Michael Bender, Part 1

Impolitic with John Heilemann

Audacy | Puck

News, Politics

4.8 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

In which John Heilemann talks with Mike Bender, senior White House reporter for The Wall Street Journal and author of Frankly, We Did Win This Election: The Inside Story of How Trump Lost, for a special two-part episode of the podcast. Heilemann and Bender discuss the latter's new book and its news-making account of Trump's cataclysmic final year in office and doomstruck reelection campaign; how the president mishandled the series of crises that beset the country in 2020, from Covid to the protests after the murder of George Floyd; his contraction of the coronavirus and obsession with Hunter Biden in the campaign's waning days; his actions behind the scenes and motivations in fanning the flames before and during the January 6 attack on the Capitol; the symbiotic relationship between Trump and the national media; Trump's continued post-presidential hold on the Republican Party; and both his and his party's future. Bender also discusses his career in journalism, his daily battle with his father for rights to the sports page of the Cleveland Plain Dealer when he was growing up, and the special challenges of writing about a White House filled with unreliable narrators. Check back tomorrow for the second installment of this special edition of Hell & High Water. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:01.6	Benoit Blanc, the detective.
0:03.5	Now the real fun starts.
0:04.4	For a game gone wrong.
0:06.0	Tonight, my murder will be committed to any questions.
0:08.3	Are we even going to talk about the elephant in the room?
0:10.1	Join Daniel Craig.
0:11.3	Oh, wait.
0:13.3	At the party to die for.
0:15.1	This is not a movie, does it?
0:17.8	This is not a game.
0:19.4	From writer and director, Ryan Johnson.
0:21.9	Wow, big accusations flying around here.
0:24.1	This is truly delightful.
0:25.6	Glass onion, a knives out mystery.
0:27.8	Only a Netflix 23rd of December.
0:29.8	Hey everyone, John Hyalman here.
0:48.8	And welcome to Hell on High Water.
0:50.1	My podcast from the recount and I heart radio with big ups
0:53.0	to the one and only Rizza for our dope theme music.
0:56.0	We are back.
0:57.2	Back in the saddle after a brief hiatus
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