Hi, this is Kevin and this is Lauren at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential

Library in Austin, Texas. We're standing in the exhibit commemorating the

Public Broadcasting Act of 1967. This podcast was recorded at Tuesday, January

16th at 210 Eastern. Things may have changed by the time you hear it. To keep up with

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listen on your local public radio station. Okay, here's the show. Hey there, it's

the NPR Politics podcast. President Trump's vulgar comments from last week

disparaging Haiti and many African countries are still ricocheting around the

country and the world. They've had a major effect on the deal. Several senators

were trying to cobble together to make DACA protections permanent. That deal is

now in question leading to a lot of uncertainty about how this week is going to

play out. The government runs out of funding again Friday and that's the day

lawmakers from both parties had set as a goal to figure out a DACA deal. We'll

get to all of that and we'll take a look at the record number of House

Republicans retiring ahead of the midterm that right now does not look too good

for their party. I'm Scott Detreau, I cover Congress for NPR. Susan Davis, I

also cover Congress and I'm Jim Enneckementan, our political editor. So guys,

I just want to say I have been hosting all of the episodes the last few

days because Tamra Keith has been taking a well-deserved vacation away from the

news away from the daily headlines and I hear it was very restful. Yes, it was so

restful that for a half hour this weekend Tamra Keith thought she was going to

die in a nuclear explosion because she vacationed in Hawaii. No, it's unbelievable,

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