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The NPR Politics Podcast

Weekly Roundup: Friday, December 11

The NPR Politics Podcast

NPR

News, Daily News, Politics

4.425.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2015

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

This week: GOP leaders face facts as the Trump candidacy continues, the latest on the Democratic side of the race, and Michelle Obama's rap about college. This episode: Sam Sanders, campaign reporter; Tamara Keith, White House correspondent; Asma Khalid, campaign reporter; Domenico Montanaro, political editor. Find the team on Twitter @samsanders, @tamarakeithNPR, @asmamk, and @DomenicoNPR, and at npr.org/politics.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Is the MPI Politics Podcast here with our weekly round up of political news?

0:07.5

This week we're going to play a little game.

0:09.3

We're going to see how long we can go without talking about Donald Trump.

0:12.6

Let's see how that goes.

0:13.6

And we're going to talk about what's happening on the Democratic side of the race, with

0:16.9

Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.

0:19.0

As always, we're in the show with Cantletit Go, where each of us shares something we just

0:23.2

can't stop thinking about.

0:24.9

Spoiler, someone's going to talk about Michelle Obama's new rat video.

0:29.1

It's Sementros.

0:30.1

I'm Sam Sanders, campaign reporter here at NPR.

0:32.6

And I'm Tamer Keith.

0:33.6

I cover the White House and the Democratic side of the presidential race.

0:36.8

And I'm Lussma Khalid.

0:37.8

I cover demographics and politics.

0:39.7

I'm Dominican Montenegro political editor.

0:41.8

Okay, first up.

0:43.2

So Tamer, you guys talked a lot on the podcast earlier this week about Trump and how his rhetoric

0:47.9

on Muslims and terrorism has changed the race.

0:50.4

That was our episode Tuesday if you missed it.

0:53.0

But we have to counter program a bit here because we don't want to do that thing that so

0:56.3

many news outlets are doing right now, which is kind of all Trump all the time.

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