Pelosi's Democratic Challengers Go Public; Trump Says He Answered Mueller's Questions
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🗓️ 20 November 2018
⏱️ 18 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, this is Tony from Nashville, Tennessee. It's the middle of the night and I'm driving my infinite around hoping that it will go to sleep in the car |
| 0:08.1 | This podcast was recorded at |
| 0:10.9 | 110 p.m. on Tuesday, November 20th in James Henry if you're listening, please go to sleep |
| 0:17.3 | We feel you man, we feel you there. It's the NPR politics podcast Nancy Pelosi is facing the toughest challenge of her career |
| 0:29.6 | But she still does not have a Democrat who has stepped forward to challenge her for the house speakership and President Trump says he has answered |
| 0:36.6 | Questions from the special counsel and that is that we've wasted enough time on this witch hunt and the answers probably |
| 0:44.0 | We're finished. I'm Scott Detroy cover congress. I'm Kelsey Snelli also cover congress and I'm Tamer Keith. I cover the White House |
| 0:51.1 | Hey everybody. Hi. Thanks giving Eve Eve |
| 0:55.5 | Got some news to talk about there were a bunch of Democrats we knew we're coming after Nancy Pelosi who were going to promise |
| 1:01.7 | They were not going to vote for her on the floor. They said our letter is coming a letter is coming soon |
| 1:06.4 | And it will reveal just how many of us there are and then they actually put out the letter |
| 1:11.1 | But the letter came up with one fewer person than they said was going to be on the original group of people signing the letter |
| 1:18.1 | It involved 14 men one of whom may or may not be in Congress when the Congress actually comes together in January and |
| 1:27.3 | Two women and they all say that they want a change |
| 1:30.6 | They are not saying that they will vote against Nancy Pelosi a speaker, but they are committed to voting for new leadership |
| 1:36.7 | So guys did they say what their beef is with Nancy Pelosi like what are they specifically saying she is doing wrong? |
| 1:46.0 | The letter did not interestingly get into any specific reasons as to why Nancy Pelosi should go any specific policies the group had a problem with |
| 1:53.9 | By and large the Democrats who have been talking about why they'd like a new leader have all come back to the same thing that she has been |
| 2:00.4 | Leading the House Democrats for a really long time that the rest of her leadership has been there for a really long time |
| 2:06.8 | And they're frustrated and ready to see some new leadership stuff in yeah and Seth molten who is a Democrat from Massachusetts |
| 2:13.5 | Is kind of one of the big leaders of this letter push and he put out an an op-ed today on CNN and he explains that |
| 2:21.1 | currently leadership falls short by and basically not moving new people up in the leadership structure |
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