Joe Biden Projects Calm As Trump And GOP Allies Spread Disinformation
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🗓️ 11 November 2020
⏱️ 15 minutes
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This episode: correspondent Scott Detrow, correspondent Asma Khalid, and voting reporter Miles Parks.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, this is Brian. I'm kayaking at beautiful Smith Mountain Lake, Virginia. |
| 0:07.4 | Filming location of the 1991 Classic. What about Bob? This podcast was recorded at. |
| 0:14.4 | It's 204 Eastern on, is it Tuesday or Wednesday? I think it's Wednesday. Great question. |
| 0:20.7 | Yes, Wednesday. It's Wednesday. I'm being told it's Wednesday, November 11th. |
| 0:25.1 | Veterans Day. Things may have changed by the time you hear this, but I hope we can all find time to take a vacation from our problems. |
| 0:32.1 | Okay, here's the show. |
| 0:37.1 | Yeah, I've rewatched what about Bob recently. I'm... |
| 0:41.1 | Jury's still out on the list. That's a good movie, but very, very nice time stamp. |
| 0:45.1 | It's right before the Bill Murray turn, you know, to like serious Bill Murray. |
| 0:49.1 | Yeah, I lost in translation Bill Murray. |
| 0:51.1 | Oh, yeah. Hey there. It's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Scott Detrello. I cover Joe Biden. |
| 0:56.1 | I'm West McCullough. I also cover Joe Biden. |
| 0:59.1 | I'm Miles Parks. I cover voting. Can we just instead of this super serious topic, just talk about Bill Murray's firm. |
| 1:06.1 | Film career for 15 minutes. Does that work or no? |
| 1:09.1 | I feel like that would be throwing away my entire last couple of years of reporting. |
| 1:13.1 | That's true. |
| 1:14.1 | Miles, you are one of the national experts on this topic. So you're right, we will plow forward. |
| 1:18.1 | We will talk about Bill Murray later and we will talk about this election and the disinformation that's out there. |
| 1:24.1 | And the fact that President Trump and Republican allies continue to push this disinformation about election fraud, |
| 1:30.1 | continue to not acknowledge that Joe Biden won the presidential election and is the president elect. |
| 1:35.1 | And Osmo, we're going to talk at length about how Biden is handling all of this. |
| 1:40.1 | But Miles, just to start, is there any change in the messaging and the tone from President Trump and his top Republican allies in the last day or so? |
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