Lis Smith, Part Two

Impolitic with John Heilemann

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News, Politics

4.8 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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In a special two-part episode, John Heilemann talks with Lis Smith, the Democratic communications guru best known for her role in guiding Pete Buttigieg's long shot presidential campaign, and now author of a new memoir, Any Given Tuesday: A Political Love Story. In Part 1 of the podcast, Heilemann and Smith discuss the 1/6 committee hearings and their potential impact on Donald Trump's political future; the early years of Smith's career working on campaigns; the saga of her romantic involvement with former New York governor Eliot Spitzer, and the furor that erupted when the relationship became tabloid fodder. In Part 2, Lis looks back fondly on her time with Mayor Pete and much less fondly on her role as a member of former New York governor Andrew Cuomo's kitchen cabinet as he faced a wave of sexual harassment charges that ultimately forced him to resign. Lis also waxes (unaccountably) rhapsodic about her beloved Cincinnati Bengals, and explains why she refers to herself as a "competitive motherfucker."

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1:10.3	Hey, everybody. John Hyland, I'm here and welcome to part two of this very special two-part
1:17.5	episode of Hell on High Water with Democratic political strategist and communications
1:21.9	Savant.
1:23.4	Lis Smith, author of the new book, Any Given Tuesday at Political Love Story.
1:27.2	In part one of the podcasts, we broke down the latest in the 1-6 Committee hearings,
1:30.7	including Lis's overall assessment of the committee's effectiveness so far, what these
1:34.5	hearings have accomplished, what they still have yet to accomplish, and her expectations
1:38.3	for Thursday nights, big time hearing taking place in prime time.
1:44.6	The last scheduled hearing of the 1-6 Committee, although there are those who say there are
1:48.6	still more to come.
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