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Let's Find Common Ground

"Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America's Future" with Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns

Let's Find Common Ground

USC Dornsife Center for the Political Future

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52.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Center Co-Directors Bob Shrum and Mike Murphy join journalists Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns to discuss their latest book and the degree to which the two-party system has been strained to the point of disintegration.

Featuring:

Jonathan Martin - Co-Author, "This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America's Future"; National Political Correspondent, New York Times

Alexander Burns - Co Author, "This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America's Future"; National Correspondent, New York Times; Political Analyst, CNN

Bob Shrum - Director, Center for the Political Future; Warschaw Chair in Practical Politics, USC Dornsife

Mike Murphy - Co-Director, Center for the Political Future; NBC Political Analyst

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the bully pulpit from the University of Southern California Center for the Political Future.

0:11.7

Our podcast brings together America's top politicians, journalists, academics, and strategists from across the political spectrum for discussions on hot button issues where we respect

0:22.0

each other and respected truth. We hope you enjoy these conversations.

0:28.9

First of all, a quick commercial, I recommend the Ukrainian beer. We found the last nine

0:34.3

bottles and it fights back when you drink it. It's pretty good.

0:38.0

But it's not bad.

0:38.9

It's not bad.

0:40.2

My daughter's giving me a thumbs down.

0:42.1

Cut the jokes.

0:44.3

On behalf of Bob Schrum and I and our wonderful wives, Oatsy and Tiffany,

0:50.0

who, by the way, Tiffany Daniel deserves all the credit for the hard work to put this thing together.

0:54.0

Yay. Here, here. And all the credit for the hard work to put this thing together. Yay.

0:54.8

Here, here.

0:56.0

And the USC Center for the Political Future.

0:59.6

We're doing a little podcast here, so hoot and holler that we do at USC.

1:04.5

Check out the website.

1:05.3

It's all there.

1:05.9

Thank you for coming.

1:06.7

We are here to honor our friends, Alex Burns and Jonathan Martin, on their incredible new best-selling book, which we're going to talk about.

1:14.2

But first, Bob and I have always been very jealous over at USC at the center about the Oscars.

1:20.4

So this year, thanks to these guys, we've been able to invent the Kevin,

1:24.5

which is the Golden Tape Recorder Award.

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