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The NPR Politics Podcast

Weekly Roundup: Friday, January 22

The NPR Politics Podcast

NPR

News, Daily News, Politics

4.425.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2016

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

This week, while the Democratic side of the presidential race reaches a new level of intensity, Sarah Palin's endorsement of Donald Trump keeps things as unpredictable as ever on the GOP side. Plus a discussion of NPR's recent interviews with Hillary Clinton and Ted Cruz. This episode, political editor Domenico Montanaro, campaign reporter Sarah McCammon, and All Things Considered host Ari Shapiro join host Sam Sanders. Find them on Twitter @DomenicoNPR, @sarahmccammon, @arishapiro, and @samsanders, or at npr.org/politics — or write the show at nprpolitics@npr.org.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Thanks for listening to the NPR Politics Podcast.

0:03.4

NPR Music's Tiny Desk isn't just any old office desk.

0:06.9

It's become a stage for artists like Adele, John Legend, Casey Musgraves, The National,

0:12.0

and of course, T-Pain without auto-tune.

0:15.0

If you're an undiscovered musician, you could play there too.

0:18.1

Just submit a video to the Tiny Desk Contest for a chance to launch your path to start

0:22.7

them.

0:23.7

Find out how to enter at npr.org slash Tiny Desk Contest.

0:28.0

Go, we good.

0:30.0

Hey y'all, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.

0:35.0

Here with our roundup of the week's political news, we've got less than two weeks to go

0:38.5

into the Ivo caucuses to get tight-race on both sides and lots of emerging rifts between

0:42.8

people in the same parties on the same sides.

0:45.8

And we have two NPR interviews with leading candidates to talk about Hillary Clinton and

0:49.9

Ted Cruz.

0:50.9

We'll also do a listener question.

0:53.3

And we'll end the show per usual with Can't Let It Go, where we all share a thing we

0:57.5

just can't stop thinking about this week.

0:59.8

First a few introductions.

1:00.8

I'm Sam Sanders, campaign reporter.

1:02.3

I'm Dominican Montenegro, political editor.

1:04.3

I'm Sarah McCammon, political reporter covering the campaign.

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