Weekly Roundup: September 11th

The NPR Politics Podcast

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🗓️ 11 September 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

As wildfires rage across the west, activists are noting the campaign's relative silence on the issue of climate change. Natural disasters of all sorts, from heat waves to hurricanes, are made worse as humans continue to increase their emissions.

And the Treasury Department and Microsoft have disclosed new election interference efforts by foreign powers, including Russia. The disclosures come the same week a whistleblower alleged Trump administration officials pushed intelligence staff to downplay findings that could make the president look bad. The administration denies the claims.

This episode: White House correspondent Tamara Keith, campaign correspondent Asma Khalid, science correspondent Lauren Sommer, and voting reporter Miles Parks.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Alex.
0:02.5	And boy, our German Shepherd in Springfield, Oregon.
0:06.4	We're walking her right now with our masks on.
0:08.7	Not because there's anybody nearby, but because Ash is raining down on us from the nearby holiday farm fire.
0:14.2	Thanks to our local MPR station, we know that the fire is now over 105,000 acres and still 0% contained.
0:21.3	This podcast was recorded at 1.12 pm on Friday, September 11th.
0:27.0	Things might have changed by the time you hear this.
0:29.5	Okay, here's the show.
0:34.6	Oh wow.
0:35.8	It sounds like a really, really rough situation.
0:38.3	Everybody stay safe out there.
0:41.2	And the fires are exactly what we are talking about today.
0:45.1	Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.
0:47.7	I'm Tamer Keith. I cover the White House.
0:49.7	And I must m'accomber the presidential campaign.
0:52.9	And as I said, we are going to start with the wildfires.
0:56.6	It's not as explicitly political as our usual topics, but it's important.
1:01.3	There are fires raging all over the West as we heard in Oregon, but also in California and Colorado.
1:07.6	It's really hard to just keep track of them all.
1:10.0	There are so many.
1:11.2	They are so big.
1:12.5	The destruction is immense.
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