Michael Steele, Part 1: "Donald Trump is the freest president we've had in a generation"

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🗓️ 15 November 2016

⏱️ 21 minutes

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In part one of a two-part conversation with Michael Steele, former chairman of the Republican National Committee, talks about why President-elect Donald Trump will govern as a pragmatic populist.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone. This is Jonathan Cape Heart. Welcome to K-Pup. He's back.
0:09.6	Michael Steele, the former chairman of the Republican National Committee, who told us in our
0:14.4	premiere episode that the GOP needed the Donald Trump presidential nomination.
0:20.3	But Trump is now the President-elect of the United States.
0:24.0	What on Earth does this mean for the nation and its people?
0:28.5	Listen to Michael Steele makes sense of a political earthquake right now.
0:33.0	Michael Steele, welcome back to Cape Up.
0:37.0	You are our first... Deal. Welcome back to Cape Up.
0:43.0	What up?
0:44.0	You are our first guest.
0:46.4	You said something that, you said several things in that first episode where we were like, what?
0:54.5	And now here we are after the election.
0:59.2	And you're going, why?
1:00.9	A president-elect, elect Donald J. Trump.
1:06.0	Brave New World.
1:07.0	Now one of the things you said that got a lot of attention was
1:12.0	the GOP needs Donald Trump's nomination and you said in that
1:18.7	episode that the nomination forced the party to have an uncomfortable conversation with itself and that by
1:25.9	nominating him that conversation would happen sooner rather than later.
1:31.8	Unfortunately to me do my rather than later. Unfortunately, to my mind, that conversation is never going to happen.
1:41.0	Not only because Donald J. Trump is now president-elect of the United States, but because
1:46.4	the Senate remains in Republican hands, the House remains firmly in Republican hands.
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