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The NPR Politics Podcast

Monday, October 31

The NPR Politics Podcast

NPR

News, Daily News, Politics

4.425.7K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2016

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Eight days to go. (And Happy Halloween.) This episode: host/campaign reporter Scott Detrow, political reporter Danielle Kurtzleben, and political editor Domenico Montanaro, with justice correspondent Carrie Johnson. More coverage at nprpolitics.org. Email the show at nprpolitics@npr.org.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Before we start the show, a reminder to follow all of our political reporting on the NPR-1 app.

0:05.2

That's NPR-O-N-E. You can find all your favorite podcasts, including CAR Talk. That's right, CAR Talk.

0:12.2

Not just on your radio, also available as a podcast, with advice, tips, troubleshooting,

0:17.7

and occasionally answers to CAR questions. Get CAR Talk now on the NPR-1 app or at NPR.org-slash-podcast.

0:25.2

Okay, here's the show. Hey there, it's the NPR politics podcast back with another week of daily

0:33.9

episodes right up until Election Day. Over the weekend, of course, the talk was all about emails.

0:40.3

This could be the mother load. This is the single biggest scandal since Watergate. We never thought

0:47.2

we were going to say thank you to Anthony Weiner. Donald Trump in Colorado, New Mexico, and Nevada.

0:54.8

Clinton on Friday night called for the FBI to release more information about newly discovered emails

1:00.4

that may or may not be relevant to the investigation of her personal email server.

1:05.6

We don't know what to believe, and I'm sure there will be even more rumors. That's why it is

1:10.7

incumbent upon the FBI to tell us what they're talking about. So let's talk about the latest in

1:16.9

the story and a few others just eight days away from the election. I'm Scott Detro campaign reporter.

1:22.8

I'm Danielle Kurtz, Laban political reporter. I'm Dominican Montenarro political editor.

1:26.5

And I'm Carrie Johnson, just a correspondent. All right, before we get into that,

1:30.7

let's talk about the most important thing, which is happy Halloween everybody.

1:33.9

Oh, thank you, you too. Very nice sweater, Scott. Very nice tie, Dominican. Very Ken Bonavue.

1:42.9

Us both wearing orange will not help us being mixed up. Danielle, we're a wizard hat.

1:46.9

I'm the only one who knows. Where is your wizard hat? You said you were going to bring it in.

1:50.0

It's right here. It felt inappropriate to wear while we're talking about emails, but now I have it

1:54.8

on and it just looks really great, doesn't it? And Carrie has come dressed as a reporter who's

1:59.2

been working on a crazy breaking news story for 72 straight hours. I'm resembling a human being.

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