Mike Viqueira: Covering Congress Both Real & Fictional

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🗓️ 23 March 2017

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Former White House and Congressional Correspondent Mike Viqueria's new book "You Didn't Get This From Me" tells a fictionalized story of how Congress works, and how ambition can lead to betrayel.

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, we invite you to meet the press.
0:03.6	Meet the press.
0:05.0	Meet the press.
0:06.0	Meet the press.
0:08.0	Washington is a mystery to many who come here and to many who live here.
0:13.0	They like to write about new mysteries in Washington, even ones that haven't happened
0:16.8	yet.
0:17.8	And while we joke about life imitating art imitating life, we have one of those folks
0:23.0	who is having a little fun with life imitating art here.
0:26.5	Mike Vicaria was most recently the White House correspondent for Al Jazeera America before
0:30.8	the network shut down in 2016.
0:32.8	He was my partner in the White House booth at NBC during the second term of Obama the
0:39.9	whole time and before that he was Mr. Capitol Hill, the former mayor of the Capitol Hill press
0:45.8	court back in the day with a good 10 years as essentially our chief.
0:52.8	I would say House Whisperer is probably the right anyway.
0:57.0	I doubt it.
0:58.0	I doubt it.
0:59.0	Every once in a while to achieve the summit of Mount Olympus on the Senate side.
1:02.8	Let's be realistic.
1:03.8	Covering the Senate is easy.
1:04.8	Yeah.
1:05.8	Well, certainly not as much fun.
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