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The NPR Politics Podcast

Live Weekly Roundup: Friday, May 20

The NPR Politics Podcast

NPR

Politics, Daily News, News

4.425.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2016

⏱️ 73 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

A special live edition of the weekly roundup, with a look at Donald Trump's potential path to victory in the general election, what happened at the Nevada Democratic convention this past week, and the ongoing rifts in the Democratic party. This episode, White House correspondent Tamara Keith; campaign reporters Sam Sanders, Scott Detrow, Asma Khalid, and Sarah McCammon; congressional correspondent Susan Davis; political editor Domenico Montanaro; editor/correspondent Ron Elving. More coverage at nprpolitics.org. Email the show at nprpolitics@npr.org.

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's the NPR Politics Podcast live.

0:07.0

We're coming to you from Studio One at NPR Headquarters in Washington, D.C. with our

0:13.6

Roundup of the Week's Political News.

0:15.9

We're going to do things a little differently this week.

0:18.4

Four of us will start the show talking about the Republicans and what happened on their

0:21.8

side of the race this week.

0:23.4

Then we will hand it off to four more of your favorite nerds who will talk about the Democrats.

0:28.8

And of course, we will all be back at the end of the show with your questions and can't

0:34.1

let it go.

0:35.1

I'm Tamara Keith, White House correspondent.

0:36.7

I also cover the campaign.

0:38.1

I'm Domenico Montenegro, political editor.

0:40.2

I'm Sarah McCammon, campaign reporter.

0:42.3

And I'm a sma Khaled.

0:43.3

I cover demographics in the campaign.

0:45.3

And just a heads up.

0:46.7

Some live shows have those little applause signs that light up.

0:50.2

We have something different.

0:51.8

Whenever it's time for applause, you will hear this.

0:54.2

Please clap.

1:01.2

That's a crowd that knows something about politics.

1:09.0

That was of course, Jeb Bush.

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