Quick Take: The Nikki Haley of 2010 vs. The Nikki Haley of Today

The Michael Steele Podcast

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Politics, Government, History, News

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🗓️ 27 January 2024

⏱️ 17 minutes

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This is an excerpt from the full episode "The Weekend on MSNBC: With Alicia Menendez and Symone Sanders-Townsend."

Michael Steele speaks with Alicia Menendez and Symone Sanders-Townsend, his co-hosts of the new MSNBC show, The Weekend, premiering Saturday, January 13th at 8amET.

The trio discuss Nikki Haley omitting slavery as the cause of the Civil War and the minds of voters heading into 2024

The Weekend, hosted by Alicia Menendez, Symone Sanders-Townsend and Michael Steele, premieres Saturday, January 13, just two days before the consequential Iowa caucuses. The new program will air 8am to 10am ET on Saturdays and Sundays.

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0:00.0	Hey Michael Steele podcast listeners, Michael Steele here with another quick take from the Michael Steele podcast.
0:13.7	Check out what's going on right now.
0:16.3	Welcome back everybody to the Michael Steele podcast.
0:18.9	Well, my co-host for this, this wonderful episode of the podcast.
0:24.1	Alicia Menendez, co-host of the weekend
0:28.0	starting this Saturday on MS NBC at 8 a.m.
0:31.5	Eastern and Simone Sanders Townsend, co-host of the weekend starting
0:37.3	this week this weekend on MS NBC at 8 a. M. Eastern. Welcome back. So let's get into some news and have some fun with it. So I want to play a quick clip that that really had people kind of scratching their heads from Nicki Haley at a town hall that she did last week on December 27, and believe it or not, it's still relevant a week later because, well, it's Mickey.
1:10.0	Please, what was the cause of the United States Civil War?
1:14.0	Well, don't come with an easy question or anything.
1:22.0	I mean, I think the cause of the Civil War
1:23.8	was basically how government was going to run.
1:26.3	The freedoms and what people could and couldn't do.
1:29.8	What do you think the cause of the Civil War was?
1:37.0	I'm sorry? I'm not ready for president and I wanted to see that you were to be
1:41.0	by the cause of government. We need to have
1:47.6	capitalism. We need to have economic freedom. We need to make sure that we do all
1:51.3	things so that individuals have the liberties so that they can have freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom to do or be anything they want to be without government getting in the way. What do you want me to say about slavery? What do you want me to say
2:10.9	about slavery?
2:14.8	What do you want me to say about slavery?
2:16.8	She would then go on to say next question.
2:20.4	Yeah, there's a lot to unpack there. I, my initial reaction was,
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