Weekly Roundup: May 13th
The NPR Politics Podcast
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4.5 • 24.9K Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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This episode: White House correspondent Scott Detrow, acting congressional correspondent Deirdre Walsh, national political correspondent, and White House correspondent Tamara Keith.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Shana and Audie and the newest member of our family calling from Campbell, California |
| 0:06.2 | Where we just brought baby Nila home from the hospital her initials happened to be NPR |
| 0:11.4 | Which was not intentional, but is definitely a happy accident this podcast was recorded at |
| 0:17.8 | Congratulations, it is 1226 Eastern on Friday the 13th May 13th |
| 0:23.6 | Things may have changed by the time you hear this but we will still be learning how to be a brand new family of three |
| 0:29.0 | Okay, here's the show |
| 0:34.6 | NPR politics podcast is great to listen to it three in the morning at two in the morning at one a.m |
| 0:39.4 | At any time that you were awake for the coming months congratulations. Hey there. It's the NPR politics podcast |
| 0:45.0 | I'm Scott Detro. I cover the White House. I'm Deirdre Walsh. I cover Congress and I'm Keri Johnson |
| 0:49.9 | I cover the Justice Department and Deirdre we are going to spend most of today's episode on your interview with Senate minority leader Mitch |
| 0:57.2 | McConnell you spoke to him yesterday. I did I said I want him in his office in the Capitol and he made a lot of news |
| 1:04.0 | There's a lot to talk about obviously and let's begin probably not a surprise with the Supreme Court |
| 1:09.2 | It is on the verge of overturning Roe v Wade largely because of several key decisions that McConnell made |
| 1:15.4 | This is a decades-long goal for many Republicans, but it is also as we have talked about on the podcast |
| 1:21.1 | Out of step with how the American public feels pulling consistently says a |
| 1:25.4 | Majority of Americans want some form of abortion access to be legal and that's something you asked McConnell about |
| 1:31.8 | I did I mean I started working on a profile of leader McConnell following the leaked draft decision |
| 1:38.5 | A lot of allies I talked to of McConnell talked about how they worked with him to elect more conservative lawmakers to confirm more |
| 1:47.0 | conservative judges |
| 1:48.6 | and |
| 1:49.4 | Senator McConnell is very proud of his role in this effort to sort of reshape the federal judiciary |
| 1:56.4 | But I did ask him about how the leaked opinion is at odds with the majority of public opinion on the issue of abortion |
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