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The Gray Area with Sean Illing

Let's talk about Hillary Clinton's policy ideas, with Jonathan Cohn

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

Vox Media Podcast Network

Politics, News, News Commentary, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.511.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2016

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

The overwhelming focus of this election has been Donald Trump — the things he does, says, tweets. But the next president is likely to be Hillary Clinton. And we've put a lot less effort into understanding her lengthy, detailed agenda for the country.So I sat down with one of my favorite journalists, The Huffington Post’s Jonathan Cohn, who has been doing that work, to talk through what Clinton's platform actually says, and what it all adds up to. We also discussed:-How the stereotype of her has gone from "radical liberal feminist" to "sell-out conservative Democrat," and what both miss-How childcare, work-life balance issues, and parental leave define Clinton's platform-How racial dynamics have changed since Clinton’s emergence as a national public figure in the 90s-The people who surround Clinton and shape her policy platforms-Jon’s evaluation of how Obamacare’s doing and what about it still needs work-The way geography’s complicating the way Obamacare works by creating so many healthcare marketplaces-Why Obamacare's specific struggles have made it so hard for Republicans to promote their own healthcare plansAll this and more. I hope you enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:12.4

Welcome to the Ezra Client Show.

0:13.7

This is an episode I'm very excited to have gotten to do and to bring to you.

0:18.1

Jonathan Cohen from The Huffington Post is one of my favorite journalists he has been for a decade now.

0:24.4

When I was, but a cub trying to learn how to cover healthcare,

0:27.7

John is the guy I wanted to be like.

0:30.0

He's a brilliant policy reporter, brilliant mind, a really generous, gentle human being too.

0:35.2

He comes with a lot of decency, which is not always true in our political media complex right now.

0:41.9

And John wrote a piece recently that spoke to something that I think has gotten much too

0:46.1

little coverage in this election. What is Hillary Clinton's policy agenda? How is it being formulated?

0:51.7

Who is behind it? We spend so much time staring at the glowing orange orb that is Donald Trump

0:59.2

and freaking out about the latest twists and turns in the election that the actual policies

1:04.0

of the likely next president of the United States have been pretty poorly vetted and pretty poorly

1:09.0

understood. So John and I go deep into that into Obamacare into gender dynamics of what kinds of

1:15.1

big policy theories work. We talk a lot about the way Clinton is able to communicate her vision or

1:20.2

not communicate her vision, the way that her ideas about family and paid family leave might actually

1:26.8

add up to an economic policy in a way that is not really being articulated, but I think is worth

1:31.1

giving some serious consideration to. It's a lot of fun and I certainly learned a lot talking to

1:36.0

John about where the Clinton campaign actually is on policy and what their internal process looks

1:41.9

like, which is I think very important because a lot of that process is going to form the foundation

1:45.9

for what she does in the White House if indeed she's elected. As always, please share this episode

1:51.7

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