Obama's Farewell, Russian Intel Reports, Senate Hearings

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🗓️ 11 January 2017

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Tuesday was a tsunami of political news. This episode: host/campaign reporter Tamara Keith, justice correspondent Carrie Johnson, congressional correspondent Susan Davis, and editor/correspondent Ron Elving. More coverage at nprpolitics.org. Email the show at nprpolitics@npr.org. Find and support your local public radio station at npr.org/stations.

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0:29.3	Okay, here's the show.
0:34.0	It's the NPR Politics Podcast here to talk about a lot of things, including President
0:39.6	Barack Obama's farewell address.
0:41.8	It has been the honor of my life to serve you. I won't stop. In fact, I will be right there with you
0:50.5	as a citizen for all my remaining days. That was in Chicago Tuesday night, but that was just
0:59.2	one piece of the political news from Tuesday that we'll talk about because it was like a news
1:04.5	tsunami. We have coming up the latest on-synate confirmation hearings, more testimony from intelligence
1:10.9	officials on Russian hacking, and reports that Donald Trump and President Obama were briefed on
1:16.8	claims that Russia possesses compromising material about Trump himself. So there you go. I'm
1:24.1	Tamer Keith. I cover the White House. I'm Susan Davis. I cover Congress.
1:27.6	I'm Carrie Johnson. NPR is just as correspondent. And I'm Ron Elving. Editor correspondent.
1:32.5	It's 10.30 pm Tuesday here at NPR headquarters. And let's just dive right into this before we
1:39.0	get to President Obama's speech. Let's talk about this latest Russian news. You are hearing
1:46.0	this most likely on Wednesday, which means that today is supposed to be at least as of when we're
1:51.7	taping it. Donald Trump's first press conference in 167 days. He was supposed to talk about
1:57.7	disentangling himself from his many business interests and a whole lot of other stuff, but it seems
2:03.0	that Russia will turn out to be the big topic of conversation. And that's because last night,
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