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for the spring semester of my sophomore year.

I just left my podcast in class, and I'm preparing for my political science class later today.

This podcast was recorded at 12.39 p.m. on Wednesday, January 15th.

Things may have changed by the time you hear it, but hopefully I will be in the process of becoming a skilled podcaster, just like the staff at NPR.

Enjoy the show.

Of course. I hope you listen to the NPR Politics Podcast on that walk between your classes.

Yes. Just a nice transition there.

Hey there, it's the NPR Politics podcast. I'm Tamara Keith. I cover the White House.

I'm Claudia Grisellis. I cover Congress.

And I'm Ryan Lucas. I cover the Justice Department.

Confirmation hearings for President-elect Trump's cabinet nominees continue today on Capitol Hill.

We're going to focus on two of them in particular, Republican Senator Marco Rubio of Florida,

who's been picked to be Secretary of State, and former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi,

who is Trump's picked to be the nation's attorney general.

Ryan, we're going to start with Bondi. What is her background?

Well, unless you are from Florida, you probably don't know who Bondi is. She was a longtime prosecutor there.

And then was the state's attorney general for eight years from 2011 until 2019.

Her kind of coming out party on the

national stage, I would say, would be when she served as a personal attorney to then-President

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