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Through the Lens with Doug Mills

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News, News Commentary, Politics

4.66K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2017

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Josh King guest hosts a weekend edition of Trumpcast. He talks to New York Times photographer Doug Mills about his last days covering the shooting in Arlington, the James Comey testimony, and the bizarre cabinet meeting from earlier this week. Slate Plus members, stick around at the end of today's show to listen to Trumpcast producer Jayson De Leon chat with Alex Ward, a staff writer at Vox, about the all star team Bob Mueller is assembling for the Russia investigation and the investigation into potential obstruction of justice by our President. Not a Slate Plus member yet? Go to slate.com/trumpcastplus for a 2 week free trial. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Thank you, Mr. President, and just the greatest privilege of my life.

0:04.6

It's the service and vice president to the president.

0:08.4

It's keeping his word of the American people and assembling a team that's bringing real

0:12.4

change, real prosperity, real strength and backflow nation.

0:16.6

Thank you, Mike.

0:18.9

You may be the first president in history to go down because you can't stop inappropriately

0:23.5

talking about an investigation.

0:25.5

Is that policy in writing somewhere?

0:27.7

I think so.

0:29.3

I took it as a direction.

0:31.3

I mean, this is the president of the United States with me alone saying, I hope this.

0:36.0

I took it as this is what he wants me to do.

0:42.1

Hello and welcome to Trumpcast.

0:44.0

I'm Josh King, author of Offscript, guest hosting this weekend version of the show.

0:49.9

Trumpcast is the show about the man who is a show man with show cabinet meetings and event

0:58.0

planner Non-Pereal whose idea of choreography and stagecraft to the White House rivals the

1:04.6

very best bar mitzvahs.

1:07.2

Let's hear just one nugget more from the cabinet meeting this week, unlike any other.

1:12.2

Good morning, Mr. President.

1:13.2

While we're bragging about international travel, I've just got back to you, Mr. Sitt.

1:20.2

I love you there.

1:23.8

And I want to congratulate you on the men and women you've placed around this table.

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