Mass Shootings And Extremism Are Top White House Concerns

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🗓️ 26 January 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Vice President Harris is in California after a number of mass shootings in the state. The US Secret Service is out with a report documenting trends in attacks resulting in mass violence. And details on how one Nazi extremist group is recruiting new members in Florida.

This episode: White House correspondent Scott Detrow, politics reporter Deepa Shivaram, and domestic extremism correspondent Sergio Olmos.

This episode was produced by Elena Moore and Casey Morell. It was edited by Eric McDaniel. Our executive producer is Muthoni Muturi. Research and fact-checking by Devin Speak.

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0:00.0	This is Scott and I'm here with my son.
0:02.4	Cut. We are currently at Sydney International Airport.
0:06.5	About to start our 16-hour flight back to the USA to visit family and friends in Florida,
0:13.0	Tennessee, and New York City. This podcast was recorded at.
0:17.8	Scott, among many other things, I want to congratulate you on achieving the ability to take a 16-hour
0:23.8	plane flight with your kid. Congratulations! incomprehensible to me, but I believe in you.
0:29.1	It is 106 Eastern on Thursday, January 26th.
0:33.6	Things may have changed by the time you hear it.
0:36.3	Okay, here's the show.
0:41.6	Nothing like some good airport ambient sound. Am I right?
0:45.2	We've been, everyone's moving around this week in the time stamp.
0:47.9	We've got, we've got ships going through the Arctic and people crossing
0:51.2	country skiing and flight stall Australia. It's all over.
0:55.0	I'm just sitting on my basement right now.
0:57.1	What am I doing wrong? Hey there. It's the NPR Politics podcast. I'm Scott Detro. I cover the
1:02.8	White House. I'm Deepa Shiveron. I cover politics.
1:05.6	And NPR Sergio almost is here as well. Hey there.
1:08.4	Hello there. Vice President Kamala Harris is in California today visiting a state which is
1:13.8	experienced mass shooting upon mass shooting in recent days.
1:17.3	Sergio, before we get into a broader conversation today, just give us the latest on those
1:22.1	horrible back-to-back shootings, what we know at this point in time.
1:25.6	Yeah, I went out to Monterey Park a couple hours after the shooting was reported.
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