NPR Politics Live From Chicago

The NPR Politics Podcast

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🗓️ 23 October 2017

⏱️ 23 minutes

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This is a special episode, recorded in front of a live audience at the Athenaeum Theatre in Chicago on Sunday night, October 22. This episode: host/congressional reporter Scott Detrow, White House correspondent Tamara Keith, White House correspondent Scott Horsley and editor-correspondent Ron Elving. Email the show at nprpolitics@npr.org. Find and support your local public radio station at npr.org/stations.

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0:00.0	In 2014, we all heard this.
0:01.9	The United States of America is changing its relationship with the people of Cuba.
0:05.6	But Cubans heard something else.
0:06.9	A closing door, an end to their special status, and the race was on.
0:12.6	How a 90-mile journey by sea became a 3000-mile trip by land.
0:16.2	Find Radean Boulante on the NPR-1 app or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:19.9	Hey everybody, it's the NPR Politics Podcast live from Chicago.
0:32.7	We are here at the Athanian Theater in beautiful Chicago in partnership with WBEZ.
0:38.9	President Trump spent another week in broiled in and simultaneously stoking controversy.
0:48.3	We'll talk about why this just keeps happening.
0:51.5	And we'll ask whether the never-ending feuding will keep Republicans from tax cuts and other
0:56.8	big policy goals.
0:58.8	And later this week, President Trump says he'll take a big step to fight the opioid
1:03.8	epidemic.
1:04.8	A step he first promised two months ago, I'm Tamar Keith, I cover the White House.
1:09.6	I'm Scott Detrello, I cover Congress.
1:11.2	I'm Scott Horsley, I also cover the White House.
1:13.4	And I'm Ron Elving, enter their correspondent.
1:24.1	So Ron, two things, one year representing the very important non-Scott demographic of NPR,
1:31.0	which is a small but important part of our staff.
1:33.0	But two importantly, Ron is a Chicagoan.
1:40.0	He let us all over the city looking for pizza last night, it was a success.
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