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The Political Scene | The New Yorker

The Real Mike Pence

The Political Scene | The New Yorker

The New Yorker

President, Barack, News, Politics, Wnyc, Obama, Lizza, Washington, Wickenden

4.33.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2017

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Trump’s critics yearn for his exit, but his Vice President, the corporate right’s inside man, poses his own risks. Jane Mayer joins Dorothy Wickenden to discuss Pence’s surprising route to the White House, how he is quietly implementing his ideological agenda, and his ambitions for the near future.

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This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors

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about politics. It's Friday, October 20th. I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of

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The New Yorker. In the first 10 months of the administration, 10 members of Trump's inner circle have

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resigned.

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The president has attacked Republican congressional leaders Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan and

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humiliated Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

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Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, had to deny claims that he had called the president

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a moron. Two weeks ago,

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Bob Corker, the retiring Republican senator from Tennessee, told the times, I know for a fact that

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every single day at the White House, it's a situation of trying to contain him. On Monday, John McCain

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