Weekly Roundup: Thursday, April 4

The NPR Politics Podcast

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🗓️ 4 April 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

This episode: President Trump is backing down from his threat to shut down the U.S. Southern border .Trump had issued the warning in a bid to curtail surging border crossings by asylum-seekers from Central America. And congressional Democrats attempt to get Trump's tax returns. White House correspondent Tamara Keith, national political correspondent Mara Liasson, justice reporter Ryan Lucas, political reporter Tim Mak and chief economics correspondent Scott Horsley. Email the show at nprpolitics@npr.org. Find and support your local public radio station at npr.org/stations.

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0:00.0	Hey, Tam, guess what?
0:01.0	What's got?
0:02.0	Big news.
0:03.0	We're doing another live podcast on the road.
0:04.4	We're going to be in Philadelphia.
0:06.2	In fact, we are going to be there on April 26th to record a live podcast on stage all about
0:12.1	the 2020 election.
0:13.6	We just did this in Atlanta.
0:14.7	It was great, but here is the catch.
0:16.4	We need your help to make sure it's the best podcast possible.
0:19.6	And the way to do that is to head over to nprpresence.org and grab a ticket to be in the audience.
0:25.8	That's Friday, April 26th in Philadelphia.
0:28.2	We'll see you there.
0:29.2	Hi, this is Pratik and I'm from Columbia, Missouri.
0:32.7	I got my citizenship last year in November and today I'm going to cast my vote for the
0:37.9	first time in the US for the local mayor and school board elections, which I'm very
0:43.4	excited about.
0:45.2	This podcast was recorded at 12.12 pm on Thursday, April 4th.
0:50.7	Things may have changed by the time you hear this and I would have voted for the first
0:54.2	time in the US.
0:55.5	Okay, here's the show.
1:00.2	Congratulations.
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