Weekly Roundup: July 31st

The NPR Politics Podcast

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🗓️ 31 July 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

The country's worst-ever GDP report mirrors common sense: the economic retracted dramatically when the pandemic put life on hold. And the president's mail-in voting conspiracy theories are misleading and undermine conference in election integrity.

This episode: congressional correspondent Susan Davis, White House correspondent Tamara Keith, economics correspondent Scott Horsley, and voting reporter Miles Parks.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello, this is Marcus on in Honolulu. I sing to my cat Zoso every single day by making
0:07.0	up new lyrics to pop songs.
0:09.5	This podcast was recorded at 11.46am on Friday, July 31st.
0:25.1	Things may have changed by the time you hear this, but my badly sung expressions of love
0:29.5	from my kitty never will.
0:32.5	Okay, enjoy the show.
0:38.9	I have no words.
0:39.9	I might have a recording contract.
0:42.4	That is a man after my own heart, guys.
0:44.1	I do that all the time with my daughter.
0:46.6	Not with a cat, but with my daughter.
0:47.9	I make up song lyrics all the time to her.
0:49.8	I love it.
0:50.8	I make up song lyrics all the time because I know the lyrics to nothing.
0:53.8	Hold me closer, Tony Danza.
0:55.4	Exactly.
0:56.4	Hey there.
0:57.4	That's the MPR Politics Podcast, Susan Davis.
1:00.2	I cover Congress.
1:01.2	I'm Tamara Keith.
1:02.2	I cover the White House.
1:03.2	And back on the podcast, MPR, Chief Economics correspondent and longtime friend of the pod,
	...

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