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The Conversation with Dasha Burns

Klobuchar strikes Buttigieg in fight for center

The Conversation with Dasha Burns

POLITICO

News, Politics, Government

4.01.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Scott and senior politics editor Charlie Mahtesian break down a key moment in a battle of the moderates between Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg. Plus, White House reporter Nancy Cook and deputy Congress editor David Kihara talk the impeachment vote and what's coming next. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello listeners, and welcome to Politico's Nurdcast. I'm Scott Bland, your host.

0:06.3

This was a historic week. The House of Representatives impeached President Donald Trump,

0:11.0

only the third president to meet that fate.

0:14.5

We're gonna dig into what happened and what's ahead in a Senate trial in 2020.

0:20.0

But first, PBS News Hour and Politico hosted a Democratic presidential debate in Los Angeles

0:26.1

Thursday night.

0:27.1

The last Democratic debate of 2019, one of the very last before the Iowa caucuses take place in

0:32.2

February. Seven candidates met on the

0:35.1

stage, the smallest one yet, and we are going to pick apart a key moment from the

0:39.8

debate with senior politics editor Charlie Metesian.

0:43.0

Charlie, thanks for joining us.

0:44.4

How's Los Angeles?

0:45.8

Hi Scott, the weather's great.

0:48.0

I want to move out here.

0:49.0

It's amazing.

0:50.0

Yeah, it was like 20-something degrees out here today.

0:52.8

Sorry for you suckers.

0:54.0

All right, let's get into it.

0:56.2

One of the spiciest exchanges in the debate

0:58.6

and a really notable one for three reasons,

1:01.8

we'll get into shortly, came about two-thirds of the way

1:04.4

through we had a pretty quiet first hour in terms of candidates going after

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