Roundup: Harris Pitches Hope; Trump's Military Cemetery Feud
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4.4 • 25.7K Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
And NPR's reporting on a physical altercation between Trump campaign workers and Arlington National Cemetery staff caused a controversy that has continued to escalate. The military prohibits political activity at the cemetery but the Trump campaign has doubled down and say they were invited there by the families.
Correction Aug. 30, 2024:
In a previous version of the audio for this episode, two phrases were spliced together in a way that suggested the veterans' organization Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) called Donald Trump's remarks related to a confrontation at Arlington National Cemetery "asinine." In fact, the VFW described Trump's previous remarks, in which he described the Presidential Medal of Freedom as superior to the Medal of Honor, asinine.
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| 0:00.0 | Truth, independence, fairness, transparency, respect, excellence. |
| 0:07.0 | This is Lydia. We're at the airport in Washington, D.C. about to fly to Tallahassee to celebrate my grandfather's 100th birthday. |
| 0:24.6 | Happy birthday, boom, Pa. |
| 0:26.8 | This podcast was recorded at 12.39 PM on Friday, August 30th, 2024. |
| 0:32.4 | Things may have changed by the time you hear it, but we'll still be celebrating. |
| 0:36.0 | Okay, here's the show. |
| 0:38.0 | That's so cute. |
| 0:41.0 | My grandfather's also turning 100 this year. Wow, that is amazing. |
| 0:46.0 | I know it's really exciting. Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Deepa Schiboram. I cover the White House. |
| 0:52.0 | I'm Tamara Keith. I also cover the White House. I'm Tamara Keith I also cover the White House. I'm Sarah |
| 0:54.7 | McCamman I cover the campaign. So we've made it to Friday and today on the show |
| 0:58.8 | some more details about Vice President Harris's swing through Georgia yesterday and the sit-down interview she |
| 1:04.0 | did while there. |
| 1:05.0 | Tam, you were on that trip, so we'll get to you with the latest there, and the latest on how |
| 1:09.5 | Trump is talking about fertility care and abortion. |
| 1:13.7 | But Tam, let's start with the Harris swing through Georgia. |
| 1:16.3 | This was a trip that got postponed, right? |
| 1:18.2 | Because of bad weather a few weeks ago. |
| 1:20.4 | And in this really truncated campaign, |
| 1:21.9 | a few weeks feels like several lifetimes. |
| 1:24.4 | So remind us what happened this week on this swing. |
| 1:27.9 | What was the message here was trying to focus on? |
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