Trump podcasters Virginia Heffernan, Dan Pfeiffer and Andrea Bernstein are adapting to the end of the Trump presidency

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🗓️ 14 November 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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A podcast about Trump-related podcasts! "Trump, Inc." co-host Andrea Bernstein, "Pod Save America" co-host Dan Pfeiffer, and "Trumpcast" host Virginia Heffernan join Brian Stelter to discuss the election results, the media’s responsibility, and the future of their shows. Heffernan describes having "coup-xiety" around Trump's refusal to concede or commit to a smooth transition. Bernstein explains how the story of "Trump, Inc." will continue after he leaves the White House. Pfeiffer says Trumpism will outlast the Trump presidency: "The threats, the problems in our political system, the miasma of misinformation that allowed someone like Trump to be elected still exists."

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0:00.0	The Trump years changed the media world and changed podcasting.
0:08.0	So, what happens now?
0:11.0	That is one of the big questions on this week's Reliable Sources
0:15.2	Podcast. So let's cue the music. I'm Brian Stelter and this is our weekly podcast edition of Reliable Sources, our chance to go in depth with
0:26.4	media leaders and newsmakers.
0:29.5	And because we are at the end of this election week week now in this post-election period where
0:35.0	President Trump is refusing to concede, but President-elect Biden is beginning to
0:41.0	set up his transition team and his administration.
0:44.0	I wanted to gather three political podcasters
0:48.3	who have been living and breathing
0:51.2	this world, this Trump era, and who have been thinking about the future.
0:56.8	This is going to be a somewhat meta conversation, so let's get it started.
1:01.1	Let me bring in Dan Feifer, the Pod Save America co-host and former senior advisor to President
1:07.2	Barack Obama.
1:09.0	Virginia Heffernan, the Los Angeles Times columnist Wired Contributing Editor and the host of Slates
1:14.4	Trumpcasts podcast and Andrea Bernstein she's the co-host of Trump Inc
1:21.4	the podcast based on a reporting project by WNY studios and ProPublica.
1:27.0	Andria is also the author of American oligarchs, the Cushners, the Trumps, and the
1:31.8	marriage of money and power.
1:35.0	All right, everybody, so we are taping this on Friday the 13th.
1:38.0	So, I thought I would start by asking you what the last 10 days have been like election week, election month, whatever we call it.
1:46.2	Virginia, first to you, what of these last 10 days felt like?
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