RNC Night 2 Recap: Your Tax Dollars At Work
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🗓️ 26 August 2020
⏱️ 12 minutes
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David, Summer and Matt break down the second night of the GOP convention, which featured the White House as a prop for President Trump’s reelection campaign.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and |
| 0:05.0 | welcome to the Josh Marshall Podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | This is David Tainter. |
| 0:08.0 | We are back with another convention recap. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm joined by Matt Schuhem and Summer Concepcion. |
| 0:13.8 | How are you doing? |
| 0:15.0 | Hi, doing well. |
| 0:17.2 | Thanks for having us, surviving. |
| 0:19.0 | Yeah, I'm with Matt on that one just surviving two more nights. |
| 0:25.0 | Two more nights. |
| 0:26.0 | Yes, we're kind of at the halfway point of the week and I guess in the home stretch of this two-week run of late night convention coverage that we've been |
| 0:36.0 | Throwing ourselves into before we get started as a reminder the Josh Marshall podcast is sponsored by Grady's cold Brew. We need it more than ever on |
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| 0:53.0 | So last night featured a couple of made for TV spectacles. |
| 0:58.0 | We had a pardon ceremony at the White House with Donald Trump kind of awkwardly standing between John Ponder, a convicted |
| 1:05.9 | bank robber who Trump ultimately pardoned and a retired FBI agent who is the one to arrest the man initially. This was |
| 1:16.7 | reported ahead of time but we didn't quite know how I guess the whole spectacle |
| 1:21.5 | would play out. |
| 1:22.5 | But that wasn't the only kind of made for TV moment |
| 1:26.2 | at the White House. |
| 1:27.0 | We also had President Trump hosting naturalization |
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