Symone D. Sanders

Impolitic with John Heilemann

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News, Politics

4.8 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2022

⏱️ 70 minutes

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John Heilemann talks with Symone Sanders, former senior adviser and spokesperson for Vice President Kamala Harris, top aide on Joe Biden's 2020 campaign and Bernie Sanders's 2016 bid, and now host of a new weekend show on MSNBC, Symone. Heilemann and Sanders discuss the launch of the January 6th House Select Committee's televised hearings, the strength of Liz Cheney's performance, and the shocking evidence of Donald Trump's dereliction of duty on 1/6; Symone's memories of being at the DNC that day with VP Harris when they learned that a bomb had planted there; her assessment of whether Trump will run again in 2024, whether President Biden will do the same, and whether Biden would support Harris if he doesn't run and she does. Symone also reminisces about growing up Black in Omaha, Nebraska, how she convinced Bernie Sanders to hire her (at just 24 years old, with no presidential-campaign experience) as his campaign press secretary, and a childhood spent acting out (with the help of an imaginary alter ego named Donna Burns) the very role she's playing now as a TV host.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, John Hyalman here and welcome to Hell in High Water.
0:17.8	My podcast for the recount about politics and culture on the edge of Armageddon with
0:22.0	big ups to my power, Rizza, the presiding genius behind the sound of Wutanklan, and the
0:26.2	producer of our dope The Music And Here We Are Back.
0:29.6	It's another week with an episode of Hell in High Water and an introduction featuring
0:34.4	Hell in High Water co-founder and Gen Z, Maiden in Residence, The Recon Grace, Weinstein Grace.
0:40.2	Oh look, it's a close series here.
0:42.2	And we're recording this on Monday.
0:43.4	A time anybody hears this will know what happened in Game 5 of the NBA Finals, but I don't
0:47.5	have any game before.
0:49.1	Steph Curry, 43 points against your bunting Celtics defense.
0:53.5	What happened there?
0:54.5	Let me just state for the record that you are not a Golden State Warriors fan.
0:59.6	You are just a Boston Celtics anti-fan because of your nature as an LA Lakers fan.
1:05.8	Let's just make that hip-hop.
1:06.8	Hater is the word you're looking for.
1:08.8	And as all Celtics fans know, our haters are our motivators.
1:14.3	So we knew that Steph Curry somewhere along the way was going to put up a 43 point, absolutely
1:21.4	rock the house down performance.
1:23.7	We are okay with that.
1:25.7	Hater is really nothing you can do to prevent that from happening, but moving forward, I am
1:30.8	trying to mitigate and manage my anxiety in literally any way, shape or form as much as
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