The Jackpod: Not the odds, but the stakes
On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
WBUR
4.3 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
On Point news analyst Jack Beatty has been reading "The Authoritarian Handbook: 2025," a new report by the bipartisan group Protect Democracy, outlining the promises, powers and plans of Donald Trump as he seeks to return to the White House.
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| 0:35.7 | Start your healthy habit together with Hallib Orange vitamins. Hi everybody I'm Meghna Chuck Rubardi and this is the jackpot where on |
| 0:50.5 | point news analyst Jack Beaty helps us connect history, literature, and politics in his unique way that brings clarity to the world we live in now. |
| 1:00.0 | Hello there, Jack. |
| 1:01.0 | Hello, Magna. |
| 1:02.0 | We've arrived at episode 18, so what's your headline? |
| 1:07.0 | I'm quoting, not the odds but the stakes. |
| 1:10.8 | Not the odds but the stakes. |
| 1:12.1 | So what do you mean by that? |
| 1:14.0 | Well I'm quoting Jay Rosen, the media critic at New York University, and that's his |
| 1:20.8 | apathym that journalists should follow. |
| 1:24.4 | Don't pay attention to the odds in your commentary, |
| 1:28.1 | but look at the stakes. |
| 1:29.5 | So in this week, when everything is about the odds is Trump ahead in the polls is |
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