Nina Totenberg -- Legendary Supreme Court Journalist

DSR's Words Matter

Riley Fessler

News, Government

4.6 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Katie welcomes her friend Nina Totenberg to Words Matter. Nina is NPR's award winning and legendary legal affairs correspondent. Her coverage of the Supreme Court and legal and political affairs has won her widespread recognition. Newsweek calls her "the creme de la creme of NPR" and Vanity Fair calls her "Queen of the Leaks." She's not a lawyer but any lawyer in Washington will tell you she knows more about the law than they do. From more than 30 years, Nina Totenberg has broken some of the biggest stories in some of the most important and consequential events in the history of Supreme Court nominations. Listen to Nina talk with Katie about the Brett Kavanaugh hearings, the Mueller Report and executive privilege and her special friendship with the Terminator -- former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/words-matter. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Words Matter with Katie Barlow.
0:10.6	Welcome to Words Matter, I'm Katie Barlow.
0:14.3	Our goal is to promote objective reality.
0:17.3	As a wise man once said, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, not their own facts.
0:23.6	Words have power and words have consequences.
0:29.3	Nina Tottenberg needs no introduction, but we're going to give her one anyway.
0:34.3	Nina is NPR's award-winning and legendary legal affairs correspondent.
0:38.9	Her coverage of the Supreme Court and legal and political affairs has won her widespread
0:44.2	recognition.
0:45.2	Newsweek calls her the crem de la crem of NPR and Vanity Fair calls her Queen of the Leaks.
0:52.8	She's not a lawyer, but any lawyer in this town will tell you she knows more about the
0:56.9	law than they do.
0:58.4	Nina Tottenberg, my friend, it is a privilege to welcome you to Words Matter.
1:03.2	Oh, it's wonderful to be here, Katie.
1:05.7	So before we get into the court, I want to talk about something that happened recently.
1:09.8	You were on the steps of the Supreme Court and the Terminator was there.
1:14.4	Arnold Schwarzenegger was there and a video got captured of you putting the microphone
1:19.6	right up to his lips and it went viral.
1:22.3	What was going on at the court?
1:23.9	It's a long story.
1:25.6	It has been going on for a couple of weeks.
1:27.7	One of the, I take it, new cameraman started yelling at me one day when I brought over
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