The View From Capitol Hill

Words Matter

Riley Fessler

News, Government

4.6 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

This week Katie and Joe take a look at what's happening on Capitol Hill with Julie Hirschfeld Davis the new congressional editor for the The New York Times. Julie has covered politics from Washington for two decades, writing on Congress, three presidential campaigns and three presidents. She is a CNN political analyst and next month Julie and Mike Shear have a new book out, Border Wars: Inside Trump’s Assault On Immigration, the inside story of how Trump and his team seized on immigration as a defining political issue and have redefined how America thinks about immigration and immigrants. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/words-matter. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Words Matter with Katie Barlow and Joe Lockhart.
0:11.7	Welcome to Words Matter, I'm Katie Barlow.
0:15.3	Our goal is to promote objective reality.
0:18.3	As a wise man once said, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, not their own facts.
0:24.7	To have power and words have consequences.
0:30.7	Well Joe, the congressional recess is over and this week we wanted to talk about what's
0:36.8	happening on Capitol Hill.
0:39.0	And I have to say, even for people who follow this stuff as closely as we do, it's kind
0:43.6	of confusing.
0:44.6	So, you sat down with the new Capitol Hill editor of The New York Times, Julie Hirschfield
0:49.1	Davis.
0:50.1	What'd you learn?
0:51.7	Well, Julie knows about as much as anybody and what's going on Capitol Hill.
0:55.9	And even she doesn't fully understand what the strategy is on investigating the president
1:01.6	and potentially impeaching him.
1:05.2	She did bring a subject date on what everybody's doing.
1:08.6	As I put her in the interview, she's like the teacher who comes back after the summer
1:14.3	recess and asks all the students, what did they do on their summer vacation?
1:19.6	Well, let's listen to the interview with Julie now.
1:26.6	Julie Hirschfield Davis is the brand new congressional editor for The New York Times.
1:41.1	She's covered politics for Washington for the past two decades, running on Congress,
1:45.7	three presidential campaigns and three presidents.
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