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Hello, this is Emily from San Louis Abispo, California. I just finished my first day as a substitute teacher working with a class of

awesome third graders from the same school I attended 30 years ago.

This podcast was recorded at 1.10 p.m. on Thursday January 25th.

Things may have changed by the time you hear this, but I'll still be working in

classrooms until I finish my teaching credential and get a class of my very own.

Here's the show.

That's very sweet.

I can never say enough about teachers.

They're so great. Never say enough and substitute teaching is way harder than people think.

Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast, I'm Susan Davis, I cover politics.

I'm Sarah McCammon, I cover the presidential campaign. And I'm

Mara Liason National Political Correspondent. And today I'd like to think of the

podcast as the equivalent of if you were sitting around and getting a beer

with me, Mara, and Sarah, because today we're

talking Veepe stakes.

The presidential primary is not over, but for most Republicans, it is.

Donald Trump is the likely nominee, and he's already indicated that he knows who his

running mate will be.

We of course have no idea who it's going to be here on the NPR Politics Podcast, but we don't even

know if he knows who it's going to be but we do

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