beliefs? |
| 0:40.0 | We hear the saying all the time from the media, from politicians, Americans are more divided than ever. |
| 0:46.0 | Is that division just about a difference in our beliefs or is it also a symptom of our inability to communicate through divides. |
| 0:54.6 | Jen Saki has thought a lot about what it takes to communicate effectively in politics. |
| 0:59.2 | She was White House Press Secretary for President Biden for the first 16 months of his administration from January 2021 to May |
| 1:05.6 | 2022. She also served in multiple communications roles in the Obama administration. |
| 1:11.1 | Jensaki now hosts the MS NBC Show, Inside, with Jensaki, with News of the Week, and one-on-one interviews. |
| 1:18.0 | And her new book is all about how communication is key to doing politics well. Say more, lessons from work, the White House, and the world is out this week. |
| 1:27.0 | Saaki joins us after the break to discuss her new book and answer some of your questions. |
| 1:31.0 | I'm Jen White. |
| 1:32.8 | You're listening to the 1A Podcast |
| 1:34.5 | where we get to the heart of the story. |
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