Weekly Roundup: January 29th
The NPR Politics Podcast
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4.5 • 24.9K Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Now, Democrats are moving aggressively on President Biden's relief proposal and the GOP is feeling stung by life in the minority. Also: Gamestop?
This episode: White House correspondent Scott Detrow, White House correspondent Tamara Keith, congressional editor Deirdre Walsh, WABE reporter Emma Hurt, political reporter Danielle Kurtzleben, and business editor Uri Berliner.
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| 0:00.0 | What's up y'all, this is Mr. Madri. I'm a fourth grade teacher from Philly. We've been teaching online all year |
| 0:05.9 | So we've been trying to be creative in the different ways we can keep our students engaged |
| 0:09.6 | I'm currently creating my 22nd consecutive freestyle Friday for my students |
| 0:15.2 | That's where I make a rap every single week about the things that we have learned in class |
| 0:20.9 | The current time is it is a |
| 0:23.8 | 107 Eastern on Friday January 29th things may have changed by the time you hear this art y'all enjoy the show |
| 0:35.2 | I love it. We are approaching a year of remote learning so it is great to continue to find ways to make that different |
| 0:41.7 | Interesting, but I demand to hear his freestyle rapping come on man. I've got to be in his class for that, Tam |
| 0:48.3 | Well, we're just not in fourth grade I guess there's the NPR politics podcast. I'm Scott Detre I cover the White House |
| 0:56.4 | I'm Tamra Keith. I also cover the White House. I'm dear to a Welsh congressional editor and we have a lot to talk about in |
| 1:02.8 | Washington this week, but we're gonna start by bringing in Emma Hurt of W A B E in Georgia Emma. How's it going? |
| 1:08.3 | Hey y'all, thanks for having me. We have talked to you a lot this year and that is because Georgia has become the center of the race for the White House |
| 1:15.6 | The attack on the election results and then the battle for control of the Senate |
| 1:20.6 | You covered all of that, but now you have some really interesting reporting out today about that Senate runoff |
| 1:27.5 | Which of course Democrats shocked the country by sweeping and then gaining control of the Senate |
| 1:32.2 | So what did you learn about what was going on behind the scenes on the Republican side of this race? |
| 1:37.9 | Yeah, so I think you know it was really clear throughout the runoffs and even before November how much |
| 1:43.1 | Influence Trump had on these two Georgia Senate campaigns |
| 1:46.9 | Strategy, but what I've been learning is how much of an influence people in and around the White House including the president's lawyer Rudy Giuliani |
| 1:53.7 | We're actually exerting on how the runoff campaigns were being run |
| 1:57.9 | I mean the quote from a strategist familiar with the campaigns that sticks out to me is that it was a hostage situation |
| 2:04.1 | Every day. Wow the senators being the hostages. So the campaigns I'm told would get these demands weekly |
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