Weekly Roundup: May 15th, 2020
The NPR Politics Podcast
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4.4 • 25.7K Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2020
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
And, what will the Supreme Court say about the limits on a president's ability to forestall investigations into his conduct?
This episode: White House correspondent Tamara Keith, Justice Department correspondent Ryan Lucas, congressional correspondent Kelsey Snell, and chief legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg.
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| 0:00.0 | Privet at the Sean. Hey there, it's Sean and I am stuck in quarantine since March in Nyepra |
| 0:08.5 | Throvosk, Eastern Ukraine. I came here to visit my girlfriend who was also stuck, but in |
| 0:15.0 | the LaHonz region next to Russia. This podcast was recorded at... |
| 0:19.4 | 141 pm on Friday the 15th of May. |
| 0:23.9 | Things may have changed by the time you hear this. Okay, here's the show. |
| 0:31.7 | Wait, so they are stuck? Both of them? In Ukraine, but not together? |
| 0:36.3 | That's sure what it sounds like. |
| 0:38.2 | Here's to be the case. |
| 0:39.2 | That sounds inconvenient. |
| 0:42.4 | Alright, well, hey there, it's the NPR Politics podcast. I'm Tamer Keith, I cover the White |
| 0:47.3 | House. |
| 0:48.3 | I'm Ryan Lucas, I cover the Justice Department. |
| 0:49.9 | And I'm Kelsey Snally, cover Congress. |
| 0:51.6 | We're going to start with Senator Richard Burr. He is a Republican from North Carolina, |
| 0:56.7 | and he announced this week that he is stepping aside as chairman of the Intelligence Committee |
| 1:02.3 | while the Justice Department conducts an investigation of his stock trades. |
| 1:08.2 | Kelsey, this all connects back to some stock trades that he made before the public really |
| 1:16.3 | had a sense of how severe this coronavirus pandemic was going to be. |
| 1:20.9 | Right, at issue are some stock trades that happened around February 12th. |
| 1:25.2 | Now, if people want to go back in their memories, I know we've all been at home for a while, |
| 1:30.2 | February 12th is about a full month before we started seeing these stay-at-home orders |
| 1:35.7 | coming down. |
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