Trade Deals Offer Trump Fodder To Tout On Trail
The NPR Politics Podcast
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🗓️ 16 January 2020
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
It remains to be seen what, if any, impact the bilateral deals have on the U.S. economy, but it seems certain that the president will tout the agreements on the campaign trail—particularly in states with large agricultural and manufacturing sectors.
This episode: White House correspondent Tamara Keith, Chief Economics Correspondent Scott Horsley, and National Political Correspondent Mara Liasson.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Brendan, snowshoeing under the full Wolf Moon in Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park. |
| 0:06.9 | One of Colorado's four national parks. This podcast was recorded at 2.41 pm on Thursday the 16th of January. |
| 0:17.2 | Things may have changed by the time you hear it. All right, here's the show. |
| 0:20.9 | The Sound. That's a very cool time spin. Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Tamer Keat. |
| 0:30.0 | I cover the White House. I'm Mara Liason, National Political Correspondent. And we have a special guest here. |
| 0:38.9 | Back from the Black Canyon of the Gunnison in my home state of Colorado, where I've been hiding out |
| 0:43.5 | low these many months, but here to talk about trade. Yes, Scott, you are the Chief Economics Correspondent for NPR. |
| 0:51.6 | Before we get to trade, this was really a split-screen day in the US Senate. There was a big trade |
| 0:58.4 | development, but there was also the beginning of the process, sort of the ceremonial start of |
| 1:04.8 | impeachment in the Senate. Here, here, here, here. All persons are commanded to keep silent on |
| 1:11.4 | pain of imprisonment. While the House of Representatives is exhibiting to the Senate of the United States, |
| 1:17.6 | articles of impeachment against Donald John Trump, President of the United States. |
| 1:22.9 | You had the House managers reading the articles of impeachment into the record. |
| 1:27.6 | Using the powers of his high office, President Trump solicited the interference of a foreign |
| 1:32.8 | government Ukraine in the 2020 United States presidential election. You had the Chief Justice of the |
| 1:40.4 | United States as courted into the Senate chamber and sworn in. Will you pace your left hand on the |
| 1:46.7 | Bible and raise your right hand? And then the Chief Justice, John Roberts, turns around and swears |
| 1:53.2 | in the Senators. Do you solemnly swear that in all things appertaining to the trial of the |
| 1:59.0 | impeachment of Donald John Trump, President of the United States, now pending, you will do impartial |
| 2:05.4 | justice according to the Constitution and laws. So help you God. Now the trial will actually start |
| 2:12.4 | on Tuesday, but the wild thing is that all of this was happening just like minutes after this |
| 2:20.0 | really big vote that the Senate took an overwhelmingly bipartisan vote to pass the US MCA |
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