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Capehart

Michael Steele to Democrats: 'Trust Nancy'

Capehart

The Washington Post

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Michael Steele comes back to the podcast to talk about this extraordinary political moment and why Republicans refuse to step up.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Jonathan Kapart, and welcome to Cape Up.

0:05.0

Things are so crazy with impeachment and Syria and everything Trump.

0:09.0

So there's no better person to talk to than the former chairman of the Republican Party, Michael Steele.

0:15.8

Buckle up and listen to everything right now.

0:21.9

Michael Steele, welcome back to the podcast.

0:25.0

I can't believe I'm back in the neighborhood.

0:27.0

This is amazing.

0:28.0

I mean, you are, amazing.

0:29.0

Yes, you are, this is like your fourth visit. you're you'd like me you really like

0:35.8

all right Sally Field all right but we do we we do have serious things to talk

0:40.6

yes a lot of serious things to talk about I I want to read, get your reaction to a tweet I sent out.

0:47.0

I have already reacted to it on Twitter. And I just don't know, but let me read it for those who might not have seen it and then get you

0:55.2

to respond and I tweeted out the Constitution is being shredded America's reputation is

1:01.4

being pummeled our standing as a beacon of hope and stability has been decimated.

1:06.0

I'm old enough to remember when the Republican Party defended all three with abandon.

1:11.2

Now it's abandoneded Our Republic.

1:13.5

Wow, yes, I saw that this morning when I got up.

1:16.7

I was like the first thing I saw was a tweet from Jonathan Capeop were on my phone,

1:20.8

and there was a lot of people retweeting it and liking it.

1:23.7

Powerful statement, absolutely true, sadly, because the Republican Party has figured it is better

1:31.4

to put on its Trump attitude than its constitutional attitude.

1:38.0

And what I mean by that is, it is better for the party to spend its time as a supplicant of the cult of personality

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