Trump Doesn't Have To Win In Court To Erode Trust In Voting
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🗓️ 18 November 2020
⏱️ 14 minutes
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This episode: correspondent Scott Detrow, White House correspondent Tamara Keith, and voting reporter Miles Parks.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is John, the South Pole, and I am sitting here expecting our station opening flight after the winter very soon. |
| 0:07.0 | This podcast was recorded at... |
| 0:10.0 | It's 205 Eastern on Wednesday, November 18th. |
| 0:13.0 | Things may have changed by the time you hear it. |
| 0:15.0 | Alright, here's the show. |
| 0:20.0 | Wow, do that South Pole summer. |
| 0:22.0 | Oh boy. |
| 0:23.0 | Is that the farthest away anyone's ever been for a timestamp? |
| 0:26.0 | I don't think it can get any further. |
| 0:27.0 | Do we have an award? It could take six years to get there in the mail. |
| 0:31.0 | Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Scott Detro. I cover the Biden transition. |
| 0:37.0 | I'm Tamer Geeth. I cover the White House. |
| 0:39.0 | And I'm Miles Parks. I cover voting and election security. |
| 0:42.0 | Some President Trump continues to deny reality that he lost a free and fair election and that Joe Biden is the President-elect. |
| 0:49.0 | And we are seeing this denial play out in real-world actions even as it continues to lose in court. |
| 0:55.0 | A lot to walk through. Miles, let's start with this. |
| 0:58.0 | Last night, President Trump tweeted that he had fired Chris Krebs. |
| 1:02.0 | Tell us who he is, why he matters, why he was fired. |
| 1:06.0 | Yeah, he was the head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency within the Department of Homeland Security. |
| 1:13.0 | Now that sounds in the weeds. But basically, this is the top cybersecurity official in the US government who was also charged... |
| 1:20.0 | He was among the most important election security officials in the US government. |
| 1:25.0 | We know that after 2016, Cybersecurity and Election Security went kind of hand in hand over the last four years. |
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