Race and Immigration in Trump's America

DSR's Words Matter

Riley Fessler

News, Government

4.6 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Katie and Joe talk to two journalists to go beyond the tweets and find out what's really going on race and immigration in Donald Trump's America. Eugene Scott covers identity politics for the Washington Post. He joined the Post from CNN Politics, where he covered the 2016 presidential election and was the senior reporter on the website’s breaking news team. He’s a regular on-air contributor, providing analysis on MSNBC, CNN, CBS and NPR. Eugene is a graduate of the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Molly O’Toole is an immigration reporter for the Los Angeles Times based here in Washington. Previously, she was a senior reporter at Foreign Policy covering the 2016 election and Trump administration. Molly has covered immigration and security from Mexico, Central America, West Africa, the Middle East, the Gulf, and South Asia. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/words-matter. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Words Matter with Katie Barlow and Joe Lockhart.
0:11.3	Welcome to Words Matter, I'm Katie Barlow.
0:15.0	Our goal is to promote objective reality.
0:18.0	As a wise man once said, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, not their own facts.
0:24.4	Words have power and words have consequences.
0:29.1	Joe and I are pleased to welcome our first guest to the show, Eugene Scott, covers identity
0:34.9	politics for the Washington Post.
0:36.8	He joined the post from CNN politics where he covered the 2016 presidential election
0:42.6	and was the senior reporter on the website's breaking news team.
0:46.3	He's a regular on air contributor, providing analysis on MSNBC, CNN, CBS, and NPR.
0:54.0	Eugene is a graduate of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and Harvard's
0:58.7	Kennedy School of Government.
1:00.4	Eugene Scott, welcome to Words Matter.
1:02.9	Thank you so much for having me.
1:04.8	Eugene, I guess it's been a pretty busy time for you as the identity politics correspondent
1:11.2	for the Washington Post.
1:12.7	One of the things we hear a lot about Donald Trump when he speaks or tweets is people
1:17.6	say they're shocked but not surprised.
1:21.2	So I answer both of those questions for me if you can.
1:24.0	Were you shocked by the tweet that started all this and what's come out since and were
1:29.7	you surprised by it?
1:31.0	Well, I certainly was not surprised but I was a bit shocked.
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