Weekly Roundup: September 4th
The NPR Politics Podcast
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🗓️ 4 September 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Also: Facebook now acknowledges that it has a role to play in election security, but experts say that the moves it announced this week are insufficient given the scale of the problems — especially when it comes to disinformation originating from President Trump.
This episode: campaign correspondent Asma Khalid, White House correspondent Franco Ordoñez, justice correspondent Ryan Lucas, technology correspondent Shannon Bond, and voting reporter Miles Parks.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is Chris and Rachel. We're in Washington DC and we're about to play trivia with the NPR politics team |
| 0:08.2 | This podcast was recorded at |
| 0:10.9 | 110 p.m. Eastern time on Friday, September 4th |
| 0:14.9 | Things may have changed by the time you hear this, but we'll always be |
| 0:19.0 | Team Sheets is greater than Wawa. Enjoy the show |
| 0:22.7 | I |
| 0:29.3 | Love that I unfortunately missed the trivia night last night myself. I was out |
| 0:34.8 | Covering Joe Biden, but um, but thank you all to you all who participated. I heard it was good fun. Yeah |
| 0:41.1 | Well, hey there. It's the NPR politics podcast. I must my call it. I cover the presidential campaign |
| 0:46.0 | I'm Frank Ordonia's I cover the White House and I'm Ryan Lucas. I cover the Justice Department |
| 0:50.4 | So we are going to begin today's show with what's really kind of a bombshell story in the Atlantic magazine a |
| 0:57.6 | Story written by Jeffrey Goldberg alleges that President Trump repeatedly called military service members |
| 1:04.0 | losers the story accuses the president of name-calling soldiers killed during World War One and even former president George HW Bush |
| 1:11.5 | The piece also includes allegations that the president asked for military |
| 1:15.6 | Amputies to be excluded from a military parade because quote nobody wants to see that |
| 1:22.1 | NPR has not independently confirmed the allegations reported in the Atlantic, but I did feel like we needed to address this right off the |
| 1:30.0 | Bad at the top of the show because the White House is responding to these accusations and Frank, let's start with you |
| 1:35.6 | What is the administration saying? Yeah, they are responding and they are doing so very aggressively |
| 1:41.6 | I mean look the president took this on directly yesterday on his way back from a campaign trip to Pennsylvania calling these things lies |
| 1:49.8 | asking what kind of animal would make these kind of statements and he promised that he'd actually swear |
| 1:56.7 | Swear on anything a Bible anything in a test to that he did not say these things |
| 2:01.4 | It's obviously got in the White House's attention. They have been on the attack on multiple fronts a list of Pharaoh |
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