Weekly Roundup: June 19th, 2020
The NPR Politics Podcast
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🗓️ 19 June 2020
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
And, new allegations from a former national security adviser draw White House ire.
This episode: congressional correspondent Susan Davis, White House correspondent Franco Ordoñez, and national political correspondent Mara Liasson.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, my name is Scott L. Schultz and I am currently at the pipe organ practicing my postlude for this Sunday's |
| 0:07.6 | socially distanced and face mask wearing church service |
| 0:12.0 | This podcast was recorded at |
| 0:14.6 | 108 p.m. on Friday, June 19th things may have changed by the time you hear this |
| 0:19.7 | But I will likely still be practicing this piece by Johann Sebastian Bach |
| 0:24.6 | Wow |
| 0:29.2 | That is like the music of the Sunday church experience of my childhood at Catholic Church. That's awesome |
| 0:35.2 | Hey there. It's the MPR politics podcast. I'm Susan Davis. I cover Congress. I'm Franco Ordonia as I cover the White House and I'm Mara Liesund National Political |
| 0:44.0 | Correspondent President Trump is set to hold his first rally since the coronavirus shutdown started in March |
| 0:50.0 | Tomorrow in Tulsa, Oklahoma the indoor arena there holds |
| 0:53.6 | 19,000 people it's expected to be full even as the pandemic continues |
| 0:59.8 | So Mara, why did the president decide now was the time to get back out there? |
| 1:05.0 | He has been itching to get back out there for many months |
| 1:08.5 | For the president the pandemic is over |
| 1:12.3 | He might be over COVID COVID isn't over with the United States |
| 1:16.1 | But he wants to celebrate the economy opening up. He's itching to get back to the campaign trail also because his |
| 1:23.8 | Paul numbers have been slipping behind Joe Biden and the choice was made to go to a very Trump friendly |
| 1:30.4 | state, Oklahoma, which he won by |
| 1:33.2 | many double digits in 2016. It's also a state where the virus numbers have been low and |
| 1:39.5 | Where the local officials would be amenable to him holding the kind of rally |
| 1:44.0 | Indoor packed with people |
| 1:47.4 | Mask ambivalent that he wants to do |
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