NPR Interviews President Barack Obama

The NPR Politics Podcast

NPR

News, Daily News, Politics

4.4 • 25.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2015

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep and NPR Visuals editor Kainaz Amaria join political editor Domenico Montanaro and Politics Podcast host Sam Sanders to talk about what it's like to interview a sitting President at the White House, as Steve did this week for NPR's Morning Edition. His interview with President Obama will be released Monday, December 21 here on the podcast, online at npr.org, and on your local public radio station. Find the team on Twitter @NPRinskeep, @kainazamaria, @samsanders, and @DomenicoNPR, and at npr.org/politics.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, it's the NPR politics podcast.
0:05.3	Sam Santers here, campaign reporter.
0:06.8	I'm Domenico Montenarro, political editor.
0:08.8	And Domenico, we have some special guests to welcome.
0:11.4	As our listeners, may have guessed from the title of this episode,
0:14.4	we are here with President Barack Obama.
0:17.2	Just kidding.
0:18.0	I'm not sure.
0:19.2	But we do have two very special guests to introduce themselves right now.
0:23.1	I think Steve is the most special, so I don't know.
0:26.2	Do you want to go first?
0:26.8	Say my name.
0:27.6	What did you do to me?
0:28.6	If I'm special, I need to be introduced.
0:30.6	This is Steve Inskeep, the host of Morning Edition.
0:33.2	And this is the Drummer.
0:35.2	And this is the Find out as a Maria of NPR's Visuals Team.
0:38.6	Nice.
0:39.9	So we're here because this week, you two
0:42.0	were at the White House interviewing the president for NPR.
0:44.8	It's an interesting experience.
0:45.8	We've done it several times now.
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