It's the NPR Politics Podcast live in Chicago.

We're here at the Riva and David Logan Center for the Arts in partnership with Member Station

WBZ.

And this episode is just part of a bigger show.

We will post to the podcast feed very soon.

But there was some political news late this week that we wanted to talk about first.

That of course is the resignation of Donald Trump's campaign chairman Paul Manafort.

And what seems to be a big change of tone at least for now from Donald Trump himself.

I'm Tamer Keith, I cover the White House and the campaign.

I'm Sam Sanders, campaign reporter.

I'm Danielle Kurtzleben, political reporter.

And I'm Ron Elving, editor correspondent.

So this is just like any normal quick take we do, but with 500 of our closest friends

watching us in person here.

Hi guys, so about the news.

If you're listening, we're recording this on Friday night, August 19th.

And the big story right now is that today Donald Trump's campaign chairman Paul Manafort

resigned.

This came after Polster Kellyanne Conway was promoted to be campaign manager and Steve

Bannon, who had been the head of conservative bright-part news, became CEO.

Now a reminder, this was after the campaign insisted that Paul Manafort would remain

on and that this was absolutely totally not a shake up.

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