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The Bakari Sellers Podcast

Journalism, Policy, and the 2024 Election With Molly Ball

The Bakari Sellers Podcast

The Ringer

Politics, News

4.8966 Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Bakari is joined by senior political correspondent for The Wall Street Journal Molly Ball to discuss her take on the state of the presidential race (4:44), housing as a key issue in both campaigns (14:24), and the business world’s response to Kamala Harris’s economic plan (20:45). Host: Bakari Sellers Guest: Molly Ball Producer: Donnie Beacham Jr. Executive Producer: Jarrod Loadholt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I won't tell you that it's gonna be okay.

0:07.0

I won't tell you that it's going to be okay.

0:15.0

And welcome to another episode of the Bakari Sales Podcast.

0:17.5

Today we have the illustrious Molly Ball with us and she is going to teach us and tell us everything we need to know.

0:23.2

We were supposed to do this interview last week, but it always ends up like the

0:26.5

weekends in this political cycle just go to hell quickly, don't they?

0:30.0

It's amazing how they go to hell in the hand basket really quick.

0:33.0

Molly, how you doing?

0:34.7

I'm good.

0:35.4

Thanks.

0:36.4

Thanks so much for having me.

0:36.4

Great to be here and yeah, another wild weekend on the campaign trail, right?

0:40.4

It always is.

0:41.7

So we start each one of our shows in a unique way. We have our guest

0:44.6

walk us through the arc of their careers and you've had a story career in

0:47.7

journalism in some of the country's leading newsrooms. Walk us through the

0:51.8

arc of your career since finishing Yale to your

0:54.3

beat now with the Wall Street Journal.

0:56.5

Sure.

0:57.5

Well I started working for newspapers and realized that I liked it while I was still in college.

1:03.2

Did some newspaper internships in Ohio and Pennsylvania and the Washington Post and the

1:09.2

New York Times and then took off for Asia for a couple years.

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