Mark Leibovich: "You can't fire" NFL owners

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🗓️ 6 September 2018

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Chief national correspondent for The New York Times Magazine, Mark Leibovich sits down with Chuck to discuss his new book, 'Big Game: The NFL in Dangerous Times,' examining the era of Trump through the lens of the NFL.

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, we invite you to meet the press.
0:03.5	Meet the press.
0:04.2	Meet the press.
0:05.1	Meet the press.
0:06.6	Meet the press.
0:09.8	Welcome to 1947, the Meet the Press podcast.
0:12.4	My guest today is Mark Liebovich.
0:14.3	He is the Chief National Correspondent for the New York Times
0:16.4	magazine, and the author of Big Game, The NFL Endangerous Times.
0:21.5	Maybe which is also a veteran of DC politics in 2013.
0:24.0	He published this town, a book about the political culture
0:27.0	of Washington DC.
0:28.5	He thought studying the NFL would get him away from covering
0:30.6	politics, but thanks to a certain president in a certain
0:35.4	oval office, that is proved to be untrue.
0:37.8	Mark Liebovich, welcome to 1947.
0:39.7	Good to be here, Chuck.
0:40.5	So let me ask it just in a blunt way, because I'll
0:43.8	be honest, Mrs. Todd, who has already
0:45.7	read your book cover to cover, says, yeah, it's this town
0:48.7	from the NFL.
0:49.8	Wow, she just took my sound bite.
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