President Barack Obama

The NPR Politics Podcast

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🗓️ 21 December 2015

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Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep interviews President Barack Obama at the White House. It's a wide-ranging conversation covering his administration's ISIS strategy, national identity, and the President's legacy entering his final year in office. Steve Inskeep sets up the interview with Politics Podcast host Sam Sanders and political editor Domenico Montanaro. Find the team on Twitter @NPRInskeep, @samsanders, and @DomenicoNPR, or at npr.org/politics.

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0:00.0	Hey y'all, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.
0:05.5	Sam Sanders here, Campaign reporter.
0:07.0	I'm Domenico Montenarro, political editor.
0:08.7	And this is Morning Edition host Steve Inskeeps,
0:11.2	interview with President Obama.
0:13.1	It was taped last week at the White House.
0:15.1	Steve is here.
0:16.2	Steve, give us a quick rundown of what you guys talked about.
0:18.5	Hey there, Sam.
0:19.5	Our editor, Amad Omar, cut it down to three words here.
0:23.0	This is a long discussion, considerably more than half an hour.
0:26.3	But you can look at the bulk of this discussion in three words.
0:29.4	Security, legacy, identity.
0:32.7	Security, we're talking about ISIS, the fight against ISIS.
0:35.7	This president has a serious problem.
0:37.9	He insists he has a strategy to win.
0:39.9	The public at large doesn't seem to think so at all,
0:42.5	according to surveys, and certainly his critics do not.
0:45.1	And so he's trying to acknowledge the problem that he's
0:48.2	having in selling this strategy and trying to sell it.
0:50.7	Legacy, this guy is getting into the final year of his presidency.
0:54.7	How are all of his acts in office going to be sustained
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