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The NPR Politics Podcast

Quick Take: President Obama's Final Year

The NPR Politics Podcast

NPR

Politics, Daily News, News

4.425.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2015

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

President Barack Obama reflects on 2015 in an outtake from his recent interview with Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep. Then the NPR Politics team looks ahead to the President's final year in office. This episode: hosts Sam Sanders and Tamara Keith with political editor Domenico Montanaro. Find the team on Twitter @samsanders, @tamarakeithNPR, and @DomenicoNPR, or at npr.org/politics.

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I'll sing it.

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Thanks for listening to the NPR Politics podcast.

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0:29.6

and enjoy the holidays.

0:31.6

It's put a bag up, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop.

0:34.6

Hey y'all, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.

0:40.2

We are coming to you today with an outtake from last week's NPR interview with President

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Barack Obama.

0:45.2

This is a five minute clip that we're going to use to touch off a chat about Obama and

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his final year in office.

0:51.4

First, some introductions.

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I'm Sam Sanders, campaign reporter.

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I'm Tamer Keith, White House correspondent.

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I'm Dominican Montenegro political editor.

0:58.0

So before we get to the clip, it requires some setup.

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Tam?

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Yes.

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