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The NPR Politics Podcast

Weekly Roundup: Live In Cambridge

The NPR Politics Podcast

NPR

News, Daily News, Politics

4.425.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2016

⏱️ 64 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

This episode was recorded in front of a live audience in Cambridge, Massachusetts in conjunction with the Harvard Institute of Politics' quadrennial campaign managers conference. This episode: host/campaign reporter Sam Sanders, host/White House correspondent Tamara Keith, campaign reporter Asma Khalid, and political editor Domenico Montanaro. Plus a special announcement about the future of the podcast. More coverage at nprpolitics.org. Email the show at nprpolitics@npr.org. Find and support your local public radio station at npr.org/stations.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Before we start the show, don't forget you can hear more of our political reporting in NPR1,

0:05.4

along with a customized playlist of NPR stories and all your favorite podcasts.

0:10.6

Try it out during your holiday travel. We think you will like it.

0:14.4

Just search for NPR1 that's O-N-E on your app store now.

0:19.6

I'll sing it.

0:42.5

Please clap.

0:43.5

Hello, Cambridge.

0:50.4

Hey y'all and welcome to the NPR Politics Podcast live.

0:57.8

So we are here at the first pairs church in Cambridge, a Unitarian Church,

1:02.4

open to all, just like our podcast.

1:05.2

Bless you all for coming. Also what you hear right now is a little trap remix of our theme song

1:09.9

that I made with some help from Brent Blackman. I hope you like it. I do.

1:12.8

It just sounds like it's on repeat. It is on repeat.

1:17.2

So we are here thanks to the Harvard Institute of Politics who invited us to town in conjunction

1:23.0

with their campaign manager's conference, which we will talk about a little bit later.

1:27.7

Aside from that, this episode will be basically a live version of the one you hear every week,

1:33.2

which means we will talk about some of the latest political news, take a few of your questions,

1:38.3

and in the show with Can't Let It Go. When we all share something, we just can't stop thinking

1:43.7

about this week politics or otherwise. With that, I'm Sam Sanders, campaign reporter.

1:48.5

I'm Tamara Keith, I cover the White House. I'm Asma Khaled, I cover demographics.

1:52.7

And I'm Tamanikomantinara, political editor. So we are...

2:02.4

It's all for you, Domenico.

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