Roundup: Mike Waltz Is Out, Young Democrats Ask What's Next, And Can't Let It Go

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🗓️ 2 May 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Mike Waltz is out as President Trump's National Security Adviser, it's the first major departure for the Trump White House since the start of his second term. Then, young Democrats are expressing dissatisfaction with their party, and making moves: primarying sitting incumbent lawmakers in the House of Representatives.

This episode: political correspondent Sarah McCammon, White House correspondent Asma Khalid, national security correspondent Greg Myre, and political reporter Elena Moore.

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0:53.1	It is Friday. Hey there. It's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Sarah McCam Wow. I'll have a drink right after this podcast. It is Friday.
0:56.7	Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.
0:58.8	I'm Sarah McCammon. I cover politics.
1:00.8	I'm Asma Khalid. I cover the White House.
1:03.1	And I'm Greg Myrie. I cover national security.
1:08.1	And today on the show, Mike Waltz is out as national security advisor.
1:12.6	He's at least temporarily being replaced by Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
1:16.6	Greg, we're going to talk about that today, and I want to start with you because you've been covering a lot of these issues all week. What exactly is happening with Waltz? Right. So Mike Walts was
1:22.6	pushed out in that key role in the White House, and Trump says he'll nominate him to be U.S. ambassador to the
1:28.6	United Nations. Now, Trump wouldn't be doing this if he wasn't unhappy at some level with
1:33.7	Waltz's performance, but he does seem to be giving him this consolation prize at the U.N.
1:39.0	Now, Waltz took responsibility for accidentally adding a journalist to that now infamous signal group chat back
1:46.0	in March, and that was probably one contributing factor. We have some tape of Trump talking about
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