The Unlearned Lessons of 2016, with Katy Tur

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🗓️ 21 February 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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As Democrats slugged it out in Nevada this week, the president undermined the Justice Department in Washington. News anchor Katy Tur—and everyone else covering politics—has had to constantly switch gears between two stories: a crowded primary of challengers working to overtake one another, and a post-impeachment White House emboldened to break yet more democratic norms. But when the general election arrives, and the two stories merge, will the news media be up to the task? Tur grew up around television news and covered the Trump campaign. Now an anchor on MSNBC, she joins Isaac Dovere to discuss 2020 coverage. They sat down on NBC’s set in Las Vegas, where the network hosted this week’s Democratic debate ahead of the Nevada caucuses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the ticket. I'm Isaac Daubert. As you can probably hear, I'm calling in from Las Vegas.
0:13.0	On the other end of the line is producer Kevin.
0:15.2	Hey Kevin.
0:16.2	Hey, Isaac, so where exactly are you right now?
0:19.4	Well, I booked a hotel in Las Vegas, which means I booked into a casino and of course the
0:24.9	casino that I booked into was Caesar's Palace. That's where I am.
0:28.6	What brought you there? Well so we had the Democratic debate on Wednesday night, the lead up to the Caucasus on Saturday,
0:36.1	which could be an important moment in this race,
0:40.0	could be another ridiculous catastrophe, like what happened in Iowa, we will see.
0:47.0	I watched the debate from back here in D.C. What was it like there?
0:51.6	Well, it was intense because the race feels like it is in a new phase now.
0:58.0	We've had two states vote, have two more coming up in the next week and a half and then we go right into
1:04.9	super Tuesday at the beginning of March and it was also the first debate obviously that
1:08.8	had Mike Bloomberg in it and that changes the dynamics of everything going on here.
1:14.0	It's starting to be that you can look at the Democratic debate stage
1:18.0	and say one of those people is going to be the nominee,
1:21.0	which is not a feeling that we had certainly in June of last year
1:25.6	when these debates started.
1:27.8	And while all that's going on back in DC, there's this very different conversation going
1:31.5	on with Roger Stone that the Trump
1:33.5	associate linked to WikiLeaks was just sentenced to a little over three years in
1:37.0	prison and the news around the case has followed a week of absolute crisis
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