Weekly Roundup: June 11th
The NPR Politics Podcast
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4.5 • 24.9K Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Also: a bipartisan group of ten senators brokered their own infrastructure agreement. Now all they have to do is.... convince fifty of their colleagues to sign on.
This episode: congressional correspondent Susan Davis, White House correspondent Asma Khalid, Justice correspondent Ryan Lucas, and senior political editor and correspondent Ron Elving.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello NPR, this is Tony. I'm stationed at Royal Air Force Mildenhall, home with a bloody |
| 0:05.1 | hundredth-airy-fueling wing. We just had the privilege to hear our Commander-in-Chief |
| 0:09.0 | give a speech at his first stop on his first overseas tour. This podcast was recorded |
| 0:14.8 | at... |
| 0:15.8 | 309 PM on Friday, June 11th. |
| 0:18.9 | Things may have changed by the time you hear this. Enjoy the show! |
| 0:22.0 | That is quite cool. That is very cool. |
| 0:28.3 | Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Susan Davis, I cover Congress. |
| 0:32.4 | I'm as Makhalli, I cover the White House. |
| 0:34.6 | And I'm Ryan Lucas, I cover the Justice Department. |
| 0:36.9 | Ryan, not that the Justice Department is ever a sleepy beat, but I feel like this week |
| 0:41.7 | in particular, I'm not even going to be able to talk to you about all the things I want |
| 0:45.9 | to talk to you about that happened on your beat this week. |
| 0:48.4 | It's been a week. It's definitely been a week. |
| 0:51.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:52.0 | There was a very amazing and cool story this week about how the FBI somehow managed to |
| 0:56.5 | trick a global consortium of criminals into using an app it had created and then ultimately |
| 1:01.6 | arrest a bunch of them on it. And we don't even have time to talk about it. |
| 1:04.8 | So folks are going to have to find your story at NPR Dagaorg because it is a very good one. |
| 1:09.2 | But today we've got more political news we need to talk about. |
| 1:13.0 | And the biggest headline I think of this week is new reporting out that NPR has confirmed |
| 1:17.5 | that President Trump's Justice Department used their power to gather information on democratic |
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