Trump Talks Tariffs, Immigration, Pardons
The NPR Politics Podcast
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4.4 • 25.7K Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2024
⏱️ 19 minutes
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This episode: political correspondent Sarah McCammon, congressional correspondent Deirdre Walsh, and senior White House correspondent Tamara Keith.
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| 0:18.7 | This is Madeline from Chicago celebrating my 35th birthday on Maui. |
| 0:22.9 | This podcast was recorded at 1.06 p.m. Eastern Time on Monday, December 9th, 2024. |
| 0:28.4 | Things may have changed by the time you hear it, but I'll be old enough to be president of the United States. |
| 0:33.1 | Here's a show. |
| 0:38.1 | Happy birthday. Nice place to have a birthday. Happy birthday. |
| 0:39.4 | Nice place to have a birthday. |
| 0:41.2 | Yeah, can we join you? |
| 0:42.5 | Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. |
| 0:44.8 | I'm Sarah McCammon. |
| 0:45.9 | I cover politics. |
| 0:47.1 | I'm Deirdre Walsh. |
| 0:47.8 | I cover Congress. |
| 0:48.7 | And I'm Tamara Keith. |
| 0:49.6 | I cover the White House. |
| 0:51.2 | Today on the show, |
| 0:52.2 | unpacking some of the things President-elect Donald Trump said |
| 0:55.3 | this weekend in his first major broadcast interview since the election. Trump talked about |
| 1:00.8 | many things on Sunday on the NBC show Meet the Press with Kristen Welker. And Tam, I want to start |
| 1:06.6 | with an issue that was at or near the very top of the priority list for many voters this year |
| 1:11.7 | and a longtime priority for Trump. That, of course, is immigration. He was asked about his plan |
| 1:17.9 | to carry out mass deportations, a big theme of this campaign, and what that might mean for families |
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