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The NPR Politics Podcast

Quick Take: Trump and the Khans

The NPR Politics Podcast

NPR

News, Daily News, Politics

4.425.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2016

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

The continuing fallout over Donald Trump's controversial response to criticism from the parents of a fallen Muslim solider. This episode: campaign reporters Scott Detrow and Asma Khalid with political editor Domenico Montanaro. More coverage at nprpolitics.org. Email the show at nprpolitics@npr.org.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast here with a quick take on the ongoing controversy

0:08.2

over Donald Trump's response to the parents of a fallen Muslim soldier who spoke out against

0:13.8

him at last week's Democratic National Convention.

0:16.1

Donald Trump, you're asking Americans to trust you with their future.

0:25.4

Let me ask you, have you even read the United States Constitution?

0:34.5

That was Kizarkhan on Thursday night holding up a pocket copy of the Constitution.

0:39.1

We're going to cover Trump's response why Republican leaders are denouncing him and

0:43.8

what it could mean for the race.

0:45.5

I'm Scott Detro campaign reporter.

0:47.1

I'm Osmo Khalid, I cover demographics in the campaign.

0:50.2

And I'm Dominican Montenoro, political editor.

0:52.8

And we should just say that if you're new to the show, I'm Scott.

0:55.4

And if you don't hear Sam Sanders at the top of the podcast or Tamara Keith, you'll usually

0:59.0

hear me.

1:00.2

And I believe that after the last two weeks, Sam slept until noon today.

1:03.6

That's what he tweeted at least.

1:05.3

And guys, we did shows every single day during the conventions.

1:08.7

We said we're not going to do shows every day this week, but it's Monday.

1:11.8

We're taping a show.

1:12.8

It was happening.

1:13.8

I mean, yeah, this is one of these things that just kind of ate up the entire weekend.

1:17.8

We're still talking about it Monday.

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